Filming Blog: Our Journey

I admit, we haven't been on our game as we should have been. It's no excuse why we haven't if we want to pass. However, with work and lack of communication, my group and I have not been successful in being able to film. Luckily, I have some good news. This saturday, we will be filming our park scene. The park scene is where the child getd kidnapped. We plan to use the establishing shot first of course, that being the park. Also, shots like extreme close ups and dialogue will be in our film. I really hope filming this goes well. Time is really winding down for us to film.

More insight for the film, we plan to use different people. Instead of only using us as the group members, we've added more people to our film. We will have a court scene also. This "court" scene will be done at my house. It's all about improvising right? Since this movie is only 2 minutes, it is hard to pick what will make sense for the scenes. I plan to do what minute per setting. This is just to split the drama evenly. My group members and I are planning an ending that will have the audience on the edges of their seats. I cannot wait to film this saturday.

Filming Blog: Unsuccessful Yet Again

Last time we left off on the fact that my group and I could not film. Here we are, unsuccessful yet again. Yes yes I know, disappointing news right. I was really planning to do some filming this last weekend. However, things did not work in my favor. An update from the last blog however, is that we finished the storyboard. If you all forgot, we could not check out a camera without the storyboard blog. My group and I plan to amaze you guys when we do get to film. These days of not being able to film are only setbacks. Although we upset you all by not giving a sneak peek, here's some inside details to our film.

I cannot give you guys all the details, but hint hint, one of our settings will be in a park. In our film, we plan to have an extreme close up. This close up is a very important detail believe it or not. Only those who pay attention to our film will get the clue. Also, who owns mallets these days? My group and I plan to get creative with a hammer and some construction paper and or paint. The last sneak peek I'll give you guys is there will be lawyer against lawyer in a totally different way of how it is on regular movies or shows. Hopefully you guys understand the meaning, hence our movie title, Double Deceit. This week we will be filming and have so much in store for you all. Until next time, stay tuned and be ready to be blown away.

Filming Blog: We Could Not Film

Unfortunately, my group and I could not film last weekend. We could not film for two reasons. One of these reasons are that 3 out of 4 of us have work. Juggling work and school is very hard, but we manage. As minors, we don't get as much hours as a full time person does so we have to work when we can. As much as we work, we are able to still do our blogs. There is one problem, however. We did not have the flexibility to cancel work to film. We being Micahia, Jessica, and I. In the future however, we have to work things out because we can't get 0's for these assignments.

The next reason is because of miscommunication. As you all know, we recently added a boy named Erik to our group. However, it has been hectic for us. We assign him certain assignments, and a lot of the times he does not tell us ahead of time what he can and can't do. With that being said, at the last minute, we have to try to rush to get things done. The issue here is that we could not film until the storyboard was done. He waited awhile, just to say that he doesn't feel he can do it. Unfortunately, he does it right when the assignment is about to be due. As a group, we have to communicate. I really hope that he realizes how miscommunication is hurting our grades.

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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 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.