26th May, 09
We filmed Taylor's scene today at my home.
I already had Clair De Lune in my mind for quite a long time for her dancing scene so after letting Joyce the director listen to it, I played that song for her to dance to.
we only took two hours to film the scene which during the process, I helped give joyce some wkw-esque ideas. Idealy which means weird angles and stuff that shouldn't be in a film is in, AKA oddball images.
Most of the time, I just held the boom mike and made note of the things that needs sound fixing or when the sound turns wonky.
Sunday, 7 June 2009
WKW 3
27th May, 09
Since today would mostly be planning, I brought my laptop to school so that I could choose the songs that could be in my film.
I noticed that WKW uses canto pop a lot, but then I don't listen to canto pop at all, so I don't really know what to do until Ms Wong told me that I could use English pop. I also chose some soundtracks from other films.
Even though we've only filmed one scene yesterday, I got the mood that Joyce wants this film to achieve so,
At the time being, I chose these songs
There's A Girl by the Ditty Bops
I chose this song because it talks about a girl (obviously), but then the real reason was that I really like the instrumental parts. It's slightly canto pop like, and also, the girls in the band did an excellent job on harmonising.
Clair De Lune by Claude Debussy
This song is for the scene where Taylor (protagonist's dead girl friend) dances. It's a dreamy and slow song, and the chords are also beautifully played. It is also for the ease of Rebecca (Taylor)'s dancing because she knows this song, so dancing to it would come to her naturally.
Smellz Like A Party by B2K
To be very honest, I don't really have a reason to chose this song. I just really like it. Maybe I could use it in some of the scenes where Kelvin (the protagonist) is drunk
Blackbird by The Beatles
This could be the ending song for Kelvin's ending soliloquy because it is a very peaceful song. It is mainly just guitar strumming and a very light voice of Paul McCartney singing. It really suits our film because this song is very soft and somewhat melancholic, just like our film.
IB Learner Profile:
Thinker - By thinking and analysing each song in detail, i assigned a soundtrack to each scene of the movie. I think the decisions that i have made are quite reasonable.
Since today would mostly be planning, I brought my laptop to school so that I could choose the songs that could be in my film.
I noticed that WKW uses canto pop a lot, but then I don't listen to canto pop at all, so I don't really know what to do until Ms Wong told me that I could use English pop. I also chose some soundtracks from other films.
Even though we've only filmed one scene yesterday, I got the mood that Joyce wants this film to achieve so,
At the time being, I chose these songs
There's A Girl by the Ditty Bops
I chose this song because it talks about a girl (obviously), but then the real reason was that I really like the instrumental parts. It's slightly canto pop like, and also, the girls in the band did an excellent job on harmonising.
Clair De Lune by Claude Debussy
This song is for the scene where Taylor (protagonist's dead girl friend) dances. It's a dreamy and slow song, and the chords are also beautifully played. It is also for the ease of Rebecca (Taylor)'s dancing because she knows this song, so dancing to it would come to her naturally.
Smellz Like A Party by B2K
To be very honest, I don't really have a reason to chose this song. I just really like it. Maybe I could use it in some of the scenes where Kelvin (the protagonist) is drunk
Blackbird by The Beatles
This could be the ending song for Kelvin's ending soliloquy because it is a very peaceful song. It is mainly just guitar strumming and a very light voice of Paul McCartney singing. It really suits our film because this song is very soft and somewhat melancholic, just like our film.
IB Learner Profile:
Thinker - By thinking and analysing each song in detail, i assigned a soundtrack to each scene of the movie. I think the decisions that i have made are quite reasonable.
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Wong Kar Wai 2
25th May, 09
Today, we have our groups sorted for out Wong Kar Wai film. Joyces script was chosen to be filmed. She also chose the people in her group, Me, Jingting and Chris Checketts.
Ms Wong wanted us to do our film in madarin, so I have started translating the script into chinese. It was very challenging because I had to keep translating colloquial english into colloqial madarin which is very very different from colloquial cantonese, the language that i usually think in. Though it's hard, I agreed to take the job of translating because I had the advantage of having mandarin being my first language.
For the rest of the language, I was occupied with the job of translation, Joyce and Jingting planned the shots and planned the schedule and Chris continued with the story board that Joyce haven't got time to fininsh during the test.
Problems/ Difficulties:
- To be honest, Chris has not been very helpful to us. He only managed to plan 4 shots during the whole lesson when Jingting and Joyce mangaged to type out a complete schedule and I have managed to translate half the script. He has been spending most of the time chatting with people of other groups, and it was very frustrating.
IB learner profiles:
-Risk takers: we agreed to take on the challenge of filming in madarin, a feat that none has ever accomplished before in CIS. I felt very proud and happy to be able to be one of the first who ever did this in CIS.
-Communicators: We were using different languages in our film
Today, we have our groups sorted for out Wong Kar Wai film. Joyces script was chosen to be filmed. She also chose the people in her group, Me, Jingting and Chris Checketts.
Ms Wong wanted us to do our film in madarin, so I have started translating the script into chinese. It was very challenging because I had to keep translating colloquial english into colloqial madarin which is very very different from colloquial cantonese, the language that i usually think in. Though it's hard, I agreed to take the job of translating because I had the advantage of having mandarin being my first language.
For the rest of the language, I was occupied with the job of translation, Joyce and Jingting planned the shots and planned the schedule and Chris continued with the story board that Joyce haven't got time to fininsh during the test.
Problems/ Difficulties:
- To be honest, Chris has not been very helpful to us. He only managed to plan 4 shots during the whole lesson when Jingting and Joyce mangaged to type out a complete schedule and I have managed to translate half the script. He has been spending most of the time chatting with people of other groups, and it was very frustrating.
IB learner profiles:
-Risk takers: we agreed to take on the challenge of filming in madarin, a feat that none has ever accomplished before in CIS. I felt very proud and happy to be able to be one of the first who ever did this in CIS.
-Communicators: We were using different languages in our film
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