Editing Blog

Another day away from the school means another day I cannot edit. This is starting to make me panic. I say I’m panicking because if I can’t finish and edit my film. All my work was saved on my laptop at school. Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, I cannot to back to school. At first the news said I could not go back to school until March 23. Now the news is saying that I cannot go back to school until April 15. Who knows, if the corona virus continues then I probably won’t be able to go back until next year. I am also hearing a lot of rumors on television that the 2020 graduating class will have to graduate next year and that our exams will be postponed. I don’t know how things will roll with this class. I’m continuing to do these blogs because I knew that these were due ahead of time. However, anything new that’s suppose to be due or popped out I wouldn’t know how to complete without instruction from my teacher.
If i was in school at this moment, I would’ve been finished my movie and started my CCR. I don’t know if we are allowed to send the movie early but I would’ve at least exported the movie so that it could be ready when she say go. I don’t know much to say or do at this point. I was not fully prepared for the Coronavirus to make this much of an impact. Right now I am out of town in Kissimmee taking a short break for the people panicking in my town. It was allowed me to do plenty of homework and get sum things done because I’m more relaxed. Here is a picture of me at the park while doing this blog.

Shooting Blog

This year (2020) has not ben off to that good of a start. Due to this bad start, it slows down the progression for our film. Today is Monday meaning I sould be in school. However, all schools in my county are closed due to a new viral disease called the Coronavirus. It originally started in China but after tournism from different countries, it quickly spreaded worldwide. It has got so serious that it is limiting any large crowds in public places like the NBA, schools, ammusement park, and more. I believe what make it so serious is that not only has it killed a few people, you also nevr know who has it becasue its syntomyms may not kick in until two weeks of having it.
With no access to the computer at my school, there is no way I can edit the rest of my film. All the editing takes place on the app Pinnacle Studios on my designated laptop (#1) at school. With no computer, this leaves me with no other chose bu to start shooting some more. You can never have enough film I guess. When I was editing, I was super-duper close to being done. I only had three more titles to put in and I wouldve been done. After I finished editing, my film came up to be one minute and fifthy-four seconds. I know I can't go over two minutes. I was thinking about shooting a short scene to add to the end. So this weekend, that what I was caught doing outside. The challenging part about this is I wanted the very last scene to be cliffhanger. I wanted the audience to be enagaged enough that tey want to know what happned next. Here's a picture of something I added to the ending.

Re-editing Blog

The re-editing I had to do in class was highly frustrating. I would first like to start off and say that I went through a total of six computers before I could find one where pinnacle studios worked. I don’t know why but pinnacle studios has been responding with a lot of the laptops we use in class. It was stressful not being able to edit right away and it took a lot of time off our clock for editing. As previously stated, I have been editing on my phone and and exporting it in my folder on my desktop on the laptop at school. Our entire video is done as far as filming. I have pieced all of the videos I took together and adding them in their appropriate places. I also went through and finished any and all transitions. The transitions were not all that easy. I say that because I feel like the transitions should match the mood of the film. I then went ahead and added the background music and sound affects. This included the dialogue, the song “Candy girl”, and the crickets in the background. I did all this without the help of pinnacle studios due to its malfunctioning.
Last class, I was finally able to access pinnacle studios at the last 45 minutes of class. It may seem like a long enough time to edit but the application itself is very slow. It has the load very thing I want to insert. Even if it is just a title.
Speaking of titles, that was the only thing I have not completed. I did the title of the movie but not any of its credits. Therefore, during that time period in class, that was the only thing I focused on. I had to refer to my notes every now and then because my notes have the order in which I suppose to list the credits. I did not finish the list of all the credits. However, next class I plan on finishing that part up right away that way we may be 99% done. I say 99% only because I still need to review and check that we have accomplished everything we needed to for a successful opening sequence of our film “Shoot Your Shot”.

Re-shooting Blog

After my peer review, I took into consideration the comments the group left for me. They made comments on the background sounds interfering with the dialogue and the lighting on some of the character parts. This weekend me and my partner went out to the court and re-shoot some of the scenes. Most of the scene involved the group of boys which was a difficult task. I had to make sure that the boys were going to be at the park and able to participate. Thankfully, I was able to catch them on Sunday hanging out at the court before I even got there. They were a big help and agreed to help me out once again to fix some areas. We re-shoot the scenes where they were trash talking to me before the game actually started. We did this because the angle in which the camera was in, the people looked very dark and you could barely see them. Also, the scene after I get injured there a bit of snickering in the background. It is loud enough to be heard so we needed to make sure that that scene had silence in the background.
Another re-shooting that I did was the re-shooting of some of my parts. I had to make sure I had the same clothes on as before. The acting in my scenes were good. However, the only problem was the wind in the background messed up the tone of the movie and distracted the audience. The day we re-shoot, it was still very windy so it really didn't help our circumstances. It took us a while to redo some of my scenes only because I had to wait for the wind to stop bombarding us while we work. At the end of it all, we successfully completed all  the re-shoots in the same day. I was also able to upload all the retakes in the video to update it. In the picture below you will see a snippet of the basketball scene.

Peer Review

Yesterday I peer reviewed two of my classmates film. I observed a noted and lot of interesting things I seen. For starters, I like the fact that the film was different from what you would think everybody else is doing. I figured everyone would be doing a horror or suspense movie so that the opening sequence would be cool. However, the boys a reviewed did a action movie on a ex military sniper. The veteran was going through his normal daily morning routine when he gets a call for the military for another mission they need help with. The transitions are very clean. Everything seem like it flowed together. This idea is different and not very common which shows that the boys did not take the easy route. That's the one thing I can say I genuinely liked about their film.  

One suggestion I would make towards the film is the level of diegetic to non-diegetic sound. Throughout the entire film there was a music in the background. There was also some dialogue and sound that you can actually hear (diegetic sound). However, it is hard to fully concentrate on one sounds if all of them are overlapping each other. If you are going to have music in the background of your film then there it has to be soft and low enough to where we can still hear it but we may also fully hear and understand the dialogue. Having them both too loud may confuse the reader on what they're suppose to be focusing on. Also, I noticed that the film lightening was bright. When I think of war (even though it is a action movie), I think of the dark army green color and other gloomy colors. I didn't get that sort of vibe when watching the film. It seemed very happy instead of serious. One adjustment I would make to the film is maybe make the brightness or contrast darker.