Editing Blog: editing on Christmas eve (organizing, and transgering)

 Hi blog. Yesterday, me and my partner did some editing on Christmas eve. We didn't have that much time to edit on Christmas eve, but we got some work in. The first thing that we did was working on organizing our Film. When we filmed we did many retakes, and I mean many. We had done our filming in the highest quality of resolution, and which that it took up a lot of storage. We also took a lot of retakes As well. This lead to our film taking up my groupmates storage completely. With that, we had to convert the film to a lower quality so it didn't take a long time to transfer using an app on our phone. With the lower quality we could now transfer the film. We used google drive to transfer our film between the phone and our computers. However, we had to organize it first. This took us a while to do. We had a bunch of retakes that were equally good, but we both kept arguing about. We argued on and on, but we had to soon compromise because we were waiting time. After that we found the best shots for the film. With those shots, we Transferred film, but it took a while. Even though we changed the quality of the film to be a smaller storage, it still took some time. By the time we had it all transferred on to each of our computers, it was time for Christmas eve stuff. Even though we didn't do the largest amount of work, We still did progress for our project. 

-Here's a screenshot of our film in google drive on my groupmates phone 

Editing Blog: solving problems

Hi blog. Today me and my partner picked up our progress, first time this winter break. We had some problems to solve though. Since its winter break, and Christmas is around the corner, Both of our families are quarantining for this break because there has been a large break out here in our country's. This had lead to our plans of editing to be squashed. We were planning for my groupmate just to come over to my house and we would just edit on my computer together. very short and simple. So, with this problem of us not being to edit together, we found our solution. We found a communication software that we could download on each of our computers named "Discord". With this software me and my groupmate are able to talk and communicate on our computers while we both edit. This allowed us to both edit, better than just having one of us edit at my house. That isn't even the best part too. On the software we can share our screens so we can visible help each other edit our film. Its really helpful, Its just like if we are sitting right next to each other at school a year ago. With this we started to begin to edit. The editing software that we use is "HitFilm". Me and my groupmate both already had this software downloaded on each of our computers from when we both used to make YouTube videos in elementary and early middle school. However, I'm not that proficient in HitFilm, but my partner is still. He had to reteach me a couple of things, but I am remembering things from middle school. All in all, today we solved our major problem with tools of our own. \

-This is a picture of us editing together on discord.

Filming blog: Day 3

 This weekend, me and my groupmate finished filming in 2 days. This blog is about the 2nd day we filmed this weekend, which is the 3rd day we filmed in total. With having Friday being all rainy, Sunday was our day to film outside. We were very lucky with it being fully sunshine, and no clouds. First we did that day was do the missing shots we had to do. We first had to do a bunch of dialogue that we some how forgot to do. We had to retake many times because we kept laughing in the filming. In total that was around 3 or 4 shots we had to do. We also had to redo the filming of the opening of the box scene. We had to redo it because it turned out it had really bad background noise. After filming inside, it was time for the outside. The first shot we did was the riding the bike outside the house scene. That was easy enough, but my huge tortoise kept getting in the way so we had to wait for it to move. We ended up keeping the shot of where its in the filming because we thought it was pretty cool. The next scene we did was the tree scene. This one was easy, and i decided to do a low/medium angle shot too, to add some flavor to the filming.  The next shot was the last major shot, the lake scenes. Like the other shots it was fairly easy, but people kept walking by so we had to momentarily pause from filming. With that we were done with filming! Now its time for us to start editing our film.

Filming blog: Day 2

This weekend me and my partner finished filming. We took 2 days this weekend to film because we had some mishaps on the first day. On Friday my partner came to my house to film, but there was a problem. When got at my house it was raining very bad so we try to wait. We waited for a while and nothing changed. It kept poring and poring and there was no end in sight. We decided since that we were stuck inside that we would work on planning out the next time we were going to film. After arguing over and over, we figured out what day we would film. We decided Sunday would be the best choice, and i would just have to move the plans i had that day to Saturday. After that scuffle, we moved on the the other task. Me and my partner did the 2 shots we forgot to do inside the house last Saturday that we were supposed to do. We first did the walking down stairs and the walking down the hallway shot. That was easy enough to do, but we just had to match the lighting. The next shot we did was the opening box scene which we forgot to do. That was very simple, and what wrapped up our filming for Friday. Since we had time left before my groupmate would get picked up, We planed out the next time we would film. The first thing we did was circle the shots that we needed to do outside on our screen play, and we started the dialogue too. When we did that however, we found out we had to do like 2 more shots inside that we forgot to do. By that time though Elijah my groupmate had to leave, so we couldn't film. even though that day we couldn't film outside, we were productive and used our time manageably.

     

Filming blog: Day 1

Hi blog. This weekend, me and my partner started filming. We had prepared the props days before too. We filmed at my house this weekend. So my partner had to ride his bike over to my house, and leave before sundown, so we had around 3 hours to film. With that in mind, we decided to film in 2 different days. We decided this because we could barely fit the whole filming in 3 hours, but basically all the scenes would be rushed and that's not how we want our film to go. We decided to film for the second time on probably this upcoming Friday, the 11th, or the weekend after it. We picked those days because we have midterms this next week, and we need to get this filming done with this weekend. To get back on track, Filming wasn't that hard. We decided to first film in chronological order. The first couple of scenes were fairly easy to film. We then decided to make a game plan because after those scenes we realized that we needed to split the filming into 2 days. We decided that this weekend we would do all the shots that are with my dad, and inside/around my house this weekend. The next weekend would be all of the neighborhood scenes. So when we filmed this weekend, we basically got 2/3rds of the movie done. The only hard part that we had with filming, was with my dad. We just had to wait for him to stop doing yard work to film with him. Other than that it was a breeze. Me and my group mate might even get the foundation of our editing done too this week with the film we have so far. 

Preperation

This thanksgiving break, me and my group mate started on the preparations for filming. This upcoming weekend me and my group mate are going to film. We are probably going to film on saturday, the 5th of december. But in the mean time my partner and I did our preparations. The first thing i did was the props. I first got an old book. then i found some aged paper, and some sticky notes. I also got the rest of the miscellaneous stuff to put in the box. The next thing I had to do was find the actual box i needed to put those objects. After searching around for a little around my house i came down to 2 options. There's this really old box in my garage that i can use but it is on the verge of breaking. If i put anything in it it will break. My other box is this shoe box, which is styled vintage because the shoe was too, so it can kind of fit the part of being a old box. I could, and probably am going to ruff it up and put some wear and tear on it. So i'm probably picking the second option. The next prop is going to be the shoes, and they are right in my moms closet. The last prop i had to check was my bike. It is in perfect condition so im fine. The next thing i had to do was to make sure all of the locations were fine to film. I went on my bike and went to all the locations that are in my neighborhood. Nothing changed and there was no contractions so that was good as well. After all of that, all of the conditions were met, and were ready to film next weekend.

The box we are going to use looks like this:

The Making of Our Website

This thanksgiving weekend, me and my partner worked on our Website. Before this, we finished All four of the social media accounts. To start on the website we created A new gmail account for the account. the account was for Wix. With wix we were able to create our website with ease. We first picked out a template for out website. We picked out a moder dark theme, so the detail would be very outlandish and outstanding, so the main point of the website will just be our writing and pictures. We then added the first part of our website the title. Then we added The Title, very easy. The next thing we did was the synopsis. From like a month ago, we made the Synopsis of our film. So we just added it by just a simple copy and paste. The next thing we did was Creating an area for reviews. The next thing we did was plugging in our Social media accounts. We put icons for Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Then we added some credit pictures. So far we have me, my group mate, and my dad credited, however that can change. We also added pictures for the credits, but we are going to replace those because there from our last year's yearbook photos. Next thing we did was putting in a stand in for where to watch our movie because we haven't decided it. This website is mostly done, but i think me and my groupmate and tinker on it a little bit more, to make it the best it can be.