The Superior Storyboard

Welcome to my lovely readers. Storyboarding was a difficult process for us. Addison did the storyboard but we all helped to come up with the idea. We all had an idea but ended up combining them. Ben's idea was to have us walk around school and came up with the final slogan. Addison's idea was to have a bad backpack at the beginning and that it breaks. Jade's idea was to have students be nice to the character with the bad backpack. My idea was to have all three walk away together.modifying our plan if necessary. There is still more planning to do, which will happen when Addison creates the story board. Our final idea was to have a girl with a bad backpack that breaks. Two helpful girls walk by and show her their backpacks. The girl gets a Jansport backpack and shows it to the girls the next day. At the end of the commercial, the three girls walk away showing their backpacks. The slogan "Jansport is with you for life" appears and the commercial ends. We are all very excited to film. We decided to film at two different locations, the first half of the commercial will happen at the first location. The second half of the commercial will happen at the second location. The first location is an outside hallway on the second story of a building. The second location will be an outside hallway with beautiful scenery surrounding it. We decided to film over multiple days, doing one location per day. The only thing left to decide is camera angles and movements.

Starting to Plan

Hello to my lovely readers, after finishing our research, we were ready to plan our commercial. First, we divided the main tasks we would have to complete. Ben was in charge of directing and filming the commercial. This meant he would do the majority of the filming and make executive decisions when we are doing the actual filming of the commercial. Addison’s task was the storyboard. She is the most artistic of the group, so we all decided she should create the storyboard. Editing the commercial went to Jade. She wanted to edit the commercial and we all agreed. I was in charge of the blogs. Although we all are working together, I will do most of the work to write them.

For our location we will be doing different locations around school. Jade, Addison, and I will be doing most of the acting. Actually we will not have much acting, the commercial will not contain any dialogue and our faces will barely be seen. For costumes and props, we will wear our normal clothes to school. Our props will simply be the backpacks. The lighting will be dependent on how the lighting is that day. In case of rain or any other problem, we will have to use our backpack plan. Our backup plan is to simply stay in places under something (blocking the rain) and do our best to stay dry. We are all very capable of modifying our plan if necessary. There is still more planning to do, which will happen when Addison creates the storyboard.

Doing Some Research

Welcome back to my lovely readers, today we finalized our idea for the commercial and did some research to prepare. Our idea is Jansport backpacks. Unfortunately, Jansport has not made any commercials. Instead, we had to find other brands and unofficial commercials. We watched a commercial for the brands Nomatic and Patagonia. They both used locations that showed the main purpose for their backpacks. Nomatic used professional settings and showed people with professional jobs. For example, there were several shots at the airport and a few shots at a Starbucks that showed someone working. Patagonia used nature locations. They had one actor going on different adventures through nature. This meant doing the commercial at school was perfect. One of the unofficial commercials that we watched used the tactic of saying the backpacks were “Kid Proof”. The other commercials just showed people using the backpacks, which is still a tactic. 

Watching these commercials is very helpful to create some ideas for our commercial. Using different music in the backgrounds had a large effect on the commercials. This meant that the music background we choose needs to be very thought out. The commercials had many different shots, all of which focused on the backpacks. When we start storyboarding, it is important that most of these shots show the backpacks. After researching, we have now learned how important it is to research before making a film project. We are glad that we watched some commercials, this will allow us to make a successful commercial that gets our point across.

The Elite Squad

Welcome back my lovely readers. I want to tell you all about my group for making our commercial. 

We are still in the brainstorming phase of this project. Some of our ideas for the commercial are JanSport backpacks, converse shoes, and MacBook laptops. There are so many different ways this project can go in. It is going to be so fun making this commercial and I'm so glad I get to take you all along this journey with me.

My group is myself and three other members: Addison Walker, Jade Williams, and Ben Polsky. We are all good friends and sit together during class. We decided to work together on this project since we are all intelligent and capable of getting a good grade. There's a lot of work to be done but I know our commercial will be successful. Next class, we will decide on an idea and delegate tasks to each other. 

Being able to work with four people will be much easier. For example, we each get a quarter of the work. All we need is to share the same creative idea. There are many things that could possibly go wrong, but we can easily handle them. 

This commercial is a way to learn the film making process. The project allows us to go through the process for something more simple. For example, the storyboard will only have 6 shots. However, a movie will have more than five hundred.

I will be sure to update you all soon. I hope you're all as excited as I am.

Welcome to Me

Hello to my lovely readers, today is the day I started my blog. I'm a student taking a class called AICE Media Studies. The purpose of my blog is to tell you all about the projects I will be doing in this class.

I decided to take this class because I needed an AICE credit. I heard from other students that they enjoyed this class and recommended it to me. I'm so glad I took this class, it will be incredibly beneficial for me. I've always been interested in the film industry for multiple reasons. I'm a dancer and I want to pursue a career in the dancing industry. My ideal career path might intersect with the film industry. It is great to learn about it, so I can be prepared. Not only that, but the film industry is just so interesting. I find myself watching TV shows and movies at multiple times during the day. Finding out how they were made and how much work they took, makes watching them so much better.

All of the projects that are part of this class are all so exciting. Some of the projects are a commercial and a music video. I have so many ideas for both and making them will be fantastic. I hope all of you are just as ecstatic as I am. I can't wait to accomplish all of them throughout the year.

I'm going to take you all through my journey with this class. I know you all are so excited and can't wait (neither can I).