Production Blog: Getting started

 Hello bloggers! I hope all is well with and as you may know me and my group will be working on our short film. We had to figure out what we would do for our film so we decided that we would start. We had to figure out who would play the roles and if they would fit them correctly. We also thought about what props we would need for the filming process. We figured out what costumes we would need and if we need to do any sort of like makeup of any changes like that. So we decided that I would be a guy named PJ who is sort of a nerdy guy of the friend group. I would be the main guy figuring out stuff and having the main ideas. We made this decision after so many trial and error. We were really stuck since me and Nick could both play the role and it was overall a pain to decide on who would play who. We ended up going to Starbucks to refresh and be able to stay more focused. We get there and we get to work. We started brainstorming about the scenes and how they would loop and we had many different ideas. After a while of thinking we decided the idea and we went along with that in our heads. We also worked on how the talking would go in the scenes as far as how much talking would be done and who would be doing it. So we started working on our script and we got about a quarter of it done. But it was late and the group was tired so we ended it there and we agreed to continue another day. That was it for today's blog. See ya later bloggers!



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