Starting Off - Week 1

     Hi, my name is Nicolas Lede, A few days ago I got the general outline of what would be the longest film-based project I have ever worked on. This meant that beginning now I would have eight weeks to complete the film opening for 50% of the final grade of my project. Needless to say, this is quite a daunting task but, my peers had told me about this before and I knew what I was in for when I started this class. I was excited and looked forward to working on this project. My friends had shown me some of their films but now that I'm starting the project for myself the first thing I plan on doing is looking at much more examples, I want to ask some other friends that took it last year for theirs and I want to view the ones provided by my teacher. I hope that this will give me some more inspiration for my project.

    Since I knew what was coming I have been thinking about what to do with my project for a while, so I have a general idea of something that interests me. I work a decent amount at Publix (a local supermarket chain) and I think about things a lot at work. The job is very simple and repetitive and often I feel time passes much quicker because of my job.  Since my teacher, Mrs. Stocklosa suggested strongly that you should do what you know, I feel like a film about the nature of how menial jobs can be very draining, especially when it's a dead-end job and you have nowhere to go.

    I don't fully know what the theme or moral will be but I feel that this is a relatable subject that has not been overdone. When it comes to the genre of this all I want to do is something related to supernatural or horror elements. Maybe specifically more psychological thriller since I believe that working a job like this and being in a situation where you are stuck working one of these jobs can be very harmful to someone's psyche.

    I also have an idea of someone that would be a good actor and a good location, a close friend of mine that works at a liquor store.

    I just have so many ideas and possibilities running through my head I need to begin organizing and executing certain things to figure out if my ideas are feasible.

I plan on seeing my friend Cesar on  Monday to pitch him my idea,

Until then signing off,

    Nico, Sunday 2/11/2023