Let The Filming Commence

Good Evening Blog! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEEEEE. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!!! That is right blog readers, you heard correctly, today it is finally my birthday!! In my last post I told you guys my first task as a legal woman would be to buy a lottery ticket and that is just what I did. This morning I drove to publix and got a scratch off lotto ticket and guess what....? I WON $5. Well technically I won back the $5 I spent on the ticket but I still won! I say that is good luck. Other than that I did a lot of fun things today like went to the beach and got lots of free food for my birthday. Now comes the time of the blog where I tell you about the project since not everything is about me even on my birthday ;)

So today Reem and Nawal got something filming done. They filmed some establishing scenes for the beginning part of our film and they filmed the cook show scene with Reem as the chef. Apparently, Reem is a bit upset because she wanted to use this chef hat she made, but Nawal wouldn't let her, and I have to agree the hat is a no go (sorry Reem I still love you <3).

Anyway, to the right you see a picture of Reem dressed for her scene. We decided to make her outfit white and polished-looking to go with the dystopian society. Along with this picture I also attached some pictures Reem took of Nawal while she was filming some establishing shots so you guys can see my two partners in action! I hope you enjoy the progress so far!

Until Next Time,

Shelby😊🎤📽

P.S. It is really weird that I am considered an adult now

Groups Meetings #2

Good Evening Blog! GUESS WHAT...? I'll wait... Go on guess... MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW! It is actually so hard to believe how fast time has gone by. It feels like just yesterday I was a little (well not that little I'm a tall girl) freshman getting lost on way to class. And tomorrow I turn 18! I am finally going to be legal! My first task as a legal women will be to buy a lottery ticket. I'll keep you updated. Anyways back to the topic of todays blog: today we had group meetings. I had overwhelming amount of support from my classmates this week. Everyone really made me feel very optimistic about our project. Not only did they like the idea of our project, but they also thought the name was very creative and is a title that they if they heard it they would want to watch (which I was happy about since I came up with the title). I also shared my blog link with my classmates so they could see our progress and everyone single one of my peers told me that they enjoyed my blog. Some of them said I was a strong writer and some of them said that they felt that reading my blog was a pleasurable which made me happy since it is something that someone will eventually be reading. The only thing my peers addressed concern for was how we are going to edit the zodiac sign above our characters heads. I told them not to fret because Yejing already told me how to get the job done! Other than that we didn't really receive any criticism or advice on our project.

Tomorrow Reem and Nawal are going to start filming the chef seen and get shots of Town Center since we are making our film take place in Weston. I will keep you updated!

Until Next Time,

Shelby 😊🎤📽

Storyboard

Hello beautiful blog people!!! My birthday is soooooo close (3/16) and this is my current mood:

So today in class we worked on a rough storyboard for our film opening and and we discussed a lot about plot and the mise-en-scene. Since we are focusing the plot more towards the stereotypical aspects of our zodiacs. The first way we are going to develop the stereotypical zodiacs is by having our main character (V)  make a healthy fruit salad in the beginning of our film. While this will develop the zodiac sign of our character, we figured that to illustrate the Dystopia further, the tutorial is going to be conducted with government vibe that portrays how the government will be manipulating everything. We are going to have V following the chef's tutorial, and by doing so, this shows the structure of V and how even she is manipulated. We also decided that we would have Reem play the chef and she is very excited (too excited in my opinion). Below I am going to attach pictures of the storyboard we created:

This weekend Reem and Nawal are going to start filming and even though I cant join them because of my birthday (hehehehe eeeeeeekkkk) I am very excited to see the outcome! I have a lot of faith in my girls!!

Until Next Time,
Shelby 😊🎤📽

Trying To Get Organized

Hey Blog readers! So as we inch closer and closer to our due date, we are trying to use our time more efficiently in order to complete our project. Tomorrow we have class and we are going to be working on our project so today we decided to FaceTime so we could discuss what we would be working on specifically tomorrow.  Heres what we narrowed it down to:

1. Finalize script
     - Create a storyboard with specific shots and angles we want to use
2. Give characters names
     - Maybe find names relative to specific zodiac signs?
3. Finalize filming schedule
     - Make sure we will all be here to film
4. Create a linked calendar
      - Make sure schedules don't class with each others
5. Spice up our blog
      - Make ours blogs look super cute to match the theme of our opening!!!

Creating this list helped us so that we could each become more organized for tomorrows class because tomorrow is when we are going to get down to business. I will keep you updated on what happens in class tomorrow. Here are some gifs that describe how I am feeling today:

Until Next Time,
Shelby 😊🎤📽

Schedule Time

Hello people of my blog! Todays post isn't going to be too long because its very late and I am NEED SLEEP. So today was our closing night of Mamma Mia and we sold out for the second night in a row. I could not be more proud of my cast and my friends. We sold the most amount of tickets in AMT history and to just be a part of that is an honor. With all this being said, even though I am sad my last high school show is over, I am also extremely happy because hopefully I wont be as overwhelmed now. This past week has been absolute chaos and I am so happy to be done with it.

ANYWAY, back to what this blog post is about: our schedule! So basically, the due date for our portfolio project is approaching quicker than anticipated and we are going to have to start filming soon. We started to discuss when would be the best time for everyone to film since everyone is going to be busy with spring break coming up. Nawal and I both have trips planned around this time of year. I have Drama States March 20-23 and I am not totally sure where Nawal is going. Since its such a busy time of year we made a rough film schedule:
February 21th- March 15th- Full research and planning of film
March 15-17th  and first half of Spring Break- shooting the film
Second half of Spring Break and first week of April- Editing of film
April 1st-7th- finalizing and doing the CCR

This plan will ensure we get our project done with a week to spare so we have time to finalize all of project and complete our CCR. I can't wait to begin filming, it is going to be great!

Until Next Time,
Shelby 😊🎤📽

Working on our Script

Hello my beautiful blog readers!!! I have to leave to go to Mamma Mia soon so I have to make this quick, but I wanted to post a quick update since we had class today.

 So today in class we talked about our script since we are finally set on zodiac signs for our characters. We decided that we were going to make there be an 'error' in the system when setting up our two main character on a date together even though they are incompatible. Once we were set on this we were able to focus on more specific things in our opening that will help to develop our plot a bit more. We are going to be focusing a lot on Mise-en-scene in our opening shots as we pan around our main characters houses and place shots of things in their houses that are specific to their zodiac signs in order to develop the signs in the opening. I already posted a lot outline, but we updated it a bit so below I am going to paste how we are planning on our opening to go so far so you can get an idea of what we want to happen:
Opening scene:
- Various shots of community
- Establishing setting and way of life
- Credits rolling

Scene #1:
- (V)-Main girl in her room waking up (doing a daily task)
- Get an email about monthly schedule includings dates to meet compatible person
- Various shots of her room to show zodiac
(Purpose: showing a normal life of a citizen in society, and introducing character and their zodiac.)

Scene #2:
- (T)-Introduce partner, doing similar thing to the main character
- Very similar shots (parallel editing)
- Also gets an email about date, and monthly schedule
(Purpose: further emphasis of society, and introducing character and zodiac.)

Scene #3:
- Go back to V, complaining to friend
- Friend is compatible
- Getting ready for date
- Looking out window

Scene #4:
- Back to T also getting ready, but slight shift in routine

- Looking at different scenery, further establishing setting

Last scene: 

- Put a bar scene within the last scene

Bar? Guy is hitting on the girl and sees her. He hits on her but she rejects bc of her sign. She saw him do something stereotypical.

- Viewing of main characters, at a restaurant in a booth (on a date)
- Camera then pans to a crane shot to show a full restaurant of different people on dates
(have little bubbles of each zodiac and compatibility level on top of each person’s head-like sims)
- Camera pans out to a black/constellation and title “How The Stars Align”

Until Next Time,
Shelby 😊🎤📽

Changing our Characters signs

Hello Blog! Tonight was our opening night of Mamma Mia and it went SO WELL! I just got home from the show and I am absolutely EXHAUSTED. Its been so great to be a part of such a fun show (even if I didn't have a part).

Speaking of parts, a little while back I said our couples' zodiac signs were going to be compatible. Well that has changed a bit. We decided it would be more effective having two non compatible people fall in love. So because of this we had to change our characters signs. Our main character, which will be played by my friend Vianna will be a Taurus. Taurus is actually Vianna's real zodiac signs because thought that it would be easier to work with her actual sign. Nawal also happens to be a Taurus so we thought it would just be best to use this sign as the main characters sign.

Because we decided to work with zodiac signs close to our owns we are making the love interest for our main character a Gemini like Reem. Not only is this sign the same as Reem's, but it is also incompatible with a Taurus. Along with this, our main characters best friend will be a Pisces like me. (side note: MY BIRTHDAY IS IN 9 DAYS). This works out really well because Taurus and Pisces are actually compatible which means our best friends work out and can be around each other. 





In my next post I will discuss what we are thinking for our script so stay updated!!

Until Next Time,
Shelby 😊🎤📽