So What’ s Next?

 These are currently the new faces of our film, “My sisters Keeper.” They are real life sisters and have been very very close growing up, so playing the role of one growing envious of the other may be a little difficult to channel for them. We now currently have to update our website, maybe even think about creating an entirely new website, for our new cast members. Because everything changed and so suddenly, it is kind or hard getting everything sorted out and ready to go for the day our films are due. Our films are projected to be due on Tuesday and it is currently Friday and we are in the process of filming everything over again. With that being said we should most definitely be putting our finishing touches on this film such as titles and anything else we missed by the latest, Monday. We also have to change all of our social media pictures and headline photos to our new cast members. This film has definitely been a completely different experience than any other short film I’ve ever had to put out. The social media sites and website, is a lot more to keep up with than what was expected in AS level. Being that we are all in different locations kind of made it tricky being that they are filing themselves and aren’t familiar with certain camera angles and shots. Which is why I had to be on FaceTime going step by step with them on how to hold the camera, what angle/angle movement was necessary for the scene. I know that my sister and brother in Georgia will definitely embody their roles and we will have an amazing film. All the filming that I needed to get done on my end is actually done and all we’re doing is waiting fir the completion of the other two cast members. I might even have to tell them to edit as well because the IMovie software on MacBook computers are totally better than the features present on an IPhone. Although there are many other editing softwares out there. 

Take 3!

 SO, we are yet agin, undergoing major changes to this film. We have a completely different cast, and here is why; we ran into several obstacles when it came to re-filming. Our main character Ashleigh, has went off to college, facing real world problems that was not entirely thought about before casting her into our film. Because she is away in college we can not have different shot of someone else playing her role, while still having shots of her. That would just be unprofessional on our end. So I have came up with yet another idea that just has to work. I have two sisters and a brother in which all three will be perfect for the roles, and I do not know why I didn’t think of this idea sooner. But here is where it gets only a little tricky. Both my sister and brother are currently in Georgia, while my other sister is here with me in Florida. Meaning I’m only able to film any scene pertaining to her while we’re both here. And over in Georgia, because my brother and sister are there they will be taking over the roles of the of destiny and the kidnapper. And Bryanna will be the new and improved Ashleigh. We have already began filming and the process actually isn’t as bad as we thought it would be. The trickiest part to me honestly is editing and adding in the titles when it’s all said and done. Although I bought the idea to their attention yesterday, we are pretty much almost done filming. Just a little bit adjustment to our original storyboard and scenes 5 and 6. Because they are different characters we kind of went a different direction while still sticking to ur original story and plot ideas. 

More Research

 

Action

Common Camera Angles:

• Aerial Shot
• Close up
• Medium Shot
• Long Shot
• Deep Focus
• Dutch Tilt 

Common Mis en Scene: 

• City Setting
• City Lights
• Lighting and shadows
• Costumes 
• Makeup

Common Editing: 

• Skip scene
• Insert
• Cutaway
• Eyeline Match
• Cross cutting

Elements of the Genre: 

• Fighting
• Stunts
• Eplosions
• Explosives

Film Examples:

• Avengers
• Spiderman 3
• Ironman 2
• Mad Max
• John Wick

Common sounds in action films: 

• Explosions
• Screams
• Gunfire
• Crowd
• Police Cars
• Vehicles

 The element I like about this genre is the intense feeling that you get at

the climax of the film. I also like the different props used throughout the films such as fake explosives and cars.

The element of the genre that I don't like is the lack of on-set action. The use of cgi has taken over almost all of the movies that we watch today.

Thriller

Common Camera Angles:

• Establishing Shot
• Close up
• Pan Shot
• Two Shot
• Depth of Field
• Over the Shoulder Shot

Common Mis en Scene: 

• Props; knives, weapons and more.
• Crowd of people.
• Lighting 
• Costumes and makeup
• CGI

Common Editing: 

• Cut
• Insert
• Fade
• Jump cut
• Shot Reverse shot
• Cross cutting

Elements of the Genre: 

• Conflict
• Villains
• Bridging tension

Film Examples:

• Get out
• Us
• Gerlad's Game
• Glass
• Bird Box
• Jaws

Common sounds in thriller films: 

• Screams
• Gunfire
• One on one combat
• Police Cars

Elements of the genre that i like:

The element I like about this genre is the excitement and tension that you get during the film. I also like the costumes and makeup used in different thriller films; they make the movie more exciting.

What elements of the genre do not appeal to you?: 

The element of the genre that I don't like is how thriller movies don't include as many characters compared to different genres such as comedies or actions.

We looked into a little more of what is entailed in our genre, we used two genres we associate our film with the most. 

More Editing Critiques

 As a group, we continue to fail when it comes to editing. We have yet to finish our editing process and we have not moved on to the re-editing process. As stated previously, Charli is the one editing and we actually didn't include any titles or films. We basically just have a film that is put together, and that is what we presented on peer review day. We actually didn't have our saved film because Dwana decided it was a good idea to leave the flash drive at home. So, we actually had to upload our clips up to IMovie and edit something really quick. Our plan for re-edit is to move more efficiently! The best way we will achieve this is, not having Dwana edit! She does exclude us from the process so we never know what our movie looks like or how it's going. Which in the end falls upon our communication skills with each other.

  Another thing about editing is, I really want to ensure that we have all the appropriate editing details we must include in the film. Otherwise we will not be receiving a good grade on this project. Music is also a big issue for us, I'm nit sure as to why but we just do not have music in the background and that also will cause us to fail. We have to look up royalty free music and make sure the background song we chose will, in the future, not be copyrighted. Lastly we have to stick to our plan of staying on top of this, so we can allow time to transition to our Critical Reflection questions. I love the idea of being able to re-edit the film because now we can fix any small/minor detail. In the end, editing has been sort of a weird and difficult process solely because we aren't on top of it.

Editing process

 So this is where the process of filmmaking not only gets fine but a little bit tedious. When it comes to editing films you’re able to do so much with all your clips different cuts and  music. When I edit the first thing that I like to do is actually review all of my clips and get them in order so that editing will go a lot smoother. Because when you film you have so many different clips of the same scene and you want to make sure you choose the right clip that fits the scene the best.  most challenging thing so far happens to actually be adding the music over the clips. Getting the correct part of the music to go with the exact scene that I would like it to go to is very challenging also we don’t want to get copyrighted. So when we post on YouTube we’re gonna have to specifically say that we did not on the rights to this song of our choice because then our video might be in risk of getting taken down. I really want to re-shoot the last 3 scenes because I feel as if the essence of the story wasn’t fully captured. The second problem I’ve been running into is adding all the sound effects that I would like without having to download as much sounds. I’m not really tech savvy and I really don’t know much about what tools to use as far as editing so I use iMovie. With iMovie there aren’t much options as far as uploading the music over the video and adding the specific sound effects. With all this being said, going back to some of the editing tools we want to touch base on. These things definitely include split screens, cross cutting, and a lot of fading.  I am super excited to see what this film will turn out to be. I really love the fact that we have a chance for peer review and then getting the opportunity to re-shoot and re-edit our videos before turning them in. Editing is hard for me because I do not know everything surround technology let along how to edit things into a program. We do have a set editing software available at school, Pinnacle Studios, but it never seems to work. For the last few projects we actually didn't use that software at all; we tried to dump our clips and it went super slow. In the past we have used, IMovie and Adobe Flash as editing software. But this time around we are taking a little bit of a different approach. 

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Target Market

 We have a huge target market when it comes to this movie my sisters keeper. Of course the movie is PG-13 and we do not recommend this movie for anyone under the age of 13, for it is so thrilling that you must meet this age requirement in order to preview. On YouTube we have set up an age restriction requirement that requires you to list your birthday in order to watch the film. Seeing the website come together with all the pictures was exciting to see. I was able to make the social media pages which was a different experience since we only had personal pages for ourselves. We really felt like marketing campaign managers for a real movie. This has to be my favorite part of this whole experience thus far. Also being able to retweet so that your followers share posts to others who you may not follow. It definitely touches different sets of eyes that way. Next was YouTube. Now YouTube is a platform that we can actually use to not really promote but a platform where we’d put our film on so that people are able to watch it. It will be a very familiar site with a ton of people versus putting out somewhere that will be hard to reach. Lastly was Facebook. Not a platform I’d too much use other than simply putting out our release date of the film and our poster. On every account created we are able to post a short trailer clip, as well as the information on when and where to find our film. All of the accounts have the same name and profile pictures to keep it nice and simple. Lastly, we attached each of our social media links/accounts to the bottom of our website, on the website you can also find a short synopsis, background of the actors, and a throwback video of the sisters. We really hope to build our fan base and reach different audiences because this film is going to be one for everyone to view. And we’re so excited to film and put this movie out. 

We Filmed!

We now finally have enough content to start putting together our film. We were actually able to get all of our shots done in one day but there is some re-shooting that we need to do in order to capture the correct story behind the scenes. We started filming around nine in the morning and finished around 12 in the afternoon. While we waited for one of our customers we went ahead and decided to film our opening scene which was Destiny at work arguing with the CEO. We also ran into the problem of Destiny and Ashleigh‘s dad not being available but fortunately her brother was on standby. So once we decided who will play the role as a CEO we successfully filmed our opening scene. We then had to move onto the scene where Destiny gets frustrated then contacts her sister Ashleigh. Because we are friends with all of our cast members it got pretty goofy, we definitely have way more shots of laugh than we do seriousness.  I really want to re-shoot a lot of the scenes because not everything went as planned. I believe when we do reshoot we do need to be a little more focused on the objective of the film and to really stick with our storyboard. We created a very detailed storyboard which outlines intricately things to portray all the right shots and dialogue for the scenes. We sort of went off tangent and seem to do it because it was last minute. So now when we shoot next week will will make sure we have enough time all of the correct scenery and cast members. We really do have a great story to tell in this film but our first time around isn’t portraying that message how we’d like, maybe even another recast. So we would take another day or two to reconvene and figure out what needs to be done as far as re-shooting. I am going to hot my editing process and I’m actually only going to use the scenes that we have to create a preview. So with that preview were now able to give something to our families and still be in the process of re-shooting and re-editing the actual film for the big day.