Film Opening

Mis-en-scene

For the shooting, I used my favorite tank-top with one of my favorite quotes 'sleep later'. I figured that I could you my this quote for the title of the film opening because they both portrayed the message that I am trying to give out through this film opening. I want to show all the tension but also all the stress relief that this movie will have through the film opening. I didn't want to show anything fancy in my clothes, I just want it to portrayed a normal person going to the gym with a goal.

Lighting

When I started editing I realized that most of the shots had poor or a lot of lighting and by that time it was already too late to go back to the gym and make re do everything. I had to get a little creative and play withsome fo the lighting effects that iMovie provides, by the end I was able to fix most of the shots and that way I didn't have to go back and re do them. I tried to arrange the shots in a way that it seemed like they were flowing through the music by using same or similar shots through the whole video, that way there could be some kind of rhythm with the background sound. 

Editing

When I started editing I realized that int was really hard to match my movements with the soundtrack. I had to really get out of my comfort zone and I had to do some Research on YouTube about editing in iMovie because it really because a challenge. After watching a few clips and videos about different editing techniques and set on my computer and I first started by randomly placing, splitting and copying most of the shots and from there I won't on with the rhythm of the soundtrack to the edit the whole film opening. 

Mixing Sounds

My community gym can be very small and you would think it can be a quiet place too. However, my gym is the loudest gym that you can fine because of the air conditioning, TVs and alarms going on and off all the time. Because of this issue I had to get a little creative and record my sounds separately from the videos. I did this by putting my phone next to the weights and record the sound they would make every time they hit each other, I did the same thing with chains that I found in my house. All of the sounds in the opening film were mixed in my DJ set that I have at home.file:///var/folders/xq/_1lc339d0y103xvt5xvr6w8r0000gn/T/IMG_4983.png

Bodybuilding

Since I was introduce into the bodybuilding world my life changed. I used to be a really skinny guy and had a low self-esteem and it was mostly because of how I looked like before. When I started hitting the wrights and eating like a beast and saw the changes in my body, I felt like totally new person , I felt good about myself and that's what I want everyone to feel when they see this film opening. Bodybuilding opened a door that I would've never been able to unlock and now I feel like I can open any other door I want, hopefully this can help you open that door too.

Trying To Get The Best Shots

While my friend and I were filming at my gym, we noticed that it was really hard to get good angles at the gym because my community gym has back to back mirror walls. My friend couldn't really move that much or get different angles because most of the times in the shots he could see himself filming me and it didn't look very professional. At the of the day we ended up filming doing exercises mostly against the wall or in a corner and that way we wouldn't get his reflection. We also meant to do a lot of low angles because since my film opening is about inspiration, we wanted to make myself look superior is most of the shots. 

SHOOTING

I was able to take one of my friends from my team to help me take some shots for my film opening at my community gym. It was a real challenge for both of us because most of the time we were there, there was people working out next to us and it really fell a little awkward because  my friend was trying to get all the possible angles when I was working out with his camera. My community gym is a really small gym, there isn't really a quite corner were we both could've set up and film peacefully. My friend and I had to get used to the usual awkward stares from the strangers. 

BACKGROUND STORY.

Most of the film opening will be dedicated to one of my biggest mentors and closest person that I've had in my life. My team and I lost our tennis Coach to Cancer, it was a big shock for all of us and apart from all the sadness and harsh moments we all went through together, I came up with the idea to commemorate my Coach by making the film opening about something him and I really loved and had so much passion for. this film opening be about passion, hardworking and dedication shown through the world of fitness. Oliver, this one is for you. 

I'm Back

Hello blog, I am back!

 I have been doing a lot of thinking and I have decided to change the idea of my film opening make it inspirational. Make the people that watch my film opening be inspired to do something different in their lives. Especially because I've been going through some rough patches in my life at the moment and I just want to make this so when people feel down they can watch my film opening, be inspired and have hope again. Going through this rough times gave me really good ideas that I will applied later in my film opening.