Filming Day 2

When we were filming yesterday it did not take us more than 3 hours which I thought was great because I thought it was going to take us day to finish the whole process and its been at most 6 hours of filming all together.

My friend Luis who is our main character has been able to portray the character we are trying o show very well. He has been very cooperative with us and Liliana and I have gotten really inspired by some of his own ideas to help us better the film all together. 

We finished filming the last scenes which were pending from last time that we needed to add to be able to tie everything together. Once again the lighting was great even though it looked like it was going to rain and we managed to get all off the footage in great quality. 

 Because of this we were also able to have time to record all of the folly sounds we needed of him running, his breathing, and any other sounds here or there. This whole filming process has really been great and I have learned a lot. I am now editing all the footage on my computer with some darker filters that still show the beautiful colors of the grass and trees that were in the area. Once we have put it all on order then the editing of the colors will take place and the only thing left will be putting in all of the sounds. If in the process we feel that something is missing then we can all go back and re film or take a completely different shot f anything we feel is missing, but fr now we are good.

Filming Day 1

On Saturday we started filming for our project and it went very well. Because of the fact that we could no longer film in the house we had to make some changes to our story board outline but we were able to make the best of it. He was now going to be hiding out in an abandoned stable in the middle of the woods. 

The lighting outside was great due to it being outside with all natural light so all of our shots have very good quality. The only downside to this was the we wanted it a little darker but due to the mood being a little scary. But it being outside, we really didn't have much control over the lighting. In our times now though it doesn't really matter because with all the mediums available to us through computers and all its new abilities we can edit the shots and put them in the level of darkness or lightness we need to convey the tone of the film. 

Although we thought it was going to take us a very long time to film everything in about two hours or less we were able to film almost all of the footage we needed. The only things that we need to film now are parts we want to add or make better after analyzing all of the footage we were able to get Saturday. 

This is personally one of my favorite scenes that we got because of how great all the green looks making him pop out so much more. 

Choice

In one of my earlier blogs I had talked about how we were choosing in between two people for our main character. Both had already agreed to doing it but we told them we were still deciding two. These two guys were 16 years old so they didn't exactly fit the age range of males who we were looking for. For men schizophrenia is usually diagnosed if early from ages 15-25, so we wanted someone of age at least 20.   

Not only this but the one we had chosen was going to New York this weekend so we weren't going to be able to start filming and we really wanted to. I then started thinking of people I knew and this one guy just kind of popped into my head out of no where. He is 22 years old and was willing to help us. Honestly I thought he was not going to be a good actor but it turns out that he was a better choice by far from the other two, by the way he acts and also because he is older making it look a lot more realistic.

Works Cited
"Why Schizophrenia Affect Men More Than Women." Why Schizophrenia Affect Men More Than Women. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Mar. 2017.

Change

Yesterday my group and I went to the abandoned house to check out whether we were going to be able to film there or not. Sadly it turns our that they have blocked it off so no one can go in any longer. 

The abandoned house is right next to where I horseback ride so we explored the sides and back of the barn that no one really sees or goes through and found some stables that have been empty and abandoned for a long time. We decided that since the movie is set in around 2020 that the stables to them are considered the old city were people used to be in their "past". Since it is outside the modern world and not a house he hides there thinking that no one will ever be able to think of looking for him there. The stables we found are also surrounded by tree areas that look like a forests that will help establish the mood of it being far away from society. 

We will take advantage of our day off on Friday and begin filming in the morning!

 

 

Filming Schedule

Okay so because we are three people it is a little hard to find a day when everyone can work out of school to film. Today we are actually going to go check out the location of where we are planning to film. If we get the permission to film there then we will begin filming this Friday if not our other idea is just to film the outside of the house and then just go to any one of our rooms and just pretend like its the inside of the house. 

As of now our plan is to go to the house today right after school. Then this weekend on Friday and on Sunday we will film and then the next weekend finish anything else that we might need. 

I will let you guy know then on my next blog what will happen with the house. 

Location

The location is very important to the rest of the film because it will establish the mood and the setting perfectly. I horseback ride and right next to my barn there is a public park with an abandoned house. Some of my friends have gone in it before and we think the this house could be a very good place to start our film. 

The house is in the middle of a field with a background of a little forest area. It is really in the middle of nowhere and it is also actually abandoned so it would perfectly help cover our point. The only thing is that we need to see if there is an easy way in and if there is then that will be our filming location if not then we will need to search for a new place. 

                       

From this picture above you can see a little White House with some details in orange which is surrounded by trees. This is the house we are planning on filming in. 

Story Board

Okay so we are now starting to create the whole story of wha the film is going to be about. We have decided that it is going to be about a man in about 2020 who has run away from an asylum. While there he met a man who told him that all the medications and everything that they are doing to them was not real and they had become human experiments. Our main character believes this and he decides to stop taking the daily medications and somehow finds a way to escape. 

Here is a preview of what our film opening is going to look like.

We decided to begin the film with him having already escaped from the asylum and him hiding out in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. This is just a rough draft of what we think we are going to do and some editing techniques are mentioned above. We still need to figure every detail out but for now this is our basic outline. 

Target Audience

Today I will be talking about our Target Audience for this film. When we started thinking of this genre what we had predicted for our target audiance was teens to about age 30 both male and female.

With the help of some research I found that thriller is a popular genre targeted mainly to young adults aged 18-25. People at this age are usually drawn in by the intense storylines and graphic action all of which can be found in this genre the majority of the time. Being able to watch and just try to guess and figure out what will happen next calls for an older group to enjoy this particular genre. 

Psychological thrillers like Silence of the Lambs and American Psycho, attract a male dominated audience. This can be because they are drawn in by the conventional male leads, and can relate certain characters to people they know or even themselves, helping them engage more to the film.

Works Cited

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Thrilleropening2013. "Target Audience Expectations." U1-40 Thriller Opening. N.p., 06 Mar. 2013. Web. 19 Mar. 2017.

Schizophrenia

Okay so like I mentioned in my last blog post, we narrowed the genre down to the thriller. In my last post I also mentioned that we used the movie "Split" as inspiration. In this movie the main character is a man with multi personalities disorder but rather than just having a couple personalities, this man has 23. This film is a thriller and leaves the viewer wanting an wondering so much more than it gives away. 

                                            

Due to this information, we have decided to have the main character in our movie have some kind of psychological disorder. But instead of this multi personality disorder, we have chosen something a little different, schizophrenia. 

Because of this choice we will need to find someone who can look and really really act the part of someone with schizophrenia. I did some research on this disorder and found that it is 1.4 times more prevalent in men than women and it os also more common in men to show up at a younger age. So because of this we are looking a male actor in late adolescence for this part.

We actually have two people in mind that could be willing to play this part for us so me and Liliana are going to ask them and I will let you know soon on how it goes and if we choose either of these two guys.

Sunday March 12

Genre

Good Afternoon :)

Today I will be talking a little about genre, which is the category of composition characterized by similarities in subject.

Okay so really up until today, we didn't even have an idea about what we wanted the movie to be about. We met in class for the second time today to work on the project and Liliana shared with us this image of a girl running through a forest that she had in mind. Although we weren't quite sure what to do with this, it helped us narrow our genres down.

We concluded it could be horror or thriller which is something all three of us are interested in. From this we started researching both of these categories and saw movies like "Shutter Island" and "Split" which both happened to be suspenseful and Thrillers. 

Personally, I don't like scary movies and I have never actually watched one ever in my life. But I do however like the idea of making a storyline for one. I know that both my partners have watched horror movies and they enjoy them so it could work out. 

In the end although we finally came to a conclusion of our genre and it is going to be a thriller. These types of movies I have watched and I very much enjoy and the rest of the group res too o I think it will work out much better now. 

Wednesday March 9

Hello!!

My name is Paula Marchan. This is the blog I will be using for my film opening thought process. I am working on this project with my two partners Liliana Mejia and Carlos Wilson. 

Through this film opening, I am hoping to be able to portray everything that I have learned in his class. Film is something I am personally really interested in. This is probably due to my uncle being a cinematographer and my dad who was a photographer and has every type of camera good for picture taking as well as filming.

I am very excited to finally be starting this project which I hope will turn out great especially since I have two really great partners whom I will be sharing this process with. The only thing that I am worried about at this point is this blog because I don't really like the idea of writing my thoughts down plus I am not very good at it. But so far, considering this is my first post, it hasn't been that bad.

Monday March 7