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It is finally day three and things are continuing to move along smoothly. Grant and I recently talked about what we have planned for our plot and theme of our film opening. If you can remember in my last bog, I referenced two movies that we planned to use as inspiration . Those movies are Old Yeller (1961) and Where the Red Fern Grows (1974). The reason we are using these two movies (and others too) as part of our inspirational is because they are two classic family films that have have dogs in them! We chose to use dogs sort of as our theme. When trying to think about children/family movies that we'd seen before, we instantly thought of a bunch of movies that all had one thing in common: dogs!
We wanted to do something that was a classic idea where we have a main character protagonist and a dog, just like Old Yeller. Dogs in feature films as main characters has been a thing since the dawn of time, and it seemed only fair that we carry on the tradition. One thing that we know is going to be an epic challenge is training a dog to be a star of a movie (even if it is only two minutes long). training dogs is neither of our fortes so we just decided to look it up, and this website gave us some tips http://www.hollywoodpaws.com/faq.htm . It stated that dogs only need to know simple commands in order to be film stars, and that was perfect for my dogs!
Our overall plan is to create a film opening that displays a passing of time over a span of years. I have two dogs that are the same breed but different ages, so we thought the best way to show passing of time without using any kind of special effects was just to have two actors. Then with the human actors we planned to do the same thing- use two actors different in age. Other famous films have used this technique too! Some very reputable instances are in The Notebook (2004) and Star Wars (1977). Both films utilized the technique of having the same character portrayed by two actors at different ages. One source gave examples of this technique being used in feature films and we read these accounts carefully so that we would know what to do in our own film opening (http://www.mtv.com/news/2769341/young-old-actor-same-character/ ). One excerpt from the source emphasized the importance of keeping the same mannerisms, speech patterns, and body language in the character throughout the whole film while still managing to be true to the age of the character at the time. I am so excited for this aspect of creating our film opening just because I know it is going to take a keen sense of direction and a knack for character development by whomever we choose to cast which will most certainly be a feat!
These are the two dogs we will be using as actors!!
Until next time,
Kyleigh.
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