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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Summary

This is evidence of pre-production ideas that I will use to raise tension in our film.

• 58:Close Up

A close-up shot is when the camera is close up on a character’s face, accentuating the audience’s emotions toward that character. When an antagonist is on screen this is used to make the audience want to get away from the character and not see them. While it is also often used to show sympathy to a character due to the accentuation of their face.

• 73:Circular

A circular is a moving camera shot that wraps around a subject revealing more in the scene. It can rise tension dramatically while also increasing world-building due to its large range as a shot. This will be used in our film in the climax.

• 80:Rembrandt Lighting

Rembrandt lighting is sharp lighting that will contrast light and dark in the scene. It increases the dramatics of the scene and shows the contrast between the work/phone and the friend.

Test Shots

Focal lengths will remain consistent throughout the film.

Lighting Tests

Throughout the test soots I learned how to make the surroundings less dark and increase the contrast when in a dark environment.

Equipment Checklist

• Tripod
• Camera
• 3 Lights
• 3 batteries for Lights
• 3 Light Tripods
• White Reflection Panel
• Boom Mike
• Audio Deck

Collaboration with Director

Set-up Sequence Workflow

1. Grab camera
2. Grab lights and batteries
3. Grab Tripod
4. Set up camera
5. Turn on and position the lights
6. Turn on preexisting lights
7. Organize props
8. Put the camera on a tripod
9. Film

Map of Each Location

Storyboard Notation

What I Learned

Throughout this pre-production session, I learned what changes we needed to make to our film in order to make it as good as possible. I got to experiment with lighting and learn how to make the film bright when in a dark environment. This will lead to a more polished film with fewer issues in production.

Grammar:Grammarly

Session Number 5
Week Number 1
Total Estimated Hours Contributed this Week: 4 hours
What was your overall goal for this week? Establish story to teammates and begin pre-production.

Work Tasks 

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was this a Best Practice?
Tue March 21	Worked on Trello board fibonachi numbers and ideas.	30 min	Yes
Wed March 22	Scouted Filming Location.	30 min	Yes
Thu March 23	Worked on. Storyboard and met with leduc.	1 hour	yes
Friday March 24	Finsished Project tracking Sheet and worked on Props	1 hour	yes
Mon March 20	Draft and went over story.	1 hour	yes

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