Blog : Wishlist

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Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today I will be imagining that I had a multi-million dollar budget for my groups' movie opening! What would I have done differently with that money?

    Let's begin with the actors! With this money I would have payed for professionally trained actors (No offense to my wonderful friend actors). While we did do a good job acting, we obviously are not the best. To no fault of our own, we just have never gotten any professional training on how to actually act. Actors can make or break a film. With that added money I would have invested some in picking actors who perfectly fit the part, and could effortlessly play into the personalities of each individual character.

    Next, the costumes. Our costumes were very basic, as we just wore pj's that we could find in our homes. One thing we had talked about was going out and buying matching pjs to further show how close-knit our group was. Once we decided on our full cast and realized how many of us there were, we also realized how extremely expensive a pajama set would be for all of us. With the added money though, we would have definitely gotten these costume upgrades. An example of what we wanted for all of us is :

    To continue, the setting/location. I'm not sure we would have changed the setting. This is because the pool was perfect, and the color changing lights in the pool also worked in our favor. The inside had a fake fireplace which set ambiance and helped easily create the atmosphere of the film opening. 

    Finally, I want to talk about the lighting, sound, and editing. For the lighting we would probably have just gone ahead and bought a better quality one. For most of the shots we used a small effects one (from Short Cuts TV), which was great, but constantly kept dying or turning off mid scene for us. This caused us to have to retake ALOT of scenes, wasting more time. For the sound we had a really high quality boom mic, which was amazing. For the other sounds though, we probably would have gotten a foley artist to do it instead of having to try and find online, copywrite-free ones that will "work alright".