Filming Blog 3

        This blog I will be talking about the recent events that have occurred with the corona virus. Since I have finished the movie all further blogs will be regarding this subject. I must reach my minimum of nine filming and editing blogs hence the tittle of this blog. As of right now all schools in the state are closed until at least mid April. All state wide   testing has been cancelled for the year and we will be starting a virtual school program in two weeks. Everyone was told by the government to self quarantine until further notice. Most public places are closed as well as a travel ban to Europe.  The world right now is a little in a little bit of a shock since this has never really happened before. This virus is new and scientists are trying to learn about it. There are many things about COVID-19 that are still unknown.

      Scientists know the virus mimics the flu in some way with the symptoms. Symptoms usually last from one to two weeks from what we know. With everyone being in quarantined there have been any shortages of products, especially hygiene and cleaning products. The best things we can do to avoid the virus is to not touch anyone or anything. Wash our hands frequently and practice social distancing.  Corona has had an effect on everything in world in some way. Many business' have had to shut down or lay off employee due to the drops in business. In my next blog I will go more into depth about the impact of COVID-19 on the film industry in particular. I mentioned in my last blog that I will be uploading my CCR soon. That blog should be up in a week or so. 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

Re Editing Blog

This is my re-editing blog. As I said in my previous blog there were very few re shots that had to be done. This included the fixing of the dialogue. Once we re shot those scenes it was very easy to add into our movie. I just had to add the new clip where we wanted it to be. Then you just delete the old clips and thats it. Our movie is now completely finished. The titles are in and all of the transitions are clear. The very last step is our CCR questions. These are  reflection questions so we can learn and grow.
I will go more into depth about the CCR questions in a blog solely regarding these questions. Based on the current circumstances with the corona virus everything right now has been changed in some way. My next blog I will go into depth about how the virus has effected my journey with the movie. I will be talking about the changes that have been made school ways. Luckily for me and my partner our movie was finished before anything serious occurred. Some other students might be having a harder time if they didn't complete their film yet. In upcoming blogs I will continue to track my process. I will talk about the effects of the virus on the film industry.  The virus is unlike anything we have seen before and we must keep updated with the news.

Re Shooting Blog

This is my re-shoot blog. After my peer review the person who peer reviwed gave us some critism in order to make our movie better. After our editing we noticed there were a few things that needed to be re shoot. There wasnt't a ton thought. First we had to re shoot our scenes with dialouge. We will be filming these dialouges on our phone then do a voice over. This will be easier then complety reshooting the scences. There were two major scenes with dialouge that we needed to do. We filmed this scences last week.
When we filmed the dialouge we said the words into my phone microphone. Then we imprted though sounds into IMovie to add into our movie.When we were editing we did have to re arrange some of the scenes into a different order. But we did not have to re shoot anything less.  Besides those dialouge scences there wasnt anything else we needed to reshoot. We were very through when filming the first time. We made sure everything was clear and we got all of the footage we needed.  Our movie is basically all finished. We don't have anything else major to add to the film.

Editing Blog 2

This is my second editing blog. The first editing blog I posted I haven’t done very much editing. This blog I will talking more about the editing process.  At first we started editing on Pinnacle Studios. Pinnacle Studios is the editing software that comes with our school computers. It is not the best software, it is very slow and outdated. So we started on editing on Pinnacle Studios, but then we decided to edit on another software , IMovie. IMovie was just so much easier and simpler to use. And with this software we can use it straight from our phones while with Pinnacle Studios we have to use the same computer every time. Which makes it more difficult

When the entire movie was edited we ended up having more then the two minute maximum. We were actually almost at four minutes. We ended up cutting everything after the the two minute mark. We also added all of our titles. During our peer review we didn’t have our titles in but it is a important requirement. The titles were fairly simple to add into.  We have a few more re-edits then we are done with our movie basically. I will be creating more blogs to reach my number of twelve. My next blog will probably be a reshooting or an re editing. Stay tuned

Peer Review Blog

     Last class our class did a peer review.  A peer review is when someone else watches our movie and gives us  critiques. This is a way for students our age can look at our work. We were all randomly assigned a person who peer reviewed our movie and another person that I reviewed. While reviewing I filled out a worksheet.  The worksheet in included below. This worksheet includes questions about the movie. Some of the questions included if they met all of the title requirements or the about different angles.The two most important questions were : what can they improve on  and what did they do well. The movie I reviewed was called Into the Sunrise.
     The movie I peer reviewed had all of the correct titles and met majority of the angle requirements. The editing was very clean. The person I reviewed did a good job of creating the beginning of a story. The lighting was also very clear. There were a few things though that could have been a little better. For example he had absolutely no dialogue in the film. Also although he had all of the correct titles but they were in the incorrect order. The music he choose was not a copyright free. He choose a popular song. He can not use this song unless he gets permission from the artist, The Weekend.  Overall his film was very good.