Today was such an eventful day. The entire group, minus Nicolle, met at my house where we began our first and last day of shooting for our East of Eden trailer and interviews--directed and written by the infamous Jin Huh.
First we filmed our interview scene in which I interviewed Mr. John Steinbeck himself (played by Raed). The interview is pretty brief but I think we got to the main points about Steinbeck's background and what influenced him while writing the novel. We honestly had to do multiple takes of each question because I couldn't take Raed seriously with his mustache. He looked so creepy!
Jin, Raed, and I worked on this portion of the site together. We sat down and just read as much about Steinbeck's background as possible. Raed watched multiple videos just to get the accent down. We had a bunch of questions but narrowed it down to the few that we thought were the most important and hopefully our interview reflects that. A lot of the things Raed says in the interview are actual quotes and ideas Steibeck had while writing this piece. We found an interview of his son Thom and also read a few pages from a book published containing letters exchanged between Steinbeck and his publisher.
I'm a bit nervous about our video though. Raed's so relaxed on screen, but I kept messing up and think it's super awkward! Oh well! We had a lot of fun filming in my living room (although it looks nothing like 1900s California)! My dog, Boba, kept barking and intruding our scenes. You can see him come in and out of a few frames in both the interview and maybe the trailer as well. Thankfully Jennifer act as set director and made sure everything was in place and that crazy dog was behaving!
In the trailer, I played Abra. And I really think I ruined the video!! I'm just so awkward! After watching the video, we reached the conclusion of Abra just being hungry for attention and stuck in some twisted love triangle with both brothers. So my character in the trailer was trying to make fun of her, but I don't think that worked out very well....Again, I think I ruined it with my gum snapping and weird facial expressions! But I know for sure the movie review will definitely be filled with some sass directed toward Ms. Abra.
T-minus three days till our project is due. Let's see how it turns out!
-A
First we filmed our interview scene in which I interviewed Mr. John Steinbeck himself (played by Raed). The interview is pretty brief but I think we got to the main points about Steinbeck's background and what influenced him while writing the novel. We honestly had to do multiple takes of each question because I couldn't take Raed seriously with his mustache. He looked so creepy!
Jin, Raed, and I worked on this portion of the site together. We sat down and just read as much about Steinbeck's background as possible. Raed watched multiple videos just to get the accent down. We had a bunch of questions but narrowed it down to the few that we thought were the most important and hopefully our interview reflects that. A lot of the things Raed says in the interview are actual quotes and ideas Steibeck had while writing this piece. We found an interview of his son Thom and also read a few pages from a book published containing letters exchanged between Steinbeck and his publisher.
I'm a bit nervous about our video though. Raed's so relaxed on screen, but I kept messing up and think it's super awkward! Oh well! We had a lot of fun filming in my living room (although it looks nothing like 1900s California)! My dog, Boba, kept barking and intruding our scenes. You can see him come in and out of a few frames in both the interview and maybe the trailer as well. Thankfully Jennifer act as set director and made sure everything was in place and that crazy dog was behaving!
In the trailer, I played Abra. And I really think I ruined the video!! I'm just so awkward! After watching the video, we reached the conclusion of Abra just being hungry for attention and stuck in some twisted love triangle with both brothers. So my character in the trailer was trying to make fun of her, but I don't think that worked out very well....Again, I think I ruined it with my gum snapping and weird facial expressions! But I know for sure the movie review will definitely be filled with some sass directed toward Ms. Abra.
T-minus three days till our project is due. Let's see how it turns out!
-A