Holiday is just over and we had to start our Major Project 3 right away (frankly speaking, I am still in holiday mood and were not quite happy with it).
Anyway, as soon as the class started we were separated into random group. My group members are Gregory, Shermin, Kala, Laurie and me. We voted Gregory as the leader. After that each group were given a random ‘weird’ story. We were supposed to build the story around that script. Alan gave us a paper with 10 questions as guidelines for us.
Our group got the story with the title “IT IS NOW…” The story was about a botanist trying to find a rare orchid and spend years on the research. In the end he found the orchid squashed under his camp tent for years.
Initially, we wanted to make few changes here and there with the story. We wanted to add few twists like the grandson was the one that found the flower and eat it in front of the botanist. However, Alan warned us that we should not deviate too far from the main story. We decided to go with the original story and typed it out in PowerPoint slides.
We used few ideas to show the research has been going on for years. The huts around the campsite (yeah, we choose a campsite for our location) will develop as high rise buildings as story goes. The botanist will also be shown to be aging as the story develops. We will show that the botanist have great obsession with the orchid by having him decorate his house (the first scene will be at his house, researching) with orchid wallpaper. Most of his belongings (clothes and all) will also have orchid motifs on it. Also, He will always look at orchid photo before he sleeps. To show people will be giving up, the number of tents in the campsite will be diminishing as the story proceeds.
We will use sfx to emphasise on exaggeration. For example, a sigh will be used when the botanist finally gave up, holy heavenly gospel sfx can be heard when the orchid is finally discovered and slows down as the orchid wilts. After that a loud yelling of ‘Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo’ could be heard. We planned to show gramophone at the beginning with classical music and ipod with more upbeat songs near the end to show different timeline. However, Alan said that old man will not really listen to more upbeat techno songs.
Our homework for the day was to find 3-4 weird but true stories and told it to class tomorrow. Alan gave us the project brief along with a website about weird news to help us.
After reaching home, I started researching right away. After hours of research I found around 4 stories I like (I will elaborate this more in tomorrow blog, promise).
Andreas (0705922c)
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