Creating the setting 

  Welcome to week 6 bloggg!! Let's begin with a quick resume on week 5. Last week we were able to finish filming and prepare ourselves for our next step, editing. Although it felt like a roller coaster and we might've gotten dizzy in the process, we did it. We are now moving on from production but before we do that, I have 1 more blog coming your way.

When filming the different scenes, setting was a hug part. And although we have already spoken on setting, I'm talking more about those small details in the background that most people don't notice but without them the film would feel as if it's missing a touch of something. On shooting day 2, we didn't have many of those setting details that we needed to create or develop since the setting was in a gym and there wasn't much to add. However, on day 1, that was a whole separate story. Before Arianna and Oona showed up to film I prepared Gianna's room and set everything up. We wanted to make sure to create her room based off of her obsession with gymnastics. That was when we decided to add medals, picture collages, and images of her younger gymnast self. With Oona being a gymnast we were able to get a hold of medals pretty easily. I placed the medals all around places where I knew we would be shooting scenes in so the medals would be able to appear in the background. Places like these were, the head of the bed, on my mirror, hung on the wall, and on some hangers, I have next to my door. I then printed out pictures of my younger self at TAG USA doing gymnastics and just leaned them on the nightlight on her benight table to show that Gianna's has been doing this sport since she was very young. I then moved on to the actual creating, the collage. For the collage I researched different pictures of the American gymnast, Simone Biles, and printed out images of her most important tricks she has done. As well as Simone, I included pictures of other American gymnasts winning a gold medal. Next to that I added what seemed to be a picture of a newspaper saying the American team had gotten first place. I then continued to print images of gold medals and the Olympics symbol as well as a quote from Simone Biles to show she has a goal, and her dedication put to reach that goal. Once printed I stuck them all on the wall making a small collage next to her medals and calendar. I placed the images there since the calendar would be there it was the place where it would most likely show up. I lastly needed to create the failed exams that appear when she is sitting down to sign the consent form. For this I just used old homework, tests, quizzes, etc. I made sure to erase my name and replace it with Gianna Diaz as well as changing the dates to match up the dates that "Gianna" was crossing out on the calendar. I then continued to write F's and Ds with a red market while making them obnoxiously big so the camera would pick up everything effortlessly. Once everything was put together although this all might seem necessary, they truly do stand out on the film and besides the brainstorming the actual creating process was relatively easy and quick. I now hope this week rolls smoothly and that all these small throughout details do payoff in the editing and later overall product.