https://youtu.be/K0Z3jAQmZyE

This is my CCR

Film

https://youtu.be/chS0N3Up7RE

This is the link to our film opening. Enjoy!!

(Note: The war is now between the U.S. and Russia.)

Oh Boy!!!

              It is Sunday and instead of watching the final round of the Masters I went to Robert's house to film. He made the executive decision to change some of the aspects of the plot due to the fact that we have to much content for the given amount of time which is 2 minutes. This is what we changed...

              He have not changed the idea of the dog tags for the opening credits for the opening scene. We decided to change the date to the birthday of the main character. The second clip of the opening will be the main character pulling in his drive way with his new car he got for his birthday. The main character will turn the radio on and the news will be playing where he eventually hears the broadcast about the war. The third clip is the main character walking to the mailbox to open up the mail. In the mailbox of course is the draft letter telling him to go to fight in the war. The fourth clip puts emphasis on how upset he is to go to the war. The main character will walk in and put the draft letter on top of his birthday cards he just got.

               Tomorrow we are going to discuss our dog tag idea. After talking about this idea we will begin editing to polish our new film. Make it the best that we can. We are taking a big risk changing some aspects of our movie at this point but I believe that we can pull it off.

                 
             

School Filming

          Today at school Robert, Alex, and myself walked around school filming for our opening scene. We filmed the main character who is played by Robert, walking into school all the way through him walking to his class. We will film some more aspects of his school life during the next class such as him listening to his teacher.

        We also applied our feedback from the other day that were given to us by our peers during our peer review session from Tuesday morning. We tried to focus on not making it seem as if it were an anti-war film.
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Peer Review

       Today in class we met up with other kids. We reviewed our projects in groups of 5.

      For about 5-10 minutes I talked about my project. I got some awesome feedback from my group too. I was told that our idea of the lighting change when our main character opens up the letter was a good one. Based off of the lighting change though my group asked me a great question...

      Is our movie an anti war film?
 
      That got me thinking. I answered with no because we are just showing how someone got drafted in the war and his story of going into that particular war. The group that I was apart of really liked our plot and thought that we should not change any aspects of it.

  

Action part c

                      Today, we began to film our final clip of the opening scene. We will be filming our school scenes at school withing the next week so we have time edit and change things if we need to. Robert went ahead and purchased Adobe which is helpful for our production. The last moves continuously as there are many cuts of the main character and him opening the draft letter telling him that he has to go serve in the war.

                        Our film opening will end with a fade into a dark green screen. We apologize, but due to the lack of funds we can't film anything about the violence or war. I am expecting by the week of April 2nd through April 9th, everything will be done and be edited.

                       We meet for 2 days during school next. We will be using these 2 days for the filming parts having to do with school and in the classes. We are coming close to the due date so we need to work hard and focus the last few weeks. We choose close up shots when the main character is working and being at school. This also shows that this child is normal and offers a realism perspective. This type of thing can happen to any normal child in America.

 

Action part B

                 Following our filming from the other day, we decided to attack a smaller problem of our project. We wanted to include the date so the audience knows when our film is taking place and can easily follow along. We chose the date to be May 3, 2019.

                 Keeping up with our last filming session, we still filmed our main character getting dressed and getting ready for school. After he is ready to go, there are quick cuts showing him and his father talking and having a normal discussion about that news dealing with the war. Our broadcast tells the audience that there is a war between the United States and North Korea. We decided to use mid-shots to allow the audience to focus their attention on the conversation between the two characters.

                 After that clip we are going to film the main character walking to his car so he can go to school. We went with a low angle shot here. After this we are going to insert a clip that we filmed at school showing the main character having a normal teenage life. We will be filming this clip sometime during class in the next. We chose to go with an establishing shot of the school so the audience can see where our main character goes.

                 We filmed the last scene at the same time as the other clips because it takes place at the main characters house. The last part of the opening scene is when the main character goes to the mailbox to get the mail and finds the letter that is drafting him to the war.