(#33) - Let's figure this out. (meeting up for advice on POSTCARD, WEBSITE, and transitions)

After finishing our first draft of the film, Luis and I showed the film to our mentor for advice. Primarily, we needed help finding a transition between scenes 1-2 and 2-3, and receive some advice on our postcard and website (which I will make separate blog posts about!). 


Currently, there is a black screen in between these scenes, as we wanted to leave space for a transition we would add on after. I brought up my original idea, and both our mentor and Luis liked the idea. As these scenes occur inside the VR world, the transferring between environments is the competitors loading into a new level. I pitched that between scenes we could fade into white and add a sound cue to indicate the players were being transferred somewhere else in this perfectionist reality game. This simplistic approach would be optimal as something overly complex would be a lot to get the audience to understand, especially when they have to wrap their head around the story.


For the postcard, Luis and I decided that we wanted to create an invitation from the school to get people to come to the viewing of the film. This would be similar to a letter that the competitors receive from the school to be in the Valedictorian competition. Using the purple and yellow color scheme, we created this using an online software called Canva:

Luis and I were conflicted about the "Special Screening"; our mentor was to be the tiebreaker. Ultimately they believed that the inclusion of "Special Screening" not only took up valuable space on the postcard but was redundant as this is assumed of a film's premiere. Mine and Luis's updated postcard now looks like this:

Now this postcard looks awesome. Luis and I added the image of the graduation caps as a way to provide a better visual of the actual film in a manner that wouldn't spoil any events and created a fake CTFD festival (an easter egg of one of our favorite sayings).

The website, on the other hand, I am deciding not to show on my blog (yet) as our largest piece of advice from our mentor was spelling mistakes. With numerous errors and corrections that need to be made, one gigantic post for the website and all of its choices would be served justice on its own rather than infused with this already extensive post. 

Our call this morning was really productive! Taking a minute to show your project to someone else and have other brains helping assess materials is imperative to the success of the product. With more eyes and opinions, Luis and I can better assess how a larger audience will receive our piece. This upcoming week we plan to not only finish production but get insight from a test audience about corrections to our film and other materials!!

Till Next Time, Have a Great Day!