Now that we had a good idea of our story and we had a near complete screenplay, we decided it was time to get a second opinion from our teacher before we moved on. We didn't want to get too far into the planning process without getting some advice on our progress and making the necessary changes before it was too late.
Luckily for us, our idea was met with positivity as she expressed interest in the idea and only had some minor tweaks to our screenplay. This was great news because we really liked our idea and it would be very hard to have to make big changes at the stage we are at now. One suggestion she made was that it would be better to not show the narrator at all instead of the man in the suit that we had before. After some thought we all agreed that it would work much better to our message to have the narrator as some sort of all powerful omnipresent being. This would make the narrator seem much more interesting instead of them just being a seemingly regular person wearing a suit.
The biggest take away for sure was her warning to be aware of the time we had to work with. We only have around five minutes available for our film so we have to make sure that we don't go too overboard with the screenplay and go beyond our time limit. She suggested that when the story changes it should only happen three times to ensure that we have enough time left for the finale. So, the story would start off as an indie coming of age then most likely move into an action film and then a drama film. This bit of advice was probably the most helpful as we now had a clear idea of what needed to be finished and how to make it all fit within the time frame.
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