Changing Ideas

Hi my people!

I hope you guys are having an amazing day. For me today has been a horrible, I woke up late and did not study for my history test. (typical) The only thing that made me happy today was going to my aice media class, which is weird. I like aice media but not enough to make me that happy. Once I got into class today Mrs.Stoklosa told us that we would be put in groups to talk about our project process at the moment and our ideas. As I was in a group with 4 other students there film opening ideas were being told and I really liked them. In the groups we all shared our blogs and had a deep discussion about our projects. As soon as it was my turn to discuss my project I was not sure how confident I felt about the idea anymore even though the group that I was in loved it.

As I was discussing my project the people in the discussion loved my idea but their only concern was that they were worried that two minutes would not be enough to present my film opening. As we continued to talk about my idea I came to a realization that, my film opening was to unoriginal and basic. I know that I am capable of presenting something better. I immediately knew that I wanted to change it. The class was ending in about 10 minutes and I went up to Amanda right away to tell her my thoughts on our idea. And Amanda was just about to tell me that she wanted to change our idea for the film opening as well. So we agreed to changing it immediately but we still don’t know what we would like to do.

Although Amanda and I had an issue with this, Amanda wanted to change the theme back to horror meanwhile I think that the genre of Drama will be better for us. I also know that I promised some kind of storyboard to be posted today. But I lied completely because as of now Amanda and I are not sure with which genre we will be using for our film opening. Amanda thinks that horror would be so much better to do, meanwhile I am not sure on how well we can pull that genre off. We are currently not agreeing with which genre we want to present but Amanda and I have worked together on many projects before and I know we will agree on a genre soon.

Good Afternoon readers!
I  hope you guys have had a great start to the week, even though it's been pretty crazy for me. This week Amanda and I will be getting a lot of things done for our project, including our storyboard. (Hopefully we will be productive this week) Anyways the storyboard...In my opinion a storyboard is a very important step to a good film. So Amanda and I need to be sure we create our storyboard exactly how we want it. The image in our head needs to match the images on the storyboard. We have already discussed what we would like to do, but we will need to write it down with detail this time.If we are on schedule with our planning I hope that I will be able to post our storyboard on the blog by late Thursday.

Other than the storyboard Amanda and I need to keep our new genre in mind. As I did some research about our genre of Drama we need to remember to include the important aspects of it. Including a story,flashbacks,pain,betrayal, and many emotions. We must include this in our film opening, but Amanda and I have our main goal set. We truly want our viewers to be able to relate to the story that is about to be told. Our story truly challenges our audience because there are many people who feel like an outcast and truly would do anything or even change themselves to fit in better. Our story line also brings awareness to social issues that happen in young teen lives today. We hope that it represents real issues that happen on a day to day basis, and we also hope that teenagers will find a better way to deal with these issues.

Amanda and I have agreed to meeting up at least two times a week outside of school. This week Amanda and I will be discussing specific aspects for our project. This includes exactly what needs to get done in the next couple days. During our meeting we plan on talking about what snacks we want to eat before starting. But other than the snacks our main focus of discussion this week will be our storyline, we need to make sure every single clip captured in our film opening has a purpose. Other than the storyline this week's discussion will include specific days in the future when would like to film. Other than that I will be updating you guys with our storyboard! (Hopefully soon)

Happy Sunday readers!

Today I started to plan out how I would like Amanda and I to move along with this project since we have to be very strict with our scheduling. As I was planning out a schedule, Amanda and I have decided to be filming twice a week after we complete our storyboard. We should be starting our storyboard by the start of this week and have it completed by the weekend.(I will post the storyboard on the blog) Amanda and I are extremely excited as we gather ideas on how we will create this film opening. We want to give our audience the best film opening possible. Amanda and I have came up with some techniques and here they are.

First let's talk about camera shots and movements:

Establishing shots: We will be using establishing shots during our film opening for our viewers to better understand what's going on. (the school and her home)
Close ups: We will be using close ups to show a lot of emotions and doing this the emotions will be enhanced and the audience will be more attached.

Long shot/medium shot: we will be using these shots to show her at her moment when she gains her confidence.

Now we are moving on to Mise-en-scene:

-During the film opening we will have to be very specific with every detail, including clothing,location,background, and emotion. The teenager will be using very plain black clothing, this will be representing her personality and how she feels about herself. You will be able to get a peak of how she sees herself.

-The setting will be taken in her school and her room, the setting is extremely important because you will see where and how she deals with her emotions. Along with seeing why she takes action in the first place.

-Once our main character gains her confidence her clothes will look much brighter and better. You will be able to see a confidence burst.

All of these aspects will help make our film opening very detailed and emotional. We will be using WeVideo to edit our project, and will be filming with our Iphone using special lenses. I hope that we can edit the color of the clips between her happy moments and her sad moments. I am so excited to continue working on this project. I will blog a little later this week to update you guys with more detail!

Xoxo, Onil

Welcome back to blog,

As we get closer and closer to filming, my partner Amanda and I have many creative ideas. We keep seconding guessing what we want to create. Although I think we found out what we would like to do. Even though we had done a lot of research on Horror, we have decided to go with a genre that suits us better. Our new genre for our film opening will be Drama, and we chose this genre because we feel like we could relate more. Amanda and I knew we would be capable of presenting something better this way.

Then we started researching Drama, we found it very appealing to us. Amanda and I knew right away that we would want to use this genre for our film opening.Drama films include many strategies including flashbacks,storytelling,and emotion. Amanda and I have come up with a story about a teenage girl. In the film opening you see a young girl that doesn’t fit in, this girl has been getting bullied throughout high school. By the end of the film opening you are able to see that this girl is ready to change and be on top. Using the strategies to create drama this teenage girl will be having flashbacks,a story behind everything, and many emotions.

While researching I decided to look into the hit series of “13 reasons why”. This show’s genre is drama and did they amazing job targeting young teenagers. In this show they brought so much emotion in what actually happens in young teenagers lives. By doing this many teenagers were able to relate to this show and attach themselves. Amanda and I knew we would have a far more difficult time producing a horror film opening, but then realized that we could produce an amazing drama film that relates to us. We now know what film opening we would like to create and we are beyond excited.

Welcome back everyone! I am here to update you!

In class we worked on a project, this project was a music marketing campaign. In this project we worked in groups and I worked with Amanda Smale and Sophie Solarana! In this project we had to create a band/artist and be able to market them. My group and I created a band named The Void, this band had lyrics and meaningful music. The Void can be described as a band that creates music to make a change and bring awareness to issues currently occurring. Other than just creating The Void we had to come up with ideas on how we will be distributing & marketing them.

Before creating our band, we had to do some research.The research done for this project was on the company RCA records. We gathered information on the band the Weathers and Foo Fighters. We researched these two bands to be able to see how they market themselves, along with there distribution techniques. With the information we researched we were able to see the steps and process they took to become successful. From meet and greets at guitar stores to collabing with other artists. The research allowed us to see the process and how they have grown, through marketing and distributing.

 

   (Merchandise made for The Void)

When figuring out how to market our band we had to be reasonable, our band is not well known and has to start off small. To market our band we are playing at local charity events,booking events at local bars and clubs, staying active on our social media’s, and meeting up with fans. Our most effective way of marketing at the moment would be performing at local areas. This is helping us build up our fan base, in a reasonable way.

By doing this project I learned that before growing big we need to see it as a business and focus on the target audience. We also need to focus on socioeconomic status. I also learned how music videos are different and having different factors within them.

 (Social Media Account)

        Our website :https://voidband.weebly.com/