Outlines

Hello Guys, I hope you're having a wonderful day

The time has finally come where I reveal the plot. Even though it is not even finish or even close to being to finished, I still promised you guys a plot blog by the end of the week. I know I said that I wouldn't post it until it is finished, but things happened, and I thought it would be better if I just showed you guys everything including the scraps.

Opening scene:
Various shots of community
Establishing setting and way of life
Credits rolling
Scene #1:
(V)-Main girl in her room waking up (doing a daily task)
Get an email about monthly schedule including dates to meet compatible person
Various shots of her room to show zodiac
(Purpose: showing a normal life of a citizen in society, and introducing character and their zodiac.)
Scene #2:
(T)-Introduce partner, doing similar thing to the main character
Very similar shots (parallel editing)
Also gets an email about date, and monthly schedule
(Purpose: further emphasis of society, and introducing character and zodiac.)
Scene #3: 

Go back to V, complaining to friend
Friend is compatible
Getting ready for date
Looking out window
Scene #4:
Back to T also getting ready, but slight shift in routine
Looking at different scenery, further establishing setting
Last scene:
- viewing of main characters, at a restaurant in a booth (on a date)
Camera then pans to a crane shot to show a full restaurant of different people on dates
(have little bubbles of each zodiac and compatibility level on top of each person’s head-like sims)
Camera pans out to a black/constellation and title “How The Stars Align”

there you guys have it, our plot outline

I Will See You Later <3

Redemption and..... brain-fart?

Good Afternoon!

   In my first blog, I did mentioned a schedule I created for my research blogs. If you don't remember let me offer a refresher. It contained four steps: Brainstorm story, Story research, Genre research, and More research. I am currently on my 5th blog, and I have yet to discuss my research, so here I am trying to redeem myself.

   While conducting genre research, my group mates and I found out that there is indeed a science fiction sub genre "Utopia Sci-Fi."

- Minor interference, I am currently researching the difference between the two societies, and I just realized that we are indeed creating a Dystopian society. Well that just changed everything. . .  . great.

    While I was researching my genre, I also realized that I am not really familiar with the minor differences between Utopias and Dystopias, because sometimes a Dystopia could be mistaken for a Utopia, which is what happened in my case. The clip above discussed how there is two different kinds of Dystopias, one which is chaotic and one that isn't. The Giver or Equals are two examples of movies that have incorporated two the more "organized" Dystopias, that usually lead to a rebellion by the protagonist. Also, in those societies there is also always something that is completely and utterly wrong in their leadership system, which usually leads to that snap in the protagonist.
  Basically that describes the overall idea of our introduction which concludes that our society is indeed Dystopian. This changes quite a few things, mainly the perspective of the filming processes. 

We now have to exaggerate the "idealistic" aspect of the society, the rebellion, and the plot.
It's okay this is normal. . . . right?
I am just glad we caught this minor mistake early on in the process.
Besides no one is perfect, not even Chris Evans.

I Will See You Later ;)

(got some exciting stuff coming soon)

Group Meet ups and More Ideas

Good afternoon lovely bloggers,

   Its Friday, and I am currently waiting to go see my friends, I have a couple hours left, so I decided to kill some time. 

  Today has been quite an interesting day, I am not the one to usually procrastinate, but unfortunately, certain times lead to certain measures. Honestly, I truly thought my group is slacking and up to date and the rest. During our a group discussing relating to our project, and I came to realization that my group is actually on the same track as the others, we are all trying to figure out the gist of our ideas.

  When it came to my project, I am glad to say everyone liked my idea, and of course they all had something to say about what I could do to make it the best. 

  I don't think I mentioned this in my previous blog post, but since we are conducting a Utopian society, I figured out that we do need a color scheme. Every Utopian society has a color scheme, and usually it is vibrant and colorful.

   I was originally thinking of creating a pastel color scheme, but someone in my group did mention that we should work with the color scheme that fits our community instead. The pastels wouldn't necessarily work with a Utopia, but more with a Dystopia.

   Now that I think about it, When it comes to these societies, the schemes are usually more concentrated in the architecture and design more so than the attire itself. Which is why we have to work around our society's aroma. It's going to be hard, but who doesn't like a challenge? Nevertheless, it is still important for us to incorporate a scheme because it is extremely important to our establishing point.

Our main inspiration for our setting and scheme is Children of Men, even though the movie is about a Dystopia we appreciated how well the set design was, and the fact that we could identify exactly what kind of society it is almost immediately. That is what we are trying to do. Weston Town Center, is one of the main places we are going to be shooting in. Due to that we have to work with their color scheme which consists of pinks, oranges, and blues. It kind of has that pastel tone, but not really, it has a more vibrant scheme.  

Anyways, that is what it for my blog! I am sorry I keep pushing the plot post, it is driving me insane, and I would love to tell you guys about it, but I don't want to post it until it is fully done and discussed, we have the outline finished. for you, I will post the outline and the plot, by the end of the week, promise. :)

I Will See You Later *snaps finger*

.....Brainstorming

Good afternoon beautiful creatures,

    I am starting to dig these weekly blogs, and believe it or not, I'm starting to believe I will be looking forward to blogging, shocker. But they're starting to become therapeutic, you know? I could go off about everything I want whenever I want, its like a free form of therapy.
    Anyways, let's get to the interesting topics. My group and I finally got the opportunity to discuss our project in more detail. We were able to brainstorm a couple of ideas for what we want to do with our project.
And, are you ready for it? Nawal gave me homework............how rude!

Don't worry, it wasn't anything bad, I just had to watch episode 4 season 4 "Hang the DJ" of  the show Black Mirror. This episode is about these individuals that join this Utopian society in order to find their perfect person, and basically they have to go on dates with different individuals until they get paired up with their most compatible lover.
The reason I had to watch the episode was because, Nawal and Shelby got inspired by it. They liked the the whole concept of compatibility. They wanted to incorporate the idea of a Utopian society that runs on compatibility. The signs would be compatible based off of their zodiacs, and their life would revolve around that, all their friendships and intimate relationships are heavily effected on that concept.
 I am actually quite excited for this!
 To be honest, I don't think it'll be hard creating a Utopian society due to the fact that we live in WestOn.
Another concept we came up with in relation to the society, is creating a tattoo-a form of identity- that every individual would have on their right wrist representing their zodiac sign.

Just like the image on the right, we want to incorporate something very similar to that, we are even considering adding possible serial numbers on every person, again to highlight the idea of identity. Since both Nawal and I can do Henna, it'll be easy to work with and it lasts a couple days, so we won't have to go through the process of drawing it on numerous times.

It is weird the way my group is approaching this process, we basically have various details gathered up, but not much of the plot  planned out. But realistically our details and meticulously chosen concepts are pushing us back from the final plot outline, i guess it is alright, we aren't falling behind or anything.... yet. Due to the that, I will let you guys know in my next blog all about our plot and our shooting schedules. But for now,

I Will See You Later *snaps fingers*

( I can't wait to vlog so you guys could actually see my new profound catchphrase, with the finger snap and everything!)

Story Time!

Hey Guys! It's me again

(Bare with me, I am trying to think of a catch phrase, but I guess this will work for now)

Anyways, remember my last blog? Wonderful! There was a part where I mentioned that I had an idea for our film introduction and that I needed to discuss it with the squad before I revealing it to you guys. Well today is your lucky day, I'm going to tell you what my new idea is, because it is better than my original. 
   Yesterday night I had a sleepover with my closest friends and around 1:30 am while we were talking, my best friend and I noticed the stars. They were all beautifully shining in the sky, each one sparkled stronger than the others. Somehow, we ended up laying on my friends backyard ground, staring at the stars for a little over an hour, it was fascinating. We soon realized that these constellations were indeed the zodiacs. We saw a couple, the Gemini, the Virgo, the Cancer, and the Leo. It was honestly one of the most amazing things I have seen in a while.

    My best friend and I start talking, we were discussed the facts relating to individuals and the zodiac, basically the idea of zodiac signs and their representations. I got inspired. While we were discussing our possible plot, I recalled the stars, and I suggested the idea of zodiac.
     What if our main characters are compatible zodiacs, and this was their destiny? Maybe we could have them represent the zodiac? Maybe they could become the zodiac? What if, all the other characters' personalities relate to their zodiacs relationship to the main characters zodiac? So many thoughts were running through my head, so I call the squad to tell them, and to my surprise Shelby had a similar idea to mine. We both had the idea of the zodiac. And that's how it all started.

     We created a love a story about two individuals whose zodiacs are compatible. They were practically destined to be together, where their stars aligned is what were going to call it. The plot goes something like this: the lives of  two individuals and how their worlds collided. In the intro, we are going to present the individuals lives, their friends, and their personalities. We are also going to establish setting.
    Through research  I have learned that the most compatible zodiacs are the ones that are opposite of each other.(Cancer and Capricorn) Also, the zodiacs that are from the same element are usually a power couple.(earth, fire, water, air) Since we are creating a love story between two individuals, we needed to find out the most compatibility between our two characters' zodiacs. For our main character, we decided to make her a Pisces; therefore, our lover is a Virgo, the most compatible to Pisces. The gender of our lover is yet to be determined. The reason she is a Pisces, is because we wanted to represent a zodiac that is easily recognized, and we thought Pisces is the one to go. They're emotional and caring, they love romance and music, they're simple.
    Since we got an idea of our couple's signs, we started to think about their surroundings, their personalities, environment, style, and everything there is to know to build the most realistic characters we could. I really want to delve in the character's world and pull of a J.K Rolling, and I will, but that is for another blog. For our introduction especially, details and background truly matter. We need to get every aspect of our character's star sign correct. I will discuss how we are going to do so in my next blog, along side our genre research, and how we are going to tie in the two.
I really hope you guys enjoyed my story time and.....
 I Will See You Later *snaps finger*
(maybe that could be my catch phrase)



https://www.thisisinsider.com/best-zodiac-sign-couples-2017-2
https://www.astrology-zodiac-signs.com/zodiac-signs/pisces/

First Blog

 Hey Guys!
   Welcome to the start of something wonderful. This is the first official blog relating to my portfolio project. I am so excited to go through this journey with all of you! Quite honestly, I never thought I would make it this far, but here I am, as ready as I could be.
    For my portfolio project I will be working with Shelby again, and Nawal. I have never worked with Nawal, but I'm positive it will go great. I've worked with Shelby numerous times, and due to our perfectionism, we were always compatible and on the same page so I'm not really worried about working with unfamiliar people. To be honest, for bigger projects like this I am usually better off working by myself, but I wanted to challenge myself and explore this experience with others.
    I'm going to reveal something: My group and I haven't decided on a genre yet. Shocking, I know. We are still in the process of figuring out what all of our creative minds can beautifully create, but that is what research is for. Throughout all of our discussions and previous research, I believe we are leaning towards the romantic genre. We have yet to identify with the specifics but, hopefully we will have it figured out by my next blog.
   Since I am known to be a control freak and like to have everything organized before I begin everything, here are the steps we are going to follow for our research:

1. Brainstorm ideas for introduction
2. Research for story
3. Research on genre
4. In depth research of technical aspects of selected genre.

   These four steps are our guide to have a full proper research component for our project. I'm not going to go into full details about these steps yet, I'm just going to let the blog do its job. I do have an idea of what I want to do, but I have to discuss it with the squad first. If my plans go accordingly, which they always do, our group will end up going with my idea. Once, I have informed them, I will let you guys know what it is, but for now enjoy being in the dark.
   I am also known to be a little extra, which means I will be going full on with this project. I'm going to be maxing out the extremes with my ideas relating the plot and all the elements within it. I would love to do numerous things with this and I could tell you guys a couple things off the top of my heard right now, but I don't have much time. But I can tell you this:
   My thoughts are swirling everywhere right now. My imagination is on panic mode. Seriously, my brain is going to fry if I don't stop thinking. I'm starting to get overwhelmed. This project determines  basically half of my overall grade....yay!
  I'm getting a little too excited, too nervous, and too anxious but, I'm fine.
  yeah......
  I'm totally fine.......
  No stress whatsoever.

music marketing project

Hello guys! 

It's been a while since I have blogged, but I am back!

   To catch you up on what I have been up to the last couple months, I along with my friends Naja and Shelby were busy creating a Marketing campaign for our lovely band.

   Today, I am going to walk you through our campaign. Obviously the first thing we did was research our genre and target audience. We conducted our research by looking into two bands within our genre of Indie-Rock. We chose the bands, The Black Keys and The Foals because we felt that they were a good representation of what we want our band to be. They both have a similar target audience to ours, 16-25 middle class individuals with an artsy vibe.

   The research was a major component in our marketing process, because it provided us with all the important details we need to know to create the perfect Indie-Rock band. From the research we mainly focused on understanding the representation component. For example: How we wanted the band  to look, the message they gave, what their social medias looked like, basically the bands image image. 

   After we finished with our research, we decided to build our marketing plan. An important fact that we had to focus on was that our Target audience is heavily reliant on social media and the internet, for that reason, we created the following:

- Our Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/s.o.l.e.music/?hl=en

- Our Twitter account:  https://twitter.com/sole_music_

-Our website:  https://reemhabbal3.wixsite.com/solemusic

   The reason we chose the colors of: light pink, light grey, and white for our theme is because the combinations of these colors creates the vibe that we want for the band. The colors have an aesthetic feel, and if there is one thing you learn about Indie-Rock is that its aesthetic.

  Social Media is the number one way to promote oneself. In today's world that is about the only way you could reach a variety of people, all at the same time, for sometimes free. We could carry a campaign without the social medias. But we did need something to promote. Since our band is fairly new, we wanted to start with something small. We started booking our band to local clubs around our area, like in Miami and Ft Lauderdale. So, we created fliers to sponsor our band, and to post them on social media. Of course we had to plan ahead. So we started to plotting a long term plan, which went along the lines of: starting of in local clubs, and charities, then expanding to opening up for smaller artists within our genre, to expand our fan base. Then, we will open up, for bigger artist, preferably in the pop genre, because that genre targets a wider range audience to eventually opening our own major tour.

  Now for the boring part. While creating this campaign, I have come to multiple conclusions. The first one being, do not rush the planning process. The planning is the most important part of any project because it creates a guideline for what you will be creating, because working on the blind side is not a great idea. Also, it is really important to fully understand your genre and target audience. If you do not understand your target audience, you will not be creating a successful project, no matter what it is. So for the film introduction, I will be making sure that I fully understand who my audience is. The last major thing I learned, is to plan realistically. Sometimes we get out of hand while we are planning, and we sometimes forget the reality of the situation. I have come to learn to take things step by step, or else you will end up screwing yourself over. 

That is for my blog today, I hope you enjoyed. 

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