So! To the left, is my new schedule for the project. I wanted to make a new one because I started to see that I was on a different track than how I had initially planned so I rewrote it to be more aligned with my current pace. I think this will actually be more beneficial because I have moved up the time to when I am supposed to begin filming for the film opening, which will ultimately be the most time consuming area of the project as the timing also depends around location availability and the actors involved. Reflecting back on my music video project, I have learned that it’s better to overshoot material and plan out a long period of time to get things right. This way, I’ll also be able to return to filming in case I catch anything inconsistent or wrong with shots during the editing process.
Now that my affairs are all in order, I have started to structure the scenes of my opening scene. As I've mentioned, I plan for the film to open in a slow-paced montage of items around the main character's bedroom. I want it to open with the focus on a particular item, maybe a window or stack of books, and the main character can be seen through a shallow focus moving around the room. It'll then cut to more important contextual scenes like a picture frame of a young boy and two parents, soccer trophies, a youthful poster on a wall, 12th grade textbooks, a graduation gown, and photographs that show the main character growing up.
Throughout these scenes, the credits will be shown in the bare wall beside the centered item. I think after about 10 seconds of natural asynchronous sounds, a voicemail of the mother speaking will play and after it ends the first time, the scene will focus on the main character tapping on his phone. Then, the voicemail will play again while the main character moves out from the frame and the title will appear saying... I still need to work on the title actually. Then a knock will be heard at the door and the main character will stumble to grab his phone and turn off the voicemail. His father will open the door and urge him to get ready, and after a brief exchange of sentences, the main character will look at the graduation gown and look down at his hands and sigh. That's the general idea of the scenes for now, but I'm going to create a storyboard to better plan out the sequence and appearance of things. I'm also interested in adding some nondiegetic music, but I'm unsure if it'll make the opening too noisy or distract from the voicemail. I'll have to experiment different methods when I get to that point.
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