AICE Media Studies AS- DeLa, J

       Yesterday we finished our first day of filming and honestly, I felt like everything went well. We ended up filming at Nathan’s house and thankfully we were able to find a friend to help us with filming the movie and Nathan’s dad agreed to be in the film and play the part of Muhammed’s father. This played out perfectly because now we had an actor for every character as well as a cameraman.    We finished filming half of our movie ,  which felt productive to me. Our first couple  of  scenes are supposed to set up for the rest of our film ,  so we wanted to make it apparent to our audience that this was a horror movie so that is why we included common themes seen in horror movies like people being left alone in a house.    So, having the dad leave sets up that common theme and we decided to add some foreshadowing by having the father as he walks out the door say “watch out for the ghosts” seemingly as a joke while Muhammad ...

       The storyboarding process for our movie was honestly an enjoyable challenge.  While I do not have any experience whatsoever when it comes to planning,  directing, and filming movies ;  I  do  have a  con siderable  amount of  experience planning papers , essays, and stories . For me the storyboarding essentially  felt like planning a  narrative  essay with the added elements  of the film such as camer a angles, camera movements, sounds, and the effects.  While  these added elements did  prove to  be slightly  laborious,  I feel as if it really challenged me to  try to take this idea of a plot and  create a vision  of how  Nathan and I are going to bring this movie to life. The storyboarding also allowed  us to further develop our concept  with more detail  giving us more insight on how this project will play out.   Because  n e...