THE SCRIPT 😪

CALL SCENE

Sabrina is anxious waiting upon a phone call from Ellie

INT. SABRINAS ROOM- DAYTIME

    main character is sitting in her room, her legs are shaking, tapping her pencil on the table, pretending to read a book but staring at her phone.

            SABRINA

          ughhh

The phone rings...

     SABRINA

    OH MY GOD

(Sabrina drops what she is holding and picks up the one)

INT. ELLIES ROOM- DAYTIME

     ELLIE

    he-

INT. SABRINAS ROOM- DAYTIME

   SABRINA

    (yelling) Did you get it please tell me you got it

INT. ELLIES ROOM- DAYTIME

    ELLIE

    I did I did chill

INT. SABRINAS ROOM- DAYTIME

       SABRINA

    come over now.

INT. ELLIES ROOM- DAYTIME

       ELLIE

    alrightt alrightt

                

INT. SABRINAS ROOM- DAYTIME

   SABRINA

    Byeeee

Music fades in...

Movie title in bold letters

Sabrina hangs up the one and squeals

Sabrina is grabbing a poster

INT. ELLIES ROOM- DAYTIME

Ellie races off to her garage while holding a piece of paper

INT. SABRINAS ROOM- DAYTIME

Sabrina grabs a poster from her closet

INT. GARAGE ELLIE ROOM

Ellie grabs her bicycle and races off

INT. SABRINAS ROOM- DAYTIME

grabbing other supplies

EXT. STREET

Ellie is riding in her bicycle to Sabrinas house

INT. SABRINAS ROOM- DAYTIME

    Sabrina is on the floor doing things and Ellie barges in.

     SABRINA

` Finally you took forever!

       ELLIE

    Girl I took only a minute to get here!

           SABRINA

    Whatever do you have the paper!

    ELLIE

    Of course!

        (Eliie and Sabrina both get super excited and they have a poster and its super cute and it about the boys interest and hobbies )

    

      ELLIE

    this is perfect!

      SABRINA

    Yes it's finally done!

    ELLIE

        (concerned)

    wait.... but i feel like, no never mind.

     SABRINA

    Whattt no girl tell me you know i hate when you say that.

    ELLIE

    okay okay dont make it werid tho

   SABRINA

    I wontttt promise

       ELLIE

        (talking fast)

    what happens if tristan ends up picking one of us, like i wanna support you but i also like him but i would also never but anyone in between our friendship you know what i mean like im js scared of lossing you like idkk like i dont mean to make things weird but-

      SABRINA

        (cutting ellies rant)

    No I get it, but I dont think we should be worrying about that, like thing about it hes js a crush theres no guaranteed hes gonna like one of us and we both would support it

Ellie shrugs and has a hessitant look

  SABRINA

    girll dont worry here

Sabrina gets up from the floor grabs a piece of paper and starts writing

     ELLIE

    what are you doing

       SABRINNA

    Shush!

 ELLIE

    okay jeez

Ellie finishes and goes back down holding a paper

  SABRINA

    Here lets make a pact i've written it all here in the contract

      ELLIE

        (she reads out loud)

    In the event of any conflicts or disagreements related to a tristan and who ends up with him, weENDE will address them promptly and maturely, seeking to find a resolution that preserves the harmony of our friendship. We will never let him come between us because we are besties for life. girl this is crazy

   SABRINA

    no its not sign here

Ellie signs the paper

Sabrina grabs it and signs it aswell

    SABRINA

    See now you have nothing to worry about

      ELLIE

    I guess you werido

      SABRINA

    or maybe you do... its whoever gets to him first

         ELLIE

        ( yells)

       Sabrina!

                END

This was the most hardest thing ever, it was also mentally exhausting. Glad to finish. (The format got mess up because I copy n paste it.) Here the document with the actually format Script

Group meeting!!

 Hello! Today we had a group meeting in class and I got to hear a lot of interesting film openings from other groups and also got some help from the other people which was really helpful! Even though I didn't have a script at all and I was stressing like crazy soooo I'm making it tomorrow. everyone help each other out giving out advice to make it better, or to fix some things that didn't sound right.

So In my group I couldn't really explain my story because it was still being made and me and my partner was stuck on what do for coming of age. Although I got to hear very interesting stories created by people. I got to hear different genres as well. The feedback I got is kind of useless to me now, They really like the idea when I said the beginning scene would start with a girl picking up the phone and then its gonna split the screen with the other girl picking up the phone. Which I am keeping in my film opening.

Listening to everyone plots made me even more motivated to get my script together because having no script to talk about was pretty embarrassing and everyone had such cool ideas and I was stuck with nothing. Everyone was pretty nice about it though and even if I didn't have much, they try to give me as much feedback as possible and that made me really happy. I will continue to make my story and have something by tomorrow 

Shot list

 Hello! This is our shot list! We use our script to help us!

 1) Opening Scene

-Sabrina is anxiously waiting for a phone car

-med shot of her shaking her leg.

-Close up of her stressed

-Med shot of her glancing at her phone

-Camera shifts to an over-the-shoulder and her phone rings

-Close up or med shot (undecided) as she picks up the phone

-Transition of split screen of the phone call

2) Ellie’s room (phone call)

-Close up or med shot (undecided)4

3) Sabrina’s room

-Long shot of Sabrina standing up

-Pov shot of her reaching into her closet

4) Ellie's room/ Garage

-Ellie runs off medium shot

-Long shot of garage opening 

5) Sabrina's room

-Long shot of her throwing the materials on the floor and sitting down

-Over the shoulder of her opening poster cuts off

6) Ellies street 

-Ellie biking long shot

-tracking hand held shot of Ellie biking 

7) Sabrina's room

-Long shot of Ellie breaking in and sitting down

-Two shot of them together

-Low angle  shot of them finishing opening the poster

-Pov shot of the hands opening the poster

-Over the should for dialogue

-Med shot as Sabrina stands up

-Pan showing Ellie confused

-Over the shoulder of Sabrina writing

-Med shot of Sabrina going back and handing her the paper

-Pov shot of the paper

-Close up of Ellies face

-Over the shoulder for continuing dialogue

-Med shot for signing the paper and ending scene

Story Outline!! 😍

 HEYYYY!! So basically we are starting an outline for our story!!! If you didn't already know my partner is dani! We thought about this long and hard because this is essential for our film opening and also so we have our thoughts written down. If Ima be completely honest this was really hard.

Here is my story outline:

Setting: In a bedroom, house, front yard

Premise: Two girls that have been best friends since forever, Like the same guy and sooner or later their friendship goes through hardships because of it.

Characters: 

-Mc 1, Female: Sabrina-  14-years-old, dressed in baggy clothes, has straight hair, and is Latina. Likes to play volleyball and loves going out. extrovert 

-Mc 2, Female: Ellie-  14-years-old, spontaneous, artistic , extrovert, ballet dancer, Latina, wavyish hair, very into music.

-Sc, 1 Male: Tristan: jus turned 15, sporty, extroverted, curly/wave hair, tall, also into music,

Hispanic, photographer

Plot outline

This story is going to be about two best friends who like the same guy.  They both go to summer camp and they meet this guy. Both were immediately star-struck by him together they both shared that they spontaneously had a crush on him and they thought nothing of it because they both didn’t think they had a chance with him. They realized that this guy was going to the same high school as them the next year Once they found out the news they both realized that they wanted to try and at least get a chance with him so they decided to create a plan. They were going to find info on him his hobbies, lifestyle, classes, interests, etc, and before school starts so they could find ways for both of them to interact with him.  After getting the main piece of info they piece the plan together and one of the girl's houses and they realize that if one of them does end up getting with them what will happen to their friendship? 

They decide to make a pact/promise that they aren't going to let a silly guy get in between their 6-year friendship but little do they know.  After signing the fake pact, they make a silly joke saying “WHOEVER GETS HIM FIRST AHAHAHAH” and that's when the film opening ends.

 

Film Opening research! :0

 So how I'm going to start my research is first searching up coming of age movies. Also if i haven't already said it, the genre were doing is coming of age!!! This genre just seem like a fun one to do with my partner and we just decided that this is the best pick for us. So to start my research, I will start looking for movies that has genre coming of age. I will look at a few and see which ones really caught my eye.  This was suppose to be a post for last week but time really went by fast and If I'm being honest I procrastinated, But that's no more! I'm get back on my schedule and really make time for this project.

The first film opening that I watch the Florida project. This is a really good film and it fits with the genre coming of age. I really like the lighting they use in the beginning, It gave off a nostalgic feeling. It starts with kids siting down and it seem like their outside, and in the distance you hear a kid call names that seem to be the kids sitting down. Then it cuts of to the  kid calling their names and then back to the other kids. It does that a few times before the kid finds the other two kids which were scooty and moonee. It had very basic shots like close ups, medium shots, and long shots. Once the kid finds scooty and moonee they run off to a place and the film hits viewers with the opening credits and the opening title. Honestly I really like how they did it and I want to incorporate into my film. They also add really fun music along with it which seems like another great idea I could add to my film opening. After the opening credits it goes into the next scene. Im pretty sure this film is somewhere based around summer. Which is what maybe me and my partner film opening is also be based around and I really like the lighting and want to use it as well. This film seem like it would be fun, or exciting but I have watch the movie and this movie isn't kind of not. I think this is a great film opening and it shows kids playing around which I really think grabs the attention of the audience, and with the fun music as well really draws audience in.

The second opening scene was very interesting to watch. It starts off of a low angle of these two parents talking to their child I would assume and they are treating this child as if their young. Only soon to find out that it wasn't a young child but a 16 year old girl name Katie. The camera moves up to the parents eye level and switches the camera to her getting up. I think that's super creative because it trick the viewers into thinking they were talking to a young child. She is starting high school for the first time because she been home school all her life. There is a voice over of her voice talking to the viewers and explaining why she was home school and while the dad is taking photos of the her and her mother it freezes them which I think is also very creative and I would like to use that in my film opening. Its a possibility. She talks about how home school kids could be weird and she gives off examples and it cuts to scenes of "weird" kids. But she explains where she live all her life which was in Africa. and it shows photos of her in Africa while she does a voice over and I really like how they did it in this opening. This opening explains a little about the main character and it gives us a little of her personality.    

My genre!!

 The genre I pick is..... coming of age!!! Me and my partner decided to do this one because it seem like a really fun genre! At first I was thinking of horror and thriller butttt when I talk to my partner about I realize maybe it wasn't the best one to do. So we decided to pick coming of age. I think we can do a lot with it and I'm really excited to do this genre. I'm going to start doing research on this genre so I can get a brand idea on what I can do for my film opening.

So for coming of age genre, I know that usually these stories are based on teens or young adults. What I know is that in this type of genre it shows the growth of these teens, I'm not so sure on what story I'm going to do so I'm planning to watch some movies that's based on coming of age genre, Although I want to also talk about it with my partner. Unfortunately My partner is out again but I will be contacting her to talk about what we can start doing, sooooo were going to talk about it more next week when we really start to develop the story.

So coming of age is when the protagonist goes from their youth to their adult hood, I don't want to have a film opening of those stereotypical coming of age, I want to do something different and more unique. This genre can be very boring if effort is not put into it, so I'm really planning to make the film opening something different and attention grabbing. 

 

Timeline!!!!

Hello again! So this is my post 1 for week 2.  I want to get started on my Timeline because it seems like the most important part so I stay my organized. Unfortunately my partner is out right now so I will have to figure out how exactly I'm going to split of this project. For blog post I know that I'm posting 3 each week. I think every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday is when I post. I want to split it up equally and that seems like the perfect plan for posting my blogs. Although I may not stick to my plan exactly its good to have a plan. I will start on week 2 because week 1 was only one post and it was the introduction

Week 2:

So my plan for week 2 is pretty simple, I will start figuring out what genre I want to do and start doing research on the genre. So I'm posting 3 post for this week. My first post will be my timeline or my planning for this project. My next post will be my research on my genre, so I know what key  elements I need to add to my film opening. It's very Important that I know a lot about the genre before making a whole film opening based on it. My last post of the week will be research on film openings that is based on the genre I pick. As I research film openings it gives me ideas and helps me figure out exactly what I want to do.

Week 3: 

For week 3, I'm following the same format, I will post Monday Wednesday, and Friday. So on Monday I will choose a film opening approach. This is when I start figuring out ideas with my partner to really start our film opening. My next post we will develop a story outline, this post is important because we are starting to outline our whole film opening and it makes it easier to start thinking about our film opening because we have the story outline of our whole story. The last post of this week is writing the script which will be very beneficial o our film opening.

Week 4:

Week 4 is definitely gonna be a lot more work, But I will work my way around to make everything more organized. So for my first post will be will be creating a shot list of all the shots I want to use for my film opening. This is really important because the shots will portray my film opening and if possible also create a storyboard and add it the post. I just rather keep to my schedule and do 3 post for each week. But its ok if i end up just splitting up to 4 post. My next post will be researching on places to film, I need to make sure that I can film in certain places because my last project me and my partners got kick out... Anyways, me and my partner Dani also has to research on places because we need to find locations that goes with our story. My last post for this week is developing filming/editing schedule. This is cruel because we need to know what days were not busy on to record, and also after recording to see what days we can edit on so we don't fall behind.

Week 5:

This week is important, This is the start of the filming process. For my first post its just going to be extra research on things that maybe should be added to my film opening. It will be random stuff that I found while researching. My next post on this week will be on the development on mise-en-scene elements which is very important before we start any filming. To make sure what backgrounds, costume, and lighting we want to be in our film opening, This last post will probably be during the weekend because filming after school can be hard sometimes. It depends on what we want our background to be. So it might be posted on Friday or on the weekend.

Week 6:

The first post will just be an update on how the filming is going and what we have so far. My next post will be about the start of the editing. Editing might vary on how long it will take if we need to fix stuff. But i doubt it will be to hard since me and my partner are playing to shoot a lot of shots so we have a lot work with, which makes editing easier. The last post of this week is developing response to CCR questions.

Week 7:

For this week, I'm starting to do research relating to CCR. Nothing much to it then research. I hope this will be the last week of editing the film opening and so I can start working on My CCR and putting all my attention on that. My last post of this week will be about the peer feedback that I got. To make sure nothing looks weird or some things me and my partner should change.

Week 8:

 This week is going to be super short and might not even have 3 post, it all depends on how i split up the information but basically for this whole week is going to be based on CCR, and that's all its going to be about. I may have some post on the project but it just all depends if I follow through my timeline. But ya this week is very short because we are getting really close to finishing this whole project.

Week 9:

This is the last week, and basically I'm doing to do a reflection on the final project and then post the actually project and CCR. This is the week where this whole project comes to an end.

Week 1: Introduction into project

 Helloo! Today marks the beginning of a project that will take me a while to complete. This project will take me at least 8 weeks to do and I will have to do 3 post for each week. I'm already starting to think who exactly I want to work with and what genre I want. I knew this project was coming up and I knew what I was getting into when I pick this class. I'm actually really excited to work on this project because I get to post about the project, and tell in detail on what I'm going to create the film. Right now I'm looking at different examples of past students and getting inspiration on how I'm going to start this project. My teacher provided me her website of students projects from 2014 to 2023. This has been really helpful to my research. 

Some things I want to keep in mind is that I need to find time to this project while working on other classes. Which wont be too difficult, I just don't want to fall behind on blog post. This project sounds really fun and I want to do a lot with it. I want to add everything I learn into this film opening and make sure that I don't make any silly mistakes. if I do make silly mistakes I could always fix them. This project gives me a lot to work with. Continuing on I really think this project is going to be really fun because Im working with my best friend Daniella. On past projects we work together and really like what we make. We work together well and get stuff done.