Independent Study 2

1. Log:

April 12, 2011
10am-midnight

April 13, 2011
midnight-3am
1pm-2pm
9pm-10pm

April 15, 2011
12pm-5pm

April 16,2011
6pm-midnight

2. Posted Evidence

Evidence is a DVD, which I will have handed into you Friday morning.


Literal

I, Denyce Martinez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

Explanation of what you completed.

I wrote, directed, edited, and starred in a horror film about a schizophrenic girl who ends up being killed by her inner rage, or did this all really happen.

Interpretive

Defend your work and explain how the significant parts of your component and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.

April 13, 2011
10am - woke up, went outside, took 15-20 different angles and directions of the opening credits until I did one that I really wanted to use.
11am - I moved everything out of my room so that I would be able to shoot in there.
12pm - Andrew Alexander arrived, his character had four parts and I shot each one like 5 times, just to be 100% sure I had what I wanted.
1pm - Andrew left, so I edited what I had so far.
2pm - My friend Candice Chico arrived, we first did the screaming scene and that took like 20 minutes because I could not figure out how to do voice overs on my editing system. So I changed the scene so that it wouldn't have to be a voice over. Then, we shot another scene that was supposed to have a voice over, and we changed that too. Then, we went into my bathroom and shot a scene that made her look demonic (which it did). We kept having to reshoot that scene because my siblings had gotten home and were loud/screaming. Then, we had to do the scene where she kills me and (as you may see in the bloopers) that scene was just embarrassing to shoot because she didn't know how to strangle me and I was trying to cooperate with what she was doing. Also, my house was really loud and my siblings are too young to care to be quiet so I had to cover up that scene with music that fit the scene.
7pm - At this time, we finished and she went home. I shot the begining part of scene 1by myself (because it only included me) and I shot each scene a few times because I wasn't 100% sure on how I wanted the sequence to look.
8pm - I started editing the film with what I had, so I wouldn't have to do the whole thing all at once in the end (which I later found was a terrible idea). I'm really proud of the music choices I made on the soundtrack to this. They really did add to the films impact, had I not screwed it up. Anyway, this editing took me forever because I was editing 9 hours worth of shooting.

April 13, 2011
12am- At this point, I had gotten the idea to make a 2 disc thing and turn it in with a soundtrack along with a cover art for the dvd box. So I got right to work on designing it and I finished at 3am.
1pm- I shot the scene after my mom walks out of my room. I took, like, 5 shots each from different angles and zooms until I finally got the perfect ones.
9pm- I edited the footage from that day.

April 15, 2011
12pm- I filmed scenes 1 and 3 with Patrick Burke-Jimenez and Ryan Burke-Jimenez.
2pm- I edited that days footage.

April 16, 2011
6pm- Edited the entire film and came up with what I thought was a great idea but ended up screwing me over really badly. I had so much footage on my laptop, that my laptop kept crashing and restarting itself without saving my editing. So, I decided to edit some of it, then save it as a movie, so that I can delete all the smaller other files from shooting. That was a great idea until I forgot to take the sound out of the videos before saving, and I didn't take into account I would have no idea where each scene started or ended because this was a completely new thing. So, when I tried editing my stuff together, I found the music was on top of parts that didn't need music, so you couldn't hear me or the other actors talking. Also, I lost a lot of footage somewhere in the mix and there was no way of getting it back because I thought it was a good idea to delete my backup. Trust me, I tried everything to be able to save that film but it wasn't possible. At all. And I honestly cried because I was really proud of this project.


Applied

This helped me answer my Essential Question because I got to use all of the acting techniques I've learned in order to put into use which one really worked best for me, which is now my best answer to my question.