Struggles
So basically, I’m behind schedule.
I was supposed to be done with the early stages of pre-production yesterday, but that obviously didn’t happen. Considering the week i have ahead of me, I really need to get things rolling so I can still stay on track for the shooting schedule. Luckily, some stages involve two weeks to complete, so cutting into that time shouldn’t be too much of a problem if I just manage my time well enough. Hopefully, Sitara can be on the same schedule as I am so we can really work through script writing and planning our sequence.
Accomplishments
With the more analysis and research, I found what a mystery title sequence was really meant to convey. So, our idea originally is completely scrapped, which is a good thing we didn’t stick to it since the plot and conventions of mystery would be off. Planning a much better representation of what mystery movies are supposed to be and convey would benefit us greatly instead of trying to twist our original idea.
Another somewhat good thing, yet just as challenging, is the representation of our female detective. Since there’s maybe one mystery movie with the lead of a female detective (Murder At the Gallop), we have almost free range of what we can do to represent women well. This will also be a great way to challenge the stigma of the Sherlock Holmes era of mystery movies, since men are typically the lead and shown in a good light compared to how women are shown in these sorts of movies, either as the victim or not as great and grand as the male detective. And although TV shows have shown better representation of women, movies are lagging behind in this kind of trail. This could be due to the mass media surrounding movies rather than TV shows (considering Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, etc.).
Goals
This week I’m really aiming to finish a case study of a movie in the mystery genre (most likely Murder On the Orient Express) and a few other things related to the pre-production of our title sequence to be able to get a good feel of how we should go about this. Doing this will lead to a much more smooth process for our film pitch to our intended studio to get our movie to be able to be shot. Finishing the film pitch by Sunday or next Monday would be ideal to mostly stay on schedule.
Into The Truth 