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Design assignment Part - 2 for a Company.

The brief for the following video was to make a video for a mobile health application that helps the user to improve their health through simple and engaging features.

They offered me a list of points, such as: 📝 Upload Medical Reports 📈 Health Insights 🚀 Progress Comparison Over Time 🩺 Personalised Health Tasks

For this video, I took inspiration from cat memes and UI designs available on Dribbble.

I took the feature "Progress Comparison Over Time" into consideration:

📍 I submitted this. 📍 It got selected. 📍 I was shortlisted. 📍 Then I got no more responses.

But let me know what the responses are from you people. I will be happy to know your reactions.

Credits: ‪YouTube | Pixabay | Pexels | iStock

So I took a little bit of a different take on this weeks' Design Assignment. I was originally looking for introductory scenes set in a high school, but found that they didn't fit the tone I was looking for. Then I started thinking that the main objective of the two scenes for the Assignment was to 1) Show the characters in their everyday world, and 2) Illustrate their relationships with other characters. 

I think that American Beauty an incredibly successful opening scene. In just over three minutes, the audience sees each main character in their own world, as well as their interactions with each other. All three characters are shown in short vignettes in succession, and then all come together for one last scene as an entire family. 

Each vignette is unique and quirky, and in little words tells us exactly what we need to know about each character. Lester's favorite part of the day is masturbating in the shower. Carolyn matches her gardening shears to her clogs. Jane spends the morning looking up breast augmentation surgeries. Each of these scenes makes the audience want to know more about this world, and brings us further into the story. 

In Everything All at Once, through just these two scenes we get a look into Skylar and Ella's daily lives, as well as their relationships with their peers. Although these scenes are short, they are incredibly important to the setup and payoff of the story, and should pack a punch that makes us want to keep watching. 

Sam Gioia - Directing

Winter's Bone "Thump's Place" (2:35-3:00)

I've chosen this clip from Winter's Bone to address the acting style I had in mind for pp 15-18, specifically once the girls are in the parking lot. The tension in this verbal fight is all held in the space between the actors, they are not shouting at each other. This creates a palpable tension for the viewer, you can really feel the stillness of the air between them and a bite to their words.

I'd like to approach this scene with "volume down", asking the actors to keep the energy between themselves instead of releasing it into the air around them. In addition to the additional tension this provides, it makes more sense than a shouting match because:

Ella and Skylar are out in the open at school and would not want to draw attention to themselves.

Skyler is not a hysterical person. Growing up in the shadow of Ella has made her quiet, more reserved.

Ella does not want to draw attention to this argument. She's on damage control and needs to get Skylar back believing the carefully constructed image she's created as soon as possible. In fact, her denial of what happened borders on psychopathic in a way. Not only does she deny what Skylar saw, Ella acts as if she truly believes it never happened, detached from her own reality.

Main conflict: Ella slipped up and must now convince Skylar that she didn't see anything.

Skylar wants Ella to admit that her actions are meant to hurt her (Skylar). Ella wants Skylar to trust her that nothing happened. Reese wants out. He doesn't want to be caught up in Ella's web any longer and he definitely does not want to hurt Skylar.

At the beginning of the scene: Ella, though still under pressure, still believes her double-life is working. She and Skylar are still best friends and everyone she wants under her thumb, she has... including Reese. Skylar is feeling down on herself from the dinner conversation at Ella's house last night and has some suspicions that the red Firebird did not belong to Kyle, but her friendship with Ella remains unshaken. Reese is frustrated that he's allowed himself to get caught up in Ella's manipulation and has already decided that he wants out. He is still in love with Skylar and does not want this to get in the way.