Filming Day #2 (Part 2)

  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 context. When we played it back, we were all equally impressed. I think it’s safe to say this is our new favorite title. 

The friendship bracelet was pretty easy to film. I took a tilt of Amelie’s arm wearing the bracelet and her sweater. 

As for the “Music by” title, we had to take the shot two times. We still are unsure of what music we will be using for our title sequence. We really hope it works out that we can use a Radiohead song, so one of the two shot variations said “Music by Radiohead.” But, in the case that we are unable to use the song, we need to have a backup plan. So, we took another shot with random album art and a random name. The only thing we had to worry about was a glare from the overhead fluorescent lights, otherwise, it was a breeze. We had Amelie tap on her phone to “wake it up from sleep mode” and that clearly displayed our manufactured “song.”

I think we are all very happy with the results of filming day #2!!

Our last three shots!