Friday, April 24, 2020
Friday, April 17, 2020
2 minute film blog
Hello, I hope you're having a good day.
This is our final task. I'm not extremely proud of it, but it's up there. This was by far one of the most stressful things I have ever made. Working on it was so tiring. It wasn't just the filming and editing aspect, it was every aspect. Working with someone I didn't know at all, and having him come to my house. It was a very scary, stressful, and accomplishing time. Where to begin. It started off fairly smoothly. There was just the group chemistry that made it hard to work. He wasn't a very reliable partner. He wasn't someone I'd turn to. So, I did a lot of the work by myself because I didn't want to have to rely on him. There was one instance, that caused me to do this. It was when we were doing the movie research for our genre, he waited until 11 the night it was due to send it to me. I have to get up at 5:40 for school, and I usually go to bed at 8 so I can go to sleep. That was when I took it upon myself. I edited almost the whole thing by myself. I was always answering his questions no matter what time it was. Even on things he wasn't associated with, for lack of a better term. He would ask me things about what to do with editing, though he almost never edited. I don't mean this as a "let's throw shade at my classmate because the project is over". No. It's me reflecting.
Even though it was stressful, I did it. I think it's pretty cool. Pretty early on, I noticed that all the things I had planned for it wouldn't fit into the 2 minutes. I was right, but we still got the most important parts in. This overall experience was pretty cool, I guess.
CCR blog
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This is our CCR. This didn't take as long to film as the actual 2 minute film did. I didn't take as many takes, either. There weren't any hard times or little arguments between Peter and I, so that's good. When editing this, there were parts where i'd accidentally put the same question twice, which I'm lucky that I caught. At first, I was going to film my own individual CCR, but that didn't happen. He wanted to do it like a SAW interview, which I wouldn't be able to do. Because sadly, I haven't seen all of the SAW movies, so I wouldn't know how to do it. There's not much of a creative aspect here, but it's better than just staring at the camera the whole time. As I might've said above, there wasn't many problems just in general.
In the backround you can hear my dad talking on the phone. I don't remember exactly what they were talking about, but he's not a very quiet guy. Anyway. There was only one major problem with the CCR editing process. I put the screenshots at the end, there ended up being over 2 minutes of just black screen. It took a while, but I figured out how to get rid of it. I'm pretty proud of it, I guess.
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Music Video Blog
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This is my music video. I was actually really proud of this for whatever reason. Here's the thing with the music video. I'm sure I blogged about this at the time, but here it is again. I invited four or five friends to film this video with me. I gave them all the same message and information of when to come and what we were doing. All of them said they could go. So that Saturday came around and I sat outside for hours waiting for them. I'm pretty sure I cried, but I don't remember. One of them said in order for him to do, he'd have to come an hour earlier than planned and I said that was fine. He was the only one who said he couldn't end up going. Everyone else said they couldn't go after hours of me sitting and waiting. I was very upset. But I pulled through. I filmed with my mom and my brother. It ended up being a lot of fun and I like how the video turned out. I showed the finished product to my mom, and she said the song didn't really go with the video. But oh well. Now looking at it, I don't really like the first clip. My brother was very,, I can't think of the word. At first, It was going to be me getting up because it was going to be me thinking about the people. But it ended up just being me filming because I couldn't get my mom or brother to understand how the camera worked.
When editing this, I don't think I ran into any problems. I don't think I had to re-film anything either. Wowie, the perks of working alone. You may or may not question the computer or uno game. The thing is, all those friends were friends I made in middle school. All the people that I invited to film were people I met in 8th grade. I used to play uno and that computer game all the time with all of these people. Almost anytime we could. It was a good time. Kind of unrelated, but now most of us dropped one of them as a friend and one other person might be dropped in the near future. That's fun.
Commercial Blog
Hello again, I hope you're still having a good day.
This is my commercial. I don't remember what the time frame I did this was, But I'm pretty sure it was October or November of last year. It was supposed to be an anti vaping commercial. I agree, It's bad. But I honestly think that it's kind of good, considering I was only a couple weeks into the class when I had to film this. My original intent was to make it funny, but that didn't work. I wanted to add the little zooms and stuff, but I couldn't figure it out. I don't know why I put "subtitles". They're not even subtitles. They're just words that go after like two scenes. Also, why does my voice sound so high pitches? I'm like a hyena. Why did I think I was funny when I put "sksk that vape away"? I vividly remember being in class thinking of that and almost laughing out loud. I have such a horrible sense of humor, heck.
Anyway, as far as I can remember, editing this wasn't that complicated. I only say that because there wasn't that many "complex" things put into it. There were no transitions or effects or anything like that for that matter. I'm pretty sure the only problems I ran into was the fact that I couldn't get the camera onto the tripod. I mean, I ended up doing it, but it was crooked. I couldn't figure out how to make the camera still because the thing was loose. If that makes sense. I remember while filming this someone walked up to me asking where building 8 was. It was funny.
Anyway, as far as I can remember, editing this wasn't that complicated. I only say that because there wasn't that many "complex" things put into it. There were no transitions or effects or anything like that for that matter. I'm pretty sure the only problems I ran into was the fact that I couldn't get the camera onto the tripod. I mean, I ended up doing it, but it was crooked. I couldn't figure out how to make the camera still because the thing was loose. If that makes sense. I remember while filming this someone walked up to me asking where building 8 was. It was funny.
Editing blog
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This is a screenshot of the video in the editing software. That's Peter and that's me on the screen.
Today is Thursday the 9th. I started and finished editing relatively quickly. The only challenge I've had so far was going through and finding the clips to put in and to not put in. I ended up finishing my work last night 10 minutes before it was due (11:49). That was fun. I had a breakdown twice, that was fun as well. I went in and edited the footage for the CCR. It came out to be a little less than 15 minutes. I was afraid that just answering the questions wouldn't be enough time, I was wrong. As of right now, I don't know how I'm going to put the projects into blogger. But then again, I could just read through the Microsoft teams. Actually, I did do that. I did that earlier and someone asked if they could upload it to youtube and put it on a google slides thing and put that in the blog, and it got a yes. I think I'm just going to do that.
I actually thought I could edit yesterday. Wow, what a clown I am. I had so much going on. I had a whole bunch of assignments for french, math, and general paper. I sat at my desk all day, which was not good for my legs. I don't really like talking about my social life, but here I go, I guess. I'm not going to go into explicit detail, but something happened in my friend group and it caused 5 of 7 people to get really upset at the other two. It's a very frustrating situation that I feel like I caused but I know that it wasn't me. Thank you. Back to editing. I plan on taking screenshots of some scenes in the video and inserting them into the CCR. Other than that, that's it.\
I was going to make a "see you tomorrow" thing but I'm going to be posting other blogs today. Anyway, Have a good rest of your day, Stay safe, wash your hands.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Editing blog
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That's a picture of my footage in my footage folder.
Anyway, I edited today. I'm not actually done yet, I've only imported the footage. I plan to stay up to edit it instead of doing it tomorrow. Also, I haven't been able to see if all the clips go to the proper time. So that'll be fun to see when/if I have only like 9 minutes. I doubt that, but still. Going back to the whole online school thing. It's so stressful. It's so stressful because you're a child at home, with zero time management skills and 7 teachers giving 10 assignments due a week. I get it, we're at home and not doing anything. But, even then, there's things that keep people from doing work. For example, me, I can't get to my work until 12 or 1 because I need to help my little brother with his work on my computer. It makes it 10 times worse when you have teachers that can't explain clearly what they want done.
Have a good rest of your day, Stay safe, wash your hands,
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Filming Blog
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I apologize for the messy room, but that's where the camera was. It was filming my computer screen. It was there to record Peter answering his questions.
Today is Tuesday the 7th, and I filmed with my partner and my friends. As of right now, 12:46 pm, we haven't filmed yet. I'm going to keep it updated. The plan is to get on a skype call and film and answer the questions. We would both ask and answer questions. If the answering questions didn't hit the required time, then I am going to get on a skype call with my friends and film their reactions to the video. Again, as of right now I have two friends willing to let me record them watching the video. The planned time was 1:30. It's now 1:25 and he texted me saying he wanted to do it a little bit later, 1:40 he said. It is a couple hours later. We ended up filming at 2:30. It didn't take as long as I thought it would. We tried to make the questions as long as possible, but they all ended up coming out 2-3 minutes long. It was okay, I guess. At one point, I answered half of a question and he didn't realize his headphones were still plugged in so the camera couldn't hear me.
Right now, I'm using my SD card reader to get the footage. I hope Peter read my Skype message because it asked him to email me the footage. I really hope that it's not going to be like last time where I couldn't find the footage. I found the footage. There were about 26 clips. A lot of them are clips that I can't use. Like they were cut because something messed up and stuff. He emailed me the footage through google photos. That was difficult to figure out because the "download all" button doesn't work. I'm going to get everything set up so I can edit tomorrow. Also, It's night time and I went outside to film an establishing scene part. I had realized that I had forgotten to do that.
Well, that's it. I hope you have a good rest of your day. Stay safe, wash your hands.
Well, that's it. I hope you have a good rest of your day. Stay safe, wash your hands.
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Editing Blog
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That's our edited film.
Today is March 5th, and yesterday I finished editing. I finally found a good editing app that I could use. It took a minute to find and figure out everything but I got through it. I managed to put all the footage into it and add the music and the titles. For a third or fourth time, I'm going to talk smack about my partner. There was a title google slides presentation that was made by my partner a while back. It was supposed to give me a guide as of how to put the titles and what they're supposed to look like. Everything he put didn't make sense. He said things like "small but big" and "bold but hard to see" that's not specific and that's not something I can work with. I texted him that he didn't make sense in that and he said to make the titles look mysterious. I don't know how you can make a title mysterious, but okay. I edited the titles into the film and I exported and sent it to him. I told him in the email that I'm not 100% percent worried about the placement of the titles. This is because all of the things are due the ninth and we haven't even filmed the ccr. He goes on to tell me that the spirit part of the film doesn't fit into it. The spirit part was the pitch, we can't just change the pitch. He's trying to change the entire thing. He's just giving me suggestions upon suggestions upon suggestions, but he's not the one editing of filming it. He's telling me that I'm doing stuff wrong and there should be other things is it, but he's not going to do it himself.
Anyway, back to the editing part. I didn't place the titles anywhere. There were sample things and I typed what I needed to type in them. The titles are in different places, yes. But there's no effects on the titles. It's just bold red lettering. I got it done to get it done. I did that so if we run out of time, I wouldn't have to rush and do titles. It's a start, I'm going to change it if I have time. Correction, when I have time. I'm going to try to film the ccr tomorrow so I can get it done and edited as soon as possible. That's another thing, coming up with ccr ideas. We have to be creative, my partner suggested we do something like the interviews in the saw movies. The problem with that is I've never seen the saw movies. But he's bossing me with that too. He's talking to me suggesting things like he's the one who's going to film and edit it. I was thinking more like an interview like how Shane Dawson does on his channel, or a video call between a friend and a friend. But that'd be funny because we're not friends.
That's it. Goodbye, stay safe, wash your hands.
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Editing blog
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(This is the app I use)
Today is April 3rd, and I've lost track of how many days I've been inside. Because of the pandemic spreading, we don't have school until May 1st, but I've been told that the date might change. Media wise, It's not looking to good for me. To be 100% honest, I've been slacking. I have been busy with other things that I haven't even filmed the CCR. I'm not even done editing the movie yet. I found a different editing app, but I might need to find another one because I don't think I can add music to it. I'll get to talking about editing, I'm going to throw shade at my partner. I am not a confrontational person, so him annoying me angers me silently. I can't tell him that I don't want to talk to him. I don't think he knows that I can see what questions he asks on the Microsoft teams app. I say this because he texts me the same question he posted on the Microsoft teams. For example, he asked a couple days ago if there was a blog. It was the 30th and he had asked on the forum if there was a blog due, and everyone replied saying no.
There was even an announcement my teacher made saying there wasn't a blog due. He still blew up my phone demanding answers from me. He would ask while I was busy, then respond with the seemingly annoyed "Hello?"'s. How are you going to text me at 11 at night and expect me to reply right away? That's not something I'll ever tell him though. I can't tell someone right to their face to not talk to me 24/7 unless I have a very, very strong hatred for that person. (Don't worry, He's getting there). Also, He has the nerve to talk to me in this assertive tone as if he's carrying the project. He's not, I am. I'm filming it. I'm editing it. I'm carrying the project and he's acting like he's running everything. I only do this because I don't trust him. I can't rely on him for anything. He's edit it and sent is to me 5 minutes before it's due. Anyway, back to editing. I scoured the internet for another editing app. I think I was successful. I checked to see if there was a thing for a watermark, There was no watermark and I didn't have to pay for it. The only problem I'm seeing so far is that I can't figure out how to insert music into it, or if I can insert music at all. I don't know if there's a solution for this. I haven't put titles in it yet, I'm going to figure that out tomorrow. I don't know if I'll run into any other problems, but I really hope I don't.
Goodbye, Stay safe, Wash your hands.
I'm sorry that this whole thing was about my partner.
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