3/12

 For this blog post I'm going to be showing my storyboard and the thought process behind the shots that I want to do. Through out my recording I might change up some of these shots due to if I feel like they are necessary changes or not. 

The blog post is sideways but this is the first bit of my story board but as you can see I'm still on my idea shot wise. The beginning is going to open up with a nice little establishing shot of my window and the nice outside to indicate the morning. The second slide is suppose to represent a blanket falling off my bed so that it becomes a little hint when i record it a second time that time has repeated. I didn't add the water bottle to the story board but I still plan on adding it because it would represent the time repeats as well. The rest of the shots are just of me getting up and then getting ready for my day. I plan on getting a tracking shot of my feet walking to the bathroom to then show the water bottle scene.

This second page of my story board includes the whole bathroom scene to set the stage for the time repeat because my character does stuff that represents stuff that you cant get back like drinking water. So when the time repeats and the water is back into the bottle that is when the viewer and the character realize time repeats and then it shows the character leaving and then he's back in bed and then it gets to him back at the water bottle and then he realizes that the water is filled up again and then it goes to black and then shows the name.
 

 

3/10

     This week I've done some research on how to record my opening. I decided to get a tripod over the weekend to get steady shots on my opening because I don't plan on getting any hand held shots in my opening. I've found some music in the YouTube music tab that is royalty free that will do just fine for my opening. I used this material from a past project in this Media class for my sound project and it also worked out then so I'm hoping this works out now. For this project I plan on working along so I can better entrust myself that I can be reliant on myself and to test my creativity and skills. I'm going to set up my room and think of the whole creative process so I can test myself. In my next blog I will describe my creative process with a visual on my story board and a explanation on why I chose to do the shots I want to do. 

Portfolio Project 3/1

     For this week I plan on recording either Wednesday or Saturday due to the fact that I want to record in the morning. If scheduling in the morning doesn't work out for me then I'll have to change the setting and the idea for my opening. I feel like I am prepared to change my idea at anytime if needed.  I also plan on working more on my storyboard to give myself a visual on what I want to and to better plan out my scenery.

Portfolio Project 2/28

    I plan on recording sometime this week to give me time to edit over the weekend so I can make any sudden changes if necessary.  I plan on going through on my original plan and if there are any sudden changes then I would make the changes but for now I'm sticking with my plan. For my music option I still want to use my upbeat music for the beginning of the opening and then get more serious throughout the opening. That is my main plan for now unless there are any other altercations so this blog will be short until then.

Project Portfolio 2/25

     For my filming schedule I would have to record in the mornings to try and get the lighting of the early morning to get that morning affect.  So I would have to record around the time of 7-8 am. I would also have to be weary about the weather and if there are going to be rainy days so I can schedule my recording to another morning. My original plan though is to get the majority of the recording done in one morning so I can keep it consistent and clean with the lighting and the feeling. If anything I would just use my original shots I filmed and repeat them myself in editing so that it stays consistent. The only thing I would change is some scenes where my character finds out about the repeating time he's in. So I would do that to make it clean and to keep it consistent. If my original plan doesn't work then I would have to schedule for a different morning and look through all my shots I did the first morning and fix my room to be exactly how it was that morning so nothing changes that doesn't need to change.  So I have 2 plans that I'm working with and I something does occur that messes up both plans then I would have to figure it out from there.

Portfolio Project 2/24

     I've made my final decisions for how I am going to film my project. One issue I am facing is if my opening will reach the 2 minute mark for my opening. I've created a back up plan just Incase my original idea doesn't meet the time requirements. My idea is to just add an extra scene of my character waking up again and living through the loop without noticing until I get to my third loop and then make the character realize what is going on. Over the weekend I decided to try and get some inspiration to see how I would film my opening and I looked at Disneys WandaVision. The reason I looked at WandaVision was due to the fact that the plot for the show is that it's all an altered world and that through out the show you slowly figure out that the world they live in is fake. I want to use some of their components that make the viewer start to see how the world my character is in is repeated. For example since my world is repeated I was going to use a water bottle that my character drinks right when he wakes up and after time repeats the water bottle would be filled up again showing that he never even drank out of it. That would be a major component for my character to find out that time repeated. It would also be a major component for the viewer to figure out that time is repeated for him.

Portfolio Project 2/22

     For this week I will be deciding how I will compose and how it will be sequenced for my opening. I would want to start my opening with a medium shot of me waking up. After I wake up I would place my camera under the bed just to get the view of my feet hitting the ground as I get up to show that I'm getting out of the bed. Then I would cut it to where I'm getting my clothes as I'm getting ready for my day. After those shots I would get a tracking shot of me going into my bathroom to go brush my teeth and then a sort of close up of me brushing to get a feeling of tiredness and then after I'm done with that sequence I would show myself leaving my room and closing the door. The camera would have a still shot on the door then it would track to the right and show my bed with me In it again. From there it would repeat the sequence and once I get to the the sink again is when I would realize that I've already done this and that I'm repeating myself. After my music choice was made that was when I would change the music to a more serious tone and slowly build up the suspense after the realization.