Coronavirus difficultly blog

With the recent outbreak of the covid-19 virus it's been very hard to get anything done. Our school has been closed and communications with teachers have been cut off. All we Have been able to do is our CCR project. We have been getting instructions though remind and canvas. Those are the applications that we use to keep in touch with our professors. With this time off, we have been able to discuss future plans for our film. Not being able to see anyone due to isolation has been trying. We can't get our refilming done. As a result, we've been editing what we have. We are trying to make it perfect and add requirements from our own ends. We plan on adding some shots done without the location being shown so it matches up. Editing-wise, we have to add key details, like audio. We have to add non-diegetic sound, amongst others. Because one of us specializes with editing more than the other two, they will be working on that while we help him find music and things like that. We have sent requests to some artists for permission to use their music in our film. We are still waiting on a response so we have a backup. We are all set with most of our details and preps other than music. All our edits are done and voice overs are finished. It's been a very difficult time but we're pulling through.

Struggle to re-shoot blog

        Recently we have been trying to re-shoot. we are aware of the upcoming deadlines. We are nervous that we will not have enough time together as a group. We have been struggling to film. There have been a couple obstacles n our way. The main one has been a risky global epidemic called the coronavirus. It is highly contagious and has led to the changes of various things worldwide. For example, schools have all been closed for at least two weeks. During that, assignments are still due. Group projects have been difficult because of the fact that we have been told to be “socially distant”. We are facing a lot of trouble with re shooting our video. The COVID-19 virus has put us in a tough spot. Our parents are not letting us leave our homes. Because of this, we are very worried about the progress we can make, if any. Our project needs to be complete. The quality of our video is at stake. Things only continue to get worse for public health. We may be put in a state wide quarantine. There’s even rumors of martial law being put into place. It’s extremely troubling.

Reshoot planning blog

        Lately, we haven’t been able to reshoot. We have had struggles finding a right time to. For example, last weekend we wanted to film. Unfortunately, I was out of town. Because there are scenes with two people in it, there had to be three people involved in filming. During the week, it gets even more difficult. We all have afterschool activities. One of us even has a job. our plan is to film this weekend. Saturday would be difficult, so we think it will be on Sunday. It will be a struggle to get transportation because the shooting location is farther from where we live.Although it will be difficult, this weekend is the most convenient. Aside from school, spring break is coming up and so is the due date. We have to reshoot because we were missing some angles during the peer review. One important one is a low angle. We also wanted to provide a better variation of filming techniques. We feel that it will make our film more appealing to the audience. We also have to focus on editing after this weekend. We need to add some important details. Things like the music and subtitles are missing.

No reshooting blog

        After receiving our constructive criticism from our peer review we now know what we need to accomplish during our re-shoot. A few points we need to address are our camera angles, audio, time and plot development. It is in our best interest to fix our errors, so we can knock this out of the park. We need to add more scenes establishing the story/plot. we will do this by making any confusing spots better explained.We also need to shorten the film to meet the two minute mark. Some specific camera angles need to be added as well. This is to give an all inclusive felling of our film. Some of the audio hadn't come trough therefore making it difficult to hear any dialogue and understand our plot. The fine details of our project need to be tweaked so there is nothing left to chance. We all agreed to meet on Sunday, a bit earlier than our last meeting . This worked out due to our schedules lining up. Thanks to our director (Ben) getting a new phone our filming should go much smoother. this is because there will be less of a chance of hiccups such as phones loosing battery or filling up on storage. We hope to have everything perfect by Sunday so we can really focus our efforts on editing. We will make sure our tittles are done ans spread out evenly. We are really in our home stretch of this project. Thanks to us planning every little step out. We hope it come through that our best efforts have gone into this film. the experience was really enjoyable and exciting.  

Peer Review blog

When doing the peer review we got some helpful critiques. We were told some helpful insights. What needs work is our audio. We devised what we think to be a clever idea. We would have our main actors use Bluetooth earbuds and use them as mics. We will keep them out of sight for immersion purposes. When importing the files into the editing software, some audio files got corrupted. We are going to have to re-shoot some scenes. The audio we are missing is pivotal in communicating the story. It’s very important that we either get those audio files back. We may even have to re-shoot those scenes. Some of our titles are missing. Of course this is due to time constraints. We will have them completed in time for submission of our project. I also plan on color correcting the shots and scenes. I’m still considering using fades for scene transitions. I plan on checking out different fonts and maybe alternate colors for the titles. We are very close to having our work done.

Filming and editing blog

This past weekend we filmed. We spent a few hours at Andrews house with Ben. We the storyboard to shoot some scenes. We got distracted a few times. because this project has brought us so close, it was like filming with best friends. Besides the joking around, we were very focused. We found it easy to shoot the scenes. We were very interested in the plot. We found ourselves having to Derail from the original storyboard a few times. We had some ideas change throughout the planning process. We were able to execute them with no problem. Something we didn’t predict was the weather. It was colder than we had expected and made the outside scenes frustrating to film. The inside scenes were simpler but we did have other things to focus on. The lighting was an aspect that we had to pay close attention to. We wanted to make sure that it fit the mood of the scene we were filming. we had to re-shoot a few scenes due to the acting or the misunderstanding during the directing. Andrew’s house provided a good setting that went along with what we wanted the protagonist to portray. Overall, it was a good experience and we were able to work efficiently while still having fun. It was a good end to the filming process and we were ready to start editing.