Final Task: Sticking to the Schedule

 

                                      

Filming and editing this week did not commence for multiple reasons. One being that I wanted to stick to the schedule that I previously planned. In my schedule, the first day of filming begins March 6, 2021, this Saturday coming up. The schedule was planned to accommodate my work from other classes, personal activities during free time, and my work schedule. I plan to stick to my schedule so filming nor editing did not commence this week. If I did have free time, I would have begun filming earlier but, as I expected there were multiple things keeping me busy and I would not have had time to film anything. I plan to start filming this Saturday because it was the most appropriate time. The script and storyboard were just completed this week and the adjust time was the days before the first day of filming. I alerted my actors and prepared props within the time between Tuesday, when I finalized my scripts and storyboard, and Saturday. The availability of my actors was another reason I could not begin filming. While one actor lives with me the other doesn’t and attends school during the week. Their availability is limited to the weekends, which Is when I scheduled all filming to be done. Throughout the multiple filming and editing blogs, Monday post will most likely contain filming content and Thursday post will contain editing content. As described by the schedule posted in a previous blog, I plan to film the later scenes of the film. One obstacle however has presented itself. Scenes that involve the dog will most likely be delayed to a further time. The dog actor has gone under a change in physical appearance that does not coincide with the vision of the director (myself).  I wanted to display an ironic situation where a dog that’s small, fluffy, and cute is somehow seen as a vicious animal to the main male actor, yet her haircut makes her look like a vicious animal. Her scenes may have to be delayed to a further time, at least to a point where most of her hair grows back, the filming schedule will be adjusted accordingly. The scenes with my male actor, which is the majority, will be the first ones to be complete. I decided to center my film more around the male lead since the actor is highly available and I decided to go with untraditional methods. A romantic comedy typically follows the female character in the story, but I wanted to deliver a plot from the male’s point of view. I wanted to deliver a vulnerability in love that society tends to strip away from men. My method will go to show that men can be vulnerable in love too and it’s not always women.