Filming Blog: Final Shooting Day

     The final shooting day of the final task will be on Saturday. Hopefully, after that day it'll all be over with. Although, after editing if the film is too short we will redo some scenes. There might have to be an adjustment in the plot of the film. This all depends on how the film turns out and if everything goes well. This right now will be a rough draft to my partner and I. We believe that once we know what we like we can improve it after the peer reviews. We will still have the same actors and nothing will change other than the days it is being shot. The first scenes of the film will be done in the morning so in the film it'll look strange if someone pays attention to the background. Everything else will work like a charm.
     The way that I will contribute is by provding transportation. I will be picking some of the actors and bringing them to the park to help film. I will also be an actor for the next couple of scenes. I play as the guy who gets knocked out with a gun. Another responsibility I have to maintain is the camera angles. I need to teach whoever will be the camera man what angles to do and how to properly do it. This project is quite fun although a bit stressful. I cannot wait to see the final outcome. It'll look like an actual film and have beautifully edited title sequences. The title sequences might be a little tricky but not impossible.

Filming Blog: Next Few Days

     This Saturday that just passed was a day of filming. I had to pick up all the actors and transport them to our set. I also helped them dress up along with my partner. They had to dress up in all black and luckily some brought masks to hide their face like a real criminal. We added another actor because we needed more help for the scene where the girl gets kidnapped. The weather was rainy and gloomy which was perfect because I wanted the bad guys to bring a bad vibe to them where the mood changes. It all went perfectly well and the actors did an amazing job. I was filming some of the shots and one of the actors that weren't in the shots would film too. It was a diverse setting for the title of the cameraman. It the end we got the shots that we needed and now we got to focus on the future scenes.

     Next weekend, the plan is to finish up the beginning scenes with the couple. We need to get about  8 to 9 scenes. We wanted to knock out the scenes with the bad guy that way we can edit some of the shots within this week. This allows us to see what needs to be redone or left the same. Hopefully, everything was done properly and we don't have to reshoot. My partner and I will take turns editing the scenes. The editing process won't take too long especially since it isn't completely due soon allowing more time for review. Now, the only thing left is to find where we will put the title sequences. My partner and I will still be choosing how exactly they will be put. I'm excited to see the steps to the final task.

Filming Blog: First Days

    My group member and I started filming Tuesday and we also filmed Wednesday. There will be more filming days because the weekdays have limited hours. This is because we both have a curfew and have to be home so we don't have much time. We had my father be with us to take us because he is also there to help us with safety. It was a fun time because it was very challenging and we still have to continue on this weekend and we can almost be finished. I was able to help my partner with certain angles that I wanted to get. She was amazing and I wanted her to film this time because she wanted to learn how to get those angles. She shot the video with her iPhone 11 and later on some other scenes will be shot on my iPhone XR. I was also included in shooting some scenes too. There was one scene I was messing with the angles to see how I can get the low angle properly with the car.

     I believe I still need to reshoot it because I want to improve it and I want to get a Fast and Furious angle of the car where the camera is slightly slanted and low angle. For this scene, there will be a low angle, oblique shot, and a pan. This mixture is used in films to give off a mysterious and cool feeling to certain cars. We couldn't get the other actors so we specifically focused on scenes that don't have or need actors in it. We couldn't get them in because they were busy. Saturday everyone will be free although, I have to get a new boss because the other one can't make it to the shoot. I'm glad we got to start filming sooner to have more time editing. This project has to be better than anything I've ever made. More great things will come our way especially actors who will win the Oscars. I can't wait to see the final result.

Planning: Storyboard

For this portion of our filming project, we were told to make a storyboard. This helps us in the future for many reasons. We will know during the filming process what we will include. A storyboard is generally a script but in picture form. It also gives us details like angles and movements and types of editing show what we should include when actually filming. This was a very complicated storyboard. It was quite confusing managing to fit 60 scenes for a 2-minute video. This is completely unrealistic and impossible. This wasn’t the greatest thing to do and hopefully, this is never done again. Hopefully, the shooting of this project becomes easier.

Planning:Title Design

 Our plan is in place and we have everything prepared such as our location, participants, schedule, etc. Now, all we have to focus on is our title design and how in-depth this needs to undergo because it is going to show the audience a hint of the type of movie. If the audience is interested then the titles were done correctly. The point of our titles is to give off a secret spy mission type of film. The transition should give it the main hint because it is a key of spy mission films. This is actually a fun assignment because it allows the creator to be creative on how they will present their film. We are lucky to include back up plans because if our original concept accidentally blends in then we are able to change it. This won't be a hard task and will be quite simple to make and not a lot of other groups will do this because they will stick to the basics. The font although could be changed depending on what looks best with the typewriter transition. Overall, this film will be the definition of a secret spy mission film.

Planning: Location, Sound, Participants, Health, Schedule

     While still in the planning stages, what we have done next is the information about the location, participants, health, and schedule. We use this to help us when we will begin filming. For example, we know where our scenes will take place, we wanted it to be a place that fits our story. We also have important information on what we need to keep us students safe, which is in the health slides of our planning. We have also included the participants in which will be in our film, friends and even family. Furthermore, is our filming schedule, we need to stay on track to get everything done. This is the most important step because it helps us know when we will do each thing to not confuse us. Me and my group-mate find that this way of planning is much easier rather than the projects we did in the past. These slides will contain all we need for the next step in our planning which will be the storyboard, it helps us have everything set. This helps us feel organized with all the work we have to do so nothing causes confusion. 

Planning: Sound Script

     In our sound script, we are giving off ideas of what we will include. My partner and I broke apart our roles so we could help each other. I am doing the sound script blog which involves dialogues and types of sound in this 2-minute film. We each chose our own script because we have more strengths in the one we chose. We put a lot of time and work into these scripts to help us for when we can finally film our ideas. I contained dialogue of the main couple in the story and the bad guys. We are putting as many ideas as we can to benefit our film. My role was pretty much a dialogue storyboard which is very helpful in the long run. I enjoy doing this blog because planning ahead gives me confidence in how our sequence will turn out. We will continue to plan and blog about further stuff like people in the film, health and safety, and location.

Planning: Shooting Script

     This was supposed to be a script describing what would visually be on our film. We needed to include camera angles, movements, and lighting. We also needed to include the lighting. On our film, there was unfortunately not much lighting change we can do since it'll be in a public park. There will be a lot of movements because it is a film with a lot of action going on. Our pitch was improved while creating this google slides project because we realize certain flaws. Our original pitch was too long and had too much action compared to now. The film will be hard to create since we are only given 2 minutes. In our opinion, we believe more time given would bring out more creativity. This is good to guide us on our final task.