Filming At A Library

In the library, we filmed the rest of our movie. Khiara, Luisa, and I where there first, then Erik came after. The study room was small but it was enough to turned it into an “interrogation room.” Once we got there, we noticed that there was a dry-erased board. Luisa and I asked a lady that worked there for expo markers. Then we filled the board with out evidence like police would do trying to solve crime. I brought scissors, tape, glue because we were making our props. It was supposed to be a file of evidence but we didn’t use it. But, we taped pictures of Luisa on the board to represent the crime scene. It wasn’t showed clearly in our footage but we decided that it would look better instead of a blank background. Luisa and I wrote random information like the time of death and suspects to make it look realistic. When everyone was there, we rehearsed Khiara's and Erik's lines. It was easy for them to learn it because it wasn’t a lot. Everyone had there part for filming. Khiara was an actor, Luisa recorded, and I directed and try to keep everyone on task. We started to become loud so we became quiet and serious. There were times where we would laugh because no one is used to acting and it was funny seeing ourselves when we looked back at the footage.

Filming At The Park

On Saturday, my group and I filmed. We filmed the murder scene and the flashbacks at the fair. Since there actually wasn't a fair, we filmed on the slides and swings at the playground nearby. When we first got there, it was still bright but cloudy. We filmed Khiara and Luisa walking around as if they were hanging out. I didn't expect for the sun to go down quickly so most our shots were film in the dark. I think that for this flashback, we will use the shots that were in the dark because the lighting would be extremely different. There wasn't any lights at the park but we used my phone as a flashlight and I think it came out better then we expected. We had to re-shoot some of those takes because you could see the shadow of my phone. Luisa is usually the person that films but I filmed that day because Luisa was an actor for these two scenes. As we were filming we added more angles that would really add to our movie. In the beginning, it was hard to film because it was very cold outside and it was awkward to film someone "getting murdered" in daylight. We would stop recording when someone walked by and resumed once they were gone. For this scene, we had to use fake blood. It wasn't in any store so Luisa made some. We taped a bag of the fake blood to her stomach and made a hole so when Khiara had to "stab" her, she didn't have to press hard. But, it took a while for the blood to show on her shirt so we pressed the bag and started to film quickly once it was seen.

Supplies For Filming

 Last class my group and I decided to find supplies so we can film. I went to Party City to find anything for the scene where Elizabeth gets murdered. I couldn't find any fake blood but I found a badge and handcuffs for the "police officer." I was going to buy it but I didn't have enough money. So I am going today after school to buy both of them. I couldn't find any fake knifes, but, hopefully there will be some today. If not we will use something else. For the fake blood, we are going to try to make some. We are going to film the murder scene tomorrow. After school we will go to a park and try to get as much as we can. We are deciding to go around five so we can film it in the sunset. But we are going before it and film it multiple times just in case if the lighting is weird. On Saturday we are going to a library so we can film the interrogation scenes. It was difficult trying to get a study room because you need a library card. I have one but I'm pretty sure it expired. I'm going to ask my mom if she has one. If she does not, I will try to get one. If none of these options work, we will film it at my house. We couldn't film last weekend because none of us could get a ride to film.

Planning Blog: Storyboard

Making the storyboard was really fun. But hard because we aren't 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 aren't artists we weren't able to do it. So we just tried our best. It could be worse so I'm happy with how ours turned out. We are also starting filming tomorrow, which is so exciting.

Planning Blog: Title Design in Details

At first, it was weird trying to make up names of companies but it became easier as we made them. We only used our names but the some actors and editors will be included. From the help of watching other credits from movies, we knew how we wanted to display them. We also found that it would be best if we didn't go over the top with colors and sizes. I think that it will 90% the same once we start to film. There might be some changes but it will only be if necessary. Giving out the roles for the titles was easy because we knew what our strengths were. 

Planning Blog: Filming Procedures

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 memories them. We will also spend days during class memorizing lines.

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.

Planning Blog: Shooting Script

Today our group planned how we are going to shoot our movie. This process was a little difficult because we wanted to show different angles but not show all in one scene. Since we got our inspiration from a real case we had somewhat of an outline on how we are going to do it. We wanted to show as much as possible but make it look like a trailer or tell the whole story in the two minutes. This is why flashbacks to give the viewer more information. We think that the shooting will be easier than the other videos that we did because it is more planned out. Tomorrow our group will confirm a name for our main character and the title of the movie. Also, we will try to get everything done so we can start filming earlier and see if there are any changes that need to be made. I think that we won't be making much of a difference but its always good to be prepared for anything.