Silent Movie

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

Our silent movie turned out to be good. The acting was great by all of my peers. We all had a lot of fun doing it. We were productive as a group and finished before our classes deadline. The project was good and the plot of the movie was a old lady who really didn't get hit by a car but made a big fuss and ended up getting the alleged driver arrested at the end the old lady turned out to be the crook beciass she stole the mans wallet that the police officer threw on the ground while arresting the man.

We ran into some complications with filming. Our first camera's battery couldn't last the whole period! This rushed the filming of some of our scenes to the point where if we had a better camera we could of executed them better. The rest of the movie was filmed on an iPhone. This was one problem we overcame as a group!

The filming turned out to be okay. The one scene that was supposed to show the old lady getting hit by the car was filmed poorly. It shows my character pushing the car which was not supposed to happen. The scene didn't show the significance of the car not hitting the old lady. It can be hard to interpret if you don't know the plot ahead of time. We could of resolved this by going with the original idea of having a zoomed out camera angle and having both the driver and the old lady in view of the camera at the same time. This would of stressed the plot and I wouldn't be in the scene if we filmed it like this because I would have pushed the car to a speed where I wouldn't have been behind the car slowly wheeling him to the intersection. Staging was also not great. We can see a piano and many pieces of furniture in the scene. This was supposed to be a open highway. But all and all my group did great.

At the end of the day I am proud of my group for overcoming many obstacles such as lack of props and ended up  putting together a solid film. We will work harder and harder until we can achieve what we want in acting class.

Blog 4

 Our movement project last week turned out to be very good. Victoria is a very skilled actress and I enjoy working with her.  Our two roles were as  two little kids playing in the park  after arranging a play date.  In the beginning of the play her character was looking for mine and couldn't find him.  I then come out and we play hide and seek and at the end of the play my parents come to pick me up I wave good bye and that is how the play ends.  Our silent movie progress in class has been OK. Today  was a morning  class and no one was into it. Other classes some people are more involved than others, but we all did input our ideas on how we want to run this silent movie. Today was also tough becuase we don't have a clear cut director like last year who ran the movie scenes.  But in  class we came up with a good setting, plot and conflict.  Or silent movie is going to be about two crazy girl fans standing in line for hours before finally getting an opportunity to meet their favorite actor. But just as they get in the front of the line the famous actor decides to take a break from signing  autographs.  I will play the bodyguard that are standing in front of the actor while he is on his phone paying no attention to the only two fans that are left that want autographs. It'll be funny because it's highly unlikely he and the two girls will decide to overthrow the bodyguard and chase the famous actor around until they get their autograph in their way with him.

 It is sometimes difficult to be on the same page as my peers.  You'll have different ideas that we think are good. We try to incorporate all that but that's not how show business works.  Music gave us a little issues today we all found pieces that we think can work. It'll be tough to decide on one piece so we may need to incorporate more than one piece of music into our final project. The movers will be over exaggerated to emphasize the pot and conflict. Since we can't use your words we have to use our bodies to act. The  movements will show frustration, anger and happiness for the girls at the end and sorrow for the actor. The body guard will be unconscious.  I think this piece can  be really good if we all do our jobs and click together as one.