Friday, February 17, 2023

Preparation: Necessary Tools

As I prepare to begin my production process, I have been researching necessary tools that I will need in order to facilitate my filming and writing. Firstly, I will need a tripod. While I do own one, it is broken and unreliable. I hope to have a functioning tripod that will allow me to shoot stable shots, which at this point, mine does not permit. Consequently, I have searched on websites such as Amazon and Target to find one that will work well for this project. Luckily, I came across a good tripod on Amazon and have purchased it. The picture embedded illustrates which one I have bought; I have also linked the item. 

I also decided that I would love to try out some shots with a camera stabilizer, as opposed to constantly using a tripod. I feel that, during more chaotic moments where my character demonstrates a lower mental state, the camera stabilizer will come in handy; it would allow for the disorder of a handheld shot to be captured, symbolizing the mayhem inside the character's head, but would still provide for some stability, which I value in any shot. As I did for the tripod, I searched on Amazon and Target to find a fitting prop for this project. Again, I purchased mine on Amazon and have embedded a picture as well as a link to present it. 

Lastly, I decided to become familiar with the platform I plan on using to conduct my writing. While I have worked with this platform before, I have been experimenting on Celtx in order to determine whether or not it would be the most functional website for me to work with. As it turns out, I really enjoy how simple the platform makes screenplay writing and plan on completing all my dialogue and scene directions on there. It allows for users to select a specific direction, such as character name or dialogue, and automatically alters the typing settings to reflect how they should specifically be written. For example, character names would be put in all caps. I have linked Celtx to this blog post; I am excited to begin my writing process as it is one of the production aspects I admire most. 

Celtx

  https://a.co/d/gRpnSu5                https://a.co/d/ajTDMjE

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