I still plan on making a WIRED Autocomplete interview. Therefore, I have to buy a board, which I will do tomorrow, which is filming day. For now, I worked on my script!
Ana: Hi everyone! I’m Ana Moreno, director of Never Lie! I’m here with WIRED to complete this autocomplete interview! Let’s jump right in!
(Cuts to a scene with board) Ooh this feels nice okay how do I do this? I’m assuming I have to pull this? (Pulls paper, showing question)
How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
I like this question!
During production, I started off rocky, I was late to the set and my props were breaking and I didn’t bring as much as I wanted because all our parents were mad at us that night because they thought that filming would only take an hour. However, I gained more patience and stopped stressing myself out and was able to get more than enough footage! I was bossing my friends around and refilming so many shots until I got the right one. I think at one point they got tired of me. I remember this one scene I had to reshoot countless times. It was when Vida, the main character, found her friend’s body. My actor kept making the wrong expression or the shot was wrong. I don’t know, I just kept finding flaws in that one shot that we had to shoot it so many times.
With research, I already had a basic research page on horror, so I researched character conventions. This helped me develop a basic cast, and then a storyline. I only made a 3-person cast for the opening, just to draw people in. “unaware friend that won’t make it”, “the final girl”, and the villain.
As for planning, I made a storyboard, a schedule, and a screenplay, and brought the props. I brought a baseball bat, a baseball, and fake blood. I already had access to the cuatro (Venezuelan guitar) and the headphones.
During production, I changed a scene of her calling 911. Instead, I thought it was best to just have her text her friend. That way it makes the audience suspicious and fears that Vida knows something. I also didn’t even have Lily try to run, instead just go straight into the scene of her dying and get hit in the back. I thought this represented something within the film, as viewers see what the motive of the killer is. Sort of like the saying of getting “stabbed in the back”.
Overall, I learned a lot of patience throughout the process. I also learned that 8 weeks (about 2 months) seems shorter than it is to create all of this, and I crammed everything within the last two weeks. However, I learned how important planning and research is. In a music marketing project, I barely planned or researched, only doing the bare minimum that was part of the grade. Now in this project, I planned and researched over and over again. I also procrastinated a lot, which I tried not to do for this project, and I almost succeeded.
How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?
While producing my product, I used my phone for filming, my iPad to draw the storyboard, headphones as a prop, microphone from earbuds, and a tripod. Therefore, I had to keep holding onto my phone and refilm everything just in case a shot came out shaky, and some did. Although, my tripod kept breaking while I was filming so it made filming so much harder. As for software, I used iMovie and Adobe Premiere for editing. I edited the podcast on iMovie and my film on Adobe Premiere Pro. I also used Celtx.com to make my screenplay, Canva for my mood boards, I used word to make my schedule and my scripts for the creative critical reflection, and Blogger.com to make my blog.
Adobe Premiere was a struggle for me at first, since I was low on storage space and couldn’t send my work to my computer. Also, I just didn’t like editing, mostly because I didn’t know how to do it that well, like I only knew the basics. Therefore, I sat and forced myself to watch tutorials that Adobe provided, which took hours. In the end, editing became a technology skill that I learned, I still don’t love it, but I don’t hate it as much as I did before. Overall, editing was definitely my biggest obstacle, but the problem is that my film relied on editing.
All in all, a lesson that I learned was to not leave editing for the last minute when it is not the last thing you have to do. That is why I am cramming my last ccr! I also learned that I should try to get better actors next time, especially ones that can show fear. If I had the chance, I would’ve found a better filming location with better lighting. I felt as though the lighting was too bright for a horror movie, but it was either that or complete darkness and the audience wouldn’t have been able to see what was on screen. Taking time to sit down and edit is another thing I would improve on for next time. I would like to become a better editor and overall, just like it better, and I hope that one day I have that opportunity.
Well, that’s it for all of the questions! Thank you to everyone that stayed until the end! Make sure to check out Never Lie on YouTube of April 4th
Jackie. “7 Standard Characters in Almost Every Horror Movie ...” All Women's Talk, 27 Mar. 2023, https://movies.allwomenstalk.com/standard-characters-in-almost-every-horror-movie/.
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