After more than a month working on this film project, it’s finally over!
Now, it was definitely fun making this project and I will miss working together with my awesome group, but it was a lot of work! I’ve never really made a movie based off a script so this was new for me. We actually had to have a director and different roles, like a real movie. I honestly have no idea how people can make a real movie. IT’S SO HARD!!!!!! I think writing a paper would have been ten times easier.
My role in the movie was the production designer, and I also acted as Psyche. This project has taught me that I can never be an actress. Ever. It gave me more respect for actresses because I used to think they had such an easy job for the amount of money they receive. And now I know how wrong I was. I am not the type that is able to control my emotions. Particularly, when someone tells me how to feel I end up acting the opposite way. I laugh too much. Marianna’s boyfriend played Eros and it was just so funny staring lovingly into the eyes of someone that I did not know at all. We had to shoot certain scenes so many times because I could not stop laughing. How can I pretend I’m in love with a stranger?? How can I even hug this stranger while his girlfriend is watching us? It was so weird. You can even tell from our hug at the end of the movie that we were so awkward. Filming the part where Aphrodite fires me was my favorite. Olivia was such a great actor that it made me want to be a better actor, and I actually didn’t laugh when filming with her. Behind the scenes there was so much fun and laughing. At the same time, if this were not a final project (and iMovie did not give us problems) this project would been me laughing the whole time. I would not have been able to keep a straight face through any of the scenes.
Costume designing for the movie was also a lot harder than I thought it would be. At first, the group was not sure how to interpret the movie, yet I started to plan out costumes anyway. Then we began to develop a modern interpretation of the script, so I tried to make the clothing modern (like wearing Uggs) but also retain classical Greek fashion (like Aphrodite’s red dress and Psyche’s purple dress). It was also hard to make sure everyone’s clothing styles made sense and fit together. Initially I was going to make wings for Eros, but since we wanted a more modern interpretation I thought it would be better to paint wings onto a shirt, since there are modern shirts with wings on them. Overall I think the costumes make sense, although it took a lot time and thought to make them the way I wanted. I am also very happy with the Q and A clothing because they are very bright and girly and contrast sharply with the show, Gossip Gods.
Picking music for the movie was very hard to do. Everyone had different music tastes, and wanted a different song for the last scene of the movie. Eventually, we let only one person choose music so that the music would not be too different. Still, our music varies a lot, like the juxtaposition of sounds with the descent and ascension from the subway.
When editing and working on the movie I also noticed that we looked at scenes separately. Because of this, it sometimes got confusing as to where to add a voice over or what order the scenes fit. I feel lucky to be part of such a good group because we worked together so well and everyone was talented in specific things. I focused on the scenery and clothing, and Will tried to piece together a script. Janine made the most adorable prologue ever. I was glad to have Par in my group because throughout the year I have admired her photojournal and I knew she would make a great cinematographer. Editing the movie is easily the hardest part of all the work we had to do, and even through some frustrations she was able to piece together my mess of laughter and our scattered scenes to make a movie we are all proud of.
It was extremely hard to focus when filming, and between scenes we had so many breaks. This became so frustrating, but Marianna was a good Director and she was able to keep us focused when we became too distracted and stopped working. I really hope everyone enjoys the movie as much as we enjoyed making it. It took way more time than any of us expected, and we hope that you’ll get at least some enjoyment out of it, especially the bloopers =]
