John’s passion for film is unmatched compared to anyone I know. Me and John have worked together on the production of multiple short films. He always has such intricate visions that he is able to shape into realities. He’ll work so hard to complete a good film that he’s stayed up for hours editing a film to meet a deadline. John would be a great person to work any job, film or not, due to his drive and motivation to make something great.

Summary

For this project I created a short film about a day in my life. I worked on my planning skills and my time management in order to get the large task of completing a film done. This was difficult as it was my first solo film bit I’m still glad I did it.

Font

Color Palette

Pie Chart

Script

Music for the first two shots.

Hi my name is Carlson and this is a day in my life. After I wake up I immediately get ready for school by eating breakfast, brushing my teeth, etc. My friend picks me up and we head to school. At school I have math, history, a 10 minute break in between where I hang out with my friend Delilah, and film all before lunch. I then get a much needed break and get to hang out with my friends at lunch. After,I have science, Spanish 2, and English before I get to be done with school. From there I carpool to the climbing gym where I’ll be for the next few hours. I do some homework and read on my phone a bit before climbing team practice starts! It’s always a lot of fun even though it’s difficult. After that I head home and sit down on the couch and eat dinner while watching tv. Finally I relax for a bit by playing some video games before getting into bed. I read my book for 30 minutes in bed and fall asleep. This project helped me see how I use my own time and what I could do to better manage it. This was my day in a life. Film and music fades out.

Audio Editing

Storyboard

Video Editing

The Documentary

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QZ599cFusoB9orGBDd1BqV4fQ1W_qyHS/view?usp=sharing

What I learned and Problems I Solved

The most important thing I learned from this project was how difficult it is to make a film with only one person and how necessary it is to have a team to help and have ideas.

I solved the problem of how to make a pie chart when it said I had too many groups in Adobe illustrator bye editing the pie chart to be multiple and has grayed out sections, instead of one chart.

I solved multiple problems with figuring out how to film alone bye using mounts, things to hold up my phone, and moving shots.

Citation

Soundtrap Vertigo-Rhythmic Synth Chords 01 A

Summary

My involvement in the post-production process was vast through multiple post-production fascists. This includes finishing working on Sound Design with Emerson and Tyler. I also helped Tyler with knowing where the shots should be placed in the final edit.

Evidence of Further Contribution

Evidence of Further Contribution with Director:

Evidence of Continued Contribution with the Editor:

Scheduling Re-Shoots as a result of the Editing Process: We didn’t do any reshoots.

Other Contributions: Finishing making the soundtrack on Soundtrap.

How I Could Have Improved The Film

Examples of Suggested Cinematography: The wide shot could have been wider to establish more aloneness. The advisors thought that we could have a shot establishing who the text was from.

Other Recommended Changes to the Film: Establishing who the text was from by having Emereson pick up her phone before replying to the text.

What I Learned

Throughout Aberration’s production, I learned that we should trust the filming process even when it didn’t appear as if the film was going to turn out well. This film proved this as it turned out relatively good even when production was troubled.

Session Number:	5
Week Number:	7
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	4 30
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	To finish and present the film.

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
5/8	Worked on Sound	1 hour	It was best practice because we finished the soundtrack.
5/9	Finished blog Post	1 hour	It was best practice because I finished my blog post.
5/10	Helped Tyler w/t editing.	30 min	Yes as it made sure we finished the film.
5/11	Watched Films	1 hour	Yes since we were required to.
5/12	edited Blog Post	1 hour	yes because it made it more understandable.

Summary:

My involvement in the production process was a lot as I composed the shots and uploaded the footage.

Camera Evidence:

Evidence of Camera Preparation:

Evidence of Camera Movement :

Evidence of Camera Angles:

Evidence of Camera Shot Design:

Shot Choice Justification

In the shot where Emerson is standing up and it is revealed that the friend is gone we used a wide shot to symbolize the loneliness Emerson feels in that moment.

This helped the scene feel more impactful.

Lighting Design

Evidence of How Lighting Design Created Mood: Somber Mood

Evidence of How Lighting Design Created Atmosphere: Sad and depressing atmosphere.

Evidence of How Lighting Design Created genre: Evidence of drama genre through how there was conflict.

Consultation with Editor

Me and Tyler worked to make sure all of the shots were included in the film and that nothing was missing.

Alternative Shots

Evidence of Alternative Shots:

Why you chose the shot you used in the film: We chose this shot as doing a circular 180 as we had originally proposed didn’t fit our film and our timeline.

Camera Work and Lighting Evaluation

Evaluate the artistic level: On an artistic level, I think our film excelled due to its close-to-home themes and dark lighting.

Evaluate the technical level: On a technical level, I believe our film lacked due to the changing in our decisions often and time constraints.

Influences from Films

Name Cinematographer:Linus Sandgren

Name some films they worked on: La La Land

They influenced the work throughout the film by using Emerson’s yellow shirt. Its bright yellow resembles La La Lands outfits that represent fakeness/fake happiness. This contrasts with the friend’s more laid-back outfit being a more true route to happiness, unlike the yellow shirt’s symbolism of fake happiness.

What I Learned and Problems I Solved

I learned more about how to convey a story from your mind to a real film and how to improve on this in a future film. One problem we solved was we needed an extra person to turn on a light and to do that we got Gavin.

Grammar: Grammarly

DATE GOES HERE Weekly Work Log TEMPLATE v.2

Session Number:	5
Week Number:	6
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	4.30
What is/was your overall goal for this week?	Finish Filming.

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
5/1	Filmed	1 hour	Yes as it got us closer to our goal of finishing out film.
5/2	Filmed Closing Shot	1 hour	They were because we completed 2 of the most difficult shots to film.
5/3	Worked on Blog Post	30 min	Yes, because it is due on Friday.
5/4	Finished Filming!	1 hour	Yes because we completed filming and can move onto post propductuction.
5/5	Worked on sound.	1 hour	Yes because we were able to complete more of our soundtrack.

Session Number 5	
Week Number 5	
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:	
What was your overall goal for this week?	





Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/18	Filmed Montage scene.	1 hour	Yes, we finished the shot.
4/19	Filmed friend shot.	1 hour	Yes, we finished the shot.
4/20	Worked on music/sound effects.	30 min	Yes, but we might have to rerecord some audio.
4/21	Filmed intro to second character scene.	1 hour	Yes, we finished the shot.
4/22





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Session Number 5	
Week Number 4	
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:5	
What was your overall goal for this week? Begin production.	





Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/18	Filmed practice	1 hour	kind of
4/19	Watched films	1 hour	yes
4/20	Filmed practice of montage.	1 hour	yes
4/21	Made a live storyboard	1 hour	yes
4/22	Work on Sound and music	1 hour	yes





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Session Number 5	
Week Number 3	
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week:4	
What was your overall goal for this week? Finish pre-production	



Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
4/10	Set up props.	30 min	yes
4/11	Worked on sound effects and music.	1 hour	yes
4/12	Pre-production blog post	30 min	yes
4/13	Finish Blog Post	1 hour	yes
4/15	Finish Blog Post	1 hour	yes



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Session Number 5
Week Number 2
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 4 hour 45 minutes
What was your overall goal for this week? Film a Practice Shoot.

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
3/27	Storyboard and Blog Post	1 hour	yes
3/28	Blog Post summary	1 hour	yes
3/29	Story Board and Wrok on Blog Post Summary	1 hour	yes
3/30	Filmed practice Shoot	1 hour	yes
3/31	Filmed Practice Shoot	45 min	yes

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