Monday, March 16, 2020

Editing The Best Movie in the World

We had two in class days to work on editing our video. The first day we couldn’t work on it because we forgot the cord. We recorded with our phones instead of the camera for a couple of reasons. First, one of my teammates had to leave on vacation and had the camera with him. We also realized that our phones had good resolution them selves so we thought it would be easier with multiple cameras to use. We also thought it would be better to dump with them because of iCloud and a wire which we forgot at home. My teammate even tested it at home to see if it worked. As he was checking however, he left the cord in the computer. There wasn’t too much editing anyway in our video though. All we had to do was add the shots together and put music over it.

The second day of editing however went a lot better. We brought the wire and dumped our footage. When we dumped, we saw that the video was too long so we cut some stuff. We we cut each shot individually to make it a bit shorter. We also cut an entire shot out of it. It was a shot that was planning over the ocean. It didn’t really work with the video because there was no room for it. It was at the beginning but we already had a time lapse of the ocean and it made it look over used. After that it was the right time but then we realized that it was missing a scene because our teammate was going film their own clip at home. So we trimmed some other stuff leaving room for it. Finally we were done and all we need was to add the music.

Unfortunately, the class was over and we didn’t have time to finish. One of my teammates volunteered to edit over the weekend. He said he could do it all by himself but we offered to come over and help. So during the weekend we will add music over the video. We decided to put the music over the lobster when it’s first introduced. The music will be quite at first and then be the normal music when it gets closer. Then we were going to put the music lowers when the lobster in the pot. The music will be completely off when the pot closes over it. After that we won’t need to put anything else in our video. The editing will be over and we will have our final product.

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Peer review

Today in class, we did a peer review on our final project/video.

Before the peer review, our group filmed, re shot, and edited. The video that we produced was not the final product, however. We plan on making more changes editing wise, as well as adding more titles to the film. I do not think a re shoot is needed.

The group that we graded had a great film. It was about a girl that wakes up in a simulation. She comes home and passes out, and then it switches to her in a training ground. The group was able to fill almost all of the criteria. I hope that our group can learn some things from the group that we peer reviewed, and implement it into our own film.

As well as peer reviewing another group, we had our video peer reviewed. Most of the comments were positive, but some were not. I have learned what we need to change and put into our film. One of the things being titles. Things such as "edited by" and "filmed by" were missing in our film. Our group will definitely be able to put these things into our film by the time it is due.

I am glad we had the ability to experience peer reviewing. It has helped me see what our group is doing good in, and what we are lacking in. I plan on going home and changing the video transitions. I will also add the title slides, and some eerie music.