Time to get filming...

 Today Victoria and I recorded most of our shots for the film opening and let me just tell you it was pretty successful. But first, we did some planning because we had to figure out where we were going to shoot the shots since the storyline is that Sarah goes missing while they go hiking so we had to pick a wooded area in which we picked Markham Park. Moreover, in the film opening, there is a board that Maddie does to solve the kidnapping of Sarah so we had to build that from scratch and this is what we did. 

This is how we started the process by just post it with key information about the case.

Then we added some pictures, like a missing person flyer and a map with the place where Sarah went missing circled in red. 

Now, at first, we planned on doing a board with pictures and red strings and all that but then we decided to do it on a plain white wall because we had a chance to make it as big as we wanted and add as many pictures as we felt that fit with the wall. This was the end result. 

We added pictures of "Sarah" and pictures with "Sarah" and her friends to make them seem like suspects and to make it seem more realistic. We also got some inspiration from the show 'Criminal Minds since it is a crime-solving show. 

This are some of the inspiration pictures we found. 

The next blog will be all about what we filmed, how we filmed it, and what challenges we had while filming. 

Costume Design

In class, we also talked about the costumes for our characters and this is what we decided on.

SARAH

MADDIE

As you can see Sarah’s outfit has bright colors and is more modern or stylish. On the other hand, Maddie’s outfit has more dull colors or is not as bright as Sarah’s. We did this to demonstrate the contrast of their personalities. As shown in the past blog post and the mood board Sarah has a more outgoing personality which is why we chose to represent her with bright colors, while Maddy has a more serious or introverted personality which is why we picked a darker shade of colors. And the clothing items show how Sarah is into fashion trends while Maddy dresses more for comfort.

Next stop the planning for recording the film opening plus production process! 

And the storyboard continues...

  Remember when I mentioned that the dialogue might be too long? Yea well we had to make some changes to the storyboard and the dialogue because we felt like it was going to surpass the two-minute mark and some information was unnecessary to include so here are the changes that we made. 

Now as you can see we didn't cut that much of the dialogue but we did cut the part when they mention the death of their father because we felt it was unnecessary for the plot, it wasn't adding any meaning to our film opening. Also, we still think it is going to be long, but we decided that we are just going to film it as it is and if it's too long, then we edit and make some cuts. 

Now, since we made some changes, we had to redo the storyboard with the information that we now want to include, here is what we came up with.

 

The storyboard shows the kinds of shots we want to use plus the dialogue that goes along with it so we know what to say when we're filming each shot and in what order they go to make the editing easier. 

Next on this week's list is costume creation and planning, keep on reading !!

Storyboard pt1

 Storyboard

Like I’ve mentioned in the preview blog posts the last task we had for this week was to make our storyboard so we could have a clear idea of what kind of shots we want to use and organize how the storyline will go. Here is what we came up with.

It is not the best storyboard, and it is not completely finished but now we have a clear idea of how we are going to film this movie opening. So stay tuned for what we do next and more of the storyboard!! 

Creating our script

Today in class we worked on the script for our film, like I mentioned before this was one of the other steps, we had to get done this week. And on top of that, we started working on our storyboards, however; we did not get to finish it, but we have a pretty good idea of all the shots we want to include in our film.

These pictures show the script that we came up with. Now, we ran into a little problem because we think the script is too long, and if we decided to include everything, we might go over the two minutes. Now, we must think about how what we are going to cut out and which parts are important and necessary for the plot. If we do have to cut some of the scripts, it is going to be challenging. 

Character Background

 Character background

As I mentioned in my last blog post, one of my tasks was to create a character background and for that I made mood boards for the main characters of the film opening.

Our opening is about two sisters, I won't give the plot away yet but you only have to know that they are sisters. Sarah is the younger sister, she loves to have fun and has a very extrovert personality. In addition, she is into fashion and she is always dressed up for any occasion and always ready for anything. She loves to party and have fun with her friends and has quite a lot of friends. She has brown hair and brown eyes as well.

 

Maddie is the older sister, and she has a more serious personality since she has her life put together. She doesn’t like to dress up if she doesn’t need to and likes to keep a more natural look. Unlike Sarah, Maddie likes to stay in and read books because that is what she is into and only has one friend. She doesn’t like to party at all because she has a serious life with a serious job. She has brown hair and brown eyes as well as her sister. 

The two sisters are completely different from each other which helps us develop the plot in a better way because this opposition will be part of the conflict in the film.

 

 

Developing our plot

 In-class Victoria and I completed our plot for the film opening. We had a big discussion of what we wanted the story to be about but we didn’t really have characters, the plot, shots, angles, etc. But now we do and it is time to finally get started on the production process, after all, I completed the research. 

This is a picture of our google doc that we shared to discuss what we wanted to do for the project. As you see it's just a brainstorming of ideas that we came up with. There are no character names or the relationship between them or anything like that. Also, there is not like an official plot, they're just a few ideas that flow together but today we finally made up our minds of what we wanted to film about. 

This is the screenshot of the final plot we came up with. In addition to that, we added a bit of script and character development. The next step of this process will make character mood boards that will explain the characters, their background, and personality. Moreover, to develop a script for the dialogue of the opening and lastly, a storyboard to come up with the shot list, angles, etc.

Stay tuned for all those steps we need to accomplish this week!