CCR!! ALL DONE

Welcome back this is Jonathan Linder and this is my CCR!! I hope you enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=048iJmSIbc0

WE FINALLY FINISHED , filming

          Yesterday April 5, 2017 Andres, Austin, Harrison, and I finished filming. We went to Andres house at 7:00 P.M Austin ran a little bit late. When everyone got  to Andres house we all went outside and planned how we should film the scene in the car.As we all got into the car the sun was perfect for the first scene of Brennan gazing out of the window just thinking. The second scene we got was the top of the car as we drove by, to accomplish this scene Harrison stood in a tree ,watching him get down was a sight to see. The final car scene was from a low angle of the car turning into the driveway and the kids getting out. Once we got back to the house we filmed the scene where Pablo confronts Brennan about him still being depressed. During all of these filming sessions  we didn't have a tripod to film on so we came up with innovative ways to film while still having the camera stabilized.The different ways we got the camera still was by leaning it on the seat in the car, resting the camera on our leg, and we even balanced it against a tree branch. By doing this we created a shot with no movement causing the scene to look more like an actual scene in a movie rather than not like 4 kids just filming on a phone.

Finishing up

Hello I'm realllllllly busy but I'm here to check in and say we have finished editing the video and it looks soooo cool. Austin, Andres, Harrison, and I talked about this all class and we hope you guys enjoy it as much as we do. Difficulties we faced during this project was lack of communication because the three other members in my group discussed this project in english class where I wasn't. Another issue was the uncertainty among Austin even though all the other group members agreed on something he still didn't know what he wanted to do. The other difficult thing about this was filming during the right lighting.




HERE IS OUR FILM , CHECK IT OUT:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHJrMVIOTE&feature=youtu.be

FILMING FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Today my group and I went to Markham park the "Hobo Hole" and filmed for our movie Unlaced. Overall i think i went okay but w could've filmed extra shots just so if something happened we wouldn't have to go back and film something new . Our group was suppose to meet there at 1:00 but i didn't get there till 1:20 because the directions brought me to the same place three times! When we got over to the Hobo hole I looked up and was frightened by the steepness of the rap but don't worry I eventually made it up there. Once our group figured out he filming I had to go back down to film with Harrison but there was one problem, I was afraid of heights so after countless trys and a little bit of crying i got back down the steep ramp.

While Harrison was lying down on the dirt pretending he was dead he got bit by a couple of ants which was pretty funny.  The Hobo Spot wasn't too bad of a place to live if it was a last resort for living purposes.

For the opening to our film Harrison suggests we start it like The Walking Dead opening where it ends in a drum. Austin wants to do a backwards piano key so we will have to see which we go with.

Character descriptions

Howdy partners. In our film Unlaced we have four friendsBrennan, Leo , Franklin, and Pablo. In this post I will describe the Characters backgrounds and appearances.

BRENNAN: He is 18 year old student who does well in school. He is 5'9 and his friends and family care deeply about him.He is a very religious Christian. Brennan who is confused about his sexuality has a girlfriend whose name is Cassandra. In his free time  Brennan  plays sports with his friends.


FRANKLIN: He is an 18 year old student who loves to play with turtles and listen to music. He is 5'10 with brown hair and he is tan. He has brown eyes and is closer to Pablo than Brennan and Leo. He is a man in the Jewish community and loves partying with his friends.

PABLO: He is 18. He loves to drive and he loves to dance around anywhere he can.

LEO: Has Green eyes. He is gay and has feelings for Brennan. He is 5'6 and doesn't like to shave. He has family issues and his parents are always fighting. He is usually in his room crying and doesn't like  to go outside.

I AM SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE DO HAVE SOME SYBOLISM IN OUR MOVIE!!      Brennan means sorrow and there is a lot of sorrow in this movie.

If you don't believe me click here >>http://www.ohbabynames.com/meaning/name/brennan/1429#.WOGrnxiZN-V

Problems Problems Problems

 Even though we are going with Austins idea of Drama/Mystery it is just as hard to come up with an idea as the thriller/horror genre. This week has been an interesting week for me and my group members. On Monday we went through the whole class , yet we still had no idea for a film opening. We had an idea in place where the film opening starts at Markham park with a quick wide shot  of the tree line which we slowly tilt down to show a shoe sitting on the ground behind a dead body .The next scene will be a shot of our main character Brennan sitting in the car and gazing out the window while wearing dark and gloomy clothing while his two other friends Franklin and pablo are having a good time in the car while signing and dancing. Once the three boys get to pablos house Franklin says " Come on brennan get over it , it has been a week since leo died" and Brennan responses with"You don't understand how much he meant to our friendship." Brennan walks home and still depressed he takes out a picture from from under his bed and throws it against the wall while crying. Three of our group members wanted to use that idea and build off of but still one member in our group believes there is a better idea out there but we will have to wait and see because right now he doesn't have one.


On Wednesday we met in our groups and discussed our projects with our classmates , the classmates in my group really liked our idea over the thriller/horror idea. Even though Austin wasn't 100% into our gay  idea we are going with it. One of my classmates suggested that we should have someone running up to the shoe in the end of the film opening to show how someone discovers the dead body  and is going to try to find out what happened. They liked how the rest of our movie plot would just revolve around Brennan and how he is trying to hide the fact that he killed leo.
 

Beauty ad the beast!!! Suggestions for our film

   Hello I just got back from watching beauty and the beast and I absolutely loved it. The mis en scene was amazing the costumes were spectacular and the songs were pretty darn cool. Even though beauty and the beast isn't a drama , I still have some cool ideas we can use in our film,
       
        My first idea is that we should connect a name of something to another thing it means , in beauty in the beast Belle also means beauty so thats where the movie name comes from. In our movie we can have something in the car that describes how the kid died and it can be in another language so no-one understands what it means until you tell them. In our movie i also believe we should have the kids that are joyful and jubilant wear colorful clothes and the sad kid should wear black or gray to signify sadness. While the kids are in the car they should be listening to pop music , the sad kid can have head phones in while listening to songs played on the piano.