Filming Blog: Wardrobe and Bathroom Scenes

        It been finally my time to film my scenes as my other group members already filmed their assigned scenes at their designated location. My group and I have decided to film some of the scenes at my house. That means that the members of my group will be coming to my house for the filming.  Since my group members are busy most of the time, we all decided to agree to come to my house after school during the weekdays as Madison have work on the weekend while Ashley needs to go somewhere with her family on the weekend. We all decided to hop into Madison’a car since each of us don’t have a car yet so the only way to go to my house would be Madison’s car. There was a inconvenience filming at my house was because I live very far away from the school. That means it will be a long drive for Madison to drive us to my house which would take around 30 minutes. Luckily, Madison lives quite near me but Ashley lives far away so she needs to get a ride to drop her off at her house. Once we all arrived at my house, we began filming. Since in the other scenes, it always been Madison acting while me and Ashley did the filming, we decided to have Madison do the shooting of the different scenes while me and Ashley did the acting for these couple of scenes. The filming process was quite a ease as we were all prepared to film what needed to be filmed. We however, took a while to figure out the best angles for each scenes to maximize the quality of each scenes. At the end, I just handed Madison the camera as she will handle the SD card which she will dump onto the laptop when she gets the chance to. Overall, the whole filming process was a success and we look forward to finish filming the rest of the scenes.

Filming Blog: House Scenes

Yesterday was February the 23rd, 2020. This officially commended the first day of filming for the short film. We got delayed a week due to busy schedules like I mentioned in the last blog. But, Sunday was a perfect day that we all had free. I got off of work at four o'clock so we started filming around four thirty. I thought that filming would take longer but in all honesty it only took about an hour and a half. We decided to film my scenes first but for no particular reason. So, Darren and Ashley came over to my house and we started from the beginning. In this whole day of filming, my role was being the actor. So I was constantly behind the camera acting out the scenes. This proved to be a bit difficult because we're friends so we goofed off a little bit. I could not stop laughing when we filmed the second scene. This was when everyone is getting out of bed and I have to roll out. It was just funny to me and them so we had to do a few retakes for this scene. A problem we came across was space. When filming we had to make sure we could get the good angles and make sure that I was fully in the frame. This was difficult because the area of my house that we we're filing at was a hallway so it was sort of hard to get everything in the frame. Another issue that we faced was filming with my dogs. One of my dogs are male and doesn't like new people coming into the house. Darren is a male so this is self explanatory. For this scene I had Darren go to another room and had Ashley help me film this scene. This picture is from scene two where I roll out of bed.

Filming Blog: Planning the Filming

           Today is February the 20th, 2020 and I have yet to start filming. My group has very tight schedules. One of the members in my group has chess club and work after school. The other group member has to go to environmental club after school and volunteer. I work two jobs and have tons of homework to do. Just like everyone else. So, it's hard to find a good time to film especially after school. Our first day that we are going to film is February the 22nd 2020. I suggested we should film this Saturday because everyone is free for a few hours in the morning. The plan for Saturday is this; we film scenes one through five. However, then scenes won't be filmed for all three of us. We'll have to just film the scenes I am in. This must be done this way for a specific reason. In our film we each show our morning routines in our own houses. So, we're not going to go back and forth to houses. We live great distances away from each other so were only filming one group members scenes a day. This way we can make sure we shoot and also do any reshoots from the footage we just took to make sure we do it correctly. Scenes one includes a picture of the alarm clock with the sound of it going off. Scene two includes me getting out of bed then walking to the bathroom. Scene three includes me trying to brush my teeth. Scene four includes me walking back to my room then attempting to dress myself. Scene five shows me walking to my kitchen and saying hello to my pets. This picture is of my room of the setting that we will mostly be filming in on Saturday.

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
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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.

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.

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.
Shooting Script Slideshow

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.