Monday, April 10, 2017
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
Paradox naming
Welcome back!
You may be wondering what our film opening name but we finally came up with it: Paradox!
The other day, while editing we went over names for our film. We started by naming mystery films that we knew and realized that many of them were just one word titles.
Using this we began thinking:
We came up with this since the whole entire film opening itself contradicts the idea of a boyfriend being happy and enjoying his life with his girlfriend. But in this case, he has someone who is making that impossible.
Now, since this is my last blog post, I guess there will be no more "until next time". Thank you for reading and staying active throughout our metal processing of our film opening!
Byee!
You may be wondering what our film opening name but we finally came up with it: Paradox!
The other day, while editing we went over names for our film. We started by naming mystery films that we knew and realized that many of them were just one word titles.
Using this we began thinking:
- Run
- Look out
- Watch out
- Gone girl
We came up with this since the whole entire film opening itself contradicts the idea of a boyfriend being happy and enjoying his life with his girlfriend. But in this case, he has someone who is making that impossible.
Now, since this is my last blog post, I guess there will be no more "until next time". Thank you for reading and staying active throughout our metal processing of our film opening!
Byee!
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Editing
Welcome back!
Today, Gaby and I drove home with Maria after school to edit and finish our project at her house.
We started off by downloading all of our videos to Maria's computer. We than played them out and began thinking of a chronological order to place our videos in. Since we have so much footage, it wasn't necessary to use all the videos and like said in a previous blog post, we usually come up with an exact storyline after filming.
We decided that the best editing software to use would be iMovie. We downloaded it to Maria's computer and off we started!
Believe it or not, this took much longer than expected. The editing of the videos became complicated and we realized we had to coordinate it with the beat of the background song. This is when we realized the choosing of the song would probably be the best start.
After searching online for copyright free background songs, we came across a perfect one. It fitted both the running scenes and the indoor, stalker scenes perfectly!
From here, things became much easier. We were able to easily set things in order and create our final film opening "Paradox"!
We did however encounter a small problem. We weren't really sure how to display our credits.
We than started viewing film openings until we came across The American Horror Story's It was perfect! We fell in love with the way they showed random flashes of the credits so we decided to incorporate something similar in our film opening.
Until next time!
TVweb. "American Horror Story - Season 1 Main Titles." YouTube. YouTube, 08 Oct. 2011. Web. 07 Apr. 2017.
Today, Gaby and I drove home with Maria after school to edit and finish our project at her house.
We started off by downloading all of our videos to Maria's computer. We than played them out and began thinking of a chronological order to place our videos in. Since we have so much footage, it wasn't necessary to use all the videos and like said in a previous blog post, we usually come up with an exact storyline after filming.
We decided that the best editing software to use would be iMovie. We downloaded it to Maria's computer and off we started!
Believe it or not, this took much longer than expected. The editing of the videos became complicated and we realized we had to coordinate it with the beat of the background song. This is when we realized the choosing of the song would probably be the best start.
After searching online for copyright free background songs, we came across a perfect one. It fitted both the running scenes and the indoor, stalker scenes perfectly!
From here, things became much easier. We were able to easily set things in order and create our final film opening "Paradox"!
We did however encounter a small problem. We weren't really sure how to display our credits.
We than started viewing film openings until we came across The American Horror Story's It was perfect! We fell in love with the way they showed random flashes of the credits so we decided to incorporate something similar in our film opening.
Until next time!
TVweb. "American Horror Story - Season 1 Main Titles." YouTube. YouTube, 08 Oct. 2011. Web. 07 Apr. 2017.
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Things going wrong
Welcome back!
As said in my last blog post, we finally got down to filming. With that said there were also plenty of problems that went along with that.
Yesterday, when we got to towncenter we completly forgot to take, print and frame the picture of Carlos and his supposed to be "ex girlfriend". Because of this we arent completely sure if we are going to include this into our film opening. We will try our best to add it in, but because of timing and planning it gets a bit complicated.
The lighting also became a bit tough. Since we chose to do it so late at night, it was extremely dark and hard to capture things on camera.
Thanks to the help of our friend Dylan, we were able to fix that. He quickly showed us how to set the camera onto "night mode" (something we weren't aware of) and it worked out perfectly.
We also filmed in places with a bit more light. This often times gave us a super cool and awesome lighting that added to the feeling we wanted to give off.
Another thing that was switched was the stocker role. During the indoor filming, I played the stocker role. But in the outside filming, our great friend Game played the stocker role. This gave me the ability of being able to direct and help shoot.
After finally shooting everything, we realized that we actually forgot to tell everyone to be quiet while we filmed. Because of this were definitely going to have to put some background music. But that will be discussed later!
Until next time!
As said in my last blog post, we finally got down to filming. With that said there were also plenty of problems that went along with that.
Yesterday, when we got to towncenter we completly forgot to take, print and frame the picture of Carlos and his supposed to be "ex girlfriend". Because of this we arent completely sure if we are going to include this into our film opening. We will try our best to add it in, but because of timing and planning it gets a bit complicated.
The lighting also became a bit tough. Since we chose to do it so late at night, it was extremely dark and hard to capture things on camera.
Thanks to the help of our friend Dylan, we were able to fix that. He quickly showed us how to set the camera onto "night mode" (something we weren't aware of) and it worked out perfectly.
We also filmed in places with a bit more light. This often times gave us a super cool and awesome lighting that added to the feeling we wanted to give off.
Another thing that was switched was the stocker role. During the indoor filming, I played the stocker role. But in the outside filming, our great friend Game played the stocker role. This gave me the ability of being able to direct and help shoot.
After finally shooting everything, we realized that we actually forgot to tell everyone to be quiet while we filmed. Because of this were definitely going to have to put some background music. But that will be discussed later!
Until next time!
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Final footage
Welcome back!!
Today was finally the day... the day we finished filming!
Like said in my previous blog post, town center was where we did all our filming. We were originally going to go at 7:00pm but of course that was tough timing for Carlos so we pushed it to 8:00pm.
Even though it was pretty late it all turned out perfect!
This was our establishing shot. We chose to do it towards the back of town center due to the "creepy" setting and feeling it gave off. The tree also helped add onto this feeling and the lack of people was extremely helpful for our film opening.
Here, we have our friend Dylan who volunteered to help us film.
We decided that having some hand help camera movement would be perfect in order to give our film opening that really suspenseful and creepy kind of look.
In order to do this we had Dylan help us by using his athletic agility to run after Carlos while holding the camera.
Another thing we chose to use was a flashlight. Maria came up with this idea and we decided to try it out by having Carlos run up and down some stairs while holding it.
And it came out AMAZING!
The flashlight gave the scene a very peculiar look and also contributed to suspenseful look we were going for.
With all of this finally finished we plan on editing anytime soon and doing are ccr anytime this week.
Looks like were coming close to the end of this project, hopefully it will all turn out great.
Until next time!
Today was finally the day... the day we finished filming!
Like said in my previous blog post, town center was where we did all our filming. We were originally going to go at 7:00pm but of course that was tough timing for Carlos so we pushed it to 8:00pm.
Even though it was pretty late it all turned out perfect!
This was our establishing shot. We chose to do it towards the back of town center due to the "creepy" setting and feeling it gave off. The tree also helped add onto this feeling and the lack of people was extremely helpful for our film opening.
We decided that having some hand help camera movement would be perfect in order to give our film opening that really suspenseful and creepy kind of look.
In order to do this we had Dylan help us by using his athletic agility to run after Carlos while holding the camera.
And it came out AMAZING!
The flashlight gave the scene a very peculiar look and also contributed to suspenseful look we were going for.
With all of this finally finished we plan on editing anytime soon and doing are ccr anytime this week.
Looks like were coming close to the end of this project, hopefully it will all turn out great.
Until next time!
Friday, March 31, 2017
Editing
Welcome back!
Today was supposed to finally be the day when we would finish filming. But thanks to the rain, that wasn't possible.
Since half of our film takes place outside, the weather and timing is key. We need it to be dark but also have a clear, dark sky.
Without being able to film we tried to focus more on the editing side of our film. Throughout our last projects we have been using iMovie, which we have really mastered how to use and has worked perfectly with us through the year. Because of this we plan on using this very same software for this project too.
We plan on also using Maria's camera which has also worked great on past projects.
Filming has become a bit tough just because of the planning. It seems to be that every time we plan on filming, one of the five of us can't make it. Either Gaby, Gabe, Mari, Carlos or me.
But thats ok, thats part of working as a team so this weekend we plan on doing the final shots and have next week to edit and film our ccr. Thats our plan, but of course this is subject to change!
Until next time!
Today was supposed to finally be the day when we would finish filming. But thanks to the rain, that wasn't possible.
Since half of our film takes place outside, the weather and timing is key. We need it to be dark but also have a clear, dark sky.
Without being able to film we tried to focus more on the editing side of our film. Throughout our last projects we have been using iMovie, which we have really mastered how to use and has worked perfectly with us through the year. Because of this we plan on using this very same software for this project too.
We plan on also using Maria's camera which has also worked great on past projects.
Filming has become a bit tough just because of the planning. It seems to be that every time we plan on filming, one of the five of us can't make it. Either Gaby, Gabe, Mari, Carlos or me.
But thats ok, thats part of working as a team so this weekend we plan on doing the final shots and have next week to edit and film our ccr. Thats our plan, but of course this is subject to change!
Until next time!
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