As the week comes to a close, time really starts to let itself be known. I need to plan and schedule when I’m going to shoot for my posters. I went to the group chat I made with all of my cast members, and set a time and date for them.
Tomorrow will be an update on how the shooting went. Until then <3
I have completed my first draft of a script. I should put a disclaimer that I'm not the best writer and it's extremely hard for me to translate my vision into words, so it's not going to be the best thing ever. As I was writing the script I thought it would be a good idea to write out the names of the characters and the actors. But, without further ado, here's the first (terrible) attempt at a script.
As you can see, there's a reason I went with no dialog with my last project. I want to go over this with Stoklosa tomorrow and work on it over the weekend.
As far as planning to shoot goes, I have worked out a schedule with my actors to film the teaser and shoot for the posters. Although I'm super busy on Saturday, I was able to find time on Sunday to take these pictures and try to start filming a bit.
I'll be back to update you on what Stoklosa says about my script and potentially let me know what I need to so to fix it because lord knows I need it.
Until then <3
For my digital portion of the project I decided to create a Twitter account rather than an instagram. I did this because I feel like it’ll be easier to do. Twitter doesn’t require me to post pictures to send out content to my community. Also, interacting through retweets, comments, and quote tweets are a good way to really announce what I’m doing and give insight to the audience.
As I was creating the twitter account, I needed to finally come up with a title and font. I decided to ask around and brainstorm. I was talking to John, who is also in this class, and came up with the first draft of the title. My thought process to making this was, a long title that doesn’t really correlate to the story which is where I came up with… The sun always sets at the horizon. Yeah… not the best I know, but I revised it and put in more thought into it making it into “The Sun Sets At Noon”. So now, what does that title mean? Well in the story, Tina and Madison both are at the peak of their struggles and thats when they both comfort each other, ending their conflict and support each other through their tough times. Noon symbolizes their struggles and issues at their peak, and the sun setting at that point in time symbolizes the issues coming to an end.
Song of the day: Another (Demo) One #2 by Mac DeMarco
As I was thinking about what the title should look like I was listening to a song, the song being skinn by Zach Templar which sounded like how I wanted the film to look. I know that makes no sense to others but it does to my brain soo... anyway, I was feeling the song and thought "Man, this song feels like it would be a handwriting kind of font... WAIT A MINUTE!" After this, I went straight to google and searched "handwriting fonts" and found the holy grail. Butter press was the perfect font for me, it had the handwriting style I wanted, and looked like it was written with a marker that was running out.
I have decided to totally drop the character of Alex and focus only on the twins. I feel like it'll be easier since I already have the actors and I don't need to lose my head trying to find someone to play Alex. Rather, we're going to give Tina all of Alex's issues because I feel like we need some redeeming qualities in someone who is such a terrible person.
I have a plan to start production, at least for the teaser and posters this weekend since I need content for social media. Man this is a lot to do on my own, but I got this.
Until then <3
Today in our groups, Kyria and Martina came up with a good solution to my poster situation. This is having the poster be something like the moonlight poster.
<<Making the poster like this highlights the twins and their specific color palettes as the lighting. I really liked this idea for the reason of showcasing the two characters and since their twins, it'll be easier to look at while still looking cool.
It's really hard to describe through words but that's as best as I can do.
As far as the topic of actors go... haven't found any minus the 3 that I have. BUT I AM ON THE HUNT! I'm asking around and am creating a filming schedule as we speak.
I've gotten confirmation from Carlos saying he would love to act in itYeah... it happens... and this only means one thing... I DON'T NEED TO SCHEDULE OFF FOR FILMING WOOHOOOOO!!!!!!! It was a magnificent time working at my little movie theater job almost every day for the past year and a half, but everything happens for a reason. But that's enough sulking, time to get down to business. Today I will be focusing on the colors I am going to use for my second trailer.
My second trailer will give a feeling of a darker point in someone's life, something that they never can get out of. The colors I want to use for this are greys, blues, greens, and muted tones.
Finally Friday… the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the trees are dancing, the beach is calling, and no more lockdowns in school. Today is senior skip day which means no more getting trapped in a freezing room for six hours, just me and the beach… after this blog post of course. Today is the day I finally figure out what colors I am using for my two trailers.
I would want them to reflect a different feeling on the audience, one being a feeling of nostalgia and the other being a more reflective, low time in someone's life. I want these two trailers to be severely different in color grades but have similar emotions produced.
My first trailer, which is the one with Madison and Tina, will be the one that is nostalgic. This will contain lots of bright colors such as orange, yellow, white, pink, etc. This will show that this side of the story progresses positively and will have a happy ending. I want to use a lot of daytime colors, and make it feel like the whole trailer is giving off a "childhood summer". What do I mean by childhood summer you may be wondering. Well, remember when you were a kid and you and your friends went to the beach all day every day without a care in the world? Yeah, colors that make you feel like that.
<< This to be more specific
Of course, the lighting will play a big role in this, but we'll cross the bridge when we get to it. But for now, that's all I've got for you today. The beach is screaming my name.
I'll discuss the color palette of the next film with you another time. Until then <3
…This is starting to feel like a sick joke. It is the day before senior skip day and I’m stuck in a freezing room since 7:40 am and now they’re saying they dont know how long this could last. So I’m back! I need to come up with more characters but this one I feel like I should start with the other main character. I havent found an actor yet so I was thinking of giving the character a gender neutral name like Alex which I liked a lot.
Alex struggles a lot with depression, and parental issues that they don’t really like to take seriously while in the company of others but really is dying slowly with it. Alex is a down to Earth, kind hearted person who is highly influenced by myself. Alex finds joy in making others laugh and have a good time, even at their own expense which doesn't allow them to fully heal from their trauma and issues they have. Alex is afraid to be alone and disliked, but one person always always stuck by their side. This friend character is named Gabe who is a mentor to Alex and helps them through all of their issues and is the only person that truly understands since Gabe has been through this as well.
Gabe is based off of my good friend Carlos who played this role in my life for this past year. He made me feel not alone and understood in a lot of my lowest points. He served as a mentor in a lot of what I did, especially at work.
Picture of Carlos (right)>>
Happy Tuesday… is what I’d like to say if I wasnt stuck in my english class for the past couple of hours. I was going to wait until tonight to write this blog but I am currently in a lockdown so I thought I’d get this done since I wont be on the move for a while.
As my research has come to a conclusion as far as genre and story, I decided to start and come up with character names and descriptions. To start off this attempt of naming, I decided to start with the identity crisis character. I has a friend named Madison that has had this issue and is very open with me about it and is kind of my primary source for information when it comes to this. So I felt the name Madison works well and its a nice little tribute to my friend. The role of madison will be played by 2 people, but heres the twist… THEY’RE ACTUALLY TWINS!!!! The first one (the one that primarily will be playing the role) is Sydney, i feel like the character will fit her atheistic very well and that she is literally Madison. Very quiet, reserved, and a bit intimidating at first glance.
PICTURE OF SYDNEY HERE>>
The other person will be her sister breana, who is gonna play both madison and her sister… whose name i will be revealing later in the blog. I want to use breana to really show how similar these two are and how they were often confused by strangers, teachers, parents, and even friends. Since Sydney just went through a hair transformation so I could use that in the trailer.
PICTURE OF BREANA HERE>>
Breana will be playing the part of Tina, who is the exact opposite of who breana is as a person. Breana is a very kind hearted, level headed, easygoing, and touch skinned person… which differs drastically from her character. Tina is a self absorbed, egotistical, sociopath that thinks the world revolves around her. Tina is… kind of a bitch that takes out her insecurities on her sister. Madison often gets compared to Tina and is talked down upon by everyone around her. Eventually Madison and Tina will have a bad fight that turns into a bad bad bad thing for both which will be shown in the trailer.
The code green just came on so this concludes what I will say for this post and will be back on Thursday after more brain storming
Hello, I have good news! I have researched my genres and how they work. The main genre I researched was the coming of age genre. I watched videos on youtube and checked out some articles, but the one that stood out the most was a video essay on youtube (which you can watch here) that really explains the genre fully and made me think about new things. One of which being the color palette of the film. This topic brought up questions that I’ll need to answer to find a fit for my project. How do I want my audience to interpret the film, and how do I want them to feel while watching it. Coming of age films usually centralize on the free feeling of adolescence and being in the “good old days”, a nostalgic feel that romanticizes your teenage years. Films that incorporate these feelings are Mid 90’s, Last Summer, call em by your name, the kings of summer, boyhood, and summer of ‘03. These all have specific color palettes that give off different feelings, as explained in the video essay. I feel like finding out how I want the audience to feel is going to play a big part in how color is going to be used in my project. I focused a lot on sound elements last year and I feel like this year lighting and color is my next challenge.
I can definitely incorporate signature lighting use in my project, and all aspects of it. Since I did take 3 years of photography and am currently in the AP 2-D art and design class, lighting and framing won’t be as challenging as I am anticipating. I am really excited to start on production but I do need to figure out some stuff before I do, such as characters and a script.
As I work on these things, I bid you fairwell and shall return once the week begins again. Okay… bye <3
As I sit here at work, writing my blog on my break, i had an epiphany: What if these characters don’t know each other but constantly show up in the others trailer (in the background or as a cameo) to subconsciously make the audience recognize the character and have a weird sense of familiarity when watching the second trailer. WOW talk about a run on sentence… anyway, i know that the idea is kind of a long shot and probably not the best idea but I feel like it’s a good way of connecting the two characters in a way that is subtle and effective.
Thinking about how I’d want the trailer to be, I had to think about the movie and how it would look as a whole. This thought process helped me come up with the idea of splitting up the trailers and not directly connect the characters and give them a close relationship. I’d want the film to be structured in such a way where it seamlessly transistions from one character to another without the audience really realizing. Again, this is just a thought and not exactly how I’ll be doing it since I will consult Mrs. Stoklosa about it and get her insight once I’m able to.
Thats all I can right about at this very moment since my break is almost done. I will post tomorrow with genre and target audience research, as well as hints of teaser reasearch.
Until then <3
As the year comes to a close, so does this project that I've put blood, sweat, and tears into (like literal tears.) Each component will...
