How to cope: Changing your idea in 2 steps

 OKAY SO. 

Today my group met for the first time to officially address the idea of writing a script. They all brought back some comments from some group meeting held during class that I was unfortunately unable to attend due to my sick condition.

The basic idea that everyone brought back was: "uhhhh i dont get it" which we realize kind of means we would need to massively rework the idea to be a lot more straightforward. After all it is a SHORT film we only have so much time to deliver the key concepts to the viewer, and having to establish the idea that the camera itself is a character would take longer than we actually have time for.

How I imagine our classmates reacted to
our idea (i have no idea i wasn't there)

After some discussion we eventually decided to revert to an older idea, the mean-girls-witches-esque idea. Ill paste in the outline of the story we came up with below but for those of you who dont read

TLDR: After getting invited to popular group, lead girl discovers they are witches using dark magic to stay popular/powerful.

Girl who's pure gets invited by popular Trio to stay on at popular Trio leader house and the sounds backfires and she gets possessed and after she gets possessed she can break the fourth wall and then stuff happens from there ethical stuff a real ethical stuff something that changes her as a person deep down inside 

Beginning:

• MC is introduced as pure cutsie girl type:

• She meets popular girl trio (band of classic prissy hot pink popular girls)

• she takes one of their seats in class and they sit around her

• They start talking to her, in a fake kindness tone

• They invite her to one of their popular girl hangs (mean girls esque)

Middle:

• Hard cut to her outside the door of the hangout

• She talks to the camera while waiting in excitedly, but gets cut off with the door opening

• Popular girl briefly questions who shes talking to, but MC waves it away quickly, but also notices a charm around her neck

• The do classic girly stuff, MC notices the other 2 wearing the same charm

• Popular girls suggest doing a witchy spell casually “it’ll be fun” its revealed that they are practicing witches, and have been doing magic for a while (they maintain their prior characterization though)

• They start the spell, MC notices her energy draining and stops the spell

This idea seems a lot more straightforward and were honestly excited to finalize a script and begin filming, but I have to be honest, im worried that this change in story could've kinda thrown a wrench into the momentum we were building with th previous story. It also come with its own potential issues like finding A LOT more actors and also possibly filming in school (yuck)