Filming Reschedule

     During spring break, my group and I were not able to film. Perla told us that she was feeling sick and we did not risk anything so we postponed our filming to the following weekend. This was good for me because my costume arrived later than I expected and I was too tired to wash it. I thought it was beneficial for us as then we would have more time to memorize our lines and get things sorted out before filming day.

    The following weekend, filming day on Friday was coming near. I was getting nervous because I did not see any notification about us meeting up. When I contacted my group members on Discord, they told me to check on our Messages group chat. I have my messages muted so I did not know what was going on. When I checked Messages, I saw that Perla had gotten COVID. She still has it currently as I am typing out this blog. I wish her and her family a speedy and healthy recovery.

    I asked Perla if she can ask our Media teacher if we were able to get an extension for the project. We don't know when Perla and her family will recover, and then she would have to quarantine. We wouldn't be able to properly film and edit our project by the deadline. We were told that we would need to find replacements for Perla and her sister. My group members and I agreed that Nikaliyah's little sister would replace Perla's little sister in the film. We then had to find a replacement for Perla. I asked my brother, but he said he would require payment to be in the film. We didn't have many options left so I had to choose him and I have to figure out a way to compensate him.

    We agreed that Perla would edit our film mostly instead of splitting the work between the three of us due to her not being able to film. Nikaliyah and I would of course still help out with the editing. Our filming will hopefully commence this upcoming weekend. 

2 Days Until Filming

     I bought the costume yesterday for our filming. Due to our busy schedules and the fact that my costume won't come in until Friday night, we canceled our Friday filming. Our first filming day will be on Saturday instead. We predicted that this might have happened. We didn't want to have only two set days to film as we might be busy. We planned ahead with the thought that some people would not be able to make it on a Saturday. 

    As I stated in the previous blog, I tried getting a costume that closely resembles the unicorn we are going to use in the film. My budget wasn't much, so I attempted to get one that closely matches it. I couldn't get one that was spot on due to my budget. I spent $15.99 on this costume. It somewhat resembles the unicorn that I have, at least in my eyes. My group members and I will probably find a way to explain why there is a difference.

    I can't wait until our filming day on Saturday. It has been a while since my group members and I have seen each other. We will of course be following CDC guidelines until it is time for us to be on camera. We care about the safety of others and wouldn't want to put anyone in danger due to our recklessness. I believe we will just stay at Perla's house, but if we go to the park will do our best to not be a nuisance to other people. We will do half of our storyboard or as much as we can do on our filming day. Half of our storyboard will cover all the house scenes and a bit of scenes that we would need outside. I also believe we might have to drop by the school parking lot we will be filming at.

Finding Costumes

     Our first filming day will take place this week. So far, I have gotten the required music permissions that we needed. I have yet to finalize the script, however, I plan to do so soon. If I haven't explained so in my previous blogs, I wanna make it look like a movie script. With the Courier font and everything. At least, that's what I believe movie scripts are in, at least that's what Google says. I want to make it look somewhat professional because if we are serious about this we should look the part. 

    It has been a while since I had look for costumes. I felt that it would be embarrassing shopping for a unicorn costume and I had to break the news to my parents too. After much explanation and telling them it was for a project, they understood, somewhat. They didn't get that I needed a unicorn costume for a project but nonetheless since I brought up school they didn't ask any further questions. I do not want anything too expensive. Especially since it is a pandemic, we cannot afford to go all out for this costume. My price range is around $10, but if I had to, but if I had to, and I'll try my best to avoid it, spending $20. It was kind of difficult honestly. You would expect to get a unicorn costume or an onesie for a child, but here I am, a 10th grader online shopping for one. Especially since it's for a bigger size, I would need to pay more. A unicorn costume looks a bit more expensive, however. It is like $40 dollars for a dress. I think I'd opt out for a unicorn onesie instead. 

    I have found one for about $20. As tempting as it is, I will search for more. I really want to find the one that is most cost-effective and looks like the unicorn plushie that I already have at home. I will search for more tomorrow as it seems like my mother is not willing to spend $20. I will search on Amazon for better ones. 

Researching the Places Where We Will Film

     This week I contacted the places where we will be filming at. Of course, there was no need to contact Perla's mom for permission to film in the house as we already got her permission to do so. We need to film the first parts of the storyboard that we planned in her house. We would need to film in her room and in her closet for those scenes. 

    Even though Gore Betz Park is a public park, I would still like to see if they had any regulations or specifications we had to follow. I planned on calling them tomorrow or sometime next week because this week I have been very busy with getting my grades up. Next week is the last week of the quarter and I want my grades to go up. As a group, we already know to try and record isolated from people so that we do not get random people in our clip. We do feel like we need people in the background of our film, so we have decided to let our family be the extras. We wouldn't want people who we didn't ask permission to be in the film and have their face in it. Since it is a public park, we are going to follow CDC guidelines. Until it is time for our faces to be shown, we would always wear a mask until then. 

    For Croissant Park Elementary School, we were told that we would need permission to film there. Even though we will be filming on a non-school day in the parking lot, we still feel like we would need permission. Tomorrow or next week, my group and I will contact the school about briefly filming a scene there and see if we have permission. If end up not having permission, which I highly doubt, we will film at a driveway that looks close to a school parking lot or an empty parking lot during the day. 

    So we would have to contact these places in the upcoming dates. For now, I was looking on Amazon for a costume that I could use. My dad and I are planning to go to a costume store to pick up a unicorn costume, but to be honest, I'd be quite embarrassed buying it. So I decided to look on Amazon for unicorn costumes and big unicorn head. The reason why I am buying a unicorn head is that so my face would not be shown as much, and I think a big unicorn head would be somewhat comical.

Emailing Artists

     I haven't done much since the publication of my last production blog. My group members and I have not been able to voice chat recently, due to us being busy. Our first filming day will be on the 19th of March. The 18th is a Teacher Planning Day so we do not have school on that day. I believe our filming days both take place on a Friday and Saturday. 

    Following up from the last blog, some of the people who I've requested music usage permissions from emailed me back and said yes. I feel like going on the free music archive website once more to check out more music. I think it will be beneficial if my group and I had a wide variety of music options available when piecing our project together. This week I plan to find more music and ask for permission to use it.

    I redownloaded OpenShot. I deleted it previously due to me thinking that I will just use VideoStar for my upcoming projects. My computer at the time heavily needed space so I got rid of it. Besides, VideoStar was more convient. I knew the ups and downs of it already, and how to maneuver through the app. Plus, since we are filming on our phones, it will cut the small inconvenience of having to send it through our computer. Importing and Exporting would be simple through VideoStar. However, the reason I downloaded it back is that this project will be big. In terms of size, the amount of space and time I would need would exceed the limits that my phone can handle. A 30-second edit could take up about 500 MB. I feel like I might be exaggerating with that number, but it doesn't seem too far off. This project is 2 minutes long, and I wouldn't want to imagine the pain that my group members and I would experience if we went the mobile route.

    That saying, we won't completely exclude VideoStar from our editing process. We plan to use it for any effects or text we plan to add. Perla and I have paid for some features on VideoStar prior to being in this class, so it will be convenient if we use it. I plan that everyone will be sent all the clips and that we would export them on our computer. I tried exporting projects and sent them to Perla before, but since she did not have all the clips she couldn't edit them. I do not want that to happen again. My group members and I will make sure that everyone has all the clips so that when each member is done editing their part the next can take over.

Emailing Artists

     My group and I decided to film around our Spring Break time, so today I mostly searched for music and emailed different creators for music permissions if it was not free to use. My group and I wanted to use some well-known songs, but we realized that it would be difficult to acquire music permissions as we believe many of these companies would not reply to us. We thought of using remixes of songs and asking the creator of the remixer for permission to use the song, but when I asked our media studies teacher about it, she said we must contact the original artist. We were stuck. In our predicament, I decided that I would go venture out (on my computer and on the internet, of course) to look for free music that we could use. On the Free Music Archive website, there are many songs that are free to use, but the songs I wanted us to use needed permission to be used, so I spent today emailing through the Free Music Archive for the best convenience. It was really convenient for the website to have an implemented email system. I feel that through this email system, it would be easier to gather permission from the artists since through the website their music is on. 

    Aside from searching and asking for music permissions, I decided to write a script for the film. Although it is short, I figured that it would be easier to have a script prepared and done so that on the day of filming we wouldn't have to figure out how to do everything. I copy and paste the lines that we prepared in our script blog onto a word document that I could print. I could also send the script to my group members so that they can rehearse it on their own. I typed some alternative lines if they don't like/feel comfortable saying it. When my group and I voice-chat again, I will have the chance to ask all the people with lines what they're comfortable saying and what their boundaries are. I wouldn't want me or the participants of our film to be doing something they are uncomfortable with. My priorities include that and making sure our film-making follows CDC guidelines. 

    Since our filming and editing process doesn't start until spring break, we still have more time to plan. During this time, I want to finish this script following the plans I mentioned previously. I also want to look for costumes. I am going to be Fantasia in the film, so I will need to purchase a unicorn costume. I'm really worried about how I'll look in the costume, but if it's for a grade I'll do it (LOL). 

Final Task: Planning - Other Info Blog

For this blog, instead of writing the planning information on a PowerPoint, they will be stated here, with the media being our planned filming locations. 

Participants for this final task: 

Glenna T. as - Fantasia (Unicorn Plushie)

Nikaliyah B. as - Candy Kidnapper

Perla C. as - Natasha Dawn (Mom)

Andrea C. as - Willa Dawn (Daughter)

Location(s) for this final task:

- Gore Betz Park

- Perla C's House

- Croissant Park Elementary

Schedule for this final task: 

3/19/2021 - 3/20/21: Filming commences. On March 19, we will start shooting at Perla's house. We will shoot pages 1-4 of our storyboard at Perla's house. And on March 20th, we will shoot pages 6-10 of our storyboard. The filming will be done at Gore Betz Park and Croissant Park Elementary. We are not planning on taking any more days. We all film quickly, leaving us plenty of time to do other things. But in case we do need to film on another day, we will film our final task during spring break. 

3/21/2021 - 3/23/2021: On March 21st, we will start editing, using the editing app Video Star, and the editing software Adobe After Effects and InShot. We will edit storyboard pages 1-5. We will start on Sunday, and we will try to separate the work so we can finish editing storyboard pages 6-10 by March 23. 

Health:

Since we are currently living with a pandemic, to provide and sustain our healthiness, we will be using masks, until it is time to eventually record. Once we're done, we will wear our masks again. On top of that, we will remain six feet apart. Most of all, we will follow CDC guidelines to prevent the virus from getting in contact with us. Otherwise, we will have Perla's mother supervise us and our filming. For the scene where Nikaliyah kidnaps Andrea, in case she drops her, we will bring a mini safety kit, in case we need to end up using Band-Aids. 

The pictures attached are images of where our filming will take place.

Final Task: Planning Storyboard Blog

This is the Storyboard of the movie FANTASIA CAN DO IT! This storyboard is created by Glenna Mae Tomboc, who is working with Perla Caceres and Nikaliyah Barnett. The storyboard contains a total of ten handwritten pages with pictures and text, printed on a template given by our instructor. 

     The beginning part of the movie shows the reality of a family that seems to be perfect but is not. This action is symbolized by a glass picture frame with the mother and daughter shattering. Some key points that are illustrated in this storyboard are the transition from a doll to a live-action unicorn. The process of the unicorn hiding, the pan angle capturing a time-lapse. Another key factor in this storyboard is page 7 when they makeup and talk about their feelings.  The unicorn's mission to go see the little girl in the car, the kidnapping was done by the character "candy kidnapper" played by Nikaliyah Barnett. The luring aspect of the kidnapping is candy and a prop of "Hyunjin" from Stray Kids. These are the opening events that eventually lead out to the opening scene.

    The planning of this movie was done and executed through messages and voice/video chat on Discord. We have serval media of us posing for pictures to use in our blog. Since our group member, Glenna made the storyboard, she explained it over video. The planning of this movie was done and executed through messages and voice/video chat on Discord. We have serval media of us posing for pictures to use in our blogs. Since our group member, Glenna made the storyboard, she explained it over video. Discord is a very useful tool for us to communicate. We have group chats and channels to have due dates and everything set for productive and active in this class.

The storyboard pages are numbered at the top in case they do not upload in the right order.

Final Task: Planning Title Blog

     For our Title blog, Glenna will be making the titles for our movie. She will be using her own font that she created that is from her own handwriting. For the movie title name, she will handwrite that in calligraphy. 

    The font will be in what she named "JuvinMae" which is the font displayed below.

    The contract won't be too low. We plan to make the text white so that it is able to be seen on the screen. We do not plan to lower the opacity or make it anything other than white.

    The spacing and the tracking between lines are normal-sized, in our opinion. It is not too spaced out or too close to each other which makes it legible to the watcher.

    We are set on the title for our film. We are naming it, "Fantasia Can Do It!". It is based on the unicorn plushie's name, Fantasia. It is also based on our planning for the movie, where we conceptualized the character as looks to be a hindrance but becomes very helpful to everyone in the end. We like this title very much. The title will be in two different fonts. "Fantasia" will be in calligraphy and "Can Do It!" will be in capital letters in Glenna's handwritten font.

    We want the titles to fade in and out. They will last for about 2-3 seconds. We thought about them being embedded into the screen but realized there wouldn't be many situations where it can be plausible to do that. Instead, we will have the opening credits of the film appear in Glenna's handwritten font, near the bottom side of the screen. They will appear in different spots, such as the left, right, and middle, but will all be at the bottom of the screen. Since we planned for the color of the font to be white, we planned for the job title to be in capital letters and the name to be in lowercase letters. For example, it will look like this: DIRECTED BY: Glenna Mae Tomboc.

    

Final Task: Planning Script Blog

Storyboard Page 1

Scene 1

    -Light & happy music.

Scene 2

    -Light & happy music fades out.

    -WILLA DAWN: "I love you, mom!"

    -MS. DAWN: "I love you too sweetie."

Scene 3

    -Glass-shattering noise plays.

Scene 4

    -WILLA DAWN: Hey mom, can we go hang out after school?"

    -MS. DAWN: I can't today, I'm really busy.

Scene 5

    -WILLA DAWN: *softly* "But you're always busy..."

Scene 6

    -MS. DAWN: *out of screen* "Willa, hurry up!!"

Storyboard Page 2

Scene 7

    -No dialogue.

Scene 8

    -No dialogue.

Scene 9

    -No dialogue.

Scene 10

    -No audible dialogue, just confused noises from the unicorn.

Scene 11

    -No dialogue.

Scene 12

    -WILLA DAWN: *screams*

Storyboard Page 3

Scene 13

    -WILLA DAWN: Who are you?! What are you doing here?!

Scene 14

    -No audible dialogue.

Scene 15

    -FANTASIA: *through phone* I am your stuffed animal Fantasia.

Scene 16

    -No dialogue.

Scene 17

    -No dialogue.

Scene 18

    -MS. DAWN: *out of frame* Willa, I am leaving now!

Storyboard Page 4

Scene 19

    -No dialogue.

Scene 20

    -No dialogue.

Scene 21

    -No dialogue.

Scene 22

    -No dialogue.

Scene 23

    -No dialogue.

Scene 24

    -MS. DAWN: "Hey, I'm going to have to cancel today. Yeah, I'm going out with Willa to the park. I've been so busy that I haven't been hanging out with her and she seems sad. Yeah, sorry. I'm going to go now, take care.

Storyboard Page 5

Scene 25

    -No dialogue.

Scene 26

    -No dialogue.

Scene 27

    -No dialogue.

Scene 28

    -No audible dialogue.

Scene 29

    -MS. DAWN: "Hey Willa. How was your day?"

    -WILLA DAWN: "It was good. Where are we going?"

    -MS. DAWN: "We're going to hang out together at the park together!"

    -WILLA DAWN: *dialogue fading out* Really?!

Scene 30

    -No dialogue.

Storyboard Page 6

Scene 31

    -No dialogue.

Scene 32

    -No dialogue.

Scene 33

    -No dialogue.

Scene 34

    -No dialogue.

Scene 35 

    -No dialogue.

Scene 36

    -No dialogue.

Storyboard Page 7

Scene 37

    -No dialogue.

Scene 38

    -No dialogue.

Scene 39

    -WILLA DAWN: "Hey mom.. thanks for going out with me today. You've been so busy recently that I've felt that we've been drifting apart and I don't want that.."

Scene 40

    -MS. DAWN: "I'm sorry honey. I'll try to make some more time for you."

Scene 41

    -WILLA DAWN: I love you mom.

    -MS. DAWN: I love you too.

Scene 42

    -Phone ringing.

Storyboard Page 8

Scene 43

    -WILLA DAWN: *fading* "Hey.. Yeah, I told Vanessa that I couldn't come today. Yeah, sorry.."

Scene 44

    -No dialogue.

Scene 45

    -No dialogue.

Scene 46

    -No dialogue.

Scene 47

    -No dialogue.

Scene 48

    -No dialogue.

Storyboard Page 9

Scene 49

    -No dialogue.

Scene 50

    -CANDY KIDNAPPER: "Hey little girl... I have this car full of candy. Do you wanna come in?"

    -WILLA DAWN: "I do love candy! Who's that man in that photo?"

    -CANDY KIDNAPPER: "Don't mind that.. Do you want some candy? I have a bunch in that car."

Scene 51

    -WILLA DAWN: "Hmmm....."

    -WILLA DAWN: "I don't know ma'am. My mommy told me not to take candy from strang-"

Scene 52

    -No dialogue.

Storyboard Page 10

Scene 53

    -No dialogue.

Scene 54

    -No dialogue.

Scene 55

    -FANTASIA: *through phone* "I will save her..."

Scene 56

    -MS. DAWN: "Who are you?!"

Scene 57

    -No dialogue.

    -Light & happy music.

Genre Research: Comedy and Drama

 The two other genres that our group decided to work on are Comedy and Drama.  All of our members watch dramas and express our love for them especially Korean ones. They are entertaining and very comforting. . Same thing for Comedy as well. Yes in drama there tends to be a lot of expressed emotions involved. Or plentiful twists and turns that go on. But what makes a Comedy and Comedy besides funny jokes? So we furthered my research for both Drama and Comedy. We can get a stronger sense of Comedy and get a better idea of what makes up a Comedic movie.

Common camera angles

Track

Common Mis-En-Scene

Costumes, Stage, Props

Common Editing

Cutting, Superimposition, Eyeline Match, and Long Take

Common Sounds

Diegetic, Non-diegetic, Dialogue, Direct Address, and Voiceover 

Example films

Crowds New Age, Shazam 

What elements of the genre that you like?

I like how lighting comes into play when someone makes a joke.

What elements of the genre do not appeal to you?

I don’t really enjoy movies that are in the comedy genre because I do not have the humor that the directors have

Drama 

Common camera angles

Establishing Shot, Long Shot, Wide Shot, Aerial Shot, High/Low Angles, Tracking Shot, and Steadicam

Common Mis-En-Scene

Outside environment, High Key Lighting, Props, Costumes

Common Editing

Cutting, Eyeline Match, Action Match, Crosscutting, Slow Motion,

Common sound

Diegetic, Non-diegetic, Dialogue, Sound mix, and Ambient Sound

Example films

five feet apart, After, The sun is also a star 

What elements of the genre that you like?

The dramatic emphasis in a fight, or car chase. Especially the angles- shows everything.

What elements of the genre do not appeal to you?

I love the excitement and thrills of dramas they keep me on my toes and keep me engaged and my partners feel the same as well.

Genre Research: Maleficent (2014)

     The movie chosen for this blog is Maleficent (2014). Since this movie falls into the fantasy/adventure genre, we decided to write about it and its elements. 

    Elements of the genre (fantasy) that this movie has contained a fair amount. In the movie, Maleficent uses her powers to convert a crow into a human being, and she has to ability to transform the crow into a human and back. In our final task, we are going to have a stuffed animal (a unicorn, to be exact), and our groupmate Glenna is going to be the person who becomes the stuffed unicorn. She is going to walk around and do human actions but as the stuffed animal. But, unlike the crow, Glenna won't be able to transform into a human. 

    There are several elements the movie had that I enjoyed. Like Maleficent's fantasy forest, full of little fairies who have a bright, colored aura. Once nighttime comes around in the forest, the visuals of it look so beautiful. The flowers, rivers, fairies, little creatures, the big, tall creatures, all make the forest look magical. I'd say those were some of my most favorite scenes of the movie. Also, when Maleficent transformed Diaval (the crow) into a Dragon, it was truly an astonishing scene. The whole scene in fact was enjoyable to watch. Seeing the dragon move around, spitfire, and so on was incredible. It all seemed too real. Honestly, Maleficent was such a great movie, I enjoyed watching the second movie as well.

    As much as I try to think of an element from the movie that did not appeal to me, I cannot really see anything that I didn't find appealing. Well, the only thing I didn't quite enjoy was the fact that Maleficent cannot touch metal in any kind of way, or else she'd burn herself. And in one scene, where the castle's knights trapped Maleficent in a metal trap, she was getting burned, and I did not enjoy watching that at all. I thought that King Stefan was cruel for making Maleficent suffer like that. But at the end of the movie, Maleficent was able to get her wings back, and eventually got rid of King Stefan. 

Title Research: Watch The Titles

   For title research, I used the website that was recommended in our class modules Watch The Title ( http://www.watchthetitles.com/ ). Upon entering the website it was very inviting and colorful. I experimented with it and clicked on many different things. I loved playing around with the website and looking at the video information available.  I. searched up many different movies that I have watched to look at them more in-depth. Then I proceeded to look more in the fantasy drama direction for our reference. The website has many different learning tools like ratios and explanations. There are many different styles to look at and to choose to get inspiration from. This website shows where the hard work is put in and where the designers get their creativity from. The specifics of this website put all films into perspective and gave me an overall view of films.