Editing Blog 1

          On Friday, we checked out a camera and were ready to start filming. However, our schedules unfortunately did not line up. On Sunday Jorge had work so we weren't able to film. And on Saturday Jack had work so we weren't able to film. We also didn't film Friday and Monday for various occurring reasons. Even though the weekend was starting to look completely unproductive, we decided to get some work done that did not require all three of us to be together at the same time. We decided that Jorge would film some of the establishing shots for the video. Then after filming some of the establishing shots, he came to my house and dumped all of the footage onto a folder called Video Clips on my Mac Book. This was a process as there was so much footage and we didn't know how to transport it all. My computer only has USB-C ports and the SunDisc card reader needed a normal USB port. Our only option was to find a USB-C to USB adaptor. I went upstairs and went through some drawers by my dad's desk. I found the USB adaptor I was looking for. Now we were able to plug in the reader and dump the footage onto my computer. I'm probably going to be doing the majority of the editing during this project. The reason why we are dumping the footage onto my Mac is because we will be doing the editing on FinalCutProX which I have.  I have a few ideas as to what I want to do for the editing of this video. First, I am going to make the titles come onto the screen with a cool animation. I will also put a LUT over the entire video for color correction and to make the video have a more professional feel overall.

Struggling to Film

          We were assigned filming last week but since we have not been able to film. We were going to meet up last weekend to film. Jack was going to pick us up and drive Jorge and I to his house where we were going to film. Jack has even confirmed that it was alright to use his house to film with his parents. We had planned to film on Sunday, which happened to be a holiday. However, we could not film at the park we were originally going to because of a sewage spill that took place near by. We decided only to film the beginning of the movie that took place in Jack’s house and the street. Unfortunately, soon later there were too many people in Jack’s house to film. The noises from people was messing up everyone’s work ethic and focus. Plus, there was too much external noise to film at this point. This meant we would have to try to film at my house. This, unfortunately, failed as my sister was studying and didn’t want us making any noise. Overall, Sunday we didn’t get anything done. Monday, we couldn’t film because Jack was getting his wisdom teeth taken out. This meant that we did not have a ride in order to film. We thought that if we could get rides to Jack’s house we could all film. This, however, failed as Jack was in too much discomfort and pain in order to film. We figured the least we could do is walk through the plan. We did this and decided to switch a few minor points in order to improve the movie. Overall, we did not end up filming or getting much done. However it was good meeting as we were able to refine our plan. This may have not been ideal, but we still have a decent amount if time in order to film, edit, and make a great movie.

Planning: Storyboarding

Attached is our scene ideas for the movie. We had a debate on how we wanted to do things because we all saw different visions. These were solved quickly as we were able to settle our differences. We did this my dividing up who got what slides. This allowed us to divide them based on who wanted what. This meant we could have different visions and for them still to work. I think this will really help in the long run as we now are not disagreeing on what we want. The hardest thing was probably having to cut things out that were not important enough. We only had so many slots for scenes, and this meant much of our ideas wouldn't make it. We ended up voting many off and decided we liked what we had, and if we end up changing things this is ok too as we have planned many backup plans in case of failure.

Planning: Title Design

          Attached is our plan of our title design. We wanted to keep is simple, yet still useful. We wanted to not do too much as this would take the attention off the actual film. We are going to use only one font, spectral. Our hope for only using one is to keep it simple so not too much is going on. This will also allow the viewer to take in the blogs while still watching the movie. We also plan on keeping the movie simple by fading in and out the titles. All of this will allow for a simple title display that will show all the information. We also only plan on using contrasting colors like a black back round and white letters. This is easy and good because it allows simplicity which is not a bad thing in films.

Planning: Location, Health & Safety, Participants, Schedule

    For the planning blog, we were assigned to plan out the specifications of our filming process. In this blog it talks about our filming locations and the participants. Along with the participants and the locations, we also had to plan out what out health and safety resources will be. With this being planned, we also had to plan out what our filming process will look like until the date we will turn in the final product. To compose the schedule we began by listing the pre-production dates and task. The pre production consisted of planning, storyboarding, and finalizing ideas. After this we listed the production dates and task. During the production we will be primarily filming.To end off, we listed how we will finalize our film. The post production consisted of the editing that all go into finalizing the film. 

Planning: Title Design

          Attached is our plan of our title design. We wanted to keep is simple, yet still useful. We wanted to not do too much as this would take the attention off the actual film. We are going to use only one font, spectral. Our hope for only using one is to keep it simple so not too much is going on. This will also allow the viewer to take in the blogs while still watching the movie. We also plan on keeping the movie simple by fading in and out the titles. All of this will allow for a simple title display that will show all the information. We also only plan on using contrasting colors like a black back round and white letters. This is easy and good because it allows simplicity which is not a bad thing in films.

Planning: Sound Script

Attached is our presentation on the sounds going on in the movie clip. We felt presenting it scene by scene would be best, as it very logically shows the progression of our sounds. We wanted to start off not diving into action, so we have little to no sound. As we progress in the presentation you will see there is more and more dialogue and diegetic sound. We thought this would be best as we want to build suspense. Another reason this presentation is important is because of the fact that it will be used as a check list for us. We can compare it to the scenes we have and make sure we hit everything we want. We did not include it in the slideshow, but we have multiple plan-b's if one of these sounds doesn't work out and we cannot create it correctly. The biggest thing in the presentation we liked to see is the continuation of the music. This will allow for a clean flowing 2 minutes as making it choppy with too much sound and music may not be best for the movie as a whole.

Planning: Shooting Script

     Attached is our planned out shooting script. We wanted to incorporate a chase scene as it was something we all grew up watching. We went from scene to scene and tried to portray each of the major plot points of the first two minutes. The hardest part of making this script is going to be keeping to it. During the writing, we had many disagreements of what we wanted, and had to cut out many good ideas. We knew we wanted to use many unique shots like trunk shots, but still wanted to keep the plot normal through use of things like wide shots. We really like how we have developed the movie so far, I just do not know if everything we have in mind like the crane shots will work. We also have a few extra backup plans if things fall through. However, I dont think we will need to go to these extremes as none of out locations are changing and we have minimalistic props. These such locations are houses, public parks, and docks, all of which are public access and never close.