Group Meeting

Today in class my teacher had an activity set out for us. We had to get into groups that she chose for us and we had to discuss our projects progress. I was in a group of 6 people, and we went around in a circle sharing our blog post, brainstorming progress, and story outline. We all gave each other constructive criticism and tips we thought could help our classmates improve their projects. What did I learn, well most importantly I learned that I NEED TO HURRY UP. 

 Everyone else has already started/finished their scrips and they all have their plot planned out. I was dealing with some medical issues so I'm very behind, but I will catch up this week. I learned tips from the group meeting was tips on how people found out their stories and scripts. There was this girl in my group who was also doing coming of age and she really helped me bring my ideas together and even suggested some. She recommended that I should watch the movie 13 Going on 30 and try to use some characteristics from an opening like that and include my own ideas. 

For now I'm planning on a more transitional introduction with minimal dialogue, I want it to have depth without dialogue. We watched the Andrew Stanton TED talk in class about storytelling and Andrew said that a "story without dialogue makes things more attractive". So that inspired me even more to follow through with my original plan of no dialogue, I will enhance the coming-of-age genre by including a preppy pop song that one my classmates gave me a website that included a bunch of songs that are copyright free but sound like geunie songs. The website is called https://www.bulletproofbear.com/ and I have gone over it and found some potential options. I really think that this group meeting was really affective in helping my project process it provided me with a lot of motivation and inspiration that I am using to move even farther along with my project.