Diego's AICE Media Studies Blog

  Today, we edited the framerate and color corrected the drone shot for the Movie Opener.  Moreover , Luca here is finishing up our last few minutes of editing. In this second photo Luca is adjusting the length of one of our more important clips. 

In these two photos our Editor Luca has a bit of trouble to edit the clips in a way that they all fit the required timeframe for this film opener. Throughout the editing process one of the main obstacles was finding some music that would correlate well to what we are trying to convey in our film and also music where we wouldn't run into any copyright issues.  In this photo Luca is attempting to conjoin the clips in order to have a smooth transition for with the camera angles so the film wouldn't seem augmented and unnatural.

Our second day of filming is when we got a majority of our shots. I was camera man and in the film opening I filmed Jovani, Luca, and Chandler walking into the detention room as a dolly shot. The lighting of the scene was high key from the natural sunlight of the windows which was good to capture the mood of both characters when they make impact. The use of the camera angles would also allow our group to show the viewers the main character and the meaning/theme behind the opener film without giving away any key details.  Moreover, our group used a drone to capture the school as a opener intro for the film.

This week our group began to film. In order to ensure a good place where our two main characters would "accidentally" bump into each other for the beginning scene, we thought of places in the school with two meeting hallways. Alas, my group and I decided to go down to the U.S history hallway since there was a good interception that would allow for unique camera angles. Once we adjusted the lighting on the camera we used a red sidelining against the wall for optimal shots.  This is me taking a picture of the hallway where we will introduce our main character, Luca, that would represent the "shy guy" of the film. The spectacular part about this camera positioning is that it captures both ends of the halls so it would create a good form of dramatic irony needed for this comedy film as the "popular kid" and the "shy guy" bumps into each other causing a scene.  In this area, we also hope to film the entrance of the detention room going in/inside Mr. C...