Our Movie

Plot, Character, Setting and Mood

We didn’t really have a good description of Mr. Matthews, so we took the vision of an abusive father and went with it. All of our other characters were made with the design that Andrea came up with in mind. Our plot points where moments that we felt were most important to his character, as his actions have definitely affected others, despite not being as present in the story as others, such as Garvey or Cole. Our setting was the city of Minneapolis, where Mr. Matthews resided throughout the first half of the story, in contrast to his son, who spent the first half of the story isolated in nature. His son grows and changes, while he remains the way he is.

The word ‘mood’ means a temporary feeling to me. We selected this specific track because we believed that it fit the mood that we wanted to set. It wasn’t supposed to be extremely intense, but it was supposed to invoke a feeling of danger and uncertainty.

Core Competency Reflection

An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas is when I was creating one of the avatars for the movie. I wanted to go for similarity, so I took the look of one of my group members’ avatars and used that as a guideline, in a sense. I appreciate feedback on my writing and analysis and prefer it comes in the form of constructive criticism. If I’m making mistakes or have something that could be improved, I want to know what I need to work on. In discussions and conversations, I help to build and extend understanding by referring back to text used in the material we create things based off of. When there’s some sort of disagreement, I try to look for hard facts to settle it.