Editing Blog

We have now finished everything that we needed to film. We were not too pleased with everything that we had shot during our first session, so we had to shoot again. We talked over our plans on Tuesday and what our schedule should be like. Then, after school, we got together and decided to film absolutely everything that we would need. We started by going to the mall and filming there. We filmed at the food court for three or four shots that we needed. We then went to the entrance of a store and filmed there as well. And we filmed the outside of the mall as well. After, we went to my house and filmed here for the rest of the scenes we needed. We filmed in the common area downstairs, as well as in my apartment. The day was very efficient, and we took multiple takes of almost every shots to make sure we always got the best one. All that was left now was to gather the footage and edit it.

Today we finally started to edit the music video. We were worried as we didn't want to rush it and for it to not come out the best. We did not have any computers with an editing program at home, so we had to work only at school. Our group mate Victoria was looking for free editing programs, as the others are very expensive and she maybe found one that could be useful to us. She said it was quite similar to the one we have at school, but a little trickier to figure out. The good news is that we have made good progress on the video on the school computer. Our shots are all selected, and ready to be organized in the order that we desire. We made sure to closely follow the storyboard, but we did make some changes. We successfully found and downloaded our song and have put it into the video. We have about twenty percent of the video done, and Victoria says she can do even more at home, now that she has a program. 

All that is left to be done is finish the edit. We have to finish and sync the last of the mall scenes first. After, we will do the ones of us at the common area. And finally, the ones of us at my house. I trust that Victoria will get that done quickly and greatly, and we will be there to help her if she needs. I really enjoyed the filming process and thought it was fun. The editing was fun as well, for what I did at least. I am sure that our finished product will be great. I had a great experience doing this project and would do it again gladly.

Filming Blog Finally

During the week of our thanksgiving break, we did get to film. We were supposed to film after school on Tuesday, at around 4:00 pm. Most of our group members did not go to school on Tuesday, so Jeffrey was the one who had to go and pick up the camera, SD card and tripod. While we had plans, to film at my house we were not able to do it due to scheduling conflicts. The next, day however, we did film. We decided to film some scenes at my house first. Victoria and Jeffrey came over at around 2 or 3 pm. We had scheduled to shoot about 4 scenes. One in which Victoria looks at her phone and sees our location. Another where we catch her snooping at us. And then a scene where we open the door to find that she is at our house. We had only those shots planned as they were the ones we could do this at this location.

Unfortunately, we had technical difficulties with the camera, that made filming a little harder. The camera's battery was dead, and it would not turn on. This meant that for every shot that we had to find an outlet nearby, or we wouldn't be able to get it. This was quite annoying, as now we couldn't get as many shots done as we wanted. So in the end we were only able to get around two of the original shots that we had planned out. However, we did get them to the best of our ability and made sure they were the best shots possible. After that, we reviewed the footage, and confirmed that we were satisfied with each shot we took. Shortly after everyone went home. The next day was thanksgiving, and we made sure to enjoy it to the fullest so we did not shoot. And we did not film either during black Friday.

I think that we were supposed to film during Saturday or Sunday, but there was a bit of miscommunication form  the group so we did not. It was a little annoying that that happened, but we learned from that mistake. We are planning when and where we are going to shoot this week. I hope that we will have filmed it all before Thursday so that we have at least two days to edit it. We have a very specific plan of what it is that we want to do, and how we want to edit it. We just need to make sure that everyone's schedules align. I hope we will get this project done without any problems. I know that we can do it, and that all we need is to actually shoot it. I have faith that it will be way better than my past project. That's basically all that we have done thus far for the project.