Friday, April 3, 2026

Week 7 Post 2: this is where we lock in

here's the social media outline


It's genuinley hilarious how back in week 1 i thought i'd be done filming my week 5 πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

for the back of the postcard it's gonna be tennis guy and evil tennis guy recreating the shot from the goku vs majin vegeta fight in dragon ball z during the Buu saga. 












FILMING
Oh my god we filmed something. We got a heck of a lot done today and it all came out awesomely spectacular. We did the car scene and the markham park scene and the training scene. All that's left is the reshoot of the confrontation scene, the opening scene, and the tournament scene. We also got one of the social media posts done. 

We had to use the camera that I borrowed from Jim for the social medias and use it for everything cuz Pedro's camera wasn't recording sound. Despite this setback, I was still able to succeed. I won't dwell too much on filming so to make things brief it couldn't have gone better.

SOCIAL MEDIA
Chapter 2 baby!!!!!! I genuinely
im so goated

cooked on these two posts, go follow @topspin.epic.movie on instagram for some tuff ass posts. 

THE COMING DAYS
Alright, I'd like to try and wrap up filming Saturday-Sunday. The rest of the week will be CR + the gram.

me when pedro's camera genuinley dies


Monday, March 30, 2026

Week 7 Post 1: omg another group meeting!!!

 Ok so I know im behind but I'm actually not. I have pretty much everything planned out extensively and Im super goated. I couldn't film anything yesterday cuz the weather was genuinely terrible. I'm gonna detail everything I'm doing this week in chronological order now

So on monday (today) I'm driving up to BECON TV to pick up a green screen and a DSLR camera to use for chapter 2 and 3 of the social media. Since I've got a lot of testing n stuff today through wednesday I won't be doing much production wise but I will plan out stuff. 

Thursday I don't know exactly yet, once I get people's schedules I'll write more here.

Same for friday

Saturday and Sunday depend on what happens thursday and friday

I'm also gonna work on 

I've got a backup plan for if the tiki bar place isn't available to film there. If they say no we'll have the two friends walking down the street talking about the same stuff that they do in the scene. The tiki bar isn't really necessary i just wanted that night time lighting with some lights. I'm thinking about it right now and I think we might film it at that park that's on the big trash mound. If we can go there at night it would look pretty cool

I'm also thinking about cutting the drive thru scene, it's not entirely necessary but i think its funny and i'd like to keep it but it might make it too long. 

i'm gonna be posed up like this on the social media
For chapter 2 of the social media I wanna do a "meet the cast" post and a "meet the crew" post. Since i'm doing most of the crew things i'm gonna make up names like "John Editor" and "John Cinematographer". For all the photos of me im gonna have my face taped over pictures of bodybuilders. I think the only crew member that isn't me is my boy Pedro, the equipment manager.

 For the "meet the cast" post I'm gonna have all the actors in tuff poses. I want the poses to reference poses from comic books and anime n stuff

For the other side of the postcard I wanna have it be tennis guy looking through a hole in a tennis racket. Cuz cooper has a busted up tennis racket and we're gonna use it a scene and I think it's cool symbolism for his character. I also wanna use that imagery for the profile picture for the social media once we get to chapter 2. 

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Week 6 Post 3: editing and filming at the same time ooooh yeaaπŸ’₯

me rn

 theres one shot at the end of the doorstep scene that is slightly out of focus and i might end it all. Other than that, the editing of the doorstep scene is coming along well. I should probably tell you guys about my brilliant plan. So I was thinking about how the filming is spread across several days and I realized I can edit the project bit by bit as we film more and more scenes. So thats what Im doing!!!! 

Here's a better mockup for the front of the postcard, 

Today we're gonna film the tournament scene and then maybe one other scene depending on how we do in terms of time.

 That's all for today I'll write more here after shooting.

Okay we didnt end up filming on thursday cuz people were busy and no one can film friday so were gonna do stuff over the weekend

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Week 6 Post 2: we did some social media😎

 alright i'm writing this paragraph on tuesday and so far in terms of scheduling were doing the markham park scene and the car scenes on friday. And If Democratus is available for thursday we can do the tournament scene.

ok so chapter 1 of the social media went well. We got all ten posts done and they all fit the character. the instagram username is @topspin.epic.movie go follow right now. As me and cooper went around getting the posts done we discussed the characterization of tennis guy. We determined that his drink of choice is a blue raspberry C4. 

I'm gonna write about my plans for shooting this week here

Alright so shot-wise the car scene will be pretty simple. The bulk of it will be doing the car dialogue a couple of times, with different shots. and then getting the drive thru scene we'll have the shot of the talking box and then the two guys in the car. 


Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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!!!

Saturday, March 21, 2026

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

Friday, March 20, 2026

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 7 Post 2: this is where we lock in

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