Today during our class time my group and I finished filming the last 10 scenes of our movie! We are now ready to begin our assembly edit next lesson. Since it takes around 15 minutes to walk to our location, during class time we don't have much time to film. We were in a bit of a rush, and ran into a problem when there were people doing Tai Chi at our film location, while playing music. Luckily, they were finishing up and left soon after we arrived. We very quickly filmed the scenes before rushing back to school to import the footage and get changed. The weather today was very sunny, versus the cloudy, rainy days we've previously filmed on. This made our scenes have a warmer tone to them, and there were shadows from the trees that weren't in the other scenes. I hope that this is not very noticeable in our film, there is nothing we can do to change the weather, so hopefully while we are editing we can edit the clips to make them look the same. Overall, I am very happy with our progress and can't wait to start editing!
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On February 24th and 25th my group and I started to film our movie! We went out to the hiking trail and walked for around 15 minutes to get to our filming spot. On the 24th it was very cold, filming was fun, but uncomfortable because we were so cold. All of our hands were numb, but we managed to work hard and finish filming the scenes we needed to film! On the 25th we were more prepared, bringing more layers and some food to eat while we filmed. We filmed that day for 2 and a half hours. We were supposed to film for longer, but our camera ran out of battery. We got all of our scenes done except for two. Over the course of filming we have changed a lot it, still keeping the same plot, but adding in different shots. I think that it is natural for this to happen because it's hard to write a shot list without being there actually creating the film. Overall this has been a fun experience!
Today we had a tech class where we learnt about Final Cut Pro X, check the class notes tabs to see my notes!
Today in class my group and I went location scouting for locations for our film. We already knew we are going to film the bulk of our film at the hiking trail (Photo 2) near school, but we wanted to find the spot within the trail where we can film. We found two possible locations, the first one, below labeled as Photo 1, is an opening which is ideal of our film. The only concern we have is that from certain angles you can see the fence, which doesn't fit the theme of a western film, and the grass is very vibrant and green there, which it wasn't like in the Old American West. Another spot which has less grass and no fencing or any modern instalments around, is further up the trail. During class we didn't have time to go up there and look at it, but a member of my group as been there before and is going again to check it out tomorrow. We will use either of these locations for filming the major parts of our film. There are a couple scenes located inside a room, which we are going to film at school, but the rest of the scenes will be filmed at the hiking trail.
Today in class we finished up our production plan and started out storyboards. Over the weekend we all finished our western portfolio so that now we can focus on our production plan. We have a total of 61 shots in our shot list, so we have a lot of story boarding to do. We have split the work up evenly, below I have inserted a picture of some of the storyboards. By doing the storyboards I can now start to see our film come to life! We have tried to include as many shots as needed to create a detailed and interesting film, as if you have the same type of shot throughout the entire film it can get a bit boring. Drawing some of the shots is a bit challenging, but this storyboard will defiantly help us when we are filming. Next class we plan to start our artistic statements, ready for us to start filming on Friday! We will film over the weekend and the next week as well, so we are ready to screen our film on March 8th.
Today in class my group and I started our production plan. This plan includes our shot list, artistic statement, equipment list, shooting dates and props and costumes. My group will create everything together in the production plan besides the artistic statement, we all have to write our own. We assigned each other certain areas of the plan to focus on, I made the shooting dates. With our film due very soon, right after this production plan is due, we are working on our film everyday. We are using the last 5 days to edit, the rest of the time will be spent on filming. Our shot list isn't done yet, but so far it seems like we are going to have many shots, so we will need to be very efficient when filming. I am going to acting in our film as one of the main characters! I am very excited to keep working on our film. It is slowly starting to come to life now and I can't wait until we can go out and film the actual film after we finish the production plan.
Camera learning class, no reflection today, check "Class Notes" tab for my notes from today.
Today was a short class, so I spent my time working on my western portfolio. I have started my introduction to western films, which I imagine will take the longest to create, which is why I am doing it first. I am using my notes I took in class on the day we watched a presentation on western films to help me write the introduction. I have found this very useful so far. I am trying to introduce western films without going into too much detail, since I will need to input some of that detail into my mise en scene part of my western portfolio. At the end of class we were put into our groups, I am in Duncan's group making a film based on Game of Thrones. I am very excited to start, James and Conrad are also in my group. I have already discussed to Duncan about how we are going to create the movie, and since I am open to acting we are thinking of changing one of the main characters to a female role. I haven't read his script yet, but I read it when he was creating it, and from what I have seen I like it a lot and can't wait to get started! Overall today's lesson has made me anticipate creating the actual film and the process of doing so!
Today in class I continued working on my script. I have been working on it for the last couple lessons, but today I finally finished both of them and turned them in! I am happy with my final products. I didn't add much today, I mostly reviewed and took advice from my peers and my teacher for improvements before submitting it. I think my script shows a good balance of concepts from the original script, while still being unique. I am excited to see some other scripts of my peers and to see which scripts are chosen. Next I want to start working on my Western Portfolio, starting with the introduction. I am excited about getting in my group and starting the project! Overall today I was productive and got my work done, I am very excited to see what it is to come!
In class today we continued our work on our scripts. I am now finished with both my scripts, but I still need edit my second script. I am going in and replacing some of the words I used with words from cowboy language to help me incorporate more western iconographic aspects into my film. I am so far very happy with my second script, I have kept the concept of Taken where there is a father finding his daughter who has been trafficked, but I changed the setting and, like I mentioned before, the language of the characters. For example, instead of the first scene occurring in a hallway of a mansions, I changed it to the back of a bar, and the fight scene is in the woods instead of a basement. This adds a western aspect to the film, because having it in a mansion, like the movie. All I need to do now is some final editing and reviewing of my script before I'm reading to turn it in on Friday! "Taken" Movie Poster
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