In other news I AM SUPER EXCITED FOR THIS

We Have Finished The Whole Production Of "Love Me"👏👏👏

Yes, we are so excited to announce that we are completely done with the whole production. Yesterday March 29th was an amazing day for my partner Ana and I. We have finished editing the introduction, put all the credits that we needed to, put the music in, and have a whole two minutes and fifteen seconds of our production. AHHHH this is amazing due to the current situation many students are feeling in the area like i said in my last blog post. Ana and I have gone through a lot of ups and downs within this project, with time, postponing a lot of things that ended giving both my partner and I a lot of stress.  To be able to say in this post that we finished brings tears in my eyes. 

So are there any changes that we made in the final cut? 

To answer that question, yes. We only made two changes. One of them I kept talking about which was the back up plan of using the royalty free music on youtube. All we had to do was credit them in the film and that is it. We did not unfortunately get permission from any of our artists but the song we chose is beautiful and delivers our message across perfect. Other than that we also changed the font because we wanted to make our production more legit so we decided to chose a white bold font. Which sets the tone perfect. 

Here is a nice clip on the ending of our production with a message from me and your favorite actress ever!!

💛So what is next in the process of our FINAL project 💛

For the next couple of blogs I will be answering the rest of the questions for my CCR and film the activities that my lovely dog I mean assistant will be answering and going on camera for me and finally FINISH this pain in my.. I mean finish this lovely project. 

and now, for the beginning our our show.... answering question 1

Question #1 : How Does Your Product Use Or Challenge Conventions And How Does It Represent Social Groups Or Issues? 

Starting off this question by talking about genre conventions. Media Genres usually appear within a medium. A genre can be recognized by its distinguished features. These conventions include themes, setting, characters, plot lines, narrative structure, mood, props or significant objects. 

I chose to not challenge any genre conventions, for multiple reasons. The top drama films that have ever created usually contain the same idea of plots, shown in many different ways. 

The GodFather (1972) 

One of the best films in the industry of cinema is The Godfather. Mainly about keeping a healthy relationship between him and his wife.  The drama on him over coming obstacles as well as one of the main focus of his relationship. Receiving over 98% rating from one of the toughest critiques out there in the business. Genuinely, what made this such a good film was the fact that it relied on how he was at the main focus which is family. Family in every drama film is the key to a great production. Anything that has to deal with tough relationships between family members, will be set for a great Drama production. 

Roma (2018)

Another great film that revolves around family relationships is ROMA. This film is hands down a film that will always be remembered.  Not really challenging the genre conventions of Drama, Roma primarily focuses again on family relationships and how to over come them. Hence why it received a lot of profit and won many awards. 

Why did I not change the genre Conventions ? 

Drama films mainly revolve around usually relationships. In many of drama films the introduction is  always fulfilled with a depressing back ground story that sets the tone for the film. Or, the sad story comes in usually within the plot. Challenging the conventions was a risk I did not want to take because I wanted to create a typical Drama story that has different plots here and there. Challenging the conventions would have also lead to maybe delivering the message wrongly. Which was a HUGE risk that me and my partner, Ana could not be able to afford to make. We would have rather played it safe with the mood of sadness, the props that contrast the difference between our two characters to really represent the typical Drama conventions. In every Drama film there is always darkness but there is always light some where along the way. Wether it is with the characters or the plot line itself. Since it is a very serious project we decided to have rather get our message across then to mess with drama genre conventions that could have changed the whole tone of the movie. We chose not to challenge theme, mood, characters, and plot lines. We decided changing it would not really give the essence of our film. 

Representation in our production in the INTRODUCTION 

Our introduction of the production, "Love Me" relies heavily on representation. It relies on the typical Drama theme plot, where you have the sweet and innocent little girl filled with brightness and purity getting taken care of your typical mean, alcoholic father who is mourning about his wife's loss. Our little nine year old as character (Avaley) is a typical sweet girl that revolves around the color pink with stuffed animals that are all white.  We even hired our typical representation of a little girl that represents innocence. Typical blond girl with light eyes. We casted a little girl because audiences who view Drama films tend to have a soft side for little girls. As for our other protagonist (Damian) we have a typical representation of an alcoholic dad with tattoos, built up, very muscular with dark hair and dark eyes. Representing the tough side of a tough male. 

The moment you have been waiting for.

INTRODUCTION TO MY CCR 

Now, I know what you are thinking Cambridge, you may be asking why I am doing my CCR so late when this project was suppose to be literally done by this week. As well as this blog post should be talking about me finishing my CCR. I know that this is a very weird and scary time for all of us at the moment, but my partner as well as every other student in the Aice program is doing the bets they can. The whole point of my CCR is to deliver the answers to the questions my teacher has provided with a very creative demonstration. Now, here is my idea on how to conquer the perfect CCR.

Meet TINKER BELL, my assistant who will deliver the most funniest yet cutest CCR

Yes, this is my brilliant idea on how I will deliver the most creative and funny CCR this program has ever seen. While delivering the answer to each question, my assistant Tinker bell will do some fun activities while conveying the message obviously in her tone of voice. I trust that my assistant will do a fine job on this, as well as entertain the viewers. 

WHAT ACTIVITIES WILL SHE DO ? 

I have so many fantastic ideas that will deliver the message perfectly. I will have her getting her nails done, as well as taking in a nice soak in the sun, meditating, getting outfits put on her, as well as many more fun stuff. I will give you an over view on the life of Tinker bell in the most fun yet most spoiled ways a dog can be doing through out the day. I will use a high pitch auto tune to replace my voice and make it more realistic as if my assistant would really be the one talking. Because this not "Beverly Hills of Chihuahua" and dogs do not really talk in real life. I will include funny footage like this. 

While Tinker bell will be doing all these fun activities, she will answer the questions in depth about her amazing owners journey of this stressful yet fun project she was able to do. Even if there was a huge world wide pandemic going on, SHE AND HER PARTNER DID IT!

How and when will I answer the questions 

Tomorrow March 31st blog is where I will start doing a whole blog post about answering the first question. It probably will take up to two blog posts in answering each question. When I answer each question, I will start filming Tinker bell in all her daily dose of activities on how to answer the questions. I should be done doing the research and answering by April 5th. In that way I can film and edit the CCR video all in one day. 

What About Our Love Me introduction ?

We will hopefully have this edited all by tonight and all we would have to do is, put in the font and add the music. We filmed more footage then we needed to, so everything is good. Trust the process and complete it is the goal. Even though we are going through a world wide pandemic. ;)

We are finally done with...FILMING now on to editing

WERE DONE WERE DONE WERE DONE  

Today March 26th, I have completed filming the introduction of the production "Love Me". I know I promised that I would talk about in my next blog about the CCR but things have been way to hectic. Get this, my whole city was on mandatory lock down, but I knew I still needed to film for this project. To complete it in every way possible, I came back to set and finally finished filming everything. Which means that tomorrow March 27th my partner and I will edit our film introduction. AHH this is so exciting to finally talk about. 

Here is a little update that I did when we finally finished filming. 

We are obviously really blessed to have our production to be filmed inside and not outside in these scary times in the world. It is honestly such a blessing and we really admire all the students that are doing this project that have come so far, having to restart the whole thing in less than two weeks left of this long journey. 

WHAT DID WE FINALLY FINISH FILMING ??

We finished filming the very first half of our film because over two weeks ago we filmed the second half. We had a lot of ups and downs because our actors are moving to Texas this week. So we knew no matter what we had to finish our filming as fast as we could. We also knew Corona was NOT going to ruin this for us. 

Enjoy this mood that both my partner and I are currently feeling after finishing filming 

Sunday blues

Dear Corona, I literally despise you right now

We have another set back WOHOO, Im so happy that Corona is literally ruining everything right now. So guess what, the manager of my protagonist is not allowing anyone to come in her house because of the virus. SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN oh right... I could not film AGAIN. Like I said though, thank God that my partner and I discussed on filming extra shots if anything would happen. We have the two minutes and everything, but now it looks like my partner can not have any company over either. So we are going to schedule an appointment on when we can face time to edit our production because that is what it has lead to at this point. 

CCR ??

Yes, I know I promised I would make an update on my decision with my CCR but i really needed to have a blog post about how much CORONA is not only ruining things for me but as well as other students all around the globe. So this week is when I will have my idea on how to answer the questions and do it in a very creative way, that will make you laugh...hopefully 

NO RESPONSE from any of our artists 

In other sad and depressing news, Walt Disney Records as well as Columbia records did not respond to have permission to use their song. What a disappointment if I am being honest. So we have to go with our plan B which our royalty free music. 

WHAT IS LEFT TO DO?

The only thing left is to edit and most important our CCR. WOHO which is literally the most important part of the project but you know. We are going with plan B in a lot of things. One of them is to use the extra footage that we have and use that for our opening film. 

For now please enjoy my Sunday Blues mood 

This virus is ruining everything part 2

Corona Corona CORONA i hate you.

Thank God we over filmed many shots that we did not need, so if anything worst case scenario we have the two minutes that we need to still make this production a great success. 

Wait we have a PLAN B

My partner and I are always prepared with any worst case scenario. So for this reason, when the Corona Virus started to become an issue in the beginning of March my partner and i decided to make the second half of our production so we can have extra footage in case anything does not work out. We decided to make the shots longer and have extra movements we did not have in our storyboard. With the footage we have already we have over three minutes in production. If the rest of the filming is not possible, we can start with the second half which is Avaley Grace waking up and picking up the scrap book. We also have the credits in which will occupy us more time in the introduction believe it or not 

Now that I remember we have a plan B, this is my mood ! 

What about our music 

We have our royalty free music that we found on YouTube that can still give our opening a great feeling that will still make the audience cry. It will be instrumental and the person who composed it said we do not need to ask for permission all we need to do is credit the music in our project which is great !

We have a WORLD WIDE problem

We have a new date, for when we will be filming the rest of our introduction 

So unfortunately, there is a world wide pandemic that is affecting my project. Yes I know there have been a lot of ups and downs during this project. There is a virus going on known as the Coronavirus that is affecting not just my country but the whole word. Which unfortunately, has once again moved our filming date to Sunday March 22nd and if needed we will push it to March 23rd. We will have our full filming done by these dates. 

Our Editing process 

We will have to reunite with Ana on March 24th because of schedule conflicting and because of social distancing. We will have FOR SURE our film introduction finished and edited by March 24th. 

WHAT ABOUT MY CCR 

There are a lot of things being pushed back, so For the CCR I will start having ideas and talk about that on my next blog post. On March 23rd. 

But for now enjoy this funny mood from actor that I am currently feeling right now!!

We had a meeting with my teacher online and it made me feel much better 

My Aice Media Studies teacher gave us many updates on the whole situation with the project and she gave us new ideas in order to fix any of them if we needed to. Luckily, we are half way through our production and we already have our font, half of our filming done, our script, story board. The only thing we need to have a whole week to develop is my CCR and the music that we will have as our back up.

ALMOST DONE FILMING .. and we have bloopers

WE FILMED WE FILMED WE FILMED 

We are almost done filming,  Today we filmed all the parts with Damian, and they came out insanely good. Im talking about these actors can literally go to hollywood and get hired. The filming of the production today was the second half of our introduction. We also have some very funny bloopers that I will insert here. Just for a quick recap Damian in the second half is screaming at Avaley and the relationship between the father and daughter relationship. 

Here is our finished scrap book 

The pictures match the script perfectly and the idea because it shows the lovely couple being in love while being pregnant with Avaley. Which has the emotional touch that we are going for in this film. 

FUTURE PLANS??

This Wednesday March 18th , my amazing partner Ana and I will meet to end the production with full editing with our fonts and credits. Then that same day we will plan our CCR and help each other out if needed. Tuesday March 17th We will end filming and finish "Love Me" intro. 

We got our font, and the rest of our script.. WERE UN STOP ABLE

Here is the rest of our script

So since yesterdays topic was about our target audience, I completely forgot to put the rest of our script on my blog. Damian is screaming at poor little Avaley telling her to get ready for school. Avaley than gets ready for school in fear of her father yelling at her again.  The  rest of the script is Damian going up the stairs and finding the scrapbook hidden in Avaleys room. 

So

Font Font Font... We have our idea  

We have the idea for our font and it is actually perfect for our story plot line. When we are going through the credits, we are going to introduce two different fonts with two different colors. So to grasp the idea of Avaley, we are going to get a pretty girl font with the color pink. For other credits we will but a black bold font to represent Damian. To foreshadow the difference between both of our characters. 

I cant believe I forgot to talk about our....TARGET AUDIENCE

Our Age Range 

Our age range is between the ages from thirteen to twenty five. We wanted to make it this way because in our film we will have some explicit language that we do not want our younger audience in the industry to be exposed to. We started it from thirteen because that is when usually kids start to be more aware of their surroundings and can handle things like death, cussing and other events a little more seriously. We stopped at the age of twenty five because we notice that in drama films over the years, older audiences from the age thirty and up tend to lean to other different types of genres. We want to expose to our pre mature and mature audience to our film that shows the relationship between the father and the daughter. In the age range we chose, the audience is still attached to their parents as they are starting to grow up and experience the world by themselves. As in the older audience knows how to live on their own, and do not  rely on the connection they have with their parents as much. 

Soo.. Female or Male ?

We are actually leaning more into female then male obviously. The reason why is because since, the relationship is between a father and a daughter, a male can not really relate to the film. We also are leaning into more female because, females tend to watch a lot of drama films more then males do. In a recent study it has been seen that over eighty nine percent of females watch drama more than any other genre. While over ninety percent of males watch action. The female target audience will have a more connection to the movie because the relationships between a father and daughter, is way different from the relationship between a father and a son. 

How did we pick our target audience ?

Picking our target audience was not an easy task, I can tell you that. In order to pick our target audience, Ana and I really had to dig deep and have the whole production figured out, with the purpose to chose the right target audience. Since our movie has a deep ending with a positive outcome we decided to start our age range young. Then when we decided to put more emphasis and add cussing, and talks about death, with aggression and abusiveness involved we decided to make it PG13. We want to expose our younger audience to what some families have to go through, but with a positive outcome. We decided on ending it at the age of twenty five because of the reasoning that the older audience will not be intrigues as much. 

Okay now we are OFFICALLY on track

The Story Board is Complete 

We now have the official story board of "Love Me". Filled with the introduction of our character Avaley Grace, the mis-en-scene of the contrast between how clean and pure Avaley. Versus her father which is a complete wreck after the death of his wife, Scarlet. We added new clips of her doing activities but constantly having a hold of the scrap book. At the very end before she gets ready for school, she will open the scrap book and the audience will see why it is so important to her . 

Here is a sneak peak of our script with the FULL STORY for our opening film !!

Our script has now have been made with some official changes. We are deciding to put one last thing, but this is everything we have for now. Our story has multiple changes now. Yes, I know we literally change it every week. I promise this is the last time.  Anyways, our story will begin with Avaley waking up from her bed going to her scrap book. The transitioning from the bed to different scenarios obviously with different costume changes, doing new activities, but always having the scrapbook with her but it will be closed. Then, the last transition is her waking up, finally opening up the scrapbook, so the audience can see the connection on what is inside. Showing all the pictures of the mother (Scarlet) and the dad (Damian.) At the end Damian will scream Avaley's name and she will hurry down stairs, there will be dialogue , Avaley will go upstairs and get ready then leave for school. Last, Damian will go upstairs find teh scrapbook that Avaley has been hiding and end it right then and there. That is the part my partner and I will add tonight and post it for tomorrows blog on March 11th. 

Oh, by the way were changing it back to Damian! 

After further consideration, Ana and I have decided that Damian really shows a much more tough and aggressive personality than Jacob does. Damian sounds more intimidating and grabs the look much better of our father image that we want to portray. SOOO, please ladies and gentlemen welcome back Damian to the squad. 

I am going to cry... for MANY reasons

We started filming 

This weekend from March 6th - 8th we started filming our production "Love Me" Even though this is our rough draft we started getting some clips and tomorrow March 9th,  we will start editing and seeing what looks good and what does not. We decided to get an introduction clip of Avaley, but we will not spoil to much, because we do not want to give it away yet. 

 These shots were captured in order to really get the moment of introducing our young character including all the mis-en-scene of how Avaley truly is. My partner and I are still talking it over if we want to leave this here, or have something else for the introduction to introduce our credits. We are not done filming this is just the beginning.

The script is done!! 

The script is obviously finished since we started filming this weekend, but like I said we are not done filming. We are filming shots here and there to have enough footage to capture the essence of our film. We will post a picture of the scrip this week!! Stay tuned 

Kind of have our scenario figured out...

Inspirations from " Instructions Not Included" 

With a lot of consideration and different variety of options, we decided to stick with the movie that will full fill our greatest result ever, "Instructions Not Included." There are multiple scenes that we really liked how he had to manage everything without a mother involved, to build up the relationship between the daughter and the father. We liked scenes like this from the movie. 

We decided to chose this scene because it is a very emotional part where the father is finally knowing how to take care of her with full trust and everything. It is a very touching moment between the two. Our scenario will most likely have to be something with getting her ready for school, and the dad having to do her hair, but he has no idea how to because the mother is longer around. 

What about our song ?

It is March 7th, and we still have not gotten any responses from  our artists yet but we are not losing hope. Worst case scenario, we will use free cf copy right instrumental music in order to still make our movie a great success. 

New picture equals New Prop 

We have conquered a new prop that we will use in our film opening that will foreshadow the event that the mother is no longer here with us. 

This prop is very important because it shows a sentimental demonstration between the mother and father, and will make our audience curious what happened to the mother without actually telling them directly. 

New new new Key moments

New Character Names?

I really have decided that I have also want to change the characters name of my film. I will stick with Avaley and Scarlet. I have decided to change the fathers name because, with a lot of research from other films. Damian usually gives off a type of feeling of hate, aggression, and being pretty tough. I have decided to change my characters name to Jacob. As it gives a sense of giving a father type of tone, but as well as masculine with a side of sensitivity. Jacob will represent a strict father who at the end of the day loves his daughter no matter what. 

Emailing a new artist ? 

With further consideration, we have decided to email a new artist just to have our back up in case Butterfly fly Away does not work. The song we have chose is "Daughters" written by John Mayer. Giving off the same message and concept as Butterfly Fly away. Representing the relationship between the two.  We have emailed today Columbia Records as they own the song, asking for permission in order to use in our film in order to have the perfect back up. 

New new props 

My partner and I today decided to have a photo shoot to introduce even more the character to have these laying around the set to really convey and introduce the character even more. 

We will include these in the very beginning in our opening credits to give off the vibe of introducing the character, show some things about her. As well as we are going to find out some pictures and some things that relate to the father in order to establish that the main character is not only just Avaley but as well as Jacob 

So what about our script?

We will be finishing our scrip this week along with our story board in order to start filming this weekend March 6th-8th

ugh this group meeting was MUCH NEEDED

Group Meetings 

So today March 3rd, my teacher had assigned us group meetings that REALLY REALLY helped. I mean really helped. In my group we discussed about my plot line and how creative and dramatic it is. They told me to change some things that I was thinking, but would end up way to cliche. My peers told me to focus a lot more on the relationship between the daughter and the father, as well as to not spoil that the mom died, but instead foreshadow it. To begin in my opening film they told me to have a typical scenario of the little girl (Avaley) getting ready for school, and the father not really knowing what to do because the mother is no longer in the picture. They also told me to change the idea of the father hating on Avaley completely because that is not realistic. Instead to show the father is tough on her, all for the right reasons. My group told me to have a look at a couple examples to get an idea on how to introduce my plot in a more subtle way. 

These are the two examples my peers told me to have a good at, in order to reveal my story plot line!💋👉👈












My group also talked to me about how they really liked my mis-en-scene that I am using, how every little detail represents something. Like the colors I chose and the lamb, to represent that innocence my character carries. They also told me how they like the song I chose for my film opening as it foreshadows how the ending will be, about a little girl only having her father around, and him learning how to take care of her.

😅 Over All..AKA what I am going to fix

I am going to find a well fitted scenario that describes how both the father and daughter are struggling, and have to figure how to keep moving forward without the mother. I will also intend to fix the idea of the audience knowing automatically that the mother died. I will give hints so my target audience is intrigued. 

I maybe have changed the story plot line just a tiny tiny bit

CHANGE OF PLANS 

With a lot of consideration and thinking, I have decided to change the story plot line. The story of the plot line before was that our main character Avaley does not have her mother because she died due to birth complications. Well that is all about to change. We have narrowed it down to Scarlet Avaley's mother dying because of a car accident picking up Avaley from ballet practice. We will also no longer use the scrap book, as a prop because it is way to cheesy. 

February 29th progress

Yesterday, was our first photo shoot for the production of "Love Me" with our amazing actors, Nyah Rose and Tyler Miaer. Both established very good pictures that will make you cry. We have dressed Nyah (Avaley) as a young innocent nine year old representing purity and sweetness by wearing the color pink with a tiny bow. 

the lamb stuffed animal 

The stuffed animal our character Avaely will be holding is significant because it is the last thing she received from her mother before passing away. In the picture below you will see how important the lamb is to Avaley 

NEW NEW NEW PROPS 

We have chose new props instead of the idea of a night stand with a piggy bank, we have chosen new things that will really represent our character. We chose a bible verse portrait to show our character being a literal angel that is considered the perfect child. As well as an arts and craft portrait that she made in school on what her mom looks like in her mind. 

So when will our script be finished ? 

We intend to finish our script by March 1- 5th in order to get production started by March 6th-8th.