Filming Blog

 Before beginning the filming process, I made sure to gather my material and props together. The costumes that I planned to wear didn’t have to change once I began filming, since all my scenes would be filmed indoors. This also meant that none of my locations had to change either. As I stated before, I already planed on filming indoors, so I didn’t have to improvise much on set. I did however, change some parts that were from my storyboard. For example, I added a scene of my story’s protagonist staring at a colander with a specific date on it. Later on in the film, when the character enters another dimension, he finds that Sam Clarence rebut now it says a different date, even though it was the same day. This is meant to be a visual clue for the audience. Other than that, I didn’t end up changing much. I would go on to film my scenes in an order based on locations. By doing this, I didn’t have to waste any time and go back and forth between locations. I would film specific scenes when I was already in a specific location. While filming I also would tend to play music in the background. This made filing more fun, and it made the acting more immersive. the music was quiet, so that I wouldn’t have any background noise in the raw footage itself. The only actor in the film being myself. After acting through each scene, I would then go behind the camera and review the footage. I would then go on to do multiple takes until I do a take that I was happy with. I would then repeat this process with every scene in the film. With the majority of my scenes filmed, I could soon enter the editing process.

To begin the editing process, I would use my iPad to upload the footage gathered in my gallery, into the iMovie app. IMovie will be the main software that I will be using when editing. Once I uploaded all my scenes together into iMovie, I now needed to add my title sequence, which I created on the sketchbook app. I then uploaded this title sequence and inserted it into the last part of my opening sequence. I would then upload my music to overlap with my. I ended up using music that is already open to the public, so I didn’t have to ask fro permission from other companies to use that music. One of my main editing problems through this process, was transitions. I originally uploaded my scenes, and after that I added in my music. This meant that my music already matched up with my footage. So if the music had a beta drop, for example, that beat drop would link with what is happening ons screen. After inserting my music, and I began adding transitions I realized that some transition cut parts of the scenes out. This causes the music to then be disjointed with the music. So I had to improvise and pretty mush only use simple cuts. I did, however, use a fad later on in the footage. At the end of the opening sequence our protagonist touches a glowing stone witch creates a blinding white light when touched. So I chose to insert a white screen that fades in when he touches the stone. I then created another fad, this time to fade in my title sequence over the white background. The other main problem I had was timing. I had to condense all my scenes into 2 minutes, so there were certain plot points that I had to completely cut out. This is an aspect that I still need to work on because I tend to tell a certain story that goes on for way to long.