Group meeting #2

 Sebastian:

-Talked about his obstacles; filming during day time did not match their thriller theme much so they switch. Film is about a group of people getting out the car and finding a glowing backpack. How they will do that is through led lights in the backpack. The last friend comes to the meet up late and see the the characters belongings and gets confused and that is where the film opening ends.

Murat:

- Protagonist are detectives who are working on a case where the antagonists is a major villain who is known for stealing. The film opening is the detective working on the case on trying to catch the thief. Their main obstacles was lack of props

Catalina:

-Genre- drama

-The genre is drama about a girl with depression who tried o run away from her abusive dad. Her main obstacle was her parents the actors being away for a business trip so she had limited time before her parents left to record. 

Ava: 

- Coming of age. About a teenage pregnant girl running away from home due to her metal struggles and not being able to handle being pregnant at such a young age and having to hide it from her parents. The film progresses through showing her packing her bags text messages from her boyfriends saying how he was sorry for over reacting. It will end with her driving.

Sofia: 

-The film title is "Cadence." The protagonist's is a guy and this film is about his mental and physical struggles of not being able to run long distance. The main character will have a mental break and smash stuff, which they have a baseball bat as a prop. 

Nicole:

-It is coming of age about kids sneaking out and taking drugs. The progressing is going to be show through audio, first heavy breathing to show anxiety and after the drugs there is going to be burst of  colors to show and happy expression to show how the drugs have effected them.

Audio

 Audio includes mostly diegetic sounds such as: clock ticking and notification sound.

Here are the sounds that I have chosen from this website; Epidemic sounds (https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/featured/):

Clock ticking:

Notification(Sound from Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/ :

This is the music in the background for when the inner-self appears. The music will start of slow but I will fasten it as the opening progresses to show growing stress and frustration(this is also from PixaBay)

Creation of background prop

  For my film opening the main character; Lucky, strives to be productive but end up not following through. To show that I will put up motivational posters with quotes that suggest the need to be productive. A 'to-do list" prop is also going to be utilized that the character will write herself at the beginning of the film, but not follow through. The background posters will completely contradict what Lucky is actually doing; procrastination.

    Other elements I want to include in this are reminders on sticky notes on her wall to show that the character tends to be forgetful. The notes will include "Do these assignments later: Math, chem, English" I am using listing to show how much she really procrastinates and listing is often used in writing with the purpose to overwhelm the audience. 

I have this bulletin board as the base for where I will put all of the selected posters.

These are the poster that I have picked:

This is the final product:

See you on the next one,
- Sonakshi

Company logo production

   Hello! Today I will be sharing my processes of creating the company logo. Main visual attraction for the logo is going to be a shooting star, with the company's name, which is Star Studio. I also want to incorporate animation into the company logo, to do that I came across this website: WigglyPaint( https://wigglypaint.com/). The website does not exactly animate it but it makes the piece wiggly which is cute. Here is a time laps of the company logo creation:

This is the final product:

See you on the next one,
- Sonakshi

Storyboard

 Hello. I have created a storyboard for my film opening. I am not an artist so it may be hard to understand, but I have written small bullet points describing the scene.

 

Research on editing on how to clone

Hello, I did some research on how to clone yourself in a video. I found multiple helpful videos but the one that stuck out to me, something that I think I could work around would be this one:

My main editing software is Clipchamp, but when I went to check if it had a mask option or anything similar, I did not find anything. Cap cut is basically a paid app that is why I do not want to use it, it have very limited options for the free version. But I did go on there through my computer to see if the masking option was free or not, and it was free! I plan to use cap cut specifically for the masking tool and export the masked clips into Clipchamp and do the rest of my editing there. If that is allowed, because my teacher near the beginning of the year did say to not use cap cut as it has limitations. 

That was my main concern besides that everything seems doable. 

See you on the next one,
- Sonakshi

New story productions

    Hi. So I had some obstacles come up, some personal problems and one of my actors unfortunately could not make it to filming. So, I have decided (with the advice from my teacher) to create a new opening idea.

    With this new story there are a couple to things that I want to include since it will be filmed indoors now and I want to make this process a bit easier for myself but still have a quality product. These things include, low-kye lighting and I was thinking no dialogue in this new story because one, I am no actor so it would be hard to deliver dialogues that seem naturel. Two, I want to be able to show not tell, meaning show emotions through other aspects rather than fully relaying on dialogue. 

    I have came up with a new story line. It will be about procrastination, to be specific, when one is unable to enjoy procrastinating because they feel anxious and stressed about procrastination but not stressed enough to actually get up and do their work. So, how I plan to portray that is through having 2 same person, for example, person 1 and person 1's inner self. Something similar to that. My biggest inspiration for this idea was myself and my friends; I realized a lot of people struggle with this problem.

    The story line is basic, first they get home and put their phone on the table with the time on the home screen showing, that will be critical for the story line as it will help me show time passing. After putting the phone down the person will create a to-do list and while in the making of it they will get a notification on their phone, which than will draw their attention away from what is important, the to-do list, to the phone. 

    After that scene I was initially thinking of using only jump cuts to show time pass, but I decided to use jump cuts and slow down 1-2 seconds before the inner-self shows up. How I plan to do the inner self is through editing, I will do research and watch videos on how to have "clone yourself through editing." I will be posting a sperate blog on that as well. When the inner-self shows up I plan to use intense music to show the stress and the inner-self pacing back and fourth, looking at to-do list, etc. When the inner-self disappears, the music will be gone, it will be pure diegetic sounds. I plan to make the inner-self appear three times, the third time she will look at herself and lay down beside her as a way of accepting that they will not be getting any work done today so might as well try to relax. Couple of seconds after she lays down next to her physical self (this will be shot from the phone's point of view with the phone screen light shining on them. Because I want to show that the phone, an inanimate object, feels more 'in the moment' and alive than the actual living and breathing person. If that makes sense.) she will receive a assignment notification which will than snap her out of the procrastination rabbit hole. To wrap it up, the main character is going to open her computer and than it ends there. That is to show that this is just a film opening and nothing has actually been closed off.

    One of the next blog post will be a story board of the film opening. It will definitely help me and you visualize what I am thinking.

See you on the next one,
    - Sonakshi