Storyboard part 2 Electric Boogaloo

Hellooooo bloggers, welcome back to yet another week with me, myself, and I, in this blog I will be announcing some great news, and those are (drumroll), I FINALLY FINISHED MY STORYBOARD, yipeeeee.

In all seriousness I have finally gathered a complete idea on how the actual opening will look like, shot and angle wise. This will actually speed the whole development up, as I didn't really have a sort of outline or complete storyboard before, and that's something I should have done a while ago.

But now, with this beautiful peace of art finished, I will be able to film with little issues, now that I look more organized, lets goooo.

Here are the full 3 slides that I completed of my film opening project.

Apart from making it, I got some great inspiration in the middle of writing the storyboard. When I was drawing Jackson and Alex fight, I remembered of the Whiplash scene, of getting on my f*king tempo.

Here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nRp8cVXRJk

Basically in this scene the drummer, Andrew is put through trial and error by his teacher (Fletcher) who clearly has some anger issues, or at least is just really strict on his students. So Fletcher keeps on telling Andrew to repeat the section of the song which he made the mistake in, and Fletcher even gets aggressive at a point, and throws a plate at his head.

I got inspired with this scene since the whole gist of it is really similar to my idea, I thought I should include this in the blog as I feel it helps with inspiration and stuff, yeah.

That's all, Bye bloggers :()

 

Updaaate

Hello bloggers, I have some exciting news, earlier today I decided to go for a run, and when I went to the park I saw some great opportunities for some shots for the beginning of the Music video.

With short videos of these two pictures in drone shots, or even just a dolly shot, I would get great footage for the film opening sequence

Luckily this park is right next to my house, so getting footage would be no problem, and just to be sure, I made sure to record tiny bits of this scenery, with pans and tilts maybe just as reference for the actual filming days, and maybe to use this short footage If I can't find a drone to do drone shots :(

I also got some ideas, I might not use them but they are useful to have if I cant continue with the main project by x y or z.

So one of the shots before Alex starts rapping he can like be running towards the camera on the track field

It sounds and looks and really is corny, but just in case I could have that footage in, because when editing I just like to put everything in and start like crafting my art from a scrambled sea of videos and images. Its more fun that way ;)

But yeah, that's pretty much it, Goodnight bloggers.

 

Re-Scheduling

 Update

Hello my bloggers :)

Today I will be re-scheduling the filming of the opening sequence, since I think the last scheduling was waaaaay to early.

Also, I spoke with my teacher about two classes ago and she gave me some sick ideas to continue with my project, I'm not sure if I mentioned this in another post, but here it is again :))

Instead of building my own DIY camera like I described in one of my first blogs. I will be using a camcorder that I own, attached with a shotgun mic, and a tripod.

This will be used once again as one of the main props of the whole scene.

Re-Scheduling

Monday 13 - I will, finally, begin the darn thang (Film)

Tuesday 14 - Probably will take two days to film the whole thing

Wednesday 15 - Still film some more ( I forgot it actually takes long to do these things)

Thursday 16 - EDITINGGGG

Friday 17 - break

Saturday 18 - more editing?

This is not a rulebook for myself by the way, more like a guideline, since I cannot strictly follow it, that's just not how I work, but it helps at least a little bit with organization

Final announcements

I forgot to mention, that I found my actor. YAAAAYY. A classmate, he is not in my group, but he offered to help, so he will be playing Jackson, and I will be playing Alex, but I still need the crucial, Camera man (doesn't appear, just films)

Also I will be filming some scenes for the beginning of the music video in the Everglades, I though ot a really cool shot, I will show you a picture now.

I included this on the storyboard, but didn't develop on it, so here it is.

Well, thank you for tuning in bloggers, and have a great and excellent night :)

Citation

Craig Pittman, F. P. A. 19. (2021, August 19). Raising the dam-nable road that ruined Florida's Everglades. Florida Phoenix. Retrieved March 4, 2023, from https://floridaphoenix.com/2021/08/19/raising-the-dam-nable-road-that-ruined-floridas-everglades/

Storyboard

 Helloooooo Bloggerrsssss. How are you doiiiing, I know it's been a long time, and that you miss me ;)

So sorry about that, I had to do the SAT on Wednesday so I focused my mental prowess mainly on studying for that, so yeah.

So today I will be pretty much discussing the outline/storyboard of this beautiful film opening, I know I promised it last week but, yeah, sorry about that. 

Here is a picture of my storyboard my peeps.

Some progress has been made and I like where it is going, also on the drawing and developing of the storyboard I got some sick new ideas, I got some of the content for the 2 minutes, so instead of being one cut, it is going to be several, not in a montage because it wouldnt fit for the genre, but more developed cuts to emphasize the rage in Jackson, the producer.

I will update more on the storyboard tomorrow. Goodnight peeps 😉

Font Choice

 Hello my bloggers, today I will be discussing what the adequate font choice would be for my film CUT, and it's credits in the opening scene. 

The font that text is displayed in plays a huge role in the marketing of a product and the impact it actually makes on the consumer.

For example, a formal piece of text for let's say a newspaper article would typically be this font that I'm using right now, this font shows formality and a bit of classiness, now a comedic font would be more like this, the unevenness of the letters and the size makes it different, more round,  more fun, texts can also be used for the purpose of a drama film

Here is an example:

Hello

Hello

The first Hello is more cursive and fancy and sort of "feminine" could be used for more of a romantic film

While the second Hello is strict, and more sharp, sort of "masculine" can be used for more action-like films.

This SpongeBob title "Pickles" uses a font true to the show, and the producers had to make a choice on what font to use for all episodes, this one captures the comedic nature of the show.

Now to a complete opposite, "American Psycho" uses a strict font, looks classy and for some reason fancy, like rich person type of fancy, makes sense since the film is about a businessman who is a psychopath, the texts boldness on the word Psycho helps.

Final Choice

Now thanks to this tad bit of research I have sort of decided what font might be suitable for my film opening sequence, since this drama film will be including a main character with some issues that will evolve during the film, and a sort of quiet violence, and constant conflict between Alex and Jackson, the font has to be subtle, but intense in a way, like harsh, serious. Here are some options

CUT

CUT

CUT

CUT

I feel like these are really good font choices for both credits and the title, this might change throughout the process, but I feel like they belong true to the title and story. 

Thanks for tuning in bloggers, and until next time. Goodnight

Citation

The surprising psychology of fonts - fast company. (n.d.). Retrieved February 27, 2023, from https://www.fastcompany.com/90757581/the-surprising-psychology-of-fonts

List of title cards. Encyclopedia SpongeBobia. (n.d.). Retrieved February 26, 2023, from https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_title_cards

Writer Lola Landekic Interviewer Lola Landekic Published August 2, 2018. (n.d.). American psycho. Art of the Title. Retrieved February 26, 2023, from https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/american-psycho/

Character Development

 Hello my bloggers, today just as promised, I will be finally developing my characters, YAAAYYY!!!

So first let´s start with our main character, the main talent, the rapper.

Alex

Here is Alex, our main guy, our rapper, born in Florida, he is a struggling young adult, having graduated High-School but not continuing college he has no job, lives in a really small rental apartment. Now this makes it difficult for Alex to pretty much achieve anything, but he is an ambitious man, he really wants to complete his dream of rapping, there is a little issue here though, having grown up in a very difficult household, without a father figure and an addicted mother, Alex suffers from mild issues, of anger, this comes in tough throughout the movie, shown in the opening sequence with a POV shot, this might ruin Alex´s career as a rapper, specially with the producer that he will be partnering up with. Here is a mood board of Alex 

Now for the second main character, and the last, here we have the producer of Alex´s music, he goes by the name of

Jackson

Our second main character Jackson is a producer, also from Florida, but he is an adult, he graduated University for music production, there is an issue with Jackson, he was the past producer of a famous rapper who made controversial decisions, and ended up costing him and Jackson their careers and money. Desperate, Jackson is in need of a new talent, when he found Jackson at a street performance and listened to his lyrics, he was surprised, and wanted to take him in, nevertheless Jackson is super desperate, and also has anger management issues, including his past experience with his former talent, Jackson will become reactive whenever Alex makes anything that is out of place for Jackson, as he is a very strict man when it comes to his videos, which is what they are trying to do, to make Alex popular. Here is his mood board.

That would be all for the description of the characters, this information will overall help the development of the conflict between them in the opening sequence, thank you for tuning in my bloggers, and have a good night.

Group Reflection

 Hello my bloggers, today in class our teacher decided to divide us up into groups in order to reflect about, and I just realized that I haven't been developing enough details on the characters and opening sequence.

Sooooo, I will be doing it right now, a little pause on the storyboard process for now, I will be developing characters and stuff in this same blog post.

A picture of my group in class :)

My classmates helped me a lot in realizing that my idea, is not developed, like mainly. From looking at their blogs and projects I also noticed this myself, with them including names of characters already, even the title, and an actual outline of what will happen on the scene.

I changed some ideas overall of the project, like how long the drone shots with credits are, and stuff.

They helped me develop both characters of my opening, with ideas such as Johnny Starr, as a name or such, these are all just examples. 

I also need to show the specific filming locations in some of my blog posts, but the most, most, most important part, would be the development of the actual characters, I will do on next blog, instead of the storyboard, before the storyboard I need to have a name for them at least.

Alas, I have come up with an actual title for my film opening, which will be, (drum roll).

CUT

I believe it's a great title, since the film might involve my main character (the song performer) becoming slowly mad throughout the film, which is hinted in the sequence, maybe after the mean producer screams  CUT, he pushes him, making the camera turn into a POV of the performer looking at the ground, shaking, in anger. These are just some developing ideas.

I will genuinely develop these characters, and their backstories in more detail on the next blog, until then. Goodnight my bloggers.