FINAL FILM PRODUCTION!!!!

 Finally after all the long 6 weeks of hard work I am able to present to you my groups final film production. Although creating the film was difficult I had lots of fun creating it and learning along side my friends and classmates.

CCR

 Hello viewers of my blog this video is my CCR or critical reflection review. I had fun creating the PowerPoint and recording i hope you enjoy.  

Postproduction- editing

 Post-production is known as the final phase in creating a film. While in the post production phase most of my time has been spent in editing. 

After filming using my iPhone as my camera, I sent all the shots directly into the editing software known as adobe premiere pro.  Everything was going as planned as i was getting prepared to edit. However there was one small but detrimental problem. The school computer that has the editing software was outdated with some system functions. At first i thought it was a problem only with my computer so I switched but found all the computers have this problem. So my class had to switch to a web based editor known as wevideo, which is the same editor that we used to create our holiday music video.  

Editing phases 

As I was editing the shots, i tried to arrange them in a way that would resemble a story almost. But i made sure to follow common conventions of my genre. as i composed the shots i made sure to order them in a way that not only will a story show, but also have edited some shots using special effects and filters to enchant the shots and make them appear as something different. This is what i used to create the flashbacks that add meaning to film as the main character is reminiscing on what event had accrued.

Learning the software 

Over the course of editing I had to relearn how to use the wevideo editing software. Since my teacher purchased the premium version of the wevideo. With the premium a lot of new features, so i had to take some time to relearn how to use the editor with the advance settings. Which made use of the software better. Once i learned how to use the advance settings the construction of my film opening was easy 

Production

 This week is all about the production phase of filming. at this point all research and learning is complete and it is time to apply what I know. 

This week I have created my first draft of my film opening and I have learned a lot from creating it and i know what I can do better.

I learned a lot of new information now that i have got the chance to apply it. one of the most important things that I learned is how to play with the lighting of an area. I learned by using lights in different areas of a area I can create different levels of lighting. 

Another thing that I learned that I can improve on is the dialogue between characters. One of the main problems that i had while filming was audio limitations. I was not able to pick up all the audio on my recording devices (my cell phone).  in order to solve this problem i recorded audio on a different phone to allow the dialogue to be herd. This is known as a voice over. 

However, the biggest problem I faced was a set relocation. During filming one of my group members became sick. And this group member was going to be our key into renting a office space. Since he was sick I had to find a new filming location. This set back production by 3 whole days. However, I have combatted the issue by getting a office in the jrotc hallway, that was given to me for the time. 

Overall, I learned a plethora of new information and how i can apply it to my final version of my project.

Scheduling our shoot

 Now that our storyboard is created, we have a estimate of how long it would take to film the shots. With this information we know that filming will take about 3 days. and if we need to clean up shots it would take us 1 day. So this film will take for days to produce, this should be completed by next week Thursday.   

This processes is known as scheduling. Scheduling allows for a film creator to manage shots and keep tract of film dates and what days we as film makers can film. 

It also gives a rough estimate on how long a film will take to record before moving into the filming process.  

The first stage of scheduling was creating a strip board. The purpose of creating a strip board is to help manage a films shots and keep track of what shots you will film on what day. 

For me personally I had trouble creating the strip board, however after getting help from my teacher i was able to better understand how to create the strip board.

Overall, the creation of the strip board helped me in the long run of creating. And it would allow me to stay on track in creating my film opening. 

Storyboarding

 This week My group and I created our storyboard to start the filming process of our film. 

What is a storyboard 

a storyboard is something that is used by film makers to help visualize the shots of the film. Storyboarding is a imperative part of the filming process. It allows film makers to change shots for the film if the are unsatisfied with the current shots. 

Our storyboard 

 Our storyboard consist of 20 shots, this is the amount of shots that would be in our opening scene. The storyboard allows my team to see our shots to help us plan to film them. Bellow there is a photo of what our storyboard looks like , it was created with an app known as studio binder, this is the app that we have been using to help organize and create our film. 

Shooting the film 

Now that our storyboard is created, we have a estimate of how long it would take to film the shots. With this information we know that filming will take about 3 days. and if we need to clean up shots it would take us 1 day. So this film will take for days to produce, this should be completed by next week Thursday.   

Pre- film Process

 as my group enters the pre-production phases of creating our film there are some things that need to be accomplished before filming week. 

Planning for filming 

in this phases my partner and I had to come up with shot locations and how we would set up said shots. Since our film is a horror film and our film opening will be a prologue we decided that we would have our opening take place in a therapist office, which follows our overall script idea. 

Set Design and Location 

For our film opening we choose the set location of a therapist office, in order to create the office my group members and I will make use of a family members office. To make the office fit our needs we will make use of lighting and editing if we are not able to build our set pieces. The reason we choose a office is to set our film in a way that will give viewers context about our characters seeing a therapist often creates the message that a person has something negative weighting on their brain. 

The overall idea is to create a office that allows for tensions to build as viewers watch the film opening. We plan to accomplish this by making use of lowkey lighting within a dark area. We will also make use of dark and suspenseful music to help set the tone of the film with a shallow focuses to hide characters faces raising question about who they are.   

  

Actors 

Finding actors will be a difficult task considering we have a set of requirements that must be met.

Requirement 1: the actor must go to our school 

Requirement 2: the actor must have good communication 

Requirement 3: the actor must have good attendance. 

even though we have these requirements for our actors we will still need to gain access to the students. In order to do this we will have to ask teachers if they would allow us to take some of their students. We have to go through this process to ensure that our actors are responsibly and dependable.  

Audio

For this film there will be dialogue between characters, since there will be flashbacks that we want this dialogue to play over the flashback as it happens. To complete this task we will film our audio separately from the film then combine the audio with the film within the editing process of post production.     

Filming 

for the filming aspect of the film we will make use of all available technologies we have at our deposal. This will include smart phones, the cameras provided, and any other way of storing or playing back media content. However, this limits our ability to achieve the quality of the film we will create. to combat this we will try our best to create sound capsulated room to achieve the best possibly sound quality.