key moments

Room Decor

Props

When we realized we should probably use a lot of context to develop the time period that our movie takes place in we did some research. We wanted to make it so that she is vlogging on a camera like I said in my storyboard blog post. Then we realized we have to figure out how we would make that work with the technology they had back in the day. 

the research

We found that the camera people used in the 70s to film and capture pictures was a standard 8mm camera, which we were able to find online for $24.

standard 8mm

Since none of us were really willing to spend that much on the camera, we realized we could replicate it and make one that looks just like it.

Posters

Another thing we wanted to include since the start is band posters. This is something we won't mind ordering online since 2 of us were already planning on buying some to decorate our own roms. Band posters were very "in" during these times so we knew it wad a good idea to include them. To go even further, we decided that since the whole point of the movie is that she has to come out to the world, that we should find bands that supported the LQBTQ community at the time and use those bands. This will show that she likes listening to artists who support her.

Arthur Conley: He was a famous musician in the 1960s who supported the LGBT+ community and was also apart of it himself as a gay man at the time

The Rolling Stones: supported this specific community while also creating popular music.

Cris Williamson:part of the LGBT+ community and was an important figure in the women's music movement. 

CHANGE OF PLANS PART 236478 !:

So we decided that our camera vlog plans was way too complicated. We thought that using a diary instead for documenting her thoughts could solve this problem. However, we realized very quickly that it would not be very visually appealing to our audience since no one like to read. At this point, we felt kind of hopeless because our whole plan has changed. 

We decided that we are doing a school scene instead. When we decided on this, at first I was kinda freaking out cause we had spent so much time planning something that we aren't even gonna do. Even though we are not doing the bedroom scene, I realized that we can still incorporate a lot of the stuff we researched in our school scene as well. Hopefully we are able to come up with some camera and editing techniques in the new storyboard.