Production Blog: Boxing

 

Hello everyone! Welcome back to the blog! Yesterday's blog I spoke on the process of getting licensing for music, and how, unfortunately, it did not go our way. Todays blog is a blog im very excited to write. Not including reshoots, we have finished the filming process of our film! As all of you know, the final two scenes we needed to film were extremely difficult to film because they required going to a gym that has a boxing ring. The issue about this is, no one in our group has a membership to said gym. This was a huge issue, and was causing us to rethink how we would film the final scenes, even thinking of finding a new location to film if possible. Fortunately enough, that was not necessary. Our friend Alyssa, is a member of "The Zoo", which is the gym we need to film at, and has enough guest passes for all of us to attend the gym with her. With this being known we just needed to find a time that fit within all of our schedules. We found we were all free on a sunday, as long as one of us could drive Alyssa there. I drove Alyssa, Renato, and Finn to the gym, and we began filming. The scenes themselves were not complicated. One scene was Renato entering the ring, and then the video cutting to black.  This scene wasn't hard to film. I positioned the camera behind and at an angle below Renato with the ring in the background to create a sense of power, showing Renatos readiness and determination to win. The next scene was the beginning knockout scene of Finn claiming victory over Renato. This scene wasn't particularly difficult to film, but I decided it would be best to take as many videos as possible as we don't know if we will be able to come back and reshoot if the shots don't come out as we want. We took many shots with many different camera angles, utilizing close ups of Renato getting hit, two-shots of both Renato and Finn, and an over the shoulder shot of Finn standing over Renato knocked out. With those two scenes complete, we are finished with filming! Thank you for tuning it for this long, and I hope to see you again for the editing of these scenes.