Media Portfolio blog post #14

Unfortunately, due to conflicting schedules, my partner and I were unable to film today, which was originally our plan. We do, however, plan on filming tomorrow and completing the rest of our project over spring break. Today, I took the time to really map out each shot in my head beforehand. I realized that my garage is quite messy and the lighting in the area is not the best. Moreover, the punching bag that I have is inside my house, and it will be quite challenging to move it into the garage. My partner and I have come up with two main ways of solving this problem, the first one is that we go to a boxing gym to film. We alter the first few shots and change the setting so that he gets out of his car in a parking lot, picks up his bag, and walks into the gym, where he then puts his headphones on and starts stretching and working out for the initial training scenes. The gym that we have identified as another possible filming location is called 9 round fitness, which seems to have excellent lighting, and a ton of equipment.

 

 The other option is that we show him getting out of the car and walking into my garage, where we then show him stretching and warming up, with the closed garage door in the background, and a poorly lit frame. We would then cut to him inside my house, using a medium shot to only show our fighter's upper body movements and some basic background elements. By doing this we would be able to avoid the complicated moving and rearranging of items in my house, and garage. Showing only some elements of the background inside of the house. Moreover, we would then cut to a shot of Aiezen (our fighter) performing a series of other exercises from weight lifting to jumping rope, and even running on the side of a dirt path (we would use a POV shot, by strapping a go pro to his chest, while he runs). Filming in such a way would kind of be creating a montage, while also showing the struggle that is occurring within himself as he trains for his fight. Furthermore, we wanted to appeal to the audience's emotions, while providing an accurate representation of some athletes, who are very talented and hard-working but are still unable to make a significant sum of money, by including a final shot of our fighter looking at a picture of his baby son we believe that we can end our film opening with a bang.

That being said, we do not want to appear cliche, so the idea of showing the photo child is still kind of up in the air. However, we do believe that by ending this way, our film will match our sound track which ends in a happy-ish, motivating, and lighter tone.