Joel Basco Doumentary

In this documentary, I decided to interview Joel Basco, the owner and cake baker at J&D Cakes, located in Boca Raton, Florida. In my script I asked around 9 questions about his cake baking background, his exciting moments, how he started his business, etc. I do not have a story board because I did not know what his bake shop would look like going in for the first time to film. It took me around a week to decide what to do a documentary on and Joe was the perfect person because he makes the cakes for most of my family occasions like our birthdays. For my 17th birthday which had just occurred recently, he had made me a yeezy cake. Joel added an immense amount of detail throughout the entire cake, to make the shoe look realistic. In 2015, Joel had won Cake Wars during its third season. A large majority of my camera shots were a lot of moving side to side because I wanted to get as much detail as I could of the cakes that Joel had displayed for me. I interviewed him with a good medium shot too. Also I definitely think this documentary will engaged the viewers because its about cake and everyone loves cakes. The only thing I would have liked to have added to this film would have been him actually making a cake. Joel was not working on a cake at the moment when i went to his bake shop to film. I did have fun editing and really getting to hear his story, some of his background, etc. I 100 percent would do another documentary on Joel in the future or just another one in general.

Script: questions - 

1. What is your name and where are you from?
2. What do you do?
3. How did you get into the cake baking business?
4. How long have you been making and designing cakes?
5. What was it like when you won Cake Wars?
6. How did you learn how to decorate and design cakes so well? 
7. How many times have you been on TV?
8. What is your favorite cake that you have baked and designed?
9. Where do you get your ideas and inspiration to make a fantastic cake?

Upside Film Review

          The movie "The Upside", is based off of a billionaire, Philip who lives in a New York penthouse and needs a caretaker. Philip is handicap and can only move his face. Dell who is becoming homeless needs work to take care of his ex and his son. Philip's assistant, Yvon did not want to hire Dell because he is very not qualified for this position. But Philip hires him because he needs help and so does he.
          This movie is a drama and a comedy. One reason it is a drama because Dell stole a book from Philip when he first arrived not knowing it was an autographed special book. He gave the book to his son as a birthday gift. After Dell found out all about the book and meaning behind it, he asked his son for it back and told the truth to him. The son then went to Philip and returned the book. Another reason why its a comedy is because Kevin Hart plays Dell. Kevin used to be a comedian before acting so it this movie was going to be funny no matter what. One of the funniest parts of the movie was when he returned to Philip after being fired, and the way he acted when seeing his beard was hilarious. Dell was saying all these funny jokes and the directer did a great job picking him to play this part in the movie.
          The directer, Neil Burger did a great job telling this story through directing and camera movements. He did some of medium shots, close ups, etc. Here are some pictures of some camera angles that he filmed it in. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone above the age of 13. It for sure is a classic.

Friends How You Doin Recreation Scene

          I did my film recreation scene on the tv show Friends. I decided to do the How You Doin scene. I decided to do it off this show because its one of my favorite show besides The Office. Last year, I did a recreation scene from The Office and it was pretty good. The scene in Friends is about Joey showing Rachel and Phoebe how he flirts with girls. I played Joey, Maddy played Rachel, and Gabby played Phoebe. Alex was the cinematographer. This short film took us about a class period to film and a couple of days was preparing, planning, etc. We tried copying the shots as best as we could. There were mostly medium shots taken and the scene was only around 17 seconds. I could only find this scene for 17 seconds and not for at least a minute but it is very enjoyable to watch.