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  This is me and my teammates final film product. We took the constructive comments that we received from our peer review and took all things into consideration and then created a final version of our film. We changed a few conventions we used and added more scenes to reveal things to our audience so it could be clearer and easier to understand. 

  Defining our characters is a big part of the planning process. Understanding the roles of your characters and their personality traits, interest, value, social group, etc. (psychographics) is extremely important when planning your movie. This will determine how the message of your film is interpreted by your audience. It was especially important for us to define our main characters because that is what makes our storyline. Since the theme of our film is friendship, we needed to make sure that the best friends in our film were able to have certain traits so that our film could flow smoothly. This includes every minute detail like the characters age and gender, their strengths and weaknesses, what they are internally struggling with in the film, etc. The graphic organizer below shows a chart that my teammates and i created. 

As we began our planning process the first thing, we focused on was our logline. A logline is basically a summary of your entire film in just one sentence. we used this to organize the different aspects of our film like the protagonist's and antagonists, the inciting incident, the protagonist goal, and the central conflict of the film. When we write these things out on a plan it makes it easier to have a focused and engaging product for our audience. It makes our story clear and easy to consume. This included our critical event that makes our storyline interesting and enticing to our viewers. The photo down below is the first section of our master plan. Doing this will lead to us having a successful film product. 

The setup is the second shot that is shown in our film. The setup is what gives the audience context as to what is going on. it establishes the basis of the plot. The picture below was created by my teammates and i of our set up shot in our movie.  with the camerawork and sound. 

The opening image of our film was an establishing shot. This revealed the setting and location of where our film was happening. The shot size is an eye level shot. Additionally, the camera movement used is pan. The composition used is leading lines. The lighting of this shot is key lighting. The image below shows the opening image of our film product from the story board. 

My teammates and I completed a chart with the definitions of editing terms in film. This would help us with figuring out the type of editing we would like to do for our own film product. There were about 35 terms, so my teammates and I split the work about 11 terms each. My list of terms included editing, temporal editing, action match, cutaway, dissolve, superimposition, ellipsis, CGI, Visual Effects, Slow Motion, Fade out. The graphic organizer can be seen down below.