Editing Blog: Working with Titles

        Hey world, it's Aniyah! My group and I have gotten a head start on editing. The first thing we are working on are the titles. In one of my previous planning blogs, I stated that we wanted the font of the titles to be similar to the font you would see in a newspaper. Recently in class, my group members and I wanted the title of the movie to really pop out. We kept throwing in ideas, but none of them were good enough to really grasp the audience's attention and to keep them engaged. Suddenly, one of our beloved media teachers gave us a good idea. She suggested that we should put the title of the newspaper that contains the same letter as our movie title. Then, the other letters would fade out and the letters of the movie title would come together and pop out. We were immediately inspired and began to work.


     My group member, Stephanie, found a way to get a newspaper background and edit titles in it. She also found a technique to make the letter pop out and let the letters come together. Stephanie is the one who takes the lead in the editing process because she is a lot more tech savvy than Lily and I. In the newspaper she mads it seem like what happened to the girl was in the newspaper to help the audience foreshadow what the movie is about. Lily is going to play the main character in the story. Because of this we thought it would be smart to put a little girl in the newspaper paper background, so it would look like a younger version of Lily. While editing the titles, I helped give Stephanie ideas of what to put in certain spaces of the newspaper. Lily was absent, so she was not able to take part in this  part of the process. But she will be bale to participate in the filming that we are going to complete this weekend. Thanks for reading and blog you later!

 
 

Filming Blog: Failed Attempt at Getting Good Shots

       Hey world' it's Aniyah! We have finally approached the filming process in the creation of our short movie. Although, it has been difficult trying to meet up and film at the locations where we need to film. We have had a few weekends available to meet and get some filming done, but the group and I have very busy schedules and we also do not live that close to each other. The distance is a huge struggle because sometimes our parents may also be too busy to bring us where we need to be. But, we did have a weekend where we able to meet up. Despite the hassle, we successfully found the perfect place and time to get together and get a jump start on our filming. The scenes we wanted to start filming were the mall scenes. We went to Aventura Mall to use as our background. Once we entered, we went around and asked a few store managers if we could film in their store.

      We did get rejected a few times. This was mainly because they thought we would disturb people, make the customers feel uncomfortable, or cause problems. We tried to explain to them that we would not be a problem, but they still refused. We were disappointed, but we did not make it a big deal because we understood their concerns. Although, we repeatedly got rejected, we came across one store that was fine with letting us film, this store is called H and M. H and M did lay down some ground rules after they said they would allow us to film. They said we weren't allowed to get any of the customers in the background and and that we couldn't make a mess. We were understanding and obeyed their terms. H and M is a big store, so there were many spots to film.

       Although we had a good amount of room to film, we still encounter a few difficulties. On that particular weekend the store was busy because things were on sale. This made it difficult to film without getting people in the background. We decided to wait when certain parts of the store to be cleared, so we could begin filming. Once a spot opened up, we took the opportunity and got the camera rolling. We came across another obstacle: the noise. In the background, there were babies crying, people talking loudly, and loud music playing. It was so loud, we could not even hear ourselves talk when we reviewed the shots we took. We did not get any good shots, so we decided to start over next weekend. Next weekend, we plan to get all the scenes we need for the movie at the mall and at Lily's house, my group member. Thanks for reading and blog you later.

Planning blog: Storyboard

     Hey world, it's Aniyah! We have finally reach the last and final step of the planning phase: the storyboard. In this part of the planning phase, one of my group members, Lily took the lead in this. Usually, I take care of this part, but we decided to try something new. I helped her get started on the storyboard and I let her know how this part of the process goes. After that, she went on by herself. She has leaned well and has shown great progress with the storyboard. The storyboard puts everything together. It puts together the actions, camera angles and movements, and shots. It maps out every second of the film. The storyboard truly depicts a good image of what our film is going to look like. This google slide will present to you the storyboard.

Planning the Titles

Hello world, it's Aniyah! of all the parts of this movie, title slides are really important. They are gonna show what we understand and how far we have come in our movie-making process. In today's slides, I am going to take you through just what we have planned the titles to be popping up on the screen. There is gonna be some detail about the location and the font. Also, there will be some telling about the amount of time it is going to be up on the screen. We have to fit a lot of important titles into one short intro to a movie but do it well. It has to be there long enough to read but no longer than to take up the whole time. It has to be perfect and if it isn't it could make the whole movie bad. In here we also spoke about the spacing and the contrast.

Planning: Location, Participants, Health, and Schedule

Hey world it's Aniyah! For this blog we are going to be talking about some of the components to filming this movie. Instead of just using blogger as usual we are using google slides. The first slide is just an introductory slide saying what I am going to be doing. The second slide is the schedule. We need a schedule to keep everything in order and make sure we do everything in a timely manner. The third slide are the participants. This is basically just showing who is going to be in the movie. The fourth slide is to insure that we are safe and taking the proper procedures. Lastly, the fifth and sixth slides are about where the scenes in the movie will be taking place. Thanks for reading and blog you later! 

Planning Blog: SOUND SCRIPT

    Hey world, it's Aniyah! It is officially that time of year to start getting out script and background work together. We have been working so hard o this project to make it the best one ever. We have all come so far in the last year learning new skills. We have learned to edit, filming and just working as a group better. We are so excited to be able to share our script with you guys. This is gonna be your little sneak peek into our movie. Though we have been working super hard we still haven't got all the details down pat. But I promise the second we do we will let you guys know. In this blog, I will be going through all the sound effects that will be going into the blog. I will also we giving you guys the script that is gonna be in the movie. After this blog and the one before this, you will have a good understanding of what exactly our movie is gonna consist of. 

Planning Blog: SHOOTING SCRIPT

     Hey world, it's Aniyah! We have officially began the first planning step in the making of our movie. Our group and I have done a lot of discussing on how we want the movie to go. It took a lot of time and thinking because they were many different aspects to consider. We have to figure out what angles, movements, sounds, and editing techniques to use. We also had to figure out the meaning behind each angle, movement, sound, and editing technique and how it would not only grasp the audience attention, but also how would it keep them engaged. We eventually came up with great ideas of how we want it to go and it all connects very well. We have created a shooting script that maps out what will go on in each and every scene. Although, only the angles, movements, and editing techniques are planned out, in upcoming blogs, there will more insight into other details about the movie. Thank you for reading and blog you later!