https://www.canva.com/design/DAGlR9BIkFs/b38D8u9W92_izdkcU3BIQA/edit?utm_content=DAGlR9BIkFs&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton (Link to the Flowchart)
In this mind-map, me and my partner discussed the project storyline, and the concept of our project. During the process of refining what the story was trying to express, me and my partner had a few conflicts on use of equipment, and how the story is going to end. Firstly, we have to try to decide the ending of the story. I consider it is better to tell a complete story with a good ending, such as how the main character gets sick and how she finally overcomes it. However, my partner holds the point of how difficult mental diseases could be cured, statistically there only minor population of mental illness patients can be cured, and most of them can only be stabled and have the risk of relapse. Therefore, she considers we should keep the ending based on reality, which is also part of our aim of allowing the audience to have a better understanding of the real mental disorder. After we finished our real case study, I found her suggestions very reasonable, it is a greater idea than a happy ending. Thus, we adjusted our storyline with more sad elements leading to a painful ending. As we can see from the flowchart, we have been through many discussion on various details, in this teamwork, I was holding the role of researching and focus more on the details, I want to show how every slot happened and equipment used is what for pushing the protagonist walking into despair, depression is never a simple emotion, I do want the audience to see it, realize it, and empathize with it, which all details we added in is to create the setoff for the final emotion explosion.
The next steps is to create the sound work and waiting for her to answer me back using dance, and we then will make adjustment together later.