Production Journal for Chase Scene

First Stage - Brainstorming/Story boarding

As always, getting the idea for the plot is the hardest stage. After a rather long discussion, going from ideas such as someone tripping over someone to a fight, we got the idea of a robbery. This is where the plot was created. It evolved as robbery, where a robber steals a girls purse, thus the running starts. We went later to take photos for the story board in order to know how to take the shots. Later that day I wrote the script for the film and finished the story board. Next week we have to suit upand prepare ourselves for the pitch, in order to be ready to present.

Second Stage - The Pitch, Changes, Shooting Schedule and Materials

We went and presented our idea to Mr. Keller, Mr. Dunn and Mr. Calderón. They liked our idea, yet they wanted us to add more portals and use more humour. I was planning to focus mostly on a chase scene keeping real life physics, but we came up with more ideas for portals. We also added another twist to the ending. I planned a shooting schedule that consisted mostly on activity time and one sunday to complete scenes where we needed open space. We are going to use our personal cameras, a tripod, a dolly and a small camera stand for POV shots.

Third Stage - Shooting

The biggest problem here where creative differences. We had many ideas, and our different tastes clashed. This created various discussions. At the end we did managed to get everything done, yet created changes such as a dramatic zoom in at Ximena in the initial scene. Sunday meeting started being a failure due an accident Alfredo, Jimmy and I had on the way to school (flat tire), but everything was completed. Today we are on our last day of shooting, and we need to shoot the locker scene where most of the dramatic locker interaction happens. Afer having worked as a producer, making the schedules and appointments, now I am taking the role of Actor as the robber.