changes to project

we're too indecisive :)

Genre change:

If you have read the blogs I made earlier in my process, you probably already know that we are one of those groups that have way too many ideas and we have a hard time picking one. This is more of a good thing than a bad thing. We started off really convinced about doing a horror film but we ended up watching some film openings on coming of age that convinced us a little more. I don't want to think we wasted time researching on horror film techniques because I still find that knowledge useful. But let's be real here, it's pretty clear that we wasted some time whether we want to admit it or not. Such as a simple thing like changing the genre can change everything. However, I think my group does a really good job at working under pressure and getting things done when we realize we don't have a lot of time left. We've gotten away with doing things last minute for other projects but for this one we can't take any risks. Now that we have decided on our genre once and for all, we each gathered a lot of information individually on a variety of techniques used on different coming of age movies like the ones I address in my previous vlog on "movie inspo".  Yesterday we got together and we all made agreements on what we have to get done by the end of the week and we also agree on the whole idea of the story and on our storyboard idea. 

Storyboard change:

If the person reading this has never filmed anything, my word of advice is to PLAN. I think planning is the most important part of the filming process and in any process at all. For this reason , I want to make sure we have all of the items we need to make our film opening a success. At first, we had a pretty cool idea for our film opening to set up the context of the film but cutting from one object to the other. Setting up the context will play a big role in our film opening especially because we want to develop the character and the setting that takes place in the 70s through visuals rather than dialogue. WELL, believe it or not we realized from seeing previous projects that we should do something more different since many film opening set up the context that way. For now our film opening begins with Lana, the main character filming a vlog but im not gonna get tooooo specific because I don't wanna hype up our idea if we can't go through with it. It is very likely that we will change our storyboard at leastttt 8 more times but im hoping that it's less. :)