Guys we did it. WE DID IT. WE FINALLY. FINALLY FINISHED FILMING. Oh my goodness im telling you now the entire thing has been a very fun, overwhelming, enjoyable, crazy mess of an experience that if I had to the opportunity to go back, I would NEVER do so. Being with my friends and making an insane movie with them is cool but Emi can only take so much cortisol. I am so ready to get this over with. And not even in a mid way NO NO this is going to be PEAK. 4 days left? STFU! IVE BEEN THEOUGH THIS BEFORE IVE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFORE I CAN GET THROUGH THIS. WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS
GGRHRGAHAHAHAHAHAHAGATDTTNYTJGHRTKKREOJSWJ WE’RE ALMOST THERE EVERYBODY.
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This entire long weekend that I had we have spent FILMING FILMING FILMING AND FILMING. We reshooted scenes, we re did audio, and we shot and finished up a whole 3 other scenes. ALL IN THE SPAN OF 72 HOURS. I AM STILL EXHAUSTED AND WILL FOREVER BE EXHAUSTED. HERE'S A QUICK LITTLE RUNDOWN BEFORE I DIE
HOO HA: FILMING DAY WHATEVER PART 1 (FRIDAY)
You may remember this little fact from a couple posts ago, but the car shots that we had for Otto and Mable at the beginning of our film were kinddaaa poopoo! Especially Otto's! She was out of focus! And so, to fix this up and make our lives easier while editing, myself, Joaquin, and Isa met up at about 6pm on Friday at the Indian Trace Plaza to reshoot the scene and then move on to Joaquin's house and get some Mable shots for the finale since the time we had with her left was limited and we need to squeeze out as much of it as possible :D! The reshooting of the car scene went pretty quick and we got it in done just in time as the sun was already going down and inviting us to film some of the finale scenes! Here are the brand new car shots compared to the old ones for you folks that haven't seen my editing post yet!
oldd otto shot
newww otto shot
olddd mable shot
newww mable shot!
By the time we got to Joaquin's house it was like 8PM which meant we had one more hour left to get a lot of Mable shots before she had to boogie at 9PM. That day we focused mainly on the shots after Mable shoots the devil with her TOTALLY NOT NERF GUN THAT EMI JUST PAINTED BLACK
lol i forgot to mention that
i keep thinking we're like not allowed to talk about guns here and stuff but uhh cambridge! I made a nice lil cool gun! :D By only using an old nerf gun owned by my brother, putting a lot of black construction paper over it, taping it all, and then finally completing everything with a nice fresh coat of black paint! It wasn't perfect of course, but it looked real to the point my parents were like "emi BE CAREFUL bro" so it was a success :]! If you're concerned about what my parents said to me, do not worry your little self my lovely flying cupcake monkey! Throughout the entire Mable shoot, we made it very clear to Joaquin's neighborhood that the gun we had out WAS JUST FOR A MOVIE. We yelled it, we danced around, we jumped up and clicked our heels, ANYTHING TO NOT GET INTO TROUBLE!
Then we filmed and got some really sick ass shots :D I cannot thank my bestie westie Isa enough for taking on the role of Mable and mogging the ENTIRE time. This isn't something she normally does, and the amount of care she put into her role surprised both Joaquin and I! Isa, if you're seeing this, you're the GOAT. G-O-A-T. THANK YOU SIGMA
THIS IS SO SICK.
After a couple really cool shots, it was already like 9:20PM so that meant Isa had to book it! She didn't have a car available for her to use that day, so I took her home and eventually got back at about almost 10PM :D Friday was a success! We got some really awesome reshoots and some GREAT finale scenes that will take a while for me to get over.
HOO HA: FILMING DAY WHATEVER WHATEVER (SATURDAY)
We got Mable for this one again to fully complete her night scenes along with reshooting some Issac scenes and redoing some audio for it :D! I don't think I've ever told you guys yet, but the day after I believe filming day 3, I checked and listened to every single piece of audio to ensure nothing was tweaking out but then found out (to my despair) that some audio was MISSING! THE BATTERY FOR MY MICS WENT OUT! DUN DUN DUNNN! I obviously freaked out a little bit over this but knew deep down that it would be okay in the end cause it's just audio and can be fixed easily with enough care and precision :] So with this in mind, Joaquin and Isa came over to my house at about 5PM to reshoot and re do audio for the Issac scene!
I bought out my computer to show Joaquin what I had for the line edit so far and show what shots specifically we needed to reshoot to make the scene even better and eliminate any bad, boring shots. I say the shots that we ended up getting came out pretty awesome! :D I like them 10x better than how they were before. There's more movement, better lighting, and better composition so this was a win in my book! Here are some of the shots I'm talking about:
guys for some reason i like roll my eyes anytime i see the word CCR plastered on my to do lists. why does it make me mad? what about it makes me go like UGHGHHGHGHGHGH? I DONT KNOW. LITERALLY MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE CCRS LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR WERE JUST FINE BRO
emi calm down
this ones gonna be easier
u have time
CALM DOWN
today im gonna be digging in a little bit on questions 1 and 2 to get a nice lil head start :D LETS GOO
THIS REFLECTION IS NOTT CREATIVE: DIGGING IN (QUESTIONS 1 AND 2)
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me and twin when we see a supernatural monster on the streets
QUESTION 1! MORE IN DEPTH! (emi this is a rough draft do not go insane please u have so much to do right now)
HOW DID RESEARCH INFORM MY PRODUCT AND THE WAY IT USES OR CHALLENGES CONVENTIONS?
When coming up with ideas for The Scourge and developing its aesthetic and overall tone, research definitely played a really big role in solidifying what exactly I wanted within all of those things. Researching media texts sharing our same genre also helped us a ton with understanding dark comedy a lot better! We learned the basics of the genre, its conventions, and how to execute it well, especially since our short tackles the sensitive topic of religion and power struggle, we really wanted to know how to do this right without being downright offensive. The productions that my team and I took most inspiration from were The Amazing Digital Circus, The Binding of Issac, and Dan Da Dan. There were many more but those are the 3 that were the most important to myself, Joaquin, and Andrew.
Through our research, we learned that dark comedy combines elements of humor and tragedy and or darker themes. As said by IMDb, the genre often also touches on taboo topics like death, crime, dysfunction, and societal issues all while being super silly to spark some contrast in an amusing way. Dark comedies are to be handled carefully, as not doing so would take away from the meaning that is attempting to be conveyed. Taking that all into consideration, we then looked at specific media texts that fall under the dark comedy genre. All these texts focus on heavy subject matters while having a silly exterior.
.My personal research mostly focused on The Amazing Digital Circus and how dives into serious topic matters while also still maintaining a silly tone (most of the time). I was really interested in how the show handled Caine's character (the AI ringleader antagonist). It first introduces him as a goofy, happy go lucky guy who wants nothing but to entertain the circus members, to making him go insane and begin torturing each and every single one of them in different ways, the most significant being with their traumas. For Annie's character, I took inspiration from Caine's personality and aimed to make him go down the path of increasing insanity. The difference between Annie and Caine though is that Annie is PURE EVIL while Caine turned bad solely because he was malfunctioning due to not fulfilling his AI purposes well. Annie isn't an AI, he's the devil! Other media texts that were significant in the development of our film as mentioned before were The Binding of Issac, mainly researched by Joaquin, and Dan Da Dan, researched by myself and Andrew.
The Binding of Issac touches on religious themes while not being afraid to pull any punches as Issac is literally being traumatized by religion throughout the entire game. Joaquin took this as inspiration and as a result we ended up with an insane product touching on religious subject matter with Biblical references like Cain and Able, The Golden Calf, and The Binding of Isaac. We wanted to make our film a sort of an uncomfortable but yet amusing watch, similar to how The Binding of Isaac video game did it. This is sort of similar to how we also took inspiration from Dan Da Dan with the goofy, yet uncomfortable amusing tone. The anime also isn't afraid to pull any punches, especially the visual ones (ghghhhg). I mainly took inspiration from Dan Da Dan for the general vibe and aesthetic of our short film. I wanted our brand to be goofy while also making it quite ominous with the way we interact with audiences along with the color palette and all.
PHEWW OKAY NEXT ONE
QUESTION 2! MORE IN DEPTH! (emi once again this is a rough draft pls do not go insane)
HOW DOES THE SCOURGE ENGAGE WITH AUDIENCES?
The Scourge mainly engages with audiences through its visual humor, snappy pacing, and general vibe and aesthetic. Our target audience consists of predominately young individuals that are fans of dark humor who fall under the alternative and queer categories. They are also mostly Americans who fall under the middle/upper middle classes with income, as our film is in English (lol required) and takes place in during the 2000s in suburbia south Florida.
As for our social media, target audiences are mostly engaged through the way we interact with them along with the aesthetic that we brand our film around. Each one of my posts have a consistent, cohesive color palette that draw in members of our audience who are fans of art along with the ominous, occult vibe. Along with my page's color palette, it also maintains a unique brand through the font used consistently throughout. The font I've been using for each post is called Ghastly Panic and it does the job perfectly in making them stand out and setting up the tone for our film, both silly and goofy with a spice of profoundness and seriousness!
Our postcards maintain the brand I developed with the social media and our final film through implementing the same black and red aesthetic and similar fonts. Obviously the font being used on there isn't as spooky scary looking as we want it to be as clear and legible as possible to people interested in our film but it will still strive to achieve a bold look. One of our postcards is very similar to the one seen in our final film as Annie gives his "card" to Otto. We wanted to have a nice little call back from our film's narrative. Our other postcard will be the same as the first but with some nice key art on the back featuring each important character shown in The Scourge. Our final film STILLL (kudos) maintains the brand identity even while strictly not having red and black colors plastered all over it. Each shot has a warm, dark tint to it that is synonymous to the brand we developed in our social media and postcard, especially the night time scenes, they do an amazing job with branding!
front and back of our in-universe postcard :]
nice night time shot of mable :D
OKOK THATS IT FOR NOW! I HAVE TO GO OUT A FILM ONE MORE JUST ONE. MORE. SCENE. AND BEFORE THAT I HAVE TO WRAP UP THE LINE EDIT. GUYS WE ARE GETTING THIS DONE WE YES WE!!
GOODMORNING BLOG!! Been a while since I've been on here! My team and I have been HARD at work to bring you all the best project we can possibly make! It is now April, and that means the finish line is only getting closer and closer! With that in mind, a couple days ago I began the line edit for our short film along with adding audio and color correction :D Joaquin and I are the main people taking care of post prod so I'm confident that we will end up with something that looks pretty awesome cuz the power of friendship rocks!
oki im gonna talk about it in depth now r u ready
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CUTTING UP MY MOVIE AND STUFF: THE LINE EDIT
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more on that shot up there soon mwahhaha
hello i am easter emi
I don’t remember the exact day I started the line edit but it was as soon as possible so we could get a nice head start on post because personally, I think it’s a very arduous but fun process that can take awhile, but luckily I won’t be alone in this!
omg dude i exited out of this post for a minute and everything that i just wrote after that little sentence disappeared
i am red
emi is mad
she is never mad
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oki i try again emi is happy now :D
AS I WAS SAYING. BLOGGER I AM GOING TO END YOU. At the end of every single one of our filming days, Joaquin gave me their SD card because I have a lovely USB thingy at my lovely home to transfer all the lovely footage to my computer and make progress on the lovely edit! This USB thingy is a blessing idk where we would be without it! I got it way back around the 2nd quarter of my Sophomore year after buying a GoPro typa bodycam except it wasn't a GoPro so my dad and I called it GoBro BAHAHHA to film some marching band rehearsal videos to save for future Emi to see and be like "woahh Breathe 2024 was lit" (watch Breathe 2024 im in it :D it is indeed lit :D). After recording my last rehearsal of the year, I went back home, watched it, and then was like "man i wanna like have this thang on my phone and computer and stuff" so then I asked my papa to buy a USB thingy so I could do just that! It supports both SD and micro SD cards so I could transfer to my hearts content!
Thanks to sophomore Emi and her need to watch her marching video on her computer, I now have a USB thingy to transfer all my movie clips and stuff so I can like pass this class! YEAHHHH HOORAY FOR GOBRO AND THE USB THINGY! Everything indeed does happen for a reason!! WAHOOOO if u look around here you can see a lovely photo of myself and my USB thingy posing for the cam cam and being awesome and stuff :D! Call the chriopracter Im back!! USB thingy is back! Emi how do u spell chirocparcater? Idk Emi u tell me how to spell cheiuiroapctror! Dude I literally just told you that I do NOTTT know how to spell fhvchriaiaportor! ARE U KIDDING!?? CMON DUDE YOU HAVEEE TO KNOW HOW TO SPELL CHRICOPAOAHERT!!! DUDE I LTIERALLY JUST TOLD YOU I DONT KNOW HOW TOSPEPL LCHDCSIIERIIGBNGJGTEOROTPRTORGAHHAHHAAAAAA GAHHHHHHHHHHH GAHHH FGHGAHAGAAAAAAAAAAA
constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated! :D
all roads lead to emi's tadc hyperfixation
oki wait let me just save my work rq here so i dont almost jump off a microwave again
anyway BAHAHAH WHO AM I
while working on the line edit I came to a realization during the Otto and Mable car scene that a close up shot of myself was out of focus! DUN DUN DUNNNN!!! I tried to find a way to fix this in Premiere Pro since it was INSANELY out of focus but it was to no avail because it still looked pretty poopy butt after I tried fixing it soooo Andrew Joaquin and I agreed that we were going to refilm it on Saturday 4/4 along with Mable close up because Joaquin didn't like the way that one turned out! :D Hoorayy!!!
Hallo this is Sunday Emi speaking! :D Happiest of Easters! Easter bunny! I love Easter bunny dude i ate so much sugar today at Eclair Affaire you guys have to go eat there NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWJWHERERGTJER JE WJKHEGRHAHAHAHAHAHHA
anyway look we filmed the car shots they came out pretty awesome! More on this stuff in the next post :] For now just look at the comparisons and be like GUAOOO EMII WOWWW WOWWWOWOW UR SO COOL AND AWESOME AND SO IS UR TEAM GUAOOOOOAHHAHAHA EASTER BUNNY
okokokokokok ready ready ready
olddd otto shot
newww otto shot!!
olddd mable shot
newwww mable shot!
YAYYYAYY!! With the help of these two lovely shots, the line edit (and everything else edit) began to look SO much better! These shots and the rest of the shots that we got this past weekend have been FIREEE and I am SO excited to see how they turn out put all together! Anyway time to hand the mic to the other Emi now :D BAIIIIII!
For the line edit, I went all the way up to the end of the Issac scene since that was all we had in terms of footage. For the parts where we didn't have footage yet (which we will get VERY soon), I simply just clicked on the text box, inserted a black screen, and wrote "INSERT SPECIFIC SCENE HERE" so we can have a good idea on what holes we need to fill to complete this thang safely and soundly! :D
like dat :D
That's pretty much it for the line edit for now! Chances are since we're gonna be refilming a couple shots, that I'll have to change the entire edit but theres no harm in that! Just ends up making our film all the more better :D Hooray! Now let's talk about audio cause I have indeed spent a lot of time with the audio! Man dare I say it's the hardest part! Help!
CUTTING UP MY MOVIE AND STUFF: THE AUDIO
So as I probably have mentioned before, for this short film we are recording audio on my phone with some nice new lavalier mics! At first I was very unsure about how the audio would end up sounding like but after giving some audio clips a listen and importing them on Premiere, I was like "hmm okay this is not that bad! :D" but then, once I tried syncing up the audio with the video for the first time I was like OMG WHAT IS THIS HOLY SHIT WE ARE GOING TO CRASH AND BURN GHAH WHATS HAPPENING!!!!2121!! I was quite freaked out, but once I got back home from school with more composure in my bones, I got out my computer and just really started to dig in on the edit, especially with the syncing. And yay!
At the end, it came out pretty decent :] We got good audio for the Otto and Mable car scene and for the Issac scene! There was a huge problem unfortunately with the audio during the Mable parts of the Issac scene though...and that was that the audio didn't go through! Why you ask? CAUSE THE MICS RAN OUT OF BATTERY! I THINK I TALKED ABOUT THIS ALREADY BUT STILL ACT SURPRISED EVEN IF YOU HAVE READ MY POTENTIAL "uh oh our mics died" LINE A COUPLE POSTS AGO! We will fix this issue soon once Isa, Joaquin, and I meet up again this coming weekend by recording their lines and putting them back into Premiere! Should be peachy keen :] Despite this issue though, I am pretty happy with how the rest of the audio turned out! Shout out to my phones Voice memo's app for keeping all our audio nice and organized!
voice memos- you're welcome emi!
emi- awwwww what a sweetie
I admit, syncing up audio is pretty annoying and probably one of my least favorite parts of editing this film so far, but can be SO satisfying. No feeling tops that of PERFECTLY aligning the audio with a specific clip ITS SO NICE. It's also worth mentioning that since this weekend we are reshooting some of the Otto Mable car scenes, I may also have to switch up the audio in my timeline a WHOLE lot, probably to the point where I'll have to restart some scenes entirely. But heck, the reward of getting it all done is so amazing and I got some more experience on my hands to go at it sooo I'm up for the challenge!! 10000 HIGH STAKE FILM PROJECTS VS 1 EMI WHO WINS? EMI.
alrighty time to color a lil bit
CUTTING UP MY MOVIE AND STUFF: THE COLOR
So for The Scourge's general art direction, I have chosen to have the entire film have very warm colors all throughout. The entire story of our short canonically takes place over the course of 4 days, the first scene (opener, otto and annie convo, mable otto convo) happening on the first day at sundown, the second (Issac, car scene), happening on the second during early afternoon, and the last (finale), taking place the next during the evening. So basically the warm colors are gonna be like: Warmmm, kinda warm (!), darrrkkkkk but warrmmmm mmm warrmm i love warm :D I have done a teeny tiny bit of color grading on my edit, so far only officially with the opening sequence but I plan to follow the warm uhh kinda warm darkk format that I have set in stone up there for the rest of the shots :] I don't have that much experience with coloration if we're not counting the CCR's from last year, but I'm not totally new so I have a good idea what I'm doing! This movie's gonna look very cool everybody I am saying it now!
nice lil comparision of no color vs yes color :D i love coloring no matter what art form :D
Anddd that'd be all for today super awesome blog readers! Stay tuned for much much muchhhh more in the future! Gameday is soon and we are close to gettin this thang done! As for now though I'm gonna like idk play Roblox or something :D
I am quitting this blog. it just has become way too much for me to keep up with and i think it's better, even though this is part of my grade, to just put an indefinite pause on blogging and focus on the rest of my project. So...this is my last post. I am sorry super awesome blog readers, cambridge lads, and tstok. I hope you guys understand.
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THIS IS MY THUMBNAIL BAHAHAHAH I HAD A GROUP MEETING BAHAHAHHAHAHA
ME LITERALLY THIS ENTIRE DAY HAHHAHAHAHAHABAHABABAHAHAH
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ok i have a lot of work to do lets get this started
HAHAHHAHAH ITS APRIL FOOLS AHHAHAHAHAHA: EMI TALKS TO THE SAME + NEW HUMANS ABOUT HER SILLY DEMON MOVIE
For this second and likely last group meeting, I was paired up with Aneesa, Samara, Audrey, Adriana, and Vicky! Very veryy similar to the last group that I worked with except for Audrey and Samara, so it was nice to hear updates from the og's while also talking to some new people about their super awesome creations and such :D! So without further to do...you know what time it is my flying cupcake monkeys!
Aneesa started us off by explaining what she has done so far with her film, and even though I already knew this cause I maybe do not definitely stalk my classmate's blogs every once in a while, her and her team decided to change their entire idea from the sentient camera falling in love with another person besides the main character to a really cool mean girls x heathers x uhhh evilness type of story! I thought it would have been really awesome if they found out a way to pull off the sentient camera idea but honestly I could seriously understand from a writer's standpoint just how hard that may be to write and develop a whole story around, so I definitely support this change :D I think it's sick!
Aneesa then went on and showed us, since she didn't have any footage on her device, all of the social media postings her and Nico have been working on to build a nice cohesive brand for their piece and dude THEY LOOKED SO COOLLLLUGHHH i ADORE the tarot card idea that they went for that was genuinely such a good creative choice. As of present day, Aneesa's group has officially started up their social media page on Instagram and I saw a whole ton of other tarot card meet the cast/crew posts and really loved what they were making with their page so far! The crew's colors are in purple while the cast's colors are red which definitely creates some nice contrast while also staying true to their brand. On the back of each tarot card (second slide), there is a nice description about either the character or person behind the production which I thought was also another super awesome creative choice :]! I cannot wait to see the rest of Aneesa's social media! WAHOO!
Aneesa also touched a bit on the filming days she had with her group within the last couple of days and while showing some really cool bts pics, I was surprised to see that these guys are using a black backdrop given to them by Sam's dad to film a "void scene." I am genuinely so looking forward to see how that will end up looking like! Black backdrops are so cool, I wish they were real :D All in all, Aneesa's project, even though they had a little bit of a setback with the scrapping of their original idea, looks to be doing really good and just knowing the sheer skill of everybody in her group? Ts is gonna be CINEMA.
2. Emi (idk who this person is)
Genre: Dark comedy
Film title: The Scourge
Blog link: dude i genuinely do not know
Yours truly went right up after Aneesa and explained to my group that we were also a tad bit behind on filming and started doing so the week before and then showed off two of my favorite raw shots that we caught throughout our lovely filming days! The first was the very beginning establishing opening shot of my film showing a cross on the roof of the church with the sun behind it, making it look REALLY cool and given by the reactions of my group, I could definitely tell they thought the same :] I'm glad that my short film will be starting off on the right foot! Even though the left is the side of the devil! WAHOO! With some nice coloration, which I'm working on right now (forshadowinggg!!), this shot, and the rest of the shots in my film will look ten times cooler and will be ten times more aligned with the art direction I' going for, so I'm having some high hopes right now :]
After I showed my group the sick ass sun shot, I then pulled up the shot of Otto getting absolutely slimed by Issac as she's putting up evil Calfism signs which advertise Annie Christian's fake, low budget, scammy cult and they also thought it was pretty awesome which I was glad to see :D! When my class has a nice little watch party of every single portfolio project and when we're watching my movie, I will be anticipating to see everybody's reaction to that shot BAHHAHA ITS SO GOOD and with sound effects it will be even funnier! YAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!1121211212
LOOK AT IT
its so cold in this classroom yo
1 emi vs AC who wins
I then went on to show my group some of the social media posts, specifically the meet the crew/cast to give them a clear demonstration of my brand along with the people we have chosen to act for each character (literally the 3 of us + my bestie westie Isa as Mable :D)! Along with those posts, I also showed off my very first post that went up on Insta, that being the super duper awesome promo art showing Otto smiling sinisterly with "THE SCOURGE" in a sick font right on her side.
I primarily demonstrated that post to my group to make clear what type of font/typography we were going for with our film and again, they thought it was really cool :] I love these group meetings, because genuinely they make me feel so much less alone and make me just trust the process much better. We will be just fine, and that is something that I really took away from this second group meeting :] To anybody in my group currently reading this, I'm wishing the best for your project and hope it turns out the best it could possibly be! Thank you guys for hearing me out and offering nice feedback on everything I had to show!
Next up was Adriana! She began by explaining the general plot for her short film for those who don't know yet (lol now that I'm thinking about it I should have also did that but BAHAH its okay). If you're not an avid reader and follower of my blog, Adriana's film is basically about this guy who uses a penny to teleport and do good deeds but he messes up every time.
Adriana has been filming, and her partner David did in fact get some shots while he was in Europe so that's pretty cool but she expressed some feelings of stress and concern about the overall progress she has on her project so far since she's behind on social media and still needs to shoot some more things. She plans to film some interviews with the cast/crew for the social media and finish the postcard ASAP along with editing! She showed us a bit of the postcard while asking for some feedback and I thought it looked really cool :] I love the bright color palette she is going for with her brand!
After Adriana presented, the group and I said that she will be okay which again, is something that I really loved. I'm very sure with enough hard work and dedication, Adriana and David will come out with a really awesome film that they will be proud of! I adore their plot and can't wait to see it come to life :]
Vicky followed up right after Adriana and began by explaining her film plot and showing off some of the raw footage she caught with her team these past couple of days :D She finalized filming the day before the group meeting, filmed three reels for social media, and started off her page with some really cool meet the cast/crew postings! Her and her team seem to be on a great track right now, although I do know they had a couple of difficulties getting started with filming due to spring break along with some other things as I'm good friends with Renn and I know about some of his happenings :] As for her postcard, Vicky and her group haven't exactly started designing one yet and plan to do so ASAP so they won't have to deal with much during the final week of the project. She did do a photoshoot for the postcard so great progress is already being made!
renn i did NOT steal this from your blog you are crazy
I'm pretty hyped to see this short film soon :] The general plot sounds so interesting to me and I know for a fact I'll be impacted by the message of this production! Hooray!
Audrey then went right up after Vicky and explained a bit of her plot and what progress she had made so far with her short film. Out of all of us, she seemed to be the one most concerned about said progress, especially with the filming component as her and Mariana haven't exactly filmed yet due to some complications with actors and time management but plan to do so ASAP, that being Wednesday as said on our shared google doc! So uhhh they must have filmed today! YAY! I'm glad that they are making as much progress as possible :]
Audrey also told us that she is the manager of her team's social media page and showed us a couple of the posts she has made which were some meet the crew/cast designs that looked pretty awesome! I liked how she put different colors behind each character to match their vibe and personality, I really thought that was a great idea! After Audrey talked about everything she has done along with all her concerns, the group made it clear once more that she was going to be just fine, and I myself am hoping for a successful journey to completion for her and Mariana! I'm looking forward to seeing how their production turns out :]
I think like every group in our class had a token person who isn't doing a short film. In our case, Samara was the token :D She is the only one out of allll of us doing a documentary and her topic is really interesting! It's all about Latino culture and the specific snippet she's filming will be all about Latino dance and music which is SICKKKKK.
Samara began filming before spring break and during the break itself which means she already has made some really good progress with her film component! Along with that, Samara told us that she is interviewing 3 subjects, though it was originally supposed to be 4 but got changed due to some conflicts. These interviewees include Samara's grandma, dad, and a dancer that she knows. As for her social media, she has about 5 posts up and running and has developed a very vibrant and colorful brand filled with various Latin American flags which communicate the theme and purpose of her documentary very clearly! Samara seems to be in a good place right now, and I'm wishing her well for the rest of her documentary production! I'm excited to learn some things about Latin dance and music as a Latina myself :]!
Okie dokie super awesome blog readers! This should be all for today! :D Just a nice lil group meeting yap sesh to start off the second to last week of this project (HOLY GUACAMOLE WHY DOES TIME MOVE SO FAST) :] As for now though, I must put on my PJ's, brush my teeth, and maybbeee go unconsious for 9 hours after posting something new on my social media page cause it's about time some new content gets released to my lovely fans!
As for now though!!
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my goodness this is the most dreaded blog post out of the entire 8 weeks dude
you hear the word ccr and then you get all like AHGRGEAEHGAAAHAAAAA
but in hindsight it's actually not that bad :D Let's get it out of the way now so I can get some sleep and be somewhat functional tmrw :D
OMG THE THINGS I DO FOR THIS CLASS DUDE COME ON GIVE ME AN A
LA C LA C Y LA R: CRITICAL CREATIVE UHH WAIT NO CREATIVE CRITICAL REflec CREATIVE CRITCAL REFLEC CRITICAL OMG GUYS ITS SO LATE
So thanks to you Cambridge lads being the most goated people of entire time and not requiring us to make 2 whole other videos along with our super duper rigorous, hard to make short film, I feel a little lighter and less worrisome about this years CCRS! WAHOO! The questions here this year for A level are a bit different than last year's so I think it's pretty worth taking the time and going through each question and plan out what I may answer each of them with so I won't be scrambling by week 8 :] Luckily, throughout our documentary time of the year, Tstok provided us with a super awesome lesson on CCR's so now we're chilling and now we know what to do :D Check it!
Some very nice christmassy themed ccr notes for you all Cambridge lads to see! :D Now I yap for the next 10 minutes for a good grade and immediately hop into bed! Woohoo I'm excited to sleep! I have to wake up in like 6-7 hours! HAHAH! Help!!
Here are all the CCR questions in suggested order everybody!
1. How did your research inform your products and the way they use or challenge conventions?
2. How do your products engage with the audience?
3. How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of "branding?"
4. How do your product's represent social groups or issues?
ALRIGHTY LETS GO! MY BED IS WAITING FOR ME!!
QUESTION 1. RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH!!!:
Emi needs to talk aboutttt
All the dark comedies I researched way back in the day like The Amazing Digital Circus, Dan Da Dan, ENA, Jojo Rabbit etc.
All the aspects from each media text that gave me inspiration/aspects from each that I researched in depth for my own film
Big discussion on dark comedies
Give specific examples from each media text that inspired some of the choices I made for The Scourge
QUESTION 2. AUDIENCE AUDIENCE AUDIENCE!!!:
Give super awesome in depth description of The Scourge's target audience that I luckily already established within my branding post a couple weeks ago :D
Discuss how my social media engages with target audiences (or how it doesn't)
Discuss how postcard(s) engage with target audiences (or how it doesn't)
Discuss how final short film engages with target audiences (or how it doesn't)
QUESTION 3. BRANDING BRANDING BRANDING!!!:
Describe brand that I developed/wanted to developed (refer back to brand post)! I am a master on our film's branding so this question will be a nice and breezy piece of cake!
Discuss how my social media develops a consistent brand (it does)
Discuss how postcard(s) develop consistent brand
Discuss how final film develops consistent brand (oh I will CHIP MY SOUL AWAY to achieve this well I'm telling you all NEOW)
Talk about what can change to improve some of the brand development
QUESTION 4. SOCIAL GROUPS AND ISSUES SOCIAL GROUPS AND ISSUES!!!
lol this one will be crazy
Discuss representation in our short film while including commentary on iconography + other representation terms we learned in the past
Consider if The Scourge is successful in developing representation goals (do we develop the representation of harmful cults good, right? We develop idea of doing dumb things for power over others right? :D Stuffs like that!)
Okie dokes blog! Short and sweet post today because honest to all good in this world, I NEED REST. LIKE RIGHT NOW. I FEEL MY EYES SHUTTING!!
Buenas noches blawg! Pasta banana a todos, los amo mucho <33333
omg blog what's up we actually got so much work done these past couple days
energy is DEPLETED but spirits are HIGH!
the duality of man (raw shot from today!) (wahoo!!)
EVIL OTTO KANE FROM KENTUCKY: FILMING DAY 3
Despite some challenges, we actually got a really good amount of our film done during day 3 :D This was Saturday, 3/28 and we all fully met up at the church at about give or take 10:40 AM to get things rolling! We then went to my neighborhood and filmed on the side walk right next to my house. There we got a good chunk of the Issac scene (scene 3) without Mable since she wasn't available just yet (stay tuned for day 4) so it was only Otto (me!) writhing in pain and cursing after getting punched in the face and Issac (Andrew) talking back and yeah the entire thing took a good second but we got it done and we got it good :D! During the entirety of this scene, I had to lie on the ground while the sun was hot and blazing and all the way out of the clouds so I was literally getting burnt to a crisp like a fried egg while also "bleeding." The things I do for this class dude I swear!
The harsh experience was all worth it though since we got arguably the hardest part of the Issac scene done since it required some action and a tad bit of stunt! I'd also like to mention for the said action part, I got some "blood" added to my face for some nice effect and because Otto kinda like maybe breaks her nose and that mighttt need some blood! Wouldn't make sense for my face to get slammed in and not bleed! The details are important everyboday! I don't have a very clear photo of my fake bleeding and rather would not show it here on my blog but pretend you just saw a picture with a bunch of fake blood around my nose :D Pretty cool right :DD We got everything for the Issac scene done within about an hour and 30! Nothing too crazy yet nothing too short, that scene was some hard work!
Afterwards, we decided to go to Joaquin's neighborhood and get started on the infamous car scene where a random passerby see's one of Otto's fliers and gets run over twice! This part was HARD. Even before the actual car part it was already pretty difficult!!! Since Otto breaks her nose in the last scene and canonically gets taken to the hospital by Annie she has a bunch of bandages on it afterwards and during the first shot we tried to film of the car scene, it falls off as she puts up another flier. This time, Otto has her notorious iconic red and black hat on gifted to her by Annie so things are starting to get a little more real! Level 2 Otto! So close yet so far!! The thing that was the absolute hardest to film in the first shot was the BANDAID ARHGHRHhHAhaHAH! This thing literally had a mind of its own. Some takes it would fall down way too early or just not come off at all and it literally took us SO MANY tries to finally get it down BAHAHAH keep in mind the heat was EXCRUTIATING and was thirstier than a dog outside! I literally won't do anything like this for another class.
After that one shot of Otto that took us the entire space time continuum to get right, we then transitioned to the other side of the street and tried to rehearse the car scene a bit to see how it would look like. Take back everything I said about the last shot up there and let me just say that this scene will be the hardest part to film in terms of finding out what shots will be best to use in order to make it look like someone actually got ran over. GHHHAHH! It can surely be done completely though very soon with the help of my lovely storyboard so I have a lot of hope and faith and all :D! Also, we were thinking of having a whole other actor for the passerby that gets run over, that being Joaquin's dad, but we figured it'd just be easier to have Andrew with a cap and sunglasses to be him. We love efficiency! This thing is due pretty soon yo!!
The passerby but pretend he has a cap and sunglasses
(this was just rehearsal :D sunglasses guy will pu soon :D)
After a while of experimenting, we decided to call it a day and come back another day, with everything fully planned out for the car scene so things with it can flow a lot better and more smoothly! Don't worry car scene! We'll be RIGHT back!! I'm glad we at least got some experience with it though. You always learn through trials and tribulations! Right after we called it a day, we all went into Joaquin's car and he then took us home and then yeah for the rest of my Saturday I worked on more media! My life has been a never ending cycle of media media media and media! Not saying that I'm hating it! I'm just quite tired! Can't wait for summer break!! ahahha help!
we didn't get that much bangtan boys on filming day 3 but some bangtan boys is better than no bangtan boys so it was okay :D Actually lol i lied we got a good chunk of bangtan boys but its all on my digicam and i lowkeuniely wanna go to eep so just pretend you saw some of the bangtan boys caught on my rebel t7 okay yes yay okay :D Dw it'll probably appear on my social media :D
when yo nose broken af
andrew as our test subject for the day
wait guys i lied here's my "bloody" nose :D This isn't an actual shot from the film just a lil something before actually filming a scene :D! DISCLAIMER NO EMI'S WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS MOVIE!!!
dont be like otto kane everybody
guys im so excited to get this done
EVIL OTTO KANE FROM KENTUCKY: FILMING DAY 4
LMFAOOO this filming day was literally the best one in my opinion I genuinely had so much fun!! This year in media A level I've had some fun during group projects but definitely not as much as AS and because of that for the longest time I was all like "yeahh i like AS better I miss the happy go lucky goofy making a fun film with your friends feeling" but today was the day all that turned around :D! I finally got more than 5 ounces of pure happiness and enjoyment out of this filming day and felt even more confident in the project we were making! This time around our Mable pulled up (my bestie westie Isa who offered up to act in this film props to her) and we made her the absolute priority! We got a whole ton of Mable footage down, that being TWO WHOLE SCENES! The first scene we need Isa for was the Otto and Mable scene inside the car when they're talking right after Otto makes the deal with Annie and the second was the rest of the Issac scene! AND WE GOT THOSE ALL! WAHOO!! Up top over to your left there, you can see a nice raw shot we got of Mable eyeing Annie Christian very suspiciously after he raised his hat and revealed his horns a bit! Mable's catchin on to something everybody! Sound the alarms! Wee woo wee woo!! Here are some other cool raw shots we got today with our lovely Mable :D
driving da car (nonchalantly)
resting against a tree (nonchalantly)
when ur sisters stupid (nonchalantly)
Everything from this filming day went pretty smoothly despite all the time that we spent together :D We started rolling at like about 2:40-3ish and went on until 7! One huggeee huge hugee GARGANTUOUS conflict though! Today was a little rainy! And little is quite an understatement! We planned to all meet up at my house at 1:30 because 30 minutes before it looked all clear and quite nice so I gave my team and Mable the green card! HOWEVER! IT BEGAN RAINING AGAIN! BY THE TIME IT WAS 1:30!! GAHH! Very fortunately though, the only person who was there by that time was Joaquin so we had the opportunity to wait a little bit for things to clear up and for the rest of the crew/cast to arrive! For literally an hour, while we were waiting for Andrew to come, Isa, Joaquin and I just sat in the car and bonded :D It was very nice seeing our star of the show for the day get along well with the crew (well I mean obviously she gets along well with me cause she's my best friend but still :D)!
After Andrew arrived, the sky was clear enough for us to get outside and make an attempt at getting some good shots...buuttt to our ultimate demise rain starting coming in like a TSUNAMI BRO LMAOO IT WAS SO SCARY. In a frenzy, my friends and I BOOKED IT to Isa's car since it was the closest while Joaquin went inside my garage in order to prevent getting equipment or important documents like my storyboard getting damaged. Isa's car was victim to a whole ton of water but with the power of friendship and enough cloth, we got it all out :D Then we just sat there for a bit while wiping off the water a bit more! Waiting! And Andrew filmed a bts video!
By this point, we doubted that anything would be able to get done for the day..BUT TO OUR LUCK! WE HAD A GAME PLAN! We could get one whole scene that doesn't really concern the sky and that scene was the Otto and Mable in the car scene! Wahoo!! So once the rain stopped being so dang heavy, we coordinated the location and started making our way! I went in Isa's car while Joaquin and Andrew went into Joaquin's car. We met up at a nearby Publix and went from there :D Pretty successful shoot of the scene! However, I do have one little minor concern for when we post prod everything....why are Mable and Otto parked? No food is really shown in each shot so uhhh why are we here? I might be wrong with the food thing cause I do vividly remember picking up the popcorn chicken that Joaquin brought and just having it in my hand during one take so hopefully that showed up well so we can use it well :D! Oh yeah I think it's worth mentioning that Joaquin got popcorn chicken from Publix for this scene. They made a lovely bts video about it :D
bros literally just walking
We finished up this car scene pretty quick in the end and had some time left on our hands to make an attempt at the Issac scene despite some of the sparratic cloudiness that kept haunting us throughout the day. Nothin that a good post prod can't fix though! I'm optimistic about this :D One thing though that I noticed when everybody went home including myself, was that some of the audio, in two files, cut out and I could not hear anything as a result. Of course that made me go all like GAHHH!! but it can for sure be solved so I'm not gonna waste a lot of energy on it :] That's something to discuss with my media friends next class, not at almost midnight :D sigghhh technology these days
As you may have already seen, we got a lot of bts during filming day 4 and they're all my favorites :D I am literally not kidding when I say that today was awesome. Like I said last blog post, the power of friendship prevails! TAKE THAT, APRIL 10TH! MWAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA
oki bangtan boys time! Just gonna put a couple here for now cause I am quite tired and need to get that ccr post done before i get flashbanged tmrw
im mable kane from mable kane
us realizing the absurdity of just one popcorn chicken bag
mable killin it
andrew downing some samoa cookies
mable seeing something sus (devil horns)
boom
Alrighty that would be all for today super awesome blog readers! Thank you for coming along today's journey, we truly had a lot in store for ya and will continue to have a lot in store! Stay tuned!
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