I Was Wrong in My Last Post!!!

Hello everyone and welcome back! I have found a problem with the last post I posted about and I want to clear something up. I will not be able to use the website for the music since it is not free. I currently do not have a job and I will not be able to afford to pay for the music. But, I have found another website to use! YouTube has its own website for royalty free music and I can also download off of YouTube itself. YouTube has a great audio library and the link to get there is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCht8qITGkBvXKsR1Byln-wA . Another great website that I have used before is Killer Tracks - Online Production Music Library Resource . The selection is endless and it is also free. A picture of the website is below! Well, thanks for reading and check in over the weekend to get some more information! Ps. I know that these past posts have been a bit short but once we start getting more accomplished the posts will be much longer!

We Couldn't Film Today...

Hello everyone and welcome back! Today has been a very interesting day! With our plot all set up Nicole and I are able to film! Well, we were going to film until our actor who plays Gideon had to bail last minute. But we figured everything out and we will be able to film over break when all of us are in town. Since we haven’t been able to film, Nicole and I decided to work on some other parts of the film opening like the titles and the music. In my last post, you can see a great website that a friend told me about for the fonts. Nicole and I have some different opinions on what the fonts should be but I think once we get all of the filming done, then we can really worry about it.

Another great factor that we needed to do some research on was the music! I found a great website that had some royalty free 50s music! The website is https://www.audioblocks.com/royalty-free-audio/50s and it will look like:

This website has tons of options to choose from in many different genres and media. In our film opening, we will have two different songs playing. In the beginning, we will have a happy upbeat song and then once the door opens to the interrogation room, the music will become much more serious. When the main character starts going into the flashbacks that’s when the music will stop and the audience will hear more of the dialogue. Well, that’s it for today! Thanks for checking in and tune in tomorrow for some more information on the film opening!

Were Filming!!!

Hey everyone and welcome back! We’re filming this week!!! I am so excited! So Nicole and I found someone to be our Gideon this week since our last “actor” didn’t work out so well. We honestly weren’t expecting him to say yes since he is so shy. But I think he is a perfect fit for Gideon! So welcome to the cast John! Nicole and I have also figured out a name for our production company and it will be named “ Regal R&N”. We are still figuring out the font for the titles but we still have time to work it out.

For today, Nicole and I have been working on some last touches for our storyboard for filming. We touched up on our questions that we are going to ask and filled in some of the plot holes that were starting to form. For one of the flashbacks, we are going to have Blair and Gideon having dinner and we decided to have it at a diner named Lucilles. The diner is 50s’ themed and it would fit in perfectly with the theme. Plus I know people that work there so they will let us film. Anyways! Thanks for checking in and tune in tomorrow for some more information! (Here is an amazing artistic design we did for our storyboard).

Fonts and more fonts!

Hello everyone and welcome back! I know the posts this past week have been a little short and slow but that is because my partner isn’t here! She is in Indianapolis with the band for a field trip and they come back home super late tonight! Now Nicole and I plan on filming on the 20th and the 21st this week. All of the scenes are figured out for what we want and Nicole has been working on the storyboard a bit more in Indianapolis. Now, I’m not really sure if we are going to be able to use the interrogation room at the police station this week so we will have to film another time. This past week a girl in my class named Valentina gave me a great website to use for fonts for all of the titles we are going to have in the opening. The website is https://www.dafont.com/new.php and it is great! An example of one of the fonts we are going to use is below and the front page of the website.

I am so glad that Valentina gave me this website because I was stressing about it before. The fonts that say “free for personal use” can be used without asking or paying so you do not need to give credit to the creator. So this is really helpful and makes the credits a lot easier to make. Well, thanks for checking in and come back later to see some more updates on the film opening!

Small Updates

Hey everyone and welcome back to my blog! So Nicole and I have decided that we want to start filming on the 20th and the 21st. I am so excited to start filming! This weekend we care going to get the costumes at thrift stores and I love thrift shopping! There are tons of thrift stores near bye so hopefully we will find what we are looking for. I ordered the long cigarette off of amazon for a few dollars and it should be coming in soon. For the makeup, I already have tons of makeup at home and so does Nicole so we should be fine. Well that’s it today! Thanks for reading! Come back tomorrow!!

More Teamwork!!!

Hello everyone and welcome back! Today my class had another group discussion! I find these extremely helpful and it is really fun hearing other ideas from other people. Everyone in the group loved Nicole and I’s idea! A girl in my group gave me an awesome website where I can find fonts for the titles. The link for the website is https://www.dafont.com

Working with these groups is really helpful with getting all of my brain power flowing. Especially since Nicole isn’t here, it has been a bit harder coming up with ideas and planning out more things. I really liked everyone’s ideas and I found that a kid in our group, Matthew, has a really cool video idea by giving it a 90s’ vibe. We all helped each other out in the group whether it was about giving software tips or letting another film at your house. We were all really supportive of each other and I felt that the vibe we gave towards each other really helped our confidence in our works.

So even though Nicole is in Indianapolis, I still found other great people to help with our idea and give us some feedback that we really needed. The group told us that the storyline is not like anything else that they have heard before and that the way that we want to play with colors and lighting will really bring out a lot in the film's mood. In my next blog post, I will post some updates on the makeup and hairstyles that I want to do on the characters (More specifically Blair). So stay tuned and check in tomorrow for some more updates! Have a great day!

My Partner Left Me! (for a field trip)

Hello everyone and welcome back! This week is going to be a bit different for me just because my partner for the project isn’t in town! Nicole is going with the band to Indianapolis to perform at a big competition. The band left this morning and will not be here for the rest of the week, so that means that I have to get some planning done without Nicole. This week I’m going to go more into depth with the props and how we are going to pull off the film opening. So far I have been looking at lighting on Amazon that we can use for the film since different colors have different representations for the characters. I can also ask my friend Julia for her light and use her projector. I also found some makeup at Sephora yesterday so in my next post I will be posting about the makeup and how we are going to make the looks. This is just an overview of what is to be expected in the next few blog posts so stay tuned and check in tomorrow! (Enjoy this gif of Bob Ross)