Reedit Blog: Fixing Mistakes

Maya and I filmed again. We had to edit again next. We used iMovie. All of our stuff was already on there. We went to the section where I shouted. We removed the audio. Then, we replaced it with the new one. To do this, we had to place the video next to it. Then, we removed the video. After this, we dragged the audio underneath the new one. Therefore, we had the new audio with the old video. Next, we needed to add in the new footage of Maya. The footage is of her at the same level as I was. We filmed this again so that we could be at the same level when it dissolves. Thankfully we leveled it perfectly the second time around. Due to this, we removed the previous footage. Then, we proceeded to import the new footage. Then we put it where the previous footage was. We had to turn off the sound as that is what we did last time. Maya and I are happy with the outcome of our final product.

Reshoot Blog: Content with our film

When Maya and I filmed for the first time, we thought it looked great. The visuals were great. However, the audio wasn't. When I shouted in one film, it did not sound how we thought it would. Hence, we decided to do a voice-over. I shouted what I needed to as a video. I did not do it too close to the mic, as that was the problem last time. Along with this, we had another issue. When we added the dissolve transition, we wanted the characters to be in the same place. Yet, Maya was a bit taller than me. So the proportions were off. We filmed her again, but she was crouched down a little. Thankfully, the shot cut off at her chest. This was good for us because it did not show her knees. There was not much we had to re film. We were thankful for this because it meant we had to re edit less. Maya and I were glad we filmed using the storyboard. We were also glad we planned the transitions. We were glad because we could see what we messed up on. We hope our re edits come out as good as we plan.

Editing Blog: Free Music

Maya and I needed music for our film. But, we did not want to get music that had copyright. We did not want to do this because we felt like it would take too much time. We did not want to go through the process. Hence, we were on the hunt for free music. We went on an MP3 website that allowed downloads. We did not want an MP4. We didn't want an MP4 because it would show the video. This would create more complications. It wouldn't be that hard; we would just have to delete the video portion and leave in the audio. Yet, this would still take more time, and we were on a time crunch. So, we explored the MP3 website. We looked in the relaxing section. We found some upbeat songs that we liked. We used one for the beginning of our film. Yet, we still needed a shocking type of sound. One that gives you chills just by the beat. So, we continued our exploration. We finally found one after a long time, and inserted it in the background. It was a light beat, just so we could still hear the dialogue. Maya and I were content with the music chosen.

Editing Blog: Switching to iMovie

Maya and I were trying our best to complete the editing process. We did not want it to carry out for too long. It had already been a couple days of editing. Also, we were behind. We were behind because of the previous issue of Pinnacle Studios crashing on us. Thankfully we had iMovie to fall onto. iMovie has proven to be sufficient. However, we would prefer Pinnacle Studios. The laptops were quite slow though. Yet, it would still get the job done. We were just upset how it failed us at the last second. We were practically done. All we needed were our titles and the music. The music was downloaded. The titles were written on a piece of paper infront of us. It was just a matter of inserting it. We had already put down one title, which was the K&M "Studios Presents". Then, we decided to insert music then continue inserting titles. Even though Pinnacle Studios crashed when we were almost done, we were glad that we tried to put the music first so we conserved some time. Maya and I decided we would not let this setback affect us harshly.

Editing Blog: Starting over

Maya and I did a lot. We are almost done editing. There is only a bit we have left. We have added in some clips. Then we trim it. From here, we add in transitions. We had the transitions on the storyboard. We used some of the transitions. For the others, we just added in what felt right. As we progressed, we constantly re-watched our film. We did this to make sure it was flowing. As we hoped, it was going pretty well. We were doing great as for the time. We finally narrowed our time down to one minute and 56 seconds. We were content. Then, sadly, as we were putting in the music the whole video crashed. Hence, we had to delete the whole film. Unfortunately, there was not enough time for us to restart, so we had to do everything over the weekend on iMovie. Thankfully, the little amount of our film came out amazing. All in all, even though we had setbacks, we believe our opening sequence will be great.

Peer - Edits: Success!

Today I worked on my peer edit review. My partner was Maya. I got a group of four people. Their project was filmed pretty good. However, they were missing many aspects. For one, Maya and I could not figure out the story-line. We watched it about 3 times. Yet, we still could not figure it out. So, we interpreted it. There was no voice-overs. In fact, there was no non diegetic sound. Along with this, there was interruptions in the background. Due to this, they have to either take out the audio or re - film. Another huge error they had was that there were no titles. The titles were major points towards the film. If there are no titles, you will not know who the director, producer, and production company and many other elements were. Lastly, they also exceeded the time limit. Their film was 2 minutes and 16 seconds. The time frame was supposed to be from 1 minute and 50 seconds to 2 minutes maximum. Maya and I enjoyed comparing our film to others to see areas we needed to improve in.

Editing Blog: Partially Done

Maya and I have been working our best to edit our film. It's been quite hectic. We first turned on our laptop. It took quite a long time. The laptops are very slow. It took about 10 minutes, which left us with only around 70 minutes of class time to edit. We then put all of the pictures from my jump drive onto the laptop. We did this so we always have them stored. We then opened Pinnacle Studios. We proceeded and imported all of our videos onto there. We only had the first half of all of our films. This took about another 10 minutes. We used the rest of the class to edit. We inserted take by take. We sorted out which clips we liked better than others. We even removed one scene because it did not match up with our others. While we were doing this, we also added transitions. We decided not to worry about titles until the end. We had only gotten one - third of our opening sequence done this class. We were very proud of our progress.