filming blog

My group and I have still not begun the filming for our movie. This is because, as a group, my group mates and I have been busy and unable to film. During this week we all had other activities going on. For example, Wednesday was Michael's Birthday, and Jontae and Edgardo had basketball practice during the week. Additionally, I had to stay home and baby sit my baby brother while my mom worked. However, this weekend we will begin filming our movie. This is important because next class we will need some of our footage in order to participate in the peer review activity. We will exchange footage with another group and review their work as they do the same to ours.

Our filming will begin Sunday. This is the day that my group and I decided on as it is a day that works for all of us. We will be going to Michaels house to film a majority of our movie. In order to execute this plan we need to gather all of the required materials to film. All of the materials we need in order to film are available for us to check out to film out of school. This includes the camera, a tripod, and an SD card. We needed to do this as all of the filming for the movie needed to be done outside of school. I will most likely be responsible as I am going to focus primarily on filming. While I am filming my group mates will focus on acting.

Once we begin filming my main focus will be on operating the camera and tripod. This is similar to what I did during the commercial project and the music video and we felt it worked well both times. Therefore, since we remained in the same group we also decided to maintain our same general roles during the film making process. The only difference this time is that I will be in the film playing the small role of the cop. During the filming we will closely follow our storyboard which details exactly what will be going on when. Overall, I feel like my group and I have a good plan laid out for filming this weekend. Tomorrow in class this plan will be finalized and we will check out all of our materials to film and then it is time to execute.

Filming blog

Over the weekend I was not able to film preventing my group from beginning our movie. This is because on Thursday I left to go to a debate at Harvard in Boston. This meant that my group could not film. I am critical to the film making process as I am the person who handles the camera and tripod. Thus, absent my presence, filming was impossible. However, even if I was there my group mates were unavailable. On Sunday Michael and Jontae were free but Edgardo had a basketball game and a family outing. On Monday it was Michael's dads birthday so he was busy celebrating with him. I was still at Harvard for the weekend so i could not film. The weather was not great at all this weekend, so it wouldn't have worked out anyways. Although filming did not workout this weekend, we still have two more weekends to get it done. We will try to communicate better and plan out when and what time we will film. We will figure out what everyone has going on in order to pick the perfect date. Hopefully we have better luck this weekend with weather and get together and take care of business. I can not wait to film and begin the editing process. This film is going to be great.

                  

                             

Storyboard

In this blog we are drawing our storyboards. The storyboard is gonna show how each scene is gonna play out. The process of drawing was tough. Our hands started to get tired. We each rotated spots in drawing to give each other a break. It was also funny, we were making jokes about each other. Each of us has no drawing skills so we tried our best. The best drawer is Edgardo. We are numbering our storyboards to show which one is happening first. Our storyboard is 10 sheets long.

Planning: location, participants, health, schedule

The google slides above clarifies the location, participants, health, and schedule for our film. This gives us a clear understanding of the logistics of our film outside of specific ideas present within the film. However, these are all important aspects of the filmmaking process. Knowing the ideas listed above allows for a higher level of efficiency as it gives us an outline of what we have to do and when we have to do it. Additionally, it identifies exactly where certain parts of the film will be. This overall eliminates any confusion between my group mates and I.

Planning: Sound script

We began the planning stage of our final project. This begins with making the sound and shooting scripts for our movie. Above is the google slides which goes through the sound script of our movie. It identifies what sounds will be heard during each scene. This includes dialogue, diegetic, and non-diegetic sound. This will allow my group and I to easily work through the filming process as we now have the sounds of our film laid out.

Planning: Shooting script

We began the planning stage of our final project. This begins with making the sound and shooting scripts for our movie. Above is the google slides which goes through the shooting script of our movie. It identifies what will be going on during each scene. Additionally, it details specific aspects of our movie. This includes the camera angles, movements, props, costumes, etc. This will allow my group and I to easily work through the filming process as we now have the film laid out.