Editing Blog

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

  As of right now, It is Tuesday, December 3rd, I say this because I've just started editing, so I'm going to put more stuff here Thursday because there will be more to talk about. Also, Happy December, I guess. Anyway, today marks the first day of editing. We got into class, the teacher told us what we're doing. I actually didn't know we were doing an editing blog, but here we are. Yay knowledge. So far, it's going well. Nothing has crashed, nothing is going badly, Wow surprising. As I sat here and went through the footage and imported it onto Pinnacle studios, I realized something. That something was this probably won't need as much cutting as the commercial did. You see, the commercial was filmed and editing entirely by myself. The music video however, I filmed it with other people. So there isn't much of the awkward me reaching around the camera. Now that I think about it, the only problem that occurred as of now, was I couldn't get the SD card out of the reader. You may or may not recall the fact that I had never done that before, because the teacher dumped the footage onto her computer because of other technical issues. So naturally, I googled it. Cue the panic, because most of the google things that showed up were that you needed sewing pins and stuff. But I ended up pulling the SD card out, no damage done. I imported the footage and put it in the proper places. After that, I played it to get an Idea of what it will look like. Honestly, It made me smile. It was like a "Oh look, I made this and I had fun doing this." but I haven't fully made it yet, make sense?

  Something I've noticed after looking it over more, is that my mother looks like a teenager? I mean, you can see that she's not because of the numerous tattoos and piercings. That'll be a funny question to answer, 'Who's that?" "My mother".  Another thing I've realized is, we're really weird. Like, At one point I thought it would be an amazing idea to film them doing a very 'white person' dance. I mean, It's funny, but I don't think anyone would really be expecting that. Yeah, fun.

  I'm only making another paragraph this early because it's a different day. Right now, It's Thursday, December 5th. I did research for the past two days on how to download music for the video, but I didn't really find anything. As of this second, I'm going to wait until my teacher is finished speaking to students about their grades so I can ask her. Its been maybe 10 minutes and I did it, I found it out by myself. Okay, so the change of plans was I didn't ask the teacher. Instead, I looked it up. First, I looked on Google to see the options I had. I searched the song on youtube and tried to do it there first. That didn't work. Then, I had the wonderful Idea to look up "the thrash particle modern baseball mp3 download" or something on those lines. That worked!! The first option was a website called Bandcamp. The song was there, and it was free to download. I had done it. But now, the hard time. I had downloaded it, and now I had to import it. But the problem was I couldn't find the file when I went to the import page. But I pulled through and did it. Putting it into the actual video wasn't as hard as I thought. That's all I really had left to do besides cut a little more footage. Also, I forgot to mention in the thing in the other paragraph, The computer I'm on almost died Tuesday. I don't know why, It just went from like 45% to 7% but by then everything was saved and such. I mean, Right now the computer is low charge (21%) and I have no clue why, but here we are. I have to make a couple finishing touches before I have to go charge the computer. Cool.

Anyway, That's it I hope you have a terrific rest of your week.

Filming Blog

Hello! I hope you're having a nice day. If not, be like Evan Hansen and have a good day anyway.

  As said by the absence of the quotation marks, I actually filmed this weekend! I'll explain how the whole week went. So first was Monday and Tuesday. Nothing really happened because they were the last two weeks before Thanksgiving break. I mean, I had a test Monday that was fun. Wednesday we didn't really do anything, either. My parents work, so me and my two brothers just sat around most of the day. I don't remember if I did anything productive, I probably didn't. Thursday was Thanksgiving, that was fun. I helped my mom cook dinner, and It was a good time. Also, that stupid creepy elf thing was yet again put into my home. Friday, we didn't do much either. My mother didn't have work, but my dad did so my brothers and I hung out with my mom all day. I had invited four of my close friends to come film, so I gave them all the information they needed. It was just a screenshot that contained the information, like the time and address. In the information paragraph, I had said it was being held at my house and it was going to be held from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. But, what's my blog without a tragedy, though? That's coming, patience. I had told my parents about everything that was happening. With that information, they still stayed up until 2:00 am with their friends anyway.

  Still Friday night, one of my four friends said that he couldn't go unless he was dropped off at my house at 12:00 pm instead of 1:00 pm. That was fine, no big deal. He was the person I really wanted to hang out with because we haven't seen each other in person since June. That night, since it was 2:00 am I set an alarm for 11:00 am thinking I would sleep that long. No, My body was like "you get four hours take it or leave it." Yeah, I slept until 6:00 am Saturday, not Ideal. Now Saturday was the day where everyone was supposed to come. Now for the tragic part you've all been waiting for. I was up and anxious at 6:00 am on a Saturday, so naturally I rushed and did everything I needed to do. I got dressed, I made my bed, I cleaned my room a bit, stuff like that. At about 9:00 am, the friend who was supposed to come at 12:00 pm texts me and asks for my address. Cue me being anxious because I think he's going to be here at 10:00 am instead. Finally, 11:30 arrives. I'm excited, I get to see my good friend I'm excited. 30 minutes later, my friend texts me, he says "I'd like to apologize for my mother suddenly deciding I can't go because I told her I'm Bisexual." My heart drops, I'm sad. His mother being a rat, yet again.  But at least I have three other people coming, right? No. 1:00 pm rolled around. I sat outside. 20 minutes pass, I still have hope, 1 hour passes, I message all of the people I invited if they were still coming. Surprise surprise, I didn't get an answer from any of them until hours later. One said he was out of town (which he could've told me that before I got my hopes up) another said he had just gotten the message and the final person said she couldn't come.

  Tragic, I know. As you could probably imagine, I was upset. (rich set a fire and burned down the house) I didn't have friends to come and help me film. But we overcame that obstacle. Sunday, We filmed. When I say we, I mean My brother, My mother, and Myself. I'm grateful for them, they stepped in to take the places that my friends would've been in. It was frustrating, but we got through it. In this video, there's going to be a lot going on, yes. But! I think it's going to be amusing or delightful in some manor. Unrelated, but just saying the Mean Girls musical is so good? Anyway, That's what happened. I hope that was dramatic enough for you.

  Have a good day, Goodbye.