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     In the opening sequence, the costumes we decided to use are the stereotypical usual and casual high-school outfits in order to capture the feeling of being in a young adult friend group and to capture the style of how students in high school dress up of the day. For example, Mahatha will be wearing a green hoodie to express the feeling to the audience that his outfit is very comfortable and he likes being cozy when he goes out. The color green is meant to represent the envy he has between Nathaniel and Dyanna. Another example is Nathaniel wearing an all black outfit with a graphic T-shirt, wearing rings and bracelets; he is using this type of clothes to express the type of goth/emo style called the "Casual Mall Goth." Dyanna will be wearing a JROTC uniform because it will be used to represent that she is involved with a group in school that she is interested into. The accessories that will be used are computers in order to signal the audience that this part of the da...

     Then group have decided that we will start recording our video next week, Jan 27 The easy parts of our filming would be the locations of where the story would take place (for example the library and the halls) and the roles of what the characters would be. The roles of the characters have already been discussed with the group with Nathaniel (me) and Dyanna as the general characters that drive the plot into motion and Mahatha will be the main character of the story that is being told. With the background production being Mahatha creating smooth and stylized edits and transitions of our opening film, Dyanna would be the best option of creating the scrip due to her method of story telling but she will hear us out with any recommendations, and finally Nathaniel (me) would be a great person to choose the song choices that would be included with the opening sequence of the film because as Dyanna stated I am able to bring out the emotion and feeling of the scene with the be...

The opening sequence of the film my group will create involves 3 friends that are a group, but two friends in the group (Nathaniel and Dyanna) have a better and close relationship (The mood Board has an image of two friends giving each other a good high five to represent their tight bond) and the one other friend (Mahatha) is feeling lonely and let out(represented through the photo of a guy sitting by himself). The setting will take place within a school library with a wide shot to establish the setting, and the props that would be used by the friend group are laptops for studying a future test. The only lighting that will be used is High key lighting( High key lighting is represented by the photo of the woman standing in a bright grassy field. 

Over the course of the class, we were discussing and debating on whether we're going to do a comedy or a drama short film. We did end up going for the drama route because we all have great ideas on what to do for our drama short film. Each of us had little segment ideas that we wanted to include and we decided to put them inside our storyboard which is below. 

  Dare to Thrill      The video had lost of handheld camera movements, and lots of close up images to allow the audience to notice the characters actions such as turning on the car and raising/lowering the volume of the music. There is an establishing shot of the parking garage to allow the audience to have an idea where these teens are located and why they are there.  Lots of mid level shots are used to give the audience the illusion of being the same height as the teens and the illusion of being one of the members of the friend group. The dark atmosphere allows a sudden mood change to appear because in the beginning the emotion that the audience can feel is happiness and cheerfulness, but once the characters hear the noise in the trunk the dark lighting allows the fearful and mysterious atmosphere to smoothly and strongly cover up the previous emotion that was being used. Always Watching      In this video, the main editing used are jump cuts, t...