Filming Blog

     What’s up guys! This blog is basically going to be about how school and all my plans got cancelled due to being quarantined by Covid-19. I was going to reshoot over the weekend, but was unable to because my parents felt it was unsafe for me. I was also unable to leave my house over the weekend for any reason so it would’ve been difficult to convince my parents to go out and film. The spread of this virus makes me anxious as to whether or not I will be able to re-film anytime soon. Seeing countries like Italy be fully quarantined can show signs to my future so I’m growing more concerned about the situation. My partner and I were planning to go back to the house and to re-film. But, that isn’t looking promising anymore or even in the remote future. My weekend was super boring and all I did was sit around in my house. So, now that my rant is out of the way I can tell you guys what exactly I did.
     When I arrived home on Friday, I got straight into doing my homework. When I finished I seen I got a text from my friend Leo saying they cancelled school next week and was super happy. I slowly realized that my school schedule like testing and grades can be affected by this. I grew concerned, but it slowly left my mind when my friends and I started talking about plans and stuff we could do. That all went to waste when my parents said I wasn’t going to be allowed outside the house anytime soon. This whole situation doesn’t benefit me at all because I have AICE testing coming up and I don’t know how it’ll go. Saturday, I woke up and I played video games with my friends and cleaned my house up a little so my mom wouldn’t be mad. I went out shopping to try and find some food and another necessities and I did find quite a lot, but not as much as we would need for two weeks of quarantine. I really wish this will all end soon so I have a lot of stuff figured out and I’m ensured of certain things that are variables right now. Later guys!

Editing Blog

     What’s up guys! From Sunday to now I did not have a chance to go back and edit my video more. With tests and studying I barely had any time to do anything outside of those things. I also had a lot of homework which is pretty abnormal for my classes. But, this weekend my partner and I are planning to reshoot and re-edit our film. We have set up a place to film and the time we will do it. We also made times on when we will re-edit and who will edit what. I will be in charge of editing the first minute and eight seconds of the video while my partner will handle the rest. I know you may think well how is that going to work, but it has been pretty effective so far and it’s gone really smooth. Now I’m going to get in to why it was hard for me to find time to edit and look over my video for the past three days.
     On Monday, I had a huge test in AICE Marine Science that I’ve been super stressed about. I don’t think I did good, but I will have to see when my teacher puts in the grade. I had to also study that night for a math test I was having the next day and that took me from when I got home to when dinner was ready. On Tuesday, I studied a bit more in my study hall for my math test and that’s usually where I do most of my Media Studies work. After school I had to clean up my house and then do my math homework and Marine homework which was due next class. It was getting really stressful but I think I handled it well. On Wednesday, I was told to read a book for my English Law class which took me roughly 4 hours to do because I procrastinated and got interrupted throughout me reading the book. I also went home early because I felt ill and wanted to make sure I didn’t contract the Corona Virus. Fortunately I did not and just triggered my bronchitis. Today, which is Thursday, I came home and did all the essays and make up work I had to do for my Criminal Justice class.

Editing Blog

     Hey guys! After filming, it was time to edit all the clips together to make the play through smooth. The editing process can take a while if you don’t know what you’re doing or what tools you should use. Instead of using Pinnacle Studios this time my partner and I decided to use iMovie. iMovie is an app on IOS devices which I was able to edit on. Since I was new at it, I watched a lot of youtube videos to try and see options and skills I could learn to speed up the process in which I was going. I got the hang of it eventually and my partner even edited the movie with me so I didn’t have a full workload. We played the video over and over and it seemed to be a bit choppy so we added some transitions into the video. The video wasn’t fully edited around the time peer review came along, but I went with what I got. I received feedback on how to better my editing and make the video less 

choppy but was unsure how I was going to get them done because I was rather a novice at iMovie. 

     I was stuck, but I remembered that one of my friends that also had AICE Media Studies uses iMovie to edit their videos. I texted him and asked if I could go over to his house and he could help me make my video run smoothly and to help fix the choppiness. We decided I’ll go over on Saturday and get help on my video. When I got there Saturday we got straight to work on editing my video. He talked me through editing and suggested a few transitions I didn’t know we’re possible for my video. With his help I was able to remove any choppiness from my cut of the movie. After we watched each other’s videos and gave compliments to each other. After I finished editing, we decided to go to our friend Brooke’s birthday party which was really fun and stress relieving. I felt confident in my half of the video and when my partner and I finished and combined them it ran smoothly to our surprise. Thank you see you next time guys!

Peer Review Blog

     Hey guys! In class today we were able to give constructive criticism and help to our classmates on their final projects. We peer reviewed them to ensure they had no errors like choppiness or audio black outs. Peer reviewing helped me get a view from an outside party giving me neutral feedback. The ability of being able to do this gives students many positive outlooks like them having a great video. We also were able to compare videos allowing us to be inspired to add certain types of music or title design ideas. Allowing students to peer review also set up more constructive conversations in the class on how to improve videos. My partner and I did our best to review our partner’s video so he could get the best advice he could. I think this helped him out a lot because I provided him with tips and advice to better his video. Now let’s get into the actual experience I had while doing this.
     I entered class and I checked the board to see who I was peer reviewing. Once I knew who it was I went and grabbed a peer review sheet and filled out my partner’s and my name. I then approached the people peer reviewing us and sent them our video. After I approached the kid we were peer reviewing and my partner and I watched the video. We watched it about 3 times to ensure we didn’t miss anything that he may have needed help on or something that went wrong. I filled out the sheet as best as I could with what I saw and talked to him about what he can improve and what was good about the video. After we finished I took a picture of my completed peer review sheet and then went to the group that was peer reviewing my video. They gave me some really good feedback on what to improve like to add music to certain parts. Their advice gave me a great idea on what to reshoot and re-edit in the coming week. Thank you for listening, bye!

     

Filming Blog

     Hello guys! Over the weekend I was unable to film again due to a busy schedule throughout between my partner and I. She had work and other plans while I attended to my girlfriend’s birthday weekend plans. Though we both were super busy and unable to film we still made time to ensure our plans to film this weekend were a hundred percent. We secured our location and made sure we’ll be free during the designated time. We tried to see if we could squeeze in time to film over t weekend, but it ultimately failed. We both weren’t free at certain times the other was or we were both busy at appropriate times. And through our best efforts nothing prevailed, unfortunately. On the bright side we can finally film this weekend and get into the best part about the project. Now here’s why I was super busy over the weekend.
     Friday was my girlfriend’s birthday so she invited me over to her house to go enjoy a nice meal and get together with her family. It was fun and the food was really good and I got home around 9 which made it impossible to film. Saturday, my girlfriend invited me to brunch with some more of her family around 11 in the morning. After brunch, my girlfriend, her friends, and I all went to the beach to chill around 1 in the afternoon. We all got bored and decided to change into our regular clothes and go to the hotel my girlfriend’s dad and was staying at. This was the first time I met her dad and honestly I was really nervous, but it was great. I got home around 9 again making it impossible to film, yet again. Then on Sunday, my partner was busy before 2:30 and at that time I  went to go see my uncle I haven’t seen in a while. We went over and played games and talked about how life was. Then we got to eat and open Christmas presents he wasn’t here to give us.

Filming Blog

     Hello guys! I was not able to film over the weekend because I was really busy and had a lot of work to do. It would’ve been really difficult to squeeze in any amount of time to filming so my partner and I decided to wait until next weekend. My partner was also really busy because she had to go to work and that made it even more difficult to come up with a plan. We both agreed that we would set aside a weekend to film our movie. I went through the precautions of making sure everything was set for that weekend on Sunday night. I made sure our set wasn’t going to be occupied and that we both could make it to the set relatively quick. I also made sure to make  ourselves available for the designated time slot we planned to film during. I can’t wait to start filming and editing this movie though! It’s going to be so exciting and a very interesting process.
     Over the weekend I did a lot of things I had planned for a while. I went to the fair with my girlfriend on Saturday nearly all day. Towards the end of the day I went and ate with her at Chick-Fil-A and then went home around 9. Sunday, I stayed home and cleaned all day because my mom basically forced me to because I was out all day Saturday. Also I spent time with a friend and played video games all day just to really catch up. On Monday, I went to the beach with my girlfriend and her family nearly all day. We spent time together and had a lot of fun at the beach and went and got food after. When i got home around 5 I did all of my homework. All of this made it impossible to film during the weekend which really sucked. I really looked forward to doing it and now I’m super anxious about filming!

Title Design Blog

   The google slide attached shows an outline for our title sequence idea for our movie shoot. This will help us during the editing process so we know hoe to make our titles. The google slide helps us by also making whatever is on it accessible on our mobile phones just in case we forget anything. Using google slides was a good idea and it differs from our last project. It helps everything be more organized and is very good if you're on a time crunch. We really like the google slide addition because it has everything available to us wherever we are especially during the editing process. Now that we have our title sequence idea donet, we can trust we have strong idea and plan for our titles. The google slide can also help you guys understand why we put certain fonts and sizes on words. We are excited that we get to start filming soon! See ya in the next blog.