Production Post #1

 Production Post #1

For our opening, my partner and I both pitched in to purchase props for our film. I purchased a 360-rotating stand that holds a camera, and my partner purchased a DJ set.

The 360-rotating stand is going to help us film the ending of our opening, which is the scene at the beach with everyone in the car. As for the DJ set, it would be shown frequently and it helps represent who Evan is even more. 

Here is a picture of the stand I purchased: 

For the stand, I wanted to test it out and see how good it works. First, I tested it at my house alone. I was confused and not 100% certain how to use it, so I took it to class the next day.

I brought it to class to try it out with my partner to get their opinion, as well as, my teachers opinion. We all were confused on how it worked and thought that it wouldn't be able to do the 360 rotation like we wanted. So, we had two options; scratch the scene inside the car, or find another way to do the scene. 

After tweaking the camera stand some, I figured out how to make it do the rotation but we ran into another issue. It rotated too slow. My teacher came up with the idea to shoot the scene with the slow rotation, then speeding up the scene a little bit. I thought that was a good idea but after testing how the rotation looked while filming, it didn't look as slow as it seemed. If it doesn't look how we want it after shooting, we would fast forward the scene a bit.

As for my partners DJ set, it came in and they tried it out. It went well and were excited to use it as a prop for our opening. 

Also, my partner shot some scenes with our main character, Evan. I thought that the scenes they shot were really good, the main issue was just that every shot was only displaying one side of Evan's face. As well, the lighting was washing him in a scene where his face was shown. With some editing and reshooting we improved those shots and continued our project.

Due to me having volleyball practice, I wasn't able to make it to the most recent shooting but I wanted to check in and see how they were doing. I asked them to send me a little picture of them together working on the project. 

I feel as if you can already get Evans vibe by the room itself. A lot of what's around our main character represents him in everyway.