A lot has changed since my last blog. We came up with the conclusion that a drama film would be a better fit for us. A comedy film would be hard to produce, for some reasons. One reason being not everybody has a sense of humor. The next reason being is most comedy movies are rated R. After discussing this with my group, we have decided to make the transition to a Drama film. There are many ways we can go about making a drama film, since it falls under a fairly big category. I provided some background research about drama below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drama_(film_and_television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.^[1] Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular subgenre, such as "political drama", "courtroom drama", "historical drama", "domestic drama", or "comedy-drama". These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods.

http://www.filmsite.org/dramafilms.html

 Dramatic themes often include current issues, societal ills, and problems, concerns or injustices, such as racial prejudice, religious intolerance (such as anti-Semitism), drug addiction, poverty, political unrest, the corruption of power, alcoholism, class divisions, sexual inequality, mental illness, corrupt societal institutions, violence toward women or other explosive issues of the times. These films have successfully drawn attention to the issues by taking advantage of the topical interest of the subject. Although dramatic films have often dealt frankly and realistically with social problems, the tendency has been for Hollywood, especially during earlier times of censorship, to exonerate society and institutions and to blame problems on an individual, who more often than not, would be punished for his/her transgressions.

Since the purpose of a drama film is to engage the audience with the conflict, character, and story line. After brainstorming for a while, I came up with the idea that our film could be a narrative of somebody's life. We can start it out with them speaking about how they live on a daily basis, such as the activities they do. And how their life is as a student. The main actor will be the one talking over the clips of him at the actual locations of what he's talking about. For example, he might say I wake up at 6AM every day for school, while this is going on we would have the camera on him smacking his alarm clock off. After conveying to the viewers that our actor is just a normal high school student, we would have the actor say "my life is pretty good, everything was completely normal. Until one day, everything went wrong." I'm not completely sure what this conflict would be as of now, or how our actors life changes. Next week I'll consult with my group mates and hear their takes on this idea.