Getting Ready for Spring Break!

 Spring break obstacle

With spring break starting, almost all of my group members will be going out of town including me. I will be going to Tampa as I have another soccer tournament to play there and hopefully my team will win. With this exciting project being due in around 2 weeks, me and my group filmed our horror film opening "The Landscaper" just before spring break and this was our main goal as we do not want to work much so we can enjoy this 10-day break. Within this 10-day break, we will be working on Foley and editing so that during our class time we can do revisions and make changes to this project. An obstacle that we had to face throughout our production process of "The Landscaper" was that Lenny's parents were our main character in this film and they are traveling all spring break to Amsterdam which is the main reason behind why we started filming fairly early. 

This did not really affect our project thankfully as we planned every shot beforehand thanks to the storyboard and our scene-by-scene rough draft paper which was made by Lenny with a step by step of every shot in the film opening. This paper was the secret sauce that helped us stay locked in with this project as we had everything written down and with the help of the storyboard, we knew which type of camera shot/angle to use within the chosen frame. The storyboard was the backbone of this project and the main reason why we chose to storyboard our film opening was to have a direct step by step sheet in making this idea come to life. Although in our film we chose to incorporate different shots from the storyboard we pretty much stayed consistent throughout the entire film process which is very nice as we pretty much went with the flow. 

    

What I really enjoyed most throughout the entire filming process was once we got our first shot. I feel like once we get the perfect first shot the rest of the shots just seem to come together like a dominoes effect which is really intriguing to experience as we never ran out of ideas, and we filmed every scene 2-3 times to have a wider variety of options for our editing process. The shot that I really enjoyed the most in this entire filming process was the low angle two shot of the "killer" and "homeowner's" tense interaction. This shot really helped tie the entire piece together as we now get the hint of what is about to happen. Overall, I chose to blog about this as throughout spring break we will be spending much needed quality time with our families and will be taking a break from this very stressful school year. Hopefully our editing and foley will be as fun and exciting as our filming process. We are almost there!