Today was my first day and hopefully only day of shooting. At the beginning of this week, I was hoping that I would be able to start shooting normally but as you could see in my last blog, that’s not what happened. Long story short all of my previous actors Canceled and we were not able to help so I had to call four people from Latinos in action to help me. I was able to get a few people to help me.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Shooting Day!
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
I Might Be Doomed... or Not!
In this blog post, I will discuss how I might be doomed. Yesterday I started to ask all of my friends and people that I asked previously if they could act in my film, unfortunately, every single person was either busy this week, is not comfortable being on camera, or is leaving for a competition. So I have nobody to film with. Yesterday night I started to text other people to see if they could help me fortunately, most did answer but the ones that did could also not help. Throughout the day I’ve been asking more people if they could help most people said no, and some suggested others. At this point, I was somewhat hopeless in finding actors, but a great idea came to mind.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
My Film Opening Audio
In my last blog post, I talked about mise en scene which is one of the most important elements in film, but another is also very important is audio. There are many different types of audio forms just like there are many different elements in mise en scene but all of them are important when creating a film.
Diegetic Sound
Non-Diegetic Sound
Room Tone and Silence
Foley
Friday, February 21, 2025
Mise-en-scene Part 2
Camera Positioning Background/Info
Camera Positioning within My Film
Composition Background/Info
Composition within My Film
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Mise-en-scene Part 1
Mise-en-scene has many aspects to it. There is one thing that I would like to incorporate into my film opening. Lighting is one of the most important parts of the film and usually helps establish certain situations or provide context to the feeling/vibe. I know that there are tons of different types of Mise en scene but one that is most neglected is lighting.
Lighting/Color Background and Examples
Lighting is used in many different ways. One technique that is used a lot or should be used. All the time is three-point lighting. Three-point lighting can help illuminate your character as well as make the scene a whole lot better. This type of lighting can do all types of things like make a character look authoritative, make the character look holy, or even make a character just look normal. Three-point lighting is simple to do all you need is two lights in the front and one light at the back or you remove a certain light, depending on how you want the scene to look. This type of lighting can only really be used inside because if you were to shoot outside during the day, the sun would of course be too strong and would not allow you to use other lights but natural light like the sun can also help give a certain mood or feeling to a scene. Another type of lighting that mixes in with another aspect of mise en scene is color. Colored lights can help establish a feeling or mood of a certain scene or situation within the film. For example, in Blade Runner 2049, while they’re in the city, the main character is surrounded by the color purple, which helps establish they there in a futuristic city, but also gives us a feeling that our character is lonely. The color purple gives a kind of relaxing feeling, but also it is very mellow.Lighting/Color within my film
I feel that the types of lighting that I will use the most will be three-point lighting and color lighting. Three-point lighting will be used so that the scene looks more illuminated and does not look dull. I want to make sure that the audience can see the characters perfectly. As for color lighting, I would like to incorporate it into some scenes so that certain colors can help the audience understand what emotions the characters are feeling. For example, after their fight, I would like to use certain colors to represent the emotions that each of them is feeling. There are of course a tons more types of mise en scene. In the next blog, I will talk about another mise en scene I want to incorporate, which is camera position and composition.
Film Opening Script
Here is my script that has the dialogue for the film opening, as well as some basic actions of certain characters. Sorry in advance for the foul language, but I wrote it in a way that I feel would reflect a real argument.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Character Development
Meet Camila
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Storyboarding the Film Opening
It is time to storyboard. Storyboarding is very important because it helps you establish what shots you will use when you’re shooting. So when you are shooting, it also helps you look back and remember which shots you wanted to use. Storyboarding can also help with timing, for example, in my storyboard on the top of each scene, I put the times of how long each scene would be. This will help me establish how long each shot should be so that I can put in all the shots I want within the limit for when I edit. Storyboards, of course, don’t have to be perfectly drawn, but if you are good at drawing, you can draw as detailed as you want, if you’re like me, who’s not good at drawing, it won’t look as good. Even if your drawings aren’t that good they will still give you a sense of what you’re seeing. It should look like this. I worked on my storyboard first because the script was going to take much longer due to the first scene having a lot of dialogue. Well, enough talk here is my storyboard.
Storyboard:
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Story Time
In this blog, I will explain the basic story of my film opening.
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Media Theory within the Film Opening
Many media theories can be implemented in films. Lots of those theories would be very useful within a film, but one that I would like to implement into my film is 'Todorov's Narrative Theory of Equilibrium'. To give some context, this theory states that every narrative has distinctive parts. His theory explains it in multiple parts, but to ease it out I will split it into three parts. Equilibrium, "the audience is introduced to characters and beginning of the story." Disequilibrium, "includes the initial disruption, something that disrupts the protagonist's life, as well as other actions before the climax. When the protagonist recognizes their life has been disrupted, they will work to repair the situation. In" New Equilibrium, "protagonist has resolved the disruption, or not (usually due to a good reason)." This theory though is really broken down as equilibrium, disruption, recognition, resolution, then new equilibrium. Now that you know the basic definition, this is how it could be implemented in a film.
Disruption
Recognition
Resolution
New Equilibrium
Monday, February 10, 2025
Group Meeting #1 Reflection
I know what the hell to do now!
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Film Opening Decision/Representation
What the hell do I do?
Italian Mafia
Romance Drama
I know for my film I would like to try to use rack focuses so that I can show a person's emotion and then focus on the person's emotion next to them. I want to use this technique so that I can shift focus between characters. I also want to use lots of mid and close-ups to focus on the character's emotions and feelings. I will try to blur the background to have the focus secure. I want to show the struggles of being in a relationship, while also demonstrating the reasons from each person in the relationship why those struggles are happening.
I'll figure it out
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Portfolio Timeline
One of the most important things when creating a film like this is to schedule your approach to the film. Planning is very important, to be able to make this project the best that it can be I must create a structure of how things will be done.
Schedule
1. Research
- Research common film techniques used in a certain genre
- Research the genre background to understand the ins and outs
- Come up with a central idea of the film
- Make a storyboard
- Write a script
- Find music that can match certain scenes
- Find actors and locations
- Look for equipment that I will use to film
- Find out the date/dates for filming
- Creating a title card
- Filming scenes
- Recording Foley, and voiceovers if needed
- Directing actors
- Editing the footage
- Adding music and voiceovers
- Adding effects
- Implementing the title card
- Watch the edit a few times to make sure everything is good
- Have others watch to make sure all is good
- Fix possible mistakes or make adjustments
- Review how to do the CCR, for example, look at past blogs
- Write the reflection
- Proofread and review the CCR
Timeline
- Decide the genre I will be doing
- Research more about the genre
- Possibly start storyboard or basic idea of the story
- Storyboard
- Script
- Find locations and actors
- Set dates and times for filming
- Film scenes
- Make foley noises
- Do voice-overs
- Put scenes together
- Add effects
- Enter in voice overs and Foley
- Review edit and finalize
- Research and start the first parts of CCR
- Continue writing CCR
- Proofread and finalize CCR
Extra time
- Use this time to review everything to make sure that all is good
- Review the CCR
- Review my film opening
My commitment to the schedule
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Credit Sequences
Romancing the Credits
La La Land
The Notebook
Waves
La Waves Notebook
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
The Gangsters
All about family, all about the trust, all about the money
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Scarface
The Greats Together
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