Hey! So on Saturday, Amelie, Isaac, and Lilly visited my house. We met up at about 10:30 am. Amelie arrived at 10, so I showed her the props I had been working on the night before. They looked excellent! I “made” three books by printing out book jackets that would fit well. I also wrote a title on a Sharpie pen, as we had planned. But, it did not turn out at all how I had wanted it to. I was extremely disappointed. So, when Amelie got to my house, I asked her advice and we decided to make two friendship bracelets for the last needed title. They needed to describe that “Sammie Burton” was the executive producer. So we made one bracelet that said “EXEC PROD” which equated to “executive producer” and another one that had two layers. The top layer said “SAMMIE” and the bottom layer said “BURTON.” After spilling the beads a few times, which I was extremely frustrated with, I finished the bracelet! It was only when I put it on Amelie’s hand that I realized I had misspelled the name. In...
Wow! We finally solved the problem of finding our music - and we are so so excited! We were in class the other day, listening to music as per usual. I asked my group if they had any interest in adding a song by Ethel Cain into our movie. I don't think anyone fully registered what I was saying, they were preoccupied, but nonetheless, I went to email Ethel's team. On her website, there are helpful links and emails to reach out for all sorts of inquiries. I didn't know exactly which category my question fell under. So, I decided not to chance it, and emailed four different emails at once. I used the template Amelie had created a few months ago, when we were reaching out to other teams. Not even an hour later, I received an email back! They told us that we were allowed rights to the song, just so long as we properly credited her and kept the video on YouTube, for educational purposes. We were shocked, and overjoyed at the speed and cooperation from Ethel Cain's legal...
Hey again! To finish up filming, we had three more shots to get! Another book, showing “Written by”; the friendship bracelets, showing “Executive producer”; and a phone screen, showing “Music by.” We first took a shot of the book. We had already accounted for all the required shots in our movie, so we had some more freedom with this. We decided to play around with the Dutch angle. We removed some books from the shelf and placed one book, the subject of our shot. We placed it so that it was slanted, and diagonal compared to the top and bottom, horizontal lines of the bookshelf, and the side-to-side, vertical lines of the books. The shot started with the vertical lines vertical, the horizontal lines horizontal, and our book slanted - making it a bit challenging to read the title. As the shot progressed, I rotated the camera so the text on our book spine was legible. The other lines in the shot were now slanted - our book is now the only thing making sense in the shot’s contex...
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