"Editing" Blog

Hello welcome, I hope you're having a good day.

So today, October 28th, 2019 we were supposed to edit or start editing the footage we shot Thursday. Well there's been a catastrophe, the computers aren't working right so we can't edit. We were told to make this blog about this catastrophic turn of events. We were sitting at the tables waiting for the school announcements to be over when the teacher told us. Honestly, this setback isn't good because I was comforting myself all morning saying "don't worry man, you can do this. I believe in you". Then I was hit with the surprise that there's no actual editing happening today. All those good things I told myself about it all being okay? Wasted. She told us to get the footage situated on Google accounts or on the USB drive things. I also didn't take part in that because my footage is on the teachers computer instead of one of the computers that aren't working. 

Also, my day started off not well again. Spotify is unintelligent and changed the songs in my favorite playlist. Heck Spotify. Anyway, as I sit here typing this, the teacher is currently humming the tune of sugar from Maroon 5. Iconic indeed. You know what, right now I guess it's good that the computers weren't working right because 1. A lot of the class is outside finishing filming and 2. I probably wouldn't be mentally able to write a 3 paragraph 10 sentences each blog while editing right now. Writing a blog this long about how the computers aren't working is pretty difficult. Well, I guess just by looking at most of the computers you can tell that there's a lot wrong with them. There's computers in this room that you can tell just by looking at them that they've probably been here for around maybe 5 years or so. I mean, that doesn't really matter but that gives a little context on, you know, why they don't work right 

So far this media class is pretty cool. I feel like I've been doing kind of well for joining the class late and not knowing anything about what's going on in the class. It was either this class or AICE business and I just picked the one that had 6th period to avoid changing anything else. I'm happy with this and how it's going, that's fun. This is definitely a class that I would take again. Off topic okay. I'm also happy that I don't have to write these blogs on the computers. Scrambling for a place at the computers and scrambling to get the blog done is probably a hassel. But you know, I wouldn't know. I hope were able to start editing as soon as possible. Getting everything done in a timely manner would be nice. Anyway, I'm going to skedaddle to where? You'll never know. Have a good day.

Filming blog

Hello I hope you're having a good day.

Buckle up, this is going to be a long one.

Thursday we filmed our commercials. It was hectic. You may or may not be thinking why, well I'm going to tell you. So starting off, the day in general didn't start off that good. I came to class anxious on the verge of a break down and that feeling lasted the rest of the day. We got into the class and rushed to get the papers signed and the equipment in our grasp. The first two cameras both said that they had 20 minutes left on them, so I had to get a different camera. The next one I got was fine. I got the camera and the tripod and went downstairs. Originally, I was going to film in front of the cafeteria but decided against it and filmed under the stairs. Getting the equipment situated took me way longer than it should've and that took away from the filming time.

 I'll spare you the grueling details of the setting up process. Filming in general was difficult because I was filming and acting(if that's what you'd even call it) by myself. A lot of the clips filmed start and end with me reaching around the camera to turn the recording on and off. That's fun. I also did good things while filming. There was a group filming not too far from where I was and I helped them put their camera on the tripod. I also have directions to a girl trying to find a class, a good time. I forgot to mention, after I set up the camera on the tripod and got everything adjusted I realized that the tripod didn't have the pan handle stick, so that made things even better.  In all honesty, I was so focused on getting the filming done that I probably didn't get a lot of the shots right. Fun. 

Then the rest of the process was a complete disaster. I got back and got the SD card reader and went to a computer. Dun dun dun. The computer wouldn't let me log into my student account. I tried multiple times and I couldn't log in. Then the teacher came over, she tried and it stayed on the loading screen for a few minutes and it didn't work. Then the bell rang and almost everyone left the classroom. The teacher pointed at another computer and I went there. It didn't turn on. She then told me I could get my clips dumped onto her computer and I could transfer them to another computer Monday. So that's what happened, and that's what's going on. 

Goodbye,

Storyboard Blog

Hello welcome, I hope you're having a good day. This blog is about the storyboard I've made for my commercial project.

Here is the picture of the story board

Before saying anything else, I am very aware that there are things on here that are not accurate with the drawings and things are probably not correct. For that I'm sorry.

Let's move forward, okay.

In all I used medium shots, pans, medium wide shots, close ups , jump cuts, pov's, and medium close ups. I probably will add more to it or change it, it depends. With editing, I'm probably going to make it as simple as possible with myself as well as making a decent looking commercial. I'm not sure what editing I will use, sorry. 

Editing Blog Lesson

What did you learn today?

Today we learned about the signing out, setting up, and editing processes. When we sign out the camera we have to fill out the sheet, bring the sheet to the teacher, then we get the camera, camera bag, ect. The camera is "small but mighty" and takes a while to charge but lasts a long time. To turn the camera on and off you just open/close the flap. For the tripod, we were told to detach the camera and collapse the tripod whenever we go somewhere, like downstairs or across decently far distances.

For editing, we learned the dumping, importing, and exporting procedures. To dump, you have to create a folder that's where you're going to put the footage. Then you put the SD card in the SD card reader and plug that into the computer. The footage should be in the DCIM, if not you have to look in the AVCHD. The AVCHD should display all the footage on the SD card. Put the footage in the folder you made previously. After you've gathered your footage, you have to import your footage into pinnacle studios.  Track 1 is where the titles go, track 2 is where the footage goes, and track 3 is where your audio goes. If you want to watch your raw footage or your edited edited footage, either drag the red bar with your mouse, or just hit the play button. If you want to get rid of something you highlight the footage you want to delete then go to the button that looks like a blade, then click it and it should cut.

If you want to do a voice over, you record whatever you want to say, detach the audio, and delete the video. If you want to add titles to your video, click the t, then you type whatever you want the title to be, then hit okay. When you see a green bar that means that something was added. When it's time to save your work you save it like any normal document. You click file and save as, then save it to your folder. If you're completely done with the project, you export it then put it on the MP4 thing or EMPEG then you click the full size thing. If you want to add music or sound effects, you have to go to YouTube and convert it to an MP3 then add it to your video. That's what we learned today.  The is the end, I hope you have a good day.

Planning blog for the anti-vaping commercial

Hello, I hope you're having a good day. So for this commercial project, I'm going to be filming an anti-vaping commercial. As said in the previous blog thing I did. I chose to do an anti-vaping commercial because vaping has become a big thing the past couple months and that's not good. People on websites like tiktok and Instagram made memes and edits saying that vaping made you cool or you would become popular on these websites if yoh vape. Also because I thought coming up with ideas would be a little easier if I did an anti-vaping commercial. Honestly, my goals for this project is to 1. Get it done and get it done correctly and 2. Make it as appealing as possible. I plan to use comedy as an approach, but that approach might change depending on how Editing goes.

Props
- A stick or something to represent a vape pen(?)
- Or anything that looks like a vape, but obviously isn't. Because someone sitting there vaping to show that vaping is bad isn't okay, unless they're doing it to show the bad stuff that could happen to you.

Costumes
- The clothing worn for this won't matter as much as everything else, because I'm the only person in this group.

Schedule
- Story board blog due 10/14
- Filming blog due 10/21
- Editing blog due 10/23

Location list
- Anywhere that no one else is, because people watching me film or people being around me when I film makes me uncomfortable. Also because they don't need to be in the background.

Back up plan
- If it rains I'll either stay in the classroom, Or go under the stairs near the vending machines. If going there is okay, of course.

Convention Blog

Hello, Good morning I hope you're having a good day. I'm doing an ad on anti-vaping, fun topic I know. So, usually in anti vaping ads they have a person or group of people having a good time sitting there vaping and then boom, they put up a statistic or a study saying you will get this illness if you vape, you will switch to smoking cigarettes if you vape, etc. Even though you might not get that illness or you might not start smoking actual cigarettes, there is always a chance and that is probably not a chance you want to take. People who produce these commercials want to scare you by saying all the horrible things that can happen to you (not that the effects of vaping are good). Remember the anti smoking ads? They had people suddenly get gum cancer or someone writing a contract and that contract rolling into a cigarette, ew horrid. Then there was the people that had deformities because of having cancer and the message saying "they died a week later”. Although a lot of cancers can develop from smoking there are a lot that happen naturally too, so you are at a risk either way.

What has vaping done so far?
So far, maybe a dozen or so teenagers have been hospitalized for vaping. It is a problem in schools as well. Teachers feel the need to tell their students not to vape in class, and that is reasonable. My pe coach said that if he catches anyone vaping in his class he will break the vape, how nice. Also, when I had culinary arts, there was a girl that asked me if I Vaped or smoked, I said no and she looked at me like all of a sudden I was boring because I am 14 and I don't have a nicotine addiction. People on social media influence stuff like that and that is not okay.

That's the end, have a good day.

Introductory

   Hi, Hello, Howdy, or whatever greeting you prefer. Buckle up because this is going to be a long one. My name is Taylor, I'm 14, I go by They/Them pronouns, and that's all of the get to know me stuff. Sike, okay, The first thing about me, I really like music. I enjoy listening to a lot of heavier bands like Suicide Silence, Rings Of Saturn, Pierce The Veil, Escape The Fate, Sleeping With Sirens, Asking Alexandria, Falling In Reverse, Get Scared, Of Mice & Men, Famous Last Words, etc. I also like softer bands like Mom Jeans, Modern Baseball, Sorority Noise, My Chemical Romance, The Front Bottoms, Cavetown, and stuff like that. Musicals are cool too, I like The Heathers musical, Dear Evan Hansen, Beetle Juice, The Mean Girls Musical, And Be More Chill. The second thing about me is like being alone, as emo as it sounds. I enjoy being with my friends. In middle school, there were maybe 12 of us and we'd all hang out at lunch, it was fun because we were just the little gay group. We'd talk about school drama, grades, teachers, etc, and we'd all get a nice laugh out of it. We also had a lot of inside jokes, such as "e", "don't be a pp", "always remember, gootnick" and other stupid stuff like that.

 Things I don't like? Here we go, I don't really like math even though I'm kinda good at it. I don't like science at all, I just find it really difficult. I don't like pe because I don't like being outside, especially in Florida. I don't like rap music but I know older rap stuff because of my mother. I don't like short pants, mainly because I don't like the way my legs are. I don't really like painting and drawing, I ruined that artsy stuff for myself. I don't like writing essays, it takes so much time just to say "here's what I think and why what I think is right." it's horrid. A big thing I don't like is Homophobic and Transphobic people. People like that invest so much of their time just to say that people are wrong for being who they are and that's not okay at all.

 I take fairly normal classes. I take french. My french class is fun because the teacher doesn't expect us to know everything we were taught at the snap of a finger. Then I have study hall like everyone else has/should have. Then I have Geometry. I mean, it's math so it's not that great, and that's it. The teacher I have is.. something, and that's all I'll say about that. After geometry, I go to my Biology class, The teacher I have is really understanding of the fact that I don't like working with other people so that's always fun. Then I have AICE general paper, which is cool I guess? Then I have the AICE media studies, that class is pretty cool. Then I have PE, ew. After that, I go to my history class. I enjoy my history class the most because the concepts aren't that hard and the teacher is really good at what she does. Now, a special thing, Fun facts about Taylor. 1. I was born two months early, I have a lot of scars on my feet, hands, and around the veins on my wrists because of the shots I had to get. I also have a big scar on the bendy part of my arm because of one of those UV/IV needle things 2. I have a twin brother. 3. I can probably go a full day without talking. Those are all of my fun facts, sorry if it was underwhelming. Well, That's it. Have a good day.