Hi guys, here is my CCR, enjoy !

https://www.wevideo.com/invitation?invitationId=1257846693-5192e27a-d44c-4186-889e-84c2c3889638

Happy Sunday,

Huge shoutout to Amanda for being an amazing partner to me, we worked so well together and uplifted each other when we both needed support. Down below we have our finished project.

Postcard:



(Front)




(Back)

Website: https://schoolsmale.wixsite.com/covid-19

Short Film: https://www.wevideo.com/view/1658644265

This project has been a hassle! At first Amanda and I had our whole project completely done from the start to the end. We were extremely excited to start the project because we really did have a specific vision that we were going for. At first we had a specific genre of Romance and it was a story that I have always wanted to bring together and film. 

This short film has been quite a process for the most part especially because at first Amanda and I were working like snails, we were going so slow as if we had all the time in the world. But then we got some bad news that came our way that comepley changed our process of everything between filming and just about everything. It affected everything and we had to completely change our genre, along with your overall theme. With the coronavirus in our way everyone has been under quarantine Amanda and I were unable to leave our homes and every public place has been closed. Leaving everyone was on house arrest, even school was closed. I know that this has been extremely disappointing not only for me but most of my peers because we all had high hopes into making this portfolio project the absolute best. I know that for the most part many of my classmates were disappointed in this happening because we were unable to film the project that we all had visioned and were ready to create. 

Although this did not stop Amanda and I from making the absolute best project that we possibly could, so instead of making it a romantic parody we decided to make it just a parody on the ways to be safe with the coronavirus. This idea was really good for us because we knew that we would be able to create it. We thought that it would be just a perfect idea to mock all of the people (moms)that are being extremely over dramatic about the coronavirus.

This film was pretty difficult though because of the limited time that we had but it all worked out fine, although the editing process was a mission. Amanda had to create a whole 5 minute voice over and it had to match completely with the footage that was being placed. Since Amanda and I decided to mute the video, we had to come up with our sound effects and that took FOREVER. Especially because we had to sink the sound effects perfectly with the footage being shown it was a huge task that we needed to get done, but it turned out just fine. 

I feel this project was pretty difficult because we did have some trouble with the website along with the links but we eventually managed.Thus project took a complete turn on us from the start to end because we did not think we would end up with the film that we now have, but I know that we did the best that we could with the resources around us. I overall enjoyed this project and learned a lot of new things from it, great learning experience. 

WEDNESDAY,

Wow! Amanda and I have not stopped working. We are completely exagest and our brains are completely fried, but we still have some work to do. So today we focused on our postcard and we wanted our postcard to be engaging and attract the viewers. The website had the colors of red,black, and white so Amanda and I keep the scheme of colors for it to flow well. In the postcard we decided to include our social media accounts which Amanda and I thought would be extremely good, especially since it's easier to access (social media) and you won’t be able to lose it. 

Postcard: In the postcard advertisement we took a close up shot of Orian wearing the mask very close up. And Amanda and I think we made a good choice because she is the main actor and the mask (corona) which is the whole idea of the short film. 

Hi everyone, 

As this week is coming closer to an end, (our project deadline) Amanda and I are moving extremely fast and we are getting big things done everyday. So since yesterday we finished editing our film today we decided that we would be putting the final touches into our website and finally publish it to the public. In this website we focused on the color scenes of white,red, and black to stick with our theme. We also made the website extremely clean and easy to access, by having a way to navigate through the top right corner with having it all labeled. Amanda and I are aware that many teenagers aren’t really big on the web, so we decided to put an easy way to click to our social media from the websites. The website looks great and I know that our audience will absolutely love it ! Down below is how the website looks!

(Mobile version)

(Desktop version) 

Hi people !

Editing all done! But I do have to admit that it was a mission to get the film to look exactly the way that we wanted too. These are our finally editing touches that we used in our film.. 

1)We did have some difficulties with the sounds because we muted the videos so Amanda and I had to completely record our sounds and put it together perfectly so the footage would sink with the sound.

2) We decided to put a lot of little details into every single scene that was filmed. Another thing that we did with the film was that we put a voice over throughout our whole film, so timing the voice over with every single action that was taken also became quite difficult but it did end up going in smoothly. 

3)Other than creating our own sounds we also had some sounds that we used from WeVideo and it made a significant difference inside of our project. 

4) We also heavily manipulated the colors from before corona and after and it definitely added a huge tough to the visual aspects.

This editing process was definitely more tricky then it was last year, but we managed it as best as we could and ended up coming out great! While creating this film, I definitely learned a lot and I know that I will take what I learned into further productions! :)

Hey guys,

The problem has been solved and the editing process is beginning! So far it is all going great and we should be done pretty soon, because we have really been putting all of our time and focus into the editing for now. Although Amanda and I are well aware that there is more to this project than just the filming and editing and this is all a process and we hope that the pieces will be all together and done very soon. So we hope to get done with the website early this week. As amsdna and i have already discussed we hope to make our website the best that we possibly could and we would love for it to really engage with our audience and we hope that it truly attracts the audience into our film. As we have mentioned in a previous blog we will be using WIX and we hope that this will be a really good way to market our film. As this week is about to start I will have many more updates on what is happening with our website ! stay tuned because it is going to be GREAT!

Hi…

Today we have run into our first problem. As Amanda and I started editing our short film we came to a realization that we need to film more because we are short on footage. So we decided that we need to change a couple things and we decided that we will be adding a flashback in the start of the film. The first flashback that we recorded was a party scene in which I brought my neighbors over and we used flashing LED lights to make it look like a party. But instead of just putting a party scene as a flashback we came to a realization that we need more, so I will be taking more footage of my little sister ASAP. And this footage will include my sister walking the dog outside, going in the pool, eating dinner with the family and much more. We hope that with doing this our film will look much better, along with feeling in the time we need for this film.

Hi people,

I have some great news that I will be sharing with you guys, Amanda and I have finished filming everything that we needed for our project!! Even though it was difficult communicating with Amanda over the phone we were able to get to work and get it all done. I think the footage that we got was very funny and looked really good because I have the highest iPhone quality so it went well. I also want to give a huge thanks to my sister for being extremely patient during the filming process! It all really went.

Hi ,

As I have discussed earlier this week, amanda and i have started to really put the pieces together and we are definitely questions certain things during the editing process. We do want to manipulate this short film with color but we do not want that manipulation of color to be taken away from the fact that it is a parody and accidently make it to derious for the audience which will lead to a lot of confusion. That is definitely a small issue that Amansa and I are going through as we have been editing the film, but we hope that the audience understands by making this extremely extroverted we are not making fun of the illness (Because thousands of people are dying a day) but we are just making fun of the reactions society… Amanda and I should be able to fix this small issue and we hope to make sure that the audience does not take our film in the wrong way, but as always I will be back with more updates for you all!

Hey guys,

Today Amanda and I have started to put out a film together on wevideo and even though we are not exactly sure how the film will start, I would like to say that I am still recording on a daily basis and should be done by sunday! Amanda and I just want to make sure that this film is the best that we could possibly make and we hope that the pieces will continue to come together as we keep recording. Sorry for the short update, but I just wanted to announce that the editing process is currently taking place !!!!!!

Hey everyone ! 

        I have some great News and the other day I started filming with my little sister. Since we are not allowed out of our house I was the one filming, but even though Amanda was not physically there to help me film we did get to facetime throughout this process and even though it was a little difficulty communicating that way, she was still a huge helping hand when I was indecisive about the kind of techniques we needed to be using along with different shots and angles for it to become more engaging for the audience. We recorded the first half of our film, but hopefully will be recording the rest tomorrow. I am going to put these clips until we video and we are going to get started with the editing process. It feels good to say that we are really starting to move ahead with the filing process! 

Hi everyone, 

For our film we will be putting rules as we have said in a previous blog. We got the idea from doing research and finding the movie Zombieland and will be incorporating these similar rules into our film. In our film we will have my little sister (the main actor) voice over these rules while we show footage of the grocery store being empty or even show the streets being empty as well. Down below I wrote some of the rules that could possibly used for our film, the next step is having Amanda approve these and we all good to go! 

RULE 1: Always have hand sanitizer by your side

RULE 2: sleep with your mask, eat with your mask, and shower with your mask. NEVER TAKE IT OFF.

RULE 3: Gloves always stay on, hand sanitizer on top of your gloves.

RULE 4: Never leave your home 

Hello everyone,

Everyday has been a great day so far because I have been going outside every day and exercising to make the best out of everything that I can. Moving on ever since we already started filming we have put more thought into our editing process and with this being said we have started to look at the kind of fonts that we will be using in this film. We need a font that is bold and in a way kind of mysterious. Down below I will be showing a couple fonts that I have had in mind so far.

 Personally I am kind of feeling font number 5 because it gives it a mysterious vibe and this is what we are going for and it is also bold.

Hello everyone,

Today I would like to show you guys the storyboard:

Some of the boxes may be unclear above about what we are doing but this was just our overall idea that we wanted to write down before we got to the filming process.

Hi guys,

        

Since Amanda and I have figured out our storyline, it’s time to figure out who will be taking certain roles. Amanda was an actor last year and it did not work out so well just because Amandas would constantly be laughing (it was hilarious), so this year I was planning to be the actor at first but since there has been a dramatic change with the project. I have no choice but to make my little sister the actor and I think that she will do a good job at this. We are going to give my little sister Orian a try. Since we are home all day long, my sister has no problem participating in this project since she has nothing better to do. This is really good because it allows Amanda and I to focus on the other parts of the film. If you look below there is a picture of my little sister! This is going to be great !!

Hi people,

       Yesterday Amanda and I made a decision, and we figured out what storyline we are going to use for this short film with the limited amount of resources that we have. Instead of doing the romantic comedy that we had planned, we will be doing a parody. In this we will have the storyline of the coronavirus, and we will be doing how to. An example would be, how to avoid the coronavirus, how to recover. As we researched this topic we found a movie called Zombieland and in this film the main character is explaining the rules that help him stay alive during the zombie apocalypse. . This film gives us ideas and we will be basing some of these ideas into our film. Some of the ideas will be possibly doing a voiceover. We do think that we could pull this off, and we are hoping that it will look great. Even though we can’t really feel outside much, we will be using our house to the best of our ability. We think that the storyline is funny and it relates to the situation that we are in now and this could help us during our filming process, as always I will keep you guys updated!

Hi everyone,

        Today I will be talking about some good news and bad news, and I am going to start with the bad news first though. The bad news has to do with the corona virus and how it is constantly spreading and infecting so many people on a daily basis. With this being said my parents will not let me leave my house at all, along with Amanda's parents. Even if our parents did let us out of the house, all business is closed and the places that we hoped to film at would not be available to us. But because this pandemic only affects our filming, we hope to come up with another plot that always allows us to film with the current situation that we are in. The good news is that Amanda and I have already come up with some great ideas so far and we are still excited to do this project. Everyone stay safe and we will be back with more updates! :))

Happy Sunday,

       Amanda and I met up yesterday and we came up with something very important for our film and that would be the tittle! Tittle's are extremely important in our film because they are the first interaction that the audience will get with the film, so the tittle needs to be creative and capture the attention of the people. For now we have come up with the tittle name of 'togetherness', and the meaning of that word is being close to another person or to just people.

       I feel that when people hear the name of the movie they will become more interested on what it is about and the overall film. But I did think about this tittle deeply and I feel that people may take our film to seriously in a 'romantic way' and even though it will be that deep in a romantic way it also is a comedy so I would want the audience to understand the type of film that we would be putting out there. As I always say, I will be back with more updates.

Some good news,

       Can't believe that I forgot to mention that we started to create our website today! Now don't get to excited... Because we just started, meaning that we got the basics down. Meaning that we were able to figure out which template and look we think will be the best fit for out project and theme. While still making it simple and fun for our audience to navigate through it.

       But with good news there can always be some bad, and for Amanda and I, it did not cross our mind that we will be needing to create a LOGO/symbol that will be representing our short film. So hopefully Amanda and I will have that done by very early next week. Other than that the template that we chose for our project is so cute! If you look at the image you are able to see a little clock, and what we would do is set a date and time and the clock will stop clicking until our movie is out! In the back we would could update images from our film (teaser) or just put our logo, for now that is the plan and I am super excited about it !

Hi guys,

        As Amanda and I have both discussed we would be using Wix, I started to brainstorm and get more ideas for how our website will look and what we should be including in this. As I was looking I noticed that a lot of these films had a very clean look for their website, along with being very color coordinated.

As I kept looking I felt that our film needs a specific color that we can use for our overall tone, and since the color red represents love I was thinking that we could use it. But I feel that it is so basic to use that color and I feel like I would want something more engaging and eye catching for our film... When researching I found that blue, red and green would be used. And I found that

these colors together would work well in a comedy film within

 the character costumes or just the title

to just portray the convention of

comedy and romance.

Hello everyone,

          Amanda and I have been putting so much effort into setting down a nice plot, and came to a realization that we also have more material in this project.... including our website. For this project we would like to make our website interacting with our audience in order for them to feel some kind of personal connection. SO maybe we would put quizzes on our website like the ones ''is he really into you'' or ''is he the one''.

We would put fun little quizzes that the audience would love to play! As I speak about our website I would also like to include that we will be using Wix to create our website and should have it started it up by this week.Wix is FREE, we love that :) and also extremely easy to use, and it includes a lot of amazing templates with it. Amanda and I strongly believe that this is the most effective way to be able to market our film, come back for more updates and details!

Happy Sunday, 

Today has been such a long day, because last night I was out with friends and as I was going home the clock changed an hour ahead making me lose an hour of sleep! So right now I am completely exhausted because I also had to work 6 hours today, can this day be over already !!!

But anyways other than me complaining about getting no sleep, I have another update for you guys and it turns out that I will be playing the role of the girl in the film and my best friend Brandon will be playing the guy. ..And Amanda herself will be the director. (Camera women) Making this decision Amanda and I had debated it alot because we want this film to be the best it can, and If Brandon and I act this role together, the filming process will run smoothly unlike with anybody else.This is really good for Amanda and I because Brandon is very flexible with his schedule and he’s also my closest friend so I feel very comfortable with him. Meaning that the process of filming will not at all be awkwards for us. It will also help the acting look more natural and not forced. Below I will be posting a picture of Amanda (director) and both Brandon and I just for you readers to be  able to visualize us!

 

On the left Onil (me) and on the right Brandon

This is the amazing Amanda

Hi Hi Hi,

Let's talk about filming.. This last few weeks have been non stop for both Amanda and I, and have literally had no time to be able to film and if I am going to be honest with you guys, I do not think that we will be filming this week either. This saturday I have to take my last SAT so I have been studying like crazy for it, along with having work every other day there is just not enough hours in the day!

But I do believe that Amanda and I will start filming in the start of next week. Other than just talking about our filming schedules I want to talk to you all about what apps we will be using to film. 

In class the other day we had a class discussion about the different websites and apps everyone is using to edit, and our teacher Tina made a suggestion to buy the app called FiLMiC Pro, this app has many features and will be enhancing the quality of our footage. Other than just using this app like Amanda and I do every year we will be using wevideo to be editing our project, but we do want to try to use Imovie as well because we did hear that there are good features on this as well. As always I will update you guys with more.

Back again, 

As we get closer to filming Amanda and I keep brainstorming ideas of our short film and picking out every single important detail in order to make our film the best that it could possibly be. So I am going to get right into it and talk to you guys about Mise-en-scène, with this being said we want the setting of this film to give off a (70 & 80s) time frame. In order to do this we need to have a setting that gives off these surroundings and living in weston, we don’t have any of this near us so we would need to travel far in order to get this environment.

 As I did my research I found a place named Jaxon’s that is 30 minutes away from my house, and it does give off the time frame that we won't so we will hopefully film there, but I know that someone in my class did mention that we will need permission by the owner in order to film there. This is definitely one of the options for the setting but we still are looking around, but for now Ananda and I have set a time frame and this is what we are looking into.

Happy Happy Wednesday!

Today we reached out to our peers in class to have a group discussion about our genre and storyline and they suggested that we should change it, for various reasons. As Amanda and I took these reasons into consideration the class and us came up with the idea of us going towards the Romantic Comedy genre. 

    For now the genre we will be using in our portfolio will be Romantic Comedy y, we would also like to open up our short film with the idea of having a guide (how to guide) aAn example would be like How to get your parents to like you.So Amanda and I discussed that out opening to the short film could be with the typewriter sounds and words that say… How to be the best boyfriend or girlfriend. Or even How to have your boyfriend. We hope that we

could make a very funny and cute romantic comedy with this genre and idea of how to.

I hope that we can make this short film super funny, and entertaining for all of our viewers!! More updates coming soon!