The first thing that I did about this project during the time following my revelation was to picture who I wanted for my main actress. I decided that one of my close friends, Megan, would be perfect for the part if she would be willing to be my main character. This is because Megan has the vibe of a girl who is ready to set off on an adventure and she is also who I imagine when I picture my main character. I made these choices because, for my friend, she fits the part perfectly! Megan is the kind of person who has no problem in portraying the emotion that she needs to when the time is right, which makes this project more powerful, at least in my mind, because from the moment we see the main character, the emotions are the most vital part of the film opening. Megan has a nice blonde shortish hair and her expressions are perfect for the character that I want to portray. For the male asynchronous voice of the dead boyfriend, I chose to give myself the part. When I decided to use myself for the voice message narrations, I did it with the idea in mind that the voice messages would have to be an exact length to allow the images to match the voice narration perfectly, and, me being the one who speaks the messages allows me to have the flexibility to make the appropriate changes according to my personal schedule.
The next thing I did was to go on Garageband and play around with the sound editing options. I chose Garageband because I know how to use Garageband from previous experience and I find it easier to move that sound into iMovie which is the video editor I know how to use best. After playing around for about half an hour, I finally found that the "Megaphone" setting sounded really similar to what I need for a voicemail-machine sound. I played around a little and even recorded some test runs of the recording I wanted to have.
Finally, I added an idea to the film opening that I chose to do. Instead of just having the main character open her eyes the moment that the voice message from the police department finishes, I decided to add a small scene that can either be taken as a nightmare or as a message from the beyond in which the main character sees her boyfriend in the way he looked before he died. Then she is going to jolt awake and begin to cry. After all of this, she straightens up, walks over to the box, and the scene continues as planned. I got the idea for this scene from the first couple of seconds of the trailer to the television show Proof. I want to do this because I want the audience to get a view of the boyfriend and to get an image of what actually happened to him.
I have decided to label the genre of this film opening as a realistic fiction because the film opening is about a story that hasn't necessarily truly happened but it's possible that it could in our world as it exists. I also have decided that my target audience are teenagers and young adults, most likely from the age of 15-25 years of age.
So far, I think my project is showing a lot of promise. I just hope that soon all my ideas will be put into place and that the actual filming, which I am so thrilled about, will actually commence.
-EC
Reference:
Tvpromosdb. "Proof (TNT) Official Trailer [HD]." YouTube. YouTube, 16 May 2015. Web. 12 Mar. 2017. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_wK6P0DJr8>
very interesting!
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