What Device were Going to Shoot on

Since my group does not have a professional camera were going to have to use what we have. The iPhones that we have are powerful enough for us to just use the cameras on those. I currently have the iPhone twelve and my phone has the capability to shoot in 4k.

This will definitely take more skill to make it seem like it is shot on a real camera since it does not have all the features that a real camera has. For example, if we want to change the focus of the camera we would have to manually click on the screen where we want the camera to focus.

Another thing we would want to use in the iPhones is the lighting feature as all we would have to do is drag our finger down the screen and the lighting changes from light to dark. Isaac has the most experience with this as he uses it regularly to film his basketball games.

The Evolution of our Story

 At first, we wanted for there to be a soccer game happening in the opening scene but we late realized that it would be hard to have two entire soccer teams in our film. What we decided to change it to instead is the main character Gabriel and his best friend start off practicing in the fields. We decided this would be way easier to film because of the significantly less amount of people that we need to film him and his best friend practicing on a soccer field.

After Gabriel is done with his practice we want him to have a talk with his parents. We are still deciding if we want him to talk through a phone with his parents or if we want him to speak to his parents in person. But the idea that we want the parents to speak to Gabriel about is that they think that Gabriel is not going down the right route educationally. They think that he is not doing enough in school and that he needs to focus more on his academics.

Another thing that Isaac suggested is that we want a college coach to call Gabriel's parents and he said that he wants the mom to decline any requests that the coach is making for him to play soccer in college.

We Started Making the Script

 My group started making a script with camera shots and how the character feels in certain lines. We wanted to make the script so that it would be easier to outline where we out with the project. We also added in the emotions and the facial expressions that the character would make in order to make it easier to see what we wanted the character to look like in the future.

We wanted to start off with the main character Gabriel shooting at the goal to show how passionate Gabriel is with Soccer. Throughout the script when Gabriel has to leave and see his parents his parents talk to him on how they want him to focus more on soccer. This is the major dilemma that Gabriel is going to struggle with in the intro. His parents think that soccer is something temporary and not something that will last with him long term. This is why they emphasize that he should get his grades up instead of him putting all his energy into soccer.

The Setting of our Intro

 The setting of our project is going to take place in a soccer field near one of our parks. We decided to use one of the fields to portray our main character Gabriel playing a sport. We want to use some of our friends from school to play in this film so we can make it seem more realistic as there are usually more people playing on the fields.

The one that my group (Isaac, Julia, and me). were thinking of using is Vista park. We wanted to use these fields because the fields have a majority of soccer kids. With could ask the kids that are playing in the field if they wanted to be in our film or at least be extras.

Another park that Isaac suggested we could take a look at is Regional Park. The reason why Isaac wanted to use the park is that he likes the look of the park and the fields. He also said that the atmosphere is more family-friendly. In these fields, we could capture more family scenes as there could be families in the background speaking amongst each other.

Breaking Down the Plot

 The plot of our Portfolio Project is to portray a teen who is going through the stage of his life where he has to decide whether he wants to continue his passion for sports or does he want to start a new point in his life where he goes to college and focuses on his grades instead. He battles this decision very heavily during the trailer with his parents not caring about his passion for his sport which discourages him from wanting to pursue soccer.

The problem that our character faces is that his passion for soccer is too strong for him to give it up easily. Therefore, he weighs in the Pros and Cons of quitting soccer. With his parents not believing in him, it makes him want to pursue his passion for soccer even more out of the spite.

The Portfolio Projects Target Audience

 The target audience of our portfolio project is teens that are in upper-middle-class. We think that this is the appropriate target audience due to the fact that many teens could relate to the athlete because he is also middle class and does not need to play a sport to get out of poverty. The athlete we are portraying is playing the sport because he enjoys the sport and not because he has to play for the financial gain of his family.

This photo is an example of what the target audience would look like teens between the ages 15-17. We like this age because during this age is when many teens start to wonder whether they should continue their sport or choose another thing they should focus on such as their grades or a job.

The Introduction to our Athlete

The origins of our athletes are not the stereotypical rags to riches story that many other movies do. The athlete comes from an upper-middle-class family who does not struggle from problems financially and can pay for most of the colleges that the athlete wants to go to. We wanted to do a teenager that comes from a suburban household because we think that that would relate most to our target audience regular people that want to pursue sports.

My teammate made this moldboard and it encapsulates our character very well because it shows what he loves which is soccer and how he also does well in school. It shows how he is very athletic with the sportswear and the cleats and how he is very social online with his iPhone. Our athlete is struggling whether he should focus on school or put most of his focus into sports and that is one of the major problems he faces.

Genre Research

Genre Research for the Portfolio Project

The genre that we decided to do for the portfolio project is Sports Drama. We decided that this genre is very prevalent in the current times and we have a lot of inspiration as me and my partner watch many movies and tv shows that are related to sports drama. We have drawn inspiration from shows such as All America.

All America was a successful show that had a peak of a million views during 2020-21. All American goes into the life of a football athlete and how he faces multiple challenges such as his social and how some are his friends choose the streets and how he can manage those bad influences and help him at the same time. We draw inspiration from All American because we want our athlete to face challenges while wanting to pursue his sport.

There was another movie that we drew inspiration it is called American Underground. The movie is based on a real-life quarterback Kurt Warner that faced the challenge of being a nobody and wanting to prove himself in order to provide for his family. We are inspired by this movie because like in the movie Kurt is extremely passionate about football like our main character.

Week One Blog

 

Week One blog 

The approach that I am going to into the portfolio project is one where I will be patient with my team and listen to what they have to say instead of just taking control and filming the way that I want to. I will also go into the project with a lot of research about film and a lot more knowledge than previous projects due to the amount of media that I have consumed by more abundant than before. The initial plan that I have is to figure out a story for my project and how will it teach the audience a lesson or help them learn something important about themselves or the world. My team will brainstorm what the portfolio project will be about and what genre we plan to do our film on.

Music Marketing Blog Post #2

Music Marketing Blog Post

During the time of the project, our team researched in depth the subject of R&B. The song that we were given was a hit song during the '90s. The song was a very slow and romantic song about a guy who broke up with his girlfriend with who he was deeply in love and talks about how if he finds another girl it will be like his ex-girlfriend. 

My team drew inspiration from these lyrics and decided to shoot our music video based on the lyrics. Our music video was about a man who was incredibly sad, angry, and reminiscent of his girlfriend. He writes a love song about his girlfriend and has flashbacks to the happy moments in the relationship.                                                                                        

Reflection

The project did teach me a lot in terms of working and filming with a group that I haven't previously worked with before. It further exposed me to working with high-quality cameras since Nicole used an actual camera instead of her phone. This project will help me with the portfolio project because it has prepared me with editing and filming short scenese