Finding an Editing Software

 Hey guys today was another day of us not filming. However, we did get some things done. Before we decided to put a hold on our filming schedule we already began to  film some scenes. We had also started to edit. Even though we started to edit we didn't get as far as we wanted to. Do my partner Aaliyah decided to review our footage today.  After she looked over the footage we had she decided to start re editing. We wanted to fix what was already edited. She began telling me how she normally uses iMovie to edit. iMovie is a great editing software on apple devices. However she also wanted to use other editing software as well. So we did some research of our own. We set out to find a new softwares.  Aaliyah ended up finding an app called "Videoleap Video Editor". It was basically described as a free video editing app. On this app she was able to combine different video clips together and add thing such as special effects. I think this is really going to help us when editing. We never planned on using any special effects. On the app there was a variety of effects, so now we might want to add some in. Aaliyah told me how she started combining the footage and it looked great. However, she wasn't able to figure out how to insert music with this app. I told her we should use youtube to figure it out. But she  thought we might have to use iMovie for that. Although, we didn't get any filming done today we still managed to have a somewhat productive day. I can't wait to see the final product of our film!

Going Back Into Planning

 So today was another long day of not filming. My partner and I thought today was the day to start. We’ve come a simple conclusion. We decided to continue our filming process  over winter break. We feel like that gives us more time to film how we want. In addition make sure everything is accurate. I can say, this year I’ve faced a lot of complications when it was time to start filming. Last year was nothing like this. I don’t know if it’s because of all the restrictions in place, but this is turning out to be difficult. Today we decided to look over our storyboard and make sure everything was okay. When we thought through our story we found a few holes. So of course changes were made to our storyboard. We decided to tweak our murder scene. We felt the way we had it set up before wasn’t realistic. It seemed as though the audience could guess what would happen in our murder scene. Since this was a thriller and we’re suppose to create suspense this had to change. There was a lot of foreshadowing in the scene. In addition, reading over our interrogation scene we decided to alter it. It wasn’t a drastic change at all. We decided to change the dialogue between our characters in that scene. I think all the changes we made today will hopefully better our film. Giving the film, the thriller feel we want it to have and nothing less.

Starting the Editing Process

 Hey guys, we haven't started filming just yet. This is due to reasons mentioned in the previous blogs. Anyways we have started to work on other things. For example, we have been editing and finding music for our film. You're probably wondering how we started editing already if we have no footage. Well to answer that question, we started to edit the title page. We've also started to work on adding words in between flashback scenes of our movie. We decided to do this so the viewers won't be confused when time goes back during the film. For example, during a flashback scene we plan to put words such as "earlier this week". Things like that will alert the audience that this particular event occurred before the present scene taking place. While doing this we realized our film needed background music. We wanted music during the suspicious scenes. Another thing that we wanted was music during the ending of the movie. Obviously we would have to get permission from any artist that we choose to use music from. We have to do that unless we're able to find free music that fits our film. We're currently looking for music that have the audience anxious and on edge. I think if we do this it would make our film 10 times better. Our main goal for this movie is to give our viewers a feeling of suspense and excitement mixed together. While the plot is slowly building towards the climax of our movie we want the audience to literally be on the edge of their seats. Hopefully we'll have music picked out by the time we start to put all of our footage together and edit it.

starting to film ? or are we ?

 Well today we came to the conclusion that we should start filming. We’ve been planning for weeks and anticipating. Of course we have a few obstacles in our way. But we came up with a few ideas. Currently, our parents are going crazy over the thought of us going out to film. I can’t say I blame them, but things need to be done. We’ve came to the realization that we can film. And film safely, with precautions. Since we aren’t able to get camera from school, we decided to use our phones. Besides this being an inconvenience I think this is a good thing. Our phones are less likely to have germs on them than the camera. In addition our phones are easier to operate. The only question is weather or not the end results will be the same. We have a few hindering thoughts on the end result of our film. We’re still trying to figure out all the kinks of our plan. For example, how we’re going to edit. Since we’re not in school we can’t use the free editing software. Most of the editing software's we looked over carry watermarks. We really don’t want that on our finished product. I feel like we will find a solution to this problem and everything will go as planned

how we didn’t film !!

 Hey guys I can’t believe we’re in December already. We just came back from a week long Thanksgiving break. Although we wanted to film over the break unfortunately we couldn’t. We both had busy schedules. Also I had friends and family stay with me during the break. Even though we weren’t able to film we did get some things done a couple of days before the break started. For example, we finally launched the website for our film “Who did it?”. Our website has several things on it. It has information on the movie. It also has social media links to our film. We did this to give our fans the option to keep up with the making of our movie by following our social media accounts. Moreover, we plan to film during winter break because that would work best for the both of us. We have midterms coming up. Because of this we decided to prioritize studying for our exams first and then filming. We also plan to edit over the break as well. I think our biggest issue is figuring out how to film. COVID cases have recently been rising again. Due to this are parents want us to social distance as much as possible. Hopefully we’ll be able to meet up and film while following the social distancing rules. If not then we know how to accommodate. We will just film different scene separately. Afterwards we’ll just edit everything over the phone. Hopefully we’ll have a better update next time.

Creating My Website

 Hey guys we finally started opening our social media accounts. We also created our website. In order to create our website we used

wix.com

. It's basically a website that allows you to create and personalize your own website. We had to create social media accounts to link to our websites. We now have a Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube account for our movie. Oh by the way we decided to title our movie "Who did it?". On the website we were required to put different information about the film. For example, its release date. When you first open our website you will see the movie title. Below that the directors names are stated as well as the movies release date. The release date is set to be

on 1/11/2021

. That's approximately 2 months from now guys. We're so ready to start filming! Furthermore, you will see what our movie is about and also some critic remarks. Some of the remarks say things such as "the movie held my attention the whole time". On our website you'll also be able to find links that lead to all of our social media accounts. We will use these accounts to keep people updated on the movie until it is released. We decided to have our film premier at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. On our website we needed to include pictures of the cast and crew. We used our school ID photos for this. This is basically most of the things that we incorporated into our website when creating it.

Storyboard

 Hey guys, we finally started to draw our storyboard. I can definitely say it's been fun but the drawing has been kind of difficult. We drew our storyboard according to the order of events in our script. The first three boxes show Stephanie making her way home from work. In the first scene she is in the car speaking to her friend Briana. Once we make it to the second box it shows Stephanie making it home and walking into her home. The following boxes show Stephanie walking into her home and heading upstairs. In the fourth box on the storyboard that's when Stephanie starts to hear the phone ring. Throughout the next few boxes Stephanie will be very cautious and paranoid because of the suspicious phone calls. In box 5 Stephanie answers the phone and holds a short conversation that will leave her in a state of confusion. In box 6 Stephanie grabs a knife. Even though she does this she is completely unaware of the killer being inside of her bathroom. In the next box the phone will ring again and Stephanie answers it. Except this time the killer is standing right behind her. The next few boxes are the action scenes. After realizing that someone is trying to kill her Stephanie fights back. As seen in the boxes she kicks the killer down the stairs and goes to hide. Even though Stephanie is hidden the killer finds her and murders her. In the boxes after that scene you will see the killer calling Briana to notify her that Stephanie is dead. After this scene the next scene shows Briana coming to Stephanie's home trying to make it seem like all of this is news to her. In the next boxes the police arrive and conversation  with Briana. After this the flash backs from earlier that week will begin to happen.