Winning an Oscar

This is the final production of my film. After being edited and music added on it came out like this. its being a long and amazing journey. I cant believe it ends here i did my best to do the best as possible in this film and i hope you all like it. this has being an amazing experience being able to make this idea come to life. hope you guys like this film and the next ones to come......
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=UHQDGRJMMi8

My CCR Film Opening

This is my CCR film opening this is the video where i explained everything about the film opening. i talk about how we did every shot how it affects society and the back ground of the film. i hope you guys like it.   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCSVOvZj-HlI2WDs3AO_tiQ

Permission to use song

We were scared that the record label of Action Borson wasn't going to let us use his song miss "Fordham road 86' 87' 88" this would of been a huge step back to what we were hoping our film would look like. This song was perfect to our movie because it brought the Latin tone and gangster mood that we were looking for. We wanted our song to show our characters back ground and let the viewer know the song is a big part of the opening of the film. We had send emails to Action Borson, his manager and the record label. They took a really long time for them to answer us. After we send them another email to all of them explaining in detail that we weren't going to use his song for promotional purposes they answered. They told us that we could use it in our school project and wished us luck. It was great news of them letting us use his song. This has let us continue our vision of how we want our movie to be. We already know when we are going to use the song in a way that's entertaining and adds a bigger message to the film. We really hope you like the song we used and that you can see why we picked this song.

Finishing touches

Our last day in Miami. We filmed the ending of our introduction. We went to Miami and found the top of this parking lot. We also we around wynwood and took videos of the art in the walls that would relate to the film. We are using wynwood footage if we need to have more time in our video. At the top of the garage it's Carlos going to an interview not knowing what to expect. Then the car comes with two people. And one of them gets out and from the drivers seat and opens the passenger seat ad this wee dressed Hispanic mafia men comes out. They talk for a little to know all of their characters. Then that would be it. We filmed this part at night with no cars and no one around. We wanted to build mystery and suspense. We also got a taxi to let us film. We showed Carlos getting to the garage by taxi. Then you see Carlos going up. We did cuts to show that he was going up in the elevator but not making the scene so long that way we  didn't waisted time. Our next step would be to edit and make everything come together the best way as possible. We need to make sure everyone agreees on the final touches and everyone's image is displayed on the movie.

Second day of filming

We are going to show different locations of Miami. We showed Calle 8 and nice places in Miami downtown. We took shots of call 8 because this shows where our character is from and where he was raised. This location is full of hipanics. Showing his Hispanic background and how he knows people that are involved with breaking the law. We also showed nice places of Miami downtown and there nice buildings they have. This shows what the main character is looking to have one day. He wants to live in a nice places in an amazing building with the view of the beach. We re showing this shots after he pulls out of disposing the body. With music that matches our movie. The song has a Spanish flow with rap in it. This again is to show his hipanic background and how hispanics are a big part of Miami. We took 2 hours to go and take videos in the street and of signs. We decided to show this quick shots of Miami because it is also a good reason to show the tittle and everything of our film.

part of filming

We are finished filming. We have done all of the shots that we needed to take. For ur first scene we went to this abandoned street and took a video of Carlos disposing a body and driving away. We tried to show him as clueless and he really doesn't know how to do his job. He's new to the mafia businesss and that's why he looks like he isn't careful with the body. He's just a young adult who needed money quick and decided to get involved with the wrong people. This took us time to film because the body bag is actually two bags with a weight inside with thick blanket. Sometimes the bag would destroy the bag. After that we would mess up in where to put the "body". We also put in this scene Carlos getting in the car and driving away fast. Then i bog bang would come from the trunks direction. This would show that he has another body in the trunk. This would of made no sense and it would be confusing for the viewer so we decided to show that part. This was how our first day of filming went.

Props

To make the missense scene real and believable we had to get props to make everything real. We had to go To this abandon street to get the starting shot. We brought two black bags and a conferder with a  20 pound weight. We put the confeder in the bag with the weight. We settled the conferder to look like a body in the bag. Piti then starts to kick the bag and drags it away from the shot it looks like it weights a lot cause of the weight. And then we cut to Piti getting in the car and backing away and driving off hearing a loud nouise in the trunk. I had to get in the trunk and hit the trunk with the weight to make it sound like a dead body was in the trunk.

Asking for permission

we had to ask action borson to see if we could use his song in our video. We first searched him up on Facebook and contacted him asking if we could please use his song for a school project. After that we went online and looked his actual webpage and send him manager an email asking him the same thing. After that we got his record company and we send them an email too asking for the same thing.. we just need to wait and see if he answers and if he lets us. This song will be perfect for our video because it's the opposite of what's going on in the film like this guy is crazy and just killed two people basically and he doesn't care and then the song that comes up with happy and outgoing and this shows the guy is crazy and doesn't care he kills people and he's doing it for the money

Final idea

Yesterday we tried to film what was going to be our final idea but we decided to change it. We have come up with making a mafia movie. It's going to be about the life of this mafia member and how he gets into trouble. We started filming already. We filmed in this abandoned street and you can see the mafia member beating a guy in a black bag and disposing his body. We want our character to be crazy evil. He is crazy in the head he doesn't do the normal killings. When he's done hitting the dead body he moves the body to the Forrest to dispose him. Then he gets in the car and drives away when he drives away you can hear a big hit in the trunk and that's when the guy turns around and remembers that he also has a dead body and then the screen becomes black and the tittle pops up. After that you are going to be playing the song miss Fordham road by action Bronson.

starting to film

we started to film and got some of our starting shots. we went to this abandoned house full of spray paint and thats when the mass murder finds his helper and they talk about how he need to lay low now that the cops are looking for them. we went and we got the shots of the guy driving and him walking to meet with the other guy. i was looking online to see how we can make the car scene more interesting and how we can bring more meaning to it. so i found this website with a video that i really think its interesting and will make the film look more professional. i will need to show this to my group i know they will think its a good idea. http://nofilmschool.com/2016/08/shooting-car-scene-here-are-6-basic-shots-you-should-know-about

before filming

before we started to film we had to think of places where we can film and who is going to act. we would need props to get our mise en scene looked believable. we all had to text friends to let us borrow some of there things to use as props. in the robbery we are doing it about a guy who doesn't have a lot of money and he lives in a nice place. so we had to look for an old house and an old car so it could fit in with our mise en scene. this would make the movie more believable. we are still thinking on the locations that we are filming because we live in a nice little city. i read more about mise en scene then what we learned in class and i got that we should use low key lighting and that a we need to keep in mind space to make it seem more realistic and that we are not setting a fake stage that people can tell is not real. https://collegefilmandmediastudies.com/mise-en-scene-2/ 

meeting in group

so in class we meet up with one person from each group to talk about what we are doing. this helped me realize that we were behind from everyone else. this meeting also helped me listen to great ideas other people had. I explained to them how my group has two ideas and how it was going to be really hard to film. We have a bank robbery idea but we didn't know how to start the film. the people who i was talking to told me it has to do something really big to get a guy to rob a bank. This changed my whole view on how I wanted the movie to be. when we started thinking on whats going on the film for the guy to rob the bank it became my favorite idea to turn in as a final project. My group is still undecided between two ideas so we are going to film both and edit them and at then end we will pick the best one. we are going to do more work but we want to turn in the best product we can make.