FINAL PRODUCT

 FINALLY.... the finished product. 

Flight Existence presents....

Going Awol

https://youtu.be/uVJxjZ92-UU https://youtu.be/uVJxjZ92-UU

Creative Critical Reflection #4

Creative Critical Reflection #3

 

Creative Critical Reflection #2

 

Creative Critical Reflection #1

 

Focus Group

 Nick Ruspantini (brother):

• Music is a very good selection for the theme
• The beginning montage sequence is very well shot and engaging to get the audience's attention
• Some of the cuts are abrupt and some dialogue is stuttered because of it
• Not much of a climax because there was no build-up 
• All the props were on point
• believable sets of the room 

Anthony Ruspantini

• Editing was nice
• Script/dialogue was very cliche 
• If it was a chick flick you should've talked about the guy more
• No rising action, the story was dull because there was no climax.
• The vibe was good in the car scene

Cristian Escalona

• Good interesting angles 
• Likes the rearview mirror shot
• Unique variety of angles 
• Likes the diversity of having Matthew as the "hot guy"

Danny Ruspantini

• going to the store was boring
• outfits were typical teenage feel
• different stereotypes of the character 
• Each character had their own personality, without background knowledge

Ryan Ugalde

The intro looks pretty good. I’d fix the logistic problem like Matt’s noticeability and the pacing is a bit fast but other than that I think i’m definitely in for a romantic movie.

Actor Dropout

 Max - love interest was switched to Matthew

The day before our film we had a surprise text from max telling us he was sick. At this point, we were very afraid we would have to cut out the love interest storyline from our film completely. Luckily, because we had our audition process for the "hot guy" role we had other people to contact to be the understudy. The runner-up of the role was Matthew Gordon, who auditioned for the role. I contacted Matthew to let him know he did get the role after all, but we would need to film tomorrow. Thankfully, Matthew wasn't busy and was able to join us in filming. The only setback was that Matthew had dinner and needed to be home by 4:30. We needed to start filming at 10:30am in order to have enough time to finish. Something we could've done differently to prevent the fear of not having a "hot guy" role, was casting an understudy the same time we cast the main role. This way Matthew would've been prepared to potentially be in our film on Saturday. 

Changes made to final film

• Rhinestones

We were planning on using rhinestones on our makeup look to create a more unique style. I brought the rhinestones and we concluded there was really no need to use them. As we were filming we realized it didn't fit the film. 

• Love interest walking

In the film, we decided to make the "hot guy" leaned against the wall. Originally, we wanted the love interest to walk past kelly's character. We figured it would look smooth if kelly walked by him and we just show Matthews's eyes. 

• Breakfast scene

We were struggling to fit the 2-minute mark, so therefore we did have to cut out some things that weren't that prevalent. We were planning on having a cliche scene where kelly talks to her "dad" that she can't have breakfast because she's leaving. We filmed with Mia's dad, Tito, and the shots came out well. Although, it was only a supporting detail and was able to easily be cut. 

• Transitions 

We had this idea of having split cuts where Kelly walks into the bathroom wearing pajamas and then walks out with her outfits. Unfortunately, we didn't have a tripod so the shots would noticeably lack continuity. 

• Close up of eyes

When Britney wakes up she doesn't say "damnit". We thought it was too harsh for an opening to the film. Also, Britney never makes the bed and I think it shows how much of a rush kelly was in.

• Out of car school scene 

We decided to say all our lines in the car instead of getting out. It wouldn't make sense and would add too much wasted time. Also, we filmed this on a Saturday and of course there were no students and cars in the parking lot. It would be very noticeable if we were standing and the background of the parking lot was visible. 

• Montage to the mall was cut and jumps straight to us walking in the mall.

Filming Day Checklist

We need to discuss what we actually need to bring as a group. We need to discuss what we're gonna use to film. We can either use our phones as cameras or an actual professional camera. Personally, I don’t have a professional camera we can use and my phone has low storage. We need to discuss if we need a tripod for our camera. I said no because we have max to film us and when max is in the frame, we can switch the person holding it. Although, Mia and Barbara are scared that Max will be shaky and we should invest in a tripod. We all didn’t have professional cameras and we thought that was the best option to film. We asked our teacher if we can borrow her professional camera to film Saturday and she said yes and that we were the first to ask.


Outfits (each person is responsible for bringing their things)

-Mia: 

• Metallica shirt
• clean room

-Gianna: 

• Rhinestones
• braided hair
• glasses
• heels

-Kelly:

• Skirt
• Heels
• Styled hair

-Barbara: 

• extra black skirt for mia
• white tank
• cardigan
• daisy skirt,
• heels,
• NEEDS TO FIND A PURSE!

Extra makeup for touch-ups

CAMERAAAA pick up Friday

Car

Mia’s Room

License?

Maybe money for lunch

Production Name Decision

For our film to have all the components we need, we needed to establish a final production company name. We each made up our own company name and our reason behind it. Something we did differently was not all discussing it and instead of making a google form for our family and friends to vote on. This was my idea and I thought it can be a fun and unique way to choose a component of our film. We had the poll up for a day and then closed it.

As we were seeing the results come in it was very much a tie between "Promiscuous Pictures" and "RisingShine Films". This was between me and Barbara. Kelly's name "B25" was a spin-off of "A24" which is a production company name of some iconic films. Although, it seems no one was able to make that connection which led to kelly's name being at the bottom. Mia's name "Flight Existence" was never really at the top and we all made fun of it because it never had the word "studios", "production", or "pictures" in it. Somehow Mia's name won the overall poll with 30.3%!!!

The poll numbers were 30.3% for Flight Existence, 27.3% for both RisingShine Films and Promiscuous Pictures. Last place was 15.2% for B25. 

Now that we have our final production name, it will be featured in the opening of our AICE Media Studies film project that we will begin filming this Saturday. We are excited to begin the filming process. We are narrowing down a checklist to ensure our filming day is as smooth as possible and successful.