CCR Brainstorm

 So with my filming and editing finished my video is officially completed. Now i have not too many days left to complete my 2 CCR's. I have been brain storming what exactly i want to do for my CCR. Here I will show to ideas i have to be done while answering the questions. 

1st idea: Film my CCR in my house walking around showing where i filmed the scene as i answer the questions. Ill end up having my mom film me as i talk to the camera showing where my film was made. Also i will be doing no cuts just the camera walking around my house with me as i talk and show them where we filmed everything.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOQ-wZQhZZo&ab_channel=Vogue

2nd idea: Film the CCR in the car. I will get some index cards and say that they are questions from people and i'll end up reading the questions for the CCR and answering them. All in the car as a friend or mom drives or something around that. It wont be exactly like the example i show cause that it Karaoke and i wont be doing that. But it will be the same environment like in the car talking to the screen. 

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-0PB4cbtDc&ab_channel=TheLateLateShowwithJamesCorden

3rd idea: I do a simple powerpoint with the questions and talk over it like ive seen before. I have no example fr this one but it's really the most simple idea i have and i probably won't be doing it unless i run out of time and i have to do one quick. 

Group Meeting (pt2)

 Group Meeting

Today as a class we did some group meetings. It was really like a checkup and a way to see and critique some of our classmates projects and blogs. There was one person that has finished in my group but everyone else is either finishing their filming or adding their final touches to editing and starting their CCR's. 

I think i'm at a good place right now if i can finish the editing the next couple days. For the  CCR's i think i have a good idea on what to do. I'll likely make a Youtube video on me talking about it all with every detail on how my process has gone. Someone in my group is doing an interview with their sibling in a car as they drive so it's like a talk show in the car. I might have to do that as well but i think the Youtube video is great. 

My classmates that were in my group seem all to have a correct idea on what to do and how to do it. I got some ideas from them also for my project and i will be using them. Like the music in the beginning with the credits. For my opening credits I filmed the houses on a bike with a POV shot and added the credits in them. But i can also just add a black screen and add them. Today I will finish editing and get to the CCR. By the end of the week i will have one CCR completed and the ides for another one. 

Editing Process

 Editing

After finishing the filming today I was editing. I have been editing how I wanted to in the beginning and adding slight music in certain scenes so it adds the suspense. I'm not completed with the editing of the project but I am close and I think it’s going well in the editing part. Again I'm not the best editor and as I am the only person in my group I’ll adapt. I've been watching videos for the past couple weeks to help with the editing but I’ll have it done.

 So far I have the credits and  the first couple shots for the opening scene edited and I will continue on tomorrow. Also, with my luck my premiere pro was not working. I do not know exactly why yet but I ended up editing it on an App called " VideoLeap"  where I can still do everything I wanted to do on adobe but on the phone. Here are some screenshots of me editing some on the shots I took yesterday.

Screenshot of me editing: 

Film

 We have completed filming: 

Today me and my friends finished filming. We have all the shots I needed and it did not take us too long to complete. After a hour I finished the process and had everything ready for editing. In this post I will just talk on my film process and show some pictures from the behind the scenes of my opening from some of the shots we did. 

So the process was fairly easy as I had my storyboard and everything planned out before hand. Tomorrow I will continue on with the editing process and make sure everything is ready for Monday. On Monday I will start the CCR and finish it mid week so I have the rest of the week to complete the other posts. 

Here are some pictures from todays filming process for the opening. these are just pictures from the shots I filmed. The editing process will be started tomorrow and hopefully completed by the end of the day. If edited correctly it should come out as I wanted it to originally. The only difference from the shots and my planning is that it was not dark outside and my TV cable was not working.

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Location and finishes

 

So tomorrow I will be finishing my filming and will have everyone over to complete it with me. 

So here is some pictures of the locations on where this will all be filmed and where everything is. We will be using the parts of the house shown as there really the only ones necessary for the filming process. So the living room and some shots outside will be took. Also it might not be dark outside when we film because of some lighting issues we had attempting to film it earlier this week so we will be filming later in the afternoon like around 5:30-6:00 PM.

Pictures of location: 

Stay in tune for the post tomorrow with all the filming process being shown and maybe even some shots from the opening to be shown. 

Custom Newspaper

Hi There, Juan Again

Ok so for a mise-en-scene element i decided to do a custom newspaper with the local news on what's all going on. Though its spring break right now i wanted to not make the time on the newspaper be the same as today so I changed it up a little and made it earl march. here is a picture of me editing the newspaper on google docs. 

So what i did is i got a template or a old newspaper and i edited it all out with information fitting my story on the opening scene. I have fake news like past killings and the description of the suspect all added on the news so it makes it look more realistic in a sense. I also added pictures of police scenes that happened recently in Miami. In the pictures you can even see the police men are dressed in Miami police gear so it again makes it look like these scenes are from the killings in the story, as the setting is in a home in Miami. Here is the finished product post printed and this is what will be used in the film.

So I will be doing a close up shot of the newspaper on the  counter on the kitchen as the scene goes on. Maybe I’ll even have one of the characters talk about the newspaper and show it to the others. 

Sound In Film

 Sound planning:

Ok so i will be doing the planning of the sound in both the editing aspect and the filming right now so i have it set up for filming. For sound i will be using music, foley sounds, and ambient sounds in the opening so it helps with the tension and suspense that is to be shown. So for the foley sounds i will be using different items to show different things. I know for a fact that when i get to the scene of the character outside making a phone call i will be using lots of silence to create suspense. The silence can be a powerful tool for creating tension in the viewer. 

According to a couple videos i watched "use silence before a sudden action", So thats what i will be doing. Before the antagonist attacks the teenager i will have no noise going on at all. The teenager will hang up the phone and begin texting someone on his phone. As he is texting  nothing will be heard except the noise which is made as you send messages on messages. There will be slight chatter being played in the background which will be coming from inside the house. But what i will do is kind of zoom it out and make it just be a slight noise that is being heard not anything too loud. 

For the music part of the sound i will be using it also to create the tension with the audience. As the tension builds in the scene i will be adding some music. The music will start off as low, background noise and it will gradually increase over the scene until the antagonist appears and kills the character. Hopefully the music creates a sense of danger and scares the viewer, adding on to the suspense I need to show in the opening.  The next post will be on the newspaper i create for the mise-en-scene throught the scene.

Hi there, Juan again  

I have it planned out. So this week the time changed, meaning it gets darker outside before usual times. But this also means that sports games get pushed up one hour. Usually it's never dark outside or night when a soccer game is because the great games are in Europe and its a 6 hour difference. So what i will be doing is planning to film this week during a soccer game that goes on later in the day. I have all my planning ready and my storyboard complete. One thing i do need to make is the newspaper mise-en-scene item i have been talking about.

This item will contain the date and a bunch of fake news and information that goes with my story i am portraying. I do believe that if i can do this correctly and complete it will everything i have planned being show i think it will be a great opening scene and it will be great to show on the blog. Throughout this blog you will see my journey and motions i'm taking into completing this opening scene and everything i will go through to have it done correctly. 

Also while i was doing my research i found a interesting youtube video on sound and how to properly use it to help create the scene. It focuses more on the music to use when creating suspense and less on the other aspects of the sound. Though i did like the video and i wanted to link it on my blog to show a video i watched when researching it. It also gives some good examples of films that use these aspects of sound and use it perfectly. Here is the link to the Youtube Video.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-dMimIr1pY&ab_channel=RickBeato

Storyboard And Information

Hi There, Juan Again

Storyboard:

Here is 2 pictures of my storyboard I created last night. No, I am not the most skilled artist but i tried to show you all my process on the story and how I think it should all come out as. The storyboard shows both the scene numbers and the types of shots and angles being used in each of the scenes to help show the image.

Extra Research

Jump scares are going to be a key element to use in my opening. I do believe I will be doing a couple of them in my opening. Maybe around 2 will be done including the one I do with one of my main characters as a joke. This week I did some research on how to effectively use jump scares to help create the shock effect and the suspense it brings. I watched a video on the art of the jump scares and it also showed examples with voiceovers of how certain films used jump scares in the past and how it changed their whole scene.

YouTube Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQFnB7Rv5A&ab_channel=CineFix-IGNMoviesandT

Thinking more on the topic of jump scares I will definitely be trying some different types of ways that can help bring this suspense and scare I need into my film including lots of different sound. Like a dark beat to be playing in the background or foreshadowing showing the newspaper I wanted to make before everything bad happens in the opening. Maybe Ill be able to even still use some type of editing that can help it too though I do not know too much on that and how to change the whole mood of the film with it. My next post will be my storyboard and everything with it, but I'm gonna make sure when I film it is dark outside cause I don't want there to be any extra lighting around that changes the look of the opening and it all has the darker tone to it to help with the setting of the scene. So ill be doing my storyboard tomorrow and setting everything of that nature up. I might even make the newspaper as well as I should have enough time to do it. 

Character Outlines

Character Outline 

Character Outline for Emanuel:

Character outlines for my characters are a great way to show them and their moods and them as a person before thinking about the rest of the story. Later on I will show a board and outline for one of my characters I have planned out and hopefully I can reflect and look back to this when confused on how to continue on with the story of my character and how to set him up for the opening. This character will be one of the 3 male character in the opening. The opening again will be 3 people on a couch watching a soccer game. As time passes I will be cutting back and forth with the duo and the antagonist with is somewhere upstairs while they are in the living room. When one suddenly leaves to the washroom the antagonist of the film gets up and takes action. In this post here shows a short outline on one of the main character to the opening , Emanuel will be shown. The clothing of the character will be basic with a normal white tee and some khaki pants. He's going to be the funnier people out of the characters but also will be the scariest. The second he hears something go on he freaks out. So throughout the opening he will have a worried face but also making jokes. This will be the character that does a jump scare as a joke on his friends. 

 It's my birthday!

Well it did not go as expected, too much stuff went on today and I did not get to film. I didn't really think it through to be honest but I really should have. I was out all day for my birthday and didn't have time to even make the newspaper I wanted to make and script before filming. As I did not have these items obviously I wasn't completely ready to begin filming. I think that I should begin my filming process soon  and as it did not go as planned this week maybe next week I can complete this. 

I ended up filming basic shots but it was also my birthday so there was A LOT going on in the background. With both music and chatter in the back I clearly didn't think it through because I was confused when it got to that point. Though I did try to start it with no proper plan I think I definitely need more time to get everything together. Next week I will be doing the following things that will help set up my filming for the weekend. First I will be doing my storyboard because without that I do not think it's best to start off. Yes, I did have a storyboard made but I made it today right before I trying to film so I will be making major adjustments to it. Second, I will be creating the mise-en-scene element I wanted to make which was a newspaper about the plot of the story. Also, I will continue on with my research with both sound and angles so when I do begin to film the opening I have a complete understanding of everything I sill be completing. 

Though it is sad that it didn't go as planned I do think this can be a positive as I was likely not ready to begin the filming process yet. Hopefully we can have everything ready and get started for next week. See you all soon with more progress on my journey to create an opening film scene. 

To Be Continued...

                     Hi there, Juan Again

 Product and editing ideas for opening scene: 

So I was thinking with a couple of friends today about ideas on how to make the opening stand out in the film. So we came up with what I believe is a good idea on the opening shots. As in the opening the group of kids will be watching a UFC fight I was thinking about cutting from a move the fighter does to the killer doing the same move on the victim. So, like I said before there will be a group of friends, teenagers, that are watching a UFC fight. throughout the fight goes on the scene will be cutting back and court on the group and the killer upstairs. The killer is never actually seen but I will be using POV shots and the handle camera motion to show his presence in the house. When one of the characters go upstairs he encounters the killer and he ends up killing him. What I wanted to do was maybe show one of the fighters in a choke hold and then fade into a transition of the killer holding a choke hold on the victim to show the presence of it and try and be creative with a idea.

Also, I wanted there to be a weird kind of scary conversation that goes on between the group  of teens. This is because I wanted there to be a jump scare between 2 of the people just messing around with each other. This again is to create some type of suspense between them and the room. It shows the suspenseful outcome and ideas that can be happening. Maybe I can even do It as they are talking about the recent killings in the film. As I wanted to use my Mise-en-scene product of a newspaper or some type of paper that shows that the news has been keeping up with killings in the neighborhood. So as the group talks about the killings one of the kids jump scares another one. When this takes place I will add some sound element that also adds suspense and scare to the viewer. So after this jump scare one of the characters go upstairs leading to his death. I think I can work this out and tomorrow can show this in plan.

Week 4, Post 1 ( Planning )

It's Week four!

Filming Plan:

This week should be the week that I begin filming. I have my whole planning and research in order and together so it should be fine to begin this weekend. March 4th is my birthday and one of my favorite fighter Jon Jones if fighting on Saturday, my birthday. Since I will be having people over at my house I think it is the best time to be filming as friends will be over. I have asked my friends if they were comfortable with me filming them and they said its fine. So I will be continuing my plan to film during that day. If worked efficiently I think we should be able to finish the project and next week begin the editing. Though I will obviously be celebrating my birthday I think its the best place and time to begin filming parts of the film I need. I definitely wanted to take advantage of this and at least film some type of content that day.

for the costumes I guess it would have to be whatever is the clothing my friends bring. Since it is a model film and there is nothing too serious about the clothing aspect I do think it will be fine to let them wear whatever they wear and for with that for the costumes in mise-en-scene. I did want to do something in the background and a close up of it on the opening. Maybe like a newspaper or a article that is shown throughout the opening of killings in the neighborhood or something that signifies there has been killings in the area recently.  Also I will be adding boxing gloves on the couch, popcorn, and food around so it makes it seem more real and important.