Didn’t have the chance to edit

Today, none of my group members came to class on time. Since we’re editing only on one computer under Kaliyah’s login, I wasn’t able to edit right away. In the meantime while I waited for Kaliyah to show up, I imported the videos to my computer. I watched all of our footage looking for mistakes. I deleted the ones that weren’t good. The ones that we redid and was good, I saved them to a folder. I imported the footages that we needed into Pinnacle Studios, the editing software. I then started to clip them in order of our movie. I didn’t plan on saving it. I wanted to see how it would look and notify my group if any clips were missing and how we could fix anything before reshooting.

Kaliyah shows up the last 20 minutes of class so I knew I wouldn’t have time to edit on her computer. I grabbed her computer and signed in with her login so I could begin editing. The computer had to update so 10 minutes was lost from the computer starting up. In the last 10 minutes of class I selected the raw footages that were good and imported them to Pinnacle Studios. I didn’t want to forget which ones I selected so I decided to export the movie. In a rush to pack up, I accidentally closed the laptop before it had the chance to successfully export. I’m not worried about it because all I did was import clips. Next class I’m definitely going to try to edit. I must finish before next week so I am able to get criticism from my peers. I plan to clip all the footages together without any transitions.

Filming in the car on our way to the diner

My group and I decided to film this scene on our phones since it was easier to place on the dashboard than the camera. Because Kaliyah was driving, I placed the phone on the dashboard and pressed record. With all the turns and acceleration of the car, the phone kept dropping. I had to keep picking up the phone and placing it on the dashboard. I recorded the scene of us girls in the car at least 5 times because we had to keep starting over. I didn’t want the video to be shaky so I waited until we stopped at a red light to shoot the following scene. In this scene I called Shania from Kaliyah’s phone. The call was very awkward so we decided to do another take. I stopped recording and I discussed with the group how the call should go. I started recording again and called Shania. After she hanged up I stopped recording.

In the next scene, Shania gets in the car and I started recording. I filmed us greeting each other and talking a little bit. I plugged in her phone and started playing some music for our background. Then, I filmed us singing and dancing along to the song. Once again, the phone kept falling from the dashboard. We were making sharp turns so it was hard for me to get a perfect footage. I continuously picked the phone back up and filmed. I thinking having a car mount would’ve helped me shoot this scene better. Also, I filmed us all arriving at the diner. When we got out the car, I told Chad to film us from the back walking towards the diner.

Filming at the diner

Last Monday me and my group filmed at our local diner. Since it was President’s Day, there was no school for us students. I spent that whole morning going over my script. I never acted before so I was pretty nervous. I mostly acted and other times I pitched in ideas to help our scenes look good. For example, I told Chad to film me and the girls from outside the diner. That wasn’t originally in our plan but I thought it would look really cool. I think I played my part very well. I said my lines correctly and I, sometimes, went with the flow to make the acting seem more natural. Also, I filmed some shots of us in the car.

I waited almost half an hour for my food to arrive. We couldn’t start filming again without my food so the filming process took longer than expected. After shooting inside the diner, we started filming outside for our final task. It got so dark the lighting was bad so I directed Chad to where he could find the best lighting for our scene. Also, I turned on my flashlight to brighten up the inside of the car. I got in the car and pretend to start the car. That scene was the hardest for me because it was difficult trying to make it look realistic without actually turning on the car. I popped open the hood for Shania so that I could quickly transition to the next shot. I then opened the trunk for Kaliyah for our final scene.

Storyboard "SNATCHED"

Below are images of our story board. The story board contains the images of the scenes that we are going to do and shows what will be going on in the scene. This will help us tremendously. It will help us because it will be an easy tool to use when doing the film. We only will have to follow the story board directly as it is, which will help with the filming process. It will help in the filming process because we can just look at the story board to know what scenes that we are doing and to see if we forgot anything. This makes the story board a significant tool that aids us in making the film perfect. Also this makes us have more fun with the film because we know what we are filming and we would not stress on what we should do for the film. This helps us be able to make our film the exact way that we planned it. The story board is the most significant part of our planning process and it will help us make our film more perfect.

Planning our Title design

This power-point will help us remember the design more easily. We put the design in a power-point format in order to obtain the information better and to make it organized. The reason we did this is so that we can keep looking back at the text in order to either remember how we are styling our title or to make sure that we styled it in the correct way. In order for that to be the case we put all the information on how we are doing the titles and the different aspects of the title as well.

Planning LSHP

This week, we decided to organize our location, participants, health and schedule. We created this by using google slides. Planning ahead is very beneficial to our group. We can always refer back to the google slides if we ever forget about the original plan we had before. Come filming day, we hope that things can run smoothly. For starters, we decided to set our location. It was easy for us to decide on how to start a film. We each came up with great ideas to start the beginning of the film in the garage. We also, researched diners to film at for the film. As the planning continues, we cannot wait to start our project.

Sound Script

This week, we created our dialogue/sound script for our film. We used google slides in order to create the script. In the script, you will see that each slide is titled with the scene number. The information on each slide describes what is being said during the scene and the sounds that are going on. For example, we included the dialogue between the actors in the scene along with the background noises. We created the script carefully so that it can be accurate for when it's time for us to film. Creating the script will be beneficial on filming day! We will already have the plan on what the actors need to say and what sounds are going to be made. Now that we have a plan on the audio being used for the film, it makes us more excited to start the project! Hopefully, we can film less than two weeks from now.

Shooting Script

For the script, we created a power-point that entails all of the scenes without the words. It shows what is going to happen in every scene and also the camera movements and angles. This power-point will be almost exactly what we are doing for the actual film. We plan to follow the script we created 100%, but we have also planned for any deterrent that may interfere with what we planned. The power-point of the script also shows the editing techniques that we plan to use for the actual film. This script is the tool that we need to help make our film a success. It will help us make our storyboard and also help us come up with ideas for the dialogue that will be in the scenes. Not only will it help us with the dialogue, but it will help us further illustrate our scenes on paper for the storyboard that we are going to do. With this power-point at our disposal, it will make planning and filming the rest of this film uncomplicated and less stressful to do. With this being the case I believe that it will make the film making process more fun and exciting instead of just something that we have to do.