Progress Report #3

April 25

In March I shot a lot of footage for the film and knew where the direction of the story was going for. I showed my technical advisor Ryoya the footage and the kinds of edits I want to do. During spring break I edited all the footage with Adam to make a rough cut to show to Ryoya. We scheduled a meeting with Ryoya for April 25 and showed him the film, he enjoyed the way we edited the footage. Although he said that the beginning was a little too long because it is 1:40 seconds long, he said the beginning should be short and straight to the point and I agreed with him. So now I have to figure out a way how to make the beginning 30-40 seconds long and keep the important details in that time frame. I didn’t realize when filming that part that it was long because I wanted the beginning to show what the audience was going to see in the film.

Progress Report 2

February 21, 2023

Had a meeting with my technical advisor Professor Ryoya via zoom and updated him on what direction the culmination project will go in. I told him that it was going to transition from a documentary film into a narrative comedy film that would break the 4th wall. My colleague and I weren’t originally going to be in the film but now we’re the main cast alongside the people that we were going to film in the documentary. This is good because I now know what direction the film will in terms of storytelling. Professor Ryoya liked the idea and advised me to not forget what the purpose of the film should be about.