Allyssa Beatty Media Studies AS

Due to many of the places we were planning to film at closing and us not getting to film much before everything closed down, we are making a change.  My group and i have decided that in order to create our best product for the opening we are going to come up with a new plot that we can film in one of our neighborhoods.

Today another update from Cambridge was sent out. Even though we are still not sure what this means for our projects, we are still going to continue working on our projects as planned until we get a definite answer to our questions.

Me and my group have been planning when to film some of the opening over the break once everything has calmed down. However during our planning as we were going over our storyline and plot we realized we night need some more people than we planned on in our opening. Therefore me and my group are seeing if any of our friends are able to step in to help with what we need.

We received an update from Cambridge about the exams for the May/June 2020 series and it said how they would not be running the May/June 2020 series in any country. As of right now me and my group aren't sure exactly what this means and what will be happening as far as the projects, but we will still continuing to work on our project until we have further clarification.

Public Places are officially closed now to help stop the spread of the corona virus. Due to this, my group and I are gong to have to relocate our filming to possible one of our neighborhoods instead since places like the library and the coffee shop where we were gong to film are closed.

Even with everything going on me and my group have been able to still communicate with each other through group text to talk about the changes being made to work around the problems that have arisen. In our group text we discuss what problems we come in contact with and our solutions to the problem so we can still film the opening while still being safe at the same time. Our group text makes it really easy to get ahold of each other so we can continue to work on our project even though school is not in session right now.

This evening we just got more news in relation to the corona virus and school. School has been canceled until April 15th now. This means that we will have to continue to work outside of school to film the opening as well as seeing if the places we were gong to use to film are shut down due to the corona virus pandemic. If the places like the library and the coffee shop are closed we will have to replan our opening and possibly change the locations or even the plot to work around this issue that has risen.

So today me and my group went to the school to pick up the filming equipment that we would need to film the opening of our movie, as school has gotten canceled until further notice due to the corona virus as said in my blog before this. We made sure to have batteries and chargers, an osmo, as well as a Panasonic camera so that way we would be prepared to still be on track for filming.

Earlier today when picking up the equipment my group and I also got to discuss with our teacher how to plan everything out accordingly due to everything that has been going on recently so we can continue to push through given the circumstances. We also were able to get more information on how we should approach the project of the movie opening as well as a timeline to help keep us on track even though there is no school right now.

With school being closed until march 30th that means we will have an extra week off as we were already going to have the week of the 23-27th off because that is spring break. Since this this week was canceled that means my group and I will have to work extra hard to stay on top of filming and editing for this project so we don't get behind.

So today we got the news that school has been canceled until March 30th due to the outbreak of the corona virus. With this news me and my group will defiantly have to work around this problem and figure out a solution as far as getting equipment to film the opening as well as editing the opening. Therefore we will have to push back filming until we are able to get the equipment needed.

So things have been kind of busy lately as we were in the middle of contest season for our broadcast journalism class. However today was the last day as we had to submit everything and upload it. Since we are finished with that we are now able to focus on our movie opening and get to filming everything and perfecting it so our movie opening idea can come to life. We are planning to film next week after school since the areas we need to film in are close to our school and we will be able to make the most of our time.