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Production: Music

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Before we start filming, we want choose music. Usually it would be the other way around but since we haven’t been able to film we want to make sue we wont be behind on anything. For the music, we figured it would be best to have happy and suspenseful music in the background. Happy music would be played will the two girls are talking and more in the begins when everything seems normal. Suspenseful would be played when Sarah is trying to kill Lynn. There will also be diegetic noise when the two girls put on some music to play. We all decided to email one music artist for each of us. I chose harry styles. I figured since they are young girls it would make sense that they would be playing his music. I don’t expect his team to answer but it was worth a try. I simply told them that i am making a short film in one of my classes. I told them the idea and where i would insert the music. Violet emailed the music artists called Childish Gambino. She has an idea of using the beginning of the song ...

Production: Change of plans

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 Last week, my group and i planned on filming Friday at addison’s house and have a sleepover so we could film Saturday too. That plan did not work. Violet and i had plans for our friends birthday therefore we were unable to film on that day. We also felt bad making addison and mila do it on their own especially since they would need someone to film. Although we realized we were unable to film Friday, our members were really supportive about it. I was worried addison and mila would be mad but they were fine. We really do need to film however so we talked about a day to film. The SAT is this upcoming week and we all need to study for it. We might need to film on a weekday or maybe just one day this weekend. We will probably film Thursday after school or next weekend. It is very hard to find time to film with our school schedule and upcoming tests. We are all juniors so we understand the struggles of finding time. Since we need to film asap, it might be best to find time this wee...

Storyboard

Scene 1: The first five seconds will show clouds going down with "...Presents" and "...Production Company." Scene 2: The next scene is a tracking shot of a very vibrant neighborhood with the actors' names. Scene 3: The camera gets closer to a house and shows the film's name. Scene 4: The camera goes into the house slowly. Scene 5: The camera continues throughout the house that looks very put together. Scene 6: The kitchen is a little messy-looking and says "The Music by..." Scene 7: Two girls are shown talking muted as the "Directed by.." is displayed. They are stiff. Scene 8: Sara grabs a chair and sits as she says her first line stiffly. Scene 9: This is a close-up shot of Lynn and she says her first line very smiley. She has a lot of makeup on. Scene 10: The camera turns to Sara as she says her next line wearing a lot of makeup. Scene 11: The camera watches closely as Sara gets out of her chair stiffly and asks Lynn if she wants...