good progress

 Thursday we were able to film the required scenes for TJ and Sofia. There was a strain on filming Thursday morning for the morning scene in the film. TJ asked to reschedule and we almost had to reschedule the Thursday night shooting. 

I talked with Sofia on Wednesday about filming the additional shot we need at the end of the film when we find out that TJ got into a car accident. She agreed to do it and we can plan to film that simple scene soon. I had an idea to film it like those films where the 50s housewife who killed her husband gets told her husband died and has to act surprised. A little malicious in intent for the scene. We also agreed to change the Voiceover work for the sins to be Sofia's voice. She can record three different voices and I will modify them post-production. 

Here are some shots I grabbed of the shooting on Thursday:

The week goes on

 Tomorrow I will be filming the morning scene for the film with TJ in the morning. Hopefully, I can take some camera shots for Instagram when I finish those shots. As always I will look through the footage for clips I can post or other stills that look interesting. I am waiting to post more on Instagram until I get a new source of different shots. I could post more shots from the gym, but I don't want to overcrowd Instagram with the same look. 

My most recent post was a character name announcement:

On my iPhone I can see the insights of my account and how the hashtags are reaching other accounts:

           

Of the images I captured and included in my last blog post, I think I may do a quick post including them to create a surrounding theme of my posts. Following 1-2-1 where the ones represent the same scenes and the 2 follow a different theme. 

I am reaching out to Sofia to film tomorrow night and I hope she is back in town. I made a plan for the voices to be represented with her voice but modified in editing. This idea stemmed from creating a deeper infliction on Antonio where the viewer would realize that the voices were her and the revealed plot twist at the end would then support her character build-up. 

stay tuned...

keeping it going

 I went through the shots I filmed of Tj and took some screenshots for the Instagram. The shots work well for the voices in his head to be added in post-production. The sound of the car on the speeding shots isn't quite loud but I think I can manipulate the audio in post-production to increase the volume. If I need more car sounds I can even ask TJ to shoot his car again or other coworkers with their loud cars.

Here are some looks of the shots:

 

I will be seeing TJ later today or tomorrow so we can talk more about the needed morning clips. When Sofia gets back, which I think is before Thursday, we can work out the scenes we need her in.

stay tuned...

Production progresses

 My production has been progressing both on social media and in filming. Thursday I was able to begin filming and friday I was able to begin to looking over the footage and utilizing what was filmed into what I can create with it. I'll show those posts I have done.

second post

third post

I then began filming and added a behind the scenes clip of my filming on my Instagram.

 

4th post

Thankfully the filming I was able to accomplish happened. TJ had a very limited availability that day and I was able to get all the shots we needed for the gym scene and a couple of driving shots in that time. TJ went out of town for the weekend, so I am going through my shots and maybe even start editing those shots. If I edit now then I will have the clips done when I need to go through other footage.

I am already working on my next instagram posts and figuring out what I can post later. 

stay tuned

ideas

I planned to film this week but scheduling has been quite difficult in that process. I was reaching out to TJ for possible times to film this week but he had agreed to a spontaneous weekend trip. Luckily, the date for the 24th to film is set but I did recently realize I will need to film Sofia one more time after that. To have Sofia address the simulation death, I thought of a scene:

 We see surrounding shots of nature or around an empty house. We see a phone on a kitchen countertop and see it light up after making a weird notification sound. We watch Sofia walk in casually and peer at the screen. She reads the screen, "subject 82155 is no longer active" we watch her response to this casually, "I thought he would've lasted longer" then "on to the next."

Working on the logo took quite some time but I am happy with how it turned out. I took multiple screenshots before the final product to include.

Before posting the final image I included - I want to run some edits over it but the design itself is finished. I enjoy the chaotic triangles that are all linked to create one that resembles a perfect shape. This idea I made stems from the three sins taking over TJ's mind and how they hold a grasp over the regular configurations. His mind is filled with negative influences that are slowly corrupting him. The logo will become my icon on Instagram and I will have a post with the title of the short film (as seen above).

stay tuned...

group meeting

Today, we broke the classroom into three groups and got to discuss our pieces. It was surprising how many other students were also doing short films. We were able to discuss our projects and receive support for our ideas. Similarly, we all have not gotten far in the filming process but are planning to do so quite soon. 

I discussed my project sequence and how I recently realized there is a gap I needed to create a scene for because my plans for shooting would not accurately equate from early morning to late night in the original plan I had. So my plan was to film really early in the morning and end my project late at night. However, going to the gym early and leaving for a run at night need a bridging scene for continuity. I was able to discuss this error of planning and an idea was able to be produced to help this sequence error. 

The idea was to create that shot I originally thought in planning a surrounding shot of Anthony having a mental rush of voices where it makes him break down. I could have this scene when he gets home and then he blacks out. When he eventually wakes up he would take a run to clear his mind. 

I am almost finished with my logo on the production side of social media and even posted my first post. 

Creating my logo has taken quite a bit of work to create the idea I envisioned. I am almost done and my new medium to produce the logo is https://www.canva.com

In my next blog post, I will show the finished product after all of the difficulties. 

stay tuned...

Designing

 

I have been trying to create a logo I envisioned but the tools of Adobe Illustrator are not so easy. I created the perfect shape I wanted however I cannot figure out how to color it and have been struggling. I looked up phrases and other ways to articulate my issue however there has been no help. Apparently, the lines I created into a shape are not a shape themselves but I don't know how to make it a shape.  want my logo to be my first post but it is not working.

My needs for my social media page are an ominous photoshoot with TJ and figuring out how to create illustrations. I tried switching my canvas to google slides for their shaping tools but I was no better helped on either software. 

slides

adobe

I may be able to see TJ later in the day if we work together so I am hoping I can pull him aside to take some quick photos for the social media page. I think Sofia works today so I can try to get a photo of her as well to follow later on the social media page. I am envisioning a serious-looking off pose so there is mystery as to who the characters are but audiences are enticed. I will do more research into my issue on Adobe Illustrator to see if I can still use the software for my logo or maybe there is a better application for that. 

Takeaways: I begin filming next week and finish filming the next. I will work towards my social media page this week and get posts going. (Of the accounts I found on Instagram I received a follow back). I need to get a day TJ doesn't work to begin filming and do a photoshoot. Either Tuesday or Thursday will be successful to work with TJ. I am going to try to get the beginnings of my photos today if I see either of my characters. Researching how to Illustrate and make my logo. Maybe get the shots I pictured for the poster and start photoshopping my idea. 

stay tuned...