Blog Entry #21 Class Presentation and feedback (Revision)

Class Presentation and feedback

On January 20, I had the opportunity to present my blog to the class. This was a great opportunity because I was able to show my fellow classmates my blog and get their advice on possible additions to my project to make to better. Overall, my class thought that my blog was done pretty well. They enjoyed the presented visuals the students said that it helped create a better understanding on the whole film production process as well as seeing our groups progress from day one.  

 Now concerning my groups film project. The Day It All Changed, all of the students seemed pulled into the film they found it interesting as the story line of the film was easy to follow. What we did well? I believe that our group had one of the best film intros that the teacher showed. Our film was very smooth and easy to understand as well as entertaining. Other students films were very hard to follow, some had very little dialogue and overall the films were not the best... Our teacher gave us ideas on what we should revise. One thing that we believe that we should revise part of the story... When Zack calls Josh to pick him up to go to Publix, we decided to add some outside source to get Zack's attention to show the audience the reason for going to Publix to purchase a scratch off. We decided on adding a phone alert that Zack looks at showing the audience that Zack needs to buy a scratch off because he will become a millionaire if he wins.

I believe that this is a good idea because after getting a revision it made sense because we wrote the script we know what is going on, but we have to make that noticeable for the audience so they are not confused about why Zack is going to Publix. 

Blog Entry #20 Film

This is the day that I (film editor) finished the all of the final touches to the film. We made sure the film was two minutes or under and we also put in the movie title, and all of the necessary credits. We also we added a production company name: MCJZ Productions.

Our film

THE DAY IT ALL CHANGED

Blog Entry #19 Updated Storyboard

This is our groups updated storyboard, we decide to create an updated one so that it would be more accurate, and be based off of the final and completed script and film.

This was done by all of the group members we all participated in the making of this updated storyboard.

Blog Entry #18 Movie

This is our movie so far... This is just about done except for a few edits with adding a Title and subtitles. For the production of our movie these were our roles:

Starring- Zack Stelmashenko & Josh Thirion

Edited- Matthew Kowalczyk

Filmed- Corinne Allison

Our Movie

The Day It All Changed

Blog Entry #17 Opening Credits

Opening Credits

Today Zack and I resarched different films opening scenes. We decided to add opening credits to our scene. This is some of our resarch.

Title of film

We decided that we will add our opening credits will open with the title similar to Reservoir Dogs. We found that this is a good look not to distracting but showing our film title.

Subtitles for jobs in the making of the film

We also decided that we will also add credits like the roles or jobs. Ex (Director, Editor, Actors etc.)

Blog Entry #16 Set Design

Set Design

Here are the final pictures of our set design. The set were all very simple but that is how we wanted to keep our film so that it would give the real feel of a movie.

 Outside Zack's house

 Zack's Bedroom

Josh's Truck     

 Publix             

 Inside Buying

                                                                                       Scratch off

 Leaving Publix

Blog Entry #15 Shot List

Shot List

Our group had an idea of what the shots for the film would be. However we waited till the end to finalize and publish our shot list. We decided to do it this way so that we would have an acurate shot list that goes cut to cut acurately.

Shots:
- Establishing Shot (Sets the Setting)
- Wide Shot (Zack in bed getting fired)
- Over the Shoulder (Follows Zack getting out of bed and going outside)
- Insert Shot (Eviction Notice)
- Wide Shot (Zack getting into car that doesn't start)
- Mid Shot (Zack calls Josh to pick him up and take him to publix)
- Wide Shot (Josh pulling up to pick up Zack)
- Over the Shoulder (Zack talking to Josh in Truck)
- Long Shot (Publix)
- Over the Shoulder (Zack purchasing scratch off)
- Over the shoulder (Zack walking out of the store)
- Mid Shot (Zack Scratching and winning big)

Blog Entry #14 Final Edited transcript.

To finish our script we had to add a line to the transcript that we decided to add to the final film. We also had to change some of our lines that we decided to change to make it more appropriate and flowing. This is our final transcript.

Final Edited transcript.

EXT. Zack’s house- Day

Shot of outside of the house--- phone ringing

Dissolve to:

Zack’s bedroom,*Phone rings, Zack waking up to the phone ringing

ZACK, *Picks up phone, ““Hello? Oh hey Mr. White. Wait what? Fired! How are you going to do this to me I can barely make ends meet now”*Slams phone down

Walks out of bedroom and out of the house *camera follows

Outside of Zack’s house- day

ZACK.*, “What is this?,  *Looks and grabs the eviction notice, “How can this day get any worse” Shot of the evection notice

ZACK.  Turns around and Walks over to the car, *Shoot this

ZACK. Walks in the car, car doesn’t start   “shoot!”  *Shot outside of the car  

ZACK. "Hey man can you pick me up and take me to Publix? Ok thanks"

INT. Josh’s Car Outside of Zack’s House- day

ZACK. “Thanks man”  *Camera from the corner of the door showing both characters

JOSH. “Ya anytime” *Insert handshake

ZACK. “See ya” 

EXT. OUTSIDE OF PUBLIX

ZACK. Inside store buying scratch off ticket out of machine

ZACK. Walks out of the store with a bag

ZACK. Takes card out of the bag

ZACK. Scratches the card “Show me the money”

ZACK. Drop to his knees…

CUT SCENE

Blog Entry #13 Filming

Filming
 December 19, 2015 our group come together and filmed our group project. The main actor Zack memorized the script we all agreed on. During the filming we decided to make some changes that we thought would make the film better. So when we changed the script we decided that we make the few adjustments to our final script as well as our story board to give a more acurate represantation of our film shots. So far, our project has been going smoothly and we agreed on the finishing day of our project to be Friday January 9th.