Skip to main content

Reshooting

    Today, on March 09, 2022, we reshot our scenes for our film "Search" and fortunately, it was a huge success. We had enough people that it wasn't a problem looking for people to fill up the conversation, and were more prepared this time as opposed to last time, already having gone through the filming process once before, and having written down notes of aspects of our previous film to be improved as well as also having down certain pieces of dialogue to help the conversation along.

    We met up after school earlier today in our school's parking lot to film and got a total of seven people to come: Alejandro and I, who are a part of the media studies class itself, as well as actors Daniel Aldana (the driver), Alexander Guerrero, Noah Bloomfield, Hugo Montserrate, and Jason Jimenez. So many people came that we didn't even get to act ourselves because we couldn't fit everyone in the car. Maybe is the way it's supposed to be, professionals don't act in their own movies much, do they? Another advantage of this, though, is that Alejandro was able to completely dedicate his energy to focusing on the camera movements (a specialty of his), and I was available there to take pictures of the filming itself. You may notice that Arturo's name is missing, but unfortunately, he wasn't able to attend this session.

    The shooting for all the scenes went over well and we all reviewed the footage together right after filming, checking for obvious errors. We didn't see much, except that the first scene, second scene, and third scene are all done much better. We also ended up adding a fourth scene in between the third scene and the final scene that we thought would work better for continuity reasons. It consists of the driver getting up and looking through every part of his car for the missing passengers (this is right after he stops driving and before he has a mental breakdown). There will be more on that specific addition later on, but overall, we think that this will improve our film's watchability and improve its quality overall. The actors also described it as a positive experience to participate in the filming session. Here are some photos we took of the shooting session:

Just before shooting, you can see everyone in their appropriate costuming


Alejandro shoots the first scene.

The car drives around as the second scene is being recorded. Alejandro and I are watching from afar.
Daniel and Alejandro conduct the fourth scene.

    We're excited to keep you all updated with further developments in this project!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Videos

A few days back, we were made to create five different shots for our class with a partner, each using a different camera angle. Here is my work:      Video #1 - Introductory Scene - This shot shows the campus before stopping and zooming in on a tree, which the audience will ideally view as being the most integral part of the story. It's introductory because it shows the setting of the rest of the movie and introduces key items. This shot was created by simply rotating the camera and then using the zoom function on it, zoning in on the tree. Our goal of making an introductory scene was probably achieved.      Video #2 - High Shot - This shot displays Arturo (my partner) from a high vantage point below the viewer. In the video, he picks up a stick and slowly points it upward, towards the camera. The way this was recorded was by me standing on a bench and rotating the camera angle down at Arturo, then slowly tilting it upward during the course of the filming i...
2 comments
Read more

Sound Story

     Alejandro, Arturo, and I have recently been working on a project for our film class that I'll talk about in the post below. The way this worked was that we were supposed to try to mix audio and create a file between one and two minutes long that told a story using a maximum of seven words of dialogue and in a manner so that the listener would still be able to understand what was going on. We also would have to record ourselves making four of the sound effects (not including dialogue) that we'd use during our file (so this would be attempting our own Foley Stages). This meant we couldn't take all of our sounds off the internet and leave it at that. I didn't have any ideas at first, so I was relieved when Alejandro told me that he already had an idea.       We discussed his idea and streamlined it, and came up with the following idea: we'd try to simulate a mafia hit (or at least attempt to) that would begin with two members talking to each other in...
Post a Comment
Read more

Idea for Final Project

     So we came up with an idea for our final project that we liked, even though it isn't really comedic we still thought it was alright. Our idea is basically going to be a horror and adventure-themed kind of movie, and the intro is going to introduce the elements that drive the plot.      So the way we plan to do this is that we'll start off with some people getting into a car. They'll turn the radio on and hear something about disappearances nearby. One of them will ironically make a statement along the lines of "That's nonsense" or "Those stories are overblown" and the radio will be turned off. The people in the car will them proceed to converse with each other.      After this we're gonna focus on the driver. As the car goes underneath an underpass and the lighting reaches extremely low levels, we're gonna have the driver say something, expecting a response. He gets no response and looks in the mirror and doesn't see any of his buddi...
Post a Comment
Read more