Filming Blog: Idle Hands

Today, we decided as a group not to film on the weekend, as a result of two of the most critical members having a lab report due in another class and having to spend the whole dang weekend working on it, not having the infinite foresight to do less important work earlier. This is fine though, as the other members of our team can take the time to be much more prepared and ready for next weekend, making the filming process much simpler and cleaner. we do not want to spend a ridiculous amount of time filming at night. we just want to get the scenes done and go home to edit quickly for the peer review that is coming up soon. the filming will be done at one of my team members houses, so even if all of our group members are ready to film and he is not, we would not film or have to change our plan. our movie involves a car and one of our members can drive so that problem has solved itself. The spooky-looking graveyard makes for a perfect backdrop for a spooky-scary story. our whole group is very excited to get to filming and just wants to get this video edited to perfection before the turn of the month.

Filming Blog: The Uber Big Day

Today our group began filming our project. We all decided that instead of meeting in a public place that we would all meet in one of our team members homes. The house that we chose was quite convenient in the way that it was in very close proximity to a graveyard, which is a very big part of the scenic shots of our movie, it being dark and gritty. a public park would not have contributed to the tone of the movie very well! Our group opted to not check out a camera the previous day of class, becuase we took a vote and decided to take the video with our phone cameras instead of the standard issue cameras that our teachers allowed us to check out. we had to get to our group members house late for the perfect scenery as a backdrop for a fake high school party. it was a long day of waiting but we were all excited to get started. we had a problem getting lights for the party in the background, but that was solved with flashing phone flashlights through colored glass. we had to get real high-lumen flashlights becuase our lowly phone flashlights were too weak to make a noticeable "party light" streaming through the window. the car scenes were relativley easy to film, as the audience can not see the background in the movie so that is not a detail we need to get perfectly right. overall, it was a great day of filming.

Uber Driver MADNESS: Title Design

Title designs may not seem like the most important factor of a film, however they are probably one of the most important parts of the film. If written and edited right, they can really set the standard for your film from the very beginning. Having a boring and poorly edited title design/designs will make the expectations of the rest of your film very low and will discourage the viewers from watching more. The most important parts of media are satisfying your viewers, which will in turn make money for you and your industry. That is why the title designs are such an important factor. We will have a multitude of different types of title design, while also following the order of titles. Our film will consist of middle screen titles. This will mainly just be the actual title of our film. We will add effects to this to make it less boring and more engaging. We will also have foreground titles which relate with the theme of the film. Finally we will implement titles that are blended in the background. These are meant to be the "less important" titles that the viewers are supposed to try to catch. These will help engage the audience as well.

Shooting Script

This script describes everything that will be in our final project not including the dialogue and sound. Our shooting script consists of 11 different and unique scenes, each scene having a variety of different camera angles, and lighting effects. This is especially important in our film because our film is a thriller/horror film. One of the most important elements of a thriller is its use of mystery and suspense. The different camera angles will help build suspense. For example, the over-the-shoulder shots will build suspense by concealing the killers identity. The lighting effects will also build suspense. Low key lighting will also help conceal the killers identity, showing him only as a silhouette. This will build tension which should make the viewer scared and tense. This will be backed up by eery sound effects and dialogue to create even more suspense.

Sound Script

For our sound script, we wrote down all of our noises that we will use for our movie. thankfully, the noises are all during the scene while we film, so we do not have to add any noises post editing process. any transitions that we would have to use thankfully only would be jump cuts, further lowering the time it would take to edit. All in all, we will have a very brief and quick editing process so we can focus on filming and making our acting the best it can be. the sounds take very little meaning in this film portion, but it is made up for by the acting. the majority of our film is focused on the angles of the camera and how the characters react to the crazy situation that both of these lovable scamps get into. the driver is silent for most of the film but this adds to his mysterious aura. Tyler and Stevie obviously have a past history and the dialog shows as much. there is lots of dietetic and non-digetic sound. This dialogue will add suspense to the film.