Delay in movie

There has been a huge change in the world as well as school, which has affected all my classes including aice media. The corona virus is an epidemic changing all things little and small. The next step for our movie was reshooting. This was now a lot kore difficult to due since we could not get the cameras from school. We also cannot meet up to reshoot or meet up to discuss anything. When it comes to editing, this is also harder as we cannot use the laptops from school. Now we will need to edit fully on iMovie unless something else is available. Help is also something that is negatively affected. Even though we have been led on the right path by our teachers, getting help was crucial to the movie. Being able to ask little questions to our teachers and group members was really important. Due to the inability to have contact with anybody, we look to social media to help us. We have the ability to text or email our teachers as well as text our group members. The internet is definitely our friend through this tough time. It’s allowed us to keep contact with everyone through this journey. One positive thing about this is being able to stay home and have more to time to complete editing. I will be doing this on my laptop hoping to perfect things. As for reshooting, I do not know when I will receive the film or how it will look. This means I need to edit to my best ability waiting for more film. This is not something anybody expected and there will be much change in everyone’s lives. Hopefully we will be able to proceed with the movie as well as being able to focus on school and keep up with my classes.

planning to re-shoot and re-edit

This week, my group and I are discussing the next steps to the film. There are a few scenes that need to be reshot, as well as new ways we want to edit. For the reshooting, I will be out of town so unfortunately they will have to do it without me . I know we are focusing on the shattering of the plates scene, since they were not smooth. Even though we have a film edited and ready, it could have a lot fo work done to it. This is where I come in. My job is to edit with Jaheim and really focusing on making a smoother film. This includes the style of titles. Since some of the work I edited was on Imovie the title style was different. I wasn't able to move the titles around where I wanted them. On pinnacle studious, it is a little different. We want to try setting up the film on Imovie, to have quicker cutting and piecing together. Then, we want to transfer the film to pinnacle studios which Jaheim will focus more on. Since I have worked with Imovie before and it is my laptop, it seems to fit the plan better. I want to focus on colors for the titles. Some scenes blend in better with white or black but I want to be able to have a theme with the titles instead of just fitting it to each theme. Another thing is size. The titles in our film already, do not match the importance of the size that I feel it could. It will be my job to make sure the sizes of the titles also align with the scene and job. As for filming, I will not play an important role there. 

Peer review : leaving dreams

Two days ago, we got the chance to peer review somebody else’s film. It definitely helped me put a new perspective to my own movie. Watching this movie, I got the chance to see what lighting and angles looked smooth and what didn’t. We looked at how he filmed and the many different shots he took. We saw he had a lot of the names and the right format. He had a nice subtle font that gave a calm effect to the movie. The lighting was very good throughout. The natural lighting gave it a very real feel. The music was calm until the end. This gave suspension to the film zoom was added to make the people watching notice what was important. There was many details that were in the movie. The picture at the beginning alluded to the end which showed the man in the beginning missing. The thints he needs to work on is dialogue. When they are speaking to each other you cannot hear it clearly. I had trouble hearing what they said. If that were to be fixed, the movie would definitely improved. Overall, sound was the only issue that I saw. Everything else seemed to work out very smoothly.

editing blog: the rough draft

Our first filming day is complete. We have every part we need to start putting together the film. We will be editing on pinnacle studios. The first step was to take all the film and put it on google drive. Jaheim did that. I was going to start the editing. We were on a short time period since our peer review was due in the next few days. Our main focus was getting the right clips into the app and to have them structured properly. There was tons of film which made it harder for us. This was probably the most time consuming. I was in charge of finishing up the edit. I had to add the titles for each scene. It didn't always align which made the editing process longer. I do not think the final film will match up to the powerpoint we had previously made but as long as all the information is included, it works. Due to the shortened of time, we had to transfer our film onto  I movie. I had to do it onto my laptop, and finish up editing. Personally I felt as if, editing on I movie was easier than pinnacle studios. Overall, the film turned out okay, re-filming and reediting is definitely going to be crucial for the final movie. Music still needs to be added onto the film, to create a more suspenseful tone. As well as, Putting more editing for the car scene.

filming : outside

For this next scene, we filmed a car and outside scene at the clubhouse of Emily's neighborhood. To begin, we brought two cars but only used one. I drove my car to drive a few people so that Emily could film the two actors in the back seat of the other car. I helped lay out the red carpet and tell Emily the best shots to get. Finding a good place for the red carpet was important to fill the famous look. Similar to the inside filming I had my phone with different things set up to film. I pulled up the script, the scenes and the story board for this part. I had to remind Emily to shoot the car pulling up as well as some scenes on the red carpet. A low angle shot was important to our storyboard and I helped Emily get the shot perfectly. This was part of my co-directing job. All scenes were accounted for and if we wanted any extras, we shot them. One downfall during this was the rain, we didn't necessarily have anything planned for lighting but we would have preferred it not been raining. In the end it worked out fine as the rain didn't intensify until after filming. I also helped make sure the outfits looked good during these shots. The heels, hair and dresses needed to look prepared for this scene. Another main job I had was to be the paparazzi. I held two to three phones and I kept clicking the flashlight to interpret a camera. I tried to do this near the camera instead of near the actors so that you can see the flashing. During this, I also had to shout out to the "famous couple". I said things like, "yes work it" seeming like I am filming them. This is done to show their social class.

Filming: inside the house

Inside the house 

Over the weekend we filmed the inside scene, to film the main food scene. This filming took place at Emilys house. There were many things to set up before this scene started, including outfits, food, plates and the table. I had to pull up a few things on my phone. I had the pictures of the storyboard, the google slides of the script and the shooting. Since I was not acting it was important that I was around to help remind the person filming and the actors what shot we want to get. The food scene is about the only scene shot inside. I helped Emily direct the film and shots. While the food was getting set up, I helped make sure everyone was in their right positions. I did this by looking at the story board and seeing if the actors, Jaheim and Victoria were in their proper seats. I then explained to Emily what we had in mind for which angle to shoot the shot. When it was time for their lines about the food, I pulled up the script. I reminded Jaheim and Victoria what they each had to say. This was important as they were constantly forgetting which line to say next. My importance here was not too hard, I enjoyed helping out the person filming and the actors. Co-directing, I would say is a good title for my role. Some other things that were a part of the food scene, was correcting certain things. For example, the plates positioning and when to put the food where. As well as making sure the camera was in an angle that did not include mirrors, or blocked out anyones face. Due to to tightness of the dining room with mirrors on both sides, we had to make sure the camera was set perfectly centered. 

Filming blog: pre-start

Unfortunately, my group and I have not started filming. This has to do with the fact that the blogs that were due in the last few days, including the 10 pages worth of storyboarding. Stretching out each scene to fit into 10 pages was probably the most difficult part.  Although I am confident in our script, it was hard to make each scene in this much detail. I personally had some trouble putting both the script and storyboard together. I knew the work was being done but I needed to sit and match each one to have a better understanding of what we will be filming. The group also raised some concerns as to whether our script would clearly match the storyboard for the filming. Due to this hesitance we have not yet filmed. We took this class period to come up with a schedule that works for us all. I drive, so location is not an issue for me but one factor that made it difficult for me to schedule well is my work. Since this filming needs to be done as soon as possible, this weekend was our best bet. i work all weekend, so I am making it my responsibility to switch a shift around to be able to make it. We are creating a schedule that all four of us can attend, since two of us are actors, one if filming and then I will be helping with props and extras in the film. Even though we do have a location, we found another one that may fit best. This is another reason why we took a while to film, because we wanted the best possible spot. We have decided instead to film at our group members grandma house. We want to meet up on Saturday around 12-1. We also needed props and food prepared before we started filming. Food is important to set up since it needs to resemble body parts and more time to set this up, the better. Also, more time allows us to set up the house to get rid of anything we do not want in the shot as well us set up anything we do in the shot.