My group, Nanako, Teresa, and me, are explaining our Valient Ventures project. For our first project, we made a short movie that was 10 minutes long. For our second project, we made a skit that was 2 minutes long.
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Practicing and Filming For Skits
I have learnt that making skits isn’t much easier than movies. They’re much shorter, but they’re pretty much the same when we film. It’s really hard to find a good place to film that looks like an actual hospital. And there’s no green or blue wall anywhere either. And none of our bedrooms are empty enough to be good hospital rooms. I learnt that our time management wasn’t really good. We could have film during lunch, afterschool, or before school, but we didn’t. We relied too much on the time we have on Fridays. Our next step is to finish filming any part that might need improvement. I need to finish editing before we know for sure if we still need to film. We practiced our lines and filmed. We hope we will be finished with our project by next week. It took us two weeks to finish the dialogue. And it took a whole month for us to finally finish filming. Because there were a lot of times when there’s no Valiant Ventures. But during that time we practice at home. We checked over what we filmed on the document. We made what we filmed red. We communicated really well. We talked in real life, chatted on facebook and gmail, and also sent emails.
My group fo our second Valient Ventures project is me, Nanako, and Teresa. Our project was in progress for about 10 weeks or more. Our project is two make many skits that are about 3 minutes long. But we only managed to make one, the Doctor one. We were supposed to type the dialogue then film it. We pretty much finished filming and it went better than last time I think. I think it went well because we actually knew what was going on this time. And we finished pretty fast too. Our dialogue was great because it was funny and complete. I feel like we really challenged ourselves. Because it was hard, the filming part. We had to prepare and get the angle right for the camera. We had to set up props and make sure nobody is going to walk by. We could have done a lot of things differently. We could have practiced more at home. We could have worn the same clothes everytime. I could have tried to look a bit more like an old lady and make my voice like an old lady, not a pirate. We could have filmed during lunch, after-school, or before school. But all that could be a lot of work, and it would take time for us to change clothes. But if we filmed more we could have finished more than one skit.
Even though we had many difficulties, I still thought that this project was very fun and enjoyable.
Here we are practicing-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8s_0jhYoE
Here is out document-https://docs.google.com/a/kas.kh.edu.tw/document/d/13biuhwVBaVrFCGCmOUJYWUb20fMAIXGT3EApbrSwhmY/view
Practicing Filming!
I have learned that it’s hard to make a movie with what we have. Nowhere in KAS really looks like a hospital except the nurse’s room. And there’s only one place with a good green screen, but there’s also white trees on it. We don’t really have any hospital things except a stethoscope and a tooth brush. And none of us have a cane so we need to use an umbrella. And none of us has any old lady clothes either.
We have finished typing the dialogue and have practiced the script for 2 weeks. We also have some props ready. We have a nurse’s coat and also a stethoscope.
We hope to be able to start filming next Friday. And practice throughtout the week before Friday. Like during lunch and maybe afterschool. We plan to find some props to use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8s_0jhYoE This is us practing.
We Are Starting Skits!
I have learned that skits are like short and funny plays. So now we don’t need to worry about it being too short. I learned that I like doing movies for some reason. Right now we are still typing the dialogue. Our next step is to figure out what we’re going to wear and where we are going to film it.
We just accomplished who we will be, and about 1 minute of the dialogue. Our skit is going to be about a doctor, the patient, and the nurse. The patient is me, the nurse is Nanako, and the doctor is Teresa. I’m supposed to be rude, yell a lot and is going to be tough for an old lady. The doctor and nurse are patient and nice. The dialogue is here https://docs.google.com/a/kas.kh.edu.tw/document/d/13biuhwVBaVrFCGCmOUJYWUb20fMAIXGT3EApbrSwhmY/edit
We plan to make this skit 3 minutes so I’m sure our skit will be long enough. We hope by next week we will be finished with the dialogue and planning. Our accomplishes so far took the whole class time on Friday, 2/14. We are communicating well. We email each other, chat, and we talk about it in real life.
FINISHED!!!
We finished filming and everything!! YAY!!! I have to admit that our movie isn’t the best though. AND, it’s really really short. It was supposed to be like 30 minutes but it was only 10.
We learned that making movies needs to have a lot of ideas. Or your movie will be really short!! Like ours. Even thought we spent a lot of time in it.
I learned that I am a pretty good actress. At least I think so. And we’ve practiced singing together for our next project and we sound pretty good.
Next we are going to practice some songs that we are going to do. We are going to do Mistletoe. We have all the parts done.
By next week, I hope we will all be ready to do our cover. I also want to be able to take the band picture you know?
Our accomplishments of the movie took really long. Now I see why The Sea of Monsters took a year to make. I thought it would only take like 3 months. Silly me.
Sometimes we couldn’t all film. Like sometimes Teresa had to work on her poster. Or Nanako wanted to study for the test. And also Connie isn’t in our A Block. We just filmed the parts that we can film. And when we couldn’t film film anything we changed the dialogue a little and also edited some things together. And also add some music.
We communicated really well. I sent a lot of emails telling our group what we are going to do. Like the plan for the week. I also made a chat group and a group on Facebook. We have a Google Doc with all the information.
Almost Done!
We learned that making movies needs a lot of practice and planning. Youγhave to remember the script! Or at least what’s happening. We have finished filming a LOT of parts. Everything except for the plan on Tammy. Which we are going to film on Monday recess (11/18) We plan to do some of the recording at school and some at home. Because the school is rarely ever quiet. And I want to refilm the plan in action on Rebecca. The ending part of it. I want to get all the filming done by Tuesday. Then we have to record our voices because the background noise is really loud and we can’t hear anything. I think we’ll be done in 1 or 2 weeks. Then we can start on covers!!! The filming took a while because we had to set things up, look at the script and get to our positions. We communicated really well. We emailed, chatted, and reminded each other what to do and the scripts. It was mostly me doing the reminding. π
FF-DA CHARACTERS
We haven’t started filming yet. But decided that the shy girl’s name will be Rebecca La Rue. She will be played by me, Claire. Β The mean girls will me Nanako and Teresa. Their names will be Kate Lorraine and Mackenzie Everdeen. The boy’s name will be Travis Valdez. It will be played by Claire with a picture on her face. The picture will either be Niall Horan or Louis Tomlinson. I will be the editor. Rebecca’s best friend will be played by Connie. Her name in the movie will be Tammy Santiago. Kate and Mackenzie are friends but fight a lot. Travis is good at everything. And he has a brother named Connor. So in the end Travis will like Rebecca instead of Kate and Mackenzie. Like Cinderella. I want Tammy to like Connor. Connor will be played be me again with a picture of either Louis or Niall on my face.
What the Project Will Be About
For my topic I’ve decided to focus on making a short movie. Before we we’re going to do a song but decided that it was kind of hard. We’ve decided that the movie is going to be 30 minutes and it’s about two girls fighting over a guy and there is one shy girl and then the boy falls for that girl instead of the other two and yeah, like Another Cinderella Story.
This topic is important to me because I really like making videos and I was the one who suggested this.
I hope to learn about movie making, and stuff famous actors and actresses. Like what movies they played in.
I will know when we succeed when we don’t look nervous or look like we’re acting and we remember what to say.
We have already accomplished what the movie is going to be about. It is going to be about LOVE and you know.