Week 6 Post 1: ive got a plan😎

 okay so today Im gonna get with Cooper (tennis guy) and we're gonna get a bunch of the posts done. here's the outline.

so the instagram is going to be split into 3 chapters

CHAPTER 1: The Illusion

So these 10 posts will be made as if its the main character's instagram, and then at the last post of the segment he's gonna be like "i tricked you guys i'm a movie character" and he waves around the script. 

CHAPTER 2: The Big Leagues

So he's gonna go around town promoting the movie in silly funny ways, I'm also going to sprinkle in some sneak peeks at scenes. Not too much of that though since I don't wanna spoil the whole darn thing. 

CHAPTER 3: The Red Carpet

Were gonna use a green screen and pretend Cooper is on the red carpet signing things and taking pictures. And then he's gonna get into a fight with the paparazzi and go to jail. And it's gonna end with a post from the production company saying that they no longer associate with Cooper. 

here's a rough draft of what the final post would look like

also the script is done------------> click on me!!!

Week 5 Post 3: AAAAAH I HAVE TO DO A SOCIAL MEDIA

 Okay so my plan for the social media is for it to start out with it looking like tennis guy's personal instagram page, and then there's gonna be a post where he's like woah it's all a movie. 

Im gonna do all the stuff where its his instagram the day we film the scenes in markham park. 

Also.................................................................................. i got my camera mount to stick to a cabinet door.

this is what the instagram will look like

it for today

Week 5 Post 2: were NOT filming today

 Ok so we're not filming today cuz pedro my equipment guy is not available. I wrote a scene in the movie where tennis guy argues with a guy in a fast food drive thru. uhhhhhhh what else. Im thinking about changing the title of the movie to Superstar, but idk. yesterday I helped mateo with his aftershock segment. yea thats it for today

Week 5 Post 1: wow its week 5 already

 Alright, as I'm writing this its tuesday, Were shooting the first scene tomorrow sometime after 1:00. Pedro my equipment guy has his BECON TV interview and he'll pick up the boom mic then. Pedro's camera might be over 11 pounds which is the max weight for the suction mount. The mount can stick to my belly. If Pedro's camera doesn't work I'll borrow Nikita's camera. Were shooting the car scene tomorrow btw. Thats it for today

Alright now its the 18th of wednesday and its also my girlfriends birthday yaaaaayayaa!!!! So to begin today I went out to best buy to get an sd card. But when I went there they were all a bagillion gigabytes and all a bagillion dollars so I left and went to walmart. At walmart they had reasonably priced ones so I bought those and went home. I finished editing a video of my little brothers youtube channel which you should watch and subscribe LINK LINK LINK.I think the thumbnail of the video alone is enough to get you to watch.

And then I gathered up the crew and we all went to Cooper's house to shoot the scene where tennis guy confronts evil tennis guy. Also we couldn't do the car scene cuz my actor for the friend couldn't make it. Cooper shaved his head last night so I guess my main character is bald now. I don't think it detracts from the film. I actually want to incorporate it into the opening credits. I want him to have "A Robert G. Collings Film" written on the back of his head. now that is a good idea. Pedro's camera is very good, blogger wont let me put in any videos so you guys are gonna have to trust me. but yea thats it for today stay tuned for more blog posts. 

Week 4 Post 3: Lets get printy!!!

 So for my postcard I think it would be funny if the postcard had a bunch of sponsors on it like a nascar car. I'm gonna run this idea by Ms Stoklosa because with my ideas, there's a fine line between brilliant and stupid, and I can't tell where this one is. I googled "short film postcard" and amongst all the posters for movies titled "postcard" the actual postcards I found felt lackluster. I want mine to be interesting. 

back

Alright so this is the little mockup I did, I might switch up the front but I like the back

front

the back is a reference to this dragon ball z manga cover. I chose this to implement some postmodernism into my thing, specifically a little bit of parody. 

Week 4 Post 2: Shooting Schedule

 Okay so my interview for my BECON TV internship is on tuesday so I probably won't film that day. I also messaged Short Cuts on instagram and asked what boom mics they had to check out. I've got most of the equipment I need covered with Pedro, all I need is a boom mic. Also today I'm gonna go get the hawiian shirt for tennis guy. Now schedule wise...

this throws a wrench in my plan, okay im just gonna push some stuff back

For the tiki bar scene ive still gotta call the place and ask if I can film

TUESDAY

Okay so we're doing the first markham park scene here with the radio and stuff. The actors we need for this are the suit guy and tennis guy. Tennis guy will wear his hawaiian shirt and suit guy will wear a black. and white suit. Suit guy will be played by nikita and tennis guy will be played by cooper. also pedro will help

WEDNESDAY

On this day I'd like to shoot the two scenes at evil tennis guy's house. The first one will be with suit guy and evil tennis guy at night. and the second one will be with tennis guy challenging evil tennis guy. ill shoot the second one first since its later in the day. 

THURSDAY

Car scene

im gonna do an update post on the schedule after we've done all these days.

Week 4 Post 1: lets get scripty!

 I FINISHED THE SCRIPT!!!!! i think it's pretty freaking good. CLICK ME IF YOU WANNA READ IT

heres the storyboard

Alright now im terms of storyboarding I've got a pretty good mental storyboard in my head. Im gonna do an actual storyboard for some major scenes though. 

Alright so it's been a couple days now and i've done the first scene storyboarding wise. I've come to the realization in this specific instance that storyboarding is a waste of time when I have full creative control. I know what I wanna do and I don't need anyone else to see what i'm envisioning. Yall are just gonna have to trust that its gonna come out well. 

In other updates, my friend Pedro has joined the crew! He read my script the other day and really liked it. He's got a bunch of equipment I can use alongside the stuff from Short Cuts. He also wants to help out with the cinematography so that's awesome!! 

Schedule wise, I plan to begin filming this friday. The scene we're gonna do is the third scene at Markham park. After school tommorow I'm gonna go get clothing for tennis guy on thursday. And thats as far as I've gone with the shooting schedule. My crew is very flexible so we can do whatever.