Re-Filming Blog

 Hello, I hope you have happy holidays and a nice new year. 

          We filmed a little today and yesterday. Because the film is taking place in a 2 or 3 day period, we might have to film again. It was very overcast yesterday and that was where most of the filming took place. We filmed just the parts that we already have. I decided that we not use any of the previous footage for the final project. I just didn't think they were good enough. Most of it was having to do with the background noise and awkward camera movement. I think I can do better than that so that's what I'm trying to do. I don't think the footage that we have now is bad, I think it needs to be redone just because I need to make it look like it was all done consistently If that makes sense. Anyways. We decided to film for about a half an hour or so. I waited until after my grandparents left to go back to Pennsylvania. Out of all that we got 3 minutes of footage. Cut down will make it maybe 1-2 minutes or so. We filmed the stuff we didn't get to yesterday. That gives context to the consistent statement I made earlier. We're going to film more over the weekend and next week, but I'm not 100% sure about how that's going to turn out. Not very hyped to get back to the school groove, but I get to do online school at home. I'm excited to get everything done, I don't know how it'll turn out but I'll be happy to know it's done and over with. I forgot to take a picture during filming again, so here's a picture of the camera. 

Re-Importing editing blog

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          I hope you had a nice time during your holidays. In the last blog, all I had really done was imported the clips into the program. After I was done with that, I saved it and put it into my media folder. I opened it earlier today and I don't know if it crashed or what but I had to import everything again. I mean, I wasn't that upset considering I didn't really do anything. I had just put the clips together and left them there. Again, I didn't do much. I cut some stuff a little bit, that's all I did. I talked to my brother about the clips not being good and he's okay with redoing it. That's a good thing. My grandparents are leaving on Wednesday I'm pretty sure so we can finish filming later in the week. They've been pretty lenient with me being on devices for work. I have a valid reason, it just that sometimes that's not good enough. My mom has busted in my room and got mad at me for not spending time with my family while I'm doing stuff for this. I tell her what I'm doing and why I'm doing it she just doesn't really apply that information every time. Yeah, so. This week, I plan to film and edit and get most of the stuff done. Titles will be pretty wack this time because it's going to mostly have my name on it. I'm not complaining, it's just a realization. 

Editing blog

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          I decided to actually sort through the new footage and import it into the program today. When I import stuff, I just import every clip that I have and watch each one, and enter it as I go. After that, I trim and add whatever I need to add. So far, I have about 7-8 good clips out of 21. That's not very good. Most of them can fit into a bloopers thing maybe, but still. A lot of them are just not good. They probably could be better with trimming, but I'm not 100% sure. I don't know if I want to make any changes yet because I usually wait until it's all done until I do that. A lot of the clips have audio issues as well. There's stuff that I'd rather not cover up with music, but I dont really have a choice. White noise, like the ac, my dog breathing, my brother walking, etc. I feel like those should be included but I don't really know how to include those and not the stuff that I don't want in it. I'll figure it out, oh well. Yeah, that was all I did having to do with this project today. I fell asleep at about 5:30am, who knew old people breathe so loud when they sleep. I was woken up at 11am to go to a work outing thing at my dad's work. I didn't hear one funny joke that entire function. I went there hungry and got so uncomfortable that I lost my appetite. I'm probably not going to do anything having to do with media tomorrow because I'm going to be spending time with my family. I'm not 100% sure that I'll blog, but we'll see. 

Editing blog but its the bare minimum

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        I didn't end up filming, sadly. The only thing having to do with media and that project that I did today was importing it and putting it in a folder. My grandparents came at about 2pm and I woke up at 11am. My family is very family and family time-oriented, which is reasonable. I wasn't able to really sneak away and do things. So before they got here, I quickly put all the clips I have onto my computer. I hope that I'll be able to do a little bit tomorrow, but that might not happen. My grandmother has stuff planned. She says we have to go to the store to finish getting Christmas gifts for my parents. We also have to go to my father's work because they're having a barbeque thing I guess. I don't particularly enjoy hanging out with middle-aged men who think being discriminatory is funny. I'm going to wear a mask and stay as far away from them as possible, though. It'd be cool if they let me stay home during that to finish my filming, but that won't happen. Anyways, we spent today sitting together. We went to some restaurant, I'll put the picture I took there here. After that, we went to the store and bought the stuff we needed in order to make what we're making for Christmas dinner. That was a fast trip. I'm going to try to at least import the clips into the editing program tomorrow, so then I can say that I did something and so I can feel a little productive. I'm trying my best, I guess that's all that matters?

Inside daytime Filming Blog

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          We filmed today and it was successful.  We started at about 1pm, it all went smoothly besides my brother complaining. We planned on filming all the daytime parts again today, but that didn't exactly work out as planned. We were filming, it took about 2 hours. From the storyboard, it shows that the view shows outside and the window from the outside. I have 2 dogs and I decided to not keep them in the room with my other family members. When I walked out of the house, I heard my dog bark and then a voice from the other side of the yard says "you know your dog is out, right?". Someone who works for my dad opened the fence and didn't tell anyone so I let the dog out into the street. He's a big dog, he's fast as well, so he's hard to catch. After about 15-20 minutes we got the dog inside and then continued for about 20 more minutes until we were done with that one part. Before we got the chance to film the 2nd outside scene, my mom decided that she wanted to take us to a nature park so that's what we did. The park she was talking about ended up being a covid testing place, she didn't want to accidentally end up in a testing line so we found another place. This gives context to the picture of the ducks I posted on my social medias. We had gotten home about an hour later. I looked at my storyboard, and realized there were 2 or 3 shots that I had forgotten to get, so I convinced my brother to do the rest of that today. My grandparents come tomorrow, so it's not guaranteed that I'll film tomorrow but I'll try my best. If I don't film, I'll start the editing process. But, again, I don't know. Anyways, camera, featuring my dog. 

Filming Blog

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          Wowie do I have a story for you. You may or may not remember, but last year we had an issue with our sd card and we couldn't access our footage. It was a trainwreck and very stressful. To be fair, it did work out in the end. Well, that's what happened today. We filmed the first day time scene today, it took about an hour or two. I liked it, it turned out just like i wanted it to. I went to import it onto my computer but it didn't work. I bought a new sd card over the summer so I could start off fresh, so whatever happened, only happened to the clips we had. Somehow, I don't know how, the card was wiped or malfunctioned. It was unfortunate, but what happens happens. I'm not extremely upset, we still have the rest of the week to finish it. Something I also noticed about 20 minutes ago was that I forgot to post on my social medias. Honestly, I don't think that's a very big deal considering the turnout of today's filming. My brother agreed to film again tomorrow, which is good. My main concern is him. I know how I'm feeling and if I'm okay with what I'm doing, but I'm never sure about him. It is what it is. I want to finish everything tomorrow but honestly it doesn't sound 100% realistic. But if that doesn't happen, I want to at least finish as much as possible before my grandparents arrive on Wednesday. I also realize that I forgot to take a picture while filming, heres a picture I took of the camera just now. 

Explanation for not filming Blog

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          Again, unfortunately, I didn't film. Last weekend my brother didn't want to film because he had basketball early the next day. I didn't bother asking this weekend because he had a tournament and I didn't want to stress him out. This week is the first week of our winter break. That's very swag, I'm very excited. I plan to film Monday, Tuesday, and maybe Wednesday. I have my grandparents coming Wednesday, that explains the maybe. I was thinking about posting on my social medias. Like, if I film, how am I going to show what I did on sites like youtube? I figured that each time I film I can record a clip of my brother being weird or something, I don't know. My mom suggested that when I'm done with filming all together, I can edit all the bloopers together, and I might do that because bloopers are funny. I'm also going to focus on the animated titles things. I was busy all week last week with midterms and I didn't get to do it then. I might this week, who knows. I'm going to try my best to get it all done as soon as possible, but it depends. I'm not exactly a motivated person and I need to wait until all the people involved are prepared enough to play their parts. At end of the day, it'll all get done and it'll be okay, that's the hope at least. The overall goal is to get the filming done by before Christmas, which is 100% doable. I talked to my mom about this, I had brought up the point that filming might not take as much time as it did because I'm doing all the technical stuff by myself. I can just go with it without anyone telling me what to change aesthetically and such. Like I can do it right the first time because my opinion is the only one that matters in the time being, y'know?

 

Website blog

 

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          I haven't done much regarding media class in 2 weeks or so. I've been busy with other classes and I haven't gotten the chance to film yet. I decided to sidetrack, and do stuff like figure out how to make animated titles and fix up my website. That's what I did. One of the vector pieces near the top of the homepage was messed up. Somewhere in the making of the website, I deleted the text box that goes with it and I couldn't figure out how to put it back. At the time, I just made a simple text box to put in its place, but that didn't work. When you scroll down the website, the vector pieces fade in and fade out, but the plain text box just stayed there. So when you were looking at just the top of the website, jus the textbox was there. It looked ugly, so I tried to change it. I did end up figuring out how to change it, though. All I had to do was duplicate the text box for the other vector piece to do it. It felt nice to figure it out, the way it was frustrated me. That was that, I edited the page to my liking. After that, I decided that I was going to try to figure out how to make animated titles. The editing program I'm using I guess partners with an app called blender. I haven't figured everything in there out yet, but I will. I do plan on filming this weekend. Saturday night to be exact. It'll be alright, I've planned everything out. My brother has basketball on Sunday, but I need to film right before sunset so that it gets dark quicker. I hope the filming doesn't take long, but who knows honestly.