Representation ( New star of the show )

 Since my friend mehul couldn't film with me due to this virus and everything i had to come up with a new character so I decided to use my brother as the new star of the show. Hes 17 and Hispanic. There are a lot of Hispanics in the film industry but I wanted to make these key points about this special ethnicity:

A new study found Latino actors represented only three percent of lead or co-lead roles in top-performing movies during the last 12 years. Producers, directors and casting executives fared badly, too. A bright spot was that of the three percent of Latino actors in lead or co-lead roles, about half were women. Among those were Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez and Jessica Alba. But even those numbers were skewed: Five of the 17 prominent roles played by Latina women went to Ms. Diaz, said the study. Additionally, Ms. Lopez was the only woman older than 45 in a lead role.

Hispanic audiences are disproportionately underrepresented onscreen in studio features, compared with their movie going population. In 2018, Hispanics made up 18 percent of the U.S. population and 24 percent of the annual box office’s frequent moviegoers, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.

Some of the most famous Latino actors include:

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor. 



Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-Irish-American actor, painter, writer and film director.



Daniel Trejo (; Spanish: [ˈtɾexo]; born May 16, 1944) is an American actor and voice actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often as a villain or an antihero.

filming days are upon us

First day of filming!!!! I was super excited to wake up this morning and start filming for the project because I was thinking about it all night long the day before. I woke up, Had some breakfast, and went straight to filming the first few seconds of my movie. It consisted off establishing shots of my house and room to show the audience the key places where most of the filming will take place at. I also did a lot of close ups of objects in my room and certain posters , clothe , and so on to show who the main character is , what are his interest, what does he like to do, etc...

I wanted to portray my character as being this funny , laid back dude , that does stuff on his own time and doesn't care what anyone thinks or says about him. This type of character is perfect for my film since its a comedy and we need a character to be relaxed and have a good sense of humor. During this next few days i'll be more and more shots will be added. tomorrow I plan to get the shots outside of my house since some time will be spent outside of the main shooting location. as of now ill start editing on my new software and start editing the first few shots I took today.

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Progress update

As you can tell by the title, in this blog i'll be talking about the progress I've done and what the schedule is looking like as of today. So I already started filming which is good. Some people that are currently working on this project haven't even started filming and are behind in their blog post.I don;t blame them, everyone has been stressing about the coronavirus which makes them forget whats important to do while on the time off.getting back on track , My next blog post will be about the very first days of filming and how the process went and what else I need to film and so on.

Now with editing , I have managed to find an editing software. My parents pay monthly for Adobe premier  because for their work they have to make videos  , so that's a huge convenience for me since I know my way around adobe premier and i personally don't have to pay for any other editing service.

Other than that my project is going well and i'm really enjoying working on it because its taught me a lot of things that I didn't know before and I always appreciate learning new things everyday.

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This virus went out of hand

I have actually never seen anything like this before!! They call it Covid-19 , also known as Corona Virus. This virus has swept the entire globe and has affected my project in a big way. No longer can I use the actors that I wanted. Although it is relatively easy to film since the location is my home , I still need to figure out who will act in my project and so on. 

This virus is making it hard for everyone since most people are starting to get quarantined. Coronavirus disease spreads primarily through contact with an infected person when they cough or sneeze. It also spreads when a person touches a surface or object that has the virus on it, then touches their eyes, nose, or mouth.This makes it very hard for people to go out and film in locations that are public , or where there is a lot of people.

Target audience

In this blog I’ll be talking about the target audience of  film. Since I’m doing a comedy the usual target audience for the genre is around 18-25 since people like to include dark humor and jokes that aren’t appreciate to kids. But  I decided to do it a little different. My target audience will be around the ages of 12 up to 20. My movie will be rated PG13 , therefore families can come in and watch a movie that’s a comedy that’s funny but at the same time not as much dark humor or inappropriate jokes for the kids underage.  

This year, PG-13-rated films have accounted for 52 percent of the overall box office grosses, well ahead of films that the Motion Picture Association of America rated R (27 percent), PG (16 percent) or G (3 percent). And none of the year’s top ten movies is rated R.

The biggest box-office money-makers, like “Iron Man 3” or “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” are purposefully PG-13 to connect all “four quadrants” – both young and old, and men and women. If a film is rated R, you’re eliminating the young crowd (mischievous teen theater-hoppers notwithstanding).

representation: Staring a 17 year old Indian boy !!

 My friend Mehul is going  be the star of my film opening. I decided to choose him to be the main character in my film for 2 reasons. First reason , because he's one of the funniest kid I've ever met at my time in high school. And he's a minority, which I thought i could do a lot of research on his type of ethnicity for representation.

Utkarsh Ambudkar, an Indian American actor who plays Malcolm on Showtime’s White Famous and Mindy’s brother Rishi on The Mindy Project said South Asian artists approach roles in the industry has changed. “When I started working professionally, if there was a role that came out, everyone who was brown would go out for the role, whether it was right or not." These are some of the ways South Asian's would get into the film industry. These type of minorities didn't waste any opportunities.

There is very little data on the number of South Asians in Hollywood or the entertainment industry today, and even less from past decades. A UCLA report published earlier this year said Asians made up a measly 3.1 percent of all top film roles in 2016, despite making up around 6 percent of the US population.

The South Asian trajectory in US entertainment has lagged behind other minority groups. Aseem Chhabra, an entertainment writer, told me over the phone that The Jeffersons and the Cosby Show marked a kind of silver screen revolution for African Americans in the late 1970s and 80s.   



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location scouting.... even though I live in the location

                     As you can tell by the title , i'm setting up a location for this opening film. The two locations I decided to use is my own room and the street that is outside of my house. This is the fun part of filming because I have total control of everything , also I have total control of any extraneous variable that might be a problem to the filming process. On the other hand , I'm going to use the street in front of my neighborhood as the second location of the film. Again , since my community has a gate and is relatively small , its a great location to shoot for my film opening because its private and not a heavily used street

Testing movie fonts out AGAIN

               Fonts is all about adjusting the text within the design while creating powerful content. It provides attractive appearance and preserves the aesthetic value of your content. It plays a vital role in setting the overall tone of your movie, and ensures a great audience experience.

Details matter — especially on the big screen. While movies make an impact using special effects, famous celebrities, and gorgeous costumes, how they’re marketed to the public beforehand is of utmost importance. One of the ways they can make waves in the market is by using bold typography.

An epic film needs an epic font. From Jurassic Park to Star Wars, they’re made unforgettable with a little help from the lettering used for various promotional materials.You can probably find creatives talking about customizing a similar font to capture the look.





            Now its my time to explore and find the fonts i'm going to use for my new opening film. I want to use fonts that are equally appealing and powerful to the Audience. Here are some fonts I came up with...

These are some of the fonts I have selected to use during my film opening. I will be holding a poll to see what font I should use. That’s all for now until next time !!!

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Director 101

 SOOO now that I finally have an actually idea I can proceed with making a new shooting schedule for my new film.

There could be possible problems if I don't create a shooting schedule. Huge amounts of time will be wasted on the day trying to figure things out on the move.  The footage will suffer because of a lack of preparation – both in terms of missing out on great shots and also not having things prepped and ready to shoot.  Ultimately the whole production will be poorer. For the sake of a few additional hours to establish the key points and put the document together, not only can the end product be infinitely better, but it can also save a huge amount of wasted time, resource and money. I know my film doesn't require a lot of money but , it could still be a huge waste of time just shooting on random days and not be organized about it.

Here is the new schedule for my new film opening...

March 15	Establishing shots of room, Introducing characters
March 16	Driving shots/ getting ready to leave for school
March 22	Shots of dog getting hit / reaction
March 23 - end	Editing

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1st Group meeting !

     Today in class we started to get into group meetings to discuss our film opening and pass an obstacles that we once had before. My group consisted of 7271 Vera , 8256 Ubiera, 8121 Juaregui, 7316 Boyarsky. We helped each other with our film openings and gave each other a lot of ideas.

     My group helped me with a lot with my new genre and new ideas for my film. 
They also helped me pick out a title for my new comedy movie... " Dog Days are no more." I really enjoyed this title because it relates to the whole concept of the movie and it made me laugh the first time I heard it, so I really wanna pursue with it. Another thing my group helped me with was with the ideas of what shots to put into the movie and how to build a character with set design. set design can help with conveying a story to the audience and can be key to relying a message to the audience. Although this is a very short blog , the members of my group really helped me further feel better about what i'm trying to do and I was happy with what I got out of it.


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COMEDY!!!!

          As you may know I decided to change my genre to comedy and I think that's the best decision I've made so far. Here are some characteristics of the comedy genre that I'll be using during my 2 minute presentation

COMEDY

Types of comedy

- Romantic comedy

Romantic comedy involves a theme of love leading to a happy conclusion. We find romantic comedy in Shakespearean plays and some Elizabethan contemporaries. These plays are concerned with idealized love affairs.  

- Comedy of humors

Ben Johnson is the first dramatist who conceived and popularized this dramatic genre during the late sixteenth century. The term humor derives from the Latin word humor, which means “liquid.” It comes from a theory that the human body has four liquids, or humors, which include phelgm, blood, yellow bile, and black bile.

- Sentimental comedy 

Sentimental drama contains both comedy and sentimental tragedy. It appears in literary circles due to reaction of the middle class against obscenity and indecency of Restoration Comedy of Manners. This form, which incorporates scenes with extreme emotions evoking excessive pity, gained popularity among the middle class audiences in the eighteenth century.

- Tragicomedy

This dramatic genre contains both tragic and comedic elements. It blends both elements to lighten the overall mood of the play. Often,tragicomedy is a serious play that ends happily.

-Comedy of manners 

This form of dramatic genre deals with intrigues and relations of ladies and gentlemen living in a sophisticated society. This form relies upon high comedy, derived from sparkle and wit of dialogues, violations of social traditions, and good manners, by nonsense characters like jealous husbands, wives, and foppish dandies.

Thus, the purpose of comedy is to amuse the audience. Comedy has multiple sub-genres depending upon the source of the humor, context in which an author delivers dialogues, and delivery methods, which include farce,satire, and burlesque. Tragedy is opposite to comedy, as tragedy deals with sorrowful and tragic events in a story.

EXAMPLES OF COMEDY FILMS

         THE HANGOVER

Two days before his wedding, Doug (Justin Bartha) and three friends (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis) drive to Las Vegas for a wild and memorable stag party. In fact, when the three groomsmen wake up the next morning, they can't remember a thing; nor can they find Doug. With little time to spare, the three hazy pals try to re-trace their steps and find Doug so they can get him back to Los Angeles in time to walk down the aisle.

DEADPOOL

Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary. His world comes crashing down when evil scientist Ajax (Ed Skrein) tortures, disfigures and transforms him into Deadpool. The rogue experiment leaves Deadpool with accelerated healing powers and a twisted sense of humor. With help from mutant allies Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), Deadpool uses his new skills to hunt down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

       These movies have given me inspiration to make my own comedy and hopefully a funny one !!

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1st meeting with Stoklosa

 As u can tell in the title I had my first encounter with Stoklosa. She asked me about the project and what I was planning to do. She also wanted to know more about the plot of my story and how i'm going to execute this. One point she made to me about the costume design is she said it was going to be very expensive to suit up every actor in my movie. I also need to think about how to execute the plot and actually develop a story in the first minute of my film.


So I deiced to create a storyboard of the entire 2 minute film opening. This way I can be organized and actually know what i'm doing.The storyboard is a very important part of the pre-production process because it clearly conveys how the story will flow, as you can see how your shots work together. It also allows you to see potential problems that would not go unnoticed, ultimately saving you time and money.

Therefore I have decided to scrap the idea of My Crime genre and switch to comedy. Many of the shots I was planning to take during the crime genre were either too hard to make too expensive. although it was a good idea, I don't have time to make all the shots and perfect the editing. So I have deiced to switch my genre to a more simple and doable type of genre. Comedy. A day in the life of a normal kid that wakes up on a normal day of school to find out something terrible he did. While driving out of his neighborhood , he accidental runs over a dog. I KNOW TRAGIC. The whole film is about him trying to hide the fact that he ran over a dog because he thinks he'll go away to jail for a long time and he doesn't know what to do. He doesn't want to tell his parents because he'll get scared because he knows they'll kill him. and he also doesn't want to tell his friends because they'll think he's the worst person Alive. He decides to skip the whole day to figure out what to do.

Next blog post will go in detail of shots , dialogue , and techniques i'll be using during my opening film.

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