Friday, February 18, 2022

Worries

    With shooting day coming up tommorow, it brought up a few worries that could could potentially hinder the shooting proccess. One of the biggest one is the issue of capturing audio; while my phone's microphone quality is pretty decent it definitely does not capture clean sound when people are distant or there's other noise going on the background. What I think I'll do is have the main camera be the audio for the main character on screen, and for the secondary characters we can equip them with a secret phone recording their audio seperately from ours. After I get the audios from both characters I can overdub them in post-editing and mess with the sounds properties to make them sound more natural. In terms of non-digetic sound I am not too worried as I'm confident I can find proper sound effects for their respective places.

    One of the other worries is that my camera will be able to visualize what's truly going on in the scene well since it will be dark out. However, there is illumination from some of the houses and things like traffic lights so I could use those to advantage if things do not work out. If it doesn't work out I'll have to come up with some artificial light source or move the movie's time setting back to when I can actually capture seeable footage.

Script Revision

 
Before I begin shooting my opening film, I wanted to revise my overall script and put it into better formating than the rough first draft. Previously for the script I used a default word template in order to draft it so it was pretty limiting in the choices I could do, and also before I wasn't super confident about how to actually have proper formatting for the script either so it was basic. The image above has served extremely useful in understanding how to outline the screenwriting. This time around I am using the website celtx.com in order to write my script, and it makes the whole process a lot easier, with all of the formatting being done depending on the different item you use like Transition, Extension, Scene Heading, etc. I've dropped the idea of beat sheets as well since it doesn't apply that well to a two minute opening in this case since it's not a full story,

Here is the revised script:






Lannom, SC, et al. “How to Write a Better Screenplay.” StudioBinder, 17 Mar. 2021, https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/how-to-write-a-screenplay/.



Creative Critical Reflection

                                                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DVDBxLGeK0 Thanks for viewing my process and enjoy :)