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I will be the narrator/director that guides this film. For the actors Jovani will be portrayed as the popular kid who everyone likes, Luca as the loner who doesn't have any friends, and Mr. Chambers as the teacher who picks on the loner and eventually the cool kid. For costumes Jovani will come in wearing clean fitted clothes, and Luca will wear a black hoodie with the hood over his head and some other beat up clothes. For now we will most likely not have props. This will take place in school in Mr. Chambers room, the hallways, and maybe in another classroom but we are still discussing it. The dates and times will most likely be throughout the school year. We were planning on writing a vague script and also coming up with stuff as we go that way it seems more natural. The film equipment will be a phone.

 During this storyboard planning our group had a broad amount of ideas, but in order to narrow down our choices, we decided to start with choosing a genre. Luca and Jovani initially decided to do a horror gene but then switched to a comedy genre in order to be more homogenous with their ideas. From there we decided our play in the creation of this film with me being set on a cameraman/narrator/director while Luca plays the "shy guy" and Jovani the "popular kid" in the film. Our backbone structure of this storyboard and film is the idea that this project is going to be a "coming of age" film and the idea of having a "shy guy" and "popular kid" complement each other since these two characters are the opposing forces who are going to make an alliance in order to symbolize that idea. However, we would need to introduce a third-party opposing force which is the "detention teacher" in order to provoke this alliance and get the ball ...