The final part of my project is finally complete: my CCR. This whole journey has been an interesting learning experience. Although the film industry may not be my chosen career path, I still enjoyed creating this project and documenting all of it in my blog.
Final Project Finale
I have finally finished the actual project portion of the Media Studies final. The editing process was much easier than I thought it would be. After watching a few quick tutorials on YouTube, it was relatively simple to do what I wanted. Most of the editing just consisted of rearranging still shots and adding captions to the opening credits. The more difficult tasks, changing the coloring of some portion of the video and reversing a video of the hour glass reversing, was still not too difficult.
Although the quality of the overall product was not as great as I would have liked, I am satisfied with the overall content and final product. It is possible that I could have improved much of the video with better control of lighting and such, but what I produced is very acceptable. The feel of what I wanted was confusion and mystery, and even though the video was a lot more abstract then I thought it would, I would say I accomplished my goal
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Fixing the Filming
Vicente and I have finally finished our second try of filming our project, and we simplified the project so much from the last time. Instead of my horrible acting constantly appearing, we decided to film a lot more static shots and things representing our overall theme of life and death. These things consisted of an hourglass running out (which I have some ideas for in post), a clock ticking which I plan on making it look like it froze to make it seem odd, and just me appearing to be ill in bed.
Some of the shots aren’t perfect but I hope to be able to fix most of it in the editing process. The one thing I am almost positive I will have to reshoot is the clock part. I wasn’t sure how to make it appear like it stopped without freezing the shot in editing, but I think it will appear too still. It may be a good shot seeing how it’s supposed to show time stopping, but if it looks bad, I will be more than happy to reshoot that simple part.
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Another Group Meeting and a ton of changes
The other day in class we had another group meeting scheduled. I was originally nervous since I had nothing new to show with all my footage corrupt. In my mind, I thought I would be wasting my and everyone else's time. Thankfully, the meeting actually turned out to be very productive.
When it got to me and I had to present what I had to the group, I decided to explain my problem, show my storyboard with the revised ideas, and asked if they had any suggestions, and my group had some great advice. They agreed with me that I should cut out the whole section in the forest since it reveals too much of the plot for my ominous tone I am going for. The group suggested that I use more still shots that represent the theme of life and death that I am going for. Although I'm not exactly sure how I will do this, it is definitely something to think about.
