Final Project: Rise & Grind

Me and Marly worked on Raise & Grind together, and it was a good partnership from the start. Marly came up with the story concept of a friend meeting another friend for coffee, and together we elaborated on the story and planned the storyboard to get shots we thought would convey the story best. We felt pretty confident with our storyboard and were ready for shooting, unfortunately we had a few bumps in the road, like the weather not cooperating with us and also having our actor backing out last minute. But even with these minor issues we were able to play around with our storyboard to better accommodate the project and our idea.

When it came to filming, I took over the camera and made sure the camera was steady and focused, and also to make sure the white balance was on point. Marly found all the sounds for our film because we didn't record the sounds ourself, but got sound effects off the internet. For editing Marly was more hands on and was the one who was physically editing the piece, but we both sat together and worked on it together both expressing our opinions on what we think would be the best choices for our project. Overall I believe we split the work evenly between planning, filming, editing, and sound.
Below is our final piece, ENJOY!

Rise & Grind from Marly on Vimeo.

For some behind the scenes look below at our pre-production plans via storyboards.

This is our original storyboard (page one) as you can see it went through some changes as the project progressed!

This is page two of our storyboard, we went more for writing text then images, because neither of us were really talented artist. (but I hope you enjoy my doodles regardless!)

And this is just some more details of our project during the planning process, like location, characters, and sounds we needed to correspond with certain shots, etc...