Costume design Film day edition

 Hey there vlog! today is filming day and I'm super excited!!! I'm not going to spoil much of the filming day but I'm going to talk about what I decided was appropriate for the charters to wear!

So first off, remember how we talk about the color green before? well.. luckily our main character Isabella Rengifo who playsVictoria in the opening is a huge fan of the color and has several green-colored pieces in her closet. When I was talking to Isa, I told her not to look super fancy or dressed up, we were going for something more chill for her attire. This is what she came over wearing:

VICTORIAS OUTFIT 
Super cute light green sweater 
with slight washed off black mom jeans
and cute pair of converse.

The other important character that needed an outfit wasVictorias Best Friend, Barbara, who was played by Fernanda Jimenez. When I talked to Fer about what she had to wear I also told her to come over wearing something she would wear to a chill small reunion. She told me that she was already wearing something like that so I told her to send me a picture, here it is:

BARBIE'S OUTFIT
Light blue jeans with a
graphic ACDC Shirt and bike Blazers

I liked that both outfits were different and portray their different personalities. When Victorias is more artistic and creative, Barbie follows trends and goes with the flow, and is a trend follower.

 

Camara equipment and Editing software

 Hey Blog! tomorrow is finally filming day and, I just wanted to come talk about what we will be using to record and edit!

    To begin with, I think the best option for editing is in Adobe Premiere Pro, luckily for me, my school gives me this source for free on my school computer, I was thinking of even editing in iMovie but Sabrina and I agreed that it could come out a little unprofessional and we want our opening to look presentable and neat! Also, I have worked more with adobe than with iMovie for the past 3 years so either way, Adobe was the most reasonable option.

When it comes to recording, we were going to film on a  regular camera at first but decided that there was going to be almost the same quality if we recorded on our phones. We believe that technology has advanced so much these past years and our phones have the most advanced cameras at the moment. With this, the process of exporting the files, sharing the documents, and rewatching the media that we recorded is going to be ten times easier than if we filmed in a regular camera. Were going to be recording with my phone since I'm going to edit the opening, I currently own an iPhone 10XR which has a camera where the Video recording is amazing compared to any camera from 2014. The camera can shoot 4K in 24fps, 30fps, or 60fps along with 1080p in either 30fps or 60fps for slow-motion action (That's what the people at apple state).

Along with this, we're also going to be using a tripod, it is important for the shots to be stable and not shakey. One of the girls that's in the cast (Fernanda, who plays Barbara, Victoria's best friend) has a tripod that we can borrow for filming day since Sabrina and I don't own one. We will probably use the tripod for most of the shots if everything goes with the plan.

That's it for right now, I will update tomorrow with how filming day went and post some pictures!

Hasta la vista senores 

Prop Prop Prop, Prop to the top!

 Hey blogsitoo! This upcoming week is the most expected one out of all of these pasts weeks, Sabrina and I are going to finally record and I have some news about Filming day!

So what I wanted to talk about today is... PROPS! every movie has different props, and I've taken the time to gather some things around my house that fit and are useful for the opening so when its filming day we have everything to make it the best!

 BIKE! on the opening victoria has a scene where she gets out of her house and rides her bike to her closest park! Lucky for me I have a bike that will work perfectly for the scene

FASHION SKETCHBOOK!

There was a moment where I used o design stuff for myself

and came across my sketchbook again and drew some cool designs for the opening!

ICECREAMCAKE!
I love ice cream cake and my mom never lets me get any unless it's for someone's birthday,
well, it victorias birthday and I'm going to get some and even though we have no budget for this opening,
I've been craving ice cream cake for a minute so, it'll be all right!

BROTHER SEWING MACHINE
How could you want to be a fashion designer and not own a sewing machine!
I've had this sewing machine since December 2019 because I wanted to see if I could make my own clothes, now it just lays on my room floor so ill give it some use!

PICTURE ME THIS

 HOLAAAA so today is Wednesday and I was working on the final Storyboard for the opening and everything that I and Sabrina were coming up with but actually what we plan on recording.

Let me explain:

Sabrina and I met a while ago and made a rough draft of the storyboard together where we just came up with different types of scenes and shots and angles so... Heres our first rough draft

Of course, as you can see it was EXTREMELY long and since the opening is only 2 minutes MAX then we decided that I was going to fix it up for when it was recording time, and here's what I came up with:

It's certainly nothing too complex but I have the feeling that it will turn out pretty Steezyyyy not gonna lieeeee... But well see and hope for the best

BYE storyboarders :D

Kinda schedule for break

Goodmorning Blog! today I woke up early because I forgot we were on spring break! LOL so i decided to vlog a little, and be productive:)

This is what I've been thinking about lately about what needs to be done: before the DUE DATE (APRIL 6)

-StoryBoard 

-Set a date for filming where all members can participate (since its spring break some of them are leaving so we have to see what we do about that.

-Film

-Edit!

-Prepare CCR

   - The storyboard is done, I will be making a blog about it maybe tomorrow, its pretty self explanatory and easy to follow for when we film :()

    -For the date, I was thinking maybe after the break because I know most of the cast that we selected are doing things away with their family so maybe Tuesday 3/30/2021 would be a good day because everyone is back, and it's kinda easy to record that day.

    -For filing I know were going to maybe start like at 4:30pm since we have some scenes outside where we need the sunlight duh; and for the Bday scene we do it inside my house I hope it doesn't get so late so we still have some natural light.

-The editing shouldn't take me so long since I'm good at it and I've practiced several times with Premier Pro so I not really worried about that as long it looks decent hehe.

-The CCR is easy but it s kind of a lot... so gotta start early o that too if i can, I believe this part is individual so i don't think Sabri and I will be working together in this :(

Thats it for this morning!!!! Bye people of the world 

"Choose Your Character" from "Super Smash Bros" starts playing

 Hey blog!!! This week has been very entertaining lol, next week is spring break, and I'm so excited to take a break from school, but not from this project OF COURSE! So today's blog is about who's going to play what...

Here's what we've got:

DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER Sofia Lander (me) 

    I'm going to be taking over the storyboard, the recording, and the editing of the opening.

DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER Sabrina Olivieri (My partner)

    Sabrina is going to be helping me with what the production of the opening is, which also includes recording.

MAIN CHARACTER Isabella Rengifo ("Victoria")

    Ever since we started this protect Isabella told me she wanted to be part of it, so I gave her the main character to her! Isa is going to play Victoria in our opening because we decided that she also fits very well with the character, and she portrays a very "Latina" sense than most of our friends. Isabella has never acted before but she was happy and willing to help me and Sabrina on our project!

MOM OF MAIN CHARCTER Mari Olivieri ("Mom")

    For this character, Sabrina and I decided that my mom would be perfect for this, in the opening we have a scene where "Victoria's" mom is drinking/smoking a cigarette, and luckily for us my mom does smoke (so unhealthy I know!) and has taken several theater courses so she's perfect for this job although we only need her for one scene!

VICTORIA'S BEST FRIEND Fernanda Jimenez ("Barbara/ Barbie")

    Fernanda is also one of my friends, she is always about giving without expecting anything back and that's how Sabrina and I portrayed "Victoria's" Bestfriend, when I post the storyboard everything will be more clear!

SIDE CHARACTERS (Helbert Villa, Isabella Rengifo, and Valentina Dominguez)

    The first scene of the opening is the birthday scene! and on every birthday there are always friends there to celebrate with you, so I called some of my friends and they agreed to be the side characters of this scene! They all fit super well with the vie of the opening so I think it's going to come out super good!

All of this information will be shown in the opening as the credits so look out for that so it doesn't catch you off Guard!!

ALSO!!!!! I KNOW WERE STILL IN A PANDEMIC!!! 

All the people I've mentioned above are my friends who gladly told me and Sabrina that could work on the project! We all know each other and we will follow the CCD guidelines when we record as well as possibly can!

Stay safe Lander OUT BABYYYY!!!

Title rundown

 

HELLO, I present to you guys... THE TITLE!

One of the many things that we were missing was the title for the opening, the day that Sabrina and I met, we decided to brainstorm on some names beforehand so when we met we could have something to rely on. We both had great ideas, like "solitude" "Transforming happiness" and "try it on!" but we decided that Fashion Vision was more catchy and short to remember!

I designed the thumbtack on Picstart and made it green because of victories character, you can learn more about it on the other blog I made about her. I seethe aesthetic of this opening relates a lot with the color green, the color of hope the color of nature and happiness.

I'll be making a blog about our storyboard very soon and you guys will understand why! 

Hata la vista

A screen doesn't divide us anymore!

 Hey Blog!!!!! very very cool news, and a lot to talk about this week so keep an eye out for any other blogs soon!

Firsts off I want to talk about Today Monday 15, 2021... So today I had the privilege to meet with Sabrina, my partner, and my right hand in this project for the first time EVER! Yes, you heard that right! FIRST TIME EVER! I have already talked about Sabrina before and how we became friends thanks to our teacher and one of our many projects that we have done in her class! After a whole year of being encapsulated, bubbled up, spending a year with max the 4 people you live with, I made it, I met someone NEW!  It was very weird at first, we didn't know if we could hug or just say hi from far...(we hugged since we were booth covid neg) and honestly...it didn't feel real after being locked out like rapunzel

There was really no risk, we planned it specifically so the day that we met and where we met wasn't full of people, it's a Monday, the place was almost empty, which was very nice.

Sabrina and I talked about A LOT f things, we really got a lot of work done that evening. We mainly discussed, the scenes that need to be recorded, who is playing the main character and if we have people to play the characters in the back, also talked about different title options and the equipment that were going to be using for the making of the opening and some things about our CCR. 

Here are some pics of us and some of the work we did! today

We drank Starbucks while working and took a LOT of notes, this is only one page of them LOL

And this is us! All masked up and following all the CCD guidelines like we all should!

Soon it'll be Face to face

 Hey blog! how are you guys? I've been doing better, still pretty sad but cannot stop thinking about this project! I don't want to fall behind... So here's whatsup!

Sabrina and I scheduled to call today, we have been staying in contact and communicating super good but we came to the conclusion that we probably should meet, just so everything is easier and goes way smoother than it already was. We're planning on meeting for the 1st time ever in our lives Monday 15, with covid and all that has been going on since last March, I haven't had the opportunity to go back to school which means I have no idea who or how my classmates look like in real life! Sabrina and I don't know each other personally, but we have worked together in class on other projects and it has been a 5-star experience. So, next Monday, we will meet for the first time and talk about all of our ideas and make concrete decisions about MANY things that are missing for us to start recording! If I'm being honest this is extremely weird to me since I haven't had contact with anyone I didn't know before the pandemic happened and I'm very excited, finally some other type of human interaction that is not with 20 family friends that came from the nothing and somehow appeared to be in my grandmas mass, or my 4 people friend group! 

I will make a blog about how our meeting is and other separate blogs each talking about the different things we discussed! 

Stay safe and peace out!

Sorry about the inconsistency!

 HOLA! Sofia here to talk about some not-so-great news. So... as many of you know, we're in the middle of the pandemic, school is mostly on-line and it has been a very hard year for everyone. Sadly most of my family has been infected from Covid -19, no not here where I currently live, but my family who still lives in my home country, Venezuela. All my cousins uncles and even grandma have been infected and are still in total lockdown as of right now. Sadly today I have one more angel in the sky looking out for me, and everything I do, the woman who inspired me and gave the best advice will now be only a memory in my head, she will always be remembered and I hope she's proud of me up there!. This week I might not post as much as I usually do because I need some time to think and be thankful for all the memories I created with my beautiful grandmother. Hope you guys understand, I promise ill be back to posting more blogs that are not as personal and have more content about the project. Please stay safe, see you guys soon<3

The sound of music but make it coming of age

 Hey blogsito!!! I have very exciting news!! I've got a response, yup! we've got music for the opening!! Sabrina and I concluded that it was our best option and we both LOVE the song for the opening. SO  HEY AT LEAST WE HAVE SOMETHING  TO CELEBRATE RIGHT!?

The artist that reached back to me is called "Valley palace" and is a very underrated artist I found him while looking for songs on Spotify for something that would match the vibe of the opening! I immediately reached out to him via Instagram DM because he didn't have an email linked to his profile but... HE SAID YES! 

I present to you... THE PROOF:

Sabrina and I are very excited about this, The song that we will be using from this artist is called "Tapes" by Valley Palace, who is currently working on an album, and has released many different singles you guys should totally check him out! Soon you guys will see our progress and our final project!

SIDE NOTE: he also gave me permission to post our conversation on my blog :D

Ugh what a mood!

 It is MOOD BOARD TIME  blog!!! Hello!, I had a lot o time to think about the characters and I'm excited! So, after that blog post I made, I left to Orlando for the weekend to visit some family friends and enjoy some time at the parks. The drive from my house to Orlando is about 3 hours, which brings me back to my thinking point, since I was so bored with the car ride, I decided to let my imagination fly.

I  decided to create a mood board for the main character which I ended up naming Victoria because in Spanish the word "Victoria" is a way to express your excitement, people say it after achieving something especially in a competition, it's like saying "Victory". The reason I gave her this name is because from every victory there has to be some training, emotional awakening, or something important behind it. Which in her case, she realizes that her parents are keeping her away from her dream of becoming a fashion designer and decides that if she doesn't move on with her she will forever be unhappy.

Let me explain some things from this mood board, first, the color of the background is green because I figured Victoria needs to work on her Chakras, especially the green one, which should be Loving, empathetic, open-hearted, and emotionally balanced when balanced. I added a fashion sketchbook where she's most likely to do all her design sketches, every designer needs a sketchbook! the top part of the sketchbook portrays how she's going to run away from her toxic family and end up on the red carpet someday. The trophy represents her name and the success she will have as she reaches her dreams of becoming good at what she loves.

That's all for today, I hope you guys liked it, I would love to hear any recommendations we could add to this character, if we find new ways or something fun that fits her personality I  will be adding it to the blog! Thank You

The art of Emailing

 HeY blog! I hope everything is well I am certainly not well, maybe a little stressed *Laughs nervously* Anyway, what happened is that I underestimated all the amount of emails that record companies and managers receive, yeah... As you might guess I haven't gotten a single response from any of them, which is you know, fine right? *laughs nervously*. To add on, it took me SO LONG to find the contact information for some artists, like it was impossible so, I just gave up on the most famous ones, like Jaden and Tame impala because I spent the whole week looking for contact info and everything was blurred out or blocked, or I had to pay 30 bucks! what a steal. I was very disappointed because I really wanted to find Jadens contact info so we could use one of his songs but, things don't always go the way you want to.

So since I had to discard those two artists, (Tame impala, and Jaden Smith) I had to listen to a little more music to see if I could find good Upcoming artists like EA^ST which I did find contact info for and sent her manager an Email! so I'm excited to see her response! I will make a blog if anything!

Other artists I will try to contact:

-DAZED

-Good Sport

-Valley Palace

That's if for today, see you guys tomorrow with more info about the emails (If I get a response) and more other cool content. P E A C E