"Re-edit" Blog

Now that I've completed all of my re-filming for this movie, the next step is to piece it all together. Usually after we finish filming, its time to go back to school and edit what we have, but since the virus has spread more rapidly over the past days, we are forced to self quarantine ourselves for our safety. Since we are now forced to stay that means I can no longer finish editing my movie. Since I used pinnacle studios it limits what I can do at home to little to none. It would be more helpful if the software I use was on my own lab top at home. Luckily I didn't have to re-shoot the parts of the movie where we were at race trac or the parking garage. I only had to re-shoot the part of the movie where it was at my house. The social distancing luckily didn't effect my filming process as much as it would've. In the link below it's a link to an article that talks about how even major movies like Fast and Furious 9 has been pushed back due to this same issue. I can relate in so many ways, because of social distancing the editing process will get pushed back. Which will eventually push back the due date. In some ways I do feel bad for not being all the way done with the editing process. Even though I know its not my fault at all, I just wish I could've been more prepared for this delay. If we were able to attend school this week, I know I would've been able to complete this in full.
https://variety.com/2020/film/uncategorized/fast-and-furious-9-vin-diesel-coronavirus-1203531860/

Re-shooting another part of the movie

Today I reshot the part of the movie where the actor “Sara” is coming out of her house in a rush. This was the main part of my refilling process because when I initially shot this part when it was around 5:00 in the afternoon, which means I was losing light by the second. So you can imagine how dim it got after a few minutes of filming. That’s the obvious reason on why I wanted to refill that portion of the movie. This morning I got up ready to film this part so that I can move on to the next step of this film making process. It didn’t take us that long because I knew exactly how I wanted to do it. I knew the exact shots I wanted and the angle I wanted it in. I gave a measure of how much time I needed to film today and it worked. I gave myself no more than 10-12 minutes of filming time. The filming time gave me a great motivator to finish today. You might think “oh you probably just rushed it”, but I didn’t, everything just went so smooth. I’m actually really excited to add these things to my movie. I feel it will make the movie 10x better than it already is. I think these will also help with shortening the movie. In my last blog I was explaining how the movie was well over 2 minutes, which is not good. These shots that I took today were more start to the point shots and not much of the extra shots.

Re-filming the very beginning

Today I re-shot the beginning of the movie. Initially I wasn’t going to but I thought about my vision for the movie and it didn’t fulfill it like I wanted to. The beginning was of “Sara” waking up in a panic as she realizes she’s late for work. I feel like doing it over would be better for the movie all together. Another reason I filmed this part over is because I wanted to use the phone instead of the alarm clock. Honestly the alarm clock looked tacky in the room setting. To me, I could tell it looked like it wasn’t in the right place. It was just ugly and outdated looking. Now I’m going to use a regular phone to relate more to the audience. Now I’m day everybody use their phone for an alarm. It would look neater and more normal to the film. Even though it might be harder to the adjust the clock for the film it still would be easier to understand the film. Another important reason I’m doing this part over is because after my peer review they suggested that I add more dialogue to the film. I’m going to  make the actor hint more clues to the main idea of the film. This picture shows how I got the shot for the beginning. It’s a high angle to show what the ceiling sees as she sleeps. I couldn’t stand over her because she had to throw the blanket to get out of the bed.

More Editing

Today was a great day in class today because I finished. Yes, I finished my film with the existing shots that I had. I probably shouldn't be this happy because I'm still not all the way done, but just knowing that I completed something I'm happy. I guess my filming process was pretty organized because I got all the footage I needed for this film. It was kind of rocky sometimes because I filmed most of the shots on different days, which means they were on different folders. So, I had to keep importing the footage that I needed and it took up lots of the editing time. Even though I know my film isn't at its fullest potential, I am still proud of it. The software was also really hard to work with because in order to insert a take into the track it has to load so that it won't stutter while your watching it. Whenever it would load I would just blog in the mean time. It was lots of loading. But I still managed to finish, which you all know I'm proud of. 

Editing a lot More of the Movie

So today was another editing day for me. Today I can honestly say I got a lot of work done. Today I added one of the most important parts of the film. I edited the gas station scene where the three main character was getting gas and started to get followed by Darkmin. Today was also the day after the peer review day and you would think that I will be talking about I should do to fix it. But today was actually a progression day. I got to further get into the completion of the movie. I’m getting really excited to actually finish. Now that I’m realizing I have to do some reboots and also re-edits because I realize that my film could be a bit better. I’m excited to perfect this film to the best of my ability because I really want to get a good grade. It’s getting closer and closer to the due date I’m getting more and more nervous that I might not be all the way down. All in all today was still a good editing day because I got really close to being done. Hopefully next class I get the chance to finish before I do re-shoots and re-edits. As I previously mentioned, I can’t wait to be done with this project because I really want to see the outcome and be proud of it.

Editing some more

The next day of editing I came in to class wanting to start editing eagerly because I know last class I didn't get to finish as much as I wanted to. So I got my lucky computer and I open the program and all of my editing was gone. It really wasn't gone I just didn't get to the save it right. I had to start all the way over, but I was kind of happy that I got to restart. I did add titles to the beginning part, which is probably the only part that went right. But I ran out of time because the editing software took a long time to load in to the track. So I cut off my film to what I have edited. The film ended up being only like 20 seconds, which was just the stuff I actually edited. I don't think the group is going to like what I have so far. If I was the reviewer I wouldn't know what my film was talking about either. I wouldn't care either because I know I'm not done and the other group grading it doesn't know my plan for the film. When I finish editing I think I'm going to be some what proud of my film because for starters it's done and I won't have to think about it again. I just really wish my vision would come to life in the movie so that other people can see it as well

Starting the Editing Process

Today was the start of the editing process. I would've started a couple days ago but my computer wasn't working. I got to class a little late, which meant all the good computers were gone. When I got the bad computer I thought it would work, so I dumped all my footage on a folder. Little did I know the program didn't even open. I was so upset, but I continued and found another computer, and it still didn't work. So back to today, I re-dumped all my footage on another computer so I can start editing. When I got to all my footage in a folder, I forgot how to do the whole process again. So the program finally opened up and finally found out how to import. I only got through to the title pages and a little bit of the beginning. I tried to do some transitions but I couldn't find the good ones. When I put them in, they weren't as smooth as I wanted them to be. Today I didn't get as much done was because our teachers were having discussions and it took some time from the editing process. I wish I would've had more time because now I worry that I'm not going to finish by Friday. I might have to just put it all together for the peer review and finish it in my re-edit process.

The Peer Review Blog

Today we did our peer review where each group gives their movie to the other group and they critic it. This exercise helps the each group member get constructive criticism by someone in their age group. I graded another persons project who is also working by them self. His movie started off with him talking to the camera for about 15-20. I didn’t know what he was talking about because his movie had no audio whatsoever. His movie was different, it had no other characters or a “what happened next” at the end of the movie. The thing I like about his movie was the location and how it set the mood of the movie. The location was in the mountains on a snowboard resort, it was beautiful. But his movie didn’t have none of the correct shots or angles. But I didn’t like that it had no audio because it took the whole purpose of the movie. I also didn’t like how at the end there were 30 seconds of him just snowboarding. I wish I could understand why because it was confusing me.