Media Portfolio Blog #9

Hello everyone, today my partner and I began to plan out the first few scenes of our film opening. We mostly talked about the various angles and techniques that we could use, but we also did a few drawings, to visualize our ideas. We have already come up with the majority of our filming locations but, we have not yet come up with a shots list. This is what we attempted to do today over the phone, and I must admit we were kind of successful. However, we were only able to brain storm a couple shots, that occur at the beginning of our film opening.

The first shot that we wanted to start with was an over the shoulder tracking shot of our athlete (Floyd) walking into his garage gym, showing his coach staring at him, as he walks in. We wanted everything in the shot aside from his back shoulder and whats directly in front of him to be slightly out of focus. We plan on making him wear white colors, and his costume design will consist of gym/boxing attire. 

The next shot will then be a close up of a pair of head phones on a bench that he picks up. This will then cut to a medium shot of him, and elements of the background as he places the headphones on his head. After this, we will cut an extreme close up, as he will press a button on the side of the headphones, and the music will start playing (diegetic sound).

We will then cut to another medium shot of him stretching and mentally preparing himself for this training session. We plan on using sound effects to show his muscles cracking as he stretches, and we want to show an extreme close up of his eyes, to show that he is locked in and ready for this long and difficult process of training before he can fight.  

Unfortunately, both of us had soccer games to go to so that is all that we were able to come up with. In the next blog post, I will have a full shot list uploaded, followed by a detailed story board. I apologize for the shortened nature of today's post and the following posts will be much more specific and much more detailed.

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