Week 7 Post 3: the uncreative critical reflection

 alright so theres 4 questions to this critical reflection, cool

So I'm gonna use another Tree song in my movie, this time "Homefront". I haven't gotten permission to use it yet but Dave Tree is a chill dude and he'd probably say yes. But anyways, the song is about the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) labor union from 1905. I chose this song because it kicks ass, and cuz it fits thematically with my movie. Because the underlying message of my movie is that the elite can't oppress people if they go against the grain and fight back. Tennis Guy represents the workin' man, and Evil Tennis Guy represents the elite, taking the hard work of the workin' man and using it for their own profit, stepping on the workin' man along the way. I'll talk about this more in my CR.

fire ass font

In terms of branding, I've been using that same fiery font with the red and orange in all the social media stuff and in the movie and postcard. oh and speaking of the postcard were gonna shoot the pictures for that this weekend. I chose that font cuz it looks like a font you'd see on a nascar car, and that's the kind of vibe of the movie. I did the coloring of the film in this warm, sweet tea look that I think looks really cool. I was inspired by the coloring of the movie "The Surfer" which Ms Stoklosa did not like but I don't know why. Anyways, the coloring of the movie made it feel like it was hot as balls on that beach, and thats kind of what I was going for, just less hot as balls. 

So with engaging with audiences, the social media will incorporate this with a "answering your questions" post, as well as a post with Tennis Guy meeting fans at Cypress Bay High School. I'll think of some more stuff for this. Also in one of the posts Cooper starts it by saying "Alright Fans..." so that's something

Research........... gosh I don't know.

On a side note the end of Chapter 1 reel is so freaking good I can't get over it. 

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 😂😂😂

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

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. 

Week 6 Post 3: editing and filming at the same time ooooh yeaa💥

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

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. 

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