Final pitch

The first pitch we narrowed down to was the Iranian war. This movie topic really doesn’t contain pros to it because it involves war so there will be many more cons than pros. The Iranian war pitch contains cons such as war, death, altercations, world dominance, and many other factors. These cons will allow the topic of war to be put out more and show a real visual of what war is like. We got this off of what is happening today in our country, the United States vs. Iran. Other cons that could come with this pitch is government schemes, nuclear warfare, and etc. The pros that come with this pitch could possibly be world peace, nuclear deals, and etc. We believe the cons will completely counteract the pros and will be a more violent movie throughout everything. The entire movie will most likely contain other problematic things such as other countries being involved to find peace with each other.

Our second pitch involves a sensei and his student. There will also be many cons in this movie pitch because the topic involves the student almost killing his sensei due to his newfound martial arts strength and abilities. The movie will be in chronological order in which the sensei has to team up with an old friend to revoke his pupil’s abilities. There will also be showings of the extent the student will go to, to obtain even greater power. The only pros will possibly be the sensei remembering the good times he shared with his pupil and only taking away these abilities and not ending his life. Although there will be a lot of money to gain in theaters as it is an action film and action is a genre that usually does well. Another pro is there’s a lot of different ideas that could be added to the overall movie to keep the audience tuned in. Looking at the creator's perspective, a film like this is also a lot easier to create as you would only have to get certain costumes and film different fighting scenes. And because we’re only making the beginning of the film, the flashback fight only has to be around 30 seconds and using different camera angles and takes that shouldn’t be too difficult. Although this pitch does contain a couple of cons, overall the pros definitely outweigh the cons.

I think it’s clear as to what pitch we’ve decided to use. The sensei gets revenge plot is an action-packed film that would gain a lot of popularity. The real focus is how will we acting create the film. It’s going to take a group effort from everyone and a great amount of time. If done well this film can actually look really interesting. And this is going to be the most entertaining project to make as it will be able to create actual fight scenes. Shooting those scenes and editing them to perfection is what’s going to bring our film together. And playing the part will also be very important. Meaning that we’ll actually need costumes for the sensei and student. A red liquid to replace blood and scenes shot at different times of the day. We will definitely need multiple days to film certain scenes if needed to make the great final project.

Starting the final task

Hi my name is Quincy and I am a sophomore at Fort Lauderdale high school. I am in the Pre-Law and public affairs magnet program at Fort Lauderdale and hope to get my Cambridge diploma once I graduate high school. One thing about me is that I enjoy playing video games. Video games are very enjoyable when playing with friends or playing competitive. It also provides benefits to the human body such as hand-eye coordination. I also really enjoy watching shows on Netflix because they have good plots and amazing actors in every one of their shows. I love my life the way it is and enjoy the people that are around me. They always help and support in any way that can to see me succeed. My group members that I am working with are Arisondez and Marckins. These two are the same people I've been working with all year.

There are many things that I have learned throughout all the previous projects that have helped with many other projects. I have learned how to work a camera and record the best that I could possibly do. I also learned how to how to completely work with my partners by building chemistry with every project that we do. I also learned how to edit to a certain extent to make our videos sharper and cleaner for visuals and sound quality. There are certain things I bring to the group to keep us focused and get through our work. I always involve myself in making sure everyone has a task to keep us all occupied and finish our work faster. I also involve myself into bringing the supplies to carry around for recording and bringing them all back. My role in the group isn't too much but it it keeps us flowing and not being stopped by any hitches. Our group functions on all of our contributions and each of us get work done when we're all on the same page.

A pitch is a Hollywood term to describe an idea where a film is encapsulated in 25 words or less. This is also known as an elevator pitch and is usually within one sentence. The first pitch idea that we came up with is based off an Iranian war. One day the main character receives mail that states that he’s been drafted to the next world war against Iran and after he forgets government officials knock at his door giving him the option to either fight in the war or go to jail for life. For our second pitch we thought that we could possibly make a film out of a guy who’s a rapper and is angry at his mentor for murdering his father and he makes and oath to get revenge. Lastly, we thought that it would be cool to make a film about a student and his sensei. The beginning of the film would be a flashback from the sensei fighting his student and losing to him. The student has seen how strong he is and wants to use his power for evil. The sensei gets help from an old friend and realizes that they have to team up and wipe his memory of the martial arts he’s learned. As a group, we’ve decided that our last pitch is more thought out and would be manageable to create.

Editing blog (music video)

After shooting the clips for our music video, we sent all the footage to our group member Arisondez to edit because he was the only one out of all of us to that had an editing software. When he said he was nearly completed with editing the whole video, Marckins told him to bring the footage of the edited to show it us to see if we would be satisfied. Arisondez first had to edit the song that we chose onto the video so that it could sync with the video. He then showed us a clip on when we recorded a part of the song during night time and used an edit to capture the sun to then switch it over to daytime. Every time in the video it was time to switch roles so each member could say their part, he used an edit to introduce us so we could go along our part. Arisondez also had to down play the quality of the video because it was shot in 4k and needed to be dropped to 1080 p so he could properly edit it on his computer. He also added a black background with the title of the song and our names on it to then transition into the video, which a very clean effect.

After looking at the whole music video; and finding we had extra time to edit the video, we all came up with ideas to make our video look better. Marckins and I came up with the idea to add aglow to our bodies which we detail us more. We also decided to let Arisondez fix the transition edits because they were a little choppy. He also wanted to re-sync the song in the video so that it can look better with the way we were rapping it.  After all these decisions, we agreed to everything and decided to let Arisondez do his job.

All in all, our music video will eventually come along very well and hope it will give us a grade that we are hoping for. My group and I put a lot of hard work in and we can't wait to see the results of our final project.   

Filming process (Music video)

During the filming process for our music video, we took simple procedures to get the filming done as soon as possible. Since Mr. Katz gave us the go ahead on using our phone to record the video, we planned to film once everybody was on board with the plan. On the first day of filming, only Marckins and I were available to film our parts that day. Arisondez had difficulty with transportation to our location so he couldn't get there until later that day. Marckins and I decided to just start filming our parts with the lighting that we had. After taking some shots of Marckins part, Arisondez comes later on by night time. Since it was already dark and we didn't that much filming done anyways, we decided to group up at the same location to shoot the music video.

The next day, Marckins came to the same location by my house to start filming again. Since it was daytime and there was a lot of sunlight present, which corresponds with the song "Under the Sun", we decided it would be a perfect time to start filming. I recorded some takes of Marckins saying his lines of the song and after recording we decided to choose the best version of the ones we shot. Later on, Arisondez arrived at our location so we could shoot each of our parts and finish the music video all together. Since me and Arisondez had the same phone, we decided to shoot the rest off of his because he would be the one doing the editing of the video. After we shot my part of the song, we went on to shoot Arisondez's part. It took a few takes to shoot Arisondez part because he did not remember most of his lines. The last part was shooting my part which was the part of the hook of the song. Once we were done with all the recordings, we sent all the videos to Arisondez so he could go home and edit the video on his computer.

Shooting this music video was a very fun and intriguing experience. I'm glad to have group members such as Marckins and Arisondez and the hard work that we all did. 

Storyboard

The storyboard of  our music video was set up to give us an idea of we will be doing for our music video. The story board also sets up the different time schedules that will be arranged to go with the production of our music video. Our storyboard gives us all we need so we could be able to shoot our music video properly. It also give us an insight on what we will have to do with the a camera and other things so we would be able to do this video. Starting off with the camera angles, these will include with many up close shots to our faces and our whole body shots. We will also try to take long distance shots to get a good view of the whole environment and all of us together. The different camera angles we will take depends on the setting we are in at the time. Most likely we will be going for front view/close up angles and wide view angles  so it would match together with the song we chose. We also agreed upon that we will most likely use panning shots most of the time of the video so it the camera could follow use while we're walking.

For the different shots we will be taking, our group decided that we will most likely be focused on close up and long shots with our video. The close ups will focus on the main person of the video at the time and add detail to that person to make them show out more. The long shots is to either get all of us in a shot with each other or to get a better view of the environment that we are in.
                                           
                                           The editing of our video will be pretty simple and easy. All we have to do is edit the song in the background of our a video and fit all the scenes together so we could make it in the 1 minute and 15 seconds time frame. The song will be enhanced in way to add more depth to it while we're recording. This will happen because we want the song to sound clean and proper when it is time to edit it in our video.

Planning blog for music video

     For my groups's music video, we have already planned out the music video and how it will be arranged. The location of the music video will settle in the area of my home in Fort Lauderdale. We chose this are because there is a lot of open space to shoot the music video, the song we chose, Under the sun, is based off of the setting off the streets, and that the area provides sunlight to shoot the video. The only problem the group saw with this location was that it may be too far for the other members to get there, but in the end they all arranged ways to get to the location so we could shoot the video properly. Now going on to health and safety, we already decided everything with that as a group. The only issue we saw with that was that we would be along streets with a possibility of cars moving and passing by. Because of this issue we decided to shoot at a time around noon so not that many cars would be passing by.

      In our music video, we will use different props to accommodate the theme of the . The props will include a car which will start off the beginning of the music video. We will also include a basketball in which one of us will be playing basketball while the song is playing. The last prop we will use is a phone so we could get a shot of one of us rapping while supposedly speaking to someone on the phone. We did not include that many props because it is not needed and the theme of the song does not include props with it. Hopefully we will be able to have all of these props when the time comes to record the video. The costumes that we will be using are very generic and really just regular clothing. In the original video, the rappers are wearing clothes that naturally wear on a daily basis, so we just decided to wear something we were all comfortable in.

  The schedule of the video will go in a regular fashion. First day we will start of by recording ourselves all sitting on a car. We then move on to us playing basketball at a later time of the day at basketball court. After the basketball shots, we will record a scene of all of us walking along the street together while staring at the camera. Right after that shot has been handled with, we will shoot a scene with one of us being on our phone. Then we will wrap up the video with all of us shaking hands while the sun is setting to get a great scene for the video.

   

Intro to new project

Our group just finished the commercial project that was assigned to us by our teacher. It was an enjoyable time making the video with all the sporting equipment and my group members. It was also very relieving to finally see the end results of all of our hard work.With this new project I feel like it's gonna be very fun because it involves on e of my favorite topics, music. We are looking more into the rap genre because that's the type of music our group enjoys the most.

The song our group decided to our project on was Ballin by Roddy Ricch. We chose this song because we feel like it is a very smooth and appealing song that would be enjoyable to us and anybody that listened to it. It is very popular song which racked up many views in the first few weeks it came out.We would certainly have to go with the clean version of the song because the original contains a lot of profanity. We already started deciding on the different features that will be included for the production and will put it down in the clamps format.

1.The costumes will likely be a tank top, shorts, and some type of good branded shoes or open toed shoes. This attire will go with the vibe of the song and keep it enjoyable.

2.The lighting will be under the sun and be very bright. We want to obtain a California type of environment because that is where the song is based upon.

3. The acting has not been decided yet. We were going to go with a gangster type of vibe which is what the song is basically about.

4. We will not be doing any makeup. We will already be under the sun so it just doesn't seem right to do make up.

5. The props will contain a car and money. This will go with the gangster vibe we are trying to approach.

6. The scenery will be located in the streets. It is what the song is mostly talking about.

The sounds will be mostly from the song and any added sounds that we find that could go with it. Editing will contain cut scenes to to show the whole viewing of all of our props and the streets the video will be shotin.