MORE POSTCARDS AND MAYBE FINAL ONE?

Ah, a new week and less than three weeks until the project is due and so far so good, there have been some complications with the filming schedule but we are pretty much done with filming aside from a few shots left over. Now I know I talked about our postcards last blog but the thing is, we made so much progress yesterday in class that I think you deserve to see it plus we need help deciding on which one to actually chose from. We narrowed it down to two options... 

front

back 

This is the first option, the colors in the pictures are very alive and vibrant in a way and a lot is going on on the front but on the back is simple with all the information needed and easy to read. Now the only problem with this is the color of the font on the front because I don't know which one is easier to read the black font or the white font which is why I left it two different colors so you could help me with that. But nonetheless, this is option one!

front 1 

front 2 

back 

This is the second option and as you can see it has a lot of a different vibe to it, the colors are darker and it emphasizes the pain of the sport which is what we're focusing on for the film. Now we are having the same problem as the first option with the color of the font for the front because black looks good but can you read it well? and white is a little clearer but does it take away from the color scheme and the whole effect? Those are the issues that we are trying to deal with but I love the back on this one it truly speaks to the heart of the film. Now we were thinking of adding this as a story for our Instagram as an audience interactive post which we can use so out followers could help us pick the postcard but we will see!

Tim is flying by and the next thing you know it is time to turn in the project. For the next few weeks, our only focus is going to be editing so stay tuned for that!. 

POSTCARD

 Guys, I am stuck... I don't know where to begin for this postcard but to get out of this creative blank I just had to get myself to work you know? So this is what I came up with. 

Now I only did the front because I actually had no idea what I wanted to do for the back I was completely blank on that one so I did the front part first. Moreover, we haven't figured out the logistics of where the film Is going to be released, like at what film festival which is why we don't have a date yet but those are little details that can get resolved in no time, like the next time we see each other in class. Now we just have to pick one of these options for the front or come up with new ones and figure out what is best for the back because I don't know if I should use the same picture or a different one that matches with the whole brand you know? We just kinda need help on that part but nonetheless, it is another step closer to the project. I did the letters red because it matches the logo that we did for the Instagram account and the whole color scheme of everything is red so it matches the whole brand. 

Now we only have like three weeks left of the project and the only thing we have to do is edit the film and come up with more content for the social media, as well as, finish the postcard of course we can't forget about that but I think we are doing really good with the progress of everything, 

EVEN MORE FILMING!

 We meet again! Like I said in my last blog post this week has been a littleeeee crazy but nonetheless, we are still keeping productive because this is no time to slack. That is why this blog post is about more filming and more shots because even on spring break we do not slack. 

So we had to film more dialogue this week as well, but we had a few troubles with it. The first thing was that again we don't have a microphone so sometimes you can't hear what they are saying. Then there was music playing in the background so we obviously had to turn it off because we don't want to get copyrighted and we want to hear what they are saying. 

 

These are some sneak peeks of what I filmed because I don't want to show you too much because you have to wait for the final project so this is all you get. 

Alright, we have made progress on Instagram, we have a few shots left to film plus more B-roll just in case but you know what we haven't had progress on? the postcard which is why it is the next item on the list. 

STAY TUNED!!

PROGRESS ON INSTAGRAM

 Welcome Back! This week has been hectic because it is spring break and we have a huge competition this weekend so filming has been a little hard but nonetheless, we have gotten some filming done. However, for this blog post, I want to show you the progress we've made on our Instagram. 

This is what our Instagram looks like, we posted a couple of posts that are 'Meet the cast' and the caption is everything that our protagonist Briana likes that way the audience feels some type of connection with her. Then we posted a couple of videos of gymnastics just to get the audience to feel the atmosphere of what it's like to be in the gym and what it's like doing gymnastics as well. Then I posted some stories that have a behind-the-scenes picture and one of the bloopers with a poll that allows the audience to interact. 

This is exactly how Instagram is looking like, now we definitely need more followers and I want to start adding pictures or posts that have a countdown or ones that have the date of when the film is coming out you know? Now, the bio definitely needs more work we just haven't figured out what to put on it, we need a little bit of help in that area, nevertheless, as you can see that is the picture we posted of Briana and everything she likes and we added the part of 'Let us know in the comments that way the audience can participate on the post. 

We definitely work more on it but as of right now, I love how it's coming out. We only have a few weeks left of the project and we still have a lot to do!! But the good thing is that we are almost done filming but with all the shots that we have we can start editing!

SEE YOU SOON!!

MORE FILMING!!

 Welcome back!! for the last post of this week I am here to tell you that we filmed some more this week but this time we finally got some dialogue!!

Naturally, we started from the beginning so we filmed the mini stars saying the dialogue that we came up with a long time ago but ill show you it again.

This is what they had to say now it's not a lot, and we had to modify it a little because at the moment there was a class on the beam so we couldn't use them but we used the floor instead. Now, two girls that we used are 10 years old (Dont worry we asked the parents first) so it was a little difficult to get them to focus but nonetheless, we did it even if it took many 

Now I know what you are going to say and on one of the videos it is really loud since we don't have a microphone, we had a little trouble because we kept telling Maya to speak louder but she struggled LOL. Nonetheless, it is something that we can hopefully fix while we edit. Talking about editing, I think we are going to start editing next week which is spring break that way when we go back to school we are a little ahead. 

 

TO-DO LIST FOR SPRING BREAK:

1. keep filming

2. Post on the Instagram 

3. Work on the postcard.

4. Start editing. 

MORE AND MORE INSTA

 As we all know, the social media component plays a big part in this project, therefore, we had to prepare for the posts that we want to publish. Now, this really shouldn’t be that hard because you would just take pictures or videos and just post them right? Well, we decided to make our Instagram account more aesthetic and actually spend some time on it. This was our first post 

And this is the kind of posts that I’m working on… 

Alright, for the second one, I haven't figured out the right transition or the video in general, I feel like it needs more but you get the idea for the Instagram post or videos. We also took pictures of the cast as well and were going to post them as a 'Meet the cast' kinda post so the audience can relate. I had forgotten that we had to add audience interaction posts so we will focus on that as well, but that will mostly come from Instagram stories. 

FILMING PT 2

 Alright let’s get to filming pt two, so on the blog post before this one I talked about out first day of filming and how we go footage for the end of our short film. Well this time I’m gonna talk about how we go footage for the beginning of the film just not enough because if you remember it was really noisy in the gym so anything that had to do with dialogue we couldn’t so we have to go back either this week again or next week. 

If you have been keeping up with my blog the you know that we are going through the stages of life but in gymnastics like young and then the process of growing up, therefore, we got some footage of little main girl who still doesn’t have a name lol here are some takes that I liked. 

 

That is all that I will show you for right now because I don’t want to spoil the whole thing. But just so you know we have many many more shots and many many more to film so I recommend you stay tuned for what is coming next !!!

I think the next step is to start editing with the footage that we have that way we can get a head start and we dont take too long editing after. Nonetheless, we still have so much filming to do especially for the social media page but dont worry i have something fun to show you about that and lastly we have to get started on the postcard so those are the things we have to get done in the next few weeks.