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.

Mise-en-scene elements

       Since we have changed the begingin part of the film to a more descriptive scene showing everything that makes up her character we decided to include more mise-en-secen elements to make sure the message pops out for the audience.

#1 Mise-en-scene for motivation/track
The mdeals and tropihics shows her succes in track and how she ran for long time as well as the potraits  of her on the track.

Around the room she will have multiple posters of a her dream shool which is UCLA. UCLA is known for their good ranking in girls track this establishes our characters motivation  for working so hard.

Around the room she will have multiple posters of a her dream shool which is UCLA. UCLA is known for their good ranking in girls track this establishes our characters motivation  for working so hard.

#2 Socioeconimic mise-en-scene

On the tables there will papaers that have written past due which shows how they don't have enough money to pay for bills sometimes. Then on her desk she will be writing her financial aid sheet because she needs money for college. An partially  empty fridge also is sign for low status homes. This is renforice by how worn out her shoes out and how dirty. Finally the scene from the orignally film opening will be shorten but used by her running through her neighborhood. 

#3 Cultural Mise-en-scene

A big part of the character is that she is columbin a good way to indicate that she is by putting columbian flages all over the house. And she will see a note IN SPANISH (add subtitles) from her mom to have good day which farther makes sure the audience gets the message.