Filming!

Ok so yesterday  me and Corina started filming! YAYYYY!!!!!!!! but. It was raining and not just raining it was POURING. My whole street was flooded and the amount of trips we took to get the production equipment from the car, i couldn't even count. The biggest issue was that most of our scenes needed to be filmed outside so we filmed what we could.

We filmed the sleepover scene, aka the scene that was inside along with some other interior scenes. Not only was it rainy, but the weather was super gloomy. We didn't want that because we want it to be sunny and colorful outside. A lot of the film is colorful, so I feel like we needed a good sunny day!

MOOD BOARDS!!!

 Since I started working on the graphics for the short film, my project partner decided that she wanted to create mood boards for the three main characters of our film!! 

Kat-

Kat our protagonist is a bit quirky, She's awkward especially around Alex (her crush/romantic interest).We want her to dress in stripes and some button ups casual but cute. Different patterns and colors on her clothes match perfectly with her quirky personality. We also included a lot of pictures of friendship, since her and Cat are besties. The picture in the bottom right is meant to be representative of her and Alex since it's more couply then the others) and it's the main part of the short film. 

Alex

Alex, Kat's love interest is more of a casual cool girl vibe. She loves baggy clothes and layered shirts (like the ones pictured above). She always looks cool and collected, she's also very charming/flirty. She also added someone wearing a soccer outfit since she plays soccer. There's a few pictures of couples pertaining to her and Kat. She also added a little doodle that says "me + my girlfriend", even though they aren't yet dating in the short film, it represents something they would do maybe in the future!

Cat

And of course we have Cat! She is also a bit quirky, she loves wearing different patterns and colors like Kat and cute outfits. Since I will be playig her i wanna play with a bunch of different patterns and layering for her style, casual but also random outfits that always work out. There's a lot of pictures of friendship here as well, since Kat is a big part of her life. A picture of a girl alone was also added, since sometimes she feels a but lonely because of Kat's love life which is part of the conflict of our short film. A picture was added which says "And I hate to break it to you, but we're pretty big losers" was added, because that is indeed true of Kat and Cat. 

Fruit Punch!!! (title & logo)

Since my last blog post about our short films title and logo, it was a working title and we had the concepts of what we wanted our logo to be but we still hadn't figured out anything for sure. Since Corina and I have finally locked in what we want our short film storyline to be, we decided to do the same for the title and logo. The official title is Fruit Punch!! We chose this title because our characters feel such a mix of many emotions throughout our short film. This mix of emotions is a mix of flavors like fruit punch so we thought it was a great title with an underlying meaning connecting to our story! So heres our official title a logo: 

The logo is using this handwritten looking font because we felt that it gave a cute, authentic, coming of age, diary effect! For the fruits surrounding the title, I had fruit stickers so I decided to scan those and Corina put the scanned stickers and title together! I love it so much and I feel like it perfectly represents what we want our short film to!

Final Story Changes!

This week Corina and I decided to finally sit down and lock in our storyline so we can start our production soon! Our short film will follow two best friends Kat and Cat as they try and help get Kat her love interest by using 6 steps to get her her dream prom date, while Cat deals with some jealously. Kat and Cat had a prom pact, if they didn't have prom dates by senior year, they would take each other as best friends but since Kat starts developing a love interest near the end of senior year, Cat starts to feel left out. 

Step 1: Admitting Step 2: Interaction Step 3: Denial Step 4: Initiation Step 5: Prep Step 6: Execution

These steps will help us properly structure the story and how it will play out. In the beginning of the story, Kat admits her crush to her best friend Cat one night after some chatting and establishing that they had planned to go to prom together, Alex (Kat's love interest) is Cat's neighbor who is having a house party. Kat goes outside and sees Alex, they interact. Alex invites Kat to a soccer fundraiser (because Kat pretended to like soccer since Alex is in it). It seems like Alex wants to hangout with Kat, but she's in denial, however, Kat sees Alex at school with Cat and she reinvites her, which reassures Kat.

Then, at the fundraiser, Kat invites Alex to prom, in a very indirect way because she's terrified, Cat helps Kat prepare for prom, but she's a bit angry Kat broke their pact to go together. Then, Kat reassures Cat by inviting her along with them, they can just be a trio for the night. Alex is understanding of their pact and accepts Cat third wheeling for the night. This story will have many jokes included into the story. 

Our main goal was to make a movie which shows a queer relationship through a positive light. Me and Corina talked about how we always see queer movies and the majority of them usually focus on a more negative light to a queer relationships. Theres only a few of lighthearted lgbtq+ romantic comedies so why not contribute to an uncommon genre! 

Since we have finally locked in our story we are finishing up our script and storyboarding so we can begin our production soon!!!

Group Meeting 3/7!

Today we had a group meeting in class! There was 5 people in the meeting including me, and we all learned about each others project and gave each other some feedback! I really enjoyed this meeting just because it felt nice to talk to people that are willing to help you with feedback during this creative process. I also just loved listening to everyones projects and what they are brainstorming/planning to create!

My group was suer supportive when I told them my idea! They loved the whole comedy coming of age of it all. I expressed that we were still looking for the mai plot of our short film and Isabel said that to create your plot its always easier to start with knowing what message you want to portray through your story. It's something that Ive heard before but in that moment it really stood out to me and is helping me currently! I also expressed my concern for not having anyone to be in our cast but they quickly suggested asking the kids in our schools theatre department because they are happy to act in projects like these, which i loved the idea of. My group was amazing because they gave me new ideas that i could use for the main story of my short film like emphasizing that the two main characters have known each other for a long period of time by showing childhood photos. Nathaniel gave me a few movies that could inspire our mood/styling for the film like Clueless(1995) and Ghost World (2001). I've seen Ghost World before but I didn't think of it as inspiration before but I'm glad he mentioned it because that movies costuming and vibe is definitely something our film will take inspiration from. He also told me that he made mood boards for his characters and I will definitely be doing that for our characters!

I feel like all of the 4 members in my group were super helpful to me and to each other because we all had very different types of projects so we could all give different types of advice regarding these different types of genres and themes! 

Some notes I took during the meeting:

Font/logo making!

 Me and Corina decided to start messing around with our font options and our logo! We decided that the font we are definitely going to use is Varsity! We like how it gives an old school vibe and its bold so it can stand out well!

We played with a few colors like yellow and red but then we decided to make it the colors of the rainbow with our working title of film!

While making it we thought it was too boring on its own so we wanted to add fruit logo connecting to the name fruit punch around it! I have these fruit stickers at home like pears, apples watermelon, etc. (as shown above) so I decided to scan some so we can finish designing our logo! I want the colors of the fruit I scanned to match the font color so these colors in the font above are just a test trail but soon it will be done!

Our working title!

 Me and Corina were brainstorming titles for our short film and we came up with one that might be our actual title but for now im going to call it a working title because im scared of committing to it entirely right now... ANYWAYS THE TITLE IS........DRUMROLL PLEASE.....

FRUIT PUNCH!!!!!!!

We decided that this title would work good for our project since it fits the randomness and comedy vibe of it all! Im not sure if it will stay but I is our top option at the moment!! YAYYY!!!! PROGRESS!!! 

Here is a sneakpeek of my notes for this project!