This Endless Tangled Web

I love our film.

I love the shots.

 I love the story.

 

I don't love how the shooting schedule constantly needs to be changed because unexpected and extremely unwanted events continue to occur.

 I didn't love how we needed to find other students outside our film class to be our actors.

 

I think the two major problems with this film are the actors and the dialogue. This is the first time we have had to do a film that had so much witty dialogue scene after scene and so we did not know what to expect exactly. We were all prepared but we simply did not think that the heavy amount of dialogue would be such an obstacle. Sound is very important but it is such a difficult element to control when the scenes are shot outside mixed with all the quick conversations being held. Due to this, I feel like the dialogue really slowed our group down considering a lot of the scenes needed to be shot again and again and again in order to correctly capture the dialogue.  

 

Another problem we encountered was the fact that we had a very difficult time finding reliable actors for our film. All the people we knew were also students and so they had their own classes and obligations to complete which sometimes set our film back. Although our actors did take the film seriously, there were times in which they had other compromises or other schoolwork to complete and so we would lose multiple chances to film. But this is not their fault, but it is simply the way the world works, in the life of the a typical high school student.

 

However, I would like it if the students from the actual class were allowed to be actors again because it would be so much easier for everyone. The problem of finding other outside reliable students constantly plagues our group in so many different ways, so I believe it would be so much easier if the actors were already familiar and easy to reach.  

 

Another major problem our group encountered was the hectic schedule of the principal, Ms. Blake. She was suppose to be our actor, yet she had some unexpected incidents and so we were unable to shoot the two important scenes that involved her. Due to this, our whole shooting schedule had to be rearranged but matters became worse when Ms. Blake was unable to film again in the same week. Once again, everything was pushed back a day or two back, which does not seem like a big deal, but truly is, considering the deadline is almost here.

 

In spite of all the problems our group has had to face, I am really proud of them. They are always there, every day after school, ready to film which takes true dedication because it means we had to sacrifice valuable time that could be spent doing other homework or being with family.

 

In the end, I have hope that everything will turn out all right.

 
After all, I love our film.

I love the shots.

 I love the story.

And the Web Spins....

Our group has continued to produce our movie although it is proving to be a bit more difficult than we originally thought. We were faced with a new challenge: we had to find actors outside of the class. We had never been told to find actors outside the classroom and so it was a bit hard trying to find people who would be willing to do it and truly commit to the project.

 

However, we were lucky enough to find some of our friends from the architecture strand that were willing to do it. Maricruz and Wolfgang, our actors, really liked our script and put all their effort in memorizing their lines and embracing the characters.

 

Yet, actually filming the movie was a bit harder because we did not realize how much work it was truly going to take. Although we had a much bigger group, we also had a much bigger movie with a lot of dialogue. We had not done a movie like that in a really long time and so we had to try to find our pace which was a challenging task.

 

In spite of this, we continued on and Jose, Jachelle, and I worked on the shot list. We also edited some of our script because we realized we needed to make some changes to make the story flow better.

 

To me, this proves that bigger groups are beneficial because more minds can then contribute to the project so that better ideas are formed.