Planning/Filming

I started planning and filming for my project. Today was my first day of filming. I did not get into a lot of details but I wanted to try to start filming early so I could get as much footage as possible. I filmed my 3 friends, the main female character and the two supporting female characters. Filming today was very successful, I started out having an idea of what I want to do but not a deep idea. One of my friends gave me a great idea for the ending of the trailer. She owns a Mustang and she had the idea to have the three friends hop into the Mustang and drive off. Im really happy with how this turned out and I think it will be a great ending to the trailer and movie.  

I filmed some of the beginning scenes where the main character finds out her boyfriend is cheating on her. I also realized I want this movie to be overly dramatic in order to be more funny. I think that this worked out very well and makes the movie look more appealing. I wanted to make the movie more of a rom com, but now i've decided to make it a chickfil comedy. I think this route will be better for the outcome I wanted. I still need to film a lot more, and I need to film everything with the boy and girl together. I have started thinking of funny revenge prank scenes to record for my film, but I am currently having problems thinking of funny pranks. Overall I am happy with the course of my film and I am excited to see the outcome. 

Group Meeting

On Friday, in class, we met with groups to discuss our project and help each other with ideas. I found this very helpful because I was having problems with developing my plot and storyline. Some comments I recieved were focusing on the comedy aspect without giving too much away in the trailor.

Also for the two different trailors, have one a full length (around 2:30) and one shorter and faster paced, since many movies tend to do this for their films. I thought both of these ideas was very helpful. One issue I have is trying to figure out if I want to do a party scene. One girl suggested that if I wanted to do this I have to film it very well because party scenes are difficult to film. One of my good friends is having her 18th birthday party next weekend, and I am going to try to film some of it. If I find that I like the shots I film I will use it as a scene for my trailor, and if not then I won't.


I am really happy with the feedback that I recieved, it was very helpful and gave me more ideas for directions my film should go. One girl recommended focusing on the relationship aspect more, but I really think thats the route I want to go. Overall I found the group discussions very helpful and I hope we have more in the future to help go over our project after we have some progression.


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