Final Task Production Blog: Rehearsing and Music Selection

   This past weekend, on March 6, we go together, and as mentioned in the past blog filmed some of the scenes we needed for our final task. However, since we were limited on the scenes we could film due to the unavailability of some actors, we decided to use this time wisely and do other things as well, other then film. For one, we rehearsed future scenes that we knew would need a couple takes to get right. We felt that rehearsing these scenes would make the process run much smoother on the day we actually filmed the scene. One of the scenes we rehearsed was the scene in which the daughter has a conversation with her neighbor. We wanted to rehearse this scene in particular because this scene is the scene that contains the most dialogue out of the entire project, so we knew it would do us some good if we already started practicing and memorizing some of the lines. Not only this, but we also practiced the angles in which this particular scene would be filmed from. We had already planned for this, but wanted to make sure that the angles and type of shots that we decided to film this scene in worked well and flowed easily. We practiced and went over the motions that the actors, being Harlow and Juanita, would need to do while saying their lines. This, however, was cut short due to weather conditions.

    Another thing we decided to do to make the process much easier later on and not waste time, was do research on our background music selections. We all kind of had an idea of the type of music we wanted in each scene but we had yet to find actual music that would be incorporated. We all got together over Google Meets and started going over different samples of music we could put in depending on the shot/scene. It was a bit difficult at first because not many of the samples that we found seemed like what we pictured for our film sequence. For many of the sounds, we felt that they were not a good fit because they would change the mood that we wanted to set for our film sequence if we implemented them. For some of the other sounds we didn't like, we thought that they resembled a popular thriller movie sound too closely and would therefore make the audience think of that movie instead of own. Many of the samples we found that we did like, we had to pay for so that also limited our options. However, we did find a couple potential sounds that were both download and royalty free. We wanted these sounds to be dramatic and slowly build up as the action builds up in order to accentuate the tension among the audience.