Changes in filming schedule

     Since Covid-19 cases have been going up during these past two weeks my family has decided to cancel the thanksgiving trip and we decided to just spend it at my house. Since the plans have changed i will be filming from Monday the 23rd to Wednesday the 25th. I feel like that is enough time to film and have everything set. Today is Monday the 23rd and the weather is pretty weird and the actor isn't able to film today due to some family problems, so we will be filming tomorrow and Wednesday if everything goes to plan. Today is Tuesday the 24th and we started filming the scenes in the house and getting some of the scenes in the car done for tomorrow. The weather is great and everything came together, we did have to film a couple scenes like three times because either we had some background noise that messed up the audio or we just had a minor issue like when i was recording and i walked passed a mirror you were able to see me so that messed us up and we had to re-shoot it. Then my actor just forgot his lines or what he had to do and where he had to stop or do a certain movement. So we had some minor issues and we also stuck with the storyboard that we had all we did was add some movements and new dialogue but other than that we kept or well we tried to keep things as similar to the storyboard as possible. After we were done with the first half i then went over all the footage we had and then i picked the ones that looked good and then i separated them into a folder and then i took the ones that weren't going and put them in another folder with the bloopers to put up on the website. We then started to re-shoot all the scenes that we messed up or the ones we just needed to fix in general. Today is wednesday the 25th and tofay we filmed the soccer field scenes and they came out great and we were done with filming and now we just need to edit and have everything done. The weather wasnt too great but we had great footage and we finished in three days. 

Thanksgiving Break

 I am not going to film during the thanksgiving break. Me and my family will be going out of state to visit Nashville, Tennessee. We will be leaving on Sunday and coming back the other week I would only have one day to film and it wouldn’t make a difference because i want to get everything done in two days, one after the other and if I film on Saturday and then film like two weeks later I don’t feel like it would come out good. So my plan for now is to film during the first weekend of December, around the 4th, 5th and maybe 6th. That way i can start editing and getting everything done in that first week. We will be starting early in the morning and then start filming at the house for the house and bedroom scenes and then leaving right after to go film at the soccer field. I think it wont take me too long too shoot all the scenes, I have a feeling it will be like a max of 3 hours because we do have to re-watch all the scenes we filmed and then pick which ones we should do a retake and which ones we should keep and just edit. and of course there are many scenes that might take long because there could be mistakes or the camera did not work and all of that sort. There have been some questioning about the scenes. I went over the storyboard and i saw that some things needed fixing and the dialogue and the script and I think there will be some changes and i think i will have to add or maybe even cut some scenes and add some new ones because when i looked over the story board and the script i felt like there was something missing and i needed to change it. I think i might just think over and brainstorm some extra ideas to add. So there might be some minor changes in the short film. and because of covid we have to be careful with where we go and we have to be safe. 

Website Process

 For the website and building the social media accounts i had some majors issues which i then overcame them at the end. First I knew i had to open a new Gmail account for this whole process because it would have made it so difficult if i didn't do that. Then i opened my website account for me to start the website. After i was done picking the layout i wanted I began changing and adding pictures and I also began adding my pages and then added the titles and texts i needed for each page. After all that I began working on creating the social media accounts. It took me around 2 hours just to create the social media accounts. I began with Facebook which took the longest to make because Facebook does not allow your name to be something that isn't name appropriate, so then i just used my own fakebook account and opened a page just for the movie. After i created the  Instagram and twitter account which were both easy and fast with no complications. Then I created the YouTube page and i had lots of issues with that also because I accidentally connected my actual YouTube account with the one i was creating for the movie page. After that i began working on the rest of the pictures i had to add on and started fixing the little mistakes there were. On my website i added pictures of the people working on my movie, i added my parents as if they were the editor and the camera director but in the actual filming and editing and directing it is just me in end. On the day after i started working on my website I used my photography camera to take the pictures of the actor, the editor, and the camera director and i took my own picture because i didn't like how they took mine which is why it looks closer and less professional. I then had some difficulties getting my phone to connect to the camera so then i took my moms phone to do it and it worked so then i downloaded the pictures i edited them so they looked right and then i sent them to my email and saved it onto the computer and then added them onto my website.

Storyboard

 

        This storyboard was a little complicated to start for me because I had to think back at the script and think back at what I wrote and what scene would look like in m head. I pictured everything before I began drawing just so I would have an idea on what  to draw and how many pages I would need. At first I got everything down up until I was on page 6 of the storyboard. I started struggling on what scene I was doing and what i needed for that scene. At the end i got better and was able to finish everything and everything went down perfect. I started doing the storyboard on Monday and it took me a while to finish since i do not know how to draw too good, well at all as you can tell. I tried my best at the drawings but they just all look bad so i just kept going with what i was doing since the beginning. I tried my best to keep my visions realistic to what is going on in the world right now and i tried my best too keep most of the scenes either indoors or where there is not many people or any people at all. Due to covid-19 my parents and the actors parents do not want us to be put in danger just because of a school project so we are trying our best to be safe and have little to none encounters with other people because we do not truly know where everyone goes to. The park where we are going to film there are barely any people especially early in the mornings which is where were trying to go and film around 8 to 10am. That will be the only place some people go or could be there but we are going to take our precautions and be as safe as possible. Both me and the actor have known each other for some time and we know each others family and we know that were both safe and that we do not need to worry. We have both been tested and both are perfectly safe and healthy. With all of this i hope that we can make a great short film and that it comes out just we both wish it looked like and just as our storyboard is formatted.

Planning for short film

     I will start filming after we create our websites and everything else. I have my schedule for when we do begin filming which will be during the weekend usually in the morning if we go to the park to film at the soccer fields or throughout the day when we film the other scenes at the house or in the car. The locations we have so far are the park, my house or the actors house, my backyard and his car. The scenes which take place at my house or his house will be done at night or throughout the evening during the weekends. At the park in the soccer fields will be done during the mornings o the weekends or when we are on break. The car scenes can be done whenever we have time left since they will be rather short. The participants will be me, Luisa, and the soccer athlete which is Lucio. I chose to have a small group, very small actually. Last years group was too complicated and always had issues. Due to Covid-19 we will be taking precautions, if other people are around we will be using masks and we will also be bringing hand sanitizer and gloves to be as safe as possible. For the props we have a simple set of props. There will be soccer balls, whistles, and the usual stuff that are in cars, bedrooms, anything in the house. For costumes it will be kept short and simple too. The soccer player when playing in his game will be wearing his soccer uniform and gear, the teams jersey, the cleats the socks everything. In the other scenes it will be normal casual school and staying home outfits. Such as jeans, plain or graphic t-shirt and normal shoes such as vans or Nikes. Overall everything could possibly change when we begin filming but hopefully even because of covid our short film will be great and all i have talked about in this planning blog helps me structure everything a little better and i hope it helps a lot at the end. I have known the actor for some time now and with his help i can finish everything i need and he will help out a lot by doing this with me even if it is stressful.