The photo above shows all of my clips in ClipChamp. I am going to my grandparents' to record the last bit of voice-over I have to finish, and I hope to fully start editing by Monday. There is a filter on the clip selected in the photo above because that is the filter I will use for the entire flashback scene between Cecilia and Louis. Now, the photo below is the exact setting I have for the filter to create a contrast between the past and present.
My plan is to finish editing before March 9th so I can. Begin recording my CCR and completly finish my film beofore my spring break starts on March 16th.
This blog is about talking about how my filming has completed, the only thing to do is record a voice-over and actually edit. Below you will see clips and behind-the-scenes from my filming today and screenshots of my clipchame video. Since I have now completed filming, I want to go straight into editing so I can think about my CCR.
I used a tripod in certain scenes to try to get the controlled camera work, but in some clips, you will see the camera shaking from my hand placement. I tried to make the clips as clean as possible. I will get the voice-over by March 2 and hopefully finish my editing by March 6.
In class today, we were in group discussing everyone projects and their progress so far. There were seven people in this group including myself talking about the footage and storylines we all have. Three of films were murders, either in the comedy, mystery, thriller category. The thriller and mystery are similar to each other because they both create an ominous personality to their killer and show their victims instantly to the audience. The murder comedy inspiration is more of a Dumb and Dumber opening. The student said his inspiration is the film 21 jump street. Showing 2 dumb police officers solve a crime.
Two of the films were thrillers creating a anxious view towards the audience. One with a murder and the other with drama, simliar to squid games. Both have started or finished filming. Their blogs, kyz12345 and lellylemons, consists of their bloopers and footage for their opening. The last person in the group, alanasbubblyBlog, is a coming of age comedy which shows fruendship and struggles of life. All of these are inspriations to my blog to enhance it and movtiavte my filming.
This blog post is to announce my progress so far in creating my opening. The screenshots below show that I have started filming and only need to film the ending of my film. My grandfather, who is involved and who is actually the main character, is going to send me a voice recording of him reading a script I have given him for the scene at the end. The clips are uploaded to my OneDrive to be then edited on a clipchame, a video editor app.
I have the props that my female character, Cecilia, is going to have on her person. Sunglasses, a white handbag, and flowers sticking out of the bag. This will create the "sunshine'' type of personality I will portray her as. For Louis, my male character, I have a brown leather belt and gold rings. I don't want a lot to be attached and/or seen on Louis because I am having him seen as a simple character by my audience until they explore his character more.
This blog post is to speak about my issues with my project as of right now. From the previous blog post, I have explicitly said how my main setting will take place in Las Olas, a boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. But I do not have the time with my schedule to drive so far. So I came up with the next option. There is a town center closer to me with restaurants and stores just like Las Olas. It is more efficient for my actors to show up at the location so I can film faster.
Now that I am announcing a new location, I will start the official filming tomorrow. Another main obstacle I'm facing is staying on track with my schedule. When I posted about my schedule, I talked about trying to stay on task and not lose focus. But I have been a bit behind with the things I need to do for this film's opening. So I will be updating my schedule and adding new things to the list I need to accomplish.
For this blog post, I will be introducing my company logo to you all. As this is my first "film" for my company, I want to create my logo as something that is close to me. So I will be using a painting I have made to use as my logo. This painting is very dear to me as it is the first painting I made that I truly care about and am very proud of myself for.
As this painting is illustrated with colors of white, gray, and black, I want this to represent my company. Since my first film is a romance, and this doesn't show any warm hues or representation, this painting is what I want to show my target audience. That this company is about creativity, and I am passionate about the things I care about.
This blog post, it focuses on audio throughout my film opening. To go off based on my research, audio is 50% percent of the overall cinematic experiences for audiences around the world. Various types of sounds create the full sound bridge. Sounds such as non-diegetic, diegetic, sound perspective, sound motif, sound effects, and artificial sounds. The most important sound, in my opinion, and the sound I will be using if the sounds in my opening don't go as planned, is the Foley sound.
Foley sound is when you create your own audio reflection on the screen. This is used when sound is lost or needs to be replaced. For my opening, I really don't have a per fence but I would rather not have to use Foley and everything be perfect the first go around, but obviously it won't be like that. Saying that my opening takes place outside, with the sounds of birds and trees swaying in the wind, will be focused on when there is no dialogue. While my two main characters, Louis and Cecilia, are talking, I want there to be background noise. Going back to the birds and trees, but I want the background characters to have murmurs. Not a loud enough conversation that the audience will understand the side conversations, but loud enough that there is straight silence.
Since their is a festival going on for the storyline, I will be using background music in the background. Shown below are some of the audios I will be using.
Character development is a significant part of telling any story. Movies such as 10 Things I Hate About You and Groundhog Day show the male lead progressively maturing throughout the film towards their situation and/ or love interest. This character development appeals to audiences across all types of media. While movies like Legally Blonde and Pride and Prejudice feature female leads with significant character development, they show the women as powerful, independent women who know what they want. Which connects to the target audiences, who are a majority of women watching the film.
In my film, I want the male lead to have a subtle personality to show room for improvement. As the most important part of my film, the flashback towards the end of the opening, his personality should be subtle but also noticeable. As my character is walking through Las Olas, he is just a calm, cool person minding his own business. However, for my female lead, I want her to be happy, blooming, as she walks into his point of view. Having a type of aroma around her is comparable to sunlight and happiness. Bringing said happiness into the male lead's life.
My lighting in my film opening will be determined by the sun's positioning when we film at Las Olas. Las Olas is a boulevard, as I have mentioned in my previous posts. The area is outside and is either lit by street lights at night or by the sun, as it is an outdoor area. As I want my final part of my opening to be the two main characters in the street, I want the lighting to hit my female character's face to symbolize her "lighting up" the male protagnists world.
As we continue to film this week, my costuming and props will be finished, hopefully by the first official date. With my props for my male main character, little to no will be added to his person. I want this character to be bare for the audience to try and understand who he is, what he likes, etc. Movies like these will have my target audience intrigued and interested in wanting to know what the movie is about.
The movie listed below is the film "Before Sunrise", which is a beloved romance movie where the couple is madly in love with each other, with deep connections and character development throughout the film.
my sources-
Google. (2026). Search results for "Before Sunrise". https://www.google.com/search?q=Before+Sunrise
Marder, H. (2020, August 21). 24 of the most pure, swoon-worthy, unproblematic male movie characters of all time. BuzzFeed. https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahmarder/best-unproblematic-movie-men
This blog post is going to be about my props and costuming. In my previous post, I talked about my locations and costuming. However, this post will be about how my characters will come to life with the costuming and props coming together. The idea for my male protagonist in the climax of the film opening is to have warm hues in his wardrobe. So with my outfit already inspired, as mentioned in my previous post I have done more research. Men in the 1970s wore bellbottom jeans with bottoms ups top downs. Many mismatched outfits showed others how you liked to be dressed. For my male character, I want a statement piece collar with light blue bellbottoms and his hair combed over to the side, as most men wore it in the 70s.
For my props, my female character will be having a type of bag that has trickets, particularly falling out of it. I want flowers, cds, and tickets, based on the storyline, to be in her bag but for the audience to see. This will create an interest in my male protagonist and show the audience why he has a liking for her. Research shows that props, particularly in romances, are supposed to symbolize emotion and the atmosphere of the scene within the film. Which shows that the props that I want for my woman lead will be perfect, as they are subtle for the opening and will be effective for the storyline to come.
This is from the famous movie Titanic. The necklace shown in this image is a significant part of this film connects the beginning of this film to the end when the credits roll.
This blog post is to show which media theory my film opening represents. My film opening is represented through the Binary Opposition Theory. As this film is to show a loss in a family, the film is to show the two main characters' lives together before one of them passes. The theory explains the experiences of life through the concepts of opposites, so my film will show this by showing the two main characters experiences with each other and showing how their relationship is built on their interactions.
Movies that have used this theory are Harry Potter and Twilight. In Harry Potter, there is a clear separation between "pure-blood", which are wizards with wizard parents, and ''muggle-born'', which are wizards with normal parents. This dynamic is between characters such as Hermione and Draco, which creates tension between the two. In Twilight, there is a clear dynamic between vampires and werewolves, for the two characters, Edward and Jacob.
This blog post is about my costuming and location setting for my film opening. Costuming will be an obstacle for this project due to my flashback taking place in the 1970s. With this flashback, my characters will be dressed in '70s attire, and I will go to thrift stores such as Goodwill to find outfits. I have found outfits on oxknit.com for my male protagonist. For my woman protagnist I am still deciding how to dress her. I want to dress her in a light color scheme as she is the "light'' of the male protagnist life.
My flashback will be in front of La Olas, which is a boulevard of restaurants and stores, and I believe it is a good place for the two main characters to meet. I want this meeting to be quick but also have a big impact on the opening as it is the entire point of this film, the woman walking into the male protagnist life. This scene is to build up to the rest of their interactions together, having the audience wanting to find out more about the two lovers' story.
my sources-
OxKnit. (n.d.). Men’s 70s brown retro knit polo. https://www.oxknit.com/it/products/men-70s-brown-retro-knit-polo
Google. (n.d.). Search results for “las olas”. https://www.google.com/search?q=las+olas
This post is to show how I want my film to be presented, visually. The storyboard is to help me outline how I see the film in my head. This storyboard that I have created has multiple scenes that are merged into montages so I am able to fit the 2-minute time duration and complete my plotline. I will be using my family for the majority of this opening. I will be going to my grandfather's house to film the first half, while in the next few weeks, I will film the second half.
The link to the storyboard is here. Three pages make up my entire scene, and I hopefully won't have to get rid of any or add any new ones. But still, this is just the outline and my vision for my opening. The name of this film is " As She Walked By". As I have mentioned in some of my posts, my inspirations are The Notebook, Forrest Gump, and Titanic. These films all gave me the idea and grasp of this project genre, and I hope you enjoy it.
My plotline starts with a family gathering after my
grandmother died, and we all visit my grandfather. I, ( his granddaughter), will have
a drink with him and ask about grandma. He’ll refer to her as the color of his
life, my Evangeline. Then transition to a strip mall. People walking around, and
while my grandfather is voicing over the frame. It will end when he starts
talking about seeing her, and then the opening ends with Evangeline's face in the
frame.
Inspiration would be forest gump and The Notebook. For
forest gump, the voiceover of Forrest telling the people on the bench his life
while the audience is visually seeing it. The notebook, the flashbacks of Noah
and Alison's life before she gets Alzheimer’s. The impact both these movies have on their
target audience was the reason I picked romance as my genre.
Romance is the type of genre to live their target audience in
tears. That’s how I want the opening to be. Of course, I would have to not
show the entire film, but I will have the heart-warming tone that these movies
brought me.
Credit seuqences in the beginning of a film production are extremely important in giving credit to the people who have worked on the movie. The following films are romance films that I have chosen to analyze closely to figure out why their credit openings are the way they are.
Moonstruck-
We start with MGM's famous logo, a lion growling at the center of their trademark. MGM is then shown, without the abbreviation, as the company that is presenting this film. Patrick Palmer and Norman Jewison Productions were two collaborators of Palmer, the producer, and Jewison, the director. The two main actors, Cher and Nicolas Cage, are inserted into the screen. While this is happening, there are various types of scenery in New York, which show the audience where the movie will take place. MOONSTRUCK is then illstrated benath the view of the city underneath the moonlight. Connecting back to the title of the film. The credits are now listing their starring actors while in the background show settings from places in future scenes. is now a character the camera is tracking, which hints to the auidence this character has an importance to the plotline. The actors are still being listed while this takes place. The rest of the people listed in the credit opening, such as the cast director, writer, and music composer names, are being inserted on the screen while many clues of the opera are being placed within the actual scene. From the beginning of this scene opening a song, "That's Amore", has been playing. When our first character starts their dialogue, the music comes to an end. This shows the audience is ready to begin the plot of the movie.
Notting Hill-
Notting Hill starts off witha female character having paparazzi surrounding her, she is portrayed to the audience as a celebrity. The production company, Duncan Kenworthy, is then inserted below her face as viewed through a camera. Roger Michell, a director, is not much later inserted below the woman's face. The celebrity is going through a montage of photos, magazines, and red carpets. The main actors, Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant are then inserted, however, we do not see Grant's actual character. Only seeing Roberts. This creates a dominant role for this character in the film. After the title of the film, Notting Hill is illustrated still beneath the charatcer face. The featured actors are then inserted for the rest of the montage of the woman celebrity.
Dirty Dancing-
During this black and white-toned opening is red color font of the text shows Veston Pictures, which is always associated with Great American Film. The Linda Gottliel Production is then followed by the title of the film, Dirty Dancing. All of these credits are in cursive, which connects to the background scene of people dancing with happy emotions on their faces. The starring actors Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swaynze with other featured actors, follow the montage of dancing. Directors of costuming, casting, music, and more are then centered on the scene to show the contrast of the red with the black and white montage. The montage then ends with a car on the highway, with a character introduced, Baby. The producers are the last mentioned in the opening credits. This shows that the movie is officially beginning.
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