Production

Filming Process

When the pre-production stage was completed, we started filming our shots as soon as we could. The plan was to film from February 22-25 but we (the class) were all catching up on blogs, trying out the editing software, making our branding for our opening sequence, and making changes to things that our teacher deemed necessary. Due to this, the teacher gave us an additional week to film, February 28-March 4. Within this week, we started to film the shots in the library and in the halls. We used Nia's iPhone 12 and Evicka's iPhone 11. On Monday, we shot me walking in the hall; it was also picture day for us. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we did shots with just me, Nia, and Evicka since Ja'Niyah was absent. On Friday, Ja'Niyah came and we did the shots that had her. Using a phone and adjusting the camera settings made a really good camera instead of using actual ones. Using the right angles and camera movements portray the meaning through the video. In one the scenes where Ethan (a classmate), for example, we used a low angle shot to make him appear larger and menacing since he isn't that tall. There weren't any tutorials used since the equipment/camera was our typical, everyday phone. Me and my group-mates launched ideas of how we could shoot the scene.

Bloopers/ "A-ha" Moments

This is a clip of me walking in the hall but the setting was in time-lapse, making it look funny and sped up, My friend who aren't n CTA happened to be in the halls and tried to talk to me but I had to get the shot,

In this shot, I was coming in to tell them my line but it was too funny because it was the first time i said it and me, Nia, and Evicka busted out laughing.

In this shot, I had to record my classmate Ethan running in the halls but the thing is, I was running backwards and I got scared because I thought i was going to hit something so I just started yelling okay over and over.