Preperation

This thanksgiving break, me and my group mate started on the preparations for filming. This upcoming weekend me and my group mate are going to film. We are probably going to film on saturday, the 5th of december. But in the mean time my partner and I did our preparations. The first thing i did was the props. I first got an old book. then i found some aged paper, and some sticky notes. I also got the rest of the miscellaneous stuff to put in the box. The next thing I had to do was find the actual box i needed to put those objects. After searching around for a little around my house i came down to 2 options. There's this really old box in my garage that i can use but it is on the verge of breaking. If i put anything in it it will break. My other box is this shoe box, which is styled vintage because the shoe was too, so it can kind of fit the part of being a old box. I could, and probably am going to ruff it up and put some wear and tear on it. So i'm probably picking the second option. The next prop is going to be the shoes, and they are right in my moms closet. The last prop i had to check was my bike. It is in perfect condition so im fine. The next thing i had to do was to make sure all of the locations were fine to film. I went on my bike and went to all the locations that are in my neighborhood. Nothing changed and there was no contractions so that was good as well. After all of that, all of the conditions were met, and were ready to film next weekend.

The box we are going to use looks like this:

The Making of Our Website

This thanksgiving weekend, me and my partner worked on our Website. Before this, we finished All four of the social media accounts. To start on the website we created A new gmail account for the account. the account was for Wix. With wix we were able to create our website with ease. We first picked out a template for out website. We picked out a moder dark theme, so the detail would be very outlandish and outstanding, so the main point of the website will just be our writing and pictures. We then added the first part of our website the title. Then we added The Title, very easy. The next thing we did was the synopsis. From like a month ago, we made the Synopsis of our film. So we just added it by just a simple copy and paste. The next thing we did was Creating an area for reviews. The next thing we did was plugging in our Social media accounts. We put icons for Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Then we added some credit pictures. So far we have me, my group mate, and my dad credited, however that can change. We also added pictures for the credits, but we are going to replace those because there from our last year's yearbook photos. Next thing we did was putting in a stand in for where to watch our movie because we haven't decided it. This website is mostly done, but i think me and my groupmate and tinker on it a little bit more, to make it the best it can be.

The Creation of social media accounts

Hi blog. Me and my partner this thanksgiving break made our website and social media. To start, we made our social media accounts. We couldn't use are personal accounts for this. We had to make brand new accounts just for the movie. We had to make 4 accounts. We made a Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, and lastly a Twitter. It was relatively simple to do this too. We had to make an email before that first so we could create the accounts. For the accounts we had to do 2 things. We had to make a Profile picture, and a short bio. The profile pic was kind of a problem for us. We decided after thinking about it, to just put a stand in picture. The final profile picture would be a screenshot of the movie. I created the stand in picture by using microsoft 3d paint. It was just a simple design i made, but i like it. The next thing we did was the Bio. It was just a very simple sentence with just saying what the social media account was for. all in all it was pretty simple for us to do. However it is a crucial part of our movie creation process.

Storyboard for short film

 Hello blog! This past weekend, me and my groupmate have been working and finishing out storyboard. This was a hard process, but we manage to get it done. We started making the story boards, by going over our screenplay. Last year, for each time we had to make storyboards for the films we made, we had no screenplay to base any of the pictures off. However, last year we only had to make like 5 storyboards for the films. This years 10-15 is a lot, but it isn't to big of a problem. Basing the story boards off the screenplay was a real boost to our productivity. It made it alot easier to make storyboards than last year. It still took me like 45 minutes to do a single paper. This is probably from me procrastinating, and going on my phone, and just "drifting out into outer space". Before we began this and the previous blog, me and my group mate divide the work so he would do the planing (the previous blog), and i would do the story boards. This was all good in concept, but it turned out to be unbalanced. Ten story boards take me a very long time to do, and i mean a very long time. The planing only took my groupmate under an hour to do, so we had to balance it. After i finished 8 story boards, which took me all day to make, i sent him the pictures of the story board, and made him do the rest. It was only like 3 story boards he had to do. It was not even half the amount that i did, but whatever. he will just do more editing than me when it comes to that. Overall, it was pretty hard to do, but we manage.

Planning for short film

 

In this blog, I will explain all the plans for our short film!

Schedule: For the scheduling, we are unsure at the moment but we are planning to do it on Saturday the 21st. Location: The location where the short film will be filmed is in South Lake and Roscoe's house. Participants: The participants will be Roscoe, His Dad, and I. Health and Safety: Health and safety is a big thing during these times. Before each filming date, each person will get a COVID-19 test to be safe. When filming, in case anything bad happens Roscoe's dad will be there to supervise. Props: The props will be a beat-up shoebox, A polaroid photo, beat up running shoes, a bike, sticky notes, and a buddha statue. Costumes: The costumes used will be day to day clothes.