Filming blog: attack of the mosquitoes

 My group members and I have filmed once again. Finishing up the shots so we have a general concept of what our movie will look like. When we put our movie altogether we will see what is needed. Also Next class my group and I will edit and clean up all of our shots. After school our group had my mom take us to Hugh Taylor Birch state park. When we got to the park we headed straight towards our filming location to get started right away. As we started filming the mosquitoes came out from bushes. Gladly I had brought bug spray because what happen last time. As my group mates and I drenched our selves in bug spray we got ready to film. Little did we know we were in for a treat.
 We started filming the movie and got a lot of shots. As the sun  went down the mosquitoes got worst and worst by the minute. We kept coating ourselves in bug spray one after another. Sadly none of it was working though. The filming continued the mosquitoes kept attacking. Like soldiers the group kept filming until we got to our final scene. When we finished up with our filming we rushed to our stuff and got out of the park as quickly as possible. Jack got picked up first by his mom, Kendrid got picked up by his brother and I waited until Kendrid was picked up then I left with my dad. The next day I looked at my arms and legs to see all of these mosquito bites. Next we film we are bringing stronger bug spray and wearing longer clothing, also to get any shots we might need or were missing.

Kendrid was our killer for the movie.

filming blog: stroll through the park

 This past weekend my group and I have filmed a good amount for our project. I am excited for the next time we film again. It was a blast recording with my group mates and they would agree. At the sometime we were all also very productive in getting our work done.While we were recording I got a couple of cuts. So to avoid any infections we used the first aid kit that we brought with us. Another annoying problem that cut our filming time short were the mosquitoes.They were absolutely terrible, so next time will be prepared with bug spray. We decided to film at Hugh Taylor Birch state park. When we got there we spent a good amount of time finding a filming spot.

 Originally we were going to film on the road inside the park. But since it was the weekend cars and people kept passing by so it was really hard to film consistently. Every time a car or person would come by we had to wait and stop filming. So we decided to go to our second filming location. Our second location was a trail that did not have as many people. This made it a lot easier to film our scenes. For one shot I had to climb a tree and it was very well worth it. Due to me climbing the tree this is also how I got my cuts. Over all the filming went great and we had all of the necessary props needed. Here is a picture of a scene that we filmed down below.

Filming blog:setting up

 The filming process has begun, all of our skills are being put to the final task. Our horror movie will be a film to be remember. We have been deciding a lot of things before we actually film. First is the location, we are looking at different parks and places that have long roads or empty roads.The two places we have so far are Hugh Taylor Birch State park and Holiday park. Second thing were the actors, we are still figuring out who we want to be our killer and innocents. We want a certain type of people to be actors A and B. If we can not find these actors me and Jack will be and Kendrid will be the killer. The third thing we have are props: mask, clothing, and etc. I will be providing the mask which will be an insane asylum muzzle.

 This weekend we will be recording at one of the parks. I would like to go to Hugh Taylor park. But I do not know what everyone else is going to decide on. Another factor that I am curious to find out is the costume for the Killer. What I wanna do is have messy hair and the muzzle show nothing else of the killer. Kendrid is going to be our killer which I find to be a perfect choice. When Kendrid is not our killer he is going to be a camera man. Same situation with me, when I am not on screen I will be directing. When Kendrid is on the screen Jack will be our camera man or me, we will have to play our parts as a camera man. Overall I am excited for this weekend and other filming days to come.

This is a picture of Holiday park, a potential filming location.

planning blog:story time

For this part of planning for our film, we had to make a storyboard. The storyboard is basically a little sentence and picture of everything that will be in our film. The storyboard paper that we used has six boxes on each of them, and we used ten of them. Since there are 10 scenes in the opening of our movie, each individual paper is a scene. To help us out with forming this storyboard, we used our previous Power Points. These Power Points are the shooting script, sound script, and title blog. The shooting script was the most helpful one to use, because it was pretty much a storyboard itself without pictures. The sound script was helpful in letting us know what the characters say. The title blog was helpful in knowing what our titles will be. Storyboards are important because they make creating a film easier to do.

planing: grain field butcher

Today we started to do a power-point. The power-point was on all the titles we will have in our film. This is helpful because when we need to add the titles to the film all we have to do is look at what we wrote and edit into the film. It consists of things like the studio and production company, actors and film title, music by and edited by,etc. It is important so people watching the film know who did what. This is helpful to the viewer if they don't know who the actor is. This is important because you need to give the people credit for the job they did. When people watch movies it is good to know who the person is. This way if you like the actor you can watch more movies with him in it. This is why you need titles. 

planning blog:schedule

New power-point today. This time we were doing it about planning the schedule. If you don't plan then how do you know what to do. It shows where we're going to film. We had many places to choose from but only two met our eye. Holiday park and Hugh Taylor Birch state park. these two places meet our requirements. This is why you need to know where you're going to film before you film. If we didn't do this we could've been driving around for hours. This is why it's important to schedule and know when, where, and who you will be filming.

planning blog: shooting script

 This presentation is the script of our movie. It includes everything that will be going on in the opening sequences of our film. Each scene in the film is its own separate slide. All of the slides have its own detailed material. For the most part, the slides consist of whats happening in each scene, different camera angles and the titles. Including these things in the slides will make it easier for us to know what camera angles, movements and shots to use. Without those various camera angles,our film would be dull and bland. We are doing this shooting script, as a little outline of what the beginning our film will be about. Breaking the scenes into its own slide makes the process easier. What's on the presentation is kind of like a rough draft, because somethings may change throughout this process.