Week 6

10/25/13

On Friday we all agreed that we were behind on our movie. I think we were all ready to work because we actually got a lot done. I'd say that over the course of Friday and the weekend we've made the most significant headway on the project as of yet. In class we read through the script and saw a lot of holes or creative mistakes rather. We didn't have time to correct everything in class so I was chosen to edit it over the weekend. Editing has been going good. I don't think I realized how much there was to add detail wise until I started editing. There was a basic storyline but most of the actual scenes where in our heads. On paper (or computer rather) it made just about no sense. There were no shot commands and most actions were in paragraph form. I'm not finished with editing yet but I'm hoping to be finished my Monday and can e-mail it to Heidi, Bailey, and J.Ben so they can look over it. In class we also discussed when we are going to start filming. We all set aside next weekend to start out filming. On Monday everybody is going to bring some money and give it to Bailey so that she can buy all the special effects make-up and other materials by Friday when we start filming. Over all I think it was a productive week.

Heidi practicing her creepy face. 

Hard at work. 

Week 5

10/17/13

This week we had a half day Friday so we worked on our project on Thursday instead. We only had part of the class to work on Thursday because of exam. So obviously we didn't get as much done as on other weeks. We worked only partially on the script. We decided we needed to calculate all the costs and find who is going to be our first zombie before filming starts. Bailey has all the costs calculated because most of it will be spent on special effects make-up which is her area. They are not completely finished because we might find things that we still need once we start filming. The rough draft came out to about $15 per person. I don't see this cost being a problem for anybody in the group. We still aren't 100% sure how we want to end our short film but we thought that we would wait until our whole group is here to figure it out. I personally want to start filming either 10/26 or 11/2. I don't really think that filming will take that long but I also didn't think that writing script would take that long so the sooner we start the better.

Week 4

10/10/13

On friday we worked on the script for our short film, Day of the Zombie. We got a good portion of it done. It will probably only take us one more class day to finish it. Then we have to start filming. We talked about filming a little bit during class too. We still aren't sure of a location. We are going back and forth between Bailey and Heidi's houses. Anna also offered to let us use her house because it has a the right setting for our movie. We will probably decide on a location next class so that we can start filming soon. We will not be filming next weekend because some of our group members already have plans. It would be ideal to start filming the weekend after that though. That also gives us time to gather all the special effects make-up that we need. I don't think that finding a camera will be hard. J.Ben said he had one and Heidi said she could borrow one from her brother if we needed too. Heidi's brother also has a lot of filming equipment we can use. Overall I think we have enough script done to be back on track soon.

Group work!

Script spoiler! Hasn't been edited though. 

Week 3

10/4/13

Today we were all in class, so we got to work as a group again. I received the file that had the updated outline and read over it in class. Everybody in our group created an account on Celtx.com and we shared the file containing the script. Now we can all add to it and work on it and be able to see what other people within our group are adding to it. We only got about the first scene done on the script. We all think that we should start meeting after school to work our zombie movie but we haven't decided on a date yet. We agreed that filming should start soon and after we start filming we should have a shot that we can use to make our movie poster. While doing evaluations we decided that Bailey and I are going to be the main script writers, from help with J.Ben and Heidi. We already knew that J.Ben would be the lead in filming and editing. Heidi is going to help with location, snacks, and costumes or clothing in general. Bailey is going to do all of the special effects make-up and I will help with regular filming make-up. I think that we are doing good as long as filming or at least some more script writing starts soon.