" Keep On Trunkin"

So I know earlier in the process of creating the film opening I made a blog post about what font I wanted to do. However, my team members found some really cool font ideas recently and we changed our opinion. The fonts are all very similar but they are still slightly different and we wanted to choose one that we all agreed with and one that fits well with the time period and the overall vibe we want to give off in our film opening. These are some of the fonts we were planning on using:

All of our font options are very 70's and it was very hard for us to pick one since they are all pretty much similar and are all very appealing to the audience. The name of the font we decided to use is called "Keep on Trunkin". The process of choosing this font was a lot longer than I thought. We put a lot of thought into what font we chose as we explored hundreds of different websites and finally came across our ideal font.

We FINALLY found our title :))))

It Must be <3

Choosing a film title is a lot harder than  you think it is. We thought maybe we should leave that for last since it's just a name and we should base it around how our film turns out. Since we are almost done with our film project we thought it was time to finally come up with our title.

We found a playlist on Spotify called "1970s Hits" and we decided to look through the music they had and the names of the songs. We listened to a couple songs and finally came up with three that we thought could potentially be the ideal name for our film. The top three options were 

1. I Feel Love
2. It Must Be Love
3. Walk On the Wild Side

We talked in our group chat and decided that our best option was "It Must Be Love". We all did some research on the song itself and found out that this was very popular song in this time period. In 1971, this specific song, written and sung by Labi Siffre was a top hit in the UK.

Labi Siffre

Although it wasn't necessarily that popular in the United States, this song was used in many productions and is very well-known. For this reason, I am glad that this is our film title and that we chose a song title that fits well with the plot of our film and what we show in our film opening.

making arrangements

Our problems

Since my team and I now know that our film opening portfolio project is due on April 12 we wanted to make sure we have everything ready for when we film. We realized that when we asked our parents to film they were absolutely not okay with us getting together or leaving our houses at all during the this time because of the corona virus. In addition to this problem, we still need some time to think about how we are going to replace our school scene because that is a big portion of our film opening and we don't have any locker rooms to film at since all schools are closed at the moment.

Our solutions

My group and I talked about what we can do about our problems and this is what we decided on

Since we were planning to film at Irene's house anyway ( since she has the most aesthetically pleasing room and it fits the time period), she said she is able to film the clips with her sisters help. Sydney brought her the type writer and now she has all of the props to film the first half of our film opening. 

Now I know what you're thinking "what are Sydney and Valentina gonna do if Irene is gonna film the clips". We decided that me and Sydney are going to either split the                            two other jobs that have to be done:

1. Editing the clips and combining them 
2. Adding the filters we want
3. Title screen and credits

Orrrrr to do it together. Hopefully in the next week the corona situation get's better so we can all meet up and do everything together like we were originally planning.

I found a cool app

Boredom HIT

So over this really long boring spring break I haven't been able to go anywhere and I haven't seen the light of day in weeks. I don't think I've ever experienced anything this weird in my life it honestly feels like I'm living in a movie (no pun intended). ANYWAY, since I've been so bored i have been doing different random things I've always wanted to do but I never had time for everyday. Even though I go to sleep at 3 am and wake up at 1 pm I always find something to do in that time period. Yesterday, I woke up and I started looking through my Snapchat memories and I thought to myself, "ooo maybe I can combine a bunch of videos from my memories and make one big video with a cool song in the background" SO I DID and it came out really cool. On top of that, I found this app called Prequel that let's you import your own pictures or videos from your camera roll and you can put vintage filters and effects on them and make them look like they're from the 70's when really they're not (sadly). Besides making like 5 other videos with different background music, I also thought "hmm maybe we can import our film opening to this app to give it a more 70's feel without overdoing it. The app has a variety of filters to choose from and you can also make all the adjustments you want so I want to choose one that has a purpleish hue just to give it that vibe. We don't necessarily have to do this but when we have all of our video put together I think it would be cool if we see how it looks.

the new plan

I wish I could say I have a plan that i'm going to stick to no matter what but until the situation with the virus gets better I can't really say much or guarantee anything. However, the ideal plan is this:

While i'm stuck in my house doing nothing, all I can do and all I've really been doing is watching Netflix. Instead of watching just any Netflix movies i;m going to try to watch more coming of age ones to get more ideas on shots and costume design to see if we can perfect those things in our film opening as much as we can.

 

Booksmart

Apart from watching Netflix all day, I also want to see the previous AICE media AS level film openings to get more of an idea of what we want our film opening to look like and also to try to avoid making ours look like one that has already been made. Hopefully, by the middle of April we can already leave our houses to finally get together and film something. If we film the first part of our film, the bedroom scene, we will already have a lot done because that's the first half of our film and we can edit it while we wait for the school to reopen if it has not yet opened by that time to film the second half of our film opening. Ideally, we will be done with our entire film by the end of April.

at home ideas

Props!!

Typewriter

So for our film opening, props are a hugeeeee part because we need to use a lot of objects that represent the 70's and that are appropriate for our time period and for the vibe we want to set. As I said in my previous blogs, we want to use a typewriter so that Lana (the main character) can develop her character through the thoughts she types out in the beginning of our film opening. Lucky for us, Sydney (my group member) was passed down an actual typewriter from her great grandmother that will be perfect. Although it may not actually work, we can always edit and use certain camera angles to make it look as if the typewriter actually works. 

Sydney's typewriter

The Band Posters

Although this is only shown in short clips, band posters are an easy way for us to develop the setting of our film. Now I don't mean any band posters. Since this film takes place in the 70's not only do we want to use posters of bands from the 70's but also some that develop Lana's character. For example, bands that support the lgbtq community. Originally, we were planning on going thrifting and looking for some band posters. Our plan B  was to post on our snapchat or instagram stories and reach out to people to see if we could borrow some band posters for the day that we film. And our plan C was to order the band posters on amazon prime ( even though they were like $10 each) we were willing to do it since we also want some to decorate our rooms anyway. However, because of the whole virus situation happening, everything is closed and we will not be able to go through with any of these plans. Luckily our plan D came in and my team member Irene got bored enough in quarantine that she decided that she wanted to make the band posters herself. 

Band Posters 

I absolutely LOVE how they came out and they look like real band posters and they were a lot more affordable than the real ones so I am really happy about that and it's also really relieving since I was worried about a lot of other things like WHEN ARE WE GONNA FILM!!! But i'll talk about that very soon

This is another poster Irene made that was also included in the previous photo but I wanna elaborate on it a little more. I thought the idea behind it was very clever. She said she was watching the 70's show (i know ironic) and she noticed this image in one pf the episodes. Since the show does take place in the 70's she though we should include it in our film opening and maybe make Lana a smoker as well that way there is more to her. 

scene from that 70's show

corona crisis :/

News

Bad News

I always like to start off with the bad news that way we can end on a more positive note when I say the good(ish) new at the end. ANYWAYS, there's a huge virus going around called the Corona Virus and it's honestly really annoying. Apart from making me more antisocial than I already am, its making me feel like this project isn't going to be as good as I thought it would be. Every time I write on my blog and talk to my group about our film, I get really excited about it and the closer we got the more excited I got about filming and finally putting everything together. HOWEVER, since it's a deadly virus none of our parents are letting us leave our houses and therefore, we can't really do much. At this point in our process, we pretty much have everything ready to film. We have our camera, our costume design, our props, our place to film, our actors and actresses, etc. Apart from the project I hope everyone is safe and is washing their hands 637829 times a day ( or maybe i'm just extra).

Good News

Quarantine Queen.

I am really thankful for Mrs. Stocklosa (my aice media teacher) because she's one of the only teachers that have reached out to me and actually tried to help us with our project. I wasn't at home when she had the the video chat conference, but my group members updated me on some information that made me a lot less stressed. Apparently the due date for our project has been extended. Now we are going to have time to film and edit our film opening the way we wanted it to come our. The part I was most worried about was the locker seen. This was the second part of our film opening and we have to film it in the locker room in our school. However, since the school is closed at the moment due to the world crisis because of the deadly virus, we are gonna have to wait for it to reopen for us to film it. Lucky for us we are going to get the chance to do it if the school reopens before the due date. If not we will have to change the second half of our film opening very last minute.