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Bad news, in my last posting I told you guys that I’d have the pictures from Storyboarders attached, but my computer is not working with the site. In the future, I will be trying my best to make it work and I will show you guys what animations have came out of my drawings. Although, I was unable to show you guys through Storyboarders, I have a drawing of the most important element of our opening, the bookshelf and the album falling onto the floor.

Here’s the sketch!

I wanted to show you guys this drawing specifically as it is as I said, the most important scene. As our main character will move the album out from the bookshelf onto the floor with her powers, this will be the moment the individual and the audience will be introduced to this. As my readers can see the book falls as the red pen displays this and our main character looks at the book and it drops to the floor, hence the combining colors of blue and red. I want the book to be the color red because this color represents, love, passion, and power. I hope you guys enjoyed seeing my vision. Can’t wait to update you guys on what’s to come!

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Amanda

Hello beautiful people!

I can’t explain to you guys how relieved I am that Onil and I have settled on a steady film opening. For a moment, I was getting ready to steal one of my peers ideas, just kidding! I knew it would come to us in time, but I didn’t know it would take this long, as it felt like forever. I was recently introduced to this website called Storyboarders. With the website, I’m allowed to upload my drawings and it will transform them into an virtual animation. I find this very helpful and interesting, as I can visually see my ideas come to life. I hope it’ll point out what seems to be wrong within our storyline and praise all the good. If you’re interested in checking this innovative tool out, the link is right here → https://storyboarders.com/

Unfortunately, Onil and I are struggling with the specific shots we want to capture throughout our opening so I haven’t been about to use this site. In my next posting I’ll be glad to show you guys what Storyboarders has created from my drawings. Don’t forget to check in, have a lovely rest of your Saturday!

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Amanda

It’s Friday and I’m so ready for the weekend!

Last posting, I explained that I would have a more in-depth idea of what our film opening will include and thankfully, I do! It has been three weeks since we have started this project and I cannot believe it took THIS long to get our final idea. Right now my readers are probably hanging at the end of their seats thinking, “Amanda, shut up already and tell me!” The answer is not yet, considering the fact that I love the element of suspense and surprise. Now that you guys are so eager to know what Onil and I have agreed upon, we’ll get to it.

To start off, we want to set the scene at a funeral, more specifically the main character’s mother’s funeral. The crowd is mourning, and her child is devastated, but we don’t want our viewers to get too involved in the scene, we only want them to understand that his mother has passed away. Then we’ll move onto the son (we haven’t decided if it’ll be a boy or girl) after the funeral, staring blindly into the walls of his house. The most important element of our opening will be the bookshelf. This bookshelf will contain the biggest change of the main character’s life. As he is looking at it, a photo album suddenly falls to the ground and curiously, he goes to pick it up. What he does not know is his mother’s power that he inherited summoned the book to fall. He opens it to find a notes from his deceased mother, it explained how she had a superpower, and when she dies, he will absorb it overtime. This was a shock to him, as he had no idea, but he is anxious to see what power he will behold. Throughout the end up the opening he is trying to call upon his power as a whole, and when he finally does the title of our film will be displayed.

This new and improved idea is super original and creative. We will have to manipulate different lights, objects, and the mise-en-scene greatly, but I can’t wait to see it all come together. I really think Onil and I have finally had a breakthrough, as we’ve previously been stuck. Stay by your computer as every posting from here on will be juicy! Have a wonderful weekend!

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Amanda

On this feel good Thursday,

I finally wanted to present to you guys Onil and I's project progress. It has been a week since I last explained what we have in store. We've decided that are last idea was not original, so we searched through movies to find a source that we could get inspiration from. In turn, we thought that we can use what we are most interested in to come up with something original for our film opening. Growing up, one of my favorite movies was Sky High. This movie consists of multiple characters who have superpowers. Everyday, the characters go to a special school up in the sky, foreshadowing the title of the movie to learn, practice, and enhance their gifts. Below is a picture of the main characters that really brought this movie to life. It targets young teens, which is exactly who Onil and I want to target through our opening.

You guys are probably wondering why I’m sharing this information with you guys and I’m so excited to share what we came up with. We want to incorporate superpowers in our film opening. Although this may be challenging to execute, we know that if we can do it, it’ll be spectacular. That’s what we’ve come up with so far, and in the next posting I’ll have more specific details of how we hope everything will pan out. Add my blog to your favorites, or even bookmark it to get the updates!

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Amanda

On this stressful Sunday,

I've been communicating with Onil on what else we’d like to put onto our storyboard. We’ve decided that we wanted to consult some of our peers tomorrow, during class to get an outside opinion. Today, we discussed that we needed to have a schedule to follow in order to stay on track. Unfortunately, Onil and I are both employed so we couldn’t make a steady schedule, but we agreed that any free time we get, will be spent to work on this project (no time off). For the majority time, we will be working on the weekends, as the week is a little too hectic with extracurriculars, work, and school itself. I have to admit, I am slightly concerned that time will be our enemy, but I believe Onil and I can get it done, as we always have. Can’t wait to update you guys of what we have decided!

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Amanda

Welcome back to my blog!

Good news everyone, Onil and I started creating our storyboard to not only plan better, but to also stay organized. Personally, I am a very visual person, so drawing and putting our ideas onto paper really helped me get a better understanding and invision its entirety. Below is a picture of what we have so far, feel free to take a look!

As you can see, we’ve only completed 8 boxes, but there will be more to come as our film opening is required to be two minutes. Although we feel confident with this idea, we are not 100% sure that we will be sticking with this exact concept. This doesn’t mean that in the near future we will present another idea, it just means that any alterations we need to make, we will get right on it.

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Amanda

Hello everyone!

Some updates I have for you guys about my film opening are quite interesting. Onil and I have finally settled (as we were contemplating for so long) on the genre we will be focusing on throughout our project, which will be, DRUMROLL PLEASE - drama. Before I start to inform you guys about our new and improved film opening idea, I wanted to explain an addition to my blog. Our overall focus will be on bullying, with said, every posting I will find a inspirational quote to share with you guys. This will be a very nice touch to my blog as I feel it goes well will the deeper meaning that we hope to present. Not only do we want to spread love and positivity, but for some, this topic may be difficult to view, hence the reason that every time I present something new, no matter how dark it is, we'll still be indulging in insightful quotes. Enjoy!

Here I present today’s quote:

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Amanda