Helloo!! Welcome back or welcome to my blog! In this post, I will be talking about my favorite part of this project... Working with my girls!! We have curated a great dynamic when it comes to team working if I do say so myself😛😛.
Since we are all already close friends IRL, it's been a breeze communicating ideas and dealing with mishaps. I find that as a group, we are really good at putting words to ideas, whether that be our own ideas or somebody else's. Sometimes when one of us has a vision, the others may misinterpret it, therefore causing a bit of confusion and discussion, but never anything more... hopefully it'll stay that way! Also attributed to misinterpretations, we have found ourselves stuck at certain points. In accumulation with the fact that on most of the days that we have filmed we've been on a time crunch trying to chase daylight, and ON TOP of that, when we either don't have an exact clear vision of something we want to do or if we aren't sure how to execute it, we have had some dry spells in productivity and brainstorming. Luckily however, these don't last long thanks to the fact that we have 4 different brains, not to mention 2 more (our filmer and driver ) to continue to generate alternative ideas. Additionally, before we even started filming, we also talked about our roles in production, and based off our character traits, we easily were able to appoint each person with their duty.
These roles areee....
Editor/ Director: Mariana
As I've stated in previous blog posts, Mari has been our main editor, and for the most part, a big part in the directing process as well. I find that she had LOTS of ideas, and I think has a group, we help her visualize her creative ideas and bring them to life. Also, something about Mari that I find very much important to mention is that fact that this girl is a STORY TELLERRR. She always finds a way to spice up a story through her narration and interpretation, which has honestly been such a great attribute to work with as her team member. Not only that, but within Mariana and I's friendship, we've bonded over sharing movies with each other, and I think through that, we have created a great creative communication window to sell an idea to each other; I always trust her judgement.
Production Designers + Creative Producer: Yours truly and Ms. Phi Le
I would say that Phi and I contribute mostly to the production process in term of creativity and set design. I characterize myself as a pretty artistic and creative person. Given this, I tend to have a keen eye to extra props or details we could add to make our project appear organic, natural, and just ultimately make it stand out. My partner in crime when it comes to this element is definitely Phi. We are mostly tasked with grabbing props for scenes, preparing the setting and atmosphere of a scene, and the completing storyboarding process. We also visualize how the movie will appear in terms of filters, title sequencing, and scene order. Of course, we always relay our ideas to the rest of the mandem. Additionally, when it comes to costuming creativity, I had a few instances where I really had to lock in. For example, in one of our scenes we had planned to have our characters wear hoodies of each of their corresponding colleges. For this, we had to reach out to friends asking if they had any. Low and behold, we ended up being able to borrow 3/4 hoodies!... All expect one: My characters hoodie. Because buying the merch is prettyy costly AND it wouldn't deliver in time for filming, I had to get creative. So, I scavenged through some old art supplies and I found iron-on letter patches. These literally were my saving grace; I was able to create a make
shift USF sweatshirt repping their architecture program to make it feel more personal to my character.
Last but not least...
Executive Producer- Nahomy
Nahomy plays a key part in our productive and directive process 100%. I would say her and Mariana work very closely in determining the direction our scenes will take, and collectively as a group, we all reconvene to approve it through all of us. With this, I think that Nahomy produces a lot of ideas when it comes to the way our scenes appear in terms of camera shots, angles, and movement. Not only that, but she also generates new ideas to showcase in our project that are not evidently apart of the plot, but they definitely contribute to the character development and fluidity/chemistry between characters. For example, for our gas station scene where the girls are goofing around getting slushies, candy, and chips, Nahomy had the good idea of shining the light on her character's personality by having her character "steal" some candy and we all run after her, following her lead. This idea correlates perfectly with the dynamic within the characters lives as Nahomy’s character Yve is known as the bad influence and rebellious.
⭐Honorable mentions⭐: James and Jason
It would be wrong to discount these guys!! James, Phi's cousin is our filmer. He has graced us with not only the access to his camera, but he also went to the lengths of literally filming for us. So generous🙏🙏. Equally, important, Jason has been our taxi since none of us are licensed... yet. Thanks to him, we have full freedom to switch up our location with ease. Jason also helps with filming if James isn't available. It's also great to just have a third- party opinion when filming, and we check in with them to determine if our scenes are understandable and appealing to an audience.
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