Sunday Madness,

Surprise, surprise my viewers and readers! Onil and I have officially started out film opening, and let me tell you, it’s been very interesting. Although, we only filmed the first scene, (funeral) we are already gaining momentum, so this is relieving some stress that I have pertaining to time. The main character’s gender is drumroll please…… A girl! She is dressed up in all black, per the scene calls for this attire.

Another topic I’d like to discuss with you guys is that we will not be revealing the name of of our main character’s name. We believe this will make it much more mysterious and help to develop our upcoming superhero’s secret powers. The best things always come unexpectedly, and her new powers are a new addition to her identity, therefore she needs a new name. Onil and I were thinking that maybe the title of our film could he her name. Just a thought though, this is not finalized. Refresh frequently for our new updates. Cheers!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

It’s Friday!

Hello beautiful people of this world! I am back with some more details regarding Onil and I’s film opening! We haven't started putting things together quite yet, but in this posting I want to bring up the topic of the title we will be using. Unfortunately, we think that coming up with a title now would be much harder than recording the whole opening and deciding then. Although this process may seem a little backwards, it fits us perfectly. We don't want our title to be cheesy, we want it to be clever and unique. I’ll see Onil this weekend to start brainstorming and hopefully start filming. Stay cool & happy spring break!

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Amanda

Happy Hump Day!

I am so eager for Spring Break to start. Onil and I will officially be on break tomorrow, at 12:45. As we’re getting ready to live our best lives, we still have our eyes on the prize (our film opening). Beyond the whole storyline, we started to brainstorm the font we want to incorporate throughout our opening for the credits and title.

Below, I have some ideas and I hope to gain positive feedback from Onil.

One thing I hope to capture and establish with the font, is the tone and genre of the film opening. Out of these seven fonts I’ve picked so far I’m leaning towards permanent marker, caveat brush, or pacifico. These fonts have a creative, and powerful feel to them, which is exactly the feelings I want my audience to inhibit through my opening.

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Sunday Funday!

Every Sunday, I spend time with my family. Throughout the week, we’re a household of four workers. My mom and brother work till late at night, so I only see them right before I go to sleep. On the other hand, my dad comes home around the time school is over, but then I have to go to work. Growing up, my dad has always been more present than my mom, but I still spend as much time as I can with her. In turn, I’ve always looked forward to Sundays as we all would be together and I love it. I never take my family for granted, and every moment I spend with them as a whole or individually is time never wasted.

Anyway, Onil and I have been working vigorously to plan everything out before we start shooting. We haven’t settled on all the shots and techniques we want to utilize yet, but we are currently in the process of doing so.

Us currently:

We don’t look like we’re working here, but I promise we were. I’ll have visuals for you guys next posting, stay in touch. Have a beautiful week!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

On this rainy Saturday,

I’m stressing out about the deadline of this entire project. I’ll try not to get ahead of myself just yet as Onil and I still have time. Looking back onto my last post I realized that filming someone’s tombstone at a graveyard (as that what we were thinking of doing) would be super insensitive. I wouldn’t want a high school student filming any one of my family member’s tombstones, so we had to come up with a new way, but we want to maintain the same concept.

Great news, I was looking on YouTube and I suddenly had the brilliant thought of searching up a DIY (do it yourself) for tombstones. Personally, I love doing these as I have made so many things ranging from clothing, accessories, and gift ideas. Back to what I found, check out this sick video → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCAfhXtQn0 !!

This way, we will be able to film the funeral scene, get our hand dirty, and creatively make the tombstone the way we want it. I think this will be very effective and I can’t wait to buy the materials to start working on it with Onil!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Happy Thursday!

Today was such a good day, as I had another group meeting to discuss and get ideas from my peers about my project. I met with Raul, Juan, Malena, and Rachel, which was super helpful to further establish my opening film.

Here’s a picture of all of us:

Since there was so many tips they all gave me, I want to share the most insightful one. As my opening is starting off at a funeral, I pondered how Onil and I were going to make this happen. I told my peers that we would either set up a funeral scene at a park, or go to a cemetery. Onil and I were leaning towards creating our own funeral scene, but then my peers said it would be very time consuming to get the proper actors and manipulate the mise-en-scene. They told me to film when the funeral is over and the main character is leaving, maybe as he/she is putting their flowers down at their mother’s grave. This was super helpful, and when I discussed it with Onil she was very on-board with this revision. We’ve got that settled, and I can’t wait to film it!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

On this lovely Tuesday,

I have some super interesting information for you guys. Onil and I are still stuck upon our superpower film opening, which is really good news. Both of us are very spontaneous people and our minds are constantly evolving, so it says a lot considering we haven’t tried to change our story. In order to stay on track I’ve decided to make a monthly planner and I will try my best to make sure we stick to it.

Check it out:

Well, that’s not how I planned to show you guys it, the text boxes that I inserted on Google Docs aren’t working with me :(. The main thing I want to point out is that Spring Break is starting for us on Thursday, the 21st till the 31st. Onil and I plan on filming most of our video during this time. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday we will be enjoying our break, but the days after that, it’ll be business time. I can’t wait to show you guys some sneak peaks!

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Amanda