Extended spring Break:/

This is definitely not what i expected spring break to be like . I expected to go to the beach atleast 2 times a week or even hang out with friends. I enjoyed our extended vacation being that our superintendent added 2 more weeks of students being off .  However the coronavirus began spreading rapidly. This made me stay in the house for a while even though we’re not on quarantine it’s not much to do . Our mayor shut down all non-essential places . So no movies , no parks or beaches to go to with my friends . This spring break was suppose to be revolutionary however that went right down the drain . That’s not even the worst thing yet . Our whole movie had to to be re-filmed being that we couldn’t get our editing laptop from school.   Even though they gave out computers from our school it wasn’t a very likely chance that we were going to get our same computer . We were devastated and angry that all our work had gone to waste . However we knew we were running on a short time . So we found a new editing software and made it work to our advantage. Honestly our movie came out amazing even with the delay . The epidemic is something no one has lived through before and made a lot of schedules change such as our testing , schools , and everyday life’s . Hopefully it is over soon so i can get back to hanging out with my friends . Even though i was happy for the extra days the happiness was soon taken as everything closed due to this virus . We couldn’t even start our actual spring break before everything closed.

We finished editing ;)

As we figured out IMovie we began editing . We realized there were no way to share the video amongst each other . Instead we each got an assigned part to do of the film and we had to send it back and forth from our messages . I started the editing process because i was assigned the garage which is our beginning. I edited it similar to how we had done on pinnacle studios . I cut most of the clips to fit a particular time slot . I also had to make sure it didn’t take up more than 30 seconds being that we knew the video couldn’t be longer than 2 minutes nor shorter than 1 minute and 50 seconds. So i imported all of the footage into the IMovie. Then i cut down the footage and started to paste it together. After I added in the title slides . We couldn’t use dire wolf anymore so we used PicsArt to create a black screen with snatched in scratched red . I then finished editing the garage Scene  then i sent it to shania for her to begin editing her leaving the house and getting ready . She added the film film of us talking on the phone . Which is where she added a swipe into a split screen to emphasized us both having a conversation. Then the film of her getting into the car and us driving to Lester’s . She then sent it back and we critiqued the science she editing. By asking her to change a few transitions and switch the places of the titles . She then sent it back and Chad Kerin began editing us at the diner and me getting snatched . They sent it in our group chat until we all approved and finished the editing of snatched .

Re-Edits!!

Before I Knew it we had to start editing . Right before i was going to go get the SD My group member chad had told me he had left it at home . We then came to the conclusion about me coming to get it tomorrow. However as soon as he got home he noticed the SD card was missing from his book bag . My group members and I panicked on how we would revive such footage . Until I remember that we had moved all the footage onto my USB as a back up plan . This saved us big time by not having to re film . Not only did we not re-shoot but we also didn’t need the SD reader we all paid for. we were all so devastated that all of our work had be lost . However I had just remembered that all of our work was backed up onto a flash drive . I downloaded all the content onto my computer while the other member made a gmail account . The gmail account gave us somewhere to drop all of the footage on the drive . We didn’t let our anger stop us from getting the work finished . We jumped in as soon as we could to find a new editing software . We searched high and low until we found the answer right in front of our face . The software of IMovie . This is an app already installed on our phones even if we didn’t know how to work it we knew that we could figure out before our deadline . We had so many questions about I Movie because all we knew was pinnacle studios . We used some film to just test it out until we got it. We wondered if we could share it but we haven’t found out how to .

No Re-Shooting !!

Originally our film was perfect and we didn't think we needed to re shoot . The only film we had to shoot a different time then the others was the garage scene . We did miss a few shots of our storyboard. However if we would’ve filmed those we would’ve been over time .We missed shots such as the radio and the viewing of the review mirror . Filming would've been postponed anyways because of the corona-virus. The corona-virus stopped us from attending school . Since we're not able to attend school we're not able to check out a camera. Since we’re not re- shooting we decided to continue editing . However we were at a stand still with editing until we found a new software to use. Us not being able to edit on our previous software meant that we had to start fresh . At first we were worried whether or not if we should wait to get back to school or try to find and buy a new software for editing . Since we weren’t filming or editing our project was stuck until we figured out how to continue . Being that we returned to school on April 15th and our CCR and final task is due on our blogs by April 9th we had to find something quick . We were quit upset that all our previous editing had gone to waste . We got back on it as soon as one of my group-mates had a plan to drop all of the footage onto the desktop and buy a SD reader from target . However the group mate who had the SD card computer was not working . This meant that I was going to pick it up the next day and i was going to drop all the footage on my computer .We still had questions on how we would edit but all we knew is that we had to get that footage onto a computer as soon as possible to start editing . We are so happy that we still had the tittle slides and some video clips in our phone . This saved us extra time from editing and having to make changes . This

Editing begins !

Today we began editing , we added all the film that we had taken during our filming sessions. We had to begin editing on a different computer .The software on the computer had stopped working so we had to go to different computers.We started with adding the filming of the garage . We had to add music to this part because this is the suspenseful part.We also started adding all the other places we filmed at . However the software then crashed so we had to switch to a different computer . Which postponed our editing process until next class.We transferred the information via a USB drive. As soon as we got to class we got a different computer and jumped right into editing . Our teacher had did a lesson on adding texts and using different fonts . Today we had added our snatched font in by down loading dire wolf which is a font . This font was only used to exaggerate snatched while times new Roman was used for our production name . After the adding the font we started to drop everything into a folder onto the desktop . Then we imported into pinnacle studios . After importing we got right to trimming and editing all of the film . We also added in all or title pages . After this we were almost ready to go . Next class we knew that all we would have to do is revise it and add the music and titles / roles of each cast member. Today was very productive as we originally felt behind we got a jump start on our final task before completing our ccr . This is one of titles made from today .

Finally filmed the garage !!

We had previously filmed every other shot in our short film. We filmed the driving to Lester’s diner and eating at the diner . However we were still missing one key piece to the puzzle . The beginning of our film was missing as we edited everything else. We had to yield the completion because of not having the first part filmed . There was already a lot of filming to do for 2 days. When shooting this it was many over the shoulder shots . This was to show the character actions and how he planned to take  her . Weapons were dropped in the stalker book bag to emphasize his needing for a murder weapon. Some of the weapons were hammers , screw drivers , tape, and poison . One mistake we made when filming this is we had to find an alternative for a map.This is where my creativity came in hand . I suggested we just use a 8x11printed map and tape pictures to it . Then attach sticky notes to it with fake address . This was one main aspect of our movie because it showed our character as a stalker. Not only was he stalking these three girls he’s been doing it for a long time . He then closes his book bag and we make sure to not edit the sound of him closing his bag because we want it emphasized. Next he walks to the button that opens the garage this is also another ambient sound we can’t cut because it makes the film more realistic. The camera then starts to follow the stalker ad he walks out of the garage. During this we have much digetic sound .

Peer Review gone wrong :(

We are suppose to be peer reviewing our classmates start of their movie . Peer reviewing is when you look at someone else short film and examine it. We have to look at the length, shots , transitions and other characteristics in the video.However the person my group and I was suppose to review haven’t came to the pass 2 classes . So we had nothing to look at and review him on .This means that i won’t be able to assist his film . Since we won’t be able to look at the film characteristics we won’t be able to tell the length or shots of the film.We began editing in our spare time being that we couldn’t be reviewing. My group members and I had already began editing today is just the day we chose to add the titles . We started looking for fonts to use for our title slide . We found a website 1001 fonts and saw so many that we loved for our titles . Our teacher then showed us how to download the font and add it into pinnacle studios . This is where we added snatched in big scratched letters which went with our genre . This is differnt from the font we originally picked when creating our storyboard . The original fonts was red drippy letters . After that we didn’t finish our film completely . Instead we just finished 45 seconds of our short movie without transactions. We then sent it to the girl who was reviewing our short film . The girl wasn’t in school neither therefore we had to video record it and send it to her . This peer review didn’t go as planned because we didn’t get to look at anybody project . We also wanted to get feed back on our short film.