Final Cambridge Blog Post

    This is my final blog post for the duration of this project. If I'm being honest, I was doubting my film making abilities before this project. I was unmotivated and did not really know where I was going to go with it. I really only knew that I had watched the John Wick movies the past week and I really loved all of the action. That was the inspiration behind the film. Once I settled on an idea that I thoroughly was excited to make, that all changed.

    One of the BIG key moments was the moment when the idea for the slow motion came to me. I was SUPER excited to work on that and that was the shot that really changed everything for me. After I had gotten that shot planned out, I had to think about how I was going to build up to that shot. In other words, I had the ending to my film opening, but I needed to figure out what steps it took the assassin to get to that point. 

    During the bulk of the filming, most of the storyboard changed, and a few main elements remained steady and the same as when I first planned them. When we arrived at the filming location, another pivotal moment came when I began taking in ideas for shots from my buddies who were acting in the film. They had all seen a lot of action films and all had some amazing ideas for shots, and again I am truly proud that those moments where we re-planned happened. Without those, I would not be as thrilled to show everyone the final product.

    Some of the BIG changes included the addition of an establishing shot, the removal of some closeups, and the inclusion of some interesting angles and framings. 

    When we arrived at the warehouse shooting location, we found a huge ladder that I ended up standing on and filming from. This gave us a really high up and interesting point of view of the warehouse. The interesting framing of the shot came in when I shot from inside of a rivet whole in one of the platforms on the shelf.

    During filming I decided to remove the idea that the main assassin character would be shrouded until the end, because I felt like the new way that the film opening was moving didn't really fit that narrative. Instead, I decided to use that extra time I had to add more shots to the scene where the assassin was preparing his gun for the kill. This was the right choice and really only came in the moment. 

    Overall this was a really fun project that I actually had A LOT of fun working on. I spent so many extra hours trying to make it perfect because this was a project that I truly cared about. I cant wait to see what I end up doing now that I completed this project. I am thoroughly excited to see how this project does and I look forward to doing this again.