Obstacle #5: Covid-19 and Social Distancing

             

So in my previous blogpost, I discussed how I was worried about not being able to finish our film opening final in time due to schedule conflicts with both my partners and our actors. Last week I was able to finally figure out a good schedule for everyone so we could finish the project during spring break but this week the Corona Virus began to spread more and became a big epidemic. Then one of our actors (my partner's dad who played the most important role as the kidnapper) had to work the whole week. So we, as a precaution and due to conflict in schedules, didn't come together to finish the project. Now I am really worried about this project and for our grades as with the Corona Virus and urges for social distancing, we wont be able to finish the project before the due date.

Obstacle #4: Limited Time for FIlming/ More Schedule Conflicts

My partners and I have had difficulties struggling for a production day, as I have mentioned before in a seperate blogpost. As the due date for the film opening comes closer the pressure is on to create and complete our project in time. There has also been the new addition of difficulties with schedule conflicts with the actors which overall has limited any chance we have had to film. We are hoping that since we have most footage recorded and editing software at home, that we will be able to finish recording over the upcoming break.

Deciding on the Title

 

So far, my group and I have come up with a decent name for our film opening: The Perfect Family.

It's a pretty good name because it's short and simple and highlights our main antagonist's want for the perfect family shown by him kidnapping children in the opening.

Production: Planning for Day 3

As I have recently said, an obstacle that my group and I have had is conflict in our schedules which has effected our ability to finish recording. So in order to make up for that, I have decided to plan for a day, sometime this weekend, where we will shoot.

To Do List:
- Shoot the major "glitch scene" at the table
- Shoot the major dinner scene (man making dinner, setting up the table and sitting down)
- Shoot final scene (shows kids being tied up and that everything is an illusion)

Production: Day 2

Today we were able to get some shots at my friends house but due to a lack in enough time, we weren't able to finish.

We were able to put some props to use and got some basic/not as important shots.

We still need to get some major scenes with our actors and figure out when the best time for that is schedule wise.

Here are some shots that we took:

Production: Day 1

After getting our props and doing more in-depth planning, we have finally begun to start filming. one of the major scenes in our movie is at the park and since the rest of the filming is done at my friends house we thought that this should be our starting point.
An issue we had at first was working the camera, but after we got past that, it was smooth sailing. We got some good shots at the park that we hopefully are able to use in our film opening final.
Here are some shots:

Obstacle #3: Scheduling

So, a challenge that my group and I have come across is a difference in our schedule which has limited the amount of filming we can get done in a month. My friends do extracurriculars after school on certain days, actors have busy lives as well and I am unable myself to do it on weekends. This is a conflict that is really concerning as we really need to get more filming done before the end of the month.