Sunday, March 17, 2019
Text Messages Script
Located below is our script for the online conversation that our main character, Lucy, is going to be having once she finishes watching the news broadcast. Moreover, in this text message conversation that my partner and I created, we made sure to include the modern-day slang of teenagers. For example, words such as "wack" that translate to "crazy" and phrases such as "tbh" that mean "to be honest". Also, the use of all capitol letters helps put emphasis on certain words such as when Tiffany states "ANSWWWER SIS" because Sydney was not active in the chat. Therefore, this leads viewers to wonder what could have happened to Sydney. Thus, by using this language, we capture the age group that Lucy and her friends are a part of. Furthermore, the group chat consists of four young girls: Lucy, Sydney, Taylor, and Tiffany.
Getting Footage for our News Broadcast
On March 15, 2019 (Friday) my partner and I went to Sawgrass Mills Mall to get the footage for a scene in our film opening when we show the news broadcast that our main character, Lucy, would be watching. In this part of the news broadcast it shows a video of just how desperate and worried some individuals are getting due to the situation regarding people killing themselves because they picked up the phone.
Moving on, my partner and I went to the mall and got some of the handheld, shaky shots I explained in a previous blog post. Here is a vlog consisting of a brief explanation on what we did during our trip to the mall:
Change of Plans
In a previous post, I mentioned that my partner and I have decided to utilize shot-reverse-shot with the messages our main character would be receiving from her phone throughout our film opening; however, after a class discussion last week, my partner and I have reconsidered the idea of having the text messages show up on screen next to Lucy when she receives them.
The class discussion consisted of groups of 5 students coming together and explaining their advancement with their film opening project. Moreover, one of the students in my group wasn’t convinced that the use of shot-reverse-shot to show the text messages was the best way to go. Thus, she made the suggestion that my partner and I make use of text messages that appear on screen, and I told her that my partner and I had been trying to decide on that the week before. I also told her that we decided to use shot-reverse-shot just because of how much more practical it was compared with making the text messages show up on screen. However, she told me about an editing tool named “Adobe Premiere Pro” that she had used once before and that she remembers there were ways to mimic the screen of a phone of the video clip itself. She also told us about the 30-day free trial and brought up some of the same points that I mentioned before in a previous blog post on the benefits of using texts that appear on the screen. Some of these benefits include the following:
- One can see the facial expressions of the character on screen
- It is visually/artistically pleasing
- It showcases my team’s capabilities in editing
^^More benefits can be seen in this video made by Tony Zhou^^
As a result from the group discussion I explained before, my partner and I decided on having text messages that appear on screen next to Lucy in our film opening and having the shot-reverse-shot of actually showing the phone as our “plan B” or backup plan if we have trouble with the editing required in the first option of displaying the texts. Thus, we will be doing the 30-day free trial for “Adobe Premiere Pro” and we will be playing around with the all the editing tools it has. We will update any advances or setbacks we have in a future post.
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