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1.How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?  My product fits the typical aspects in my genre by using all the aspects. Meaning the light, plot, music, etc. It represents social groups and issues by using death, race and gender.  2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? My product will catch audiences attention because of the cliff hanger I left at the end of the movie. It'll be distributed through a lot of websites, and I would do a lot of promoting.  3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project? I learned more about camera movements and angles. When it came to certain shots, I figured out how and when to use it. I might want to go in the field of directing.  4. How did you integrate technologies in this project? I did it by using a certain editing app. iMovie helped a lot, and so did Art of the Titles. Shout out to them!!

 It's finally over!! Boy was this journey stressful. We didn't do everything we wanted to do, but it still came out okay. We know we put our all into it and that's all that matters. We had to do a LOTT of trimming. We honestly didn't even do all of the scenes because we didn't think that it would be so long. We cut 4 minutes into 2 minutes and we didn't use all the scenes. Here's our final task though, I hope you enjoy!! 

 Now on to the easiest part. Some people feel like editing is hard, but it usually it depends. I know for sure every time I had to edit some type of video, it was easy because I filmed it right. When we were filming, we wouldn't leave the scene until we looked over the videos. We did that because if it was wrong, then we could re film it instead of waiting for another time to meet. We did run into a little problem that was quickly fixed. Akiel accidently filmed a scene a vertical way and he couldn't find the right video. He said he refilmed it because he found out he did it wrong. He ended up accidently deleting it, so thank God for recently deleted. Because if we didn't have the correct video, that would have thrown our whole movie off. But for editing we used iMovie. We had to figure out a song because we weren't able to use DMX's song Slippin. We emailed his people a long time ago and didn't get an answer. He recently died though, so R.I.P to him. We used a s...

 So yesterday, we got all the scenes done but 1. One of the extras that were supposed to come slept in until 3:00 and we couldn't wait on him. I had work at 4:00 and I had to get home. Yesterday, we filmed at 11:00 in the morning because one of the extras had to work at 12. He had an important role in the movie so we just adjusted our schedules. Then Lela and Mya came around 12:00. We re-filmed the store scenes because when I went home to review them, the characters looked dark. Since they were wearing different clothes today, we decided to just re-do those 2 scenes. We did reverse shot as Akiel and Mya were talking. I did tracking for the store scene. Then we had to improvise another scene since one of the extras wasn't answering his cell and we needed to get everything done by that day. So we acted like Mya was on the phone with him and Akiel was just walking pass. He heard her say his name then he looked back and acted like he wasn't paying attention. That took some time...

Finally!! So tomorrow, we're going to try to film at 1:30. We want to finish everything. Lela has work at 4:00 though so we have to finish by 3:20. I really hope this doesn't take 2 hours. We're nearing our due date, and we still have to edit. DMX's team still haven't gotten back to me. I emailed him a little less than a month ago. News broke out that a couple of days ago, he's in a coma so I understand. I think we might just choose a new song. We can't rely on them to text back, and be last minute with the background music. We might just go on a free music website instead of using an artist's song. They gets tons of email and might not be focused on ours. On Friday if we don't get everything done, we'll just film on Saturday. We have to do it around 6:00. Lela gets off of work at 4:00 and Akiel get off at 5:00. We have to make sure we finish before 7:30 because that's when it starts to get dark. For some reason if we don't finish on Satu...

 So we were supposed to film today. Our schedules were really messed up though. I didn't have work so I was free from 1:30-6:00. I had tutoring at 6 which is why I wanted to do it before 6:00. Akiel was available also. Butt, Lela had work at 4 so we had to reschedule. We set the time for tomorrow and I honestly don't think this is going to work out. I have work at 4:00 and they're trying to film at 2:30. I don't think we'll be done in an hour and 15 minutes. Time will tell though. I'm really trying to do all the scenes that involve Mya and Lela because they live far and I don't want to inconvenience them. We may just film on Wednesday or Thursday. Thursday would be better since it's an early release day so we can just go right after school is over. If not, then I guess they can film tomorrow and have someone fill in for me. The only request I have is that they do it exactly how I wrote it in the script. We still have to do the scenes with the boys also. ...

 We finally did scene 9. That scene was the scene that was only going to take about 10-20 minutes since it's so easy. The only problem was we were supposed to film it at night. So every time I would try to meet up to film it, my family members were "too tired" or simply didn't want to take me. So that kind of put a dent in our plans because it gave us less time to film. We met up at the park, but then I got lost for about 5 minutes. There were so many bleachers I didn't know which one he was at. I finally found him and there were some changes. So in the script, there was going to be tall bleachers and Akiel was going to be at the bottom. When we went to the park, there wasn't any tall bleachers so we had to work with what we had. So I did a tilt from the sky all the way down to Akiel. I was trying to figure out what would be better; a tilt up or tilt down.  Akiel just told me since he was on the lower bleacher, a tilt down would be smarter. Then I did an over ...

 Well Spring break started off with a great start. We filmed 4 scenes on Tuesday. As you know though, thing never go so smooth. There's always going to be problems. We planned to film around 12:00. So I got to Akiel's house at 11:57. We were waiting almost an hour for Mya and Lela. So while we were waiting, we filmed the scene with Akiel in it because that's the only thing we could do. Then when they finally came, we did the first scene, which is an overview of the neighborhood. We had to get on top of Lela's car to do it. That took about 3 takes. Then we drove to the corner store so we could film the 2 scenes. The scene where Akiel was in the store, we had to have our masks on because of coronavirus. We were trying to film the other scenes but they kept messing up. Then Akiel had to go somewhere so we had to go back to his house and wait almost 30-40 minutes for him. Then we went back to the store to do the final scene. We were trying to figure out how are we going to ...

 So as you know, last week I emailed DMX. He hasn't got back to me yet. Then again, it's only been 3 days, and he is a famous person. I guess I just have to be patient. I really hope he lets us use it because his song goes perfect with our movie. I had everything planned out also so if he says no, I don't know what we're going to do. I mean there is a website, but then again I might not find the right sound to go with it. I could still try though. Today is the day we filmed. We didn't get a lot done because some people couldn't make it. We chose today because one of my group members is going out of town from the 19-21. So we thought it would be best if we do something before she leaves. That way when she comes back, she has less work to do. We only filmed 1 scene today though. I thought everyone would be available since we got out of school early today, but I guess not. The scene we filmed was the scene with the 2 little kids jumping rope. They were apart of the...

I can't believe we forgot! We've been stressing so much about filming and scheduling, we forgot about our background music. So in order for us to use a song, we have to message the people who owns the song. We were really lost because how were we supposed to figure out who owns this song? Even if we figured out, how are we supposed to find their information? Then if we do find their information, I'm pretty sure they get hundreds of emails. How are we supposed to make ours stand out? So we have been trying to get in contact with the owner of the song we're trying to use. The song we're trying to use is: Slippin by DMX. At first I was like, maybe we should contact DMX since it is his song. But then I remembered things about the industry. Not every artist own their songs. Some are in bad deals where their label takes everything.  We went to DMX's Instagram page and seen that he has a booking link in his bio. It say for music inquiries but we aren't trying to ha...

 I can't believe this. So we had a plan to film this weekend and it was going to be around 5-6 scenes. The easy ones that involve the main characters. I already said there's no way we were going to do all the scenes. There are a lot of characters in this movie and there's no way we're going to be able to have everyone there. We can't film this weekend though. Something came up for me and I'm the director. My job put me on the schedule. I tried to explain to them why I couldn't work that day but they didn't care. I needed someone to take my shift or I would have to come in. I couldn't find anyone. I was going to say they could have someone else record and just facetime me. But then I can't even get on my phone at work. Also, no one would be able to record it the way I envisioned it. I have certain angles and movements that need to be done. So now we're going to have to find another day to film. I'm going to get a close look at my work sche...

It's Day 2! Guess what, we still didn't film. I know, I know. It seems like we're procrastinating but we're not. We're actually going to try to film on Saturday. We don't really have things to do, so we said why not. We're going to try to film in the morning since that's when the sun will be out. Well more like afternoon. We wouldn't do it in the morning because the weekend is the only 2 days some of us have to sleep in. We didn't want to be an inconvenience to our extras. Especially when they're the ones helping us out. So we'll try to go around 2:00, maybe 3:00. We aren't going to film all the scenes in 1 day because that's really tiring. I already know people won't get it on the first try. So we might do the scenes with Mya and Akiel. They're basically the main characters. I just hope it doesn't rain or anything because this week has been terrible. I'm talking about real windy and heavy raining. If it's wind...

 The blog I chose to do was filming. The thing is, I didn't film. We wanted to wait until we were out of school. We have a break coming up so it would be better because some people have really hard classes to worry about. We didn't want to add the stress of coming to filming on time to people's plates. Especially for me because I have this one Math class that I'm struggling in. I feel like the filming part would be easy but I don't know. For some reason, there's always problems when I have to do projects. I hope not this time because I planned everything out. I even have a backup plan and everything. One of my partners, Akiel, he has a lot going on with his job. They're giving him crazy hours. They have no consideration of the fact that he's in school. I understand it's a job but still. 2 days out of the school week would be better. My other partner Lela, she's living her best life. She's going on vacation with her family to Paris. They do it...

  The storyboard has help my group and I get on track with our film. I think creating a storyboard helps us see how the film will come to life. There are many factors that are included in our storyboard that may have  not  have been  appreciated   if we had not writing or drawn it out. Notting the different camera angle and Mis-en-scene of this film has help us become more comfortable with our proposed film. I think storyboarding is an important part of the film and should be utilized to help organizing the thought process of a film. 

  The name of our studio is R.A.L studios and the name of our production studio is R.A.L productions. The actors that we will be putting in the title of our film is Akiel Williams as himself, Mya Knight as herself, Jessica, Tommy, Deshaun, Sam, Michael, Greg, Gabby, Matthew, Robert , and Princess. Our working film title is Life For Life: A Losing Game. The font of these letters will be in bold, Impact font. For example,  LIFE FOR LIFE:A Losing Game. The letters will be large enough for the audience could see and comprehend. The music that will be used throughout the film will be DMX- Slippin'. Hopefully, we could get the approval of the record company to utilize the instrumental and the lyrics. The visual and effects and editing will be done by  Lela  William. The film is produced by Akiel Williams. Akiel and Raynaldie collaboratively worked on the storyline and the scripts. Raynaldie is the Director that will make the film come alive. During the editing process, I w...

  Schedule:  3/17/21 - 3/22/21: During these days we will have commenced and finished filming all of the scenes of the film. 3/27/21 - 3/29/21: We will do any reshoots necessary for the film. 3/31/21 - 4/2/21: We will look over the film that we have made and then decide on any more reshoots we think should be done and any things that we need to adjust in our films. This gives us another couple of days of looking at the scenes in order to make sure that they are just right. 4/4/21 - 4/11/21: This gives us a weeks in order to edit our film the way we want it to be edited and also to show to our peers and get feedback on the film. This also gives us enough time to work off of the feedback as well. 4/13/21: This will be the last day for any edits that we plan on doing to the film as we will be finalizing it. It will be turned into Cambridge for an evaluation shortly after. Health:  Under the circumstances of covid-19 we must make our film under precautions to ensure everyone'...

  Sound and Dialogue Script   Scene 1        -no dialogue. Scene 2        -no dialogue. Scene 3        -no dialogue   Scene 4        -No dialogue. Scene 5        -No dialogue. Scene 6        -Robert: Where’s my money Williams? I gave you 3 months        -Matthew: You calling me by my last name now? I said I got you.        -Robert: You been saying that for 3 months.        -Matthew: (screams) Ahhhh! Scene 7       -Akiel: no dialogue       -Akiel: Oh my Gosh, Dad what happened?       -Matthew:(whispering) Robert did it.       -Akiel: Robert did what? Don’t die on me please. Scene 8    ...

The titles that are being played the opening sequence is the production companies, the kind of production it is, and the actors of the movies. They have the title of the movie (Fried Green Potatoes) , the special appearance, and the person who did the casting. We can’t forget the producers, the editors, and who’s the music by. They also include the costume designer, production designer, and who directed photography.  They also put what it was based on, who’s the screenplay by, and the official director. The images that are in the opening sequence is a lake, a car, and a neighborhood. There are 2 houses, a man in a telephone booth, and a small café. You can see their menu, a lady in a car, and a deer. The lake and car means that someone crashed their car into the lake in some neighborhood. The lady in the car is waiting for the man in the telephone booth so they made a stop because they got lost. The deer represents the part of the world they’re in, and it’s the deep South. This fil...