Hi again!

Hey guys! Its been a while, but now it appears it is that time again...

Its time for the portfolio project!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh and this time I actually have a team to work with!

Anyways lets get to it.

So for this year, theres a major difference in the portfolio project off the rip. This year we have choices! If you dont remember, last years project was limited to a 2 minute film opening, with no alternatives. This year we have 4 options: 

• Music promo package: Create a music video, social media page and digipak for an existing artist or band.
• Film promo package: Create 2 trailers for a film, a social media page, and a poster.
• Documentary package: Create a 5 minute excerpt from an episodic documentary, a social media page and a magazine article.
• Short film package: Create a 5 minute full short film, alongside... you guessed it: Social media and a postcard advertisement.

Now if the bolding wasnt enough of a hint, my team decided on the short film package, I personally liked it because its familiar to last years project, and it lets us create a full short film that can have something incorporated from each one of us in my team.

So essentially with this short film we came to a conclusion that we wanted the genre to be a somewhat dark comedy, in like a way that can be kind of absurdist maybe (I kind of brought up the ENA Youtube Series and game as a potential refeence, but there is a good chance that the film moves in another direction)? Basically its supposed to make people uncomfortable. Honestly i'm exited to see what this project will have in store for me and my team.

(ENA, I guess…)

Speaking of my team (somehow I forgot to mention them up until now...) Im working with Emi Valdiva and Joaquin... okay I may have forgotten his last name... Anyways!!!!! They're pretty cool and really wierd too (could not ask for better people to work with).

Each member in the group is going to be focused on certain aspects but I dont think the roles are going to be solid, in fact, I think it would be better to simply overlap input into every different element of our project. This way we can truly incorporate something from everyone into the film. However, just for organizational purposes, we do have a quick list of stuff each person would like to focus on

Emi: Actress, social media manager, editor (?), costume designer, storyboarder, art director

Joaquin: Director, cinematographer, screenwriter, actor, editor (?) Andrew: Postcardthey, acthey, sound designthey, waterthey (ripped straight from the google doc lol)

Moving on...

So when we got assigned the project, Emi, Joaquin and I started brainstorming ideas. After some strange ideas we came to like one really strange one over the others. Originally pitched by Joaquin, this film would follow a protagonist who in a moment of depression or desperation (one of those i lowk forgot :3) makes a deal with the devil to feel better in certain ways (its still unclear how to approach this in a school friendly way, since the original idea included... getting high.). Anyways the protagonist is then tasked by the devil to like kill people and stuff.

very

weird

tbh

but its also really funny.

I am very exited to see how we can adapt this idea into a 5 minute film. But for now that is goodbye.