The Road Forward

The film that we are working on is called The Rooftop Legend. The film shows the roof of Seward Park Campus, which is filled with graffiti. So far for the project we have made the trailer for the film. To make the trailer we spent most of our time on the school roof capturing the pieces of graffiti that are up there. We also interviewed Jessie Pais the dean of New Design High School, one out of five schools inside Seward Park Campus and also the founder of The Roof Top Legend. After we had a good amount of footage of the roof we began putting everything together and editing what we had. We added text and music to give the film the vibe we wanted it to have. We didn't get much of an interview from Jessie Pais but we were able to use the little that we had and put it into the film to give people a better feel of what our film was going to be about.

My group and I are hoping to have all the shots of the roof and all the interviews that we need to for our film. Also we're planning to use the beat of the song that we have in our trailer Tried By 12 by East Flatbush Project. We really loved the beat, we felt like it brought the vibe that we want our film to have, but the lyrics didn't really match the "theme" of our film therefor we're planning on using the beat and recording our own song to match our film.  Hopefully by the end of the third quarter we have everything we need and all we have left to do is edit our film and make it as amazing as possible.

In order for my team members and I to get this film done we definitely have to do some planning, which we have. But making the trailer was just a small part of what we really need to do. The whole team would need to pitch in ideas and put in a lot of effort so we can make our film as good as we're picturing it to be in our mind.

 Blog to our film:
http://rooftopkidz.blogspot.com/2012/12/rooftop-legends-film_14.html

Infamy

Infamy shows us the stories of a few graffiti writers from LA, NY, and Philadelphia. These graffiti artist take us back to when they first got interested in graffiti to telling us how graffiti is there life. The film shows us how gang, violence, law, hatred, love etc. are just things that come with graffiti and if you love it you deal with it. A lot of thee graffiti artists have gotten hurt or in trouble with the law because of their graffiti but their passion for it is way too big that they're willing to pay any consequence that they have to pay. But no matter how much trouble or how hurt they get, nothing will ever make them stop from doing what they live for, tagging, doing throw ups and just have their name all over the city as a landmark that they've been there and that's there spot.

Tired By 12 - The East Flatbush Project is the song that we are planning on using for our Rooftop Legends film. We chose this song mostly because of the beat that it has. We felt like it went perfect with the film but since the song talks mainly about death we felt like it contradicts our film. So instead of changed the song we decided to continue using the same beat and writing our own lyrics to record and use for our film. Since we're more familiar with the rooftop we can write a song that explains what Rooftop Legends is all about. For the now the writing of the new song is in progress but this is the amazing song that we were going originally use. 

I'm Here

I'm Here is short film written and directed by Spike Jonze. This film takes place in LA in a time where both human and robots live. When two robots named Sheldon and Francesca meet they imminently fall for each other. Francesca is a bit out going and when one day she take Sheldon to a concert to see her favorite band she looses an arm in the crowd. Sheldon's love for her is so big that he unscrewed his arm and gave it to Francesca. The day after she falls and looses a leg and once again he gives her his. Towards the end Francesca seems to have gotten in an accident in which her whole body isn't working anymore. Sheldon let's the doctors take his body off of him and put it on her. At the end of the film, Francesca leave the hospital with Sheldon's head in her hands and you see in face how happy he is to see that his lover is okay. 

Cashback

Cashback is originally a short film written and directed by Sean Ellis. The short film was released in 2004 and afterword in 2006 the short film expanded. I really enjoyed watching this short film because Ben (Sean Biggerstaff ) shows us how he stops time by doing the opposite of everything. Ben explains to us that the reason why he's working in the supermarket is to pay for his art school and when it was that he first became interested in art and the beauty of females. At the beginning of the short film Ben tells us how when we are asleep we are unaware that we are sleeping and that in those missing hours a whole new world comes to life. When he pauses time to undress and draw these women, that's like his new world. His artistic world. 

In the extended version of the film Ben explains to us better of why he was really working in the supermarket. How he couldn't sleep after his breakup so he had eight extra hours added on to his day. Ben can stop time when ever he wants. He wishes he was able to just live in this paused world where he can observe everything. When Ben has everyone around him paused he notices that someone was moving. He realized that he was sharing that world with others. When Ben's ex-girlfriend kisses him at a party and Sharon see's Ben freezes time. He left time frozen for about a week trying to think of all kinds of ways to explain to the Sharon that what she had seen was the wrong second of the two seconds. That's when he realizes that every second of every day counts. In the end of the film, Ben was able to bring Sharon into his frozen world and show her the beauty behind everything that is hidden in the fast moving world. 

Rooftop

Fish Eye

This is one of the pieces of graffiti that is on the roof of Seward Park Campus at the moment. I used fish eye lens to take this photo. I love using fish eye when taking pictures like this because it gives it an effect makes a person feel like the image is coming towards them.