Media studies portfolio

Here is is. Hope you enjoy! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q_SilzCm4asrQe0S-DEdK4s1_a4p9Umr/view?usp=driver

While discussing the project in class before filming, we are realizing there are a lot of moving pieces that are uncertain.  For example, at this time we don't know if we are going to be able to use the house in Surfside to shoot (owners renovating); and we still don't know if we can get the equipment we need.  We are feeling like we bit off more than we can chew.  However, the team agrees we like this idea, and are willing to stick to the original ideas and do the work necessary.  This project is something we are all passionate about, and we feel we can do the project and attack the challenges one task at a time.  One team member is a senior, and realizes this is his last film project in high school, and he wants to go hard on this project, his last hurrah!

This is the week we start to film.  As mentioned in earlier posts, our schedule was disrupted due to Spring Break.  Now the grind begins.  My group and I need to rent the equipment.  We have a member of the team whose Dad works for a TV station, so we asked if we could borrow the equipment. Dad agreed!  We will be using equipment borrowed!  This is a big opportunity for us because we wanted to make this project as good as possible.  By using professional equipment, we felt we could film it and have it look like eye candy. The majority of professional equipment came from or group members father but our group collectively had some equipment as well. we got the main camera (canon c500) from our friends father cause it was  way out of our price range as well as the cinema lens. The rest of the equipment we used is below... 7d ii  and t5i 24-105mm,  50mm, and cinema lenses Lights Rodi mic Tripod Drone T6i Rodi mic Tripod Dolly Gimbal Smoke

The Film opens with an establish shot of a house, alarm clock is going off. Actors yawns and looks around. Yelling can be heard in the background - his family is having an argument. Actor not shown. Dad  “turn your alarm clock off now” in an angry voice. Arguing continues as main character turns off alarm and gets dressed. Setting shows a room of a kid who is interested in skateboarding, with different posters on his wall that depict this idea.  Fully dressed in a typical outfit of somebody that skateboard wears. (black/cargo jeans, plain shirt high socks). Actor finished getting dressed walks in living room. MOM “Jared, what did i tell you about turning your  alarm clock on” Son “ I'm sorry” The relationship between the parents and the son is noted in which appears to be abusive although not enough is known to make this assumption thus far. Dad drops glass on the floor, shatters every. Low angle shot of glass falling Dad upset “clean up my glass now before I step on i

 This is the story board for our project!

My group and I sat down after coming up with the general idea of what we wanted to produce, and started planning.  One difficulty that we ran into was that Spring Break cut into our timeline.  One half of the group was not available because they were out of town, so schedules were not lining up.  We realized we need to shoot the film in advance of Spring Break which would give us ample time to edit and revise. lets see how this plays out. Shooting Plan: March:    Monday           Tuesday Wednesday       Thursday Friday      Saturday Sunday 4th Start 5th 6th Plan 7th 8th -finish storyboard -get locations -finish planning -get actors 9th 10th 11th 12th -get locations confirmed for Saturday and Sunday -Get actors confirmed for Saturday and Sunday 13th 14th 15th -Pick up lens 16th -SHOOT 8am-4pm (house in lincoln park) -SHOOT (skate park scene) 17th -SHOOT 8am-4pm Anything we didn'