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While planning everything, I realized that my original idea was not realistic. I did not time everything correctly so now I was pressed for time. The original idea of having an action movie did not really appeal to me anymore because of the circumstances. Even though it sounded really fun, it would have taken a lot more work, time, and planning. This meant a new genre, luckily we researched many genres and I had a cool idea. I knew I wanted to have a theme like a decade theme, I just did not know how to make it a story. Sometimes I will have a creative block where I sit there unable to think of anything. When it finally opens up, a ton of ideas run through my head and my mind goes racing a million miles an hour. I thought maybe I could do action still, but just with three characters. Primarily, I wanted it to be a really cool action opening if I were to do one, I did not want to have it to haphazard. I kept thinking and thinking about oh how could I make it have a cool theme where each character has a obvious aesthetic and is very vibey. I finally thought of inspiration for it. I thought about movies such as Freaky Friday and Princess and the Pauper, where two people have very different aesthetics and lives and then something peculiar happens and they switch bodies. I wanted the idea to be something of the sort, but obviously not the same. So I started writing down everything that came to mind. It was all unorganized. Just a bunch of thoughts on paper. I would go from costumes to acting ideas to music all in a matter of seconds. I could not even put anything into words like when I was trying to speak about it with my friend Jenna, she said I was a mess and all over the place because I had so many scattered ideas. After a week of thinking and jotting down plans, I finally came up with something set in stone. One person would be a 90's grunge skater type girl, the other would be like a Princess Bubblegum kind of character, and then they would eventually switch lives at one point. Now I had everything figured out to a certain extent but there were some curveballs thrown at me. One setback was the friend that I was originally working with, Camille, told me last minute that she was going out of town so she could not help me film anymore. She was a main character so this caught me off guard. She was not only a character, but she was also the peacemaker of the group. Whenever me and my friend Jenna disagree on something, she always finds a way to settle it and helps us meet in between. I know it is my project, so whatever I should say goes, but I knew that if it were only me and Jenna, we might disagree on certain things, this made it difficult for me because I do not like telling people "no this is what we are doing" or trying to have a backbone. I am afraid I will come off as bossy or controlling. It is okay though, because we always find a way to work it out. The solution to this problem was that Jenna was gonna play Camille's part and my other friend Jade, who is Jenna's twin, could play Jenna's original character.