Where have I been?

Hello there blog. It's been a little while. For the past 6 days, I have been fortunate enough to go to Long Beach California and compete at a national level competition called Student Televison Network. STN is a hub for an abundant of competitions suited to students and schools from all over the country. The competition that I along with over 20 other students competed in, is Crazy 8 News Magazine.

For crazy 8 news magazine, our team had 8 hours to write, edit, film, and produce an 8-minute show consisting of 3 news segments, a public service announcement, and anchor tosses. We placed third in the country with our finished product.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rWh-ib9cILHgb7XtH4BuLEWcSvV68qSF/view?usp=sharing

This competition has also taught me things that are important to use for projects, especially my film opening. Learning how to create a very detailed package in only 8 hours just shows the time management you need to have in order to be successful.

Genre Research

While meeting with Mrs. Stocklosa , she recommended that I watch the movie, "The Hate U Give".

This movie is a 2018 coming of age drama directed by George Tillman Jr. After doing research upon how this movie can help provide us with information how to improve "Trey's split", this is what I found.

"The Hate U Give" offers a sad narrative that intersects with themes commonly found in coming-of-age films centered around black youth. "The Hate U Give" focuses on the protagonist, Starr Carter, as she navigates her identity through her predominantly black neighborhood and her predominantly white prep school. This is very similar to the life of Trey that we are trying to portray in our opening.

"The Hate U Give" effectively portrays the coming-of-age experience through the lens of a black teenager, addressing issues of identity, social justice, and personal growth.

Storyboard

Above is the completed story board! Noa and I wanted to make it very detailed that way it would be easier for us in the filming process. Noa and I aren't the best artists lol but we tried our best. The shots drawn of character Trey biking; I am going to attempt to film this shot in the trunk. We would have someone drive and I would sit in the trunk and get a front shot of Noa riding his bike as the car slowly moves forward. 

Also, it does not specify in the storyboard, but we are going to try and get creative with how the shots are filmed. Including rack focuses, peculiar angles, all that jazz. 

Props for "Trey's Split"

 Hey Blog. We have made an amazon purchase!   The main character has a scene where he speaks about how he has been called many names in his life.  Below is an excerpt from the script 

 Name’s Trey. Or Carlton. Or Token Black Guy. Or whatever condescending name you feel like callin’ me.

NAME TAGS WITH TREY’S VARIOUS NAMES ON THEM PILE ON EACH OTHER AS HE LISTS THEM OUT.

             We Purchased NAMETAGS

These nametags fit right in with the comic book look and feel that Noa and I are trying to give this opening. These flashy name tags were $8 and they come in a pack of 200 but realistically, Noa and I will probably only wind up using 10 maximum.

We are going to write names on the nametags and the nametags are going to pile on top of one another as trey says them.

Group Meeting

 Hi Blog . Happy March :) Yesterday, in class, took place the group meetings . The group meeting went very well for me and I can't wait share the information with you all.

                GROUP MEETING

 I really liked the idea of having group meetings with other people in the class as a way to get insight on how other people are doing and its always good to have other minds suggesting opinions. I was able to provide Hellio and Victoria with tips and useful ideas that they seemed to like. 

I mentioned to the group that Noa and I's project had been going well. But that we needed help on one thing. Where should the title go?

Ever since Noa and I saw the sample of a kid riding his bike in downtown Miami with the text trailing behind, w knew we wanted to do something similar . But we weren't sure . So in the group meeting , I asked.

Victoria suggested that Noa and I could do something like Ferris Buellers day off . The title shows up in the very beginning and then the credits are displayed throughout the rest of the opening . Since I explained that my opening was going to be very personal along with V.O, Hellio suggested that the opening could end the same way the opening to Ferris Buellers opening ends. With Ferris breaking the fourth wall and staring at the screen.

That's all for this blog. I genuinely think that this group meeting helped and I would not mind having another one.