Re-editing Blog

Today is  March 20th, 2020. As of today we continue to hear more news on the Corona Virus Pandemic, and continue to await the news on what will be occurring with school and when we will get back. This pandemic is something I could have never expected to occur and it has made this project much harder than it needed to be. When putting it into a global perspective though.  our tiny film compared to that of huge movie making companies is so small that we can’t begin to imagine all the difficulties that they are having to face. me and my group have been working very diligently to complete this project, and I would hate for someone like this virus to ruin all of our hard work. We have pretty much completed our film and are ready to submit it with all the work we have done. Communication has been a big problem I have had to face with my group as I haven’t been having much luck with the technology at home or my phone. I was luckily able to borrow my dad’s work computer to work on the last bits of editing and communicate with my group. Truly I hope that this virus is gone very soon as I need time to as well prepare for the second portion of this cambridge exam. If online schooling begins I believe it will not work as great as it would be in person. and furthermore it will leave us all at a disadvantage compared to that of other people in previous years who did not have these obstacles which we face currently. This will be a gruesome next months but I believe we will come out stronger and succeed.

Re-editing Blog

As the coronavirus continues to spread in the United States of America our project is getting harder and harder to complete. On the 13th of march we got the official announcement that all schools in our county were going to be closed until further notice. I thought that the state of Florida was going to quarantine us starting from Monday, and force us to stay home. So my first instinct was to quickly texted my friends that are part of my group, and asked if we could meet up and talk about what we were going to do in order to complete our project. Ryan picked up Luca on Saturday morning and we all went to my house to talk about it. I think that our meeting went pretty well due to the fact that we decided what we were going to do and we each got tasks that we will get done over the quarantine time. After we were done with the meeting, we started rewatching the film to see if we needed to fix anything and honestly after the first time we watched it we all thought that the video was good and ready to be submitted. My group asked me to ask my parents to watch it, so I did. After they watched the video they made us realize that there were a lot of things that weren’t good with the whole film. The titles were not coming up at the right time and also believed that the editing was kind of sloppy. We all agreed that we were going to fix it by the end of the weekend because we all wanted to be done with the project. Honestly this whole Pandemic is causing a lot of stress as Me and my group stress on passing our exam. I hope everything goes okay and this can all be passed by sooner than later.

Re-editing Blog: Fixing titles

Last Sunday, my group and I met up to reshoot some scenes that our peer review group told us we should reshoot. Yesterday, I edited the new parts into the film and erased the parts that were kind of choppy. Luca worked on editing the new parts into the film and he was having trouble, because he was not very familiar with the iMovie app. He also had some trouble erasing the old portions of the film because he would make the mistake to delete more than he was supposed to. One instance of this was when he had to take out a clip that was four seconds long but he didn't know why his computer kept taking out a three extra seconds. In the end of it he asked me for help because he knew I was very good with these kind of things so I helped him out as much as i possibly could. Once Luca was done adding the new clips, I helped him to fix some of the titles that we had. Fixing titles was pretty easy because we just had to fix what was mistyped. I had to fix Luca’s name because when my group member  Ryan wrote it. They misspelled it on accident. I also had to adjust the positioning of some of the titles due to the fact that in some of them, they where positioned on the actors covering their face. Which my group and I thought that if I left it like that it wouldn't look very acceptable. This group has been excellent to work with and I am so proud of each and every single one of them for working so diligently on this whole project. If it wasn’t for a team effort we would have never produced this movie.

Reshooting Blog

Recently, our whole class commenced the peer review assignment in class. My group and I decided that we needed to reshoot some scenes, so that the movie could flow smoother. The group that reviewed our original video told us the parts of the film that we should retake so that our video could come out the best it possibly can. Therefore, from the feedback my group decided that we should go out and film some of the scenes that the peer review group suggested. We all decided that the best day to film was Sunday because much like always we were all on a tight schedule. Friday and Saturday there was too much wind so it would have made the filming process a lot more complicated and also the dialogues would have been covered up by the wind. On Sunday Ryan picked me up first and then we drove to Luca’s and we then went to film the scenes at the park. Unfortunately a problem which we encountered while working was that it started raining very hard so we had to wait for the rain to stop and to kill time we went catch a quick snack. After the rain finally died down, we came back from the restaurant and quickly started working again because we didn't have much time before it got too dark outside. The peer review assignment worked greatly in our favor and we benefited  made our filming a lot easier because they told us the things we were missing in our video and also the things we did wrong so once we knew what we had to fix it was very easy to fix it. I think that now our video looks very good and its running smoothly. It is now ready to be submitted. Throughout this whole process I have had a blast and have enjoyed the whole aspect of filming a vast amount. I look forward to what is come and I’m glad I had such a good group to work with.

Peer Review Blog

I really enjoyed watching this movie. It was a horror based movie and the beginning introduced the genre very well. It was very suspenseful. Most of the scenes were scary and interesting. My favorite part of the movie was when the girl called 911. She called 911 and directly after the man came into her room it ended. This scene was very suspenseful and scary. The group worked very well, considering they only had two people. One thing I would critique about the film is the whole storyline. The story is hard to follow at some points. For example, there is a scene where she unites herself. The next scene was her untying herself again. If she wanted to show that she was captured again and tied again, then she should show this happening. The other thing she could do is just deletr that 2nd tied scene. Along with that there are some title problems that are easy to fix. For example, at the end of the movie they had some titles missing. They had all the labels but some had no names assigned to them. Some of the cuts and scenes were a little choppy, so making it run smoother would be very great in improving the movie. The movie was still very good and well put together. I think this group was very successful in creating their horror movie. I think the group will take the critiques into consideration. They will probably go back and fix the titles and some of the cuts. Overall the film was very good, and can’t wait to see the actual full and final result.

Filming Blog: Starting to Film the memory scene

Recently, my group and I began the filming process for our movie. After school we decided to take get some quick good and went to eat at iHop, and got free pancakes since it was the “National Pancakes Day”. We however did not just eat and mess around, we in fact talked a lot about the plan for the day for example what we were going to be recording from and all the props we needed to in order to make our film more realistic and more professional, such as our previous powerpoint had entailed. After eating at iHop, Ryan drove us all to the park which was pretty close to the iHop. The weather was perfect, as it was a very nice sunny day which helped us have good quality lighting in our film. As soon as we got to the park we took and establishing shot that will probably be the first scene of the flashback. We however had some trouble when we started acting due to the fact that at first we could not stop laughing and messing around. I being the director of the film had to try and take charge of my group as they goofed off a good amount. 

Furthermore, we finally started to take our work more seriously, and after we had some fun and we recorded most of it. We made a little campfire where we toasted the marshmallows and recorded the scene that we all hang out around the fire and talk, this was done to truly give a sense of camping. We had to retake this scene a couple of times because the fire kept turning off. Luca took care of it and took some branches and poured some more rubbing alcohol that we had just bought. After we were done recording this scene we started recording the kidnapping scene and it came out just as we had planned for it to look. We just needed to record it a few times to make sure that everything and everyone was good and there were no mistakes. An example of this would be, in the first kidnapping shot we took, everything seemed good, but when we rewatched it you could hear some of us talking in the background. We finished basically most of it, we were just missing a scene, but we ran out of time because it got late and too dark outside. This subsequently made the shots look bad so we just decided to call it a day, we will go back to finish it on Friday and we'll make sure to wear the same clothes and have the same things as last time. We had something we had to change from our original plan that we wrote down in the story board and that was the amount of people we had brought to help us record and to be part of our Movie. We originally thought we were going to have a large group coming, but only six ended up coming which actually was better because it was easier to keep under control and it was also easier to stay focused.

Filming Blog: Setbacks With Filming

 As time comes closer and closer to the due date, we seem to be facing adversity as we struggle to find time to film. This weekend it was decided by our group that we were going to film, and I really thought we were. This however was not the case. In the end wee didn't even have the opportunity to meet up at all. Our original plan was to film on Saturday morning and Sunday night. We had everything ready to film, This including: Permission from the cemetery to film there Saturday morning, Ryan's mom's car, and the outfits which we were going to wear. Unfortunately, we ended up not meeting up because of the heavy rain all day and as well the fact that Ryan's mom would not let her drive under the dangerous weather. Saturday morning we all came together and discussed about the situation and tried to come up with a simple solution. On solution we had was to film later throughout the day as it began to stop raining, but we couldn't because the weather just did not change until it was already to late. We had to cancel the plans for Saturday which was very upsetting, and had to tell the other people we asked to come to be a part of our film, to stay home due to the fact that we were not going to be filming anymore. We still had the plan to work on Sunday to shoot the next scene in the film.

Sunday we were supposed to meet around 7-8 p.m. and film the other scene of the movie, where Luca (one of the main leads in the film) gets kidnapped while everyone is camping. This time we had to face some new problems that prevented us from filming again. I was called up by my team to play a game at 6:00, and this interfered with the time schedule for filming. I told my group I would come later but they needed me for basically the whole thing. Another problem which we had to face was, that some of the outside people coming to help us and to be a part of our movie ditched us last minute. We started looking for replacements to help us out with the movie but everyone seemed so caught up in there own personal situations. We only found one person that was available to come and stay for the whole thing. We sadly again came to a  group decision that we weren't going to film on Sunday anymore because it was very difficult making a plan that actually worked and we also started to get annoyed by the fact that some people cancelled last minute. We all came to a pact that since we didn't film two weekends in a row, we will film during this week and meet up during the weekend to edit everything. Hopefully we still get the results we are aiming for.