AICE Media Studies Blog

Hello, blog! My groupmates and I filmed at our first location, the mall, last Saturday. Although our initial first location was supposed to be the neighborhood, we were forced to change it and decided to begin at the mall, which is located in the middle of our film. I suggested that we go to the mall early so that there would be fewer people and less background noise when filming the scenes' dialogue, and the rest of the group agreed. When we arrived at the mall, we decided to take a walk around to find the quietest and best location to begin filming. I was the one filming and directing how the film should look because I wasn't in the scenes being filmed. I double-checked with my group to see if they liked the outcome or if we should retake the scene. There were numerous trials and errors because it was our first time undertaking such a large project and we wanted the quality to be the best it could be. We were definitely distracted by everything at the mall at times, but we fi

  Scene 1: Establishing shot at the old neighborhood as both Neveah and Natalie are walking and talking Scene 2: Two shots of Neveah and Natalie walking and talking toward the camera Scene 3: Wide shot of Natalie and Neveah laughing and the camera slowly pans to Natalie's house Scene 4: Shot reverse shot of Neveah watching Natalie run inside the house Scene 5: Wide shot of Neveah waiting on Neveah and using her phone Scene 6: Medium shot of Natalie running out of the house and up to Neveah Scene 7: Full shot of Neveah and Natalie walking and pointing at stores in the mall Scene 8: Medium close-up of Neveah and Natalie talking and walking Scene 9: Medium close-up of Neveah talking Scene 10: Medium close-up of Natalie talking and pauses Scene 11: Wide shot of Natalie and Neveah and camera pans to look over to Julie Scene 12: Full shot of Natalie and Neveah talking Scene 13: Wide shot of Natalie yelling and running over to Julie Scene 14: Tracking shot of Natalie and Julie talking and