Editing Blog: The Start of Editing

After a long week of filming, I finally got around to editing my footage. Due to last Thursday being an early release day for my school, I was able to film on this day. On this day, I filmed scenes at the coffee shop. This process took almost an hour but thankfully I was able to get things done along with my friend Cristy's help. She was in charge of filming while I was the actor for these scenes. After finishing up filming, we were able to go home finally. When I arrived home, the first thing I did was take the SD card out of my camera. This is because I needed to upload the footage from the SD card onto my laptop. To upload this footage, I used Google Photos to complete this transfer. This process took about 20 minutes, so I had to be on standby as the videos uploaded to my drive. However, the pre-editing process still continued. After uploading everything to my laptop's online drive, it was time to upload everything onto my iPhone. To do this, I had to access the Google Photos application on my iPhone and click the "save to camera roll" option on the app. I had to do this process for each individual clip, which took a while to do. However, after completing this process, I could finally begin editing my film. The first thing I began doing was deleting the scenes which had multiple takes for them. After this, I began to place my clips in order onto the editing software on my phone. The editing software that I used to edit was iMovie. I used iMovie to edit because it was free on my iPhone and because I find it more convenient to edit on my phone. After placing the clips in order on iMovie, I began cropping and cutting out the unnecessary parts. This was, however, all the editing I was able to do on Thursday.

Peer Review

For the next part of this assignment, we had to peer review. Though my teacher would not be in class during these peer reviews, we as students were still in charge of getting it done. However, this was met with an obstacle for me. I had forgotten to edit my footage along with put it on a flash drive. This meant that on peer review day, I had nothing to give for my peer to review. Although this was a problem for me on Tuesday, I had planned to edit my footage that day and let my peer review it on Wednesday. Yet, I left school early on Wednesday so I was again unable to get my film peer-reviewed. This was not a big problem for me however as I still have Friday, which is tomorrow, for my film to get peer-reviewed. Today, I was able to film more scenes and edit a little. This allowed my film to be finally 45 seconds after cutting and editing everything down. This means that my film will hopefully look a lot better tomorrow for it to get peer-reviewed. Although my film was unable to get peer-reviewed, I was still in charge of peer-reviewing another group's film. The group that I was in charge of reviewing was group 12. Since I was not there on Wednesday, I was unable to review their film on that day. However, group 12 sent me their film via text so that I could be able to review it by Thursday. While watching their film, I noticed a lot of things. One big issue was that the film was not long enough, only 33 seconds long. Besides that, I also found some things that I really liked about the film. That being the overall vibe that I got from the film. Though the film was only 33 seconds, through the title graphic and the lighting, I was quickly able to tell that this would be a horror genre movie. From this, I have become very interested in this film and I hope to see more from it when it is done as it easily captured my attention.

Filming Blog: Finally Filming Again

The filming process for this final task has been difficult. However, things are coming along together as of now. Today, my friend Cristy and I decided to continue filming again. Although we have already begun filming some scenes so far, there is still a lot more filming left to do. This includes scenes at Cristy's house and at a coffee shop. However, due to time constraints, we decided to only film the scenes that were in Cristy's house today. To begin filming, we first had to arrive at Cristy's house. So after school, my mom picked Cristy and I up and dropped us off at her house. When we arrived at Cristy's house, the first thing that we did was eat. After eating and talking for a while we decided it was time to finally begin filming. First, we cleared the area and made adjustments to the setting. Then, Cristy changed into her proper outfit, as she would be the only actor in these scenes. Next, we began setting up the filming equipment. This was, of course, adjusting the tripod in the right place and changing the filter settings on the camera. After all of these steps were done, we could finally begin filming. The first scene that we filmed was of Cristy packing her suitcase. We took many shots in Cristy's room of her packing her suitcase, however, we decided that this location wasn't working out for us. So, we decided to move into her guest bedroom. Here is where we re-filmed Cristy packing up her suitcase. After this, we began recording in Cristy's bathroom. For this scene, I filmed Cristy brushing her hair. However again, due to time constraints, I was unable to get more filming done on this day. I plan on filming more on Thursday, where I can hopefully get most of my filming done for my final task.

Filming Blog: No Filming Again

Although I have already begun filming some of the scenes for my music video, I still need a lot more to be done. I would need at least 90 more seconds of film to make my film 2 minutes as of right now. The scenes that I have filmed so far include me being inside my bathroom. More in detail, during these scenes I am seen washing my hands and my face. I filmed these scenes with my friend Cristy last Friday. Though I expected to get more done on this day, this was all that we could have gotten done with the time frame that we had. It is currently the following Thursday now and sadly I have not made new progress yet with my filming. I was hoping I would be able to film the scenes in Cristy's house this week. However, this was a difficult task to accomplish as my schedule was been quite busy lately. Along with me not having a proper ride to Cristy's house, scheduling is hard to accomplish between the both of us. I initially planned with Cristy to film this Tuesday or Wednesday, yet these plans were halted as I had to babysit. This weekend, I still will not be able to film because I will be going to Key West for a school field trip. Though these days would have been beneficial for me to get more filming done, it will again have to be rescheduled again. Instead of filming, I have been busy doing homework and preparing for my field trip to Key West. I have also been watching lots of YouTube during my spare time as well. Though I am sad I could not film what I wanted to film this week, I hope next week will be much more productive. Next week, I plan on filming the day I get back, which would be Sunday night. However, if I have no time to film on Sunday, I will have to film on Monday afternoon instead. During this day, I hope to get the majority of my scenes done.

Filming Blog: First Day Filming

On Friday after school is when I decided I wanted to film. After not being able to film last weekend, it was finally time to begin the filming process this weekend. Thursday was the day in which I ultimately checked out a camera. The following day, I went home with my friend Cristy and we went to the first location of filming, which was my house. Due to my scenes taking place at night, we had to wait until at least 7PM to start filming. However, when it became 7PM, we were suddenly paused. This was because after opening the camera, I had realized that it was not charged. In order to film the expected scenes, I would have to leave the camera charging for at least 30 minutes. After the camera was up to charge, we could finally begin filming. The first scene that we filmed was where I was washing my face in the bathroom. To prepare the "set", I had to clear the sink of all its products. This included mouthwash, hairspray, and toothbrushes so that hand soap would be the only prop that the camera would see. Next, I had to fix my costume and makeup. This consisted of my taking off my watch and bracelets, along with putting my hair in a messy bun and wiping off all of my previous makeup. Due to my bathroom being quite small, the filming set up was quite cramped with the tripod. However, luckily we were still able to fit it in. Filming with Cristy was actually difficult at times because we often laughed a lot. This caused some of the shots that I filmed to be disturbed throughout filming. Although I intended to complete all of my individual scenes on Friday, due to the many interruptions that were caused, I will have to refilm a couple of these scenes on my own. This will be a challenge to do on my own; however, it must be done in order to get closer to completing my film.

Filming Blog: No Filming Today

After completing the entirety of the planning process for my final task, it was time to start filming. However, this next step was met with some roadblocks. Due to me not finishing my storyboard on Thursday in class, I was not able to check out a camera on this day. With this in mind, I had a new plan in order to check out the camera. This would involve me finishing my blog on the night of Thursday and checking out my camera on Friday morning. Yet, I could not do this either as I did not come to school on Friday due to me being sick. This was unfortunate as I had actually made plans with my friend, Cristy, to begin filming on this day. However of course, due to me not having a camera, these plans would have to be moved to next week. This left me with an entire 4-day weekend of not being able to film. During this time, I decided to reschedule carefully the days in which I would be filming in order to avoid confusion with the previous dates that I had set up. Though I was unable to film during this whole extended weekend, I still wanted to make good use of my time. Instead of filming, I spent this time doing homework for other classes, such as my math and marine science homework. I also spent this time watching mystery movies on Hulu as I thought it would be a good way to study for the upcoming AICE exam that I would have to take for this class. This journey eventually came to a conclusion on Thursday as this was the day in which I finally was able to check out a camera. Thus, the filming process would begin on Friday for my final task. This hopefully will still leave me with enough time to record all the scenes I want within the time frame that I had already planned out.

Planning Blog: Storyboard

Continuing on with the planning process of the final task, the next step was to create a storyboard to simulate a brief summary of the scenes that would be like for my film. The first thing I did was draw the establishing shot of my film. An important thing to keep in mind when drawing a storyboard for a movie is to make sure the box is completely filled. Leaving boxes with a bunch of negative space will make your storyboard look like no effort was put into it. Which is why I made sure to do this with every box that I drew. Another thing that I drew in my boxes was an example of what the titles would look like in two of the scenes. This is important as it could be used as a reference for future placement of the titles of my film. Additionally, for the lines under the boxes, I also made sure to describe the scenes in detail. This included the specific type of camera angle, shot, or movement. I also made sure to include the editing or sound aspects of the scenes as well. The last thing I did to complete my storyboard was uploading the pictures that I took onto a PowerPoint.