Project planning

 

Planning and I... arent the best friends. Many times setting deadlines change how the creative proccess goes, but is somenthing that I have gotten a lot more used to. I'm a person who at the moment of writting, usually takes his sweet time making sure every aspect of the story flows well on their head, before writting, and this can affect things. If maybe they look a little different on paper, wwell you have to start change stuff. But also if you just start writting like a mad man, well... that first draft will be way worse. This is somenthing that lowkey applies to every stage of production. 

So with that in mind after planning during Wednesday, we have decided to use a 2 - 2 - 2. Two weeks to write, two weeks to shot, and the rest for postproduction. This talks a lot of the main product being the shortfilm. But the social media campaign and the other marketing properties are included here. This will give us our sweet time to dont rush anything, and if we finish faster, well is extra time we get to use on improving the next stage, or more time for the marketing aspect of the project. 

The distribution of tasks will also be crucial. Having a good comunication so as the story takes a route so does the marketing will save us a lot of time in preproduction. 

We will use this few days before the 26, day that all our teammembers and I have a fieldtrip to STN, to plan a clear route for the story. So once we come back we can lock in, in working from it. 

I will like to give my all during planning so once we start doing the project, I wont feel that we could've made it better. Sinse we are giving our best. 

Project Introduction

This was a nobrainer for me. Even though it was amazing to make a doc for this class, and the trailer and music video were tons of fun as well, allowing me to explore different types of projects that I usually dont persue on my own. Allowing me to grow different aspects of my storytelling skills. In the doc, I got to structure interviews in order to compell an overall idea, which was hard (since I'm not used to news) but rewarding work. In the trailer I got to do a lot of the cinematography, work Im usually not incharged of. 

But on a full short film I'll get a lot more of possibilities. And I  just think everytime there is an excuse to make a film with a team, is an opportunity that I like to take. I'll be also working with friends that I've already worked, and despite Stoklosa saying that somentimes working with other people with strong ideas is hard (it is) we know how to make it work. 

It is also important to highlight that the project for AS level was just a film opening, so I still have that desire of making a complete production for this class. 

Talking with my group on wednesday we all agreed on making a shortfilm and after doing some basic squedules during wednesday's class, we decided to think of our plot and other aspects of the story later on, so we didn't rush them. 

After talking a little bit later on we decided some elements that could carry some aspects of the narrative, without still defining a clear plot. So one of our friends has a ridiculous obsession with Fleabag, a show were the fourth wall is broken in very creative ways. He really really likes this show, so he really wants to make somenthing like this. 

As a very characteristic and unique element of the show, we didn't want it to be too similar. It is an element that persoanally I haven't seen a lot of people do, mainly because of course it breaks conventions of cinema being experienced in third person, but it's okay to experimentate around it. We set some limits on how to give it our own approach, involving other elements, like music, camera movents, and more. And we will see how they fall into place, with our plot.  

Im excited.