(Week 3 pt1) Updates!

Title 

Now that we had a concrete idea we felt confident enough to come up with a title for our film opening, in retrospect we probably should have waited longer until coming up with the title of the movie but it really came natural to us. As some of you know for my previous postings, our movie opening is going to be about the relationship between a father and a daughter. The daughter, Avaley Grace, is a 9 year girl who more than anything in the world wishes to be able to be her mother and be able to hold her, hug her, and tell her how much she loves her. Sadly, this is not possible as Avaley's mother, Scarlet, passed away giving birth to Avaley. Avaley wishes she could learn more about how her mother was before the tragedy occurred; what she liked, what she didn't like, what her favorite color was, what her favorite ice cream flavor was, but sadly all that Avaley had of her mother were some old pictures of when she was a teenager and one of when she was pregnant. The father on the other hand, was an abusive drunk that blamed all of his problems on his daughter who he couldn’t even look at for more than 5 minutes without wanting to punch a whole through the wall. Now, Avaley's father, Damian, was not always this cold hearted man with no emotions, he used to be quite the opposite. When Damian met Scarlet, he felt as though meaning had just been introduced to his life. He fell in love, hard. She was his whole entire world and all he think about at every moment of his day was what he could do to make her the happiest women in the world. He wanted to give her the sun, the moon, and the stars. When Scarlet got pregnant with Avarey, they became the happiest couple in the world. They knew that they wanted to have children and they knew that they wanted a family together. The day that, sadly, Scarlet passed away, the day she gave birth. Something broke inside of Damian. His whole life had just stoped and he had no idea how to start it again. He was confused, angry, sad, miserable, and o many other things that he could even understand how to feel. He became numb. The moment that Damian saw his newborn daughter for the first time, the first time he looked into Avarey's eyes, all he could see was Scarlet. She looked exactly like her mother. This is what Damian could not handle, every time he looked at his daughter, all he saw was Scarlet and the only way that he could deal with this was through turning to alcohol and hatred. 

After establishing that this was the story that we were going to use and further establishing it, the movie title, "Love Me" came natural to us. 

General 

After searching for some days, we finally agreed on music for our opening. The song that we chose is actually perfect for us and the story we are trying to tell s it is about the relationship between a father and his daughter. Now we thought this was perfect as the whole song is alluding to the relationship that Avarey wished she could have with her father as he is the only that she was left. This song is called, 'Butterfly Fly Away" sung my Billy Ray Cyrus and his daughter, Miley Cyrus. Today, we actually emailed Walt Disney Records asking for permission for the use of the song, so we are excited to hear back from them and hopefully be allowed to use the song. 

In other news, we have started our script and our new storyboard. They are both almost done and I will hopefully be uploading pictures of both by my next blog, but if they are not fully ready by next blog expect them in next week's blog for sure. As always I will leave a picture of our updated Google Calendar below.