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  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. 

In every film there needs to be a script. A script is a written plan that contains the movement dialogue, actions, and directions of a film. For our opening film product that me and my teammates are making we created a script. At the beginning of our script, it reveals the setting, whether its inside or outside, and where they are exactly. Having a script helps the actors to embody their role because they understand and know all their lines and when to come in after each other. 

 

On the third day of filming things got a bit complicated for my group members and me. We attempted doing a tracking shot for the most important scene in our opening that would reveal most of the plot. This was a more difficult shot to take than we anticipated. As we began to track our main character she needed to be running after someone in this scene. The camera was too shaky, and the audience couldn't tell what was going on. Therefore, we had to discard our original idea and go back to the drawing board. After some thought me and my team decided to change the idea of the scene a bit, so we were still able to use the tracking shot but in a different way. Aside from those setbacks we still got done what we needed to. Today was the last day of filming so no we are on to editing!

On the second day of filming, we focused on getting different types of shots as we got deeper into the movie. Although we attempted many shots that we researched in class, we only got to use a few of them because we didn't want our film opening to become too chaotic in an attempt to be creative. For the most part we filmed our flashbacks on the second day. We used a black and white filter to show that the events we are filming were in the past and we can edit it later to convey that idea. As I was also the sound engineer in our group, I also kept in mind the type of music we would be using since we are filming a drama. We also got to film with a bigger cast this day because our flashbacks included more characters. Our actors did amazing, and we had a successful second day of shooting. 

Today was the first day of filming for our film opening. Since the setting of our movie was at a high school field, that is where we started. We gathered the actors needed for the very beginning and headed to the plain grassy field behind our portable classrooms. We began by capturing and establishing shot which is a shot that gives the audience an overview of where the characters are. For the first 15 to 20 minutes, myself and my teammate who were the director and codirector played with different filters to get the best shot possible. We also wanted to use a filter that would best bring together the vision that we had in mind for our film. On the first day we got to shoot about three scenes, the establishing, the first full shot of the main character, and a crowd shot which other characters. Overall, I think we did pretty decent for our first time. 

  The production companies were TWC and Walden M edia. The titles were a background or establishment for the movie like an exposition.    An Exposition is the very beginning of the plot like context for the rest of the plot to continue. Some techniques that were primarily used were sound, color, editing, and camera movement.  The opening image setting is a community of homes where families reside. The location is outside, and the image is an establishing shot of where the characters will be. The genres are sci-Fi, Drama, and action. The themes of the giver are Coming of age and individual Vs Society. The tone that the opening image sets is gloomy and depressing, the narrator’s voice is very monotone, and the image is shot in black and white, and the houses look exactly like one another and are very generic. There are no children playing outside and the community looks very bleak. The mood that the opening image represents is very dull. Nothing stands out except f...