Night before filming!

 

    

    Hey guys!! Just wanted to make this post because filming is tomorrow and I am very, VERY excited !! :). Me and my partner have worked out the details as best as we could prior to meeting up, I have picked out my outfit to make it similar to the innocent vibe we want to create for our character; it is a fluffy pink sweater and a white pleated skirt, it reminds me of a modern 'Clueless' type of outfit. It's pretty similar to the outfit inspo board we created previously, which is included in one of my past blog posts if you guys would like to check it out :)

    Anywhooo it is very exciting for everything to finally come together, although not everything yet, we still have to work on our CCR script along with this; which we have been working on so we will be able to present a nice oral presentation introducing our thought processes throughout this whole, wild project and it'll display our aspirations and knowledge that we have gained from this experience and trying to make a simple script and idea come to life. I think that's the most exciting part about tomorrow, it's the fact that we are finally going to be able to create something that we have designed from the beginning and, although we did use inspiration from other outside factors and past films we have watched, it is our original thoughts and we get to portray it how we want to!

Planning to meetup!

 

    

    So me and my partner have been planning to meet up so we can finally film for our movie opening! We are planning to meet up and film at my house, we chose to film in my room because we wanted to be able to use my room for the film and my mom. As you can see in my previous posts we extended our script a bit to include voiceover and part for a mom to call the daughter downstairs and drive the daughter to school.

     Me and my partner both agreed on me playing the part of the main character that the film is centered on. I included my mom and had to introduce the idea that she was going to have to learn and say her lines, along with telling her that she would need to be filmed. This was quite an exciting thing for me to have to do because she is very much the type of person to be a bit to eager about getting to play any part in anything that includes getting recorded. My mom agreed to let us film in the house and agreed to play her small role while driving me to "school". 

    So we had our characters figured out, then we had to elaborate on materials and costumes we needed in order to shoot the scene. We needed a long mirror so we could show parts of the room to show the teenager's room, but also so we could show off the characters outfit, facial expressions, and dialogue. I was able to get a long mirror from my step sisters room and it is pretty portable so I was able to easily move it into my room and try out different angles to see where we would be able to shoot the scene from the best angles and ensure that the camera couldn't be seen. My partner and I agreed to meet up on the upcoming Thursday, since the timing worked out perfectly for the both of us that day.  So now we had, time, characters, and props and extra materials needed figured out.

    We lastly put the finishing touches on our thoughts pertaining to where we were going to shoot for our opening. We clearly had already figured out we were doing the beginning of the opening at my house in my room, but we had to then figure out where we were going to go because we had to shoot a shot of the character standing in front of a school. This was a difficult problem we were facing because it wasn't ensured that our usual high school, Cypress Bay, would be open to us on the outside because of the break coming up and COVID restrictions. But we decided that we wanted to still shoot there for our final scene of the opening, and if they did not allow us to then, we would film across the street in the front of the library and make it look like a school setting.

Can't wait to post again soon and possibly be talking about the filming!

Updated Script!!

 

    So in a previous post I included a potential script for my film opening, but as time has gone one me and my partner wanted to make some adjustments to the script so we could include more dialogue and make it more dynamic. So without further ado here's the updated script...:

Hope you guys enjoyed it!!

Wardrobe and itemss

 

    

    Hey guys welcome back to another blog post as we get closer and closer to being able to film!! So in this post I'm going to discuss a bit about the characters wardrobe and outfit they're going to wear and some items we need in order to film.

    So, for the items we need to film and are trying to get is a long mirror for the first scene when our character is trying to get ready. This is a very important prop that we need because without it we will need to film in front of a bathroom mirror, which won't work as well because filming would be immensely more difficult because the mirror would be larger, also we wouldn't really be able to show off the teenage girls room to allow the audience to have a good feeling with the character.

    The image above is inspiration and the aimed aesthetic we want for our character to wear. By wearing these light pastel colors and this type of clothing we want our character to be able to convey that she is still innocent and isn't like a bad kid or anything, she's just a teenage girl who is afraid and nervous for the school of new people she is about to meet.

Setting a location

 

    So me and my partner have been trying to gradually and carefully piece together more and more components to finally be able to create our film. One part we are figuring out right now is the location, we want the setting to reflect the life of a typical teenager.

    In order to accomplish conveying the idea that we are focusing the film on a teenage girl we will film in areas that look like such. So, we have planned to begin filming in my room, since I am a teenage girl my room will most likely give off the vibes we are aiming to accomplish. Along with my room we will also most likely film in a car and the school, Cypress Bay. The scenes we'd like to include in my room is before the girl is going to school and she is getting ready, she will be getting ready in "her" room in front of a long mirror. We want to accomplish this shot by trying many times and looking up many tutorials in order to succeed in filming this scene without showing the camera in the mirror when the girl is getting ready. We want to get the shots of our character getting ready in front of a mirror because we want the audience to know what she is thinking, and the best way to deliver this is to have our character speak to herself in the mirror. We will show her room in the mirror and through establishing shots before. 

    We also will include the school and the car as shots for our location. We will have a car shot of our character most likely gazing out the window while doing a voice over thinking of what she is excited or scared for on her way to the school. When we finally arrive at the school we will Cypress Bay High School as our setting high school. Our character will approach the school and we will try to accomplish a shot that encompasses the whole school from the top to the bottom to our character.

Piecing it together..

 

    Woot woot, hey everyone, welcome back to another blog posts for the week! This week I have showed you guys a few visual things pertaining to the film opening, such as a logo and a storyboard, and now I wanted to show you guys a potential script and outline for the scenes and the film!

    I am very excited to show you guys this bit because it is so great to watch the film opening getting pieced together through the different components of planning. One of the things that is so great and educational about this project is that it really showed me how much careful planning and thought process must go into making things for media; although this is just a film opening and for a school project, I still feel that I have learned and somewhat experienced the amount of background thinking is required in order to ensure your film is successful.

    So without further adooo... here's our outline :)

The script part in the beginning of this scene is meant to showcase the inner thoughts of someone who is nervous and new as they approach their first new day of high school. We wanted to convey this idea for the film, so we thought the best way to do this was for the main character to be able to tell the audience directly how they feel; hence why she will be practicing what to say when she arrives at the school, followed by criticism, in front of her mirror. 

    I look forward to being able to film this scene, and hope that we will be able to capture what we plan to accomplish with this film opening!

Storyboard!!

 

    Hey there! It's another blog post day and today you're going to get a very cool sneak peak of what our film opening is going to look like through a storyboard!! It has been crazy to discuss these ideas with my partner Emi and see her convey our ideas onto paper (huge shout out to her for her drawing skills:)) 

    Making this storyboard has allowed for us to be able to organize our thoughts, and for us to be able to see our future film opening on paper is insanely cool. Thinking of what camera angles and what shots would look best for the scenes as we go through the opening was the main goal of making a storyboard, so when we go to film things will be able to run as smoothly as possible.

    Anywayy, I hope you guys enjoyed viewing the storyboard for this future production, and I look forward to getting to film these shots as we continue to think of more ideas to better our film. See ya guys later!