I noticed that the lighting in our movie had to be a certain way in order to create a dark humor vibe. Gabe and I discussed how we can create this atmosphere without confusing the audience and to look more professional.
We wanted to use high key lighting during scenes with dark endings or twists and low-key lighting in order to create mystery or suspense. Gabe and I looked up some guides on lighting and found some articles that helped us during our filming.
During our outdoor scenes we realized that we have less options than those given to us on the first article that we came across so we looked up specific tips to make the sunlight work for us.
Gabe thought that finding guns for our scenes that contain guns would be a problem but we resolved the problem when we found bb guns that look very much like real guns.








Hardy, R. (2014, October 28). Here Are a Few Simple Tips to Make Your Exterior Lighting Shine. Retrieved March 13, 2018, from https://nofilmschool.com/2013/11/simple-tips-daytime-exterior-shine

Lighting 101: A Quick Guide for Lighting Film. (2016, September 13). Retrieved March 13, 2018, from https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/basic-light-placements/

Cinematography. (n.d.). Retrieved March 13, 2018, from http://www.masteringfilm.com/set-lighting-fundamentals/

For our filming Gabe and I wanted to use places such as Peacemound park in order to make our scenes for the forest.

So Gabe called me at midnight and had an amazing idea for a movie. We decided to ditch our last movie because we ran into too many issues, such as length, and locations.

The new movie idea is meant to begin like any regular action movie, its meant to have elements of violence and drugs, and intense music to match it. After the two main characters get ready for a mission they enter an elevator and before it closes, an elderly lady walks into the elevator last second and they share an awkward scene. We will make sure to swap the action-esque themes into comedic elements for the rest of the scene. I told Gabe that dialogue isnt really a high school actors best suit, so there wont be a lot of dialogue.

Gabe and I decided for props that we were gonna use our houses and Nerf guns that are spray painted down, we have a couple of Nerf guns just laying around. We thought it wouldn't look convincing so we looked up some videos on them and found it to look pretty realistic, especially with our "budget".

On the recommended page I started clicking around and found some really cool stuff. I found a video of a man that custom built a Nerf gun and made it look insane. He buffed the gun and spray painted it to make it look really realistic.

I think that even though we have a low budget well do fine with makeshift props and what not.

In order to be believable, Getting the right actors in my opinion is one of the most important aspects to a well made movie, show, etc.

TV shows that I see on Netflix are mostly boring, cringe worthy, and almost seem drawn out. I saw this happening when I saw a couple of episodes of Santa Clarita Diet. This show has a great plot and could have been done well, if it weren't for the actors that make it seem as if they are role-playing, and not actually representing a character. The punchlines are sometimes over exaggerated by the actors and sometimes the actors are just unnecessarily loud.
I feel the actors simply ruined a great idea for a movie, shame. In the case of Zathura: A Space Adventure, the opposite seems to happen. The movie is clearly trying to coat tail from Jumanji's success and uses the same idea of a board game that comes to life. Usually im not fond for unoriginality, but, the actors in Zathura made me enjoy it even more than Jumanji. My love for space might have created a bias towards it, but I believe the actors really sold that they were outer space and actually in a disaster of a situation.
In the Netflix series, Stranger Things, I believed that the kid actors were not believable. A controversial opinion, but it is still my opinion.

I was pondering on what sound components I could use in a dark comedy so I did some research.  I learned about how to score a comedy and decided to stick with those components to keep in mind while I edit the intro. My brother has made sounds for me before since he is an artist that has made many songs. He is into EDM and goes to almost every festival, because of that I can use him to make the sounds that we need and not worry about the copyrights of it as well.
We also intend to Foley any other sounds that we wont be able to make and to help us we decided to use a guide online.


The guide will help us figure out specific noises such as an arrow flying by "Use a thin bamboo stick, such as the type used to hold up plants in a garden. Whip it past the microphone.".





The Guide To Sound Effects. (n.d.). Retrieved March 19, 2018, from http://www.epicsound.com/sfx/

How to Score Comedy. (n.d.). Retrieved March 19, 2018, from https://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-score-comedy--audio-20733

In our groups we discussed our various ideas that we made in our individual groups. We criticized each others ideas and suggested new ones. Gabe and I were told in both of our groups that our ideas would take to long and so we had to decide which scenes were irrelevant or how else we could portray our ideas.

Since we needed to figure out how to write this flashback, I decided to look up how to make a flashback scene. I found an article that shows you the 7 steps and goes in depth into each rule.
This article helped me to understand how to organize our flashback scene in order to make the most sense to the audience.

How to Write a Flashback Scene: 7 Key Steps. (2017, July 11). Retrieved March 19, 2018, from https://www.nownovel.com/blog/incorporate-flashbacks-flashbacks-into-a-story/