Update on filming

As I mentioned before I don't have a phone at the moment. Therefore, I can only email. It's hard getting ahold of friends through email these days. I've emailed my partner to see which days are good for her to film. I still haven't gotten anything back from her yet. I'm really hoping she answers soon. I'm hoping that we will be able to film within the first two weeks of December. If we can't then we can use the last two weeks for editing. That way we won't have to rush as much. I really wasn't expecting this project to be so difficult. In these times almost everything is difficult. And it is really unfortunate. I'm going to keep trying to get in contact with her. Hopefully, she answers within an acceptable time frame. I'm willing to do whatever is in my power that can help ease this process. This dilemma that I am in has taught me a lesson. The lesson is that communication is key especially in these trying times. This is not how I wanted things to turn out. I'm just going to have to work with what I've right now. I guess that's just what will have to happen.

What Happened

 My partner and I were supposed to begin filming this week. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. I said that there were going to be more bumps in the road than expected so I can't really complain that much. My partner and I are just going to have to work around it. So we will have to start filming later than planned. Which may mean having to rush things a bit. This isn't really what I wanted to do. We're just going to have to make do with the time we have. It's unfortunate but these things happen. Since there was a break from school all that I could rely on was communication. I don't have a phone at the moment so the only form of communication I had was email. Nowadays people don't use email much. So it was hard to contact my partner. What was even worse was that we had a break from school. That meant that she was definitely not going to check her email. I really hope that things will smooth out after we return to school. If they don't then we are in a big predicament. That would be too stressful. I'm going to continue to be positive in this situation though.

Social Media

 As of now my partner and I have completed our marketing platforms. We are using social media as a way for our film to get out in the open. We are using the most relevant social media sites. Websites such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We also have a website that has all the links to our socials. It wasn't until making the social that we had a name for the film. On these socials we will be updating followers, posting behind the scenes footage, and things of that sort. The socials are all controlled by one email so that there is no confusion. With all these situated I am hoping that we can move on to the next step. That should hopefully be getting rights to music.

Originally I was supposed to be in charge of our social media marketing. Unfortunately, there was a turn of events. My partner and I will have to switch roles for a little bit but we will make it work. Which means she is now in charge of social media. Because of these events it is hard for us to communicate. Since email is not as popular as regular text messaging nowadays. There will be a few more bumps in the road than expected. I know it will all work out. Although these are challenging times I am very optimistic about what is to come. 

Storyboard for short film

Storyboarding for this film was a lot harder than any of the other projects we have had to storyboard for. It was a lot of drawing involved and having to refer back to the script to make sure they were exactly the same. We got a lot of scenes wrong. Like we had to keep stopping and erasing because we had messed up some of the boxes. For example for the scene where Roses mom finds out, I had written that she found out from a note. But then once checking the script I realized she finds out by reading messages, so I had to change that. The worst part was having to keep referring back to the screenplay and having to make everything the same. It was also hard to remember the difference in lengths because for the screenplay each page is 1 minute of screen time but for the storyboard, each page is 30 seconds. So it was a little hard to stretch the pages for the storyboard because it was mostly dialogue. I think the storyboard will make filming a lot more difficult because it will be hard to get it exactly like how we drew it out. I think it's going to be hard to get the angles we want, like the aerial. I think we're probably gonna stand on a high surface then film that way. 

Planning for Short Film

 Schedule: 

10-3-2020: screenplay finished

11-9-2020: storyboard begins

11-12 -> 11-20-2020: casting

11-23 -> 11-27-2020: begin filming

12-21 -> 12-31-2020: finish filming

1-1 -> 1-3-2021: finalize editing

Location: 

-Train station

-Bus stop

-Bus

-Participants houses(TBA)

 Participants:

-Khiara

-Nagual

-Actors(TBA)

Props: 

-Bags

-Clothes

-Phones 

-Headphones

-Jewelry

Costumes:

-Casual clothing

-Maybe some nightwear.

Health and Safety: There will be parental supervision whenever it is possible. Taking corona virus into consideration we will have all participants tested and ensure the wearing of masks and sanitizing to keep everyone safe. We will also keep a first aid kit handy.