Blog #7--Hollywood Formula

The "Hollywood Formula"

By Erin Chmiel and Tanya Sonthana


1.) INCITING INCIDENT---Gabriela is caught by school security. She attmepts to break her bindings but it doesn't work. She is then interrupted by Logan voice above her. He see her down the vent and scolds her for leaving class and being put in this situation. She promises to explain why if he helps her. Logan agrees to help her and momentarily leaves the vent, promising to come back soon. After a few minutes, Gaby begins to worry whether Logan had abandoned her or not. However, she hears his voice above her once again and looks up to find him grinning slyly with keys he had stolen from the security. Finding a way to pry open the vent, Logan drops down into the room and release Gaby of her bindings. The two then begin to go back up into the vent yet the door opens to reveal the security guards coming to interrogate her. Panicking, the pair try to scramble up into the vent to no avail. Realizing that there is no way to get up fast enough, the two of them overpower the security guard and race back home as quickly as possible. The security guard doesn't pursue them but makes sure to tell the others to be wary of Gaby and Logan.

2.) HAVING FUN AND GETTING TO KNOW OUR CHARACTERS---After the event of Gaby's capture by the security guard and Logan's successful attempt at busting her out, Mina and Ricky decide to take the two out to a diner in order to  help them relax and forget about any issues. At first, the dinner starts out quite normally with the usual jokes and conversation. Here, you can see the relationships between the characters. Mina and Ricky are seen as the peaceful, yet doting couple. (Well, at least Ricky dotes on Mina) Ricky and Logan are the boys of the group so they obviously act differently with one another thatn they do with the girls. They have their own little competitions and whatnot. Also, another main point in the relationship is the teasing. Ricky is teased mercilessly for his "baby" cheeks. Mina is teased for being too tall. And so on and so forth. Then, the atmosphere at the table changes when Mina notices Gaby's drawing sticking out of her bag. Curiously, she takes it out and examines it. Immediately, Mina is awed by the drawing and she finds herself drawn to it. The drawing inspires her to make designs that embodied what Gaby has drawn. Gaby spots her and snatches it away. In spite of everything somewhat going back to normal, Gaby shys away from questions asked by her friends about earlier. She bursts suddenly, now asking them if they ever feel like the society they live in is commercialized or fake. By that point it gets tense when the police walk by the window and decide to leave. Unfortunately, a little later in the story, the government sees Mina's fashion designs and instantly deem them dangerous. They plan to take the designs away for fear that other people will see them and wonder about the look of them.

3.) OPENING SCENE---The beginning of the film starts with very bright lights, a ringing sound too. Bits of it give away showing the camera leading us into a forest. Pinao overture (?). Reveals production and title and actors, etc as the camera moves around the forest and the brooke. It then stops and pans wide when the camera ends at the edge of the forest and gives us a view of the meadow.