Re-shooting blog

The day we re-shot our scenes was Tuesday, March the 17th. Tuesday was the day that we reviewed our film. We went over all of the footage that we had. We looked back at our peer review sheet to see what concerns there was about our film. The other group said that the lighting could be better. So we got right to work on that. After looking at the film a new times over I saw that Darrens and Ashley’s scenes could be better. I also realized one of the scenes where I am petting my dog could be better too. So we went to Darren’s house first. Darren was already there so it was me and Ashley arriving there. Like always it was a bit of a drive but we had to get it done. We reshot scenes two through five. There was no problems with the filming and everything ran smoothly. I filmed his scenes this time. Ashley filmed Darrens scenes last time so we decided to take turns. The only problem we had that was a little annoying was the script. We had to keep looking back and fourth at the shooting script to make sure we had all of the angles correct. But I’m doing this we were able to make sure our film was as precise as it could be. Here is a picture of one of the scenes that we refilmed on Tuesday. As you can see the lighting is a lot better.

Filming Blog: Our last day filming!

Tuesday March the 12th, 2020 marked the last day we filmed our scenes. Ashley, Darren and I ran to my car right after the bell rang. I talked about filming at a nearby school so I wouldn’t have to hassle driving them home after. We all decided that this one elementary school two minutes away from the school we go to would suffice. We didn’t think about the times and ran into a little problem. The elementary school had just been let out. Kids were coming from every direction. None of us had been to that elementary school either so I didn’t know where to park. Once we finally parked it was time to shoot. For this day of filming we had planned to shoot part of scene eight and the whole scene nine. When we were looking at the script however we noticed that one of our scenes were missing. I know we had a tenth scene but I could not find it anywhere. So, we remembered what the last scene was and took care of that as well. The last scene was all three of us walking to class together. When we had to film each other’s scene we alternated who was filming. I filmed Ashley’s scene where she was on the phone then started walking. Ashley filmed Darrens scene when he was running to help me pick up my books. I thought that this would make the whole process a little more fun for everyone. Then it came down to the scene with all of us in it. We thought about how we would film this so it would be the perfect angle to get what we wanted in the frame. We ended up setting our filming device on top of my car. I put a water bottle behind it to get the perfect angle. Here’s the end result.

Filming blog: Ashley's house

Today is March the ninth, 2020. Today we reviewed our peer review sheet that our classmates used to grade our movie. We went over all of the things that we did wrong and could improve. I kept a mental note as well throughout the process of filming today. One of the things that our classmates said was that we needed better lighting. So, I made sure we had good lighting for the scenes that we filmed at Ashley’s house to avoid the same mistake again. I drove Ashley, Darren and I to her house. This was about a 15 minute drive so it wasn’t too bad. Once we got there we immediately started filming. We started at scene one; I filmed Ashley’s alarm clock. In her case it was her phone. We then kept on going through the scenes shooting one by one. I had some trouble making sure that I could get shots that showed the whole scene. This was essential to get the scene we planned on doing based on our story board. We filmed her scenes up until scene six. We only filmed up to scene six because after this the setting changes and we would have to move to a different location. We didn’t have time for this today so we would have to plan another day to film scenes seven through nine. After I was done filming her scenes we discussed when our next day to film would be. We decided that tomorrow would be our best bet. All of us were free for a few hours so I decided it would be better to just get it out of the way. So, tomorrow we will film scenes seven through nine. We will have to remember to bring the same pair of clothing that we had on for tomorrow’s filming. This picture is a snapshot of one of the scenes that I filmed today.

Peer Review Blog

Today is Tuesday March the 3rd, 2020. We did our peer reviews today in class. My group peer reviewed group number three. For this we were told to take a piece of paper that was up at the front of the classroom. On this paper we had a format laid out in which we were supposed to answer and check off. Some of the things we had to check off included titles and camera angles. The main idea of the story that we watched was a girl gets kidnapped. Her friends are trying to find her throughout the intro. But, it turns out that one of the people are traitors. The titles on the film are really good. The only thing is that when the teacher was talking to us about the titles they mentioned staying to one font to look more organized. But I personally like that it's different fonts, it makes the film more unique. One thing i really liked about the movie was the use of props. In the beginning they used masks to represent the bad guys. I feel like if they didn’t do this, it might have been hard to differentiate between the girls friends and the people that kidnapped her. It also makes the movie more interesting because they’re adding more things into the film instead of just themselves. One suggestion that I would make for the film is that they increase the volume during the dialogue part. We were watching this in a predominately loud classroom. Therefore it was harder to hear even with the volume all the way up. The score however was easy to hear and there was no problems with that.