Going Back Into Planning

 So today was another long day of not filming. My partner and I thought today was the day to start. We’ve come a simple conclusion. We decided to continue our filming process  over winter break. We feel like that gives us more time to film how we want. In addition make sure everything is accurate. I can say, this year I’ve faced a lot of complications when it was time to start filming. Last year was nothing like this. I don’t know if it’s because of all the restrictions in place, but this is turning out to be difficult. Today we decided to look over our storyboard and make sure everything was okay. When we thought through our story we found a few holes. So of course changes were made to our storyboard. We decided to tweak our murder scene. We felt the way we had it set up before wasn’t realistic. It seemed as though the audience could guess what would happen in our murder scene. Since this was a thriller and we’re suppose to create suspense this had to change. There was a lot of foreshadowing in the scene. In addition, reading over our interrogation scene we decided to alter it. It wasn’t a drastic change at all. We decided to change the dialogue between our characters in that scene. I think all the changes we made today will hopefully better our film. Giving the film, the thriller feel we want it to have and nothing less.

Starting the Editing Process

 Hey guys, we haven't started filming just yet. This is due to reasons mentioned in the previous blogs. Anyways we have started to work on other things. For example, we have been editing and finding music for our film. You're probably wondering how we started editing already if we have no footage. Well to answer that question, we started to edit the title page. We've also started to work on adding words in between flashback scenes of our movie. We decided to do this so the viewers won't be confused when time goes back during the film. For example, during a flashback scene we plan to put words such as "earlier this week". Things like that will alert the audience that this particular event occurred before the present scene taking place. While doing this we realized our film needed background music. We wanted music during the suspicious scenes. Another thing that we wanted was music during the ending of the movie. Obviously we would have to get permission from any artist that we choose to use music from. We have to do that unless we're able to find free music that fits our film. We're currently looking for music that have the audience anxious and on edge. I think if we do this it would make our film 10 times better. Our main goal for this movie is to give our viewers a feeling of suspense and excitement mixed together. While the plot is slowly building towards the climax of our movie we want the audience to literally be on the edge of their seats. Hopefully we'll have music picked out by the time we start to put all of our footage together and edit it.

starting to film ? or are we ?

 Well today we came to the conclusion that we should start filming. We’ve been planning for weeks and anticipating. Of course we have a few obstacles in our way. But we came up with a few ideas. Currently, our parents are going crazy over the thought of us going out to film. I can’t say I blame them, but things need to be done. We’ve came to the realization that we can film. And film safely, with precautions. Since we aren’t able to get camera from school, we decided to use our phones. Besides this being an inconvenience I think this is a good thing. Our phones are less likely to have germs on them than the camera. In addition our phones are easier to operate. The only question is weather or not the end results will be the same. We have a few hindering thoughts on the end result of our film. We’re still trying to figure out all the kinks of our plan. For example, how we’re going to edit. Since we’re not in school we can’t use the free editing software. Most of the editing software's we looked over carry watermarks. We really don’t want that on our finished product. I feel like we will find a solution to this problem and everything will go as planned

how we didn’t film !!

 Hey guys I can’t believe we’re in December already. We just came back from a week long Thanksgiving break. Although we wanted to film over the break unfortunately we couldn’t. We both had busy schedules. Also I had friends and family stay with me during the break. Even though we weren’t able to film we did get some things done a couple of days before the break started. For example, we finally launched the website for our film “Who did it?”. Our website has several things on it. It has information on the movie. It also has social media links to our film. We did this to give our fans the option to keep up with the making of our movie by following our social media accounts. Moreover, we plan to film during winter break because that would work best for the both of us. We have midterms coming up. Because of this we decided to prioritize studying for our exams first and then filming. We also plan to edit over the break as well. I think our biggest issue is figuring out how to film. COVID cases have recently been rising again. Due to this are parents want us to social distance as much as possible. Hopefully we’ll be able to meet up and film while following the social distancing rules. If not then we know how to accommodate. We will just film different scene separately. Afterwards we’ll just edit everything over the phone. Hopefully we’ll have a better update next time.

Creating My Website

 Hey guys we finally started opening our social media accounts. We also created our website. In order to create our website we used

wix.com

. It's basically a website that allows you to create and personalize your own website. We had to create social media accounts to link to our websites. We now have a Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube account for our movie. Oh by the way we decided to title our movie "Who did it?". On the website we were required to put different information about the film. For example, its release date. When you first open our website you will see the movie title. Below that the directors names are stated as well as the movies release date. The release date is set to be

on 1/11/2021

. That's approximately 2 months from now guys. We're so ready to start filming! Furthermore, you will see what our movie is about and also some critic remarks. Some of the remarks say things such as "the movie held my attention the whole time". On our website you'll also be able to find links that lead to all of our social media accounts. We will use these accounts to keep people updated on the movie until it is released. We decided to have our film premier at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. On our website we needed to include pictures of the cast and crew. We used our school ID photos for this. This is basically most of the things that we incorporated into our website when creating it.

Storyboard

 Hey guys, we finally started to draw our storyboard. I can definitely say it's been fun but the drawing has been kind of difficult. We drew our storyboard according to the order of events in our script. The first three boxes show Stephanie making her way home from work. In the first scene she is in the car speaking to her friend Briana. Once we make it to the second box it shows Stephanie making it home and walking into her home. The following boxes show Stephanie walking into her home and heading upstairs. In the fourth box on the storyboard that's when Stephanie starts to hear the phone ring. Throughout the next few boxes Stephanie will be very cautious and paranoid because of the suspicious phone calls. In box 5 Stephanie answers the phone and holds a short conversation that will leave her in a state of confusion. In box 6 Stephanie grabs a knife. Even though she does this she is completely unaware of the killer being inside of her bathroom. In the next box the phone will ring again and Stephanie answers it. Except this time the killer is standing right behind her. The next few boxes are the action scenes. After realizing that someone is trying to kill her Stephanie fights back. As seen in the boxes she kicks the killer down the stairs and goes to hide. Even though Stephanie is hidden the killer finds her and murders her. In the boxes after that scene you will see the killer calling Briana to notify her that Stephanie is dead. After this scene the next scene shows Briana coming to Stephanie's home trying to make it seem like all of this is news to her. In the next boxes the police arrive and conversation  with Briana. After this the flash backs from earlier that week will begin to happen.

Planning Blog

 Hey guys we're so close to getting ready to film. But before we an do that we have to plan. We decided to start planning by coming up with a filming and editing schedule. Due to the current circumstances that we're under because of covid 19 our filming process is going to be slightly different. We will both be filming different scenes from our own homes every other day of the week (Mon, Wed, Fri). We haven't decided who will get what scenes yet but we will figure that out sometime soon. After we gather all of the footage from those three days we will work together to put the footage together and edit it. There will be two filming locations throughout the whole movie, my house and Jasmines house. During the movie different parts of the homes will be used for different things. For example, my bathroom will be used as to portray the crime scene. There will be several participants. We will be in the film as well as our family members and some friends that we've reached out to. In our film a knife will be used as a weapon which will fall into the health and safety category. The knife will be real but there will be adult supervision the whole time. Some props that we plan on using are knives, guns, and a face mask. These props will most likely only be used during the beginning of the movie when Stephanie (the victim) is murdered. There will multiple costumes featured in the movie. One will be a police uniform. Another costume will be the killers outfit. The killer will be dressed in all black with a scary mask as a disguise. Other costumes that will be featured will be casual clothing that the suspects will be wearing. We're so ready to start filming!!!