Filming schedule

 Hey guys! I hope you are all good. The project is sadly coming to an end quickly. We are now in the filming portion of the movie opening  and honestly, I just want to get it over with. I still don’t have my movie title picture made but it is coming soon, I do have an Idea of what I want though. We are filming this upcoming Thursday and I don’t know how to feel about it. Maybe grateful that we are almost done, or sad that we are almost done. How I approach it won’t change the fact we are almost done! Pertaining to the project, as you can tell by the title, we are talking about my production schedule. I will insert the document below but, there’s not much to say about it Its pretty self-explanatory. I have only one scene, but I have to shoot two times because of the phone conversation with the detective. I recently found out that my partner will not be able to come out and meet me to film under any circumstances, so I will be on my own. We are filming in my backyard, and at Saneash's house but I won’t be there when she films the detective scene. My scheduling is basic as it comes but it’s there present, and complete.

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(I am not able to put the link into the blog, so I uploaded a screen shot of it instead.)

Sound/Lighting

 Hey Guys! Welcome back to another episode of blogging with Serena! Today’s episode will be about sound and lighting. So far as sound and lighting goes, we are wanting to keep it regular. We are making a thriller film, so it has to be suspenseful majority of the time. For sound we decided to open up the scene using a buzzing/humming music to make the scene intense. The goal of this technique is to give the audience a start off thought to think that this is a thriller. We want to introduce the genre right away. This will be continuous only for a portion of the scene, the rest of the sound will be low nature sounds music. The sound of the humming in the beginning of the scene came from Mixkit.com and others such as the phone ringtone, and dial tone which you hear near the end came from WeVideo.  As for lighting when we shot the film it was very bright on set. The sun was beaming and still shinning bright in the evening. We want to go for a kind of soft but dark lighting so while editing we darkened the video.

Location Scouting

 Hey guys, I hope you guys are alright....No your all left! It is another lovely day, another day to be grateful to be alive! In this blog we will be talking about Location Scouting. So, our film opening is at a café but due to COVID-19 we don’t actually want to go out and film because we will have to wear mask, and that will just ruin the whole opening. I’m having issues with my partner on this because she says her mom won’t let her come out and it’s kind of upsetting me. We have been having small issues in the run but it will all work out in the end. I just don’t understand why and how we would do a project together if we can’t link to film together. I choose to shoot the film my grandmas’ backyard because it is the safest place, and it’s kind of resembles a café. I picked this place because my parents aren’t too keen on me leaving the house either so the backyard option is much safer.

Above you can see pictures of the backyard. It has fake grass, and lights draping above it. I think that it will be the perfect scenery because we can just dress it up to look like an outside café. We will add tables, and chairs to make it look presentable. We have had numerous amounts of parties back here and all of them turned out to be a success! If this idea doesn’t work out, and it most likely will we will just go to our local Starbucks or something. Also, the café we will have set up is called Starrlight café.

Casting

Hello Everyone! I hope you all are doing good. I'm doing fine this beautiful Sunday evening! I didn’t really do much today but getting these blog posts done will be the highlight of my day XD. As you can see in the title, we are going to be discussing casting. In our opening sequence of our film "Decipher", there are only three main characters with lines and are present on the scene. Them being Franchesica Jones, Detective Margret Smith, and the waiter. Now Franchesica Jones is 28-year-old women with a 5-year-old son. She is a single mother, very protective, hardworking, and determined. Detective Margret Smith is 41-year-old women, with no husband and a deceased kid. She is a retired detective that struggles with mental illness, very quiet, and secretive. Now the waiter isn’t of significance or a main character, but he is one to consider because he is in this scene. The people that will be casting in this scene is I myself, my partner Saneaseh as the detective, and my sister Crystal as the waiter. I decided to be the mom myself because the mom is supposed to look tired, and worn out in the scene and I have these bags under my eye that are long lasting because of a facial product I used a while ago, and no one else wanted to be the mom so I took the role myself. My partner had to be in the film opening regardless so she choose to be the detective. I asked my sister to be the waiter because she looks a little old enough to work as a waiter, and she also looks good in black. She is 16 and it’s a perfect match because high schoolers usually work at these types of places while in school.

 

Franchesica Jones                                             Waiter

Storyboard

 Hey guys, so in this blog we will be talking about my storyboard. First and foremost, the process of doing it wasn’t as challenging as I thought it would be. I took my time to think it through, but I am not the best artist! XD, I had two options of websites to use but I couldn’t figure out how to use them, and they didn’t have much to offer. Like I would sit in front of the screen and stare at it because I did not know how to piece it together, so I ended up drawing it. It was much easier on me and it was simpler. Some would say that the website was easier, but I think drawing it was better. I will like the storyboard below.

Research and script

Hey guys! I hope all is well. I just want to document to you guys how my group is going. Now I know I have complained about my group members in previous blogs, but I am only working with one other person due to issues that have been resolved, so we are doing good at the moment. Pertaining to the script, I worked on it alone, this was hard but manageable. I only had two days out of the four that were given to work on it because I was busy to the point of exhaustion. The script for my film opening is short but I believe that I did a good job because it took a lot of time and effort. The script for my film is simple (It will be linked below), it reveals partial about the characters but it’s to keep the minds of the audience wondering. The mission is to always keep the audience in a state of confusion. I will do this by revealing little by little to keep their minds wondering. I strive to make this film as suspenseful as possible. Some films that are similar to mine are breaking in, which is similar in story, and invisible man which is similar in budget. These movies are usually financed by presales, taxes, and investors. The film company we considered to do was Sony, but me and my team member settled on Blumhouse Film productions because we thought that they have produced similar movies to ours which have all became big time movies. Our plan was to go small with the movie and let it become what it will be, whether its popular or small. When it came to distribution, we choose to go let everything fall into place, so depending on the size of the movie is how we will distribute it. For film production I will use my iPhone 12 and a tripod.

SCRIPT:

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Film Pitch

 Hello Guys!!! In today’s blog we will be talking about my film pitch. If I'm being completely honest, this wasn't my best PowerPoint presentation BUT... I'm still proud of the way it turned out because it took a lot of time and effort. Now, one of my team members did not complete their portion of the project so I filled in their spot. Pertaining to the actual presentation we did a PowerPoint and we made a video voice over explaining the project. This will be included below. If you didn't know, our film is called "Decipher" and our chosen film company is Blumhouse Film Productions. This company has produced movies such as The Lie, The Invisible man, and Evil eye. All of these films are have become big time films and have reached high numbers in marketing. We believe that Blumhouse film productions is able to produce our film because they have made a total of 4 million dollars in World box office. This film company has kept a low budget for all of the films they have produced, so for this reason our budget is 4 million dollars. This is perfect because our movie won't necessarily include much violence, action, and destruction. Our synopsis, which is a basic summary of the film is a mother’s child goes missing and she hires a former detective that was fired for reasons that were always a mystery to help her search for her child, but when they find the criminal that took her child it turns out that it’s an unexpected old friend with sinister secrets to be revealed. We believe that our plot is what makes our film unique because there has been nothing like this produced. For the distribution portion, the film company first tests out the movies with the senior staff to determine whether or not they should go big when distributing the movie to the markets. This technique is used to save money.

FILM PITCH:

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