What We Discussed

On Friday, January 24th, 2020, my group met at the local Dunkin Donuts to discuss in further detail what our plans are for the film we are going to create. We talked about creating a sci-fi noir that involves a simulation glitching or catching a virus and the people in charge of it send a detective and a hacker to find out who is responsible and to fix the simulation. Obviously, the two main characters will embody what their respective genre represents: the detective (noir) will be someone who prefers to work alone but is forced to work with the hacker for plot convenience, an outsider to the simulation, and more of a gritty anti-hero. Meanwhile, the hacker (sci-fi) will most likely be the antithesis of the detective so we can use the contrast between the two in order to highlight the elements of their respective genre. In the opening 2 minutes, we plan on creating a sense of suspense and mystery as they are important to both the sci-fi and noir. The setting will be at night and in an urban environment to show the noir aspects of the film. However, since we plan on using simulation theory to support the sci-fi aspects, we do not need to establish a futuristic setting as it will take place in the simulated reality. We would need a gimble to help stabilize our shots and potentially a green screen for the VFX. The intended audience for our film is nerds, people from the 90’s (as they will hopefully have found memories of watching The Matrix) teenagers and young adults. These groups of people are the most likely to see this movie and thus provide us with the most profit. We plan on platforming the film to areas that are big in the technology industry such as California and New England and if the film does well there continue to distribute it to other cities. A good way to market this film – given our main target audience is nerds – would be to give a mysterious link for them to follow on socially media and perhaps on TV ads. This would cause them to invest their time and become invested in the film; it would also build hype around it and once what is at the end of link spreads, it would be of similar effect to regular advertisements. The titles for our types of film are usually short (one or two words), bold, and with large spacing between the letters. Given that white males are usually the ones who write sci-fi movies, the protagonist tends to be American or English because writers portray their social groups. We will attempt to avoid this by hiring Fares (an Egyptian) and me (an Albanian) as actors to portray more social groups.