Hello Internet! As we approach the end of third quarter, with only a couple weeks left, we have moved on from photography and are switching back to videography! The project that we are starting on now is for the .MOV film festival, a film festival held by a private school here on Kauai. We had the choice to do a sitcom, movie trailer, or animation, and my team will be doing a movie trailer. If you want to find out a little bit more about the festival, particularly if you live on Kauai and want to participate, check out the link list. The title of our movie trailer is Hero Defeats Tyrant, and you can read about it below, and I'll see you at the bottom.
My team's video is about a hero named Veronica who fights a color stealing tyrant. As I am writing this, (I know the continuity of these posts are non existent, as I write them over the course of two weeks) we are still in the preproduction phase, planning out the logistics of our video. The who, what, where, when, why, and how if you will. Our storyboard format for this class consists of the four Ps of story making, (People, Places, Plot, and Purpose) the script of our video, complete with shot type descriptions, and the focus of this paragraph, keywords. The keywords for this piece are unfair, dystopia, color, bravery, and tyranny. Our keywords connect with the audience because I think they embody the purpose of our story, which is to show how one person's utopia might be another's dystopia. I believe the concept of a utopian world, where everything is perfect, is unrealistic, because everyone has a different perception of how their perfect world would be. Whether a society is a utopia to a dystopia really depends on the perspectives of individuals, which is why I think it has been an upcoming trend in the YA fiction genre. Books like the Hunger Games, Divergent, and the Selection are so appealing because we get to see how characters react to their worlds, and how they fight the dystopia. (It also probably helps to have amazing heroines like Katniss and America...)
Our movie trailer focuses on the changes our heroine must go through in order to help restore color to her world. She goes from a street urchin living in an dark, dirty alleyway, to a warrior working to save her world. The purpose of our story is to demonstrate the relation between a dystopia and a utopia, and how that affects the people who live in that world. My definition of a dystopia is someone's utopia gone wrong. Someone wanted to fix the world, but ended up with a place that is wrong, dangerous, and frightening. The first place that comes to mind when I think of the connection between dystopia and utopia is the Community from the Giver. It started out seeming like a perfect world, but ended up being a terrifying, emotionless place, where people are executed for being different, and no one blinks an eye. Our story is kind of like that, where people must fight for their rights, and for their worlds.
My team consisted of Kasiah (Of Course), and another good friend of mine, Preston. Both of their blogs will be linked below, so check them out. This was a relatively short project, lasting only two weeks. That was slightly stressful, as planning, producing, and editing a video in that time frame is rather difficult, but our final product came out very nice, and we were one of the only teams to turn it in on time. That was definitely one of the most difficult parts of this project though. It was borderline being to short, at exactly 90 seconds, the minimum time frame, but the visuals are really nice, the audio is clear, and I think it gets our point across well. For about the first week of this project, Kasiah was actually off island, and Preston didn't have access to the plan from home, so I shouldered a lot of the preproduction work, like planning and scripting. I was worried, as we had only one available day to film. Kasiah got back on a Thursday, the one day of the week when we don't have Gt, and we
couldn't on Friday, or Saturday, and Monday was the filming deadline. Luckily, Sunday was a perfect day, and we filmed from 10:30 to 2:00. The editing process went smoothly, with only a few bumps in the road.
This was a relatively long post, so I hope you all made it through alive. I love producing movie trailers, it's one of my favorite projects, even though the time frame for this project was a little short. It was great to get the gang back together, as I haven't worked with Preston since 6th grade. I'll link to the projects the three of of us did in 6th grade. I hope you all enjoy our trailer, because I think it's pretty fit. Anyway, enjoy, I love you all, etc, etc. BYE!
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