First Part of Filming 

Hey guys! We are currently in spring break. I'm really glad to have a week off. We met up yesterday to film. I'm really glad that we finished most of the night scenes. We had a little bit of a struggle trying to get an actor. The guy that we had on the first pictures I posted couldn't this week so we had to get someone else to do it. One of the girls in the group contacted her friend, Fabrizio, and he was able to meet with us. We started filming around 10pm and finished around 2:30 am. Today when I woke up i was so tired but we had to meet up in the morning to film the day scenes. I'm gonna leave you guys some pictures that way you can check out how we filmed. We planned on meeting later today to finish the night scenes. This week I'm also gonna try to get part of my CCR done and if not completed at least started. If you guys are on a break too I hope you are having a good time! 

So this is what I made 

Hey guys! Today I started making the body parts that I told you guys I was going to make. I made the liver which doesn't really look like the liver in the picture that I took. Although, I folded it and put it in the jar and it looked like an organ. Funny story, I have never made slime so when I found the video of the little kid making the liver I still hadn't realized that it was slime, I ended up realizing it when I add the borax and water into the glue and saw the in-person effect. One of my friends loves to make slime but I never really did it, so I didn't know until I did it for this project. The worse part of all is that she gave me a little kit to make slime for my birthday besides the gift card and box with inspirational quotes, but I never used the kit cause it looked cute so I didn't want to touch it. I was gonna make the intestines but I decided to untangle the strings of marshmallows I was making. Instead, I decided to bundle them up and smash them. Basically, what was going through my head at that time was that it kinda looked like guts or like a brain, which would look cool and weird in the video. I'm sorry if the picture of the marshmallow makes you uncomfortable! The jars in the picture are filled with the blood that we are gonna spread around them. The liver is the slime which we will be cutting. :)

Fake intestines 

Hey guys! The other part of the body that we thought about doing was the intestines. I came across a video on youtube that is similar to what I wanted it to look like. I'm gonna post it on this blog post that way if you are ever in the mood to make fake intestines, just know you can come here and take a look at the video I found. Enjoy!

The fake liver 

One of the organs that I'm gonna have to make is the liver. I have been researching how to make a fake liver and I will be posting the videos that I came across with. The liver has no meaning behind it. We just decided to do it. We wanted to make sure we have different parts of the body in the film. These are some of the videos. 

If I choose to do this liver, I will be just painting it a dark red. I will not be detailing the parts like the Vena cava, Portal vein, Hepatic Artery, or the Gallbladder. 

 

Lava Lamps are a no go!

Hey guys! my group and I thought about it and we decided not to the lava lamps. What we decided to do instead is use the red and black dye and smear it around the mason jars, that is going to make it look as if it was dried up blood. This will give the viewers an idea that he has done this before. I think we are going to have to put it in the fridge so the "blood" can appear to be dried up. Here is a picture of how we want it to look like. 

We filmed today! 

Hey guys, we finally did it! We started filming. Although, we may not be using the videos that we were able to film today because we want to change something in the setting. I will be posting some of the videos that we will actually be putting in our final project. Right now we messed around with the lighting and we got a good idea of what to do so that the video comes out just like we want it. I will leave you guys some pictures of how we set up the garage. I think it was a really productive day for all of us. We also got to do the blood for the scenes and the heart that will be "taken out of her". 

Schedule 

Our schedules this week were a little hard to correlate. We will definitely have to meet next week to start shooting the videos and start the editing process. This week we decided what our title was gonna be and we also finished our storyboard. My teacher showed us some samples of CCR's so next week I'm going to try my best to get ahead on that. I feel like it would be best if I start now rather than later. My spring break is coming up next week and we are going to try to get most of the project done during that time. I hope you guys are having a nice weekend! Talk to you guys soon!

Title 

We came up with Blood Date as our title. We are still messing around will the font of the letters to see which one would look better. The colors that we will definitely be implementing is red and white. We want to cross out the title seconds after it is displayed. We feel that it will add a lot of curiosity and horror in the film. 

I posted three pictures of how the title of some, of the horror movies that I liked, looked like. 

Addition to storyboard 

We finished our story Storyboard! We are super excited to start filming and editing. I'm gonna list each shot and explain them to you guys. 

Number 14 is a low angle medium shot of the murderer putting the heart in the jar. The audience will be able to see what specific organ was picked from the victim. The organ will have something to do with the story of why each victim got killed. 

Number 15 is a close up of the murder's hand opening the fridge door. This is going to show how the murder preserves most of these organs. 

Number 16 is a close-up of the heart being up in the fridge. The camera will be on the inside for this shot. The audience will kinda be able to see the murders but he will be wearing a mask. 

Number 17 This shot is right after the fridge door is closed. The whole screen will go black and the title in red and white letters will come on screen. It will say Blood Date (crossed out). 

Number 18 Is going to be a "5 months before" scene of the girl in her kitchen getting lunch ready. We will try to show a sneak peek of what their life was like. 

Groups input 

Hey guys! So, today is my birthday! I’m super happy. So, today we meet up in groups and talked to other groups about our ideas and such. I had a really good time. We shared a lot of input with each other. We really like meeting with other people that way we can acquire knowledge on a lot of things. We basically talked about everything. 

Here are some things they suggested: 

If my group and I wanted to create the blood for the video that we should use chocolate syrup and dye it red. 

If we wanted to create the sound of the heart being ripped out, we should buy tomatoes and peppers and record the sounds of us eating them. 

They also suggested watching Dark Tourist. 

One of my peers read my post and suggested to go to a website called Grammarly. This website helps correct any errors in spelling, grammar, and more. 

Lighting details 

I decided to go on YouTube and search for lighting videos. The videos that i posted on this blog post have really informed me on how to use lighting on dark spaces and how manipulating lighting may help create a different type of feeling on the film. We don't have as good of resources that some of these video are able to provide but i think that by using some of the lamps that i have around the house i will be able to manipulate the lighting is the scenes that we film. The first video that is displayed showed me how to pull of good lighting on a low budget. Some of the things that i saw him use i have around my house, so that is good.  These videos have taught me that putting the light towards the wall or towards a poster board can have a good effect on the lighting of the room, so that is something that i will definitely be trying. This information is going to be very useful when we start filming in the garage. Hopefully now that we have these video we won't be running into lighting issues. 

Twitter Idea 

Hey guys, this weekend i was scrolling through twitter and saw a video of kids making lava lamps. I decided that the lava lamps really resembled the idea that i had for where the murderer would keep the body parts. I have a feeling that it is going to look great in the video. I like the sciency effect that is gives the water. I will be leaving you guys a video of how to make these lava lamps  from scratch.We will be keeping these body parts in mason jars. I also really like how they are going to look in the darkish lighting that we are going to have in the garage.  I will also be updating you guys as to what my group thinks of this idea. 

Additions to Storyboard 

Hey guys! We met up this week and added scenes to our storyboard. We decided as a group to change the story from a stalker person to him just being full on cannibalistic. We think going that route is going to help us come up with a film that is different from what is usually seen. I hope you guys enjoy the additions we have made to our storyboard. 

Number 10 This scene is going to be a close-up of the murderer grabbing the victim's jar. We plan on showing this so the audience can see how he had it planned out. The other jars next to it will too have names of different people, this will show that he keep his victims parts a way to remember them. 

Number 11 This scene involves a medium shot of the murderer looking diagonally upwards. This scene will help us transition to a picture of the victim and of his other victims. 

Number 12 This scene shows a close-up of the victim's picture and of it being grabbed. This shot was created to get the audience more involved in the murderer's world. By doing this shot the audience will get a feeling as if they are closer to the murderer, since they are able to see things through his eyes. 

Number 13 This is a close-up of the victim's picture and it being crossed out. This shows how he has "gotten the job done". This also shows that the murderer is emotionless, he is able to do that to a person and makes it look like its some regular task that he has. 

Number 14 We didn't have time to finish drawing this one but we will be doing a low angle medium shot of the murderer putting the heart in the jar. This will show what type of body part the murderer decided to get from his victim. 

Schedule 

Hey Guys! I hope you guys are having a really nice week. I just took my first SAT test today. I think it went well and lets just hope it did. I met up with my group on Tuesday and we started talking about the things we need do for our film. We decided that we needed to research more things about human cannibalism, that way we can portrait more of their traits in our film. We also need to figure out the lighting situation, so i will be researching that too. Specially since we are going to be filming in a garage and we need the lighting to be able to see our character really well but still make the background of the character dark. Another thing we want to research is how to make the water were the organs are going to be on gooe. I will be post the research soon and another picture of the scenes we have added to our story board. I truly don't understand how people can eat human parts.. I get pale just by seeing human blood. Yikes..

Upcoming!

This upcoming week my group and I are going to try finishing up the storyboard. As soon as we get that done i will post a picture of the new one and the changes we made to it.  We also want to start getting all the materials we need for the film that way we can start filming. I will try to keep you guys updated as much as i can during each process. I want to start researching ways that we can film in dim lighting and still get all the characters movements seen clearly. I want to find some type of coloring to make the water look cool and scientific where we are keeping the fake human parts in. Another section of the film we should start looking at is the music that it going to be played during this scene. I hope to find a song that goes with the film by providing an edgy and suspensive vibe.

Feedback!

We had a group meeting this week. In this group meeting i got to meet with my other classmates and discuss what we think of eachothers progress. I shared with them the ideas that we had for the storyboard and they also looked at my blog posts. My classmates told me that they really liked how informative my blog postings were but that i should start spacing out the writing a bit more. I think they are right so I’m gonna start spacing out my writing, which in reality makes it a nicer reading experience. I also decided to change the background of my blog site.

One of my classmates told me that for Horror films the key thing is to build suspense. She also gave me some cool ideas like putting some bloody towels covering the body. She told me to look at scream, which is a really well establish horror clip. They told me that it could be hard to make it look like the guy is pulling out the heart and that we should try to go a different route like having it out already. They thought that it would be cool if we did a pan movement through the jar and emphasize on the heart by zooming into it. I plan on sharing this feedback with my group and making some changes to the storyboard. Im gonna leave you guys a link to Scream (1996) in case you can't open the video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3lSvJ5RXKA

Storyboard Time!

Hey guys! So my group and I started to work on our story board. I’m gonna leave you guys with a picture of the clips that we have thought about. I really hope you guys like. We are trying to putting in shots that are usually seen in a horror film. As you can see under each clip there is a description of what types of shots are being used and what filming process. There will be a lot of panning movements. We are planning on showing the names of the producers were it says “name”. 

So for number 1 we want to show the title of the movie at the door. We thought about it appearing in bold with blood dripping off it. 

Number 2 is going to be him turning on the light and the name of one of the producers appearing were it was “name”. This shot is going to be displayed on mid shot which means only showing half of his body. He will also be wearing a black hoodie. 

Number 3 is going to be a close-up of his feet he is going to be walking into the garage. As he steps into the garage we were thinking on putting the title on the floor and the feet crushing it. 

Number 4 is a long shot of the dead body that way the audience can get an idea of what is occuring in the garage. They are gonna see a dead women there with blood all over her and the floor. 

Number 5 this is a continuation of number 4, the guy  will walk into the long shot frame. 

Number 6 in a medium shot of the murder placing his hand in the body. 

Number 7 will be shown in a low angle and its going to be a close-up of the heart being held. This is metaphoric for the way she broke his heart. 

Number 8 He will proceed to a table in the garage. This shot is gonna be an over the shoulder shot of him placing the heart in a jar. 

Number 9 will show a panning movement across the table. There will be different jar with different type of body parts and the heart will be in the middle of all these jars. 

We plan on getting the fake heart and body part from Amazon. We are really trying to get body parts that look realistic. We plan on getting the fake blood from Party city. We struggled a little with where to film the scenes because my friends in the group don’t have a fridge in their garage but i do. So we are going to do the fridge part in my garage and do the scenes of the girl and the jars and table in another garage, because i don’t really have space in my to put a table and the girl laying down. We also have to find a way to put some dim lighting so it can get a creepy/scary vibe but have to still be able to show the characters movement really well. 

Its happening! We started!

Hey Guys! So this week was the first week that i meet up with my group. We decided on basing our film opening on a Horror genre. I’m so thankful that on my last post I decided to do a lot of research on what it takes to make a horror film. We decided to base our ideas on three really good shows and film such as You, Quantico, and The purge. You is a netflix original it has been getting great ratings since its release. The first day i started to watch it, i couldn’t stop, I really recommend it. You has a great mix of stereotypes. It involved a guy who meets a girl and starts to stalk her every move. I won’t make any other comments because I don’t want to ruin it for you. We plan on bringing quantico into the equation because of the way the story is displayed on most of its episodes. What we loved about the purge were the mask and the edgy effect it has on its watchers. How we plan on mixing these three authentic shows and films you may ask? Well we hope on creating a film opening that shows this creepy stalker and how he kills a girl that he liked. We want to tell the story in a sequence that is similar to the one of quantico. Such as starting from the last scene of the movie. We want to show the killer in the garage and have some cool type of story play out. I will keep you guys updated as to what happens next!

I'll gonna leave you guys some pictures of the two shows and the film. You can find Quantico and You on Netflix. The Purge is on Amazon prime.