Talk with Mike and Dave

Today's lesson was more on how we could improve our story, and what was needed to give the characters and the plot a twist. Some of the new things i learnt was that the a story is split in to three acts, one being to establish the other being to complicate and the last was to resolve the problem. In all today's morning lesson went pretty good and it really did help me to understand on what was needed to have a successful story. The afternoon session was about us explaining our story more in depth to Mike and Dave, this session was really on how we really portrayed the characters in the short film and how they develop as the story progresses. As we talked moer about our story Mike and Dave were easily able to pick out that there were realy no moral or meaning to the characters and that they really didn't have any relationship between them. The more we discussed the more we i reliesed that we really didn't have a good ending to the story, i think our current idea was that the hitman approaches the targets door then it ends with the screen fading black. Obviously this wasn't our final idea but it was our current idea and would need a lot of work. Mike suggested it was best if we ended up delivering a twist at the end of the short, something in which the audience wouldn't expect on happening.

That's when we all gathered around and discussed on how we could change some parts of the story to give the characters some meaning to the short film. One thing i kinda go confused on was the genre that we were heading for, our current story more focussed on the gags through out the story and really didn't really focus on the purpose of the character, for example who is the hitman and what kind of connection does he have with his target. When we were told to focus more on the characters it kind of took away the humour element of the short and became more serious. In the next post ill talk about the new idea i came up with after the dissuasion with Mike and Dave