MUSIC MUSIC AND MORE MUSIC

So we have been putting off the looking for a song to put the the background since we had so many ideas.

We knew we wanted it to be instrumental music (no words) this is because real professional and dedicated runners know that their music should have no vocals. This helps the focus of the runner like hearing their breath and pacing themselves. In an article by Engadget its shows how most runners either listen to no music or instrumental type (no vocals).

So we decided to go with instrumental music. We had a few artist that we wanted to copy with our music. The genre is Latin Trap/ Reggeton. This makes her heritage and lifestyle pop out more. The song "I like it like that" by Bad Bunny and Cardi B was the main role model and mood for our music.

After A LOT of searching. We finally found a song to fit our specification. "TIK TOK (No Copyright Sound) Rap on Beat HamburgHood Records - (FREEMUSIC, Trap, Instrumental, Beat). It is upbeat, instrumental, and trap.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVyANzQyQ4g

INSPIRATIONS

FILMING DAY 2

HEY IM BACK

So we filmed our last scenes!

We went to the trailer park and a park in the community of Savanna, in Weston

First we went to the Trailer park to get shots of Elena running through. We really wanted to emphasize the socioeconomic status of the houses. We got multiple shots of Elena running through house with different shots. 

But to show a change in scenery we went to the Rinks in Savanna. This shows how long Elena ran for plus the park was filled with caution tape and signs of "UNSAFE STRUCTURE" which added the run-down aspect of the park. This goes to further show how even the parks in her neighbor hood are poorly taken care of. 

 At the park we shot Elena talking to her coach (on the phone) about the upcoming track meet an how important it is. This is setting up the building blocks for whole movie.

SCRIPT UPDATE

Hey guys I'm back with a new update!

       

Sadly because of the corona virus we had to cut out the scene of Elena talking to her coach. But we supplemented it by putting in a phone call. We decided the audience was going to only hear Elena side of the call because it would be better fit into the story. This way the audience can infer what she is talking using the images in the scene previous.

FILMING DAY # 1

     Today we started filming the first room scenes with the props we had lined up. We were able to get the shots we needed and everything went smoothly! One change we did was we had agreed on doing still shots of the props but we changed it into doing slowly moving shots to go with the paced music we are going to use.


     So far we are on track. We had great props on set which fit perfectly into the life style of Elena. We made sure to write her name on sheets of paper (discussed meaning of each prop on another post) I am happy we got to filming even with the pandemic occurring all over the world. We will be shooting the running scene soon!



EXAMPLES OF PHYSICAL PROPS USED:

CORONA VIRUS UPDATE #2

          So this is another follow up on how we will continue or fight against corona virus. Since most USA schools have shut down (including mine) for minimum until April 15 we had to move things around. In the other post I had discussed cutting out the school scene. This scene included Elena talking with her coach. Because we lose the school setting we decided to delete that scene. But what changed from the last corona virus post is that now we have decided to add in a call. The call would be while she is running. This way the audience can still learn about the track meet with out having the coach and Elena talking face to face. The call will be one way in which Elena will talk but the audience can't here what on the other side. This still means they have to inference some aspects so we don't lay out everything as if it was a kindergarten movie.

UPDATED STORYBOARD

DISTRIBUTING OUR FILM

Hey I am back!
In this post I will discuss how we will distributing our film


Since we are rookie filmmakers we will have little to no money left to the distribute our film so we decided to go with the platform of

"FILMHUB"
Benefits of Film Hub

• We will be able to keep the rights of our film and the reporting is transparent.

                - This is key so no one copyrights anything and doesn't steal our film.

• This platform requires no money to use. This is important since we will not have money to spend on distribution
• It also informs the film producers when it is best to release the movie

             - This goes of the statistical data , based on target audiences, analytics they also include to help us make this decision.

• Plus 80% of our profit will come directly back to us with no deduction or fees.
• The uploading process if fast and easy which is good for rookie directors
• There is no starter fee and the company is fast with dealing money.

We will also use Youtube to distribute trailers and short clips

When we want to reach more audiences we will consider switching distributers but we will need to grow first 

USE INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, TIK TOK, AND SNAP CHAT TO PROMOTE

A SOLUTION... well kinda

IM AM ANNOYED!!

This post will be regarding my last post ( which was just a freak out). 

DISCLAIMER: Nothing is set in stone, we just came up with last minute decision and this might change because of certain situations!

SOOOOO, because of the corona virus killing our plans, we have decided to (after much debate) to cut the school scene from the opening. This means we will have to extend the running scene and the room scene. Plus we have to add more hints of the upcoming story since it will not be spelled out in front of the audience. This means more means more props.  For example some ideas were to add a calendar with the words FINALS TRACK MEET on a date close to the current day. Also we can add an email that Elena sent to the college (UCLA) talking about them coming and something about a scholarship. We are trying to make the story as clear as possible with out having to shoot at school which is of course unavailable.

Another suggestion was to do at someone house/ office with the coach being someone’s parent. But like it or not the audience will be able to tell it is not a school setting and that the father/mother is not coach. 

WE HATE THE CORONA VIRUS

So my school got shut down because of the corona virus. Although this might be necessary to keep people safe but it really has messed up our production schedule and outcome of our film opening. 

At first I was happy because I thought to myself YES we will have more time for shooting. But I quickly realized that this was a complete nightmare. As seen on the storyboard our last scenes of this film opening we are suppose to be AT SCHOOL TALKING WITH ELENA’S “COACH”. This scene was included because we wanted to make sure people understood the whole story. 

In related news in Miami ( a city really near us) they are considering closing all the beaches and setting up a curfew so people don’t go out. And since we are basically on the road to full quarantine ( like Italy and other countries) I have began to freak out. WE NEED TO FILM OUTSIDE FOR THE RUNNING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORS HOOD. Not to mention go to each other houses to film the scenes in her room.

We are still trying to accommodate to this circumstances so a solution will be reach as quick as possible. 

AN UPDATE ON THIS SOON.

REALIZATION:TIME OF DAY

            So, quick update on our thought process. We where going to start filming the running outside  scene. This scene is crucial to establish her dedication and passion as a runner. Since our film starts off with the buzzing of the alarm that is set at 5:00. But what we didn’t realize that the Sun is does not look the same at 5PM it does at 6AM. So funny thing we get it the trailer park. And we make the actress start running but as we check how it looks on the camera it looks like it is the afternoon. So finally we realize we have to stop filming and wait for the weekend. So plan is to go on the weekend early (like 7) and film. Sacrificing sleep but  hopefully it will look realistic. 

Example ( not my pictures)

How it looked :(

How it was suppose to look :)

TARGET AUDIENCE

AGE RANGE 

After much research ( with a few exceptions) we have found out that most Drama/Sports movies have the age range from 15-25. This does mean that our movie will be PG-13. This is because the movie does deal with harsh realities of the real world. This might include some foul language ( but not bad bad language). The topics we will be covering is racism, bullying, living in mad neighborhood, intense stress. This topics hit hard and aren’t appropriate to show to a younger audience. Plus Elena is 17 which means the audience can connect with character since they are going through some of the same things (relatable)

GENDER/SOCIO ECONOMIC STATUS

Although most sports/movies are gently tilted to the male side since the protagonist are almost always male. But since I’m our movie Our main character is a young independent women it will be tilted towards the women side. It can still appeal to both gender but it is directed to women. This is because the movie will be going through topics like gender inequality  and plus the whole movie is from a women’s perspective. The socio-economic status of the audience will be low to middle class. Our movie will not shown in big movie theatre. So lower classes will be able to reach the movie. Plus the main character is of lower-middle class which makes her more relatable. 

Looking for the correct font ???????

Just like finding a title finding a font was exhausting.

I went on multiple websites to try to find the right vibe of fonts but none of them were right


I went on

• Dafont.com 
• Envato Elements
• 1001 Fonts

And finally I found a website that had the type of fonts I wanted:
      Fontspace.com

I was looking for a memorable, sporty, and bold font all in one. And this website gave me tons of options.

This font is inspired by varsity letters. It is sporty bold but it could be very forgettable since it looks like a lot of letters on jackets. This one was on of the two finalist.

This one was my east favorite out of all of them since I saw no correlation to the story. It was not memorable or bold. It just looks like the NASCAR font. So this one was discarded first.

This font was the most artistically orientated. Because the lines that outline the letters look like a track. It is definitely memorable and looks like what the story is going to be about, which is running and track. But this was the second to be removed out of the 4 because it just wasn't as sophisticated or slick. It looks like a cartoon.

WINNER

Finally this one was the winner. It is bold and athletic. It screams track and running because of them marks along the letters. It looks kind of cut up like Elenas life that is filled with wholes. And most importantly it is memorable. If anyone saw this font after seeing the movie it will automatically make them think of the movie.

TITLE, TITLE, TITLE!

THIS HAS BEEN STRESSING!
We are trying to find a the right title for this film but we have run it obstacles. This is because we keep thing of cliche and boring titles.
For example

• Elena's Journey - This one is very bland, boring, and generic. There is a million movies the main character name then the word journey, trip, or life. It gives no background or story.

• There is No Slowing Down - We really hate this one. This has got to be the most cliche title ever. Our inspiration was from the sports drama "Never back Down" which is actually not a bad movie. But it doesn't work with what we are trying to say. 

• Spikes -  Now this one I though of because I thought it would be cool to incorporate something from the sport (track) in the title. So spikes are the shoes track runners use. They are specifically for track and are not be used outside of the track. At first I thought this was it this was the title of our film. But the more I looked at it the more I disliked it. Like NO ONE is going to understand this title. There even an emphasis of it. 

A SOLUTION: WELL KINDA

So after thinking of those horrible names my friend come up with a pretty decent one. 

RUNNING OUT

This will be our title for now. Of course it is not the best title ever since it kinda cliche to include the sport (track) in the title. BUT what I thought was extremely cool was how it can be used as a double meaning. 

     So Elena can be running out like running out of time until she gets a scholarship to college 

                                                                    OR

    She is running out of money.

This for now is our movie title. If anything better comes up I will update.

ACTORS FOR MAIN CHARACTERS

Quick update for the casting part of the film. 

We have decided that the main character of the film (Elena) will be one of our group members which is Isabel Gambrill.

We have chosen her for a number of reasons. We wanted to depict a Hispanic female that does not look like the stereotypical hispanic.
    The stereotypical hispanic would be tan skin, dark brown/black hair, and dark brown eyes. We decided to deviate a little because we want to represent the whole hispanic community. Also Isa is athletic which is perfect since she has to play the role of an all star track athlete.

Another plus is that we won't have schedule time with her since she is part of group which makes it easier to shoot at any time.

B     U     T 

The problem is we are still looking for someone to act as the coach of the film. We have a few people in mind. 

Mrs. Boorom who is the student athlete guidance consumer (still have not asked)

Or someones dad or mom 

But we aren't as concerned with this because as seen on the last post the scene of that conversation might be cut completely. 

Group Meeting

 In our class we did a group meeting. This is when people from other group got together to talk about our projects and help each member by giving them new ideas or a new perspective.
   
         How to make the opening more engaging, I was concerned if the viewers would get the clues around the characters room. Finally I needed help getting ideas for what type of music to use.

   IDEA #1
  For the beginning scene one of my classmates had a really good idea to put a track commentators speaking in the back. This would act as another clue to her success in track. They would say her last name anyhow great she is. This is a good way to add layers on top of the music so it isn't so mundane.

   IDEA #2
 As I explained the story and shots of the opening scene to my classmates I made sure to ask if they understood the story. They thought it was a great idea to make the audience infer things instead of just telling them straight on. One interesting suggestion that we might use is to not even use the last scene of the opening which is the student talking to coach. Because it is smarter to just hint an upcoming track meet with a calendar or a reminder on the phone. A full on conversation spelling out things that the audience just saw and inferred can be a little redundant. But once again we still aren't sure if the message is too vague.

 IDEA #3 
 Finally the last question I had what was type of music. I had some genres written down all ready and I showed them to the group to ask them which one fit the most. I ha pop, electronic, English rap, and finally Spanish trap. Everyone (even me) agreed that the superior choice was Spanish trap because it shows her hispanic heritage which is a major storyline in the film.
   

Costume Design

        Our main character (Elena) is athletic hispanic, and is in a low economic status. With the costumes she wear we really want to highleight all of her different aspects in the way she dresess.

DIFFERENT ASPECTS

HISPANIC
When I researched about what type of colors most Hispanic wear it is traditionally very bright colors like yellow, orange, pink, blue. This is because in older times girls used to wear the hispanic dresses with a lot of bright colors to dance in. This has been modernize to all clothing.

ATHLETIC 
Elena main goal in life is to run track in college. This is why her type of clothes are "athleisure" this means even when she isn't running track or exercsing. This builds up the fact that her whole world is revoled aroundd track.

ECONOMIC STATUS

This will be highlighted by the brands she wears. Although Nike (outlet) isn't the cheapest stores she will wear some shorts from there. But she will not have any Lululemon,Gymshark, or Adidas. And all of her clothing will be presented as a little old and dirty. And for her tops she will wear shirts from past track meets. This is becuause  almost all competitions give free shirts out to the winners of the meet which not only higlights her econmic status but that is she a good runner. Her shoes will be worn out and old.