Lighting

 Most of the film will take place in daylight, using extraordinary sunshine that lends a real and immersive quality to the picture. Depending on time, we could have a warm, soft glow or an intense high-contrast effect.

For the dark room scene where Lukias is introduced, there will be no natural light coming in. The only light will be controlled, lending to a cabin or interrogation feel. We want to keep the environment as dark as possible in place to ensure the lighting is focused on either critical actions in the background or the subject of focus: using lamps or smaller sources of light for brief sections of each shot that could help guide attention or illuminate relevant details; for example, flickering monitors, shifting shadows to evoke tension and unease. 

Costume

 Okay so Lukias is an older guy around 35 years of age. To be completely honest at the begging of this we were going to get one of our dads to play this character but neither of them speak English…. So for some reason this never came to us until about a week ago i will make myself look older. To appear as old and to make my character clear i will be wearing a suit a black suit, glasses, and a bushy beard. Although you may think this will look fake but we have spent a little extra money to by a very realistic beard. And if it doesn’t look real we will improvise and maybe do so tweaks and makeup. 

Also part of the costume to make it clear Lukias is a wealthy man we will obviously have a brief case filled with prop money as well a nice watch and other accessories to make Lukias look nicer. I will have a picture of what i want the character to look like a prime example would be Jake gyllenhaal. Although i would like the facial hair to be a but shorter. 

Audio

 As for the audio part of my project/ opening scenes, me and my partner have decided that we will actually attempt to use foley sound almost 95% of the time. Meaning from the sound of the car to the sound of the doors shutting. Basically all the big and outstanding sounds you will hear. Of course, the other 5% of the sound will come from the background music and another sound effects we decided to use. As for the background music we have decided to go with an ominous and almost creepy song for the character Lukias or the rich guys. and for the “baby driver” we will be doing a more giddy and up beat song. Although we have not decided wether it would be a good idea to have 2 different songs, meaning when the  scene cuts to the “baby driver” its a happy song then it cuts to the rich guys and it changes. WE DO NOT KNOW YET BUT WE NEED TO DECIED. I really want to find a one song fits all backround song but my partner Jano wants to do 2. And i told him that editing would be to difficult and we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, we are not professionals. But we will try out best.

Our plan is to film like the whole scene then add the music and whatever sounds do not sound good and clear we will add them in either through foley and sound effects. I would like to use foley because the concept is cool and i like to be able to create the sounds how in want them to sound and i would like to put to use what we leaned earlier in the year about foley. 

As for the music https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/les-prisonnieres-epic-electronic this sound is what i would like to have for the opening scene while introducing characters and the credits are rolling then when the talking comes in we will stop it the only problem is I only like the first part after it gets to electronic but anything on the same concept of this song i would like. Never mind as making this blog post I’m pretty sure i found a better song that would fit better https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/last-light-epic-electronic. 

My hope is within this next week we will be able to find a song, because that is the only thing are missing right now. But after this blog post searching for a song i think i found the one which would be the last link. I’m pretty confident of this song. 

character development

 there will be two main characters in our film. My partner will be playing (the driver). And I will be playing lukias (the rich guy). In this blog I will be focusing on sharing the development of the character i will be playing.

Lukias Johnson 

the name Lukias Johnson was really juts weird name that popped up inside my head and fit the character well considering he is supposed to come off as a strange guy. lukias will be 35 years olds. he will be a rather quiet, smart, rich, and overall strange person. 

Lukias Johnson is a serious, intelligent man who tends to keep to himself. He doesn’t go t social events and parties, not even having his own birthday party. seeing them as pointless. Even with his Money and smarts, he carries a deep sadness because his mother is dying of cancer, and he can't do anything about it. Instead of showing his pain, Lukias keeps it inside to himself  from people. He's not mean, he's just private and locks his feelings away. To most, he seems cold and indifferent, but internally, he's a son dealing with heartbreak and unsure how to handle his loss.

story board

 Here is my story board which is the next in my story board. The sorry board helps me organize my ideas. Personally seeing my ideas or directions visually helps me focus better and like actually understand what I’m doing. Not only does the spotty board help you with the pre planning it also helps with the actual filming. It allows you to keep your filming more organized and cleaner while filming and editing. It definitely gets really stressful when your trying to film without guidelines so the story board will 100% help me succeed.

 

PLOT

 my partner and i have decided our genres for the opening, being action/comedy. Now we are starting to develop the plot and the actual opening, meaning like character background and things like that. For our plot we want to really give off the reason why the character are doing what they are doing. Also showing the clear differences in the two, and how two different personalities can work together. 

During the opening we want to not really have ton of dialog till the very end. During the begging sciences we want it to be strictly building both characters mindset, reasoning, personalities, etc… and the towards the end we will have the two characters collide and finally have a real conversation but a very brief one. As you can see from our past blogs we want to do shots where there are different people doing things at the same time. Also we will connect scenes  by using sound effects from one to the other. From example in on of the science we will have honking sounds upside a window or in the background and it will switch to the “baby driver” honking.

We didn’t want to make the opening to similar to Baby driver. So we created the idea that the rich and serious character has a sick mother with cancer and there is only one lab that has the cure and that is the reason he is doing this and we will pay the driver money to do the driving. We do have what we want the whole story to be or at least based off and the personalities=ties of the characters. However, we are still trying to figure out what we want to do to further push the character and give backround and how we will film  the actual driving scenes. 

My biggest concern right now is how we can make the opening look professional and clean while. And not going to over board with unrealistic ideas. Because my editing is not the brightest. Overall my partner and I or constantly coming up with better and brighter ideas everyday so I’m exited to see what we are going to end up creating.

MEDIA theory

 USES AND GRATIFICATION THEORY ( BLUMLER & KATZ)

uses and gratification Theory, developed by Blumler and Katz during the 1970s, is an explanation of media usage by individuals. Rather thanlooking at audiences as passive, theory suggests that actively they selectmedia to fulfill needs.

One of the fundamental principles is that individuals use media for somereason. Some use it for entertainment, such as video games or films. Others use it to learn, such as documentaries or reading news. Individuals can also use social media and forums to communicate or interact with each other.

This theory also suggests that media compete with other forms of entertainment. For instance, one individual might opt to use TV for entertainment, whereas another would opt to read a book or chat withother people. Individuals do know their options and select the media that will be most useful to them.

The theory has since extended to most websites. Social network websites, streaming sites, and online news all attract visitors for different reasons. Producers and firms that are aware of why consumers utilize media can more effectively pull their target audience.

The uses and gratification According to theory, individuals are likely to be aware of their use of media. As opposed to passive media theories that presume audiences are not aware of the ways media influence them, this theory presumes individuals can articulate the reasons for watching a particular media. With this self-awareness, you can effortlessly articulate your own reason whether relaxation, learning, or socializing. The theory presumes more audience control over media usage than ever. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uses_and_gratifications_theory#:~:text=The%20theory%20postulates%20that%20media,%2C%20social%20relationships%2C%20and%20diversion.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.thoughtco.com/uses-and-gratifications-theory-4628333&ved=2ahUKEwiXh6jN4MOLAxXNQzABHQiBCDcQFnoECDUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1z709kRgmEBO-V5JQ53nlm

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=http://cs.furman.edu/~tallen/csc271/source/socialMediaUsers.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiXh6jN4MOLAxXNQzABHQiBCDcQFnoECDQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw25tq75CSCO3sQXTR7EsxDl

Reflection on group meeting

GROUP MEETING

Surprisingly my group meeting went really well. So well that I actually changed a part of my opening scene. It was originally  that my partner Jano playing the driver in the movie would pick me up but my group said that it would be better if we actually met at the dinner instaead of me getting picked up so yea. Also my group helped me decide what type of back round music to use as well how to build my character a little better and use the time correctly 

One of my group members was having trouble picking a location to film and considering it was a western film I mentioned that this park called vista view park is a really good opinion because it have very nice hill and nice open background with like a westerly look. And i also helped developed another one of my patterneds film by helping her decide if the brother in the opening committed suicide or was murdered, we ended up picking suicide because it matched more to the character she was playing

Not only that but all of us came together are helped one group member that was having the most trouble. He was doing coming of age and we helped him develop an idea. Being that he would be a bully because his parenting were abusive then eventually he would bully someone that didn’t care and he would wonder why and they become a good person. 

I think the group member that had mostly all of it figured out was Joseph. He is doing like a band opening with someone that has anger issues who then eventually goes to murder people. And he had most of his story down. 

Overall i really enjoyed and found tons of great advice from the group meeting. Meeting and talking with the group really helped me figure out what works best and gives more option on on what seems to look the best. Thank you group memebers