Filming blog: Day 2

This weekend me and my partner finished filming. We took 2 days this weekend to film because we had some mishaps on the first day. On Friday my partner came to my house to film, but there was a problem. When got at my house it was raining very bad so we try to wait. We waited for a while and nothing changed. It kept poring and poring and there was no end in sight. We decided since that we were stuck inside that we would work on planning out the next time we were going to film. After arguing over and over, we figured out what day we would film. We decided Sunday would be the best choice, and i would just have to move the plans i had that day to Saturday. After that scuffle, we moved on the the other task. Me and my partner did the 2 shots we forgot to do inside the house last Saturday that we were supposed to do. We first did the walking down stairs and the walking down the hallway shot. That was easy enough to do, but we just had to match the lighting. The next shot we did was the opening box scene which we forgot to do. That was very simple, and what wrapped up our filming for Friday. Since we had time left before my groupmate would get picked up, We planed out the next time we would film. The first thing we did was circle the shots that we needed to do outside on our screen play, and we started the dialogue too. When we did that however, we found out we had to do like 2 more shots inside that we forgot to do. By that time though Elijah my groupmate had to leave, so we couldn't film. even though that day we couldn't film outside, we were productive and used our time manageably.

     

Filming blog: Day 1

Hi blog. This weekend, me and my partner started filming. We had prepared the props days before too. We filmed at my house this weekend. So my partner had to ride his bike over to my house, and leave before sundown, so we had around 3 hours to film. With that in mind, we decided to film in 2 different days. We decided this because we could barely fit the whole filming in 3 hours, but basically all the scenes would be rushed and that's not how we want our film to go. We decided to film for the second time on probably this upcoming Friday, the 11th, or the weekend after it. We picked those days because we have midterms this next week, and we need to get this filming done with this weekend. To get back on track, Filming wasn't that hard. We decided to first film in chronological order. The first couple of scenes were fairly easy to film. We then decided to make a game plan because after those scenes we realized that we needed to split the filming into 2 days. We decided that this weekend we would do all the shots that are with my dad, and inside/around my house this weekend. The next weekend would be all of the neighborhood scenes. So when we filmed this weekend, we basically got 2/3rds of the movie done. The only hard part that we had with filming, was with my dad. We just had to wait for him to stop doing yard work to film with him. Other than that it was a breeze. Me and my group mate might even get the foundation of our editing done too this week with the film we have so far. 

Preperation

This thanksgiving break, me and my group mate started on the preparations for filming. This upcoming weekend me and my group mate are going to film. We are probably going to film on saturday, the 5th of december. But in the mean time my partner and I did our preparations. The first thing i did was the props. I first got an old book. then i found some aged paper, and some sticky notes. I also got the rest of the miscellaneous stuff to put in the box. The next thing I had to do was find the actual box i needed to put those objects. After searching around for a little around my house i came down to 2 options. There's this really old box in my garage that i can use but it is on the verge of breaking. If i put anything in it it will break. My other box is this shoe box, which is styled vintage because the shoe was too, so it can kind of fit the part of being a old box. I could, and probably am going to ruff it up and put some wear and tear on it. So i'm probably picking the second option. The next prop is going to be the shoes, and they are right in my moms closet. The last prop i had to check was my bike. It is in perfect condition so im fine. The next thing i had to do was to make sure all of the locations were fine to film. I went on my bike and went to all the locations that are in my neighborhood. Nothing changed and there was no contractions so that was good as well. After all of that, all of the conditions were met, and were ready to film next weekend.

The box we are going to use looks like this:

The Making of Our Website

This thanksgiving weekend, me and my partner worked on our Website. Before this, we finished All four of the social media accounts. To start on the website we created A new gmail account for the account. the account was for Wix. With wix we were able to create our website with ease. We first picked out a template for out website. We picked out a moder dark theme, so the detail would be very outlandish and outstanding, so the main point of the website will just be our writing and pictures. We then added the first part of our website the title. Then we added The Title, very easy. The next thing we did was the synopsis. From like a month ago, we made the Synopsis of our film. So we just added it by just a simple copy and paste. The next thing we did was Creating an area for reviews. The next thing we did was plugging in our Social media accounts. We put icons for Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Then we added some credit pictures. So far we have me, my group mate, and my dad credited, however that can change. We also added pictures for the credits, but we are going to replace those because there from our last year's yearbook photos. Next thing we did was putting in a stand in for where to watch our movie because we haven't decided it. This website is mostly done, but i think me and my groupmate and tinker on it a little bit more, to make it the best it can be.

The Creation of social media accounts

Hi blog. Me and my partner this thanksgiving break made our website and social media. To start, we made our social media accounts. We couldn't use are personal accounts for this. We had to make brand new accounts just for the movie. We had to make 4 accounts. We made a Instagram, Youtube, Facebook, and lastly a Twitter. It was relatively simple to do this too. We had to make an email before that first so we could create the accounts. For the accounts we had to do 2 things. We had to make a Profile picture, and a short bio. The profile pic was kind of a problem for us. We decided after thinking about it, to just put a stand in picture. The final profile picture would be a screenshot of the movie. I created the stand in picture by using microsoft 3d paint. It was just a simple design i made, but i like it. The next thing we did was the Bio. It was just a very simple sentence with just saying what the social media account was for. all in all it was pretty simple for us to do. However it is a crucial part of our movie creation process.

Storyboard for short film

 Hello blog! This past weekend, me and my groupmate have been working and finishing out storyboard. This was a hard process, but we manage to get it done. We started making the story boards, by going over our screenplay. Last year, for each time we had to make storyboards for the films we made, we had no screenplay to base any of the pictures off. However, last year we only had to make like 5 storyboards for the films. This years 10-15 is a lot, but it isn't to big of a problem. Basing the story boards off the screenplay was a real boost to our productivity. It made it alot easier to make storyboards than last year. It still took me like 45 minutes to do a single paper. This is probably from me procrastinating, and going on my phone, and just "drifting out into outer space". Before we began this and the previous blog, me and my group mate divide the work so he would do the planing (the previous blog), and i would do the story boards. This was all good in concept, but it turned out to be unbalanced. Ten story boards take me a very long time to do, and i mean a very long time. The planing only took my groupmate under an hour to do, so we had to balance it. After i finished 8 story boards, which took me all day to make, i sent him the pictures of the story board, and made him do the rest. It was only like 3 story boards he had to do. It was not even half the amount that i did, but whatever. he will just do more editing than me when it comes to that. Overall, it was pretty hard to do, but we manage.

Planning for short film

 

In this blog, I will explain all the plans for our short film!

Schedule: For the scheduling, we are unsure at the moment but we are planning to do it on Saturday the 21st. Location: The location where the short film will be filmed is in South Lake and Roscoe's house. Participants: The participants will be Roscoe, His Dad, and I. Health and Safety: Health and safety is a big thing during these times. Before each filming date, each person will get a COVID-19 test to be safe. When filming, in case anything bad happens Roscoe's dad will be there to supervise. Props: The props will be a beat-up shoebox, A polaroid photo, beat up running shoes, a bike, sticky notes, and a buddha statue. Costumes: The costumes used will be day to day clothes.