Filming blog: a morning at the library

We all decide the night before that we would film the next day. The night before we were at the library. We decided to meet at 10:00 but my mom works at 10. So i got dropped at kats early. I got there around 9. We then went to party city to buy some supplies. We then met at the library. We all met around 11:15. We asked for the study room and she let us use it. When we got in we saw a white board. So we asked for some pens. We then wrote on the board. We also stuck up pictures. I had printed the pictures before we got there. We waited for Erik and statrted to film. While we were filming we encountered a big problem. Erik and I can not film together. We make eachother laugh way too much. So I sat down while luisa filmed Erik. Then we switched. It was a very good method.

Filming blog: A night at the park

On friday night at 5 we all were supposed to meet at the park. Sadly, I arrived at 5 but everyone else came at 6:30. We had been bad at communicating. But, when everyone else got there we grabbed our supplies. Then we found a good area. We were gonna go far into the park. However, we chose not to. As, no one wanted to walk that far. We stayed right near the entrance. We poured our fake blood into a plastic bag. Then taped it to Luisas body. We had to use a lot of tape because it kept not sticking. We filmed our first scene of us walking twice. Then we started on the murder scene. I had poured fake blood on my hand at the end and grabbed luisas neck. After i had stabbed her to make it seem like she ran away. We also filmed a low angle. So instead of luisa being on the ground and me stabbing (fake) and choking her(fake) . I did it to the camera instead. Then we filmed Luisa falling. It was hard because she was not very good at fake falling. Then we reviewed our footage and it looked great.

Planning blog: storyboard

Making the storyboard was really fun. But hard because we arent artists. You can tell whats going on but the pictures are so funny. We all tried not to laugh when writing it. We also had an easy time because all of our stuff was on google slides. We just copied into picture form. It was hard to convey what we wanted it to look like. We have an idea but because we arent artists we werent able to do it. So we just tried our best. It could be worse so im happy with how ours turned out. We are also starting filming tomorrow, which is so exciting.

planning blog: title design

Titles were one of the harder things about planning. It was hard to remember all the titles. Good thing we wrote them down. We were kind of confused on what production and studio were. We had forgotten which was over the other. But we later figured it out. We realised production is over the studio. We thought that we needed to have different names on each role. But we figured that since it wasn't a real movie and only us three that we should all put our names for whatever we actually did. We also are going to all edit together instead of the two people we put. They will be the main ones but everyone else will help alongside too. But we thought that would be too many names.

planning blog: schedule, health and safety, participants, and location

As a group we spoke last class and discussed our main characters name. We decided to call her Ava because it was cute and easy. We also decided to stay true to real case and call the girl who got murdered Elizabeth. We have made a schedule for february and will be remaking one every month. We are all pretty busy so we can really only meet on saturdays and early release days. We have discussed tips to stay safe. We will also be printing of our scripts. We are going to hand out our scripts on friday at the fair. We are going to make the lines as simple as possible to ensure that everyone can memorise them. We will aslos spend days during class memorising lines.

planning blog:shooting script

Planning for the shooting was a lot harder than we thought. Although we knew what we were going to do. We realised that trying to portray our ideas on paper was hard. It was easy to do the sound script first though. It was fun to plan out the camera angles and what we wanted it to look like. Hearing everyone in the group try to say what they had in their heads was funny. Its hard to explain what your envisioning. We worked really hard on it. We realise now that writing our storyboard is going to be a breeze. Since we have our script already we are basically just drawing it out.

planning blog:sound script

I thought writing a script was going to be easy. Lucky for us we based ours off of a true story. So it was easy to look back and get details. But giving out lines was kind of hard. We thought that since we are only writing two minutes we have to leave some parts up in the air. But we still wanted a well rounded story. My favorite part was writing parts with the grandma. Although she doesn't have a lot of lines i can just imagine a lot of emotion. This is a thriller but we still want raw emotion and feelings. We are so excited to start practicing soon.