Filming and post production schedule

Overview

So when I do start to film I do not think that It will take that long as I think, I believe that filming the whole film opening will take around 2 to 3 hours but I also have to prepare that shots will not be that good and have to retake these shots in order to fulfill what I see in my project. Making a schedule for my project should not be that long as I said that filming should only take a maximum of 3 hours, but what's after is what I am having to plan and schedule for. I do not have a planned date for me to start filming because then I would be on a more of a deadline for my project, which I do not want to be.

Schedule

Day for filming- Take around 2-3 hours and have time for retakes 

1-2 days after filming I will start to edit the video

Editing the video should maybe take around 3-4 days 

I would then look over the video and check if I reached the two minute mark and if I need to add or remove any scenes from my opening

If I do need to retake any shots I would do it at this time, because at around this time I would think would be near the due date for project and would have to retake these shots at this time then go back into the editing software and incorporate these new shots into the project

After that I would start to plan for my CCR, this would consist of what I would incorporate in my CCR and what my main points that I would try to make throughout.

Conclusion

So in overall I do believe that creating a schedule helps people tell them what they are supposed to be working on and how much longer that they will have for each of their projects or assignments. This schedule will especially help me because although that it is just a basic and simplistic schedule it will help tell me and realize what I am supposed to be working on when I have available time. 

Group Meeting

 In class today we went got in groups and went through our blogs and our ideas of our projects and received insightful feedback from my group members. When each member of the group was presenting their blogs I tried to listen to what they were doing differently than me in their blogs and how they are going to do their film opening. 

When we were sharing our first thoughts of our projects, I heard that some people have had some obstacles in the way of their planning part. They told me about these problems and how they were able to overcome them as I have. Although that each person individually had a different problem come across but have all found a solution for each of our projects. 

These group meetings will help me grow upon my project and how I will continue to improve and update it. Hearing what other people are doing differently than me helped me on what I can do better with my project and what I can add to it. So overall everyone can benefit from learning from peers and they can say negative or positive things about your project which helps me learn.

    

Inspiration

 Obviously, there are many movies I can draw inspiration from, but why not draw inspiration from one of the greatest hockey movies ever, Miracle (2004), and that is not only known to people who are interested in hockey as it is popular in all areas of sports. Its motivational and action aspects of the scene are important parts that I will try to incorporate in my opening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yyt2hxaqfY

I will use Miracles opening as inspiration as incorporating a sort of action scene where the player will interact with the ice and have some sort of interaction with someone outside of the ice that would have a emotional effect with the main character. 

Main Character... ME

A film revolves around the characters and how they act around certain situations and the environment.  The development of the character in a two minute time span does not give the audience much about the character and does not give that personal information about the character. While the main idea of my project is that the majority of the there is no dialogue, and the last 10 to 15 seconds it will be a short dialogue of the character interacting with the cellphone. 

    The characters colors will mainly be black, as that is the main colors of the characters hockey team and the main color of the gear that the character will use.

Got an Idea

 After a while I've finally come up with an idea for the opening of the movie. Although I do not know what the story is going to look like throughout the whole movie, I have an idea of what the beginning looks like. So first off we know that the main idea of the movie is going to be revolved around hockey and the main characters actions surrounding that topic. The beginning will start off with the main character (me) practicing for hockey and then from time to time the movie will cut to black and show the credits introducing the director, producer, main actor...etc. There will be various shots used throughout the whole opening and transitions so that it will flow a lot better. And after the all the credits play through the main character will get off the ice from practicing and receive a phone call that makes the character depressed but the call will not get revealed in the opening. Obviously this is just a summary of what the beginning is going to look like, while the storyboard will show me more clearly of what I want the opening to look like. 

Filming Locations

  When it comes to playing hockey in Florida many people say "There's no hockey in Florida" as many people only think of cold states or countries that have hockey, but they are wrong as there are many spots in South Florida that have hockey but hockey is overtaken by sports such as Football and Basketball. But when it comes to filming there are not that many spots to film hockey on ice as there are for many other projects which could make this topic a bit more difficult but I already know where to film all of my project and what times would be easily accessible for me to film on the ice.

     Pines Ice Arena is my best option for me because there is a certain time at 6:00 am where there are not as many people there so I could have a better chance at filming. There are other places such as Panthers Ice Den but that place is much more popular and would have much more people on the ice, which means no chance for me to film. 

This is one of the areas where I will be filming:

This is the outside of the building I will be filming at, as the inside is where the ice rink is and where most of the filming will take place in. 

This is the place where I will be filming the most:

Genre and Main Idea

 So a couple days after thinking about what to do and I have thought about it for a while, and chosen to do a sports drama film. The sport that would be included in this film would be hockey. The reason for going the sports way and choosing hockey as my sport is mainly because I play it and it would be better do work on something that I know and not something that I would have just came up with. 

     The other main reason I wish to choose this topic is because since that I am working alone it is much easier to try and find a time to film on the ice. But over the next couple of days I will be posting about the filming locations, the storyboarding of the film, and the main characters that I will be incorporating within my film. 

Beginning Ideas for Portfolio Project

 My first thoughts about this project were starting to think who I am going to be doing this with either solo or with a partner. I do believe that if I do do this alone it would be much more efficient and much easier to work on, rather than having to set up a day to meet up with group members. 

    My first ideas about the initial project are what type of movie opening I would want to create, like the main idea of the story and what's going to happen after the two minutes of the opening. The first ideas will come through my mind throughout this week, and will have a plan of what the initial beginning of what the project will look like.

Music Marketing Project Full Process

There were many steps and processes in this project from research to to planning then production then the presentation. These series of steps took a lot of time and hard work in order for the project to come out as it did.

Our first step in our project was that we got assigned a certain genre of music, and with that genre we were told to research other companies that correlates with bands of that genre.  We had to research two companies that were in business with two other bands of the genre we were given, and then had to research both of those bands for each company. 

    The next step was to brainstorm and plan what and how our presentation and music video was going to look like. Our first step in that was to choose what song we were going to make our music video of. Next we would think of the type of music video we wanted to do - we chose storytelling. With that we had to choose which type of story we wanted to create; we all came up with one idea each and then voted on which one we liked the best.  Next we would make the storyboard and then choose the angles and shots of the video.

Our next action was to come together and film the music video. This process took about two to three hours to complete. Although we created the shots list, we did not directly film the shots that were on the list we did change some of the shots as we thought it would look better in person, and also did add a lot of shots for it to be longer and have better atmosphere.

After we had recorded the music video one person from our group volunteered to edit the whole video. The whole editing process took around 6 to 7 hours to complete. The editing process was also changed from the storyboard as the person thought that the rearrangements of some of the clips would look better in a different time of the video.

And when our presentation came we volunteered to present first in order to set the tone for the rest of the presentations. We had each prepared for which slides we were going to present and when they were going to come up. Some of us had note cards for small details for what to say, not directly what to say but main points of each of the slides 

In conclusion, our group learned that not everything we write down on paper does not have to be presented or captured, and is most likely to be changed throughout the process. I believe that all aspects of this project will connect directly to the portfolio project, especially with last minute changes that will be edited.