Editing Blog: Organizing Footage Planning Titles

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Editing was quite a but of a struggle, honestly we weren't able to get much got done. When arriving to class we were given instructions and we began to edit. During the first 15 minutes of class we dropped off our footage on the SD card to our desktop. Then, Emma one of our group members decided it would be best if we went through every single footage and deleted all the unnecessary videos we wouldn't need or use. Hailey and I didn't think that it was such a good idea to dedicate so much time into looking through each and every single video, and it would take up our time for our editing process. We explained to her that it might take too much time of the limited amount of time we had to edit. However, Emma thought it would be a much easier process to remove all the unnecessary footage and work with the descent ones when we get to editing. Since I figured we wouldn't get a chance to edit I suggested that it would be best to back up our footage so we would still have them in case anything went wrong. While Emma and Hailey was sorting through our footage I took the time and uploaded all our footage to my google drive, which took about 10 mins for it to to finish uploading.  After, we were done uploading we re-watched and sorted most of the footage we had.We took the time to delete footage that wasn't needed and was unnecessary. Sorting through the footage took our entire class time and we were not able editing done.
 Overall, I think we should've took the class time to edit and not look over our footage. Since we were able to upload our footage on google drive reviewing could be done at home instead of during our class time which was intended for the use of taking the time to edit on the editing software which can't be reachable from home.During, other class times we able to start editing more, and get few things accomplished which I'll be discussing in further blogs. That's all there is for the beginning of the editing process blog. I hope you enjoyed reading! See you on the next one.

Filming Blog: Shooting Antagonist Character Scenes

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Unfortunately Emma and I weren't available  to film with our group member Hailey this time. But, we were still able to filming happen and stuck to our filming plan as scheduled. Today, we planned to film the scenes with the second main character which was the stalker to our movie. Hailey, went to film the scenes occurring with the antagonist. In the case our antagonist was indeed the "stalker" where the plot starts to develop in our movie. The next couple of scenes took place in Hailey's house once again and we decided on a different location to film it instead of Hailey's room this time.
  The person we originally wanted to play this role was one of our guy friends Raphael, but he wasn't available last minute. It was meant to be a male role, we decided to a last minute change and Hailey's sister was our antagonist for the film. Hailey had her sister improvise as the character, and had her dress up into a male aesthetic version of herself. She wore a black hoodie and had her hair up. The shot was taken from an "over the shoulder" angle which gave her sister a more male like appearance from behind. She told us she was able to film most of the parts for these scenes.
  She was able to take different angles and directed her sister in what to do for each part. She even had her sister improvise in certain parts, imagining what a stalker would probably do in different scenarios. She filmed the scenes in her sister's, while it was dark outside to give the effect of the scene a more unsettling theme contributing to our horror genre. She had her sister scroll through a fake social media page, having her stalk the main character. The different angles that were taken were close ups, over the shoulder shot, and a wide shot in which she stood in the back of the room and filmed her sister on the laptop.
   According to our group member filming did go successfully, and lot was managed to get done. Another successful day of filming, see you guys on the next one!

Filming Blog: Scenes Occurring With Main Actor

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I'm excited to announce that we have officially started filming for our movie opening! Which is so exciting, especially for me being the main actor. Though is was a bit difficult due to lack of preparation, but that is completely out of our responsibility. After school, around 2;45ish one of my group members Hailey, had her sister carpool us to out first filming location which was Haileys room at her parents house. Hailey's sister had two of our others friends to drop off first before we could get to filming at her place.
 When we arrived to her place my other group mate Emma and I were greeted well by her parents. Hailey showed us her room. and fixed it up for it to correlate to the mis-en-scene for our first shoot.

After, we finished setting up the camera went over our lines, and what we need to do. Although, in my opinion it's not exactly how I envision filming to go and the setting to be. I was very unprepared, because our group as a whole didn't really discuss dialogue, and we didn't come up with a correct mis-en-scene to correlate with our story line. In result as the lead actress I had to improvise everything, my outfit, the dialogue.
We made enough time for two record the first scenes. I pretended I was on the phone with Hailey as the character that I was pacing back in forth in the room. We took multiple takes of that scene. Then we got different angles of me get on the bed and scrolling through social media on a laptop. Next, we took a take of me heading out the house to meet up with friends at the park. I think filming went successfully, we enjoyed acting out and improvising our lines. It mostly sounded cringe, it was lots of fun and I can't wait to film again.

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: Location, Participants, Health, and 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: 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: 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 it'll 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 & 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.