Production: Competition + digi cam footage

     This week I will be focusing on my last 3 scenes; the opening scene, competition, and the last shot entering the performance area. As I write this, it is currently thursday and I plan to film and edit during the weekend. I have a competition where most of my footage will be shot at, and finally this sunday I will get to see my younger actress to play my young protagonist "Aliya".

2nd update: I completely finished gathering all of my footage. I filmed all of the scenes now it's time to edit and plan CCRs. Since it is spring break I have plenty of time to focus on my editing and completing the most important part of the film opening: lower thirds. 

In this blog post I will be showing some clips of the footage I gathered from the past weeks, explaining the media conventions behind why I chose to film a certain way. Starting with my opening scene from my digital camera.

This was filmed on my Kodak pix pro digital camera. I made a stylistic choice to film on a digital camera so I could give the audience an older feel to what is going on in the clip. Essentially my younger actress is figuring out how to do this sport. It takes a lot of practice; however, I wasn't expecting anything perfect isntead I wanted to potray struggle. This helps me potray my Bildungsroman genre a lot especially because later we see thsi character grow into a teenager with an immensive amount of pressure put onto them.

This next scene takes us towards the end of the film opening, it is un edited so I need to cut some parts off. The use of the over the shoulder shot is to depict a conversation. This conversation is important to my film opening because it potrays the older protagonist explaining her struggle when it comes to performing.

She gets talked to by her friend who tries to calm her down before a performance and explains to her that it will all be fine. These types of talks before a performance are not fake, as a performer in color guard it takes a lot to be confident, especially when you have a crowd of thousands watching your every move. The dialogue is important as well that's why the over the shoulder shot was used to highlight this conversation.