Creating My Website

 Hey guys we finally started opening our social media accounts. We also created our website. In order to create our website we used

wix.com

. It's basically a website that allows you to create and personalize your own website. We had to create social media accounts to link to our websites. We now have a Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube account for our movie. Oh by the way we decided to title our movie "Who did it?". On the website we were required to put different information about the film. For example, its release date. When you first open our website you will see the movie title. Below that the directors names are stated as well as the movies release date. The release date is set to be

on 1/11/2021

. That's approximately 2 months from now guys. We're so ready to start filming! Furthermore, you will see what our movie is about and also some critic remarks. Some of the remarks say things such as "the movie held my attention the whole time". On our website you'll also be able to find links that lead to all of our social media accounts. We will use these accounts to keep people updated on the movie until it is released. We decided to have our film premier at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. On our website we needed to include pictures of the cast and crew. We used our school ID photos for this. This is basically most of the things that we incorporated into our website when creating it.

Storyboard

 Hey guys, we finally started to draw our storyboard. I can definitely say it's been fun but the drawing has been kind of difficult. We drew our storyboard according to the order of events in our script. The first three boxes show Stephanie making her way home from work. In the first scene she is in the car speaking to her friend Briana. Once we make it to the second box it shows Stephanie making it home and walking into her home. The following boxes show Stephanie walking into her home and heading upstairs. In the fourth box on the storyboard that's when Stephanie starts to hear the phone ring. Throughout the next few boxes Stephanie will be very cautious and paranoid because of the suspicious phone calls. In box 5 Stephanie answers the phone and holds a short conversation that will leave her in a state of confusion. In box 6 Stephanie grabs a knife. Even though she does this she is completely unaware of the killer being inside of her bathroom. In the next box the phone will ring again and Stephanie answers it. Except this time the killer is standing right behind her. The next few boxes are the action scenes. After realizing that someone is trying to kill her Stephanie fights back. As seen in the boxes she kicks the killer down the stairs and goes to hide. Even though Stephanie is hidden the killer finds her and murders her. In the boxes after that scene you will see the killer calling Briana to notify her that Stephanie is dead. After this scene the next scene shows Briana coming to Stephanie's home trying to make it seem like all of this is news to her. In the next boxes the police arrive and conversation  with Briana. After this the flash backs from earlier that week will begin to happen.

Planning Blog

 Hey guys we're so close to getting ready to film. But before we an do that we have to plan. We decided to start planning by coming up with a filming and editing schedule. Due to the current circumstances that we're under because of covid 19 our filming process is going to be slightly different. We will both be filming different scenes from our own homes every other day of the week (Mon, Wed, Fri). We haven't decided who will get what scenes yet but we will figure that out sometime soon. After we gather all of the footage from those three days we will work together to put the footage together and edit it. There will be two filming locations throughout the whole movie, my house and Jasmines house. During the movie different parts of the homes will be used for different things. For example, my bathroom will be used as to portray the crime scene. There will be several participants. We will be in the film as well as our family members and some friends that we've reached out to. In our film a knife will be used as a weapon which will fall into the health and safety category. The knife will be real but there will be adult supervision the whole time. Some props that we plan on using are knives, guns, and a face mask. These props will most likely only be used during the beginning of the movie when Stephanie (the victim) is murdered. There will multiple costumes featured in the movie. One will be a police uniform. Another costume will be the killers outfit. The killer will be dressed in all black with a scary mask as a disguise. Other costumes that will be featured will be casual clothing that the suspects will be wearing. We're so ready to start filming!!!

Short Film v. Length Film

So now Ive watched the short film “9”, and the film feature film “9”. I can honestly say I like one better than the other. Could you guess which one? Well, in the short film and the feature film the main character nine was amazing. But in the feature film, we got more a feel of “9”. We actually heard him talking to feature film, unlike in the short film. I actually got to watch his character develop in The feature film. While in the short film I did not, since The plot happened so quickly. One thing I liked about the short film, was in fact it’s length. The feature film “9” was lengthy. The short story, left out lots of details that were included in the feature film. For example, the findings of two, and the many conflicts they faced in between the resolution. I enjoyed the feature film better. I think it’s because I, like when stories are explained. I don’t know if this makes sense, but I feel like the feature film explained the pitch better than short film did. I think the short film was phenomenal as well, but it wasn’t as informing or interesting as the feature film. The short film was kind of a bore, mostly because of the no talking. I couldn’t really engage with the film like I did with the feature film. Feature film was, a great catch. I would really recommend these two movies to anyone.

Research 9 Feature film

 Today I also watched the feature film 9 on netflix. I’d watched this movie before when I was younger. Although, I didn’t remember the plot. When the movie first started, I wasn’t really interested. But as 9 began to seem adventurous, and tried to help his friends I found the plot interesting. I really liked this movie. 9 at first seemed like he’d do anything he was told. But as the movie progressed, his character changed. He became in my eyes the leader of all the others, even though he was the youngest. 9 lead the others to help save them selves and their friends from the technology monsters. The plot of the movie seemed well thought out. The conflict, and 9’s resolution to the conflict in the story was a great touch.! The characters in the film actually spoke, it was a great touch!  We saw as they developed through out the film. They all seemed scared at first, to go out and observe the monster machines, but 9 eventually persuaded them to.  Special effects in this movie were, ordinary things I seen regular animated movies. Some aspects in the film seems as though they were actual, they seemed real life.  In all, I enjoyed watching this movie for the second time. The characters were interesting, the plot of the film kept me interested, and the edits weren’t corny. “9” was a great film I really suggest it!!

Research 9: The short

Today I watched a short film “9” by Shan Acker. I can honestly say it’s not at all how I expected it to be. I expect a reply to be a little similar to the movie. And I thought the short film would be like the movie, just summed up. As the short film started I thought my audio on my computer was messed up.Eventually I realize the short film had no sound. I can say this is one aspect I did not like.Right away in a short film I recognize 9. The depiction of him was much simplified than in the full movie. 9 is simply a ragdoll that’s adventurous and wants to know more. It was kind of hard to tell what was going on without any audio, but I think I got the idea. Short film seemed incomplete. It seemed like it could have been a pitch for a real movie. Which in fact it was but that’s not the the point. The setting of the dark and eerie feel, kind of like a horror movie but not completely. I feel as the special effects featured in the short film, could have been a little better. Towards the end I seen 9 near a green site, kind of like something that glowed. And I feel like the director could have added more effects, so that the part was interesting. All I enjoyed the short film. Maybe not as much as the movie, but it was still a great thing for me to

Genre choice for film

 My partner and I had three genre options to choose for our short film. The three genres were crime, thriller, and drama. While discussing which one we wanted to pick we decided not to do drama. We didn't want to do drama because it didn't really focus on our pitch. After talking to my partner for some time we were stuck between picking  thriller or crime to be the genre that represents our short film. We both agreed that the genres had many similarities that could be used. After discussing it the genre that we choose to go with was crime. We choose this specific genre because our pitch is mainly about a crime being committed. Due to the fact that the genres are so similar we thought it would be a great idea to go with crime because with the crime genre we'll be able to include the features of a thriller movie on our film. For example, we expect our film to give off a suspenseful mood to the audience. We also expect it to keep the viewers  excited and keep their anticipation level extremely high throughout the entire film. While researching we found that a sub genre of the crime genre is a "legal thriller". We were inspired to choose the crime genre out of all three options because we realized that that would be the genre that would best be portrayed in our film. Our pitch was "A lady supposedly goes on vacation and when her house is broken into her body is found floating in the pool". At the time we thought the pool would be the best place for the lady to be found. Now we realized we most likely will have to change that part of our pitch. Neither of us have access to a pool right now. Since we don't have access to a pool we decided to say that the womans lifeless body will be found in a bathtub. This is not a big tweak so it shouldn't affect our pitch too much. If we are able to gain access to a pool when it comes time to film we'll make sure to keep a note of that.