How the hell did a regular day become a literal hell on earth filming session

 oh my god oh my god this is terrible

have to make this blog during fucking filming because of how long this is taking,

We agreed to meet up to finish off filming at 4, Its currently 11:32.

alright for now ill go over some positives and fun stuff, because I think i'd go insane if i started with all the negatives.

ren had a suprise cameo, hes playing the guy who gets a heart attack and gets run over.

I also brought pizza when i got there really good stuff it was stuffed crust half pepperoni half cheese and i got it for free since I work at papa johns :plead:

I have some video here

ren cameo

anyways so after a while of filming we had planned to go to the church near sundown to get the scene thats literally at the beginning (which we havent gotten for some reason) buttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Easter meant almost no parking, we were already running a bit late, and then when we did get there (kind of on time, probably still not enough time to film the whole thing), Joaquin forgot the jacket or coat for annie. Which was so painful to our morale. 

Also, we noticed that the church was closing, so we created this like mental blockade that the church would close the gates and we wouldnt be able to film the nighttime scenes there or atleast park there to flim them. We spent like 30 mins seeing what else we could do (like do a 24 min walk from the ymca to the church in an underilluminated sidewalk because freaking weston sucks for walkability) and it turned out the church just didnt close their gates lol. Major time waste and pissed us all off :sob:

Since then, nothing really bad has affected production, but I think everyones energy is in the trenches, same with our morale. Everyone wants to go home and we're in too much of a rush to get effective bts.

Heres what i did get though, I guess.

joaquins dog

Joaquin getting a good shot at night with a questionable pose

10:30

Edit: Its 12:30 i think i can leave now im not so sure though, helppppppp

Post production stuff

 we got a list of sound effects to work on, but since we kind of finisehd filming hella late we just made ts and have to do it in like 3 days guh :broken_heart:

heres the list

SFX:           

• footsteps 

• Clothing being grabbed/ruffled with

• General outside ambience

• Rosary falling on the ground

• Wind blowing

• Footsteps on grass

• Car arriving on church

• Paper list and business card noises (paper noises)

• Car driving noises

• Car parking noises

• Car seat noises

• Putting up flyer noise

• Otto’s nose being broken

• Sounds of otto writhing around on the floor

• Otto being dragged around the floor

• Flyer being ripped out of tree

• Heart noises

• Car speeding by noise

• Blood splatter noise

• Heavy thud from being ran over

• Scribbling on paper noises

• Gun noise

• Fingers going over concrete

• Crawling through concrete

• Glass hitting the floor

• Hellish noises (made with my mouth :P)

Joaquin said the red ones were gonna be done with foley and the yellow ones were gonna be downloaded.

Im gonna help him with some of these foley things while Emi does most of the editing as of right now

I would like to point out something lowk. What the hell is car arriving at church sound :sob:

like all of these noises make sense in their names besides "car arriving at church"

like obviously car arriving at church means like car noises slowing down and stopping

cuz like that one scene with mabel arriving while otto and annie talk for the first time

its lowk kinda funny tho

i think i might be dumb

im a fat chud.

Okay next week I'll be posting a tiny bit about the foley probably, if I can.

this is completely off topic but I joined my friend cuz he told me he got a new avatar and I see this

Idek what to say guh :broken_heart:

Production day 2-3!

 "Hey scourge fam!" -Me, ready to announce the dumbest thing ever.

Alright anyways so hey guys hows it going im good how about you really? i didnt know that they did that oh yeah the kids are great awesome so when are we gonna do the thing should we get a cup of coffee?

okay seriously now hi guys.

Scourge fam got to film again so im merging these 2 days as one (totally not because i mixed up the video and dont really know whats from each day)

DAY 1 of 2 (i think)

This was saturday morning, this was the first time not filming at the church and we got to go to both emi and joaquin's neighborhoods to film stuff. On this day we got some shots done regarding the scene where Otto was putting up posters (and lying on the ground after I punched her), some scenes with my character Isaac being a pissy guy, and we got to practice the scene with the guy that gets run over (i hated that, the way joaquin wanted to do it was not safe at all.) 

This day was not the most successful of both days, but it was still great as we were essentially ramping up in speed and getting more grounded into our work.

Real quick: emi

DAY 2 of 2 (probably)

This day was more interesting, we had our guest actress for mable and we had to lock in and film most of the mable scenes given the opportunity. We got a lot of great shots and my annoying ass character was in there again. At some point we needed to film the car scene (mable and otto talking in the car) and for some reason went to publix. Funniest thing happened, Joaquin said we needed to buy popcorn chicken for the scene, whenv he came back with the chicken we reviewed the script and realized that the popcorn chicken was not nessesary and was included as more of a joke which was hilarious (but wasteful). That chicken was good as hell though.

As for the last stuff, we got everything outside of the final scene and I think the run over scene done, which is great because it means we wont have to film anymore after next time.

Heres some video and images to go along with this awesome description :plead:

Last but not least

quick update on postcards (again...)

 I know all ive really talked about recently has been the postcard aspect of our project, but I think we finally got our final design nearing.

This is the business card that will be handed to Otto in the film.

Now that we have a finalized design to utilize in the film itslef, we can use this to develop the final design for our postcard. I decided that as of right now (that i dont exactly have feedback) Ill just try out new things on my own. For the back I decided to stay close to the previous design (as seen below) Its not the greatest but its still pretty solid for the postcard back and If I gotta change it later its easy to do.

As for the front of the postcard, I dont need a redo, I just really need to take out the "Annie Christian" name and replace it for something else, SO I got the idea to just put our names. Its got me really doubtful though, So It probably wont stay like that. As I said before, the rest of the card can stay the same.

with this I have the good news that the postcard (at least the first one [If we do decide to make another]) is almost done! Just another review with my teammates will probably put the nail on the coffin.

Thanks yall :plead:

Production day 1

 Hey guys Today we started our first day of production!

This production day was a little bit underwhelming since there were so many limitations. For one, we didnt have microphones, so we couldnt record audio. Then our actor for Mabel was not present (not that big of a deal), Joaquin forgot his sd card so we had to strictly use emi's camera (also not that big of a deal), the church we were filming at started a mass at 7, which meant lots of people came in and came out like an hour later, interrupting a lot of our filming, our timing was awful and it took us far too long to be fully prepared, and lastly, when we finally got mics (fetched from the big E [emi]'s house) they picked up a bit too much (of like the cars and stuff passing by) and we couldnt really get much done.

Heres what did go well

We got a general gameplan, we filmed a lot of scenes that didnt require audio or mabel, and we now know to get mics. Oh also we got a slight confidence boost.

yeah so....

um....

anyways lemme share some images and video from there

we goofed off a lot while shooting our bts footage. Despite not finishing much, it was fun and we got the general idea of what we wanted to do.

script finally written

hey guys! 

Joaquin wrote the script which is great!

Though he wrote it at the end of spring break, which isnt great...

but I might as well look it over right?

the script is here!

okay so some key modifications that were made is the uh...

oh this was written over the original version.

gulp

okay i cant really make any comparisons with evidence, but ill use my old blog post on the script to help.

Immediately  I noticed that joaquin had changed the scenes of otto completing the list to be... not a montage. Instead its a fully fleshed out scene and then the rest is implied, which is honestly nicer since a montage could ruin our pacing or at the very least heavily affect it.

Another thing I like is how a lot of jokes were kept in or simply improved, like for example how the "serious medical condition" was added in and also how it had an extra appearance. Or the addition of the chicken joke and uh.

damn I really dont have much do I.

Well Ill end off by saying that Joaquin is lowk a great writer and he could very easily go on to work in the film industry.

screenshot from a game session with my friends

Like... Joaquins writing is lowkirkenually

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spring break 2nd post

Hi guys!

this weeks lowkirkenuinly a bit rough. It seems like things are going kind of wrong here.

Theres a lot of editing going on in our story, which would usually be fine but the thing is we are past the halfway point, which is a bit scary because it means we're pretty behind in our project. Joaquin is currently writing the finalized script for the film (they said we gotta make a lot of changes and stuff), but Joaquin seems to be taking their sweet time on it which honestly worries me. Emi's been working on the social media recently, and I've started on the postcard, which is great because it means that we arent completely behind.

Yo Zamudio, are you gonna do anything about this?

Im a fat chud 

okay so anyways hopefully by next post the script is actually out so we can review it and finalize our planning / schedule a date to film

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