Blog: Film

  Once again, I did not film. This time I actually got my camera from my teacher today. But, my parents got home late again. I am planning on asking for my camera for another day tomorrow, so I can record tomorrow. I get home pretty late after school, so if i come home and record first thing tomorrow, I will be able to start editing my footage at school this week and next week. I am getting nervous because it seems like every time I try to do anything regarding filming, it does not happen. I really do not want to get a 0 for my peer review assignment. I am also nervous for the peer review assignment because I know I wont have much footage for my peers to go over. But I will try to record at least the first 5-6 scenes because most of the scenes I have to record are going to take some time. I am hoping to have some footage so I have some things to re-shoot. I have been going over my scenes as usual because I want to make sure that everything goes as planned. I am really hoping that it all goes well...I have not posted an edit blog yet, because I have not been able to film. But the day I have my footage and start editing something. I will post an editing blog.

Blog: Why I did not Film

       During this past weekend, I have not filmed anything. My mom was very sick with the flu, but she has been feeling better. If I am being honest, I forgot to ask my teacher for a camera the day after class. So, this weekend instead of filming, I studied over my shooting scripts that I wrote in my PowerPoint and tried to figure out how I would actually record it. I started to wonder what would happen if my mom got sick again, and thinking about what I would do if that did happen. Lately in my household, since I have been living with 10 other people, everyone has been getting sick. I only hope that nobody who I am using as actors in my opening sequence does not get sick anymore. Today before class is over, I am going to ask my teacher for a camera before class is over. I plan on filming this week after school and this weekend. We have to do a peer review next week, and I have to have something to show to the other kids for a big grade. I also have to edit something for the peer review as well. But I am planning on filming this week and editing as well.

Filming Blog: Why I did not film

    So last weekend I did not film for many reasons. I got sick again, after just having the flu for a week. I started to get symptoms of the flu again and I got pretty worried so I decided to wait until this weekend to record. Not only was that a problem but my mom gets sick very fast. My mom started feeling pain in her kidneys so I decided not to force her into doing anything she can not do. In my other blogs I did say that my aunt would be replacing my mom in my opening sequence, but my aunt was not feeling well that day. Also, if I am being honest I did not get a camera from the school so I could film, so even if I had a camera, I would not be able to film anyway.  I am hoping that this weekend I will be able to film and actually get it all done, because we have to have something for my peer review to review. When I got home today I found out that my mom has the flu so I will probably have to film with my aunt playing as my mom for this opening sequence. Or, I can just film sometime next week or next weekend with the hopes that my mom feels better...

Planning Blog: Storyboard

 Today, I started on my storyboard. In my storyboard I had to basically include everything everyone will be doing throughout the whole opening sequence. In my storyboard I also added what they will be doing in words underneath the picture. I was really tired because I have been up 7 doing homework and it is now 11 O'clock. It took me so long to complete this worksheet because there was a lot to do. Although all we had to do was draw pictures and explain what was in the pictures, this time around since we are filming a mini movie, I had to use one paper for one scene. So for example, Scene 1 was on 1 paper. And if you already saw my shooting script google slides showcase you would know that I put about 4-5 shooting script scenes. On the storyboards, we had to use 6 squares for every scene. So, what I did was I broke down my scenes into deeper details so I could fill up all of the boxes.

Planning blog: Titles

   In this google slides presentation, I was talking about the Titles. I talked about the titles, fonts, spacing, contrast, and how the titles work and how they will exit and enter the screen. For the topic on fonts, I mentioned some fonts I would use in the opening sequence. I picked out my favorite fonts as well. I also mentioned the spacing, which is about how I would space the words in the opening sequence. When talking about the contrast, I was basically talking about the colors I would use in the opening sequence. When I was choosing the colors I would use, I had to think about what would go well with whatever the title was going on. For example, I would not choose white on white because nobody would be able to see it. Lastly, when I was mentioning the exiting and entering of the titles, I had to talk about how the titles would be on the screen and how they would leave and enter the screen.

Planning Blog: Plan Part 1

   The planning blog is about the health, participants, location, schedule and titles. The health portion is about what who is helping out in case of any emergency. And also what will be used if anyone get hurts such as an aid-kit. The participant section within the google slides, is about who will be participating in the opening sequence. It also includes who will be helping out with writing, directing, actors, etc. The Location part of this google slides is about all the locations that I will be filming withing the opening sequence. So, every time we change the setting or location I have to write about it in the google slides. Lastly, the schedule section is talking about the schedule for when we are filming the actual opening sequence. I had to give the dates for this section, but I don't exactly know the dates for when we are filming. The last section in the google slides are titles. In this section, you have to give your overall ideas for the titles and how they will be edited and made into the opening sequence. But that's what's in the google slides below.

Planning Blog: ( Sound/ Dialogue Script )

This is my dialogue script for my movie. This is basically an audio script on the shooting script. What that means is in this google slides instead of writing out what everyone is going to be doing I will be writing out what people will be saying. So this is the second step of completing my movie. Sometimes while writing out the dialogue for the movie, I get nervous that I may have messed up on something or that I may have added too much to one scene. I remember that my teacher taught us that each scene is supposed to be 6 seconds long. I could be overthinking it, but I feel like I may be messing up. Anyway, the google slides is about writing what people are going to say during every scene. Not including the actions of what people will do, but it does include angles, and movemetnts. Unlike the other google slides. So, here are my slides.

Planning Blog ( Shooting Script )

    I just completed my shooting script blog for my movie. It did not take as long as I thought it would to make this google slide. During this google slide presentation, I had to basically write out the script for shooting the movie. This presentation did not include any dialogue, or camera angles, it was all morally the shooting actions everyone would be doing while I am recording. I thought this assignment would take longer but it was actually very fast, but it still did take some time to complete.
In this presentation I did include the actors name so that way nobody is confused on who is who when I do complete my Dialogue/Sound script. Something I also did during this presentation was give many details on what the characters would be doing in the specific scene. It was kind of weird to write it out when I could not really write ant dialogue, so I did my best to make it make sense. But overall the assignment went very well, and I am proud of myself for not waiting until the last minute. So here is my google slides on my shooting script.