Entry #28 Week Seven Post Three

Here is the final film opening!!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1siWjZWT8tKoqxx9H6SsizKryYeSruA3g

Entry #27 Week Seven Post Two

Here is my CCR attached!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SQ1WWbtcMjFQHMnC9ptymmBARGW8YVmI

Entry #26 Week Seven Post One

WE OUT HERE MAKING MAJOR CHANGES!

I am so sick right now but I am trying my best to pull through! I am also on drowsy medication so this may be hard.

Hey guys! Reem, Shelby, and I met up to finalize certain aspects of the project. For one, we changed our title to include an extra L. It is now "How the Stars Allign." This is for the purpose of just slipping in that it is inclusive of all zodiac signs.

I have learned so much throughout this production. Some of the key points are in my CCR, but here is an outline of tips for my audience:

• Storyboard details. I thought I had drawn out every shot I wanted, but on site, I realized that there were many more that I wanted to take. To make sure you have thought about all the shots you want, go to the location where you will be shooting, ideally with the actors, and allow them to run through their lines. Everything still worked out in the end!
• Label your Film and Audio! In the beginning of each clip and track, say things like "Scene 1, Take 2" so you can distinguish between them. Come up with a process! Will you leave the audio track and video running, even between takes so that you only have to sync audio once? Will you end both at the end of each take?
• Be organized as you film. We filmed one of the most hefty scenes first, scene 5. It had 58 video files and 27 audio tracks. What we should have done is started to edit it and sync up the audio even though we were still in the filming stage. This would have sped up the editing period at the end by a lot!
• Divide roles among the group. Not things that would interfere with the flow of the project, because emergence is a thing! For example, Shelby, Reem, and I had all divided up which scenes we would edit. This was mainly so that we can all sync up audio and remove items we did not need. The final edits were made in the final visits we made to each other to make sure everything flowed and that the style of editing was consistent. 

I hope this helps! Its been good. Signin off.

Entry #25 Week Six Post Two

Hi again! This week has been so busy. It is spring break and Shelby is still terribly sick and Reem and I both have some family plans throughout the week. Finding times where we can both meet up was challenging, but we honestly just sacrificed a lot of plans. It is not about time management, but rather just being extra sure about the way we execute.

Anyways, today we had shot a lot of scenes. We shot scene #1, half of #3, and then #2.
Scene number one is Emerald cutting the fruits and eventually receiving an email from Weston City about her upcoming date. Scene number two is Zoe receiving her email for her date while she is out for a run. Scene number three is Emerald talking to her best friend, Mercy, about the date and how she does not want to go.

The other half of scene three was shot another day. My friend Sumaiyya was playing Mercy and we had gone over her house to film that. Because Mercy and Emerald are having a conversation over the phone, it was okay that we filmed on two separate days.

We had some last minute blips (I'm not sure if that is a word but I imagine it to mean minor bumps on the road). The formatting of the emailed invite took a very long time to fix but here is how it turned out. This is a screen recording on how it looked on the phone:

As you can see, we created an email header. The background is of some trees with the logo on the right side. We also have a light border on the image. After that is the body that Reem and I wrote together with the images of the people who are set up together and information about their date.

Until next time...

Entry #24 Week Six Post One

Hey guys!

Shelby has been so sick ever since she came back from drama states, but she has still been talking to us about the project in the group chat. Reem and I have been meeting up together and planning out the day and then going out to film.

The first scene we had filmed, other than the previous establishing shots and cooking video we had filmed in the past, was one of the most important ones. It was the last scene of the film opening and it was everyone meeting their date that was set up by the system. Many of the people who came from drama states were sick, so they all had to cancel. Thankfully, we had a lot of volunteers that were willing to help us out!

The shoot took about four hours!

There were many actors:

Sebastian: playing Swain, the guy who was supposed to be set up with Emerald
Andres: playing Niall, the guy who was supposed to be set up with Zoe
Julie: playing the waitress that had mistakenly taken Swain and Zoe to the wrong table
Reem: playing Zoe, the girl who ends up being set up with Emerald
Sofia: playing Emerald, the main character

For us to find actors that were all available at the same exact time on a Friday night was very challenging! It had taught us a lot about the planning process. I was personally nervous going into the shoot even though we had all the main shots we wanted storyboarded. This was because we had to change the location of scene five since the restaurant we planned on filming at had given us a 45 limit to film. The one we ended up filming at, Primetime, had reserved the whole back of the restaurant for us to use, so a HUGE shout out to them!

Anyways, the shoot went well! I learned a lot about thinking on my feet for solving last minute problems and things we did not think about. I aim to be more efficient in such a shoot.

Entry #23 Week Five Post Four

What's up guys?

I was talking to Reem and I gained some inspiration to start working on my CCR.

Here are the compulsory questions:

-How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

-How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

-How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

-How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

I can only really fully answer the first two questions. This post will include some bullets on what will be in my answers. I personally have more elaborate responses but I have included a couple of words to capture some of my messages. 

1. -cover dystopian society concept

-sexuality, representation of homosexual relationships

-compatibility

2. -film festivals

-local college events

-social media accounts

Entry #22 Week Five Post Three

Hey guys!

This is a tiny update! My group and I had talked a lot in our group chat. Reem had sent her draft for the dystopian society's logo.

Shelby told us that she has states for Drama so we will not be doing much as a group but we have planned out and adjusted our work and film schedule. We will be meeting up at a cafe on Tuesday during our spring break and finish up some in depth planning for the film. Additionally, we will start filming a bit. This is very much needed to just update Shelby a bit even though she has been with our group chat. It will be nice to catch up on everything. 

Anyways, back to the logo. I had touched on an earlier post that our teacher recommended that we started dividing up roles. Obviously, some changes were made since Reem made the logo instead of Shelby because of her commitments. Here is a summary of that:

NAWAL:
- creating templates for U-Weston Videos
- figure out cliparts for the characters
REEM:
- props for U-Weston Videos (Chef Hat)
- work on Emails for characters
- get the henna
SHELBY:

-create logo for the city council

-miscene elements