I STEPPED ON THE PRETZELS

   
      Hey y'all! It's time to talk about Sunday- our unusual day of filming. We filmed the entirety of the claymation scene and it went incredibly smoothly quite to my surprise. Since we had already set everything up on Saturday we went straight to shooting. I had already written on the storyboard what lines were to be said at each shot so we knew exactly what Jessica, our actress, needed to say exactly when she needed to say it.

 Some of the issues which we had, yet fixed within a short amount of time, included:
-Getting into the right position to achieve a specific shot
-Changing the ISO depending on the varying light of what area of my room we were shooting in
-Doing manual focus pulls
-Trying to decrease the noise of our shots without majorly changing the ISO
-(More like a mishap) At the beginning of filming we shot a couple shots with Jessica wearing the wrong outfit and we had to re-shoot
-...Audio

       Let me expand upon this. We didn't have a lavalier microphone, so we decided to just use the audio captured from the DSLR...with a back-up plan. We made our own makeshift boom microphone. We taped my iPhone to the end of a Swifter Sweeper and I held it above Jessica (and above the frame of the shot as to not appear within it) and used the voice memos app to record the audio at every shot which required her to speak. Most likely we will use the audio from the DSLR, but its better to be safe than sorry. We will use a voice over in certain shots (the scenes where Jasmin's mom yells at her through her door) but level the audio in post production in order for it not to sound out of place.

    We were incredibly satisfied with the color scheme we chose for Jasmin's room, for the claymation set, for the the doll, the costuming (for both Jessica and the doll), and the filter we achieved through manipulation of the white balance setting. We wanted the color scheme to consist of pinks, oranges, and yellows- for specific reasons. Pink represents happiness and playfulness, yellow represents brightness and creativity, and orange represents courage and confidence- all characteristics which our character possesses. My room already had strong orange tones, and we emphasized the other tones through props and the box set we made for the doll.

Until next post!
Nicole Abuid

Color Psychology: How Different Colors Are Influencing You. (2016, April 16). Retrieved from https://facthacker.com/color-psychology/