Bonjour,
Today is a holy day... the day of Jesus. Its only fitting to post a blog about my film...
So I already established my idea and my genre-ish ( Teen Films and comedy-ish )... I now have to begin drafting up a story board and the rough film schedule.
I am going to split the film into Four sections:
#1- The Establishment of the main characters setting ( her father being a pastor and her confinement) and her desire to find her own way. ( own religion ) As well as her friends desire to help her through this journey.
#2- The journey, not exactly sure as to what this entails. I think doing magic mushrooms would be cool to edit ( hallucinations), meditation, etc. I have to decide which religions I want to be represented and look into them. Max- 3
#3- The twist - finding her father and getting put into a convent.It would be more the filming of her getting sent away not the actual convent but convent is implied.
#4- The escape- the cheesy end, break out and go live in the Swiss mountains with the goats.
I hopefully will start filming not next week but the following when I have a complete story board and shot list set up... this post was just to show where exactly my mind is at.
bye, bye
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Saturday, February 22, 2020
My Short Film Idea + a Quick case study ...
Bonjour,
Hope everyone is having an awesome Saturday!
If y'all didn't know I am a senior in High school and so, so, so very close to Graduating... Yikes
Its been hitting pretty hard. One chapter in my life in ending and another one in begging! For my short film, I would like to harness this "in distress" energy and create an awesome sauceome coming of age short film.
However, I am Unsure which angle to take.
-a girl who is trying to discover who she is through way of her style before leaving for college. She dresses as a different stereotype for weeks at a time...hippie, gothic etc.
- a teenage girl who has been so caught up in trying to get into college that she feels she has never really experienced life. She goes on an adventure in order to make up all those experiences and ends up taking a gap year.
-a teenage girl goes on a journey to find herself spiritually
-the daughter of a priest has been safe guarded her whole life, she goes to college and goes wild.
I thought about it a little more and I think I can do a lot of cool editing for a girl trying to find her self spiritually and do a lot of artistic playful things. possibly even make is funny...
The story line:
-She is the child of a priest and feels as though her religion was imposed upon her. She feels like she didn't have a choice to choose her religion and what she wants to believe. She starts to look into other religions as well as beliefs. However, she has a hippie friend that wants to guide her on this journey. The film spans their journey as she tries to find herself spiritually. On one of these endeavors she finds her father and he is appalled, he decides to send her to a convent but then her hippie friend breaks her out and they run away to practice and believe whatever they want.
COMING OF AGE FILMS CASE STUDY:
1. Book Smart
Hope everyone is having an awesome Saturday!
If y'all didn't know I am a senior in High school and so, so, so very close to Graduating... Yikes
Its been hitting pretty hard. One chapter in my life in ending and another one in begging! For my short film, I would like to harness this "in distress" energy and create an awesome sauceome coming of age short film.
However, I am Unsure which angle to take.
-a girl who is trying to discover who she is through way of her style before leaving for college. She dresses as a different stereotype for weeks at a time...hippie, gothic etc.
- a teenage girl who has been so caught up in trying to get into college that she feels she has never really experienced life. She goes on an adventure in order to make up all those experiences and ends up taking a gap year.
-a teenage girl goes on a journey to find herself spiritually
-the daughter of a priest has been safe guarded her whole life, she goes to college and goes wild.
I thought about it a little more and I think I can do a lot of cool editing for a girl trying to find her self spiritually and do a lot of artistic playful things. possibly even make is funny...
The story line:
-She is the child of a priest and feels as though her religion was imposed upon her. She feels like she didn't have a choice to choose her religion and what she wants to believe. She starts to look into other religions as well as beliefs. However, she has a hippie friend that wants to guide her on this journey. The film spans their journey as she tries to find herself spiritually. On one of these endeavors she finds her father and he is appalled, he decides to send her to a convent but then her hippie friend breaks her out and they run away to practice and believe whatever they want.
COMING OF AGE FILMS CASE STUDY:
1. Book Smart
The Main character Amy and Molly thought staying focused on only school would allow them to be more successful than their high school peers. But on the night before graduation, they realize that they have missed out on the high school experience. Determined to make up for lost time, Amy and Molly try to experience four years of high school fun into one night.
*This Film can help with my development of the dynamic between two friends and the comedic effect I want to try to achieve*
2. Love Simon
The Main character Simon hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. This film documents his journey as he resolves both issues.
*This Film can help with the development of secrecy, keeping the truth of who the main character is form their parents*
NOTE: I was gonna add a third one but couldn't find on representative of what I trying to achieve.
Im actually really excited... i think this short film is going to be very artistic and just overall fun...CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE OUTCOME!!!
Friday, February 21, 2020
Why a Short Film and its Conventions...
Bonjour,
I hope everyone is doing well!
For this years portfolio project, I would like to tackle the short film out of all of the options offered.
Why a short film?
At first it was so that I could submit it to colleges...however, at the time I didn't realize that the deadline for the submissions were so early in the year.
On that note, I did create a short film and submitted it to a few of the colleges. This exposed me to the short film world and I really liked what I saw. I liked that it could be more expressive and artistic than a typical film.
I began to look into short films and even attended the short film festival in Miami called " Nothing short of Epic" ( This play on words made me happy). Here I got to see a sample of what people in this field were working on and the techniques they were using. I loved everything screened but the one that really stuck with me was actually the winner called "Atlas". I thought this was a vey funny and creative film. Like this director and like I said in my first blog posting, I want to make something that makes people smile.
so know that I have established exactly why I want to do a short film, I think its important that I establish and understand the Codes and conventions.
Storylines
- are kept simple and easy to follow and will be based over a short period of time. It will have limited dialogue....Instead characters will be developed through images and actions.
Character
-a short film will usually introduce between 1 and 3 main characters as creating back stories and developing characters is limited. This is done to keep the audience engaged and be able to follow the storyline.
Twist
-Including a twist is a common convention in short film although this is not a general rule and not all short films will use this format. It allows the film maker to tell a short story in an interesting way... easy to achieve as short storyline gives less clues to the ending.
Creativity
-short films allow for much more creativity and abstraction. They are made up of a number of creative shots and soundtrack making up an artistic piece.
I hope everyone is doing well!
For this years portfolio project, I would like to tackle the short film out of all of the options offered.
Why a short film?
At first it was so that I could submit it to colleges...however, at the time I didn't realize that the deadline for the submissions were so early in the year.
On that note, I did create a short film and submitted it to a few of the colleges. This exposed me to the short film world and I really liked what I saw. I liked that it could be more expressive and artistic than a typical film.
I began to look into short films and even attended the short film festival in Miami called " Nothing short of Epic" ( This play on words made me happy). Here I got to see a sample of what people in this field were working on and the techniques they were using. I loved everything screened but the one that really stuck with me was actually the winner called "Atlas". I thought this was a vey funny and creative film. Like this director and like I said in my first blog posting, I want to make something that makes people smile.
so know that I have established exactly why I want to do a short film, I think its important that I establish and understand the Codes and conventions.
Storylines
- are kept simple and easy to follow and will be based over a short period of time. It will have limited dialogue....Instead characters will be developed through images and actions.
Character
-a short film will usually introduce between 1 and 3 main characters as creating back stories and developing characters is limited. This is done to keep the audience engaged and be able to follow the storyline.
Twist
-Including a twist is a common convention in short film although this is not a general rule and not all short films will use this format. It allows the film maker to tell a short story in an interesting way... easy to achieve as short storyline gives less clues to the ending.
Creativity
-short films allow for much more creativity and abstraction. They are made up of a number of creative shots and soundtrack making up an artistic piece.
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