Saturday, March 30, 2019

Sneak Peeks

Here are some few pics and vids of our film opening, we are so close to uploading it and we can not wait for all of you to see it.




Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Changes

Hey guys it has been a while since I have blogged. I know I'm sorry. There is so much that you guys have missed and I am going to tell you right now. I am not sure if you guys remember how my partner and I were going to use children as our participants for the film opening. Also we were going to film with red lightning and a bathroom as our setting. Unfortunately, all those things have requirements that we both can not meet. The children were just too far from our location, and we had another set of children but their mother is going through pregnancy. The red lightning and bathroom was just not something we pictured in our heads.


So PLOT TWIIIISST!

We switched everything up. We made the main character one of us. We switched the lightning and the location of the film. We started filming and I have to say that I am actually impressed on how we contributed all the production techniques we have learned throughout the school year.

No more spoilers, the film will be coming out soon.

Don't sleep on it.

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Group Meetings

On Friday, we had group discussions where everyone in the class gets put in a group to receive ideas and critiques from others. To be honest , I really enjoy these because it gives me a chance to find out what my project needs help on. Additionally, I can give help to others as well. Throughout these group meetings, one person gives a concise summary of their film and the behind the scenes process. During the time that the person is speaking every person in the group adds a comment based on what the person is speaking about. I personally find it very interesting because I get to take inspiration from the other participants.

I like that throughout these group discussions, I can ask my peers questions regarding my project. Group meetings are really useful because it gives me strategies on what I can improve on, resulting in a better project.

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Film Process

                My partner and I had a conversation with my teacher regarding our project. She gave us a variety of tips that can come in handy when it gets closer to filming. She also mentioned since our genre is psychological thriller we are going to need to film a lot. The film has to be a minimum of two minutes long, so we are going to over shoot. This means that we are going to shoot a lot of scenes, just so we do not have any scenes missing. Not only will my partner and I over shoot, but we will also shoot with different phone angles. This way since its a psychological thriller, the viewers can get different angles from the same scene. This results in a more chaotic feeling. W e would incorporate dutch angles which is a shot with a slanted angle. These shots are most likely used in action movies.
                                We also made plans to meet with the nine year old boy who is going to star in our film. Since he lives all the way in Hollywood, its a little far from where our city is located. So combining schedules with my partner and the boy is one of our main challenges, but we'll get through it. 

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Light bulbs

         I was thinking, and I thought about how dope it would be if we used red lights to create a more scary and tense feeling to the scene. However, I do not have red lights just laying around my house so I have to go to Home Depot to see if they carry red light bulbs. IF they do not have red light bulbs which I know they will, I can just purchase red spray paint or red paint and cover the bulb completely. With the use of the light, we will incorporate a plethora of extreme close ups, this will result in a more emotional connection with the character and the viewer.
     To give you more of an idea, I'll insert some pictures of how I would like the extreme close ups to be:
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This is the closest to the representation of what I want, except it'll be under a blanket shadowing with the red light.