Re-Filming blog

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

          That's my hand with sharpie on it, the camera, and my foot. Today, Friday March 20th, we did our re-filming. Well, we filmed the parts we had and re-did some of the parts we already had. I had told Peter to come over at 8:00-8:30 and he ended up coming at almost 9:30. A first downside. Yes, this entire blog is just going to be me throwing shade. In the already edited part (which I'll have to redo) that goes over 1:30. He doesn't understand that we can't do the whole planned thing in under two minutes. My brother was being a pain because he didn't want to be in it even though I had already given him what he wanted before the whole thing happened. We had to redo almost every clip because Peter thought it wasn't good enough. The whole thing took way too long. We started at 9:30 it's now 11:50. We stopped filming 10 minutes ago. Not a fun time.

          Currently, my mother is frustrated with me because of me making her sit in her room for two hours. That probably sucked for her. At one point, Peter had to film. That was really funny because I was sitting in the kitchen with my dog listening to them. They were just making strange noises, it was hysterical. I was sitting there trying to export the video that I had edited to send to Peter, and I can't. I edited the whole thing on that app and I'm just now figuring out that I need to pay for the watermark to not be there. It's upsetting, but it is my fault. I should've done actual research on it instead of the first thing that popped up. Today's experience? 3/10. Would not recommend.

          I hope you have a good rest of your day, stay safe. Goodbye.

Re-Edit blog

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          Today is March 18th, 2020, and I re-edited the footage we have. Here's the situation. I'm pretty sure it was Friday the 13th that the Broward county superintendent Robert W. Runcie announced that because of the corona virus, students won't be coming back to school until after spring break. I'm pretty sure that has been extended, but I'm not sure. After sitting there with my mother filled with excitement and slight anxiety, I emailed my Media teacher about the returning of the camera equipment. She had told us the last class we had with her that the cameras were to be returned by Monday the 16th, but since we wouldn't have school, we couldn't do that. She emailed me back saying to return them the next school day we had and to stay safe. The next day I got another email from her to check canvas and to spread the word about it. I looked at canvas and it had all the information I could need about blogs, returning the camera equipment, ccr, and the final task. I spread the word about this to my filming partner, Peter. Speaking of the ccr, since we can't edit in school, she told us to find a free editing app without a watermark. I'm pretty sure I found one called filmora 9 and so far it works.

          It's the next day. I edited everything I needed to edit. I added music aswell.

          It's two days later and there's a problem. Today we filmed which will be in the next blog. I'm now exporting it and just now seeing that I need to pay for it to not have a watermark. That's upsetting considering I just edited everything on it. Oh well, I guess.

Editing Blog

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          So, Today I officially started editing. I say I because I'm the only one doing it as of right now. It's my job to edit the footage and add the music, and it's my partners job to put in the titles. He has to put in the titles because he's the one who made the title designs. So he'd be the one to make the titles. I got all the footage we have together. All the usable clips. I trimmed the footage and put them in their correct order. Not surprisingly, I sat on youtube for almost 20 minutes because I couldn't find a song to use. I wish I had done this earlier, but I didn't, so oh well I guess. After digging through the depths of this video website, I found a soundtrack thing to use. I copy and pasted the link of the video to my email and emailed it to myself so I can download it when I get home. For context of why I did this, I have a video downloader on my computer at home. Since I can't download things directly from youtube, that's how I'm gonna do it. After that I'm either going to put the downloaded video on a USB or email it to myself again. It's a whole process that I may or may not forget to do tonight. Also, a little explanation for the picture. That's the editing program and everything I've edited so far. Oh, and there's Peter. I put the footage on the bottom on the bottom because those are the only clips with relevant sound. The rest of the footage we have is going to have music over it so it's silenced. I'm going to put the music in the 4th track slot on the bottom below the lowest footage. Once we film again, other clips with sound will go in the bottom track as well.

          Of course, Something bad has to happen every time we do something. Right after I typed all of this, I realized that the computer had 10%. So I started saving and closing everything to get ready to log out and put the computer back. I save and close the movie, and guess what happens. I open it back up again to see that the footage I had just edited was no longer there. It didn't save. Well, farewell for now the computer is on 7%.

"Filming" Blog

          Hello, I hope you're having a nice day. The picture might make sense if you read the paragraphs.

          So this weekend, we were supposed to film. But sadly, again, we weren't able to. I had full intentions of filming Sunday, but he ended up not being able to come. So here's what I did instead, I guess. My weekend was pretty chaotic. Well, Saturday was, Sunday not so much. I spent Friday and half of Saturday mentally, physically, and emotionally getting ready for the best night of my life. You may ask, Taylor, Why was Saturday night so special? Well, I witnessed something fantastic. I went and saw the mean girls performance at the Broward center of performing arts!! I'll start from the beginning. It was a nice, Friday night. My mother and I were at Target to get prepared for this marvelous event. So there we stood, in the mens section with the nice collard shirts. My mother and I were debating on weather I should get the shirt with lobster, birds, lizards, or cacti on it. I got the one with the cacti, It's a nice pink shirt with little green cacti on it, What a good time. We then went to Chili's where we got our food for that night. I'll say this, Chili's mashed potatoes are the best thing to ever exist and you can not change my mind. Anyway, I woke up Sunday morning, my stomach was aching with excitement, or it was because I hadn't eaten anything since 8:00 p.m. the previous day and stayed up until 2:00 a.m. Unimportant. My mother came to me later that morning with a suggestion, she said we should go to wawa (a very nice gas station you can get milkshakes from) and scope out food places near the performing arts center. So that's what we did.

          Fast forward to that night. I was sitting at some taco place down the street from the center with my mother. The food wasn't that good, but it's fine. The event started at 8:00 p.m. and it was still 7:00 p.m. so we walked around to kill time. Later, we went inside to get situated and find our seats. We got metal detected as we walked in the door and there we were. We found the merchandise booth where I bought a pack of 6 pins for 15 dollars. We then made it up the stairs. I don't remember where we were sitting, but we had a pretty good view. We were up and right, and we had a pretty good view of the stage. Also, We got playbills, that's really cool. Then, the musical started after a while of sitting there. I was anxious the whole time with the thought "wow this is the best night of my life" and the disappointing part is that I don't remember a lot of the performances. I was very happy with seeing this musical, I wasn't disappointed in the slightest. The one thing that wasn't so nice was that the song "It Roars" was almost entirely changed, but that's fine. I went on instagram later that night and saw that Barrett Wilbert Weed was departing from the (I'm pretty sure) New York mean girls cast which was saddening. She's one of my favorite Broadway actresses, and played one of my favorite musical characters. But she's moving on to do better things, so I'm happy for her. The picture above are the characters, Cady, Janis, and Damian from the mean girls musical cast. Fun Fact, all three have departed as of right now.

Peer Review Blog

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          So we did peer reviews today, which was pretty cool. The group we were reviewing had good stuff for not being finished with it.

          Here are the pictures of the peer review sheet. We had to review the time, the story, the titles, the lighting, the sound, the time things happened, what we liked about it, and a suggestion. I graded accordingly because they weren't done with everything. Like I didn't put that they had no titles, I said I can't say. I liked the filming most. I liked how they handled the camera. There were two things that weren't so great about the film. There were parts were you could hear people talking in the backround, and there was one scene where you could see the person filming through the reflection of the window. But personally, I think the talking is a bigger issue (for lack of a better word) than the reflection of the guy int the window. It's a bigger issue because the talking is something that's easier to fix. You could just put music over the parts where there's talking but you would have to reshoot it to get the guy out of the reflection.

          Another thing I noticed was that at one point there were people sitting on a bench and the person was supposed to zoom in on them. The only thing I have to say to that is the zooming wasn't very clean. It'd zoom, then stop, then zoom, then stop all in a matter of a couple seconds. The zooming was the only thing bad I noticed with the actual filming. I also liked the story. It's about someone going to a park with their kid and the kid gets snatched, It's a really cool concept that they pulled off pretty well. The sound and lighting is also pretty good. The sound is good for being filmed outside. The lighting is good for filming the night time scene.

          So overall it was really nice to watch and if it were a full movie, I'd want to watch the rest.