week 3.2

Hey readers! This week has been a lot of redirecting and changing for my group and I. After my partner had a discussion with out teacher, she pointed out some complications we might face due to our film opening plot and idea. Due to the fact that our idea is more matured and has a more adult platform she pointed out how this may be difficult in terms of casting. Because we are obviously not adults in our mid 40s or older it would be harder for us to find someone of this age range to cast as our main characters uncle or counterpart. Our teacher also pointed out the unrealistic aspects of our idea as well. Typically, older adults will not play poker with younger people, usually people play with competitors closer to their age. So, our teacher suggested that we still hold onto our main idea but we keep all of the characters younger and possibly try to make it more of a school setting.

With these suggestions in mind, my group and I have been trying to re-brainstorm our idea and better transform it into something cohesive and doable for us.
So far here are some ideas we have come up with:

•  The main settings are going to be at school and in the garage. (for the poker games)
• The protagonists and his friends are going to be setting up an underground poker tournament for the kids in the school. 
• Everyone will have to sign up and pay an entry fee to one of the members setting it up.
• The main characters always going to be fiddling with a poker chip in their hand as his trademark.

We also have developed a general outline of our film opening:

It is going to start in the garage with the main protagonists and some other kids finishing up a poker game. As they are finishing up, the kids are going to be making conversation and one of them is going to ask when the tournament sign ups are going to start. The main character is going to reply saying they start tomorrow at school. This will then lead us into a montage with the opening credits and the reveal of the title before ending the opening with the main character walking up to his friends usual lunch table talking about the amount of entries and sign ups they have had just in the few short hours. 

There is still so much for my group and I to develop on with this idea but so far I am very pleased with what we have been coming up. Our goals for this week are to start script writing and try to have that finished before one of my group members has to leave for competition for a week. I also think it would be best for us to find a new movie title because I do not think our current name idea will work anymore with our newly developed plot idea. However, I would still like the name of our movie to be a poker term as that is the main premise of our movie so, that is definitely something we need to look into as well.