Friday, February 19, 2021

Final reference photo, new storyboard and completed montage

I have finished all of the shot lists for each of my scenes, now I can fully concentrate into doing my storyboards and coming into filming. I will organize them soon into my tentative shooting schedule, still having to confirm with the person who will Mariposa. Anyway, i changed some things from my script when writing my shot list, specially when doing the montage's shot list. 
For example, i was aware that the montage in particular would be the longest scene in the script, since it is technically like 3 scenes together. I decided to cut some details that appear to be insignificant to me, like Mariposa non-diegetic sound, since i think it will take from the experience, does not fit into what a person in that state would do and time constrains. I originally plan to show more days, but, again due to time, i decided to cut a day off and concentrated more on the effect on the other days. Reasonably, i am scared on not being able to fit all of my vision in 2 minutes, putting my shot list together will show me the sheer amount of content i have. But, i think if i conserve this scene, parts of the 1 and 2, the ending shortened, then i think i can still show the meaning and what i try to 
express with the piece. In any case is better to have more than less, instead of trying to have "filler" scenes to compensate, I'm dealing 
with deciding which scenes are the most important, this on my top list. 
I feel better to have something to check off my list, i will move on from working from the largest scene of the film, to the shortest scene, the Dad talking in the car. Once again, I'm not completely sure how likely is that I will keep this scene post-production, but regardless, i may surprise myself and still have time. For that reason, I took photos of the inside of the car i plan to shot in last night, my Dad's truck. 

I knew that the space i will have is limited, but it is actually not as bad as I thought first. Logically, i will ask my dad if i can organize it before we start shooting, to fit into the sober tone and mise-en-scene of the film. The lighting does not look good and has an unnatural filter to it, not necessarily what i want to go for in this particular scene, that's why i hope to film in the morning, where the lighting of the sun wouldn't produce rays either that will flash my camera or being too dark at night. 


I don't know if the sketches that i made are understandable, the last scene shows Mariposa again, with a match cut from the Dad's phone. I know i can can much more other details and the dialogue spoke by the characters' notice things that i can do it to bring it more detail and a clear representation of my vision. I will add all of those details when i finish all my storyboard, is better to have all of the scenes with some details missing to have 2-3 scenes perfectly completed when shooting starts. 

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