Fourth Entry

This week was clearly the more agitating one. I must say even though it was a really hard project, I really enjoyed making it. It is one of those projects were we are doing something we like, and that motivated me on working harder on the project. This week we had to move really fast in order to finish the movie. We set up with our main character to finish filming on Monday. He couldn't, so he proposed to film on Saturday when the project was to hand in on Friday. Somehow we managed to shoot the film on Wednesday and start editing the movie as soon as we finished. We then edited in 3 classes on Thursday and then on the editor's house we again edited. We finished to edit but we had a lot of troubles with passing the audio to the DVD, so we had to make voice notes and putted them on top of the recordings. Thankfully it just happened for the first scene. We handed in the project on time

The project was a really good experience. As I said before, we were motivated to keep on filming as we were doing something we enjoyed. We had a really good time filming the movie. It was great, we laughed like 70% of the time. We chose the best actors for our movie. Our main character as a serial killer was great. For me this was awesome to do because it was also something we hadn't done before, so sometimes we were lost and didn't know what to do, so we just improvised but we got some really got stuff. Our movie turned out to  be great. "Acts of The Unspeakable" fulfilled my objectives. What we managed to do in so short time and without any experience (as no one in the group knew very much about film making) was really great.

The project tought me a lot of things. The first one was the kind of shots. Without that theory lesson we would have committed a lot of mistakes in the film making. We would probably had sucked making the movie. The project also mad me realize the work behind a movie. Obviously before this I appreciated it and knew all the hard work of it, but know, know I have a different point of view towards the making of a movie, and the last couples of movie I have seen I find myself all the time looking at things like shots, music or the performance by the actors and it is all really good. This also tought me the hard work behind a movie. We only made 10 minutes, but we lasted 3 weeks. So I keep thinking how movies that are " hours long manage to shoot and edit. So with this project I have basically learned to appreciate more the cinema, I have learned about shots a lot and I have learned that it is good to schedule what we are going to do and yo have a backup plan, because sometimes things don't turn out the way you expected them.

I didn't had any frustrations, or many frustrations with the film making. Sometimes with the main actor who wasn't fully committed but I can't blame him, he is not part of the group and can't get nominated for an award so it is comprehensible but it really pissed me of sometimes. Another thing that frustrated me was sometimes having to shoot the same scene for 45 times. It was really annoying not to get the correct shot, or that because a simple move we had to shot the scene again. Sometime we laughed wile making the scenes and it was really annoying, but it was funny at the same time, so it was cool. Something that made me sad rather than annoying me was not getting any nomination. It was sad that all your hard work isn't as good as others just because the movie is explicit. But there is nothing I can do about it but, and I am actually looking forward to the Oscar night. My group's main objective when making the movie was to make people laugh, and we clearly managed it. Getting nominated or winning would have been something extra, though I must confess it was sad not see a nomination in either of the 6 categories.

The Oscar's Night is going be great. I am really looking forward to it. To see some of the other's people movies and seeing everyone dressed very formally is going to be great. Clearly I am not as excited as the groups that got nominated (for obvious reasons) but still, it will be fun and I am sure I am going to get surprised in the event. Something tells me that I am going to be surprised in the event, but who knows, we must wait. For know only getting cool dresses with my group and inviting people to the event is my priority.

Juan Felipe Mendez
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