Pseudoscience? Man with schizophrenia? Maybe, who knows!

 Hey, blog!

I had AICE Media today, so I thought I'd update you guys a little bit on how the project is going, and well, this is what we have so far...

So basically, the idea was to create a film opening that starts with a flash-forward to a scene where the man is in an all-white room in a psych ward, and once one of the 'guards' calls his name the scene goes to present-day and the same man is in a business suit, at his office job on the phone with his wife about getting home for dinner. Once his coworker who has known him for five years notices he's not staying to go out with the rest of the team once the work day is over, he questions the man about how come he has never met his wife, despite them knowing each other for five years.

The man then says that he doesn't really know why, his wife is just more on the shy side, and then he gets going to be home for dinner. When he gets home, the idea is that he is shown setting the table, pouring glasses of wine and simply completing domestic tasks before sitting down with his wife for dinner. At the end of the opening, he would ask if he can clear the table, and then the scene would cut to a shot of him throwing away his wife's plate, still full of food.

The conflict is that in reality, the wife doesn't exist nor did she ever exist. While I don't LOVE the idea, and I think it would be hard to produce as we would need kind of a lot of actors, I also think it could potentially come out well. After speaking to Mrs. Stoklosa, she did point out something that I agree with: the plot of the schizophrenic person in films has become quite common recently, and we would like to create something different.

I am also a little worried that this plot would require a lot of dialogue, which we didn't really see in the film opening examples shown in class, and since none of us are actual actors, it could come out cringe. Zain is researching pseudoscience because she wants to do a film opening that incorporates that in some way, and honestly, that is more original than the guy with schizophrenia, but I do worry that it'll be hard to capture the essence of it within just two minutes.

We did decide to plan for (at least) the next two weeks, to have everything set as to how we want the film opening to be, and then start shooting. I want to try to come up with other storylines aside from the two we already have in mind, I feel like we might be aiming too high with these.

Either way, researching pseudoscience has been fun and super interesting, here's a link we used in some superficial research in case anyone is interested in checking some of those things out (and yes, I know it's a Wikipedia link, but I did fact check everything under the psychology, sociology, and racial theories categories):