All About Me

  Editing 2 This week during editing, Ariba continued to work on transitions between scenes. She ensured the scenes meshed together to the best of her ability. She used cut transitions, fade-ins, and fade-outs. The main problem she encountered during editing was that there weren't enough clips of filler scenes to smoothly transition between the main scenes. The solution to this problem would be to get together with her group and film a few more clips. The amount of time she spent editing was around 3-4 hours. Other than that, not much has changed. It's the same person involved in editing, the same fonts, and the same audio effects.

  Editing 1 Our editor, Ariba Khan, checked out fonts used on posters of other movies about school and hardworking students and took inspiration from those. Ariba decided on a few blockier, all capital letter fonts, such the font on the posters for Legally Blonde . Ariba used audio effects that would interest the viewer in the setting. For example, she added background sounds of people talking to mimic students talking in hallways. She also used an effect to remove other background noise from the clips. She will also be adding music or another ongoing audio in the background to avoid the scenes being silent. Aside from the typical problems that somebody would face when using a new program, Ariba found it hard to edit using the touchpad on her laptop. To solve this issue, she simply switched to editing on a computer, which she found much easier to use, particularly the mouse. She also had problems getting started. Ariba had a vision and a draft of what the clip would look like, but ...

 Beginning to Film My group (Michelle Nguyen, Talia Tenenbaum, Ariba Khan, and I) have begun our process of filming. This took a lot of brainstorming on each of our parts. For example, Talia Tenenbaum, our camerawoman, was trying to prevent her phone (our filming device) from shaking in her hands and trying to find a quiet place to film. Attached is a picture of Talia holding her phone to record my character's, Priscilla Humphrey's scene in the school bathroom.

  Challenges in Film/Filming Process Our group has faced a variety of challenges in filming. On my end as the actress for mean-girl Priscilla Humphrey, I sometimes struggled with acting "natural". Some things I struggled with was looking at the camera while being filmed by our camerawoman (Talia Tenenbaum), memorizing my lines, not laughing when saying my lines or doing gestures such as blowing kiss faces into the mirror, and doing actions like taking out my school's computer on cue (a prop). Some challenges Michelle Nguyen (the actress for the humble and meek Lyra Stone) was memorizing her lines and being expressive. Some challenges Talia Tenenbaum faced as our camerawoman were trying to find a quiet place to film and trying to prevent her phone, the tool she filmed with, from shaking.  Everyone in my group is pulling their weight, as we allocated our tasks evenly, and we keep up communication when a group member isn't at school so they can adequately work from home....

  Costuming The mean girl main character of Priscilla Humphrey will be filmed in the attire of a pink polyester long-sleeved shirt, baggy blue jeans, and black-and-white Panda Dunk sneakers. Lyra Stone will be filmed in the attire of a baggy green zip-up jacket with blue jeans and a pair of gray sneakers. Considering that Priscilla will wearing a pink top and Lyra will be wearing the attire of a green top. Thus, I have tried to portray them wearing opposite colors to show the contrast in their personalities. Priscilla Humphrey will be wearing lots of makeup products. These include black mascara, pink lip gloss, bronzer, foundation, highlighter, and blush. Lyra Stone, on the other hand, will be filmed wearing a lack of makeup. This difference in the characters' makeup habits is meant to further highlight Priscilla's vanity as opposed to Lyra's humility and lack of obsession with her physical appearance. Priscilla will always be wearing her long locks out to show off her gorg...

  Preparing to Film Actors Yasmine Salem will be playing the character Priscilla Humphrey, the antagonist. She is a "mean girl" whose goal is to get into Harvard, and she is frequently seen partaking in bullying behavior. Michelle Nguyen will be playing Lyra Stone, the protagonist. She is a hardworking, shy, studious, intelligent and humble girl who also has a goal of getting into Harvard. She is Priscilla Humphrey's bullying victim and competition to get into Harvard. Costumes Priscilla Humphrey will be filmed wearing a pink polyester long-sleeved shirt, baggy blue jeans, and black-and-white Panda Dunk sneakers. Lyra Stone will be filmed wearing a baggy green zip-up jacket with blue jeans and gray sneakers. With Priscilla wearing a pink top and Lyra wearing a green top, I have tried to portray them wearing opposite colors to show how different their personalities are. Priscilla Humphrey will be wearing black mascara, pink lip gloss, bronzer, foundation, highlighter, and ...

  Mood Board for Opening Sequence For our movie's opening sequence, we are using high-key lighting, as the setting is a high school in the middle of the school day, as shown by the mood board above. In my mood board, I am trying to capture the essence of the clip's 2 main characters' personalities. Priscilla Humphrey, the girl on the left, is shown to be wearing makeup and a fashionable outfit, which is meant to show off her affluence and the vanity of her personality. The image I found of Priscilla was actually inspired by an image of Gretchen Wieners from Mean Girls . This means with Priscilla's character, I am trying to portray a typical high school bully/mean girl. She is very much entitled and believes she will undoubtedly get into Harvard University, so her prop will be an opened computer in a high school library as she checks her Harvard decision, expecting an acceptance letter to be at her fingertips. The other main character, Lyra Stone, who is pictured on the ...