Re-shooting blog 1- corona

Corona, a pandemic that has been causing major issues as of this month (March), has been a major hindrance to most school activities. Club activities cancelled, academic plans ceased, school delayed. This has also impacted the productivity of our group. Should things have gone as planned, this blog would’ve been completed at the very least earlier this week. However, the inconvenience has resulted in otherwise. Nevertheless, the project must go on. We continue to work towards complete the project. It was agreed yesterday evening that we would attempt to reshoot. However, the time was not specified, a major issue in my strict household. Consequently, I was not able to attend when the filming process was proclaimed to begin at 5 pm today. This was not a major issue considering I was not casted in the film at all and am more useful for the editing process. Filming went on as planned without me. 

Although my group mates did not disclose whether or not they finished filming or not, it is imperative that they redo every present time scene. This is because a lot of them were sloppy or poorly executed in our eyes, but Aaliyah cannot recreate them the same way due to the change in hair. This means that we must recreate every present time scene. I’m sure my group, very confident and productive, was capable of accomplishing this feet. Hopefully when they meet up to begin editing, I will be able to accompany and contribute. 

Editing Blog: we re-edited our film

We began re-editing process on Tuesday. There were quite a few issues with editing that we needed to resolve. Between our group and the peer review group, there were many considerations. Some of these included lighting, clarity, and transitions. Lauren and I made it a point to correct as many of these as we could.

The first thing we did was try to fix the titles. We had them all, but they weren’t evenly spaced and they also weren’t in proper order. We decided to fix this by moving the titles over and rearranging them, but this quickly became an issue due to the fact that we still needed to reshoot. Unfortunately, not all of our takes were up to par and cannot be used in our final presentation. This will cause for reshooting. In order to avoid being redundant, we didn’t include those titles. I feel like this portion would have been more productive if we had sorted out which title goes on which shot again though, just to be clear. We also tried to change the fonts in order to get the contrasting theme that we wanted. This was also an issue however for the same reason, and we could not put them all in.

Our group also worked on lighting. We decided to use iMovie as opposed to Pinnacle Studios because it’s more user friendly and can be used at home and school. While experimenting with the app, I discovered that it allows users to change the lighting through filters. We intend to use this, but it was hard to do it in a way that doesn’t make it seem too overbearing. It would have been better to have done the lighting better from shooting, but it’s unnecessary to include it in reshoots. Sound was something that we also corrected: we had an issue with the previous sound we had found and couldn’t use it. Today, however, we found an exemplary sound that completely envelopes the mood we were going for.

Filming blog: missed reshoot

We did not film today.we didn’t film because we haven’t yet sorted out the dates. We Weill sort them out soon. We got our peer reviews back, there were things to improve on. This is what they said. We intend to improve these as soon as possible. The plan is to do this. Sorry this is incomplete!

Filming blog- Peer Review

Tuesday we finished our process and started peer review. Peer review is when our videos are swapped with another group in order to help them improve their film. However, this also gave our group an opportunity to compare and improve. Our film was completed lacking much. This was partially due to the short time provided. The sequencing and titles are there, but it’s missing some key elements such as scores. We intend to fix this immediately after the peer review, which is tomorrow. We will work with our group collectively to add and subtract any elements needed to enhance the film. It will run smoother because Lauren will hear, particularly because she has total access to the computer and iMovie. This is imperative as we always use iMovie instead of the school recommended.

The group we were peer regrouping was group 3. This group consisted of Stephanie and Kaitlyn.they made a film entitled, “the red dot”. In the film, a girl struggles to escape with her friend. The reason was not apparent to me, but I know pertained to the red dot she had on her hand. There were a few issues with the sequence. For starters, the titles were not in the right order, as we were given a specific sequence to list the title. Additionally, the sound isn’t as great as it could be. For me, it didn’t feel realistic due to the lack of diegetic sound. I recommended that it be re-included. I also recommended that they add a ring light to improve  lighting quality. Other than that and a few missing angles, the film was very well executed. Shots and editing was very easily identified. The angles were clear and cleverly executed. We will use these in order to improve our own film before the submission of our film deadline.