Davids project

Yesterday I went to Goodwill! I had an amazing time with friends and even found some clothes I liked... but I found nothing  for my actors to use. Since I only have the father actor I only have his size, for the rest I was going to buy a medium or small and hope for the best. I know it seems dumb to buy clothes without knowing sizes but, I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT :) . Either way I think I should probably postpone filming because not only do I not have actors, but I barely even have a script. Me being a dumb lazy senior did not think it would be this difficult to gather actors and feel prepared for this project. This week I will SOLELY focus on finding actors and making a script, I need to get the necessities for filming done so I can worry about editing and details later. As for the music in my film, I took an executive decision (after noticing how hard garage-band is and how IMPOSSIBLE it is to make good music) to instead of make my music, find royalty free and copyright free music...

My opening is too long. I have reviewed it and got some help from peers and i believe too much is happening in my opening. This is a small rough draft i made during class. I didn't have a template so i decided to use regular paper and make boxes. (Im no artist, so please do not judge) I need to condense my opening, I have four major scenes. opening narration  mom and daughter  father and daughter  girl and her crush The opening is the narrator and the amile style opening with the narrator explaing the importance of this exact moment in time. Then it will go into the backstory of the protagonist abandonment issues and her mother problems when the mom leaves her and her father alone. It will go into the next scene with a graphic match of the daughter crying but this time she will be older and then the father will come into the scene, they will have a conversation then go to school, it will change into the crush scene, the girl will see her crush and have a small ...

Hey! Welcome back to the blog where I show you how i slowly become insane! We now have a set film day, march 29, I can not be more excited but also nervous at the same time. On the 25th I plan on going to goodwill to see if I can find the clothing for my actors. Im first going to ask to see their closet to see if I can save money by using their clothes. As I talked about in an earlier post, im going to color coordinate my characters and give them meaning in what they wear and how they present themselves. the filming date is closing in and im trying to make myself feel more prepared but it really is not helping one bit. As for the Opening credits, I had an idea to use items that have importance in the story to almost foreshadow the story. I give the audience a taste of what to lookout for without revealing its importance. I had the idea of putting a picture of the family on the piano but make it so the mother is not visible because of glare from sunlight. A small update on a...

Good news regarding the actual filming, WE GOT A LOCATION! My good friend Heather has the perfect house I had in mind. her house has a piano (that ties into the love story of the parents) and a stairwell that i wanted in some shots of the father and daughter getting ready for school A few updates on the story are that the day is going to be the first day of school. I still need to find an actress for my protagonist. To make matters slightly worse my "crush" actress dropped out because an unexpected family issue. I need to find a replacement as soon as possible. I have found an actor for the father of the protagonist which helps. I need an actress for the mom but I would like to find my protagonist first so i can base the "look" on the mother and show some type of relationship without saying anything. With the location out of the way I just need figure out the rest of the story (completely) and make an actual script for the opening. I am currently asking around f...

I have worked on the actual plot and now opening dialogue for a while now. I constantly have this battle between making progress and getting stuck to end up finding something else on the project that i need to figure out completely. I wrote out the plan i wanted to pursue. My idea is heavily based on the Amilie film opening. My film starts with a black screen, the music starts off low and builds up to a constant background sound. The narrator will state the date, time, and even second, then will list things happening at that exact moment, then end with "a girl asks her mother a very important question" and then my protagonist, as a young girl (5-10 years old) will ask her mother "how did you know you were in love with dad?" and a close up of the mother responding with an anecdote about how the two met and fell in love, this is supposed to leave you with a happy warm feeling but then quickly turn the feeling around when the mother abruptly dismisses her own story...

On both of these subjects, I draw a blank. I have spent hours questioning what my opening scene music will sound like and I cant think of anything that I really love for my film. The only song I think I like enough to base my opening music on would be inspired by "married Life" from the animated film UP . The beginning of the music is what hooks me into falling in love with this song. Its the perfect mix of upbeat with old-timey to paint a picture of a happy life and happy couple going about their life and content until it starts to slow down. I would have a small 30 second music piece that would combine upbeat fun sounds with almost a romantic feeling by adding violin and piano beautifully.... now here is the hard part. I don't know how to use any music or instrument application AT ALL! To solve this gigantic road bump in the music process im going to ask my good friend Daniel (who did this project last year ) how to use garage band and make musical piece for my f...

Color is one of the first things I try to look out for in a film, it gives a sense of past, present, and future of the character or scene. Over the last few days I have been looking at color and the tone/ mood I want to set for my film. the film is comical but also about a high school relationship. To compliment the love aspect i decided warm colors once the protagonist meets her crush, and faded bland colors before. but as for color correction it will be warm and give off almost like a foreign film vibe. But what i cant seem to get down are the colors im assigning to each character. I read and saw a video essay about Edgar Wright (I know i keep bringing him up but he has influenced how i see comedy a lot over the years) and it explained how he assigns colors to his characters.  Link to video essay   I felt that the main character should be red, from dark red before the crush and almost a pink after the crush to show passion. The father should be grey to symbolize his gloomy e...