Blog #5: Making a connection

WHAT I DID:

This week, after the play ended,

Ashley, Amy and I went to film in the garden near the school.

Amy is our actress, having the role of "Goldy" ( Goldy doesn't come out often but is a important character in our film)

The actual scene will be about 3 minutes, so we were trying to Finnish it in 10 minutes.

But I think it took about 20 minutes because just like last time, we try 3 times of filming the same scene. Also, when I actually get to the place and start filming, when I see the scene, I always change it.

There was supposed to be a scene where Goldy and I were having conversation but since the sun was setting down, we just quickly finished Amy's scene.

When filming, I can always picture the scene, but when I start filming, the picture doesn't come out as I want. But Ashley captures the scene as I picture, and I try to observe what Ashley does. Ashley doesn't move her camera that much and stays in the same spot for a long time. And then she films it again.

Whereas I try to film the spots I want, all at once and starts moving around the camera.

I think I should have more stability in what I'm doing.

Because the story I thought was written like a storyline, than a specific motion of how the scene will look like, I made a storyboard using the powerpoint ( which must be edited: further explained in reflection)

Also, we borrowed "Microphone" from Mr. Kim since the film will have a higher quality when the characters speak.

REFLECTION:

Since I knew how the story will go I thought it would be easy.

But as I made the storyboard, I realized some of the parts in the story didn't connect,

The beginning sounds interesting.., but as the story flows , the story continuously suggests interesting problems and doesn't answer the problem in the beginning.

In the end, the problem that was suggested earlier didn't need to exist.

But it's also bizarre if I set a definite solution to the (minor) conflict.

I'd like to solve it, but not like give an easy answer that can be solved like math equations.

I do enjoy critical thinking questions, but my answer is always definite, because I don't like open ended questions...

I've seen movies or books that are interesting for the whole time, but ends poorly.

Even if it was funny for the whole time, if the ending is weird, it's a bad story.

That is probably the reason why I like "Harry Potter".

The writer, J.K. Rowling never leaves the readers in the question.

What the story mentioned in the beginning, it might not appear during the whole story, but it does take responsibility to answer in the end.

Maybe that's part of what I'm missing in my life. The void I see.

I don't see past as a connection, but a separate segment of me.

It was either happy or bad, past could affect me, but I don't know how past shapes me.

I have changed a lot from the past.

Cleaning my room used to be a natural habit ( because I didn't like being disorganized)

but now cleaning my room is what I do once a week, a burden to me.

Even when I write blogs,

I think I just write down what I get focused on, but then write several things and have no conlcusion.

Even if it doesn't have a conclusion, I should try to look at the pattern string and somehow, not miss what I've wrote and said.

Through this video I'm making, I'm also writing a diary about connecting my past.

During the break, I've been studying AP World History.

Getting to the end of the chapter, I get to really understand how the past ( even 8000 years ago) can still make a connection. Which I don't think is bad. But through this connection, people try to fix the mistakes..

In conclusion, for my next blog, I will comeback with a connective ending. Specific moments are good, but I think that's not what I should be working on at this instance.