Triple Threat

Here is our final task.

CCR

Here is my CCR that I filmed. For this I had my mom and sister help me. This process took a total of two days. Me and my sister filmed the scenes on monday. I went back and looked at the footage later on to start editing. When I looked at the footage I realized that I had to refilm some of the scenes. By this time it was already dark so this extended the filming process. The next day we put on the same clothing and refilmed. This process took an hour. I had my mom film some of the over shoulder shots. My sister helped film some of the medium shots. To keep the camera still we used a tripod. The tripod was only supposed to be for cameras. I had to make the best of what I had during my time. I put rubber band around the phone and tripod. This ended up working very well and there was no problems with it. For the attire me and my sister wore semi-formal attire. I wore black work pants with a dress shirt and she wore a dress shirt with a skirt. I chose this attire for us because I wanted it to be in the form of a talk show. I knew from watching shows like Ellen that the attire is semi-formal which is why I leaned toward this. I added in music and sound affects to make it seem more like a talk show as well. Here is what it turned out looking like.

Commercial

Here is our commercial that we did prior to our final task.

Music video

Here is our music video that we did before our final task.

Re-editing blog

On March 20th, 2020 we re-edited our film. Though it was very close to being done we had to add some final touches. One of the issues were the titles. We did not add all of the titles that were needed and were supposed to be in there. This was important because everything needed to be how it was supposed to be planned prior to actually executing. I am talking about the small PowerPoint that we made in which laid out how the titles would be seen. Another thing that had to be changed was the font. At first it was hard to read. Due to the fact that it was too small and not spaced out enough. We made some small adjustments and it looked better. The score was also having a bit of an issue. We wanted the score to be placed in a certain place so the song coincided with the film. This was very important because it is used as our sound effect. The whole score is something that you would probably hear in a comedy movie. So it has little jumps and sound affects in it. So for example, when Darren tripped we edited it to where there's a slight change in the tune to exaggerate him falling.  I went back and looked at our peer review sheet. We made sure that we had all of the requirements in the film. This was not done at school. This had to be done at home due to the COVID-19 issue that is still happening. Here’s a picture of what it looked like when I was re-editing the film.

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.