Filming

 Today I filmed some b-roll of my sister, Valeria, for my project. I filmed b-roll of her looking through her clothes. 

I took this picture as she was getting ready for filming, I'm probably going to post this on my Instagram as a "behind the scenes post". I'll most likely do this tonight. We had a good filming session. I also got more b-roll of her room which I'm going to use to demonstrate how it adds to her personality. Since usually a person's personality can be somewhat represented through their bedroom. So, it can be a small part in conveying that for Valeria. I also had her pick out her favorite clothing items, a shirt, jeans, and shoes. She showed the camera each item in her own way. I had originally planned to conduct the interview too, however it turns out that the only tripod in my house was taken by my parents to Winterhaven. Which is where they are currently at right now. They're out of town so, I'm just going to do the interview tomorrow with Valeria and I'm going to try my absolute best at keeping the camera as still as possible. Maybe I'll prop it up somewhere instead of just holding it.
 

canva development

 Ok so I've been using Canva a lot recently to develop all the other aspects of my project. I created a title screen that displays the word "bottoms" since my excerpt is focusing on jeans. It looks really pretty, I love how it looks!

 

It's so perfect, I'm gonna use it as the opening shot for my excerpt. The rest of the other title screens that would have been in the full doc would be other colors, like blue and green. To simulate the variety of personalities. I also used Canva to get started on my print! 

This is my print so far! I love the background gradient! It's perfect. The font is a variation of Playfair Display. I decided to use the variation because it seemed more elegant and fitting for a magazine page. I also labeled it as page 2 because the first page would most likely be something else. I feel like it would be more natural for it to be page 2. I also included my byline. As for what I'm going to include on there for photos, I'll probably include a photo from behind the scenes and from the end result. I'll start writing all the info probably starting tonight.

Filming

     Yesterday my sister, Valeria, and I went out to the mall and we went around the mall to shops that she liked and I got a good amount of b-roll and and shots of her at the mall and interacting with clothes. Since she was mainly focusing on jeans I decided to focus my excerpt of clothes on jeans. I had some trouble trying to embed some of my what I filmed onto here but it's ok. Here's an establishing shot of one of the shops we went into where Valeria tried on some jeans. I'm not sure if it will play or not, but it's an establishing shot so there isn't much to see other than the sign of the shop anyways. 

This is another shot , it's just Valeria and I waiting for the fitting room I also don't know if this will load but it's whatever. 

    I'm not entirely sure if those videos will load once this post publishes but I'll check later. For the rest of this post I'll just explain how the day went. So, we arrived at the Sawgrass mall and we started off at PacSun. I was sick when we filmed this by the way, so I tried my best not to speak the entire time because it hurt and because I sounded like a completely different person. So, we went to PacSun and Valeria and I were looking around for some cute jeans for her to try on. She picked out like five I think and she went into the fitting room. Every time she tried on a different jean I filmed her review about it basically. She'd tell me and show me how the jean would fit and whether or not she liked it. It was great, her feedback was exactly what I wanted. 

    Later, we stopped by Hollister but she didn't like anything there so I just didn't film anything in there. We went to Forever21 after that and same story. Aeropostale same story. Then we took break and went to Shake Shack to eat something. Our last stop was Zumiez and I took some shots there because she ended up trying on like three jeans I think. I did the same thing I did at PacSun and filmed every item she tried on and her review about it. It was really great. Then on our way back to the car through the mall I filmed some pov shots of us walking through the mall. 

    Also I just want to put it out here that I really love how the shots came out. I love that it looks nostalgic. That's what I really wanted it to look like. It just makes it all look so raw and natural in my opinion. I'm so excited to edit it all together when I get all the footage I need.

Instagram development

 I have successfully further developed my Instagram account after the group meeting I had this week. They gave me some confidence to put out some of the ideas I had for my first two posts. 

This is how my overall account looks like, I really like it so far! I finally ended up deciding what template I wanted to use out of the ones I previously demonstrated from Canva. The only thing I changed from my template was that I added "docuseries coming soon" instead of just the "coming soon". Below I'll include more info about each of my posts!

This is the first post! I really ended up liking this one the most so I decided that I'm going to stick with the background and the font for the rest of my plans for the docuseries. When I first uploaded it I forgot to include a caption so I had to go back and edit a caption in. Oops. But it looks so cute I love it. I got my sister to like the post too. I still have yet to send the link to my account to my AICE media studies A level group chat so that they can follow and support my account too. I'll probably do that soon. 

This is the second post! It took me a while to finalize this one because I didn't think it looked right. I had a little trouble looking for a picture of myself that wasn't at school. I just wanted something that was taken outside of school. So I ended up with that picture from Valentine's day. I also had to go back to the template of my first post to find the name of the font, which is called Playfair Display, to apply it to my "meet the director" post. Since I was looking at the creation of the post for too long I started to think it looked bad, but I realized that it did look nice I was just overthinking it. So, I posted it and tagged my own Instagram account on the post. But once again I forgot to include a caption when I posted it, so I immediately went back and edited a caption into the post. Oops again..

Group meeting #2

Ok so today I had a group meeting with some of my classmates. Gabby, Emma, Alec, and Corina! They all gave me very good insights for my production. I told them the details of my project as they looked at my blog through Mrs. Stoklosa's website. I mostly just asked them for help on how to further develop my Instagram account because I wasn't really sure what else to post and stuff like that. 

 They saw my blog post where I demonstrated all the templates I had in mind for my posts and they said that they liked the aesthetic that I was trying to go for. I also asked them about what else I should post other than a "coming soon" post and a "meet the director" post. Gabby said that I should post things like outfit checks and Corina added to that by saying that I should include things that the person likes doing. That I should find some inspiration from Pinterest since there's a lot of that type of stuff on there. Which I will definitely do since I already have Pinterest. As for the outfit checks themselves, I can probably have some help from my sister and my brother by just grabbing some of their clothes and laying it out on a nice background like their bed or something. Then I could come up with a cool outfit out of the clothes that they have to do this. I could also just use my clothes too. They were also saying that my genre sounds really artsy and that I should also go for that artsy feel on my Instagram account. I see what they're trying to say and I totally agree. I really want to give me Instagram a nice artsy and aesthetic feel.

Print research

 Ok so this time for print research, I was looking at posters for docuseries and I came across a docuseries that I watched a long time ago on Netflix. It's called The Nightstalker. It's about a serial killer called Richard Ramirez. I know it's not anywhere near my genre but it is a docuseries, so the poster can somehow relate to my type of research.

This the poster for the docuseries. I feel like they did a good job at making a poster, but I feel like they also messed it up because it's makes Richard Ramirez look cool with the dash of red light on his eye. Maybe that's supposed to represent the evil within him since the light is red. I feel like they messed up with that. Like to me, Richard looks cool when he's not supposed to. I think I'd make my poster with the colorful gradient that I used for my logo. Maybe some sparkles around the corners of the poster, and for the main focus maybe one of the interviewees. I need to think about the main focus a little further. It's hard to know what you want to be the main focus of something that represents the whole piece.

Instagram

Ok so I applied the logo onto my Instagram account! 

This is how my account looks like now. I think it looks really good and fits well with the aesthetic I'm going for for the documentary. I'm gonna start posting on Monday, with the coming soon post. Then I'll probably start posting more posts about "behind the scenes" since I'm gonna start filming more b-roll and footage of the interviewees. On Sunday I'm supposed to go out with my sister to the mall to get some b-roll of her shopping at the mall. There might be a possibility that it won't happen because of rides. Like, my whole family except my sister and I are home, so it's a little difficult to coordinate with help from my family members. Because I have a shift on Sunday from 5:30-11:00PM, and my plan was to go to the mall with her earlier before my shift and end it when my shift ends, so that I can just go straight to work. And my brother would go and pick her up from the mall since he usually stays home during the weekends. However, he isn't home this weekend, he's with my parents. So this complicates things. I have no idea how it's gonna work if we do end up doing it, but I'll keep you updated!