Editing blog 1

For this blog, I will be talking about the editing process. In the first week, we didn’t get much done. I sorted through the videos that were filmed from filming blog 1. That meant I had to check for lighting errors, how well the film flowed and more. I cut out about half of the films and only chose the best videos. The second week, I got a lot done. I sorted through some more film that I did that weekend. As far as today, I didn’t do anything because I wasn’t in school. I did, though, guy my team mate the log in information for my computer. Since that information that we had from the past few days isn't on any other computer. I also told them which SD card and computer we did all that work on. I listened to the audio of the videos, making sure nothing that we didn’t want to be heard could be heard. That also meant I had to check that the actors were talking loud enough for the mic to pick up. If it didn’t, I checked down the scenes we needed to reshoot when it came time. I also watched the video to make sure it was a good quality. That meant checking for visibility since I filmed a lot in a dimly lit room. This meant I had to delete a lot of film because of that. Though we have only had a few days to film, there hasn’t been much headway. I was going to start editing last class but since I still had to go through the videos, I didn’t get to it. Though, I did get the videos uploaded to the editing software and that took the longest amount of time.

Filming blog 2

This weekend, we decided to film the stalker parts. Though, my other teammates couldn’t film. I decided to do this weekends filming myself. The actor for the stalker couldn’t make it either, he had some stuff to do that was really important. I decided to use my sister as the stalker. She looks like a boy from behind so that works out since the stalker is supposed to be a boy. I checked out a camera on Friday, not knowing we couldn’t film, and changed the camera for use. When the day came to film, I got a message saying nobody could film. When I got home, I took out the camera and asked my sister if she could be the stalker. She agreed and we got started filming. I managed to film every solo part with the stalker in it. I filmed everything, including the close ups, split screen parts and the long shots. I directed my sister and told her what to do for every scene. In some, I told her to do what she wanted or imagined a stalker would do and those turned out the best. I filmed in my sisters bedroom. I planned to film when it was dark out to give the effect of the scenes being more unsettling. I had my sister lay down on her bed with her computer up to match the storyboard. I tried my best to match up the angles of the previous scene to make the transition between characters more seamless. Though I’m not as tall as the camera person before, I think it turned out ok. Then I moved onto the close ups of the screen, which I made sure to not have the camera focused on the messages for privacy. I had my sister pull up an Instagram so the stalker could be looking through the girls Instagram. I also filmed the long shot. I stood the back of her room and filmed her looking through the Instagram and sending messages to people. Then, I did the over the shoulder shot, which I shot from over her shoulder and showed the screen. Finally, I moved onto the close up of the stalker smiling, which I just had my sister smile into the camera.

Filming blog: 1

In this weeks filming secession, we got a lot done. Over the weekend, however, we couldn’t film. This was because of complications with the filming time. We also couldn’t take a camera out which was an inconvenience on itself. When we filmed, we actually got a lot done. We took out a camera the last class and checked out a camera. I had to take it home and make sure it was charged. I found out it wasn’t so I charged it over night so we could film the next day. After school, my group mates and I went to my house so we could film. I was in charge of camera set up and directing the actor, our other group mate, where to go. I got to film some stuff too. Specifically the closeups, some of the pans and a few extra shots I wanted to film extras of. I was also in charge of the props. I placed them in the places we needed and gathered them all when we cleaned up. I even called the actor to give her an actual conversation to follow. I got the background ready for filming too. That meant moving anything in the way of our shot, like a pet or the storyboard papers. I gave the actor her lines and helped direct the shots. When it came to packing up, I put everything away. I put the camera and tripod away. I do plan to take the camera back to school too. I’m very excited to film more over the weekend and edit what film we have too.

Planning Blog: Storyboard

In this blog there is an embedded PowerPoint. Just like the others, this google slide has my plans for the video. Though, this is the storyboard for it. An almost set in stone plan for it. Some things will change but mostly will stay the same. The plan for the movie is a girl is stalked online by a mysterious guy. He’s hacked through her computer and is stalking her social media. She made plans with her friends one night and he had heard. She gave away the location and unluckily for her, it was close. The figure drove to where she was and successfully kidnapped her. We had planned out the actors too but not where we could put the titles. We do, however, have an idea of where to put them.




 

Planning Blog: Location, Participants, Health, Schedule

In this blog, there is a google slides. This slideshow has all the details to our film. Including the location, participants, health and the schedule. For the locations, we decided on two places. My house and a nearby park. There won't be too many locations so that's all I put. For the participants, we just stated the actors. Since there are only two characters, we just put two official characters in the slideshow and then an un-offical character. We also put the name of the production crew, aka us. For health, we just put our safety precautions like buckling in. And finally for our schedule, we made a rough outline for when everything will be done.


 

Planning Blog: Title and Design Details

This blog has a google slide embed into it. The slides contain information about the titles. This will help make editing them in easier to do because we have them planned out already. The plans for the appearance for the titles are white font with a blue outline. This will make it seem like a text message. We have also decided on using the closest thing we can find to message fonts. They will come in like a text message with the title name on the right and the name of the actor on the left. This will make it seem like it is being sent. It ties into our theme of the movie which is social media. The more important titles will be in a bigger font to catch the viewers eyes.



 

Planning Blog: Shooting Script

This blog has a google slides link for my shooting script. This post includes a link to said google docs. This includes angles, movements and shots. Some of the shots we have to include are low angles, over the shoulder shots, match shots and more. This was a bit hard to implement into our plan, considering we had already mapped it out quite a bit. The angles definitely won't change from the original if all goes as planned. When we started planning this movie out, it was only an idea but now it seems like it's going good. We had originally wanted to do something different with our angles, but considering our guidelines, we couldn't. The most fun part to shoot will be the trunk shot, even though itll be the last part to film. This will most likely be out final product for angles and movements unless something is messed up on filming day.

planning: dialogue and sound script

This is my slide show of all the dialogue and scripts in film. In this google doc, there is not that much non diegetic and diegetic sounds. The only dialogue is the main girl chatting on the phone. The main non diegetic sound is the music. The only diegetic sounds are the pinging of the phone and the car trunk slamming. Theres also the closing of the car door and room door. There will be some changes to this, but not that much. Maybe some changes to the words that the characters say and or do. Hopefully they won't be that harsh of a change. There isn't exactly much to say about this except that its a google side of my dialogue and sound plans.