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     Hey blog! Today I finally talked to Sabrina, we have both been very busy, she has had college apps, and I have been studying for SAT the whole week, but we called each other today, and here's a rundown of things that we talked about

    Firstly we started by giving each other roles, I'm going to be taking over the Storyboarding since I have storyboarded a lot before in other projects. While I finish this, (which might be done during next week, maybe Wednesday) Sabrina's going to start working on the script for the opening...Very exciting if you ask me!

    Secondly, we talked about Characters, were just focusing on the opening characters as of right now because we're only doing an opening so there's really no need to worry about other characters. When it comes to these characters, we will probably create mood boards so it's easier for us to visualize the characters and how they should act. Besides the characters we also said that we needed to start brainstorming on a name for this film opening... were both extremely creative so i think we will be fine when it comes to that field, but if you want to leave a comment with any ideas that you have, we might consider them!

    For the music, I will be sending those emails no later than Wednesday of next week, that way they have time to answer, especially since some of the artists are big creators! When it comes to recording, we haven't decided anything yet, we want to get the mood boards, storyboards, and scripts all together before starting to think about footage!

Thats all foe today my friends! see you next week with more blogs and more to talk about! 

Every intro needs a song

     Heyooo wasup!! I'm very excited about today's blog because it's finally the weekend and also today's topic is about something I could talk about for HOURS! music! yep, music is one of the most important factors in a movie. No matter what genre it is, there is always some type of beat, song, or melody included in all films!

    Throughout the week, I have been listing to music non-stop, the usual, and since I'm doing a coming of age movie, I've been focusing on listening to songs that might match the opening that were planning on doing. Not going to lie, this is a hard task! there are so many options and it will take a long time to make a decision on this, but its nothing I cant do #settinggoals.  I know there are many platforms where I could listen to songs of artists that aren't THAT famous, like youtube, Soundcloud, but I am a Spotify user until the grave! 

    I already have some song options as of right now, that I'm going to talk over with Sabri on Sunday just to make sure we're both on the same train. I think that I'm going to email the record companies of these artists and ask for permission to use the songs for this project, I hope they answer in time and say yes of course! if not, that'll be embarrassing... So I'm going to keep looking for songs that match the style of the movie and could work for the intro, email the record companies where they're signed with, and hope for the best!

Here are some artists that I will probably be emailing their record companies:

-Jaden smith

-Tame impala

-Good Charlotte

-E^ST

I will update you guys as soon as i have more info!

Stay safe out there, COVID IS REAL!!!

OUCH! Feedback day in class...

     Good morning blog! Media class just ended  I just wanted to come in here and talk about today's activity in class. If I'm honest, I was a little scared to talk about my idea to my peers, but I got really good reactions from everyone I talked with!  By the way, the "Ouch" on the title was just click-bait.

    I loved this idea of talking with the people in our class about our projects because everyone has a different brain, everyone has different ideas, overall, it was a great way to get fresh ideas, and feedback! Something I also completely loved was how everyone had different genres for their projects, one had mystery, the other one had a thriller, even crime film, there was so much variety that it was easy for us to give ideas without being scared of someone having the same idea or from someone stealing your idea. We were all really comfortable with each other, even though we're still online, the feeling of "school" was there, and I really haven't felt like that since March 2020. 

    Sadly, Sabrina couldn't attend the meeting because she got incredibly sick! no, not covid! it was Senioritis...even worse HAHA.  But don't worry, I got all the good information and the amazing ideas that my peers shared with me written down in a paper! nothing that cant be shared, but they're ideas that I still need to talk over with Sabri. I will probably update you guys on Sunday with all the info!

Chao Pescado! 

(It means "Byebye" it's a Venezuelan saying)

"dEtAiLeD PlaNnInG" kinda...

 Hello there! it is week 3 of my great journey of finding out how I am going to do my Film opening for my final project that's going to Cambridge! I am very excited to announce that me and my partner decided that are going to be doing the 1st idea! The film opening is going to be about a girl with the dream of becoming a Fashion designer,  I'm so excited to see how me and Sabrina are going to work on this together, we already have so many ideas (they need some work but at least we have something) that we can't share yet but will be announced EXTREMELY soon! 

    First things first, let's talk about the target audience, I have mentioned this topic before, but nothing too specific...Well, it's a coming of age opening, which is basically stories of teenagers overcoming their problems, which means that the target audience has to definitely be young adults (16-18) and adults with a teen spirit. Besides the age range, what were trying to put out, is more girly-ish since it's about fashion, therefore my mind tells me that the manliest man won't really enjoy this 17-year-old 2 minute and 45-second opening.

    Moving on to the characters, we dont have the names of anyone as of right now, but we do know that the main character is a 17/18-year-old girl who is very creative and can't really express herself as much as she would like because of her house environment (very toxic) This girl is a dreamer, a problem solver but her parents are basically against all of her decisions and dreams which of course its hard for her since parents should always be supportive. This character is going to probably be played by either Sabrina or myself... we'll discuss that in another blog... Since the subgenre that we're going to be working with is drama, the main character (The girl) has to be very realistic, and her emotions should be portrayed in a good way (she's definitely a July Cancer sun)  to make the audience relate to her. Since drama relates to realism and sensitive portrayals of the real world, I believe this character should be the most emotional one.

    I'm looking foward the next blogs for this week, Sabrina and I are going to be discussing some of the shots, characters, settings where we could film, even probably start the storyboard! I'm so excited I hope this project will be as good as I imagine it to be. 

I'll see you guys tomorrow with a new blog with more good content, and information about a cool activity that we're doing in class that's going to be super helpful for our Film opening!

See ya later alligators 

>*^,^,^~~~

(its an alligator)

2020 aka the "You're missing out on the best years of your life because you have been quarantined since march"

 Hey Hey HEY! it's me, AGAIN, I know, I know, this week has been full of blogs! But today's blog is more chill, an easy read kind of... we'll see how this one turns out LOL

    So you're probably wondering about the title for today's blog! So, I want to explain myself, since most of you guys know, we have been quarantined since March 13 of 2020, at least here in the US. Right, so basically, I'm a 17-year-old immigrant girl from South America that always has been waiting for "my life to start". I know, I've been living in this beautiful, yet complicated world since 2003,my life started a while ago, but just when all my expectations of life are up there somewhere in the sky...COVID HIT. 

    My sophomore year of high school felt almost like if I was living behind bars! no interaction with anyone, no going out, no school, no fun! Overall experience 2/12 because I actually got to live 2 months of regular life. All the thing si wanted to do, gone... service hours opportunities gone, new friendships gone, what we thought "real life" was, gone. So I basically lost one of what could have been the best year of my life...Pain. 

    I know most teenagers feel like this, especially high schoolers, (which are our target audience) but no one really talks about how we didn't get our "Coming of age" phase. Maybe some of us did, but it was very individual and not fun at all! It definitely wasn't like "Perks of being a wildflower" or "Mid 90's". Where was the character development in our lives? we lost those days that we waited so long to come to us. 

That is one of the reasons why I chose to do a Coming of age film opening, because, I could just create characters that do things I wish I could of done in 2020. I think it would be a great way to portray that teenage feeling and even relate with the target audience!

Thats it... yeah 2020 sucked but, new year new Us, right?

What's new dawg? nothing...just research

 Hellooooo, this week I realized how hard this project is going to be, sigh... but I love me a challenge!

So today I'm going to be going over some aspects of the Coming of Age genre. Remember how some time ago I did research on the drama genre? Well, this is going to be a quick genre research about the genre I chose for my film opening! SO, let's get into it!

Firstly, a coming of age movie is based on 3 things: The main characters facing one or several important conflicts, the character taking an important choice in their lives, or going to a significant recognition of their future lives. These may include films portraying first loves, moving to high school, religious growth, winding up behind bars, and other critical occasions in the life of a young person.

Now that we know this, this information is portrayed through sentimental emotions. Humor is often used to handle the sense that there is more time to decide on things that follow maturity, regardless of whether it is decisions that turn out not to be publicly disclosed. To add on, also, self-reflection, which is simulated by making mistakes and learning from them or simply captivating in a conversation that involves some sort of mindfulness, is a flaming appreciation of life. Overall, life lessons through experiences will be another sign of Coming-of-Age films, with a more youthful person usually taking an important lesson from a parent or other significant older figure.

Something that is very famous in this genre, is how Producers tend to do include in these movies the circumstances and occasions related to the introduction of the teenager into new spaces of their psychological and social experience. They do this by displaying adult-like experiences with the delights and riks of their current life situation. One of the ways they do this is by doing voiceovers throughout the movie. They do this Mainly used to provide a deeper understanding of the emotions and thoughts of the character. Producers rely on the character establishment of their own identity in these films as they grow up and show their shift in the film.

Bellow I'm going to leave some examples of some of my favorite Coming of age movies and of course some very famous ones:

It was a brief study of the genre, yet very needed since it's important to understand the genre before jumping in and making a crazy mix that looks like a chipotle bowl!

That's it for today but, I'll see ya tmr!

What's Every teenagers favorite genre?

 You guessed it! yup the final decision is COMING OF AGE!!! Today Sabrina and I decided that we are going to be working on creating a Coming of age film opening for sure. We're still not sure about the story that we're going to film about yet, but here is one of the ideas that we have in mind!

Enjoy my typical messy highschool girl handwriting below:

I believe I had already mentioned this idea on one of the other blogs, I mentioned this idea to Sabrina and we decided that she's going to come up with another idea and well decide from there what we will be doing for the film opening!

Alexa play "just the two of us" by Grover Washington Jr

 Sofia here once again, oh god this doesn't get old!! 

    So... I have some news about the project, I think I have a very solid idea of what I might end up doing! First off I want to announce, that I'm actually going to be working with someone throughout the making of this film opening, which is something that I didn't mention before and is very important since I also have to give credit to my partner! Sabrina and I have worked on some other projects before in the class, and she's so nice and creative I cant wait for the final result of this project already!

We have been discussing many types of genres that we would like to base our film opening on and gladly, we have very similar ideas! She has mentioned some interesting ideas that we could use in the project. We both want to do something with a coming of age as a main genre and have a subgenre that could be either mystery, drama, romance.

I will soon update you guys on what we decide to do as our subgenre and some of the ideas we have that could be part of our soon-to-be film opening!

See ya tomorrow...maybe...

Indecisively decisive

 Hey again!! here's another blog about "The" Portfolio project, I've been excited and nervous about! So basically, now I have some cool ideas that would be great for this film opening. I was thing of maybe go for either for the drama genre or the coming of age movie or even a combo of both!

What I'm thinking most about doing, is the story of a girl, who decides to leave her toxic household, and her old routines behind, and with her brother, they start a clothing business, along the way, they have to find a place to stay, the name of their brand and their products, and even the style of the clothing they want to sell. That is one of my ideas that could be interesting and fun to make!

Or I could also do something along the lines of the Movie of "Perks of being a wildflower" 

This is one of my favorites movies and I would love to create something similar to this movie. But of course different types of characters, and plot! Maybe about two best friends that end up living together because one of them lost his family in an accident, these boys decide to go to these crazy parties because their friends are older than them and just want to fit in, but really one of the boys wants to go out and party while the other one fakes his happiness since the loss of his family hit him super hard. 

I honestly don't know yet, but I love both of these ideas and I will for sure keep you guys updated on what I will end up doing because, I will probably not use any of these, or maybe I will!

See ya next time!

And so it begins...

     Hey there! Sofia here again, I'm here to announce that I'm probably going to be way more consistent with my blog posts! This is because I have officially started my journey towards my final project that I need for my AICE Media Studies course, as I mentioned a while ago. I am beyond excited and a little nervous since this is such an amazing project that's definitely going to test my creativity levels! As of right now, the only thing in my mind is research! I will need a  lot of inspiration to complete this project since I have to create it from scratch, which is the reason I'm nervous!

    If I'm being honest, I think the most challenging part of this project is starting it. There are so many options and types of genres that my video opening could be about... Sci-Fi? Drama? Coming of age, maybe even horror. It's not only about the genre, what story do I want to show my audience? At this moment my mind is just full of questions that will probably be answered soon in my other blog posts. This is a long project, which means I have time to prepare myself and take some time to understand what I like and don't. Welcome to a piece of my mind, especially the right side of it, just, in form of a blog, where you'll get to see the process of this project, my crazy ideas, failures, and success of it as I create it! So excited to take you with me on this journey and hope the results will be as good as I imagine them! 

Peace out for now <3

MUSIC MARKETING #2!

     The music marketing project was full of research, brainstorming planning, and group work. Here I will be explaining not very briefly, so get ready for a not very short read!

    Firstly my teammates and I were assigned the Country music genre, none of us were familiar at all with this genre, so we got straight into researching. We researched two music record companies, which included Warner Records and Capital Records Nashville.

 

     When it comes to Capitol records Nashville, our group researched some important country artists as well. Country bands like Little big town and Hootie and Blowfish that have also acomplished many great things in the music industry, like a  #1 hit on a billboard board and and even some Grammys.We deeply researched these artists and their accomplishment sthrough their careers, just so it would be more easy for us to create marketing stategies for our band and future references.

    On the same note, some country artists like Blake Shelton and Dan and Shay are part of warner records. Both of these artists have accomplished many things, from winning several awards to touring inside of the US. We also did research on some of these artists marketing strategies and how they get their music out to the world.

    After all of our research on the topic, these companies, their marketing strategies, and artists, the fun part of the project started, brainstorming. As we all worked online, the brainstorming was somehow difficult since of course, it is way easier to get an idea out there when we're all face to face working together, but who doesn't like a challenge? First we decided on the song that our band was going to release, we chose "Need you now" and after choosing our first single, we decided on the name of our music band, which we came to the conclusion for it to be "Light of sunshine"

    We decided the name of the band for the aesthetic of country music perfectly, basic and simple. Our teammate, Sabrina Olivieri, made the logo that you see here to the right and worked on the album cover and most of our digital networks like Instagram, Twitter, and the web page which I will attach below:

 

 https://dancingalexa.wixsite.com/website 

 Here you can find more information about the band and what they have to offer, get to know the artists, and exclusive news,  which include online concert dates and news in general.

    After we had done all of the things mentioned above, the next thing we did was the storyboard, I took the lead on this task. I  talked to my group about some ideas and we decided on doing a storyline for the video since the lyrics of the song were so meaningful. A story of a heartbreak in about 3 minutes, honestly, the story I had in mind and that was in the storyboard, wasn't quite what we ended up doing in the video. My other teammate Kenneth Mathison, and I both met up safely and took the footage that was needed for the video, while we followed the storyboard that I had made. We both worked pretty well together when it was time to record, after that we both uploaded the footage to a google drive so our teammate, Alexa could edit it together! The editing part was a little confusing to Alexa so she tried her best to match the footage with the story the best she could, either way, it came out pretty good and we were all satisfied with her work!

    The post-production was so relieving, the only thing that we were missing was the presentation! we were basically done and we were all so happy that our hard work would pay off as soon as we presented. We all worked on the presentation a little but Sabrina definitely took the lead since she had all the pictures of the logos, webpages, and social media. I helped her out with some of the information on the slideshow, and when it was done, we decided who was going to present what slide. We tried to choose the slides we all knew a little bit more than the others so it felt more professional. When our time to present came, we tried to be engaging with our audience and tried to not read right from the presentation so everything could be smoother and entertaining. Finally, we could say that our presentation went pretty well, we had a few technical difficulties when it came to presenting the website but besides from that, we did a good job together.