Re-editing blog 1

This week, I started to do re-editing. Since nobody in my team took the whole film home, I had to work from scratch. Luckily, we had uploaded the raw footage to one of our google drives. Since I already have editing software on my laptop, I decided to take re-editing what we had into my own hands. I started with downloading all the videos that I wanted to include. I also downloaded some I thought I might want to use. Then, I uploaded them into the software to edit. I got out my storyboard so I could follow it. When going through the footage, I noticed some of the videos were a bit too dark. I'm going to re-shoot those but for the meantime, I just put them in as placeholders. Starting with trimming the footage, I got the time down to 1:40 seconds. Which is good and bad. This mean I might have to take some scenes out or cut them if we want all of the clips in. I had to look up the audio again. Luckily, I remembered the studio and song name so it was fairly easy to find. I downloaded and placed it in the software. I had to adjust a few things for the audio to fit but other than that, it all went well. I put some place-holders in and started on the titles. I went through a lot of colors, transitions and fonts until I settled on one I liked. Since the software I was using before and the one I was using are different, they had different fonts. It was fun to play around with the colors too. I settled on a red color and a fade in transition. I plan on replacing the footage I didn't like soon.

filming blog 3

As you, hopefully know, there is a pandemic going on at the moment. Due to this, I am unable to film. Everyone in my group's parents are paranoid about them getting the virus. They have also closed school for a month at the time of writing. This has affected our filming schedule majorly. We will try to meet up, even if its only for a half hour. Since I didn't check out a camera, Ive decided to film on my phone. I also have editing software on my computer that I can edit with over this break. Tons of movies productions have been stopped or postponed due to the coronavirus. Movies such as Black Widow, A Quiet place 2, Mulan, F9, and many more.  Some of the actors in those films already have the virus, luckily, none of our actors have it. But, we all relate to production of our movies being stopped. A quiet place 2 was supposed to come out tomorrow, at the date of writing, but will not be, due to movie theaters being shut down. Luckily, the movie had already been made and was coming out the following day when it got its premiere cancelled. All though this virus is limiting our movement, we will do everything in our power to keep filming. Though the movie production may have been completed, the release has been postponed. I can relate to that because me sending my movie to cambridge is like the release of the movie. When we get the chance to film, we will take it, though that would probably be slim. None of our, my group and I's, parents are really letting us meet up. Even the actor's parents are. And, as stated before, this will put our production behind schedule. We wont let this virus slow us down though, we will keep trying to work as hard as we can.

Editing blog 4

Today in media, we edited. Since the titles started working again, I decided to add the
 In. Though the titles were working, adding pictures to them, wasnt. That meant that I couldn’t do the plan I originally wanted to do. I just decided to pick a different way of showing the titles. I chose the font and helped pick out the color. I didn’t want something that looked off when it was on the video. I was originally going with red but that couldn’t be seen. Though all of this hard work was for nothing. About half way through the process, the computer I was using died. I had loss all the progress I had for that day. That meant I had to add all the titles I added in that day. I also had to move the computer to the laptop cart to charge it. It was a huge pain because none of the chargers reach to a comfortable place and we had to press ourselves to the cart. But, luckily, we got all of the work back before the bell rang. I was going to move my work to a flash drive so I could work at home but I couldn’t because I didn’t have one. My plan was to bring one for next class. Unfortunately, school was canceled the next week so I couldn’t even do that. This was a huge set back because we don’t know when we can go back. Since we can’t edit, I hope that we can at least meet to film some.

editing blog 3

This week, we didn’t get anything done. On Friday, I took the camera home. We had originally planned to film but the main actor couldn’t film so I had to move it to Monday. I charged the camera when I got home so we could film over the weekend. In class, I got a lot of editing done. I managed to add in some titles. Since one of my group mates wasn’t there, I couldn’t put any of the video she filmed into the software. There was barely any progress in the video filming too. I had gone through the video a few times to make sure everything was in the right position and timing. Last time we went to edit, everything  was out of place. This means I had to go back and check that everything was out of place. Luckly, this time, everything was in good shape.  I added in the stalker clips and organized them. Though, they need to be re-shot because they are too dark. Though I edited with shots I didn't like so hopefully those get done. While editing, I tried to add some titles in. Though the entire thing isnt fully filmed, I wanted to start writing the titles. I drew a few text boxes for the titles to go in and imported them. Though the text box wasn’t working when I tried to put it in. I decided to type the text directly into the box.

Peer review blog

On Monday, we did peer reviews. Since our reviewers were not here, we didn't have to worry about that. The people who we were peer reviewing didn’t have anything to review. I have no criticism to give them. I circled no for everything on the front and back page. There isn’t much I can talk about. Since they didn’t have anything to give us, we couldn’t answer any of the questions properly. The front part basically talked about all the components we were supposed to have. Since the group we got didn't have anything, I didn't circle any of the yes boxes. There were a few spots we had to write an answer in and for those, I didn't write anything. In the sections where we had to put our opinion of the film and I didn’t put anything. There was also a section where I had to explain the subject of the movie. Once again, I didn’t put anything for that spot. On the back, there were a few more questions that still couldn't be answered. Nothing can be improved in my opinion. Nothing could be done to make the film better either. There also happened to be a few yes or no questions to circle. The questions on the back are in the photo attached. I still couldn't answer those which was annoying because I like giving people helpful critique. The only critique I have is plan better for your deadlines, even if you think you can make it.

Editing blog 2

This week, we actually got to edit. Though it wasn’t that much, we managed to get some stuff done. I got the computer we used and logged in. I opened the editing software, everything was uploaded already so all we had to do was place it in. I had also looked for some music to put in. I had to look on royalty free music websites. I picked a few I thought were good and showed them to my teammates. I uploaded the sound to the computer and placed it in the software. I had brought the camera equipment to give it to another teammate. I had organized the scenes in order of our storyboards. I had also matched up the audio with the video so the most intense parts match up with the video. I was in charge of clipping the film so far. I had originally planned to film more over the weekend. This hadn’t worked out because I decided it would be better to just work with what we have already. I had to upload the videos of the stalker scenes because I hadn’t done that before. I had also reviewed over what we had filmed and made sure those were the scenes we wanted. When I uploaded them, I spent my time looking up a song to use. This wasn’t as easy as thought, even though I had to look through a few websites. I also had to place the music a bit further ahead of where the video started. I did this because it made more sense. The music starts intense and the tension rises quickly so I had to place it in a part that had started to build intensity. This was around the second or third shot.

Editing blog 1

For this blog, I will be talking about the editing process. In the first week, we didn’t get much done. I sorted through the videos that were filmed from filming blog 1. That meant I had to check for lighting errors, how well the film flowed and more. I cut out about half of the films and only chose the best videos. The second week, I got a lot done. I sorted through some more film that I did that weekend. As far as today, I didn’t do anything because I wasn’t in school. I did, though, guy my team mate the log in information for my computer. Since that information that we had from the past few days isn't on any other computer. I also told them which SD card and computer we did all that work on. I listened to the audio of the videos, making sure nothing that we didn’t want to be heard could be heard. That also meant I had to check that the actors were talking loud enough for the mic to pick up. If it didn’t, I checked down the scenes we needed to reshoot when it came time. I also watched the video to make sure it was a good quality. That meant checking for visibility since I filmed a lot in a dimly lit room. This meant I had to delete a lot of film because of that. Though we have only had a few days to film, there hasn’t been much headway. I was going to start editing last class but since I still had to go through the videos, I didn’t get to it. Though, I did get the videos uploaded to the editing software and that took the longest amount of time.