Re-Edit Blog

  For the past few days I've been in the house. Not for fun, but safety precautions. Ever since the outbreak of the corona virus I haven't been able to do anything. It's been a real bummer. I can't come in contact with others. I can't be outside or in public areas. My group mates are experiencing the same thing. This epidemic literally halted the world around me. Everything I used to do, I can't anymore. Since we were not able, to re-film it made re-editing difficult. My group mates and I brainstormed on what to do. We had to continue this project. Even with all that was going on. We kept discussing and started talking about ways to edit at home. We couldn't use iMovie. This editing app, made our videos come out funny looking. So, we all looked up different editing apps to consider. This was hard. Only because we did not know anything about these apps. We all sent the apps we'd found, and the reviews on the apps.

Re-Shooting Blog

So today we were supposed to reshoot. We made plans about this re-shooting schedule the week before. We make sure everybody was able and available for that day. And everyone’s schedule with me together.  because we had to make sure that nothing messed this up. Unfortunately, our plans for the re-shoot where cancelled. That Friday my roommates and I talked about how we’re going to feel the next day. But that day I had constantly heard that we might not have school next week. Which is exactly why we decided to re-shoot on Saturday. Later on that Friday, my mom told me that I had to stay in the house for the next couple of days. I had told her that we were supposed to shoot for Saturday, but she said it wasn’t safe. She continued to go on. She explain to me what was going on with school clothing and me having to stay in the house. It was because of the coronavirus. She explain that it was contagious. And that people couldn’t tell if they had it, which is why she didn’t want me to go out and film.  I proceeded to text my group chat and ask my group mates  about the coronavirus. They all said that they couldn’t come either. I wondered what we were going to do. There wasn’t much we could do since we couldn’t go out to film. I understood the safety precaution everyone was taking.

Editing Continues

Today my group mates and I continued our editing process. When I walked into class, I grabbed a computer. As I patiently waited on my group mates to come I opened up pinnacle studios. When I clicked the icon it loaded for a good 3 minuets before it opened. When it finally opened, one of my group mates came in. I asked her if she had the drive with all the footage, and she handed it to me. I then placed the drive into the computer, and waited. I was waiting for the file to pop up but, the pinnacle studios application was still loading. So since now all my group mates were in class we started talking. We were discussing what was left to edit. To my knowledge there wasn't much to do. But that was just my opinion. When the file finally popped up on the screen, we opened it. We had decided to watch what we had edited so far. As we watched what we edited so far I pulled out my storyboard. This was so I knew what angles, were missing. In addition so I could see if what we had matched up with the storyboard. The two were in correlation. I just didn't like how some of our angles were portrayed in the film. So I suggested that we look over the other scenes we had that would show the camera angles crisply. 

Filming Continues

 Today was another day of filming for my group and I. We experienced so many difficulties today. It almost seemed as if it was impossible for us to film. It all started, when we got there. There wasn’t a lot of cars in the parking lot so we decided to set up. As we set up the tri pod a few bystanders would pass by and look. We didn’t pay attention and we just started the film. I noticed one lady Who sat on the truck or her car and watched us. When I realize she was watching us I pointed it out to my group mate. She told me to just ignore that and go on with the script. As we started to reenact our scene I overheard the woman asking what where we doing and did we had permission. Needless to say, she wasn’t the only one that was complaining. Other bystanders did not like the fact that we were using the parking lot while they were trying to drive. So there were a lot of complaints to management. Little did the people who where complaining know, we had permission to film in the stores areas and parking lot. Before we even started filming we asked management to film in the store and the parking area. Since our teachers and aice media told us we had to ask permission before we filmed anywhere that’s what we did. This moment was successful due to us following the instructions  of our teacher. We proceeded to carry out filming the rest of our scenes. There wasn’t much interruptions after this.

Peer Review Blog

Peer Review Day ! it’s here. Today we watched the beginning of our peers film. I’d been looking forward to this since I found out about it. I was excited to see what others had to say about what my group mates and I created. I also wanted to see what my other classmates made. And let me say I was impressed. It was good to see another group of people’s approach to the project. And a fresh set of eyes would be good for the opinions they would give. All I could hope with my project was that, the others that was watching it would like it and think we did good.  I personally thought we did goo. The  film from the other team we watched was very interesting. I like how the light was presented in this film. The person who was filming made sure to incorporate different camera angles which you could see easily. When I seen a long shot I could easily tell, its like it came natural in the scene. One suggestion I have would be to make the story clearer. They where times when I didn’t understand what was going on in the film. I will be watching it, into it but then I just wouldn’t know what was going on. that’s the only suggestion I have for this group besides that I think everything was good and they’re  techniques were nice.

So it Begins : Editing

Today we started editing. Everyone already knows this takes the LONGEST to do. Not because it’s difficult, but the software operates slowly. The goal behind this day of editing was to put the scenes in the order we wanted them. Also to clip what parts we wanted to use. After previous experiences using   iMovie to edit we realized that was a bad decision. Although it took less time to use, the final product came out grainy. Our final product would not be clear using iMovie so we decided let’s stick to pinnacle studios. So that’s exactly what we did. Sadly I dearly missed iMovie. So we plugged our flash drive into the computer while pinnacle studios was already opened. We watched as our footage popped up. I suggested we watch the different takes of the scenes to see which where the best. To admit, I had fun doing this. Making the movie was so much fun, and it was a good moment to go back and see our bloopers. We picked the takes of the scenes that had refined angles, and lighting. We then started to clip the scenes to use how much we wanted. This took long because as the video played back it was lagging. The video played in slow motion so it was hard to tell how much we should use.  This really bothered me because my partners and I all had different opinions about where to cut the films.