Filming Blog: The Process

     I can honestly say the wait is almost over. After working so hard planning this project, we are less than three days from our first filming date. Once again, I’m being honest, and not even half of the work is done as of yet regarding this project. After we film on Saturday, we will have to dump footage and edit piece by piece. As I mentioned in a previous blog, the reason we did not film last weekend, was because I was not available to do so. Ironically, this weekend we ran into the same issue but not me this time. Another one of our group mates is not going to be present but we have to film. Since we have blogs due regardless if we filmed or not, we decided that we have to film this weekend. I have not been to work because I am sick with the flu. I also have not attended class but my group mates have kept me up-to-date with all the information regarding our project.

    I have the informed my friend, who is coming along with us to film this weekend, on what we are doing. I have been told by my roommates that since we are short of participants, I will have to play two separate roles. I told them that I honestly have no problem with that, but my role is to be the police officer. We also have another one of our group members playing the judge role so I felt as if she would be more fit to play another legal role. That would make more sense than having me to switch attire between scenes. I expressed my concerns to my fellow group mates, but they’ve been at school all day and I have not so I’ll just leave the decision making up to them. Ultimately, we each have the same goal so I hope that were able to achieve it. This is one of my last AICE classes so I hope to excel in this project. This is crucial for my group members and I pass the exam.

  I will be back with an update soon and hope this all goes well on our first filming day!

Filming Blog: To Be Continued

     All I can say is my group mates and I, once again, did not plan well. As a result, we did not film this weekend. I can honestly say that this time, the unproductiveness was not a group effort. I was not able to find a method of transportation to and from the filming site. Also, when we were creating our storyboard we did not think about the amount of actual individuals that will be needed in order to film every role of this film correctly. We ran into the issue of having a less amount of people that we needed. Also, one of our group mates did not have the proper attire in order to correctly play his role in our film. Being that we all had saturday off of work, and one of our roommates is not employed at all, we could have still film and improvised. However, we did not want to risk going off script and not following your story board exactly as we created it. We we’re given careful instructions by our teacher and told not to go off script. It was explained to us that is would be more efficient to keep it exactly as it was unless it was absolutely necessary to make changes.
       Being that we still have enough time to film, we just decided to reschedule on a day that we will all be available and have stable transportation. One of my friends was a part of our music video in a previous project. I suggested that the same friend could join us in this project as well. That would eliminate the problem of not having enough people, even though we still need one more person. We plan to film this upcoming weekend on Saturday. My role is to be the police officer at the scene of the kidnapping. Fortunately, I do actually have police gear. Unfortunately, I am not allowed to wear it unless I am at detail assigned by the police department because I am a police explorer. On the bright side, I will not be at work at all Saturday, so I will be available as well as my group mates.  I also brought up the idea that we could film in another teachers class that I know, but were  also instructed to not do that. Hopefully, we will film this weekend and it will be a success.
       

Filming Blog: Before the Beginning

    Hey, I’m back with another project assignment and will be blogging every step of the way. The final steps toward filming our movie have been put into action. We were supposed to film this previous friday being that it was a holiday and we were off from school. However, we did not do so. In order for us to film we have a process that takes place within our classroom. The first step to this process is having a finalized plan. We were instructed to finish our 10 storyboard pages and then add them to a google slide presentation. After doing this, we were supposed to then embed the presentation into blogger and publish it.
   When it came to minimizing the workload on one individual, I assigned certain tasks to certain people in our group. I decided to designate Erik as the individual in charge of completing the storyboard and even a week after, he hadn’t completed it. This set us back in terms of signing out filming equipment and leaded up to us receiving an F for the the assignment. Not until today, the assignment was completed when I did 5 of the pages. The main issue was that our schedules did not correlate and one of our group members was not entirely dedicated.
    This was a fail on all of our parts, but we plan to film this weekend or early next week. I decided since the last project was filmed at my house, this time it should be filmed at a different location. As of today in class, we decided where we want to film first. However, we are short actors for our project and are still figuring out the minor issues. From the beginning, I have been stressing to my group members the importance of precision and being informed. Now that it is time for us to pick up our cameras and film, everyone else in the group realizes what I was saying all along. This process hasn’t been difficult so far. I will be back soon to speak about new details in our movie. Tune in for Double Deceit.

Movie Planning : Storyboard

Planning Blog: Location, Sound, and Participants

Planning Blog: Health, Schedule, and Title Design

Shooting Script

      Attached below is the shooting script. You cannot have a film without planning what will be in it and its sound. Hence the names of the blogs: shooting script and sound script. To summarize, a shooting script is what will happen in your film. Where the scenes take place, who will be in it, the action, that type of thing. A sound script is all the sound that will be included in the scenes. When my group and I were working on this, we had to make sure that the sound and the scenes were matching up. We also had a little trouble coming up with what we would include, but we figured it out. These scripts were created on Google Slides. Embedded in this blog is the shooting script.

Sound and Dialogue Script

  Attached below is the sound and dialogue script. One necessary step when planning a film is the writing of scripts. In the film, there are two types of scripts, shooting script, and sound script. Shooting script has what will be filmed, and what camera angles are to be used. The sound script contains not only the dialogue but also background noises that are to be featured. When writing the dialogue script, my group and I had to truly put our pitch into action. We needed to come up with dialogue and sounds that fit not only the pitch but also the genre. Once we came to a conclusion of the events and scenes of our film, the writing was able to begin. To make the script, we used Google Slides. This allowed for an organized way to showcase which scenes contain which sound. Embedded in this blog is the sound script.