Although we were going to film it chronologically, and we wrote the movie step by step i wasn't thinking chronologically. in my head a pictured filming parts of the movie separately in each location and then putting them together and cutting out the unnecessary parts. i had to constantly check myself for doing that. i had to picture how the film would play out in my head periodically to make sure that we wouldn't be caught in a situation where we had to have a huge fight scene in front of the senior lounge, and then have a long awkward walk to the lunch room for the next scene. in "professional" movies you rarely see leading man actually driving to his love interests house (unless it serves to either develop character or a relationship) but instead the movie cuts to the part where he shows up on her doorstep to beg for forgiveness. then came the problem that if we did stop recording, change locations, and then continue recording, the movie would jump around too much. i was beginning to see that happening more as we continued to develop the plot. by trying to avoid awkward and unnecessary scenes, we only developed the main scenes and at the end they didn't connect at all. while organizing the movie, we often got caught up in the big conflicts, or the scenes that had the most meaning. this left huge plot holes that we had to fill up at the last minute. i think that if we thought chronologically instead of thinking about the individual scenes the entire movie would flow naturally and we wouldn't have the problem of forcing the pieces to connect and fill up the gaps in the plot.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
merry berries
these are my bippity bobbity mag ideas whoooo!!
1. a how-to-make-your-summer-clothes-work-for-the-winter type thing. we are teenagers,we are broke! we cant afford to go shopping for every season, so why not recycle? i know that i bought an entire closet full of clothes for the summer and no one at school has yet to see me in them because its freezing out. they wont be able to tell if i have worn the clothes already!. im not just talking about wearing leggings and a thermal under everything. im talking about getting creative so that no one can tell your wearing summer clothes.
2.excuses. a list of excuses/tricks to get you out of trouble, could be humorous or could even be secretively giving advice. for example if you can tell that your mom is right about to yell at you for not cleaning your room you could interrupt her and say," my oh my, look at this mess, i cant even concentrate in here" and start picking up something off of the floor. she'd be too surprised to say anything and would probably forget to check if you cleaned your room or not since you were so dedicated.
3. virgin holiday drinks. my mother has a little book of holiday drinks and my on the holidays when my family comes over they have a blast experimenting with their little concoctions. my brother and his friends even made them with soda instead of alcohol. so i was wondering... why not create or find really cool tasty virgin versions of famous holiday drinks?
Sunday, October 18, 2009
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