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So far my group and i have accomplished 14 blog posts and our finished midterm draft of our film. On our finished midterm draft we accomplished filming the beginning intro scenes from our town which was the scenery. In those clips the actors were introduced and the producers etc.  In the revisions my group and I plan on changing the font of the title screens and adding a title to the end of the 2 minutes. From those I edited them by trimming and cutting them also overlaying audio. Based on our feedback these are some of the revisions we will be making. We started but didn't finish filming the main part of our film. We did not have the right length of time, so that is something we need to do when we do revisions. On revisions we will re film the main part of the film. We will film it in daytime because we received feedback that the lighting was not good. Also will film with a house that doesn't have Christmas lights up to stop confusion of the seasons. Also we will change the ac...

This is my group and I's finished midterm draft. There are still quite a few things we will need to do to fix it. We will need to most likely re-film many scenes in better lighting etc. Also I plan on changing a lot of how it was edited to make it smoother. Our film is called Again. https://youtu.be/NOWmIkl-Ylo

#1 Shot number one fades in with the incidental music playing. It is shot of road driving. Pan Camera wide shot. It is the establishing shot. Cuts to next clip. #2 Shot of Beach wide shot. Possibly can hear waves in background of music. Cuts to the next. #3 View of city, taken from parking garage downtown. It is long shot to show buildings also pan camera. Cuts to next. #4 view of street the car is driving on. Long shot. #5 Quick cut shot of trees alongside the road the car is driving on. #6 Over the shoulder shot of Sam in the car looking out the window of the car. #7 Side shot of same mid shot in the car. Cuts to Dad #8 Side shot of Dad also mid shot he is driving in the car and glances over at Sam and says his line. #9 Shot reverse shot between the two characters as they say their lines. #10 Shot of them talking from mid shot recorded from dash board. #11 After Sam says last line mid shot of her then close up of her hand turning up music. #12 hand held cam...

This is our script for our film. (incidental music slows/ gets quieter) Dad: We're almost to our new house! (glances at Sam while driving) Sam: Mm great (sarcastic & unenthusiastic) Dad: Listen I know you're not happy about moving but.. we don't want what happened last year to happen again. Sam: I know Dad: You need to understand.. (cut off by Sam) Sam: Lets just not talk about it, okay? (reaches for radio and turns it up) (pulls up to house scenes of them taking boxes out of car and putting in garage) (boy next door comes to help her, she almsot drops box) Sam: Thank you Tyler: No problem. Are you new to town? Sam: Yeah, just got here Tyler: Cool, how come? Sam: I'd rather not talk about it

My group Sydney and I have came up with a plan for when we are completing each task before the mid term draft is due. It is due on the 21st of December. We have decided that this Sunday we will film with our actors. We will be filming all day to make sure we get all the scenes needed. However we also need another day of filming to film the scenery where the actors are not needed for that day. We will be filming that after school on Monday of next week. It will only take a few hours to film that part. That way I have Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to edit and finalize the draft for Friday. If we do not have enough clips of film that week we will go and re-film whatever we need so we can finish. On Friday we will submit it.

Sydney and I have cast our actors for our film. It took alot of deciding to figure out who would work well in the film. The way we cast for it was we asked Sydney's friends if they would like to play the parts. We have decided to only have 3 characters in the film intro to make it more understandable with the plot. There will be the main character whose name is Samantha goes by Sam for short. Sam will be played by Debra. The next character is The dad of Samantha who will be played by Collin. And the third character will be the boy next door, who is named Tyler. Tyler is played by Zach.  All of these actors have agreed to play these roles. Sydney will be filming most of the time with help from me for many clips and my job is to edit it all on multiple computer programs.; Samantha - Debra Dad - Collin Tyler - Zach Producer/Editor - Nadia Cinematographer - Sydney Update Midterm draft- We have decided to change our actors due to minor issues in their acting and availability.

Sydney and I went location hunting for our film yesterday, December 11. First we came up with our ideas and my thoughts for the film in class. I had a certain theme in mind that I though would be good to fit the conventions of a teen drama. We narrowed down our options and chose the places that we think will best suit the mood we are going for in the film. To chose the locations we drove around downtown and the beaches. We visited various things and places. Also we looked at multiple houses to determine which house will fit best for our scenes located there. The first location we chose for our establishing shot is a view of Lido Key Beach. I want to get a clip of the waves and beach there. The next location we found is a parking garage downtown so we can get a overlook shot of downtown from the top of the building. Also we plan on finding a few more high rise building downtown Sarasota to shoot videos from above Sarasota to be a introduction clip.These will all be wide sho...