Mission 3 #4

Yesterday we got all the other shots we needed. We got the walking shot to the post box and walking back to the house. We took the modern scene too. The shots we got were really good but I still didn't know how well they were going to come together. But I'm staying positive.

The production of the movie was very fun to do and I am hoping we will make more projects like this one. But now it's time to go to the college to start editing this film. We decided to split the duties to make it faster and smoother.

I will find all the good shots from each scene and rename them in order in a different folder. Matthew will be making all the writing for the film such as the credits title and so on and Daniel will find 2 songs and a glitch sound effect that we will use for this film and find how to create a mask transition which we will use for the scene just before the post box scene.

Editing this film took very very long but we took turns to give each other breaks. The more we edited this film the better we felt about how this will turn out. Having some knowledge on colour grading i decided to do that part. Instead of going full black and white for the old scenes we decided to desaturate it and give it a brown/orange tone to it which we all thought looked way better.

Matthew added the credits and so on in the film and Daniel done the masking transition.

Seeing the transition done we got so hyped over it. It turned out so well.

Seeing the end product we were so proud of our hard work. over all we spend well over 20 hours which hopefully can be seen in our end product.

We hope you all will enjoy our finished product as much as we did when we saw it the first time. This will go straight into my portfolio.

Thank you again for reading my blogs see you on Thursday.

See you all.
Denis Miculas

Mission 3 #3

Welcome back. This is our first day in shooting the film. We decided that Matthew will be the actor and Daniel and myself will film. We started by taking the first scene where there is the intro of Matthew walking in the room and the shot of writing the Letter to his friend Jamies. 

We got wide shots, close-up shots and mid-range shots over the shoulder. Having a group of 3 like minded people really helped with this production. We all added brilliant ideas that worked so well together. Having the necessary gear really helped a lot as well. 

The gimbal shots were taken on the Canon M50. The close-up's were taken with Daniels Nikon camera on a 50mm f1.8 lens and the over the shoulder shots were taken on my Sony a7 Mark II.

So far what shots we got turned out well but I don't know how well this idea/film will turn out.

See you all soon.

Denis Miculas

Mission 3 #2

Daniel, Matthew and myself met up to plan what we will be doing. We all decides to go with Digital Journalism. We brainstormed verbally what we could do and we came up with a few ideas. Such as making a documentary video on us talking about the different ways people used to communicate in the past compare to now a days.

We decides to make a short film on the idea of how communicating changed over time. The idea we have is to have the film starting in black and white of a man writing a letter and changing into a modern teenager using their phone to text one of his mates.

We will shoot the film tomorrow (06/12/2019).  We decided that I will act in this film. Daniel and Matthew will record the film.

The setting for the first will be in a house at an old looking table where I will act as the man that will write the letter. The second scene will be walking at an old post box that Matthew knows about. and finally the last scene will be in the house in a living room at a sofa.

Props needed:

• Camera Equipment (Cameras, microphones, gimbals, etc)
• House
• Old looking Table
• Wax Seal and stamp (if we can find it)
• Old looking sheets and envelops
• Clothes (Suit trousers, scarf, jacket/coat, leather shoes/boots, and maybe a hat)
• Smartphone
• Modern clothes (Tracksuit, runners)
• Couch/sofa

Also if we have time we will make a documentary video where we will be talking about how we done the film. What went well, what we found challenging and so on.

I think that's it for now. 

Thanks again for reading my blog.

See you soon.

Denis Miculas