Hi all! Today we had our first A-level group meeting about our portfolio projects. We were placed into groups and one by one and we shared our portfolio project ideas. We also offered critiques and suggestions to make their portfolio project better.
Here's our group photo :)
Renn
Renn's project is about a girl struggling with her schoolwork. School is overwhelming and gives her a lot of issues on top of that. She argues with her best friend. From my understanding, the protagonist looks at a plant for the first time in a while. This reminds the girl of her best friend as she’s looking at the flower pot. The symbolism behind this is that the flower changes as well as individual. The main concept of this is to illustrate how time passed by planting a seed once a week. Renn explained to us how they wanted to convey aspects of the main characters through mise-en-scene elements which I thought was pretty cool.
Joaquin
Next up was Joaquin. If I’m being completely honest, I was a little lost within the plot. To my understanding, Joaquin’s production is about a girl who is sick of the world she lives in and what has society become so she joins a satanic cult. Her sister helps her complete these tasks by the devil because she is anti-religious. Joaquin said that his production is a metaphor, symbolizing people who join religions to find themselves and discover themselves. After he explained his production, I gave a quick note to Joaquin so he can be successful. I suggested that he fill in certain plot holes with his story, it can make sense as a whole in to the audience
Robbie
His story is about a guy who used to be a really famous tennis player. But the protagonist isn’t. He didn’t end up being successful like his father so he ended up homeless in Markham Park (which caught me by surprise and made me laugh) . Anyways, one day he was flipping burgers at his job and over the radio he heard that someone is impersonating him so he goes back to training and something happens. Robbie hasn’t finished that part of the story, but I’m interested to see what he comes up with.
Zach
Zach and his team are planning on doing a dark comedy. Zach notes how he wants it to be about how an owner falls in love with a camera, then falls in love with another person, ultimately symbolizing a love triangle. Zach asserted that his team are working diligently to try to complete the story. One thing they do know that they want to symbolize how people enjoy being recognized by other. They accomplish this through the relationship with the camera and the owner. I’m excited to see this one!
Gaby
Next is Gaby, her team decided to do a music video promo. Which caught me by surprise because I wouldn’t think that people would normally go this route since most people don’t have access to a real artist, but she did! The only issue is that the artist moved to Tennessee to pursue her music career, which can be conflicting. So, her team came up with a plan to tell the story of this song that they want to do. The song is called “ I’ll call you when I’ve made it” by Annie LeMasters. I went ahead and listened to it and I have to say, it’s pretty good (LeMasters, 2024).
Ryan
Lastly, is Ryan. He presented that his team wanted to do a short film. The short film is about a custodian is working late at night in school, mopping the floors. However, the custodian didn’t think anybody was in the hallways and there was a teacher that slipped and died. He tries to hide the dead body and go to extreme measures to protect his daughter. At first, it sounded like a horror, but he notes that there’s going to be some comedic aspects to his short film.
REFERENCES
LeMasters, A. (2024, December 27). I’ll call you when I’ve made it lyrics. Genius. https://genius.com/Annie-lemasters-ill-call-you-when-ive-made-it-lyrics
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