Editing Blog: Finishing up

      We are now finishing up editing our movie. We also got feed back from our peer reviews. We plan on incorporating the feedback when we do our reshoot and re-edits. For now, we wanted to finish our titles so that we have a finished product before moving on. My group member Madeline and I had discussed our titles prior to this. We had came up with an idea of what we wanted them to look like. We showed our other group member and asked for his feedback. He liked our idea so we went along with our original plan. Madeline and I inserted the titles into the film. Then we made sure they were in the correct spots that we wanted them in. 

         Once they were placed in the right spots, we made sure they were visible. We fixed the size of the font to make it clear for the viewers. We also changed the font colors to make them stand out. I thought that this was very important so that it didn’t blend in with the background. Lastly we made sure the titles were shown for a reasonable amount of time so that it was readable. With the titles in, we now had everything that was important for our video. Since we have completed a finished product of our video, we now have to consider the feedback from peer reviews. Our next step is to reshoot and re-edit to make our video the best it can be. We will use the feedback given from peer reviews to help us with this. We are so close to having our final video completed! 

Editing Blog: Set Back

       We are almost done editing our movie. We still need to add our titles and then fix anything that needs to be fixed. However, we were not able to meet and edit. We had some delays that caused us to have to push back our editing. I had to work which prevented me from meeting with my group. I work at a restaurant and make the bread for customers. My group members decided that they didn’t want to work without me. So, we talked about another day that worked for all of us to meet up and edit. Even though we pushed back editing, I still thought of stuff on my own. We still had to add our titles so I brainstormed some ideas for what they should look like. Then I can share my ideas with my group members when we add our titles. 

       Since we just had our peer reviews, I also thought about what was said about our movie. Based on what they said, I thought of ideas on how to edit and make our movie better. That way, when we do meet to finish editing, we can incorporate what was suggested from the peer review. Since I thought about this, I will be able to tell my group about my ideas. They may have ideas too that will make our movie better. The group that peer reviews our movie mainly said how we didn’t have titles. We knew that this would be something that was pointed out. However, we weren’t able to add the titles due to us not being able to meet and add them. We had all the other requirements which the group graded very well. Even though we couldn’t meet to edit, I still thought of many ideas which I feel will make our editing process better for when we do finish editing. 

Peer Review Blog

    While watching someone else’s film, something that I really liked was the music. I thought that the music this person chose was a great choice for their film. The music created a suspenseful feeling throughout the whole film. This made me want to keep watching and find out what was going to happen next. It also kept me at the edge of my seat and interested. I also really liked the titles this person used. Throughout the whole film, I could clearly read the titles. The titles were shown for a good time which allowed me to read them. The color and font was the same throughout, which I thought was a good choice. This made the film look well organized and clean. 

         One suggestion that I would make to the film is the size of the shots. While watching the film, I realized how the shots kept changing sizes. One scene would take up the whole screen, but then the next wouldn’t. In most of the scenes, the shot didn’t take up the whole screen so there would be black around the edge of the film. So I would suggest making the shots the same size so that the screen isn’t constantly changing sizes. Also, after 1 minute and 57 seconds, the screen stays black until 2 minutes and 12 seconds. So I suggest that this person cuts their film to make sure it ends at 1:57 which is the last scene. One more thing I suggest is to replace some of the water scenes. In the film, there are a lot of scenes of the water since the person is on a boat. However, I think the person should film more scenes of them doing things on the boat to replace some of the water scenes. 

Editing Blog: Putting it Together

         My group and I have officially started our editing process! We all met up with each other to start editing. We all discussed about the scenes that we took when filming. I told my group members that I had choose the scenes that I thought were best. They had done the same thing which was great. We decided that we would look through each other’s, and pick the best ones. After the footage, we imported all of it onto our editing software. Once it was on the software, we made sure the footage was the correct ones. Then we started placing them in the correct order. I also thought of transitions that would be best while we did this. It was really cool to see our film coming together. 

       We started off with the house scenes. We got these in order and then moved onto the park scenes. Once these were in order, we went on the the stalker scenes, and lastly the alley scenes. Once all the scenes were together, the movie was about 2 minutes and 40 seconds. We did our best to trim down parts of the scenes as best as we could. A lot of the scenes could be trimmed which was very beneficial. The time now was around 2 minutes and 20 seconds. We took a scene out which got us to 2 minutes and 10 seconds. Then we went and found music for our movie and made sure that it was free. We fit the music into our footage and made sure everything sounded good. We were done for the day and decided that we will add our titles next time we meet. 

Editing Blog: Choosing the Footage

         We have finally finished filming for our final task. Now, we are ready to edit and put it all together. However, we were not able to meet up due to certain reasons. Even though we couldn’t get together, we still tried to do a little on our own. I decided that I should go through all the footage before meeting up. I wanted to go through everything and see which ones I thought were the best clips. While I was filming the scenes, I had favorited some that I thought were the best. However, I filmed on my group members phone so I don’t know which ones I favorited. We had airdropped all the footage to each other so that we all had the clips. So, this is why I had to go through all the footage again and choose which ones I thought were the best. 

        I thought that looking through the footage in chronological order of our film would be best. I started off looking at the footage from the house scenes. Choosing the best one from this scene didn’t take too long since the clips were pretty short. Then, I looked over the trunk scenes. I thought all of these scenes looked pretty good so I just picked the one I thought the actor did better in. Next, I watched the park scenes. This was pretty easy but it just took a little longer. This is because I took more takes of these scenes than the house and trunk ones. After the park scenes, I looked at the scenes at our friend Aaron’s house. Picking these scenes was pretty easy since he acted really good in all of them. Lastly I looked at the alley scenes which took the most time. These scenes were the longest and had the most takes. I’m so excited to start editing with my group! 

Filming Blog: At the Alley

       Now that we finished filming all our scenes at the park, we could now move on. The last location we are filming at is the alley. After school, we went to my house and got in my car. I drove again since we are using my car for our film. Due to alley scenes being after our previous scenes, we needed to wait until it was darker. We had to wait until it was around the time we finished filming our last scenes at our friend Aaron’s house. Once it was around the same time, we headed over to the alley. Once we got there, I filmed my group member grabbing the fake knife out of the trunk and slipping it into his pocket. Next, I filmed him walked over behind a fence. Our next scene was our friend Aaron, which is the victim, looking around. 

        While filming, we had some difficulties with our plan. I came up with some ideas of what to change to make it work. The next scene I filmed was my group member, Leonardo, walking up behind the victim and stabbing him with the fake knife. I had bought this prop for us and was responsible for bringing it. I also thought of an action match which I filmed for this scene. After this scene, I was now apart of the film. I acted as if I was a witness that was watching the murderer take place. Then I filmed a close up of my group member turning his head. I then went back to my spot while my group member recorded me turning around and running from the scene. The last scene I filmed was my group member running to act like he was going after me. I recorded him tripping and pretending to fall. The closing scene I filmed was him slamming his fist on the ground in frustration, which then turned to a black out.