Filming Blog At My House

Since my last blog I have made many major changes to my original movie. One major one being that of changing the actual plot of the movie. After careful consideration of the factors that would be affecting my movie I knew I would have to make some drastic changes. Due to the fact that my love is due in a couple of days and I hadn’t filmed I had to figure out a way to fit my two main characters in my movie easily. My kidnapped and my girl. My dad who is playing the kidnapper wasn’t available to film at the same time the girl I had playing my main character was. For that reason I had to make some serious changes to accommodate for the lost filming opportunity and changed my sorry to be more girl focused. Therefore my new story is called Where’s Bella? and focuses on the kidnapping of a girl who’s lived in isolation her whole life. I felt this was a good topic as in my head I could easily see myself portraying it. I did film today and got majority ( 1 minute and 30 seconds) of my movie done leaving just enough space to leave the viewers on a cliffhanger at the end. I filmed at my house with my friend Haylie who was my main character. We ran into a couple problems filming due to mirrors and some outtakes and thing that ruined some of our clips. However overall we were able to get enough content to film a great majority of my movie. 

Filming Blog

  This past weekend and week of February 15-20th I was unable to film due to prior commitments I had made and some important that came up. Thus weekend I had work Saturday and Sunday the only times where I had an opportunity to film. My movie takes place at night which was when I worked and by the time I had gotten out it was midnight and too late for me to be out.  I had also gotten sick that week which prohibited me from being able to go out very much. Instead of my filming I decided to continue planning my movie and making some changes/ rearrangements. I decided that I wanted to change some of the plot of my movie as I realized what I initially wanted to get done was going to be difficult considering my age and access to certain locations. I was still for certain of the one location near the Broward Public Library that I wanted to keep however I realized that my club scenes weren't going to work out. I called places where I thought could be adequate to film these scenes and was denied entry even thought it was for "educational" purposes. For this reason, with the extra time I had from not filming I came up with a different plan to the first half of my two minutes.

I haven't completely decided what exactly it is I'm going to do to make up such a big chuck of footage I have lost but am thinking I want to keep the same story just change the location. A group of friends still hanging out, splitting up, and then one getting kidnapped. I also have to idea to do something from the point of view of the kidnapper and what he sees before he attacks. This would go from him planning the attack to actually going through with it. To make these final decisions I wanted to consult with the people I plan on making my cast to see when they are available to film. I wanted to use my dad as the kidnapper as he is an older man and is also a good figure to have around in case something goes wrong. However, my dad travels for work very often so I need to ensure he will be here during he weekend when I need him to film. I also wanted to make sure that my friends were able to film as they all have jobs as well and one of them, which I want to star in my movie is doing this project as well and also needs her own time to film. I ultimately decided that id film some scenes that feature the kidnapper on one day where I know my father will be available. As well as scenes that include just my friends on times I know they are available. Then while I'm with each group figure out a good day for all of us to meet up and finish the few scenes that include everybody.

From explaining my background and information of this past week and analyzing the problems I have already encountered and those I may come to face I have realized a way in which I have to make up for lost time. Therefore I've decided that when I go to film individually with my cast I will film many different pieces and stories. I will film chunks that could go for a story focusing mainly on the girls. As well as film chunks that fit for a story that goes for a more kidnapper focused story.

Planning Blog Storyboard

For this final step of planning before getting to my filming sequence I created a storyboard. The storyboard helps to assemble a layout for my movie for when I go to film. This will help me as then I don't have to spend time shooting and reshooting what I like. Instead I have it all done at once to get finished quick and easy. I encountered some tough parts in this when it came to drawing and going with some final touches to my scenes. There were a couple of things I was unsure of to place in once scene or the other or she seemed like it was too repetitive. I tried my best in planning something that captures suspense as well as horror.

Planning Blog Title Design

This title design blog was also one of the ones on the easier side as it’s something that’s mostly just common sense. I made sure to include the do’s and do not’s of creating my titles as well as the ways i would implement them into my movie. I also made sure to describe how I wanted to work with and play with my editing software to get the titles I wanted so they are subject to change. The hardest part about this blog was creating a working title for my movie. Although I did have multiple options It was frustrating and difficult coming up with them and I realized how some were just much better than others. I’m not totally in love with the title I have right now and feel I could do so much better. However, for now I’m sticking with what i’ve got until I get another idea from either myself or from one of my helping peers

Planning Blog Location, Participants, Health, Safety, Schedule

For this blog I wrote about some of the main aspects that go into getting my movie started and finished. I went over my scheduler, locations where I could and wanted to film, the people Is anted to include in my movie. Lastly, the health and safety that would go into producing my movie, from first aid kits to parental guidance and consent etc. This was one of the easier parts of my planning as i had already thought this out in my head. This was just a matter of putting my ideas on paper and waiting to execute them

Planning Blog Sound Script

For this blog I created my sound script for my final project of my original movie. I found this one to be much harder than that of the shooting script as i struggled to figure out what dialogue I wanted and surroundings sounds to portray the setting. For this reason most of my scenes have very little to no dialogue and mostly just sounds of the background. I also struggles with finding the right words to use that weren't extreme curse words. I want this to be a more mature film of older people getting kidnapped and usually when in a dangerous situation some tend to curse. For that reason I refrained myself from using them or went with their less aggressive version like using hell instead. Overall this was a pretty difficult script to write.






                             

Planning Blog Shooting Script

for this blog I created a shooting script for my final project of the first two minutes of an original movie. I found this script to be much easier than the sound script as I had already an idea in my head and a picture of what I wanted my original movie to look like. It was extremely easy to decide what was gonna happen and what scene. However, I did struggle with adding some new aspects to the movie as I didn’t have it all completely planned out in my head