Story Finally Seems Pretty Settled

...and the professor even seems somewhat happy with it. Or, if not happy, at least accepting. I still don't think what we think the story is about fully matches up with what he wants it to be about. But at the end of the day, it's still our story, and I think he gets that... finally.

Oddly enough, we didn't even get through all the storyboards today. We didn't even see most of mine! We got up to about the point where Caitlin turns in the paper to the printer's with the infamous op-ed in it. After that the presentation turned into a big discussion about whether we were getting across the risk she was taking well enough. The teacher finally gave in to our firm decision to make the story about risk with a background of free speech and race, rather than being about the racial issue explicitly.

However, he (and the TA's) still wasn't sure we were getting the first risk across strongly enough. Our second risk, whether to apologize and save Mr. Ehrlich's job, or stick to her guns and let him be fired, was strong. But there was nothing to push Caitlin to make the first risk of running the article in the first place. In the end, I think we solved the problem by mostly re-arranging things. Now, when she goes to the printer's, we will then fast forward to after the paper runs. At this point, we are inside Cait's head, as she runs through what the consequences might be. We run through the rest of the movie as planned, maybe cutting a few corners, then snap back to reality as she makes the decision to run the article, fully knowing the possible consequences. This actually makes the initial risk much bigger, as it now encompasses our second risk.

I feel pretty good about this story.... though that's happened before. We shall see.