Filming blog - Finishing up

 Happy new year! 2020 was a hard year. We as students had to adapt to a lot of new things this year. Not only the students but the teachers specially had a really hard task. Teachers had to create a whole new method of teaching and make it effective so students could learn. I’m so thankful for all my teachers for helping me through these difficult times. Today me and my partner got together to finish off the last details of our movie. We went over the movie a couple of times and got feedback from friends and family. After the feedback we made some small changes but nothing too significant. We also decided to film a couple of scenes differently just to see how they would look. We filmed the scenes and added them to the movie just to see what they looked like. We liked a couple of them but not enough to add them or substitute for one of the scenes we already have. I think it was a good idea to film those scenes. It’s always good to have something as backup. It is also good to be open for changes even when the product is almost done. We want to deliver the best movie we can and to try new things is part of that. I believe that what we currently have is the best we could have done. I’m really happy with what we accomplished. This year was tough but I believe what we’ve done is amazing given the conditions we had. Hopefully 2021 will be much better than 2020 and we can do even better things. 

More Research

 Our short film is partially done. The filming and editing are done and the movie looks great. All we need now is the green light from the studio that we want to use music from. I think we should be getting that answer shortly and we will be fine. I am very happy with the “final” product. Even though we are technically done there is still more research to be done. I want to make sure my short film is the best that it can be. Therefore I am doing some extra research to learn new things that can change my movie for the better. I want to learn new editing techniques. I feel like the editing is good as of right now. I believe that it is still not at its full potential yet. I also want to find some new other songs to have as backup in case the ones we are using don’t work. I don’t believe they will, but it is always best to be safe than sorry. I also want to research more about the theme we chose. I want to make sure our short film reaches all the characteristics a movie with the same theme does. Since our movie is a short film we have to get straight to the point in an effective way. I’m going to keep researching and trying to learn new things. Knowledge is never a bad thing. I hope to not have to make any changes in our project. If don’t that’s going to mean that we did an amazing job. 

Adding Music

 Today was a very special day. Today we finished the last step of editing our movie. After adding all the titles I added music to our short film. Music is a very important aspect of a film. Music is what dictates the emotions that want to be transmitted to the audience through a scene. I love music and for me a movie is not a movie without movie. Many movies in fact are well know specially for their good music during specific scenes. There are even awards that are given to the best movie playlists. I didn’t want to go wrong with the music in our video so I really did some research for it. I wanted to find the perfect song that fit with the scene it was being played on. It is not that simple though. Because it is a movie being made we need most of the time we will need permission from the singer or studio that made the specific song. Sometimes it is really hard to get a response from them. I’ve emailed a couple of artists that I want to use their songs and I’m waiting for them to reach back to me. Hopefully it will be a positive note and we’ll be able to use their songs. While I wait I am still going to add their songs to the movie. Since it is not yet finished and I am not posting it anywhere yet it is fine if I just have it there. While I wait I’m also going to look up other songs to have as back up if they don’t reach back or the response is negative. I don’t believe the response is going to be negative but it is better to be safe than sorry. As of right now the short film looks amazing and I can’t wait for what is next to come.

 

Adding Titles

 Today was a really good day. I started adding titles to my short film today. It was one of the last things we have to do for our movie. Adding titles is something that doesn’t take long. It is a very simple process that can be done in any editing browser. It can be an easy process but you have to pay a lot of attention when doing it. There is an specific order names have to follow. That order depends on the role that the person has in the movie. A director shouldn’t have his name next to an actor’s name. There are exceptions to that order of course. Sometimes the same person plays two different roles in the movie. Therefore the same name can show up twice or once in different places. Something that is also very important is spelling. We have to make sure that the names are spelled correctly because that can be offending. It is such a small detail but it can happen very easily. Something very important happened while I was adding the titles to the movie. After finishing adding all of them I noticed that they were quite hard to read. They were hard to read because the color from the background was too similar to the color of the titles. It was really easy to fix but it was a mistake that I was really glad I caught on. Having titles that the audience can’t read because of the color is something that simply cannot happen. I’m glad that it was fixed and we can move on the final phases of our movie. 

Re-edit Blog

 Today I re-edited some stuff that I didn’t like about our film. After finishing editing I noticed some mistakes I made. There weren’t many big mistakes but some that bothered me. I am a very perfectionist person. That can be sometimes good and sometimes bad. It’s great because most of the things I do come out nice and the way I want them to. Sometimes it’s bad because nothing is perfect and so I can get very frustrated. Today wasn’t the case though. Every mistake I saw was fixed and I was really happy with the end result. I didn’t take me really long to finish re-editing. I payed a lot of attention the first time I was editing so I didn’t make many mistakes. I’m really happy that we are almost done with the editing process. We just need to finish a couple more things. We will soon add the titles and music to our film and that’s it. I can’t believe we are so close to finishing this project. I was really happy to work with Xavi in one more project and nothing changed. We worked really well together and it is showing. I really hope we can work together in more projects to come. Now I’m focused on finishing everything and getting feedback. Feedback is really important and I want to get a lot of it. After that we will be ready to submit!

Editing blog

 Merry Christmas! Even though today is a holiday we still have work to do. Today I started on the editing process of our film. For me this is one of the most exciting parts. It is when you can tell how your movie will actually look like outside of the storyboard. We still have a couple of scenes to reshoot but we decided to start editing the material that we already have. It is important to get a head start because we don’t know if we are going to run into some problems while editing. It is good to be ahead of time because if anything happens we have time to fix it before the deadline. I really like to edit short videos and pictures. I came up with the conclusion that editing short videos and pictures is totally different then editing a short film. There is way more work to be put when editing a short film. There are a lot of small details that me and my partner need to pay attention to to make our movie great. I’ve been making a lot of research to gain knowledge on editing. I’ve learned a couple of things but I can definitely learn more. I’m also planning on downloading a new editing app on my computer. The currently app that I use is really slow and doesn’t offer many options when it comes to editing. My partner Xavi is a really good editor. He’s been teaching me a lot ever since we started working together. I believe we make a great team, and that our movie will be greatly filmed and edited. 

Re-shooting blog

 

Today me and my partner decided to re-film. After watching the raw product of our short film we decided that we didn’t like how some scenes turned out. A couple of scenes didn’t come out the way we expected so we decided to re-film and change them a bit. We wanted to re-film our scenes but since it was to close to Christmas and both me and my partner will be out of town we decided to postpone it to next week. I really wish we could’ve filmed this week. I hate the feeling that something isn’t right with what we did. I want to fix this issue as soon as possible and I will. Besides that I really liked how the other scenes looked. They turned out exactly how we planned and I’m really happy. I’m going to start editing them very soon. I’m not sure if I should start editing the scenes I like right now or wait until I finish reshooting the rest of my film. It’s nice to have everything done and prepared for the editing process. It is also nice to get a head start and to speed things up. Our movie is developing in a good pace so I don’t think I will rush things. The deadline is not too far but the last couple of steps shouldn’t take us long to complete. Overall I’m very happy with things are going. Me and my partner worked hard and it is paying off. I can’t wait to start editing and beginning to see what the movie will look like. I think our movie has a lot of potential and it will look awesome. I’ll keep you guys updated.

Social Media Blog

 Today we have checked and followed all of our classmates movie’s social media. We all created accounts on social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. We even created a YouTube channel for our short film. It was really nice to see all of the different types of movies and social medias our classmates had. After looking at some of their movies and reading a summary about them I can’t wait to see what the final product will look like. When me and my partner created our accounts we wanted to make sure they would drag a lot of attention. At first our accounts were very basic. Me and my partner decided to take pictures while filming to post on them to make our accounts more alive. After adding our pictures we received a lot of good feedback and I was really happy with the final product. We also decided to add the same pictures to our website. That was a great idea because our website looked so much better after. We thought that the website looked empty before with only our social media accounts and biography. That’s when we came out with the idea of adding pictures from our social media to our website. Hopefully when we finish up filming we’ll be able to take more pictures and post them. We are almost done filming and when we finish we will make sure to start the editing process. Editing takes long. Me and my partner gotta make sure that everything is well cut and scenes transition smoothly. We also came up with the idea of taking pictures of our group editing our short film. The pictures won’t be as exciting as our filming ones, but we believe it is important to show people all of the steps that happen before a movie is done. I’m very happy to finally be close to finishing filming. I can’t wait to start editing. For me editing is one of the most exciting parts because it is when you can really see what your movie might look like.