Vivian's Blog

      This week we learned how to make a story board and what goes into it. We learned about making shots and how to incorporate them into making our story boards.        Today in class, we worked on putting together our story for our first short film that we are going to make. We worked on making our story boards. As a group, we went scene by scene, figuring out what each scene is going to look like and what is going to be in it.       Our story will be about a girl who befriends an odd girl. Their friendship starts off just as awkward as any other friendship between teenage girls.  However, it goes very wrong when the creepy girls' evil intentions are revealed as being a spirit who is trying to take the girls' form. We decided that our short film will be mostly filmed in school. 

    Today in class we learned about the different camera shots. I learned that there are nine different shot sizes: establishing, master, wide, full, medium full/ cowboy, medium, medium close up, close up, and extreme close up (can also be an insert shot).      I found it very interesting that every shot size spreads a message about the environment, characters, or the plot.      After, my class went to the courtyard, and we practiced taking pictures with the nine shot sizes. I went up the stairs to take my establishing shot. I asked my friends to be my "models". Then, we learned how to use our google drive by uploading our pictures and download it to our computers onto a folder.