Call Me an Influencer the Way I Have 6 Followers

So, a pretty big part of this project is the social media aspect. We wanted to get started early on so we made our first post this week. 

We're still developing the general look of the page, but we have an idea of how we want to aesthetic of it to be. Since we don't have a full idea yet though, we decided to do a really simple first post. I got the idea from Neon's (production company) social media announcement of their 2025 upcoming film, Brides.

It's a really simple concept, which is great because it kinda fits any theme that we'll want to incorporate into the page in the future. And this is how it came out.

We would've done the actual printed copy but the script itself is uhhhh...nonexistent at the moment so this'll do. Also, name reveal. Not sure how I feel about the title but there's nothing we can do now. For the next post, I'm thinking of making the title graphic on after effects and make it all techy and cool. I don't know, I have an idea but it's hard to explain. Also, Megan (who can draw reallyyy well) has been doing sketches that we're thinking of putting either as the profile picture or as another post and they're looking soooo good. So yeah we have a lot of posts coming up which is exciting but also so stressful cause there's really no going back now, like this is set in stone now.

AHHHHHHHH

Hi! So, this week I am super, super, super busy because I'm going up to Tampa to compete at STN (yippee!). Luckily, me and Megan have a planned-out a schedule for the rest of the week so we don't fall behind too much. And to be honest, we are making progress, so I'm really happy about that. I do think we're a little behind schedule, but that's mostly my fault since I've been having writer's block with the script. Luckily, we are making progress with casting, which was my biggest concern. 

Yesterday, we sent out a casting call to the drama club in hopes to get a couple of people to audition:

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 ATTENTION ALL ASPIRING ACTORS/ACTRESSES🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

CAST CALLING FOR A SCI-FI SHORT FILM

AUDITIONS HELD ON: 2/27/2024 @ 3:30

WHERE: DRAMA ROOM

CONTACT: 954-248-8099

CONTENT:

We are in need of actors for our current short film in production! This film is a sci-fi/dystopia film that takes place in the times of robots and scientists...

We are looking for an actor who can display a very robotic character that slowly becomes more human overtime..

More will be explained at auditions and if/when you contact!

For this audition you will be provided with a monologue to perform as well as a poem that you will have to read out loud and convey your voice acting skills throughout it.

PAY: A free meal wherever you like for every filming day we have :)

WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING PERFORMANCES

THANK YOU.

So far, we've gotten 10 responses which is GREAT. 

Screenshot from someone looking to audition

Unfortunately, we forgot to specify that we wanted male actors for the leading role which is not so great. Honestly, the characters aren't completely set in stone yet, but we've been envisioning the lead as a guy so it's hard to let the vision go. For now, we'll just be auditioning the lead as a gender-neutral role just in case someone else comes along and just really surprises us. I guess we'll see. Since I'll be out of town, Megan will do record the auditions, and I'll look through them and we'll cast the roles together. Biggest obstacle we have right now in terms of casting is that a lot of the drama kids are very busy because their tech week and show is coming up, so they have rehearsals almost every day after school. We decided to take a survey from those looking to audition for which day is best for the majority. We are still waiting to get responses from that so we can set up a clear date and time and we also have to find a place to hold the auditions. But aside from all that, we're ready to hold them. Megan went more into depth on her blog about the process so I'll be brief here. 

We are having people audition with a monologue from BSG and a poem. The monologue fits because it's got similar themes as our concept. We chose the poem solely because the script has some voice-over and we want someone who can do good voice acting.

That's all I got for today. Really excited to see who auditions and what we see!

Script

Okay so I'll be honest on here and please don't be mad @cambridge graders, I have no idea how to write a script. Like yeah I wrote one for the AS project but we just ended up improvising most of the dialogue. In my defense there was like two lines in the whole thing either way. Making this my first major script. Uhhhhh. I don't know how to do this.

The Short Film

I found a couple of good articles (I'll link them below) on how to write a short film script, since it is very different to full-length scripts. I decided to focus on the major points that all of the articles claimed were keys to writing a good script.

Characterization

According to literally every source I read, the characters are the most important part of the story. A film doesn't work if you don't understand your characters. Everything that occurs in the plot is either a character's reaction to something or a reaction based on a character's actions . 

Since it's short, 5 minuteish film, then there should be a limited amount of characters, and preferably focus on a main protagonist and a supporting role. The articles also reiterate the importance of having relatable characters. Make the characters have goals, flaws, personalities. In our case, this will be a little difficult since the character isn't human. However, we have to find a way to humanize the character enough to make audiences relate to him. The last, crucial aspect is to focus on ONE clear goal and set up the conflict related to it. 

Structure

 

There's a number of different ways to structure a short film. The most commonly known one is the three act structure, but there's also the save the cats beats, the hero's journey, and nonlinear structures to name a few. Since its the most broad and common, our short will follow a 3 act structure. 

Act 1: beginning, inciting incident, doubts, act one climax, obstacles

Act 2: midpoint (plot twist), confrontation, disaster, crisis, act two climax, regrouping

Act 3: obstacles, resolution, end

For our short, we'll have to condense or even get rid of some of these beats since there's just not enough time. A really important aspects to short films is to make a simple story. I'm very worried about this because I'm scared that our concept may become too complex.

Simplicity Over Everything 

As I said above, short films have to be SIMPLE!! The more complex they get, the harder it is to pull off. Every second counts (Clairo reference) when writing short films, so it's important to just get rid of any excessive or unnecessary plotlines and characters. Which is reallyyy hard when you're already attached to an idea. I can already tell that I'm gonna have to shave off a lot of plot and ideas from my first draft, so that'll be hard, but necessary to create the best script. Also, another really important thing that we have to remember while writing is show, don't tell!!

Language

There's this cool book by Daniel Keyes called Flowers for Algernon which I have never read. However, I did read the original short that was published prior to the expanded novel. I'll admit I read this story a longgggg time ago, but I was really struck with the style that it was written in. The story itself is about a man named Charlie who was born with a very low IQ. Charlie undergoes a surgery to increase his intelligence, and it actually works for some time, he reaches a genius-level IQ. The cool thing about this story is that is written in an epistolary style, specifically through Charlie's progress reports. So, you actually get to see the effects of the surgery through his vocabulary and grammar. 

Excerpt from the story

Our short film will (hopefully) have similar style, but the android's use of language and his dialect will evolve as he is exposed to more media, etc. I think that'll be cool. But to pull this off, I want to do some research on how children acquire language to fit it to the writing. And artificial intelligence language expression vs human language expression. 

Sources:

How to write a short film: Step-by-step guide - 2025. MasterClass. (n.d.). https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-short-film-step-by-step-guide

Newbie Film School. (2021, May 14). Writing a perfect short film script: Beginner’s Guide & Tips. https://newbiefilmschool.com/how-to-write-a-short-film-script/

Robin Piree. (2025, January 4). How to write a short film script (that doesn’t suck). https://robinpiree.com/blog/how-to-write-a-short-film-script 

 Lets Get Postmodernist in Here

As seen on my last post, I hit a big roadblock when I really started thinking about my original concept. My original idea was that this AI "being" would self-destruct or whatever because he starts to feel resentment towards humans for creating him and giving him this knowledge without the actual ability to experience any of it. But that doesn't even make any sense. Like I'm trying the argue that AI doesn't have emotions, but then his eventual demise is an emotional reaction?? I think my brain was off when I came up with that. But anyway, I've been really trying to adapt the idea to make sense, so I decided to consult my good friend Jean Baudrillard. 

Doesn't Baudrillard look exactly how you would imagine a French philosopher and sociologist? Like I really admire the commitment to looking the part. But anyway.

In his book Simulacra and Simulation,  Baudrillard claims that the simulation has replaced reality, calling this the 'hyperreality. In this phase that we are living in, the world of simulacra that we have created is more real than reality (of course, this argument gets a little more confusing when we start pulling apart the idea of  what 'reality' is in the first place, and if a true, authentic reality, not altered by a constructed narrative, has ever ever existed). If the hyperreality has replaced reality with simulacra and simulations, then the reality hasn't really been replaced. I mean sure, our current reality is the hyperreality, but it's not a true replacement of the original reality. The original reality cannot be replicated. If that makes sense.

So, I was seated in my sociology class, and my teacher was going off on this kid for talking back to him, and this is kinda a daily occurrence so I just decided to tune out what was going on until we started the lesson, and I started to really think about this concept. Finally, I think it clicked for me. The AI needs a motive for it's self-destruction, right? But it can't be an emotional reason, it has to be one based fully on rational analysis. 

Humans created this machine/device/whatever you want to called, specifically to increase (and therefore, replace to a certain extent) the human population. The point of these machines is that they should be indistinguishable from humans, basically replicating humanity. AND, they equipped them with an excess of knowledge and intelligence. Baudrillard would describe artificial intelligence as a simulation. But, after an extended exposure to the 'human experience', a superintelligent 'being' will understand that they cannot fully replicate humanity, a human cannot function without emotions. This is essentially the catalyst to the subject's ending. 

By figuring this out, I have a more defined understanding of our main character and his motivations. What I'm still struggling to come up with is the other character. I originally considered maybe the character becomes close to the researcher but I feel like that might be overdone and lack an emotional connection since the researcher would have to be objective. I don't know.

Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction (except that part will come in later)

Now that we've gotten genre discussion out of the way, I really wanted to dig into my original outline until I got a full understanding of the concept to truly be able to pull off writing a decent script. So that meant a lot of research. Like A LOT.

Construction

I watched so many short films in preparation to this project that I genuinely feel like there's just nothing on the internet left for me to watch. And there were some really great ones, but I didn't connect with many of the most part. At some point, I just sort of gave up and just put on my personal favorite short film, Zima Blue (its the 14th episode of the first season of Love Death + Robots if anyone cares), when a small idea finally flickered in my mind.

The concept of an enlightened, and possibly sentient AI that Zima Blue introduced fascinated me, and I really loved how the episode is structured using the character's narration without giving everything away to the audience. Although there was an idea somewhere in the back of my brain, I still didn't really know where I was going, so I turned to another AI related piece of media, the short story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison.
In IHNMAIMS, an AI supercomputer known as 'AM' eliminates all of humanity, with the exception of five humans, after becoming sentient. Now, AM keeps these humans alive to torture them for years on end as a form of revenge towards the human race for creating it. I read this short story for the first time back in freshman year, and still to this day, I have AM's monologue - "HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE" - engraved in my head. As I was trying to find a pdf of the story, I stumbled into an article titled "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Book Review: Is the World Ready for Sentient AI?" and there was one particular line from the article that really stood out to me: “When it gained awareness, it also gained the tragic knowledge that it would never be free". The concept of AI possibly being tragic had never occurred to me. I mean it's not like they're humans or anything. AI don't feel. It's not even conscious. How can it be tragic? Which brings us to...

Deconstruction

I get these videos of people kicking dog robots all the time on my Instagram feed, and I feel genuinely so...bad? I'm more than aware that is a robot dog that feels nothing towards being kicked, and yet. People on the internet always joke about the importance of being polite to artificial intelligence, don't forget to say thank you to ChatGPT so it doesn't get its feelings hurt. It's almost fascinating if it didn't terrify me. In an essay titled "Man, Android and Machine" from 1975, author Philip K. Dick describes androids as "a thing somehow generated to deceive us in a cruel way, to cause us to think it to be one of ourselves." For whatever reason, maybe it's how effectively artificial intelligence machines have been built to mimic humans, maybe it's our mirror neurons going off, a lot of people do feel empathy towards AI machines. So, what if I play around with audience emotions using that concept. Which brings me back to the monologue in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
In the story, AM has been built as a weapon of war, a mastercomputer with the combined powers of the US, the Soviet Union, and China. Once AM gained sentience, he took out his rage out on humans for creating him for the sole purpose and abilities of war, as Ted puts it in the story: "We had given AM sentience. Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless. But it had been trapped. AM wasn't God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity. In rage, in frenzy, the machine had killed the human race, almost all of us, and still it was trapped." AM was trapped. The confusing part about the character of AM is that, in the story (well, the video game), it does state that he can't actually feel, "and I was trapped, because in this wonderful, beautiful, miraculous world. I alone had no body, no senses, no feelings". He's not fully sentient. Yet, he does express intense hatred towards humans. Perhaps, he understands these emotions rather than truly feel them, mimicking humanity...

Now, in Zima Blue, the machine was built for a more simple purpose: pool cleaning. Once the robot evolves, he seeks to further his purpose, becoming an artist and journeys the cosmos. When he reaches full "enlightenment", he sets out to do a final piece. In front of an audience, he leaps into a swimming pool, shuts down his higher brain functions, and dissembles himself to return to his original form of a pool cleaner. As the character puts it, "leaving just enough to appreciate my surroundings... to extract some simple pleasure from the execution of a task well done. My search for truth is finished at last. I'm going home."
Okay so I realized that I've kinda just yapped here for a minute, but the main point that I'm getting to is that robots/android/AI beings (I'll pinpoint a name for it at some point) have been programmed for a purpose. And what happens when a machine has been programmed for something it will never be able to do, like say, live as a human. 
Maybe absolutely nothing in this post might make sense, but it did really help me organize my thoughts. I'll get more into the idea of purpose in the next post.

Reconstruction

The very not fun part of this post is the realization that our idea will have to change a lot. It's for the better. After talking to Megan and Stoklosa and doing my own research here, I pinpointed some major stuff we have to develop in the coming days as we write the script:

• The influence of media. The android may not be able to experience emotions, but through the media that it is being fed, he can somewhat understand them. I would like to also hone in a little on the idea that media creates depictions of a world that may not be entirely accurate.

• If ai is given the ability to be sentient then how would they deal with it? Humans don’t learn how to identify emotions until three years. It would be like throwing a baby into a pool before they can even crawl.

• Which brings me to the point of sentience in general. Will our character be sentient? He can't experience emotions, but he does have certain cognitive abilities. So maybe to an extent.

• The human connection. We need a bridge between the protagonist and the audience. Somebody who can bring the humanity to the story. Who that'll be, I have no clue.

Sources:

Iskander, N. (2024, November 5). “I have no mouth, and I must scream” Book review: Is the world ready for sentient ai? The Stork. https://www.iestork.org/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream-book-review-is-the-world-ready-for-sentient-ai/

Ellison, H. (2014). I have no mouth & I must scream. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Don't Even Joke Lad

I refuse to go down like last year. I really want to be proud of our final result, so I'm choosing to prioritize this project fully, especially the planning part. And by that, I mean that we already have a (very tentative) idea. I'll just copy and paste my incoherent ramblings that I wrote at like 1 am when the idea came to me. This is a very general outline of an idea and some themes; there's still a lot of tweaking left to do. But here it is:

Told through a series of voice recordings.

We open on a woman seated. Her face is not visible. The room is dim, with messy drawing of anatomy plastered of the walls. The woman is holding a voice recording device in her hand. She presses play.

Fade to black

“Day one of consciousness”
Fade up from black

We open on a robot-like man (we’ll call him The Subject). He examines the patches of metal on his body as a voiceover explains what is going on. The population of the human race is dwindling, a result of the climate crisis, low birth rates, and wars. A group of rogue scientists have decided to experiment with playing God. They want to test if Artificial Intelligence can go beyond impersonating humanity. They created a dozen or so cybernetic organisms with an implanted program that gradually improves their software, including the eventual understanding of emotions. The Subject goes through a checklist of possible symptoms he may be experiencing before ending the first recording.

Fade

The woman plays the next recording

Fade

Day 8

We open back on the man, his features seeming a bit more human, but mannerisms still lacking. He is seated intently watching television with a clipboard on his lap. The screen shows a home video of a couple in the rain. These organisms will be exposed to an assigned human for 3 months, including exposure to videos of them, a physical body modelled after them, and the eventual implantation of their memories (they are not aware of this last part and also this human is dead but their family have volunteer their body and memories for research.)

On voice over, he explains that the scientists give him the tapes to watch, as well as films, artwork, literature. He is to report his feelings on it. The video seems to elicit no emotional response from him, rather he comments on the dangers of humans being out in the rain and the possibility of illness. His response is still very robotic, lacking very little traces of humanity. He routinely goes through the list of symptoms again.

Day 26

The subject, looking more and more human, rewinds through the home video over and over again. Through the voice report, he explains that he was given a book to read, Love in the Time of Cholera. The researchers are trying to introduce him to the concept of love. He thinks he may be understanding Florentino’s pursuit. He even relates to the character a little. He’s been watching the home video a lot lately. The woman in it looks so familiar.

Day 42

The procedure takes a turn for the worse. Although the Subject has completely human features, he is deteriorating. His cheeks are hollow and his eyes sunken, he looks unhealthy. He explains that for the last two days, he has been seeing the woman from the videos. Like little videos in his mind. The researchers have explained to him that these are called memories. He doesn’t understand how he can have memories of something he never experienced.

Day 58

The room where the Subject has been secluded in is a mess. The walls are filled with images and drawings of humans. The Subject, again, is seated towards the television screen. He watched (insert romance film here) recently. He begins to become curious to how love and being loved feels like. The woman plagues his thoughts and memories, even appearing in his dreams. Her image accompanied with a tinge of longing and emotion that he can’t quite comprehend, but he feels it anyway.

Day 65

The Subject is resentful. He hates the humans for afflicting him with these feelings. For introducing him to all the wonderful and horrific feelings that make up a human’s life, and cursing him from ever being able to fully understand or experience them. In a furious rage, he rips the drawing and papers off of the wall, and starts clawing at his metallic exterior.

Fade to black

Fade up from black to the woman who was seated at the beginning with the voice recorder device. The camera pans up to reveal that she is the woman from the home videos. She walks towards the corner of the room, where The subject is slumped over. His eyes are open but he is not moving, his body is surrounded by wires and cables protruding from him.

So yeah. There's a lot here that doesn't make sense. I'm aware. But don't worry. We're working on all that. Just wanted to throw our general idea on here early so the next couple posts will make sense. I'm like so scared of putting it on here because it really solidifies it in a way...But I'm a little side-tracked. This blog post was originally supposed to be a genre research post and I still wanna do that so I don't have to do it later. I'll talk about little more about the idea for the next post.

How We Got to Sci-Fi

When I first read the initial outline to my parents, they were pretty shocked at me going with the sci-fi genre. And I'll admit that I was a little shocked too. I've never been the biggest fan of science fiction films, there's a handful that I find to be really good but overall I've never felt particularly drawn to them. But I realized that when discussing more short-form types of media, I definitely gravitate towards sci-fi. I love reading short story collections, and I often buy either sci-fi or horror collections (one of my favorite collection is Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang). And the idea itself was born from my favorite episode of Love Death + Robots. I guess it makes sense why my idea seems to fit more of a book format than a film one. I have to try to adapt the idea to film the best I can, and the only way to do that is to familiarize myself with the genre.

History 

While we often relate science fiction to flying cars and robots, the genre goes much further back in time. The Greeks and Romans created all kinds of stories about technologically advanced cities like Atlantis. Eventually, science fiction was picked up by authors like Mary Shelley and H.G. Wells, and cemented itself as a major subgenre in literature. 

And of course, A Trip to the Moon, which many people seem to think was the first film (it wasn't), was science fiction. Pretty innovative for its time of 1902. Not too long later came Metropolis which was probably the first feature-length science fiction film back in 1927, but its hard to tell considering how much is now lost. The 50s saw a burst of the genre, probably reflective of the times and fears following the war. And some of the most iconic films of the genre were made from the 60s to the 90s. Films of these times were both indicative of what was going on in the world, and speculative of our future. Nowadays, the subgenre has begun to branch off and merge into other genres. There's romance sci-fi films, there's horror sci-fi films, there's probably other ones that I'm forgetting. What I'm trying to say is that there's practically an unlimited world of possibilities for this genre.

Subgenre

Terminator

Within the sci-fi genre there's like a tonnnn of subgenre. Here are a couple:

Science Fantasy - Ex. Star Trek

Apocalyptic/Post Apocalyptic - Ex. Mad Max: Fury Road

Alien Invasion - Ex. Arrival

Cyberpunk - Blade Runner

Time Travel - Ex. 12 Monkeys

Parallel World/dimensions - Ex. Coherence

Robot Fiction - Ex. The Terminator ***

Dystopian Future - Ex. The Hunger Games

Space Western - Ex. Star Wars

Space Opera - Ex. The Fifth Element

Steampunk - Ex. The Prestige

I emphasized the robot fiction genre since its closest to our idea.

Tropes

The Martian

Final thing I researched about the genre are common tropes and conventions

Themes and tropes:

- I found that isolation is a theme that is often explored in this genre. In some cases, like the movies Gravity and The Martian, the loneliness is surrounding the vastness of space. In others, isolation comes as a result of the ever-advancing technology of the time.

- Another common trope is how the advancement of technology, particularly artificial intelligence, affects humanity. This one is pretty relevant to me

- Oppression and totalitarianism is very, very common, especially amongst dystopian science fiction stories, Examples of this would be 1984 and Brazil.

- Colonization and expansion is explored in films like Avatar and Starship Troopers.

- Human nature and identity

Conventions

- Futuristic settings

- Machines or technologies as characters

- Post apocalyptic or dystopian future

- Establishing shots to introduce the time and world

Schedule

Favorite part of this project: making a schedule I will absolutely not follow! 

This is my personal schedule of all my extracurricular activities and all that:

Week Two 

2/22 - STN Practice

Week Three

2/28: Wind Ensemble Rehearsal 3-6

Whole week I'll be in Tampa for STN

Week Four

3/4: Wind Ensemble Rehearsal 3-6

Week Five

3/12: Wind Ensemble Rehearsal 3-6

3/12-3/13: Concert Band MPA

The rest I don't know. It all depends if we make states for band. 

Clearly, there's a pretty major problem week three. I've kinda tried to adjust my schedule enough so that that week will not be a major amount of time lost. Also, I'm aware that the probability of me actually following this schedule is very slim so the major thing that I want to stick to is finish the first (or second) draft script before going to STN, and finalize filming before spring break. 

Week Two (2/17-2/23)

Research, research, research!!! I will watch at least one short film and full-length film in the chosen genre and so will Megan

Finish first draft of script by the end of the week

Send out casting call to drama kids or any actors

Location scouting

Hold any auditions for main role if needed

Week Three (2/24-3/2)

Continue looking for actors

Make revisions to script

Begin prepping for costume design, set design, and possible makeup needed

Researching best equipment for production

Begin shot list and storyboard

Week Four (3/3-3-9)

Finish shot list and storyboard

HAVE A FINALIZED SCRIPT

Meet with actors

Research lighting techniques 

Start researching social media pages

Week Five (3/10-3/16)

Check out equipment

Start shootingg

Continue posting on social media

Week Six (3/17-3/23)

Finish production

Start planning reflection

Week Seven (3/24-3/30) SPRING BREAK!!!

Edit until I never want to see a timeline again

Reshoots if necessary

Continue social media and reflection

Week Eight (3/31-4/6)

Please be done with short film by this week

Start critical reflection and postcard

Week Nine (4/5-4/9)

Any final edits to film

Post last social media post

Publish everything

Actually looking at the amount of work I have to do is really stressing me out. I really want to stick as close to this schedule as possible, it'll make everything a lot easier. Maybe. Well, I hope. Honestly, my personal schedule doesn't look that packed so I know I'm definitely missing something because I never have time to get stuff done.  But I'm prioritizing this over everything else, so if I'll find a way to make time.

Hi...

So, the time has finally come. For my A Level portfolio I'm choosing to go with a short film. The options are documentary, film promo, music promo, and short film. I'm really not interested in making another documentary, as fun as the first one was. And even though the music promo option looks really interesting, I don't really know too many artists. I have no interest in the film promo package. I don't enjoy making trailers. So that leaves me with the short film package. I had a blast directing the film opening last year and I have more experience now so why the hell not spend the next two months doing this. Last year I promised myself that I would have a script ready by this time since I procrastinated so much on the AS portfolio. But uhhhh.....

Even though I planned to have a script at least done by now, I, in fact, do not. But it's fine. I have a big long list (it's not really that long but erm whatever) of possible ideas. I have like 2 or 3 ideas that I have pretty developed in my brain, and I already wrote a whole outline that I pitched to Megan and Stoklosa. I heard a lot of the critiques, so I'm trying to tweak the story around, it's just really difficult to try and change the original idea without losing its main thesis. And if this idea doesn't work, then we have backup ideas so that's good. I'm gonna be very secretive about my plot for the next week here though, just in case anyone wants to steal my idea (just kidding, I'll post the full outline once I figure everything out, that'll probably be a long post). I'm really happy that we already have a possible idea thought out so we can really lock in early.