About Our Group

 The members

As of today we had 4 group members: Clay Valcin, Brianna Scott, David Stephens, and Gissela Pinto. However, we were just informed that Gissela would be leaving the school which means she will no longer be in our group. Therefore we now have 3 people in our group, we are all okay with that and decided to continue with the work that needs to be put in to complete the final project. The work that we had that was split into 4 will be now split into 3 which means more work for us as a group but we are doing all necessary to do our work and have the best work of our abilities.

Preproduction

During this week and part of my project, I will be putting everything that my group members and I need to start shooting. In doing this we will be finding out or doing the followings: scouting locations, storyboarding, casting actors, planning how the film will look and what it will represent, and writing our shooting schedule for the following week. In this blog post it will mention all the preparations into the preproduction of our film and the way we would be doing it.

Locations

Our film will be shot in an Ice cream shop and a library. The Ice cream shop will represent something meaningful for both our main characters, it will be the place that they go back to and relive all their childhood memories together. This Ice cream shop will be the place they meet again and when they do, it will create something of importance to them. The Library would be just a place they usually go when they need to study or do something that is school or work related, it will bring back their days in high school and all they've been through during that period of time. Take a pic at the location for the shot of our film.

Actors

In our film we will need two actors to play the two main characters of the film. Our actors will also be some of our group member, Clay Valcin and David Stephens, David and I will be playing in the film. We considered just using actors from our group member's because it will help our filming budget and take less time to prepare since we already know the steps and what we would need to achieve as actors to make our film possible.

Representation

My film will look like your typical romantic-comedy movie, where it comes with the steps that they meet, fall in love, get's into conflict, overcome it, and live happily ever after. This is how most romantic comedy films play out and it is the same idea for my film. My group member's and I will achieve it planning everything beforehand, for example our setting is already established and all the aspects that will follow in the setting.

Sound

In our film we will have dialogue while recording but when we get to editing we will mute the dialogue and will only show their mouth moving assuming that they are talking. We will have some sounds in the back group of the film that will be very calming and happy and goes along with the shots and the scenery of the film. We would use the same requirement we use to record to also record the dialogue but when it gets to adding the background effects and songs we will have a separate device that we will record the sounds from and that would later on be added into the film.

Schedule

 

Shooting

After finishing this stage, we will start planning and shooting for our film. My group members and I haven't planned or talked about our shooting schedule yet but we will make plans so we will be prepared when the shooting start. In order to begin shooting we would likely need a camera, but for our filming it isn't necessary to have a camera since we are able to use our Smartphone to do it without any trouble.

I have talked with my group members and by the amounts of shots and the things we have to film it will likely only take a week for us to film; 2 days for the Ice cream shots scenes and 1 to 2 days for the library shots. We might need some extra time to film any things that is missing but at the end of that week we should be done with everything we have to film. 

This is the schedule we've came up with in order to be have enough time to shoot all of our scenes and get everything we needed in time.

Storyboard

We recently started our story board this week on Monday, our storyboard will look like a more detailed description of how the shots of the film are going to look like. It will involve a picture of the shot, the camera movement, shot, transitions, and more about each particular shots.

We're not done with our storyboard yet but this is what we have so far for our storyboard.

This is our final storyboard for the film opening.

Script

After having our short story, we needed to write a script on all the shots and the actions that would be happening during the film sequence.

Case Study

 Crazy Rich Asians

Crazy rich Asian is a romantic-comedy movie released on August 15, 2018 written by Peter Chiarelli, Adele Lim, and Kevin Kwan and also directed by Jon M. Chu. The movie's stars were Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh, their producers: Nina Jacobson, John Penotti, Brad Simpson, the composer was Brian Tyler, Cinematographer: Vanja Cernjul, Editor: Myron Kernstein, casting director: Terri Taylor, and production Designer: Nelson Coates.

The movie is about Rachel Chu, a Chinese woman who was born in America who travels with her boyfriend, Nick, to his home in Singapore for his bestfriends wedding. Nick's family is wealthy and he's considered the most eligible bachelor in Asia so every single woman is jealous of Rachel, Nick's girlfriend and are all trying to bring her down.

The Production

Warner Bros is the company that presented the movie "Crazy Rich Asians" Warner Bros which was in association with SK Global which was also in association with Starlight Culture Entertainment, the production also included the companies: Color Force, and Ivanhoe Pictures, and in total "Crazy Rich Asians had 5 production companies.

The Distribution

The distribution of this specific movie involved 31 distributors which were all mostly Warner Bros. and the other companies that were involved in the movie were, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Tanweer Alliances, Roadshow, Entertainment, HBO Max, Galapagos Films, BBC One, 20th CEntury Fox Home Entertainment, Westec Media Limited, and SF Studios. These arre all the distributors that were in the distribution of the movie.