 Hey everybody, thanks for checking out the second part of our Making a Star Wars fan film video and this one we're gonna talk about the props that we're gonna use for this first one and some Test footage that we've done with it. I give you a little bit of a sneak peek on what's coming So we're making pretty good progress on this. We've got almost all of the shots completed Got a handful more to do the storyboards really helped out This is our first project that we're doing like this probably will do a few more. This one's pretty fun so far it's been a neat process to Write out the story using the Dan Harmon story circle as you can see in the previous video so in this video we're gonna go through some of the storyboarding and Some of the props that we purchased on our most recent trip to Disney World think to the galaxy's edge park Awesome experience highly recommend that for anybody that has the opportunity to go Not a lot is open just yet, but it was still a great time lots of shopping obviously So that was where we got some of these Little props that we would probably use in this You know these props are okay. They're gonna need some weathering They're gonna need some some updates to make them look pretty good and not quite just like little toys But they're a pretty good start if you checked out the previous video in which we Started to come up with a story concept and we're using the Dan Harmon story circle to do this for this experiment You'll see that you know This story is going to be about a Jedi who is on a search for a Sith holocron And then he's going to get the holocron and then he's going to be tempted by the dark side And this is going to be his small circle of his story in this case. This is going to be his You know where he has a task he has to complete this task He's going to experience some change because of this task So one of the props that we got of course we need this Sith holocron. So This is a pretty interesting little toy Make some neat sounds has some interesting lights we're gonna add quite a bit of special effects to this I think for our vision We may even wind up making one of our own of this just to be a little bit more Cinematic with it eventually but for this one, we're going to stick with these easy props So we also got this Jedi holocron too, but we're not going to use that in this one We'll save that one for another short film that we do maybe the next one when we continue the story so of course what Jedi story would be complete without the the lightsaber here Right, so this is going to be our heroes lightsaber This is one that That's one of my kids built in the Salvi's workshop They both got to go through and build theirs. We're going to use this one for his story And also these Jedi robes back here that I got off of Amazon pretty inexpensive Maybe 40 50 bucks or so for the whole set. So in some of this test footage that you'll see here We've started to test out the costumes. We went to Florida for our vacation. So we took advantage of some of the Nature outside there For some of these outdoor shots to make it look like we were landing on a on another planet So also wanted to show some test shots here just to give some example of what this is going to look like This kind of helps the kids get into The character and see what I see how it's going to be some of these shots may not actually be in our fan film But you know this sort of sets the stage for the continuation of this story I hope we wind up doing two or three more of these So in this one, you can see the the sith red lightsaber. It's pretty cool effect I think you know considering that we haven't done any special effects with this This is just straight out of the camera and then here's some outdoor shots of our Jedi landing on the remote planet looking for The sith holocron we filmed these outside using the black magic pocket cinema camera 4k on a mosa air 2 gimbal with the Panasonic 25 millimeter 1.7 And it came out pretty good. I think you know, this is kind of looks like a remote planet I did a little slight color grade here just to the clouds just to kind of make it look a little less like Florida But obviously Florida has some pretty good scenery for this type of thing these trees look pretty neat here So then as you can see in this clip here is the sith holocron And I've added a little bit of a special flair to this and made a track to the holocron Just so it looks like the light is emanating from inside of it So part of this experiment is to use the Dan Harmon story circle to quickly develop a story around this Jedi And then to also follow the process through and to actually create storyboards for the first time So to do this, we just took a piece of paper We just drew some rectangles on the paper and we started to fill in these are the main shots that we need to get Okay, and so this basically gave us, you know, 12 to 16 For shots that we knew that we needed to be able to tell this three to four minute story This is a great way to do it. I'm going to be doing this every single time in the future because it Basically creates your shot list for you. So now the important thing about these storyboards is, you know, you don't have to be an artist You can use stick figures like I did here You know, we're just basically trying to tell the story with a little bit of a text to the side Just to kind of give us a reminder of what we're trying to do for this particular thing So then as we film each piece, I can just go through and check each one of these things off And I realized at the end that I've got Everything that I need for this whole story and then I can go through and begin to edit it This first one is just, you know, right out of the gate. Just keep it simple Try to do this within two weeks I'm really trying to release this by the new year So that we can just sort of, you know, time box it and be finished with it and then move on to the next one I'm not trying to be a perfectionist with this I'm just trying to tell a basic story and follow through this process And show the kids that this is a pretty fun thing to do, you know And not too bad of a way to spend a family vacation. So we're not experts in this This is our first time trying something like this We're learning a lot and we'll learn a lot more for the next one and for the next one and for the next one So this is just a process of creating these short videos so that we can improve each time so that eventually We're pretty decent at it. So if you're new to this channel, I like to make these types of videos to You know, show how I'm learning these things as I create these films on my own So if you're enjoying this series, please drop it a like and make sure you subscribe so that you don't miss future installments in this series and then future videos that we're going to be doing As well as, you know, how we create some of the props and how we do some of the special effects with the green screen We're just learning all this as we go. So, um, you know, stay tuned and you can learn along with us, right? So that's it for the second installment of this series on creating a Star Wars fan film In the next one, we're going to talk more about some of the special effects And then probably around that time, I'll actually have it ready for release And I will also put it out on the channel so people can see it We'll continue doing a couple of more of these behind the scenes as we go Just to kind of fill in the gaps of of what else we learned along the way of doing this one And then we'll probably start on the next one. So thanks for checking out and we'll see you next time