In class today my group and I continued editing. Today was our last in class session of editing, and we will be screening our film next class. My group and I are mostly done with editing our film, we had to do a lot to get it down to 7 minutes, but now all we have to do is add the credits! We cut out large parts of the songs, but I think that helped to improve our film and keep it going at a faster pace. I am nervous, but excited, to screen it on Thursday. My group and I have all put in a lot of effort and work to make this film a reality, it has definitely been a journey. I also can't wait to see what the other groups have produced. Overall, I am happy with our film and can't wait to share it.
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Today in class my group and I continued editing. Today we applied a filter, finished fine editing and started to add the music. We got Ms. Ward to take a look at our film and give us advice which was very helpful! She told us that we needed to keep the tempo of our film going, since the start of it is very upbeat, but then as is continues it starts to become slower and slower. To make it faster we will need to cut some of the scenes to be shorter. Furthermore, we are cutting some of the songs to be shorter since they are currently extremely long and can get boring. We are going to cut to only the parts we need. We still need to adjust the filter and bit and add some sound effects and special effects. We have a lot of work to do and not a lot of time, so many lunch sessions and after school sessions I suspect will be needed. I am excited to see it come together more and more everyday!
In class today my group and I continued editing our film. For the remainder of our lessons until our film is due we will be editing our film. We are mostly done with the filming, we only need one more scene which we are filming tomorrow. However, we have a lot of editing to do. Since we can only edit when we are at school we are using our lunches and class times to finish the editing. One problem we have run into is that our film is extremely long. The maximum is 7 minutes, and we are 3/4 through editing and we have 8 minutes. We will have to make a few cuts to make the 7 minute mark, however our main goal right now is to finish fine editing everything. We are then going to work on audio, then sound effects and finally special effects. We definitely are not near finishing, but I am glad filming is mostly done. This film has been incredibly hard to make, so seeing it come together in editing is very rewarding. It has made the long days of filming worth it. I can't wait until we can watch the final product back. This project is much more challenging than the western, since we had multiple filming locations and have special effects. Although, I think that this film is more interesting because of those extra factors. One large thing we still have to do is add in the audio, since this is a musical. Sometimes I think my group and I forget we are making a musical since our film is so different. This film is requiring a lot of hard work, but I believe it will all be worth it in the end. Below you will find some photos of us editing!
Note: Reflections these days may seem very repetitive since every class we are editing! Today in class my group and I continued editing our footage. We added in our new footage from the weekend and last class as well. We are done with most of our filming, however the cafeteria is now out of use. This is a problem since we were not done filming there. However, we have an idea to make an easy transition to a new location using a close up so the location is not noticeably different. This way we can still use our footage from the cafeteria. I am sad that we can't film in the cafeteria anymore, however there's nothing we can do it about it now so we just have to keep going and get everything done by the due date. Seeing everything come together is very exciting, however I am aware we still a lot of work to do. We have a couple scenes to do and a lot of editing. We have started fine editing, but we still have to do all the special effects which is going to take a long time. Through hard work I think we will be able to finish on time with a product we are happy with. Furthermore, so far our film is very long. Although we haven't cut down most of the shots we have 21 minutes. The film is supposed to be 7 minutes long so we will have to cut down a lot. Below is a picture of us editing today!
Today in class we continued filming for our film. We filmed in the cafeteria. We were able to finish around half of the scenes, however we are concerned because they are starting renovation on the cafeteria soon but we don't know when. This means that we may not finish all our cafeteria scenes in time, which would largely affect our film. We will have to work as much as possible in the next few weeks to finish everything, or else we will have to re film in a new location. Other than that, today was very succesful. This props look very good and realistic and I am very happy with most of the shots we got. Below are some photos from today! Today in class we started rough editing our film. We are not done filming everything, but by doing this we now know certain clips we want to re film when we film at our location this Saturday. We have played around with a few editing and special effect components, but mainly focused on rough edits. The main problem we found with our film is audio. Because of the wind on the roof and the sometimes loud school environment our films audio wasn't very consistent. This caused for some scenes to have good audio, and some to be just the sound of the wind. We are going to have to record voice overs and re film some scenes because of this. However besides that I am quite happy with our footage. Furthermore, I went to the music room and recorded my parts of the songs needed. This was succesful, however there were no microphones available, so I had to use a camera microphone to record. Overall today was very productive, and my group and I are continuing filming next lesson!
Today in class we did not film because one of our group members, who is a major character, was sick. So instead, we finished writing our artistic statements and looked at the footage we have taken. Overall, we have some good footage, but defiantly need to re film some clips and film some clips we haven’t done yet. We also have started playing around with special effects. They look really good and are very exciting, but we must make sure not to add too many since it can overwhelm the film if we add too much. Furthermore we are continuing to scout out for new locations to film at since the cafeteria is no longer available. We will need to film again on the roof after Easter break to film so clips that we missed. We are lucky we started filming early so now we still have time to continue filming. Overall, today was a good lesson to reflect on what we still need to do and what we have done.
In class today my group and I spent most of the time working on our storyboards. We wanted to finish all of the storyboards so that we don't have to worry about drawing them next week when it's due, so now we can start filming quickly! In fact, we are filming this Sunday. We plan to film the electrical plant scenes at my house. We have extras to be bodyguards. I am very excited to start bringing this film to life! Furthermore, towards the end of class and into lunch we worked on our detective board. We added the polaroids and some more newspaper clips. I think that the polaroid really add to the board, and make it very realistic. They are definently the final touch. This board will add to the Mise En Scene of our film, so will the fake documents and the computer app we are using to look as if we are hacking into a system. All of these props and very exciting, I can't wait to use them while making our film!
Today in class we worked on our detective board! This is a prop that I am very excited to use in our film. To really create the affect that the resistance is a real investigation, by creating the detective board and fake documents it can add to the look. Using red string, a map, newspaper and pictures we are going to try and create it as well as we can. We are currently halfway done with it, adding the pictures of people next class. Furthermore, we are finishing our production plan and storyboard. We are balancing the work well, planning to be done with the production plan by the weekend we are starting filming. Below are pictures of our detective board.
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