I'm calling the group meeting the sandboc because it's like a sandbox of ideas! Look I can only spend so long thinking of S words. So lets meet all the little kiddies who are gonna be chowing down sand of ideas in the sandbox!
I didn't write as much about myself as I was told, my main take away as you can see is to use more animation graphics, now that we have the story more fleshed out this advice will apply a little less but we still will have several animated graphics!
Luckly, Emi worked like lightning! She got a very fleshed out storyboard out, and now I can for sure say, I don't know what we would've done without this storyboard. I usually skip the storyboard step when I make short films, it usually goes not great, I've learnt over and over again to appreaciate this seemingly small part of the pre-production, I can now say that the storyboard at least halved how long we took on filming.
like a fart in the wind, I have NOT VANISHED and have returned with my bloggy know-how. I wrote the script, the story was my idea and im gonna be credited as the main writer so it makes sense. Now it took me quite a while to finish the script, partially due to complications at my home, paritally due to college prep stuff, partially due to a whole other short film that I will likely talk about at least once in my blog, but almost entirely due to laziness on my end, self awareness may be a good coping mechanism for being bad at your passion but it's not the script SO LET'S GET ON TO IT!
Here is the first version of the script, it sucks, plain and simple. I have a method for writing my scripts, sometimes I can just waste an entire day of brainstorming by not writing anything down and sometimes I write a 22 page script on a train that directly influenced this one! However, I could not get the juices flowing, and added with all of my half-assed procrasination excuses with an added layer of uncertainty as to what we wanted the story to be lead to, well this. I'd love to pick and laugh at how much of a failure this first draft was (Sidenote, at first I thought this script would be so good I wouldn't even need another draft, hilarious I know.) I literally wrote "ensue montage," my sister taught me how to write a montage in a screenplay and I just forgot, so instead of asking her I just hoped for the best. Theres a lack of real characters and motivation, there is basically no rising action, there are technically 3 acts but more accurately there are 3 scenes with the vague notion of there being montages, overall this script was not going to work.
Next draft was pretty good though. I will NOT take sole credit for this draft being a vast improvement from the last, that credit goes to my whole team who all huddled around and chipped out a much better version of the story. Now to toot my own horn, I was the one who came up with all the new scenes but it was a group effort to figure out what we wanted to flesh out which each scene, mainly characters. My first script does a terrible job at showing why Otto even chooses to join the evil, spooky, calf religion, however the new scene introducing Mable better shows this with subtler and more fufilling dialogue, along side smaller additional changes.
Now another version of the script was made but it's almost identical to the first so I'll save it for later, for now I'll say something wicked this way comes!
Research is hard, google hasn’t been a reliable source for anything since its logo changed fonts and they started celebrating lesser-known holidays. Through osmosis, however, I have scrounged out the three short films I need, all of them landing in or around the dark comedy genre. Let's get this over with.
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Media text: Huge
Social media tool: Instagram
Description of types of posts:
Description of how branding is developed (or not):
The page shows a focus on what the short is about (and what a lot of audience members will watch it for), that being the gender dysphoria aspect, social media is already meant to connect with audiences at a personal level so discussing the reason that the short is even being made directly on the social media is smart.
Analysis of how you will use this to develop your own social media presence:
I really like them devoting posts to specific cast and crew members, I could totally see us do a collection of “meet the crew” kind of posts that introduce the three of us.
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Media text: Murdershewanted
Social media tool: instagram
Description of types of posts:
Description of how branding is developed (or not):
The comedic quotes are what really helps demonstrate the short's edge and tone along side dragging potential audiences who find the quote's funny and weird in. The font used for the logo of the short is also loud and agressive with it's pink neon lights and white text.
Analysis of how you will use this to develop your own social media presence:
I actually really like this idea of using quotes from the short to show it's comedic angle, I think - since our short is more absurdist - I might make up fake quotes that become progressively more absurd as time goes on.
Media text: Loco
Social media tool: instagram
Description of types of posts:
Description of how branding is developed (or not):
The bright neon green text in the title's font sticks out immediatley and hence they stick cloesly to this aesthetic in every post building a sense of cohesion while also being incredibly over the top in it's matrix-like aesthethic. The videos made by the director are all very comedic and work with the shorts tone.
Analysis of how you will use this to develop your own social media presence:
I really want the satanist aesthetic to stick out in most if not all of our posts, deep, dark, crimson reds and blacks, cool satanic imagery and text with sharp angular fonts, helps attract a more targeted audience too.
