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  Bedlam is much more than a film, it had a purpose. Our film was about schizophrenia, a common issue some may have. However, it’s not spoken about enough which we thought was unfair. Mental illnesses are known about, and briefly talked about. But no one really tries to understand it. My group and I are interested in mental health, as we have all done something surrounding that topic. Whether that is experiencing it or joining groups that are based off mental health we all have something that connects us to it. So for our film we wanted to bring attention to how a person may feel with a mental illness. We wanted our audience to feel it for themselves. We did this by having in our opening scene a point of view from the main character and a jump cut to one of those newtons cradles and the main character sleeping. In the point of view the vision was blurry as she walked up to the room she was sleeping in. The second she opens the door her eyes open. This opening was to show that she has n
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Short Film Package: Bedlam

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                                  I am proud to present our very hard work in our short film below.. Website: Website link:  https://franshescaleiva15.wixsite.com/mysite/home Post card: post card link:  https://www.canva.com/design/DAF-kEA0xww/S3a2XYWj391GDvmRsElUWA/view?utm_content=DAF-kEA0xww&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor Film: Link to film:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGp4dfRFnvo         This was definitely a journey making this film happen. I have learned more from my group members, the field of media, mental illnesses, and over all how far our creativity can go. Our film isn't the best out there but it definitely is a good one especially with the limitation we had. I am proud of my group because somehow we pulled it together. Everyone did their parts in the project. We all played to our strengths to make this happen which was honestly the best decision when dividing up the work. We did have to have a lot of trust in one another. Bu
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Production Blog: So close yet so far

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Welcome back!!!! So for our film package we need to make the film, of course, a website and a post card. I am in charge of the website as I mentioned before. Which I have been working on for the past week. I'm not going to lie it was a little difficult trying to figure out how to make a website because I am so bad at technology and what not. However, I did have time to learn somewhat how to do it. I ended up using a website to make my website. Ironic but it is working so far. I started by using a template. At first I just did the home page by adding the festivals, some info, and forms to RSVP for the festivals. I also added a menu which I thought would direct people to the sections on the home page, however, only the subscribe button directs people to the bottom of the page. I found this out when I did a preview of the website. I pressed all of the buttons and realized the about and booking sections to you to complete different pages. I know that websites do that so don't think
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Production Blog: History repeats itself

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 So my other group members realized that their portions are not adding up in the film. So we are filming again. However, we are changing the story a bit because our main character works a lot. And compared to the camera person and me (the best friend) our schedules add up more. So we will add more filler scenes of the best friends to make up for the time we can't have the main character. As of today though my other group member and I went to film at barnes and nobles for the cafe scene. We changed it to just me meeting up with the main character but getting stood up so I texted her, called her, waited for her, etc. This will continue the confusion and waste time in our film. This took us a few tries because I kept getting nervous but we got it done. Also, last year I filmed my music video from AS level at barnes and nobles and now here I am again. Anyways back to what is important. I didn't got to school today so I met up at Barnes & Nobles with them. I got there a little e
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Production Blog: New game plan

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 OKAY, so maybe I didn't finish editing. After we filmed, I went over everything the night of. I picked the best shots by favoriting everything but not anything else because I wanted to go to sleep. My original plan was to finish editing the following day but I didn't do exactly I wanted to. I added in the clips and made sure they were in the right order. I clipped them for it to make sense as well. But I did want to try and add some titles, however, I did not do so. I kind of don't know how to add titles that are creative or look pretty. Mostly because for my last few projects my other group member added in the titles and focused on editing. This project we are dividing the work to make things easier and fair. I am thinking of asking my partners to do the titles and I'll finish adding the clips and cutting them. I haven't said anything ebcause we have all been super busy. Omnia has been working many late shifts. Harley has also been working a lot recently. And I ha
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Production Blog: Lets try this again

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 Guess what.. we followed through with the plan. We filmed today after school to reshoot all of the shots at the store. This time we chose a different shopping center because that last one had too many people. Most of them were older so they 100% thought we were trying to steal. However, this time we went to the shopping center by my house. It's very local so no one really cares what happens there, plus there is a side in the parking where no one goes so we would be able to film without any interruptions. Soooo we went to to the side part and filmed the parking part first, it didn't take much because we actually focused on doing our parts. However, the driving off scene took a little longer since Omnia doesn't drive. We had to get her in the car but change the angle so that someone else could drive the car. The point was to give the illusion of her driving away. We think it worked but I'll make sure later in editing. After the parking scene we went into the stores and f
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Production Blog: We were so close to the finish line

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My group and I have fully went through all of our scenes and realized we are missing some important pieces. Mostly because the shots were not matching and the story wasn't adding up. So we have to redo the whole shopping scene again. Other than that all the other shot seemed good so we are beginning the editing and choosing which shots work best for it. Currently all 3 of us are taking a section of the film and editing it to speed up the process. It's not completely done because we just went through them a shared our thoughts. Actually choosing what goes into the film depends on the person editing. But as of right now what we accomplished by going through all of them together was figuring out what needs to be filmed again or if we need filler just in case. I know that we just filmed the shopping scene but we were so nervous that none of the scenes came out how we wanted them to be. Some ended too quick and if we finished the scene we were not focused at all so it did not look r
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