Filming Blog The Third Day

After filming earlier in the week we have moved to filming our other group members scenes. This time we decided to film on the weekday of February 26th. We found this to be a more convenient time revolving around all of our schedules considering I have places to go with my parents on weekends. Madison's work schedule also varies a lot. Darren felt it was a good day for him as well. So, after school Madison drove us to Darren's house. It was his turn to be filmed for scenes one through five. We decided on doing Darren this time because it would be more convenient for Madison since she and Darren live near each other. Therefore, after filming it wouldn't be a long way away to go home. Madison was our only way of transportation because me and Darren did not have cars of our own. It would also be inconvenient for our workiw I ng parents to come pick us up. The commute to Madisons house was about half an hour. When we got to Darren's house we decided to switch roles in filming. We thought it would be interesting if instead of Madison did the filming of these scenes because only me and Darren have been filming so far. Madison caught on to the filming process quickly and had a good understanding of how to work the camera. To continue along our plan, we decided to reference back to our planned angels and camera movements that we decided upon earlier before filming. At the end, we gave the camera to Madison. She was responsible for the SD card which she would use to dump onto her laptop when she got home. Later on when it would be time to edit, all of our footage would be placed in one location making everything easy to access. Overall, filming on Thursday was successful. We filmed what we aimed to finish. We came across little to no problems and look forward to finishing the rest of the scenes.

Filming Blog The Second Day

This weekend me and my group members filmed at one of our houses. Filming took place on February 23rd, 2020. We were filming her part of the movie. We didn't start filming until four thirty because she did not get off of work til four. Filming only took around half an hour. This was much shorter than we expected. It was good however because we had time to go home, eat dinner, and finish our school work. We prepared all of our equipment before hand. This included charging the camera before hand and knowing how to use the equipment before hand. This is important because last class one of our group members actually cut his hand a little bit while trying to open up the tri-pod because he didn't know how to properly work it before. Now that we took the time to familiarize ourselves we did not have any issues during the filming process. Me and my other group member filmed the group member whose house we were at. We finished getting her part of scenes one through five. This included the part where everyone is waking up and getting out of bed. In this case our actor had to clumsily roll out of bed and fall off. We had to re-shoot the shots of her rolling out of bed because she kept laughing. It was pretty amusing filming because we've never acted before and our acting skills were put to the test.We filmed multiple shots of her doing each of the frames on our planning sheet. The planning sheet was a good outline for what we wanted to do. We also had shots that included her pets. They wanted to play so at the beginning we could not get very clear shots of them. Then we gave them treats to help them settle down for the camera.

Filming Blog

Today is February 20th, 2020. Currently my group members and I have not started filming. This has proven to be a difficult task for us to arrange. We are all busy people and have extracurricular activities to do or jobs. Something we all have to do is our homework. One of my group members stays after school for Chess Club. I stay after school for environmental and my other group members has two jobs. All of these activities happening on different dates and different times has made it tricky finding a day we can all film together according to everyone’s schedule. We have found that some of the dates on our schedules collide. The first day we all plan to film is February the 22nd, 2020. This date was suggested by one of our group members because everyone necessary for the filming process will be available. Since filming will take place in the morning everyone will have a few hours to spare before continuing on the activities they will do throughout the day. Our goal is to be able to film scenes one through five. A different approach will be taken however to make our filming process easier. Also with a smaller chance of needing a reshoot. We will however only film the parts one of our group members is in. We figured that if we go to their house one day and get all of their scenes done then it will be more efficient. We live pretty far distances from each other.We will save less time and won’t waste gas having to travel back and fourth to each other’s homes. The scenes all start out at each other’s homes so we plan to film each group member individually on the days that we film.  Filming by this method also allows us to ensure we have all the footage needed and we can reshoot if needed. If we went from one house to another and realized needed to reshoot something from the house we just left it would take a big toll on our filming process. Scene one includes a zoom in of the alarm clock with the sound of it going off. Scene two includes my group member getting out of bed then walking to their bathroom. Scene three includes them trying to brush their teeth. Scene four includes them walking back to their room, attempting to dress themselves. Scene five shows them walking to their kitchen and saying hello to their pets. This picture provided is the setting for where some of these scenes will be taking place. They are my group members bedroom and is where they will be filmed waking up from.

Storyboard

      We have finally came to the storyboard stage. In this stage, it all about the entire planning and guideline for every scenes in our opening. The storyboard is very important as not only is it a guideline for our script but it keeps us in check. We tried to be as specific as possible in our storyboard so we can mimic the storyboard as accurate as possible. My group is aware that there may be some additional scenes or new additional movements that may not be seen on the storyboard. This is very common as the storyboard serves as a guideline of what should be happening in each scenes. Since there was so many scenes in our opening and we had limited time, my group decided to assign each member to a specific set of scenes so we are able to get it done in a timely manner. Overall, all the scenes came out very nice and as expected. As some may not be as good as a artist as others, we were still able to tell what going on in each scene box as captions of the pictures are also provided below. We will be looking at this storyboard very time we film each scene so we know what is happening in each scenes. My group is very excited to begin our filming journey in the incoming days.

Planning Blog : Location, Participants, Health, Schedule

For this blog we planned out the entire process of production for our film. It took a little while because had to ask for permission from our parents and administrative authority. Here we decided on our set locations, who would be participating in our film, health and safety concerns and a schedule which would work for us. It was very important for us to decide on a set schedule because this is what would allow us to construct our film. We discussed job dates, appointments, family plans and other reasons we would not be able to film and chose days which we practical and convenient to everyone. We also assured that throughout the filming process we were secure of our health and safety and relied on the support of trusted adults for monitoring us. For our locations we decided to film at our own houses because it was convenient since we had ownership to it and did not have to worry about asking for permission to film. We could use anything as props because they belonged to us. For our school we made sure to get permission from administration and for the bus stop we thought it was a good location since it was not private property and could be filmed on freely. Discussing these factors with my group assures us that we will run on schedule with plenty of time to make mistakes, fix them and adjust our film to make it the best it can be.

Planning Blog : Title Design

For this blog we figured out our titles. This was a difficult and exhausting task because we couldn't make up our minds. Each of us wanted to be something that collided with one another. For example, two of us wanted to be producers or directors. We finally sorted everything out and came to a conclusion. For our titles we just provided the basic musts for a film. This included directed by, produced by and edited by. For our font we chose to go with something that can be taken lightly. Rather than something that is bold and harsh because that's not what the film is about. We chose it to fly onto the screen because we thought it would add a little touch of playfulness into it instead of it just appearing onto the screen.

Planning blog : sound script

       In these slides, it contains all the sounds and the dialogue that will be heard in our movie opening. The majority of our opening scenes will just be natural sounds rather than dialogue because there is barely any characters interactions. The opening of our movie mostly take place in each of the character's house and they are beginning their morning routine to prepare for school. Therefore, most of the sounds will begin from the alarm clock ringing next to each of the character's bed to the sound of running water as some starts brushing their teeth or taking a shower before getting dressed from school. Then, then the sounds of the opening will transition onto the outside streets as the character's begins heading out. So the noises of cars zooming by and the sounds of chattering students as they reach school campus will be heard in the background once they reach school campus. Dialogue will be heard between the characters as they began to see each other at the end of the opening of the movie since they begin meeting each other at school. So overall, that the entire sound script for the entire opening of the movie. There will be natural sounds and dialogue throughout the opening of the movie. There may be some additional sounds along the opening as the script is not completely accurate but the group will be sure to follow the script as much as possible.

Planning Blog : Shooting Script

This is my groups shooting script for our final task. It is an outline what we will be done in our video. The script is divided by scene. We decided to include the shots so we would be better prepared when it came time for filming. During the time we were writing our script, my group and I were collecting props for the project. We were discussing how we would make it all come together. We still haven't decided when we are going to film. We still need to find out when all of us can find a day in which we can shoot the video.We will be focused on getting our scripts done so we have a sense of direction. By the end of this week we hope to get permission to film on our desired location.