Basic decisions about my movie

 Basic things about my movie that makes feel like a movie includes sound, sound effects, lighting, props, etc. In this opening has sound such as the voices of our characters dialogue,music and sound effects include characters walking  on various flooring, police sirens, gunshots, and many more. Now onto lighting. Since it is an animation but inside the animation we will make is a sunny hot day as the sun will be beaming onto characters and will show physical signs of sweat. 

Location and scouting

 

Well for starters I’m unclear on what scouting is really but I’m going to infer that its looking for cast members to play the parts. So, the answer to that question is my group mates and I are the best people we could think as our voice actors. It all started from the beginning of when we were building our script we knew we would need people to play in our film opening but we couldn't find any willing participates other than our siblings who are either too young to pay attention, listen to what we tell to do, speak and etc. The only person we had was one of my younger siblings but that is less then what we need as we didn't want to be in the movie ourselves. So, our best option was to animate it, and since animations are first on paper, we needed to voice act our dialogue because we all know paper doesn't talk. As of location wise Its simple our school Coconut Creek High School and our houses. We voice recorded at school and at home if needed then draw at school and home as school time alone won’t be enough to finish our drawings. If this was a regular live action film, it would be filmed in the same places just also add a park because our scenes have some that are outside. We could have also used my dad’s store owing to the fact that one of our scenes takes place in like a corner store type place  and my dad’s store fits that description perfectly. Now that I think about it is it too late to switch, I'll just ask my teammates to play a part. Hahaha I’m just playing I would never ask my teammates to switch our plans last minute...I’ll just force or tell them too. :3

Almost done with preproduction

 Ok we have had a long week with a three day weekend preproduction will be coming to an end. As we have made our shooting schedule and is rolling into production. My group mates and I have decided to voice record for 2 days the 15th and the 16th even though I think it will take one day to voice record since our opening scene is mostly action and not a lot of dialogue we chose 2 days just to make sure we have said everything the best way we know how. Now for the rest of the week the 17th-19th and if needed the weekend will be spent on drawing because we are making a animation. That's why voice recordings were needed, If we weren't doing a regular live action film voice recording wouldn't be needed. Since our voices will be recorded on different devices we would need to edit them together but that's next week on starting on the 22nd. There is a huge problem though none of my group mates including me know how to edit so we are hoping on one of the animator websites we found like animaker and cartoon animator have a tutorial/ how to video to help with the confusion. However I think this is very doable over the course of the next few weeks the only thing that would take some/ cause us trouble is the drawing of the scenes and the editing next week. My only fear is that my younger siblings mess up my work as they like going in my room and messing things up as if they own the place but yea only fear. At the bottom you can see my shooting schedule in more detail. 

Schedule 

 

Production 

Voice recording- 2/15/21-2/16/21 

• In the morning (at coconut creek high school) 

Drawing-2/17/21-/2/19/21 

• In the day (at coconut creek high school/ at home) 

Editing-2/22/21 

• All day (at coconut creek high school/ at home) 

 

 

 

Im tired

 This is my last blog and its currently 10:51 pm. Im want to go to sleep so bad but here I am. So we have finished our storyboard today 2/5/21 at 10:05, after I ended up taking a nap which felt ok because it was short. However back to the film project. Since we are doing a animation we will need to do voice recording for dialogue and person to person interaction. We will also use already recorded sounds for background noise and sound effect and editing them accordingly. Now, we plan on shooting for three days a week edit for 2 which gives us a break for 2 days or extra time if it will be needed.  Maybe I should reevaluate my sleep and time management because first Im tired as heck right now and secondly I wouldnt be in this situation if I did this way way earlier but noooo A'shawn you just like to procrastinate like always. To be honest Im lost and dont know what else to write about. Well I submitted my groups storyboard and I think we have done decent job and should get a high grade on it.

Preproduction plans

My comrades and I have now confirmed our information for pre-production purposes getting close to actual production. Our film locations will be at school and our own personal homes only because this isn't a payed film, so we don't have an actual film studio. There will not actually be any acting it will be drawings animated and edited like a flipbook kind of way. These decisions were made because we only have 3 people in our group and my brothers were willing to help but it was  that we don't have a designated space for us to film and we don't have enough people to act anyways. The film will look like a children’s cartoon as again it will be animated and not with real people, also we aren't professional drawers. We will try and make it as bright enough to not harm your eyes of course but you can see it clearly. Texture feeling it will just feel like regular old paper, emotional I honestly don't know how to put this into words but there are no sad scenes or scenes that are supposed to make you upset and we are most definitely not trying to teach a lesson to anyone because you shouldn't be breaking out of jail. You shouldn't be going to jail in the first place just a quick disclaimer, so we won't have the guilt of cause some going and breaking out of jail. As of right now I have only one way of achieving this and it’s to work accordingly to achieve these goals. Have you ever thought of a person breaking into jail. I know that random it was just a thought I had typing this. Who would want to break into jail because they want to be in jail and for no reason at all that would be crazy and funny in my opinion.

Thought process and hopes for film.

So, for starters the first week I was completely lost and the second week also the third but now I am getting the hang of these 4 blog entrees. Throughout those three weeks of being lost I have only complained about the blog post on how we had to do four blogs and it wasn't the fact that we had to do four it’s the fact they all had to be 300 words minimum each. When you think about it, it doesn't seem that bad for a honors high school student which I don't even think I even think I should be but apparently my test scores say I am which I'm very grateful for of course however I already put in my mind that I couldn't do it as well as had no motivation to do it. Which in fact did make my grade suffer a bit, ok a lot but I’m determined to try my hardest as I refuse to get and F because of the high standard I try and set for my brothers to follow. Last week we made our final pitch and final script. If I'm being honest, we didn't even know what our film was going to be about until Sunday afternoon but hey, we got it now better late than never I always say. Anyways for this week we will be making a storyboard where we are basically making multiply drawings of shots in of our movie based on the script. I hope and hopefully me my teammates can agree that we can make a great 2 minutes  max film opening of or movie idea because I think it’s very interesting and would love to see it in an actual movie theater. We aren't any professionals with like the camera angles shots and this isn't a high budget film the most we would probably use 5-10 dollars even though I think 10 is too much. Also, we don't have any professional help or equipment, so our camera is a iPhone camera which has great quality surprisingly I think not. 

Things that would happen if we were making the full movie

 The title the of movie has now been decided and will be called out with the shadows which will be a vigilante movie about a hispanic male just discovering powers after be hit by a meteor and inhaling its black smoky kind of fumes. This movie will consist of lots of altercations will police officers and involve our main character to be thrown in jail. I think this would have been a great movie for marvel studios to produce. I think this production company would be a great choose because marvel studios are know for superhero and vigilantly/villain movies. Also since they make the same type of movies I am trying to make I think they would have the necessary resources needed to make the film like costuming which includes hair and make up. Set design, casting, props etc. Now for the budget  I came up with a budget of 100,000 but now that I think about it Im going to need way more of a bigger budget then that. Our as in my group I am working with which includes my good friends Ronald and Levon budget, we think would be more than 100,000 around 500,000 as there is a lot of hiring to be done to make sure every aspect of the movie is correct most likely almost 75% of the money would go into costuming, set, and casting I assume. However my plan for distribution is a little different and a little unoriginal as  how marvel studios produced avenger’s endgame by making McDonalds promote its movies with children’s toys I think we can do something similar. If not we can seek help in film festivals, circuits and many other things. If I was submitting this to marvel studios to ask for help producing this movie I think it would be a long battle but I think they would say yes based on attractiveness of the story line because it gives marvel a new villain to hype up  and can make it more diverse portaging culture  wise as our villain is a Hispanic male.