Hi! My name is Jocelyn Villa and my group members are Sophia Espinosa and Gabriella Offredi. For our portfolio we decided to do a film opening. It took a while, but we decided on the coming-of-age teen subgenre. We chose this subgenre because its a genre we understood and could relate too the most. The story being focused on teenage girls makes the planning process much simpler because we have first-hand experience and information about teenage girls' emotions and experiences.
Story Elements
I imagined that target audience of our film/film openings would be fellow teenage girls (ages 14-19) or young female adults that have already experienced teenage girlhood and want to reminisce (ages 20-35). I think that since the film/film openings is primarily focused on the teenage girlhood experience, teen girls would want to watch this movie to have relatable representation to their lives and young female adults would want to watch this film/film openings because they feel nostalgic and want to reminisce about their teen years.
The plan for Alejandra and Arianna is for them to be in their senior year of highschool, since Alejandra will have her license and the plot of the girls skipping school ties in to the stereotype of seniors not caring about school because they are about to graduate. Arianna is going to be the more rational of the duo while Alejandra will be more impulsive with her choices and decisions. I see their dynamic almost like Ferris Bueller and Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). Ferris is confident and impulsive while Cameron is anxious and pessimistic. The girls will have an "opposites attract" friendship, similar to their's.
Technological Elements
Me and my groupmates have no prior experience with professional cameras, to my knowledge. Sophia has experience with her own personal projects using secon-hand cameras. My teacher will be supplying cameras to us to use for the film opening. Using a professional camera makes me a little nervous, but I think once I get the hang of it, I will be okay. I will be editing the film opening with Premier Pro, that is supplied to students for free and we used Premier Pro to edit a practice project in class so I am not as nervous about that aspect of technology. I am glad that I have never edited on any other software so learning to use Premier Pro was easy because I did not need to relearn any techniques or tools.
I am hoping, once it is time to film, that my teacher will give us a lesson on how to use the camera and how to upload the footage from the camera to Premier Pro for editing. If she doesn't that is something I will have to research on my own. For the microphones we will use I am unsure of why kind we need to get. Sophia has friends in the TV class that have experience with cameras and microphones so she will ask them which one would be best for us to get.
I think I will offer myself up to buying the microphones if it comes to it, with permission from my parents. I will have to wait for what Sophia's friends say. My next planning step, I think, is creating moodboards for the scenes and the characters to get a deeper understanding of their spirit and the aesthetic for the sets we are going to use.
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