Filming/Working on Friday to Monday

Alrighty, so apparently more filming was done on Friday, May 22 and Saturday, May 23, but I wasn't there to film and document what our group was doing on those days because I wasn't there. :[ I was busy playing badminton at the SCVALs tournament that weekend. Anyways, on those days, they seemed pretty productive and got a lot of filming done, so it's all good. Today (or

should I say yesterday, since it's already about 19 minutes past midnight) we filmed the last scene, in which Ojas and Piyush reunite with Latika and kill Maman. Yay, that means we're done with filming. That is, if we don't find anything wrong in the clips while we're editing them. So yea, basically we're reserving this whole week for editing and EVERYTHING for this movie (i.e. scrapbook, website advertising, actual movie...) is going to be finito by this Friday or hopefully Thursday. On Sunday, everyone except Amos (since he had to play in some concert) worked on the scrapbook and the movie poster. That reminds me, I should post a picture of the movie poster. I hope the Photoshopping looks decent...

Vlog Day 5

Alrighty, so right now, since it's Sunday night and I'm done with all my homework (I think I am or at least I better be), I'm just going to upload the vlog I made on Wednesday, May 19th. We just continued with filming that day, but this time we got to film using a green screen! As I said before, the green screen, which looks like a simple green blanket that can be bought at Bed, Bath and Beyond for like $19.95 (have we been scammed?), felt like a rip off. $105?! Goodness. Anyways, we bought 3 green screens, but ended up using only 1. Sigh, what a waste of money. We also wasted HECKA time setting up the green screen. We originally planned to set it up in Amos' garage, but due to the lighting and shadows created on the green screen (shadows on the green screen create big black mark things when another background is placed on the screen), we had to move the screen and re-setup the whole thing in Amos' dining room. Such a time-waster. Luckily, Shoumik came over and, being the tech/green screen pro he is, helped us out with filming using the green screen and all that jazz. He told us to iron the wrinkled green screens before using them so that's what we did. 3 green screens. 1 iron. 20 minutes each screen. An hour gone like BAM. Whatever, we considered it as an experience anyways...or at least Amos did. That day, we got a majority of the scenes that required filming in front of a green screen filmed so I guess we were pretty productive that day. Woah, I think this is longest post I've ever written.

See the vlog! --> CLICK HERE :]

Vlog Day 4

Another vlog has been posted on YouTube. Yay. I like this day-after-day vlog posting thing; it means we're actually filming and working on the movie. Another yay. I felt today was more productive than yesterday because we got all the interrogator scenes and the Ahmed/Ojas scene, which totals to a number of 5 or 6 scenes, filmed. WAAAY more productive than the one scene we did on Monday. I think those scenes total to no more than 2-3 minutes though...but I guess that's okay since our movie can't surpass 15 minutes in length.

Oh yea, and special thanks to Shoumik and Jeff for helping us with filming that day!

To see the vlog... CLICK HERE :]

Green Screen Mean Lean Cuisine Scene Ilene...

Good news! The green screen we're using in our movie for the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" show scenes just came in yesterday (I would say today, but Tuesday was an hour ago). Bad news. It's freakin' $105 and $30 of that amount is the shipping fee. That means we have to pay $21 per person, but once you think about it, I guess it's pretty reasonable. But $30 for shipping! Come on. Those green screens better be heavy.

Vlog Day 3

Vlog Day 3 is now up on YouTube! And if you're curious to know why I didn't post the vlog on the same day it was taken, which I highly doubt you are, it was because I got home from Amos's house after filming at around 10:15p.m. ish and was too tired to combine all the clips together and make a post similar to the one I'm making right now. Oh, AND 3 hours of badminton practice really pooped me out. So yea...at least it's up now!
Overall, today we just went to Amos's house and filmed the very first scene of the movie, the scene where Ojas gets tortured, and organized what we had to do for this whole week mainly because we hardly have any time left to finish the project. What I couldn't believe was that it took 1+ hours to film the first scene, which probably isn't even a minute long (or at least it didn't feel like it...)!

To see the vlog....CLICK HERE :]

The trailer...

...is officially up! And I'm not lying/kidding this time. It's actually up! I posted it on tudou.com (some Chinese website I got my dad to help me translate) and it didn't complain about copyright issues or anything. Yay. Happy face. Alrighty, enjoy.

CLICK HERE. for reals.

Thank God. Now I can finally go to sleep.

Rawr. I Hate the C-Word...

Yes, right now I'm reeeally hating the fact that our movie trailer contains copyrighted material and the fact that we didn't find out and remove it BEFORE finalizing it. Ugh. Apparently, because our trailer contains copyrighted material, Facebook won't let me upload it onto their site, so now no one gets to watch it online. =[ (By the way, I removed the link to the Facebook video in the previous post so click on the CLICK HERE text all you want; your finger's just going to start cramping.)
So yea, very sad/mad face. I'm going to try again and find another site where I can upload the trailer so keep an eye out for it.