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.