This is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Isay_INH1o

Creative commentary review

Here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlX0t3L_zQs

Final title and font

So the previous ideas of my movie title didn't work, I did a survey in my class and nobody liked my idea and due to that I came up with a new one. I was told they should be shorter with a scent of mystery. After a brief discussion with my teammates , we came up with:

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Now that I have the title, the font is the next thing I have to choose.

The task of picking fonts is a mystifying process. There seem to be endless choices from normal, conventional-looking fonts to novelty candy cane fonts and bunny fonts — with no way of understanding the options, only never-ending lists of categories and recommendations.

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Now that I reduced my font ideas, I will present it to my group and we are going to pick a winner :).

Credits?

So we made a conference to discuss the last parts of the projects and how we could imcorporate a credit section. We have so far one minute and forty four seconds on film so we need to incorporate more time, and credits are the perfect way to do them. We didn't want to stick to the cliche Closing Credits of which usually consist of a black screen and white text. The names of the cast and crew scroll slowly up the screen, while some sort of music plays.


So we were planing to write the names of the cast in dirt with a stick and then wipe them away with wind, we thought that it was a creative way to do the credits, plus it ties to the theme of the movie, as dehuminazing the characters or in this case the cast.

"Starting Luis Pelato"
"Directed by:
Carlos Willson
Paula Marchan
Liliana Mejia"

The tittle

We finally did it, the most simple task turned out to be the most complicated; the title. We decided to leave the title at last because we wanted to take in the experiences, mistakes and changes to influence our decision,


We looked up at inspirations for titles of different psychological/thriller movies, most of them had name of places such as "shutter island" or names of people/nicknames such as "donnie darko" and the most common one was title depicting an action or adjective that describes the movie. What i was able to depict is that the titles of these type of movies were short and relatable, so that's something considered in picking my own title.

Next we read this article to develop an insight on how to come up with the title and how to tie it up with the movie plot and assist to the meaning. In the article it says that we make immediate and long lasting judgements in that very first moment of experience. Much like seeing someone across a room who catches your eye, a title should attract both powerfully and authentically and in our case mysterious.

I had many choices for the titles and these were my ideas:


1- (111) this title helped develop the idea of dehumanizing our character by referring him as a number instead of a name, it also was quite simple and was able to catch the attention of the viewer, because it stimulates curiosity.


2-(The voice) this second title idea was inspired in the voices that drive and is almost the purpose of the character as it acts as the driving force behind his decisions. It also serves to dehumanize him, as it depicts "the voice" as the true personality taking over him.


3- (Don't look behind) this title shows mystery and creates the mood even before watching the film, it gives curiosity and chill, but it fails in bringing simplicity and while i thought more about it, it was very cliche..

I hear voices

So now this is a challenge, basically we have to recreate this; a schizophrenic voice. We wanted to create to types of voices, one representing the characters good sense and one representing the bad, we are going to record different audio files and overlap them. The hard part on this task is that we have to make the audio understandable because it is key to the scene. What i am planing to do is record a single audio of faint whispering and talking, and over that audio i put the files of the actual voices. Coordinating audio to video is going to be a hard task, but it can be done.

We were thinking of using both male and female voices, the male being the bad influence persona, while the female being the good perosna also, maybe by tying the female voice to a motherly influence we can create a back story to the character. When we develop this idea we had to look up if different gender voices in schizophrenic patients was a thing, and we encountered in this article in which is states that male voices dominates over female voices in auditory hallucinations, and that it doesn't have anything to do with which type of gender the patient is, they can hear both voices. By reading this it helped us confirm that is realistic to use both gender voices, even tho is very rare it is still possible. Here are the dialogues we are going to record:

-Pick it up
-Put it on
-Run
-They are following you
-Do it
-Throw it
-Take them
-You are a failure
-Bad boy
-You are useless
-They hate you
-Hide

When we looked up in the previous video we saw that most of the voices were giving commands or insults, so thats what we are sticking to mostly, also any outside noise we are gonna make it double so you hear that whats happening outside is expressed in the characters thoughts and voices.

We had to improvise:

I was expecting this, i knew the project wasn't going to turn out the exact way we planned it, i guess it's part of any project and fairly common in low budget or in this case home-made movies. We had to do a completely different setting we were expecting, and our plan “B” also failed; instead of the spooky cabin we were going to use, we had to conform with a stable/barn. This happened on day 2 of our filming experience. Also the weather didn’t play in our favor, we were looking for a gray day to assist in our mood of the scene, instead we got a sunny beautiful day, very rare since here it rains almost daily (i never guessed that i would be complaining with a cloudless, sky blue day, but i guess this is Aice Media for me..). We had to improvise..

After a brief debriefing with my group we looked at our options, we could:

-Change the storyboard
-Go home, call it a day and plan again
-Improvise

Obviously us being creative teens we chose to improvise. I looked at this article for moral support and to convince my teammates to improvise, here we see how famous, big budget movies best scenes were totally improvised. Well certainly we weren’t going to start filming from scratch with no ideas, we took maybe 45 minutes to plan our shots well, it was easier and very helpful to have the setting right there, because we could accommodate many shots we already had planned already and it assisted us to make better shots combined with the setting.

From this experience we learned that to develop a storyboard we first have to have the setting established and create the storyboard based on said setting. By using this we already had most of the shots and we filmed the rest of them using the setting as inspiration, for example we looked at a tree and i immediately associated it with scratching and causing harm, which we could use for our schizophrenic character, to our surprise when we carved out the marks, the inside sabila was red, which was perfect because we can mimic it to blood. We took the rest of the shots and called it a day for filming, next it was time for the foley stage.