Filming at Lester’s

After we finished filming at our group members house we went to start filming at Lester’s diner. At Lester’s diner I got out of the car and filmed both the car of my group mates, who portrayed the friends, and the “stalker’s” car. I filmed this one to show the stalker is still following the girls this far into the film. After this I did a tracking shot of the girls walking into the diner. I had to film this shot multiple times because my hands were either too shaky or I wasn’t able to get the girls whole body in the shot. I also almost fell on of the times causing us to have the re-shoot the shot about three times. After I recorded them going into the diner I recorded them walking to their booth and sitting down. This was to establish them actually going to sit down to eat and talk to each other. I then recorded their stalker walking past the window where they were seated with a black hoodie on. This was to show that the stalker is looking at the layout of the diner in order to find the booth that is closest to them, but far away enough for them not to see him.

I recorded the stalker going into the diner after them as well. This emphasizes the stalker following them and wanting to take one of them. It creates a path way for the ending scene and creates suspense as to when the kidnapping will take place. After filming the stalker going into the diner behind them, I filmed the friends ordering food and talking. This was to create a more surreal scene of them actually hanging out and not just acting. I then proceeded to go in the booth behind the stalker in order to create a point of view shot. This was to show the stalker watching them talk and eat from his booth. I then filmed the girls getting their food, and leaving. I filmed the stalker leaving out after them to show him following them. It also built suspense that he was following them out of the diner. It will make the audience wonder what he is about to do now that he has followed them after the diner. 

Filming Blog: Made it to the house

We filmed at one of the group members houses when we went to film. We filmed them walking out of the house as it was a part of the scenes that we were doing. While we did that we had to film the stalker’s car behind them. While they sat in the car and waited for their friend to come out of the house I filmed the stalkers car behind them. This makes it seem as though the stalker was continuously following them. This also shows that they are being watched. It makes the friends seem like they do not know that the stalker is following them and they have no clue what is going on. While we waited on the group member to come outside I gave my group members in the car my phone to film themselves waiting. They also filmed themselves calling her and telling her that they are outside for her to come. While they did that I positioned myself on the side of the house to film the group member walking outside the house.

We had to film that part about three times. This was because we wanted to make sure that the scene was of good quality. The first time we filmed it the group member was unaware that we were filming. This caused them to not act according to script, forcing us to start over again. The second time we filmed it the member almost fell. This forced us to start over and record it a third time. This time the group member got everything right and we finally got to end that scene. After that I had to film the stalker’s car behind them again because they were originally too close to each other to make it seem like they did not notice the car behind them. I re-shot this to make the film feel more realistic in order to make the film have as much quality as possible. After this I filmed the girls talking in the car at the complex before pulling off.

Filming Blog: Jamming in the car

Over the weekend we finally started our filming. It was a three day weekend so it made it a perfect time to film. We started the filming process in the car. Kaliyah, a member in my group who has a car, came and picked everyone up from their homes. While in the car I filmed them dancing and singing along to the music. While I filmed them with the cam recorder, they filmed themselves using my phone. They placed the phone on the dash board and recorded themselves singing along to the song. While in the car I also filmed the “stalker” following them. I placed the cam recorder up to the rear view mirror and recorded it. That way it showed the stalker following them through the rear view mirror to make it seem as though they did not know he was behind them.
We also filmed multiple shots in the car in order to make sure that we had the right one. I filmed everyone getting into the car and made sure that the filming was to everyone’s liking. Not only did I film them getting into the car, but I gave them my phone to make it seem like they were recording themselves. This is because when friends are normally together they usually record themselves together. By recording themselves together it gave the film a more real effect. I also recorded them dancing and one of them recording themselves. This kept adding to that real effect of the film. Not only did I record them, but in order to make the shots good I had to duck in the seat. This is because I am not in any of the scenes, I just film the shots. With the job of filming the shots I had to make sure that I wasn’t seen in the car with them or in any of the shots, which caused my to duck behind the seat in order to hide myself, but also record as well.

Planning Blog: Storyboard

Below are images of our story board. The story board contains the images of the scenes that we are going to do and shows what will be going on in the scene. This will help us tremendously. It will help us because it will be an easy tool to use when doing the film. We only will have to follow the story board directly as it is, which will help with the filming process. It will help in the filming process because we can just look at the story board to know what scenes that we are doing and to see if we forgot anything. This makes the story board a significant tool that aids us in making the film perfect. Also this makes us have more fun with the film because we know what we are filming and we would not stress on what we should do for the film. This helps us be able to make our film the exact way that we planned it. The story board is the most significant part of our planning process and it will help us make our film more perfect.

Planning Blog: Title Design

This power-point will help us remember the design more easily. We put the design in a power-point format in order to obtain the information better and to make it organized. The reason we did this is so that we can keep looking back at the text in order to either remember how we are styling our title or to make sure that we styled it in the correct way. In order for that to be the case we put all the information on how we are doing the titles and the different aspects of the title as well.

Planning Blog 3: Location, Health, Schedule, and Participants

This week, we decided to organize our location, participants, health and schedule. We created this by using google slides. Planning ahead is very beneficial to our group. We can always refer back to the google slides if we ever forget about the original plan we had before. Come filming day, we hope that things can run smoothly. For starters, we decided to set our location. It was easy for us to decide on how to start a film. We each came up with great ideas to start the beginning of the film in the garage. We also, researched diners to film at for the film. As the planning continues, we cannot wait to start our project.

Planning Blog: Sound And Dialogue Script

This week, we created our dialogue/sound script for our film. We used google slides in order to create the script. In the script, you will see that each slide is title with the scene number. The information on each slide describes what is being said during the scene and the sounds that are going on. For example, we included the dialogue between the actors in the scene along with the background noises. We created the script carefully so that it can be accurate for when it's time for us to film. Creating the script will be beneficial on filming day! We will already have the plan on what the actors need to say and what sounds are going to be made. Now that we have a plan on the audio being used for the film, it makes us more excited to start the project! Hopefully, we can film less than two weeks from now.

Planning Blog: Shooting Script

For the script we created a power-point that entails all of the scenes without the words. It shows what is going to happen in every scene and also the camera movements and angles. This power-point will be almost exactly what we are doing for the actual film. We plan to follow the script we created 100%, but we have also planned for any deterrent that may interfere for what we planned. The power-point of the script also shows the editing techniques that we plan to use for the actual film. This script is the tool that we need to help make our film a success. It will help us make our story board and also help us come up with ideas for the dialogue that will be in the scenes. Not only will it help us with the dialogue, but it will help us further illustrate our scenes on paper for the story board that we are going to do. With this power-point at our disposal, it will make planning and filming the rest of this film uncomplicated and less stressful to do. With this being the case I believe that it will make the film making process more fun and exciting instead of just something that we have to do.