AICE Media Studies AS- Lotti, A

  Today I return home form my trip and I was ready with taking the shots that I needed to take again for the film. The flight was so long, but it gave me time to really think about putting everything that I have so far together, the setting and the dialogue included. I came home and uploaded the take-off video, the monorail shot and the shot of the airplane in the sky. The idea of these videos is to make it seem like it’s the main characters point of view. When inserted into premire pro I thought of also including the credits into these few shots as I believe it will fit well as the shots aren’t too distracting. I have not thought about the title yet because I wanted to see how well the filming would come out and decide afterwards on what fits. I feel like I have accomplished a lot this break and finish filming by the first weekend when school starts so I can have time to talk with the actors.  

Today is officially the start of my vacation as I am going to California to visit some family. I thought this was a great opportunity to think about the beginning of my film and decide if I need any shots from the airplane or the setting I was going to. I took a few shots from the airplane taking off, in the sky, and the taxiing. As soon as we landed, I could tell that the weather was not super clear, so it wasn’t a good time to take any shots. Throughout the trip of going to visit parks I asked myself if I needed any footage from here in my film, but I did not. I wrote down a list of shots that I still needed from when I fly back home. I needed a clip from the monorail and of the plane landing. Thinking about the clips I immediately had a great idea of what I can include on the clips when I’m importing it into the computer to edit.  I am thinking of including transitions in premier pro to put the airplane scenes together as it will flow better.   

Thinking about the sound of the film I concluded that I’m going to put in some background music that is very subtle, where one can hear it but also the voice over that the main character will be doing. After I figured everything out about what to put for sound, I moved on and started thinking about where to go film the scenes. The setting of my film is in an airport, so I needed to find an airport close to go film. Near me there are two major airports, a smaller one in my city or an international airport 45 minutes north. The advantages of going to the smaller airport is that it is closer, and I can navigate myself around that airport pretty well. The advantages of going to the international airport is that it is bigger and can make the setting of the movie more intriguing along with it being more serious and professional. In the end I decided to go to the airport in my city as I realized that most of my shots would be outside.  I will also include shots such as over the shoulder, ...

This week has been a long week as I was planning whether or not my film should have dialogue or not. I made a list of pros and cons. The pro side was the film did have dialogue and the cons side was the film without dialogue. On the pro side I put that the film with dialogue would be more understandable to the audience and it wouldn’t lose their attention, but on the cons side I concluded that a film without dialogue can send a message that could be more intriguing as they want to keep watching and try to figure out themselves what the film is about. The genre of my film is adventure and it also includes a lot of action, so it makes sense to me that there is no dialogue. I decided to have the characters have individual lines here and there but nothing that is too complex or long. I also decided on having the main character do a voice over, as in the beginning one can see it is her perspective and have her quickly say her story and what she’s doing traveling.

  Creating the  storyboard   was a challenging and creative process. Creating the storyboard  itself  was not ha r d  but thinking about each camera angle used to shoot the shots and where  t he characters  will be  and what  the character s  will  be saying  was a bit more challenging. I knew what my film was going to be about  originally,  but  throughout this assignment it really seemed as though my film was coming alive.  I  gave it deep thought  in what to do in each film scene, and what to do to make it perfect.  When creating the storyboard, I decided to write down everything that was happening in a little paragraph, which then I went  back in and decided where the different scenes would be and the different camera angles that I would incorporate for that scene.  This assignment really made me think about how much work that is involved when creating a film, and to thi nk ...