What happened over break blog

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          The break wasn't very eventful when it comes to what I did for this class. I did the website, social media, and I found music. That's about all, though. I hoped that I was going to film last weekend or this past weekend. I didn't. I think I had said this in one of the previous blogs, but I have to wait until me, my brother, and my mother are all home and motivated to film. The weekend before the break my brother had basketball games all day both Saturday and Sunday and my mother went with him. Because my brother plays the main character, I couldn't film without him. I can't film anything without him because I play no on-screen part in my film. I've said this before, hopefully, I get the chance to film this weekend. I feel bad for putting it off. Not every time was my fault that it didn't happen, but still. I said on my website it was premiering December 20th or some ridiculous day like that. I might be able to change it, but I'm probably not going to. It'll be cool to see if I can get my unmotivated self to get up and do something before the deadline. For what I did instead of filming, that's pretty easy to tell. I didn't really do anything. I talked to family over the phone and I spent Thanksgiving with my immediate family. I've been extremely tired for like 2 weeks straight its very unfortunate but oh well. Oh, another thing I did over break was going to the doctor after almost 3 years of not going. I was told that I have mild scoliosis and for some reason, I thought that that was hilarious. 

Music Blog

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          Here's my music journey, I guess. So Friday I think it was, I scoured the internet in search of a song to go into my film. It took way longer than I had anticipated. Many factors made it take longer, like me getting sidetracked, me not being able to find one that fits, etc. I've decided that I wanted a kind of eerie or fast-paced audio to go with it, I thought it would be fitting. But then again, I won't know if it's fitting until I actually film the film. Like you know when you play among us and you're the imposter? That sound effect is what I thought of when I was looking for songs. I searched for keywords, like action movie music, thriller movie music, etc. I try my best to look for music that isn't copyrighted and such. As not okay as this sounds, I would rather not email some famous person and have to wait months for a response. I get that in that case you could just find another song, but still. Anyways. I found one on youtube, it was from someone named ESN Productions, the song is 9 minutes long and I saw it as fitting. I'll take a screenshot of the comment they made and I'll put it as the media for this blog post. I haven't done it yet, but even though they said that I wouldn't need permission, I'll probably ask anyway, even if it's not needed for the class or something. So far this is the only thing I've gone with. I might use the one from last year's project, but I don't know. There's a chance that I'll go with another song when the filming and such is over with. Right now I'm just picturing the storyboard with the song over it. It's 9 minutes, which is pretty short considering a lot of the videos under the search "eerie ambiance" are a horrid amount of time, like 10 hours. How can people sit through that? I have no idea. 

Marketing Blog

 
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          This is going to be about my journey with making the websites and the social media accounts, woohoo. Anyways. I had made all the accounts under the same name, except for Facebook. I came up with a fake name because I didn't feel comfortable using my real one. Honestly, Facebook was the only account that I dreaded making. One of the conditions of me making the account was that my mom would be friends with me. That's weird, especially because I'd rather not have to look at passive-aggressive political stuff while trying to post stuff for school. I get that that kind of stuff can be important but still. That's beside the point, though. I made the rest of the accounts and it went well, then came the making of the website. That entire process was a disaster, let me tell you. I found my format off of an examples page, it was originally for another film, whatever. I changed stuff in it to make it more about my film and such. The first time I did it, I had gone onto another tab and went to upload a picture, sometimes when I open the folders from google (like to submit a file or something) my google will crash and close itself. You can imagine how I felt, at that time at least an hour and a half had been wasted. Then I started again, and now I have what I have now. It's not pretty, I haven't checked my grades in a bit but I'm certain that it was one of the 0's. I had finished it before the announcement of the extension was posted, and then the next two days I was swamped with work, it was very unfortunate but oh well. It's a work in progress 100% but I'll finish it or get to the point I need to be within the next few days probably. I ran into a bunch of other issues with the website, too. For example, I couldn't navigate it for the life of me, all the buttons overwhelmed me because I was too far into the making of it that I was scared that a single button push would ruin the entire thing for me. So I wasn't very adventurous, but it's all good. 

Storyboard

 

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          I apologize in advance for my horrid work, I can't draw very well. But overall, you might be able to get the idea. I planned on filming this weekend, but I didn't. I ended up getting swamped with work and that's what I did. I also had some family spend the weekend with us, which was cool. If I'm going to be completely honest, this is one of the hardest assignments I've done. I had zero motivation to do it and it took forever. But I did finish it, so that's cool. I'll tell you about my storyboard process. Here's how it went: at about 9:30 pm on Saturday, It was a full day of spending time with family that I didn't get to bail out of. Since it was a weekend, I got to stay up late and do whatever I needed to do. With time and no motivation, I stayed up until about 3:00 am doing it, I said I wasn't going to sleep until it was finished. I did about half of it while listening to an aggressive piano playlist. I did that and then finished the rest over the course of Sunday. It's currently 8:55 pm, It's cool I got it done when I did because I have other school things to do. That's less cool, but still. It's a stretch, But I might actually film next weekend, or just over Thanksgiving break. I just have to find a time that, my brother, my mother and I are all motivated and in a good mood to work together. I'd say the filming will take at least 2 days, and that's because I have day, night, and morning scenes that I need to shoot. It's all going to be alright. 

Planning blog

 

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          This is my planning blog, I'm going to be discussing the schedule, location, participants, health and safety, props, and costumes. 

          I'm going to have a similar structure as the final project for last year, but not really. I won't be having many participants, I'm going to have my mother play the woman in the grey shirt and I'm going to make my twin brother play the main and the unknown person. I realized that I never gave a name to the main character, I just called them main. The characters name is going to be Lenny and he goes by he/him.  We are going to be filming at my house, I'll provide a picture of it in the end. There won't be many props, but we'll make arrangements. I know for a fact a computer, grocery bags, bedding, mail, and a marker will be there for sure. For costumes, they're not going to be over the top or anything. They're just going to be plain clothes. For Lenny, he'll just wear something simple, casual wear if you will. Unknown will just be wearing dark clothes, and the woman in the grey shirt will be wearing a grey shirt. For scheduling, that's complicated as of right now. I plan to at least try to film this weekend, but I don't know if it'll happen or not. However, it's probably not going to be as chaotic as when I worked with someone I didn't live with. We just have to find a time where we're both motivated and it'll go smoothly. For health and safety, there's not really that much we can do. I'm going to clean up so there's a guarantee that no one trips. Also in the scene where the camera is showing Lennys face on the other side of the glass, I'm going to see if i can put the safety baby gate thing up so no one falls into the pool. 

It's going to be a good time, we're going to be productive and have fun doing it. 

Feature film vs. Short film

 

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          This is a comparison of the feature film to the short film. 

           Overall, both were very appealing to me. I loved the animation quality of both. The short film was a little more confusing than the actual film. That's reasonable because they could only fit so much into 7 minutes, y'know? Watching the actual feature film cleared up the misunderstanding I had in the short film. That's really cool. The feature film was definitely more "violent" than the short film. I put violent in quotation marks because I wouldn't classify it as violent. Obviously, they're different when it comes to animation. The movie 9 had almost 50 million in budget money, the short film probably didn't. The location and whoever helped animate it also played a role in that. Both were amazing in their own respective ways. The storyline? That was immaculate. The animations? That was amazing. I find it really cool when animators can give the characters that emotion. The looks on their faces when something bad has happened, it's incredible. For example, when 5 died in the film, you could see the grief in 9's face. Same with when whoever that was, died in the short film. Or when anyone died, you can see the emotions in the character's faces when it happens. I also thought adding the fact that the characters are all part of the scientist's soul was a really cool touch. That's such a rad idea. 

9: The full film.

 

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          I'm just getting ready to watch the 9 film. I was impressed with the short film, so I have high hopes for the full film. I'm about 10 minutes in, I don't understand why that one character is drawing all the symbols. But, I guess that's something I'll find out. It's cool that 9 is able to speak now. I'm at the 25-minute mark and, wow. It's really nice that 9 went back to save 2, and that they convinced 5 (I think it's 5, I might be wrong.) to come with them. It's been one minute and wow 9 killed 2 after saving them, what a bummer. 9 really said "I'm sorry" like he didn't just carelessly take the life of 2,, shameful. At the 36-minute mark, 9 is really out here calling out 1, what an icon. 4 minutes later, wow what a scene. That fight scene was so rad. Why is 1 so mean, everything that comes out of their mouth is so uncalled for. 53-minutes in, for the robots being extremely smart, they've fallen for the fake-cloth person a bunch of times. 56-minutes in, That was funny, just as you thought everything was going to be okay, they hit you with the big bad machine. It's really sad how 5 had to die, that's so sad. An hour in, that's so strange why did 9 touch the dead guy's face? I got to the end, and let me tell you,, The end was rough I almost cried. I thought they were going to go back to living and it'll all be okay, but no. 

          I found the ending really sad, but the entire thing was so good. I really liked the idea of the film, and I really like how they played the entire thing out. The animation was really good for 2009, better than the animation in the actual short film. I was not disappointed at all, I had high hopes and those high hopes were satisfied. I liked the story, and the animation, all the components are *chefs kiss*.