Thursday, September 24, 2020
Pitch Blog
Friday, September 18, 2020
Group Blog
Good evening, I hope you had a good day.
So tonight's blog is supposed to be describing the group we're working in. I chose to work alone for this project. I was contacted by my partner for the last project. He asked me if I wanted to work with him again. I sad no, here's why. For the projects last year when I worked with him, I feel like I carried the project. I don't want to do a lot of the project by myself when I know I have a partner. I'm not going to tell him that, of course. I'm going to say something like "my parents don't want me being around other people" or something. I know it's extremely shallow of me, but I don't know what to say to him. So yeah, I'm going to work alone. It's going to be a lot, but I'm fine with that.
Anyways. I haven't really thought about what I'm going to do for the project. I know that I might have to use my family as actors because I have no idea if my friends would be okay with helping me film. I don't want what happened during the music video to happen again. I feel like I'm just better off doing this whole project myself. I might need the help of at least one other person, which will probably be my brother. I can't act and if I'm working alone I'm the only one who knows camera angles and how to do them. I guess I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be a lot of work, but as I said it's all going to be okay. I just have to make sure not to procrastinate and be creative, but I can't promise anything. I think the thing I'm not looking forward to when it comes to this project is making social media accounts. In all honesty, I'm sensitive and I'd rather not see the bigoted opinions of old people on the internet. It's not just old people, I'd rather not see people call each other slurs or just not respect each other. My teacher said we need to gain followers, on the social media accounts we create. On sites like facebook, the followers would consist of my mother and her friends. That's going to make me self-conscious but I guess it doesn't really matter. The social media aspect is the only thing I'm worried about. I'm confident that I can get everything done by myself. I'm going to try my hardest to do the best I can.
That's about it, I hope you have a good rest of your day. Here, Have a meme.
Welcome Back !
Good evening! It's been a while!
It's been a couple months since the last blog, which is cool. We were on summer break. I didn't do anything extremely exciting, which is expected. I got a lot of hours on a Minecraft server, I watched a bunch of Netflix, and I went to Pennsylvania for 2 and a half weeks. Those were the most interesting things that had happened.
I got really into this Minecraft server, it was wonderful. I spend hours and hours working to get to the point I'm at now. I went to Pennsylvania for a week. All of my extended family lives in Pennsylvania, so we went there. We followed all of the safety guidelines, we drove instead of flying, that took a really long time. We all wore masks and washed our hands to avoid catching the virus and spreading it to my family. One unfortunate thing that did happen was that I left my pillow in the place we stayed at driving up there, it was very sad and I was upset, but oh well. When we got there we hung out with our family for the 2 and a half weeks, then we left. Oh also, on the way back from our trip we got a call from my aunt, she said my cousin had just tested positive for Covid-19 :). We then got home and quarantined for the recommended two weeks, but to be honest I've been here way longer than that. I watched Netflix! I got really, really into Avatar the last Airbender and Legend of Korra! I hold both of those programs really close to my heart. I plan on getting into other animated shows like She-ra. I really like Legend of Korra and She-ra for the LGBT representation, though. I think that's really cool.
The first weeks of school for me have been really stressful. I got a bunch of AICE and pre-AICE classes. It's not extremely hard, they just give a lot of work. The classes I'm struggling in most are Algebra 2 and Chemistry, but it's all good. I've had tests once a week the past 2 or 3 weeks from my Algebra 2 class, and that's not fun. I'm not very excited to get back to in-person school. Honestly, I like online school much better. I like being able to have a semi-flexible schedule and I like being able to sit in my chair all day and listen to teachers instead of going from class to class. I'm much more comfortable at home than I am at school. But then again, if I actually talked to the people I went to school with then what I said would probably be different.
That's about it, I hope you all have a good rest of your day.
Enjoy this picture of a turtle duck, I love this image.
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
Hello, I hope you're having a nice day.
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.

