The Plot Thickens

Finally, my group thought of a plot!

I wouldn’t say we have our story fully developed, but we at least have a general direction we would like to go in, which I think will help us a lot. We decided we wanted our film to have a message and to criticize something within our society. Something we all felt passionate about was the judicial system and how a lot of cases reduce the defendant down to their past or their file. From this, we started to map out where we could go with our film opening. I discussed doing something with a person being declared guilty because of previous encounters as opposed to because of the facts of the current case. We all agreed we could work with that, but then came the challenge of figuring out how four high school girls who don’t have access to a court or a police car or anything like that could really make that happen. We then discussed the different ways we could reveal information and how maybe we could do that without a court room. We also found ways we could make rooms we did have access to look like a room we would need. I think our idea also works well because it gives us a chance to work with representation and symbols a lot! (More information to come as we delve further in.)

So first, I really wanted to do some more research on different cases and the way the judicial system works so we could do an accurate representation. I read a lot of different articles about why people are judged unfairly and reasons why different biases exist, all of which were extremely interesting and caused me to think a lot about what we could do with that. Some  articles touched on racial injustice in courts while others discussed a more general problem with sentences. I'm going to do some more research and see what else we could discuss in our film opening.

Overall, I like what we came up with so far and I’m really excited to get deeper into our project, story, and research. I guess it’s all TRIALS and errors from here.  (Here’s hoping our project goes better than that pun did.)