Week 7 Part.3

I did some research on saw and wow its terrible. I dont even know how someone can think of that its just crazy.

But any how. Now that I have done some research and watched some clips and I feel like we can do great things with it.

So i want to stick with the two people stuck in a in a weird place but instead of just waking up there.
They wake up and are hand cuffed to a pole or something and they have to try to escape before whoever is keeping there comes back. With out all the blood and gore is my goal so its not 100% a rip off of Saw. I will speak to dean again soon and see if he has any changes to what he wants to do.

Week.7 Part.2

Yesterday we left off with our whole project being flipped upside down. But i have been thinking and now I have some pretty cool ideas.

I was thinking that we cold do something with Deans scary location. He said it was a really run down area and it had lost of graffiti in the area. So I feel that this could be a good chance to create a Saw inspired movie film thing. I feel that it could be a cool concept.
Although I haven't watched any saw movies I could do my research.

OPEN;
               Two people wake up not knowing where they are. (could be one or two people)
                They have to try to find where they are and try to escape.

I feel that it would be could to do something along those lines.

Week 7 Part.1

So to day Dean called me and told me that he wants to change up out whole project. I did not agree with this at the start but it was a 2 against 1 depression with Alyssa join sides with Dean.
So Dean asked me to think about some things that we could do for the new film opening. Sadly though I could not put my head around anything. Because of this i asked Dean if he had any idea of what he wanted to do and he also said no. But he came out and said he knew a scary location we could shoot and then BOOM! Ideas started flying around my head. I am again exited For where this can go. I believe that we are going into a horror movie area.

COVID-19 part.3

EVERYTHING IS CLOSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Broward county the county that i live in has ordered a full shut down of none essential stores.
The problem with this is that I work at a none essential store and guess what my store is not closing.
Oh but im not done people at my work are "scared" to work so they all dropped there shifts leaving me to pick up half of them. Next week is going to be a disaster.

In other news my group is stuck in a stand still because we have no idea what to do with this  COVID-19 problem. I am actually starting to get a little worried now because what id we dont get to complete the project.???????????????

COVID-19 Part.2

Hello there so nothing new or nothing special happened but I did talk to my mother about going out a filming. She said that as long as I do not come in contact with many people then we should be fine. But she said that she is not worried for me but more worried for other people AKA older people. She said " I dont care if you get it, but you could be a carrier and i dont want the possibility of you killing any to get bigger." So she has agreed to letting me fill within certain boundaries. All i am waiting on now is my group to respond to the texts i sent out. Yes that is an actual problem i have my group is not responding to my text LOL. I didn't mean to throw them under the bus. 

COVID-19 Part.1

So I guess this is some what big news, Corona virus is destroying the world. Hahah jk not really....well kinda. So basically lots of people are not allowed to go out and film. And yes I sadly am one of those people. My mother is only letting me go out to buy stuff, and she is only letting me choose three friends to come over and hangout with. I guess its a good thing I only have one good friend then haha. This is definitely a very big hurdle that we have to over come.....

Week5 Day4

So today we didnt have the opportunity to talk but I did lean something cool. Dean in in T.V production class so he has high quality equipment like good cameras and box lamps and all that cool stuff that I dont really know how to use. But besides that its pretty cool stuff that hes working with and im pretty exited that we will be working with that level of equipment.
 On the other hand im feeling quite sick and dont worry I dont have Corona virus. Its just a little cold I picked up from my sister mixed with my allergies. Im hopping it doesnt get any worse because i really want to start filming this week. I think that these blog post are hyping me up a lot and getting me more and more exited about completing this project everyday.

FEELING/MOOD: Exited but down :(

Week5 Day3

So sadly of Dean his STN commotion got cancelled for this week, but good for us he is now available so we start filming this week Yayyy.
All we are waiting for Alyssa to finish writing a script for our film but once that is done we are starting. But one problem is that we were expecting to not film so our set in not ready yet but tmr we are having a meeting to speak on that matter. This is all kind of perfect timing because school recently got cancelled so now we have two weeks of spring break to work on this project which honestly is so stress reliving and easy to work with haha. But i believe what we would do to fix our little set up issues is just mess around in Alyssa's garage for a while and hopefully something works.

I would like to use this post to answer one of the CCR questions. The question i would like to answer goes as following. "How does your project engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?"

So I would like to start off with answering the first part of that.  ENGAGE 
 We had the idea of use a snobby rich kid as our main antagonist, because nobody really likes a snobby rich kid that wears Gucci belts and $400 shoes. Those kids that flex those kinds of items while we all know that it was "daddy's money" Who pays for it are not the most likable people lets put it that way. So we chose that character on purpose to have our audience kind of want to go along with the pain this annoying kid is gonna go through.

Now to the second part DISTRIBUTION 

When it comes to how we distribute the film we plan on heavily relying on YouTube and small local film festivals. Am amateur film makers we have a realistic goal of building our way up, and not just trying to release our film in theaters world wide. We know that its not a very realistic plan to do that. 

Week 5 Day 1

These blog posts are annoying BUT and its a very big but. As much as they annoy me i have actually learned a lot from them. Usually i am not the person to plan weeks ahead. I normally just think of a general idea and go off that. But what these blog post force me to do is plan weeks and weeks ahead. And to be honest its kind of helped me a lot. Now I feel 100% comfortable with here i am there is no stress and everything is flowing smoothly.

Im happy that i was given the opportunity to do this. Because now I can take what i have learned and use it not only for this project but also for future projects for different classes. This whole blog thing really made me understand the benefits of just taking one day at a time and putting actually quality time into something to make it a lot easier.

Week4 Day 4

Hello everyone, hope everyone is having a nice day.

To start I have a couple thing that I would like to update you guys on.
For starters we have found out what our main antagonist would look like. We wanted him to look rich so he should have a bunch of designer clothes and stuff like that. We want him to look like this because it represents who our main character is after, the snobby rich kid that has money.
it fits the poker scam thing very well.

Another thing I would like to speak about is I have found something to help our problem of finding extra people to play as supporting characters. Well i haven't 100% solved it but i do have something that can help. So in our film we have a girl character and she is supposed to play the role of  the best friend. And i have someone that can help. My amazing actual best friend in real life. I asked her if she would like to play the role and she was ok with it. 

Week 4 Day 3

So basically its the day after trying to solve the problem of no back ground actors and there is still no solution. So that is definitely a big problem on our hands. But we will talk about that on a latter dated. for now i am going to just cover what dean had suggested the "Poker room" would look like.

Dean came up with some pretty cool ideas of what our set should look like. Obviously like iv said in previous blog post it is going to be set in a garage of some sort. dean pointed out that the background should be messy as it is a house of a struggling family. So it would make sense of so trash laying around like broken bikes, old boxes and things like that. I believe that the best place to film this is in Alyssa's house as her garage is already messy. My house wouldn't be a good option because well i have no room in my garage as there is already a bunch of random stuff laying around so there would be no room to work with no room to work with.  And  Deans garage is very clean and i dint want to ruin it because that would be bad.

So Alyssa's garage is the plan make it look messy which is not going to be hard to do haha. fix up the lighting a little bit we can do that with a DIY tape and flash light set up. And then just set up the poker table in the middle of the room and maybe even place a light over it for dramatic affect. 

Week 4 Part 2

HELLOOO!!!!

So far everything as of now has stayed the same. Our main problem is still to do with getting the extra actors to play in the film its self. Other then that the over all project hasn't really made any big moves yet, although we did just get off a face time call where we discussed little things like timing and pacing of the fill opening itself.

we all kind of agreed on that the two scene of the opening wouldn't be enough for 2 minutes so we were kinda brain storming little ideas as time fillers. We came up with a cool little idea of introducing the victim of the pokers scam first as hes walking towards the main characters house and then then the the "bad beat" title shows up and then we cut to the montage of the people wanting to get in.

        - kid walking out of house saying by to mom
- asks where hes going
-he says hes doing homework at a friends
- walks (at night) w/ backpack and hood on to the back door of a garage
- walks in and the poker game is there

Another little problem i mentioned in the last post was that we didn't know how to spin the camera around the whole table showing everyone's faces. But lucky i found a little solution to that. I what this poker chip set at my house and it is set on a mini turn table so if some hoe we could set the camera on it then its a problem solved. 

Feedback Group Meetings

          Today in class we had the chance to come together and speak about or projects.
I got some pretty good feed back on what i could change and to be honest they were pretty good suggestions. Our original idea was to play a poker scene as the opening and then introduce the characters. Once the poker scene was over we would transition into a scene of people signing up to play.

After the group meetings and all the suggestions. We have agreed to do the opposite and switch it up a bit. We have chosen to do a montage kind of vibe of people signing up to play and sliding papers and money in a quick fashion at the begging. After the montage then we will cut to the poker scene where we will introduce our characters buy movie the camera in a circle around the poker table showing the faces of our main characters.

We plan to transition from the montage scene to the poker scene by using a graphic match of a poker card. The card would be thrown on a desk in school and then picked up by someone in the poker scene.

The main problem we have with this is that we need a lot of extras to play in the montage and in the poker scene

Week 3 day 3

Schedule And Idea changes. 

Schedule

February 

21st. Start figuring out set design

23. Week 2 (2/17-23) blog posts due: 3 

March
1St. Week 3 (2/24-3/1) / Blog post due: 3 

2. Start writing script

8th. Week 4 (3/2-8) blog post due: 4

9th. Have production plan/ script done

10th. Dean STN

11th. Dean STN

12th. Dean STN

13th. Dean STN

14th. Dean STN

15th. Dean STN

20th. Spring break

21st. Spring break

22 Spring break

23 Spring break / Have everything ready for product

24th. Spring break / Filming

25th. Spring break / Filming

26th. Spring break / Editing

27th.Spring break / Editing

28th. Spring break / Editing

29th. Spring break

30th. Finishing touches this week

Idea Changes 

    School kids/school setting
- causes scheduling problem if done in school setting

General outline of opening:
- Boy walks (at night) w/ backpack and hood on to the back door of a garage
- walks in and the poker game is there

Films to research:
        - Fight club (1999): A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up with their mundane lives. Their perfect partnership frays when Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group crasher, attracts Tyler's attention.
       

Extra Ideas/Brainstorming:
- still keep a team of three working together
- they invite who gets to play them (like in Fight Club)
- idea for ending: try to save shave some time from the poker game to add a scene - one of the group walks up to the rest of them with a list (or something) with t people who want to play them next