Reflection: Part III

           Here is my third reflection for CAP Hollywood. Basically, its in less than 10 days and panic is beginning to set it... just a little bit. But, I think we are at a good part in the editing process. If need be, we could be done right now, except for one small issue.... our film is 1 minute and 30 seconds longer than it needs to. So for the next week all of our attention is going to be on how to most effectively cut out extraneous footage and shots to shorten our movie.

         Other than that, I think my group as a whole had a pretty productive week. Our rough cut is complete and we have our credits slide in. While we are working on shortening our film, we are also adjusting the music. We currently just have music for the flashback scenes. I'm not really sure whether I think we should have music for the present days scenes as well, but I think right now our main focus needs to be on cutting down.
         I am probably going to work with Mr. Mayo at some point this week to shorten our film. Otherwise, I think everything is going pretty well.

Reflection: Part 2

               Here I am, blogging once again about our movie, Every Last Drop. This week, we've continued editing our movie. So far I think it's going okay. We officially have all of our footage in the computer, which I think is a big accomplishment. So now, we're editing. Although we've only been editing for two classes, it feels like its been a really long time, and it has.
               As of Monday we are supposed to have a completed rough cut. I'm pretty nervous about meeting this deadline, but I hope we do. What we need to do is just put in our footage. as of last class, we were spending too much time doing small edits and not just getting the clips in. We also are really concerned about length. Right now, our film is 3:30, and about half done. This is not good considering that its supposed to be four minutes total.
                We have our movie poster done though, which I think is a good accomplishment. Next week, I hope to finish a basic version of our movie, and begin cutting it down to an appropriate length. I'm happy with what we've done so far though.

To close I'll leave a video that I'm sure everyone with a facebook has already seen, but I think is very relevant given that we're all stressing about our AP on Tuesday.

Reflection on our movie so far

        This week, I am doing my reflection assignment for Mr. Mayo's class and my blog post all in one! To the left you can see a picture I took of the screen of the camera we filmed on. The shot show in the viewing screen will most likely be what we include on our movie poster. In terms of how our movie is progressing at this point, I think its going fine. Although we filmed last weekend, we realized we forgot a lot of necessary shots, so filmed again this weekend. I think this was really helpful and will be useful when we get into the harder parts of editing.
          Other than this minor setback of having to film two weekends in a row, we haven't faced any real challenges yet. This week, I have done a few things for my group. First, I've helped import all the footage that we have so far into our computer file. I have also helped Milena and Ben look at the shots, and cut them down a little to see what we need and what we are working with. I also helped finish filming our movie, and acted as the main character.I have also begun to record voice-over  though we still need to continue recording because there have been numerous technical difficulties.
           My main goal for this next week is to have a rough cut of our film finished. although this is a lofty goal, it can be accomplished. We just need to really buckle down and focus on importing all of our clips  and putting down a timeline. after that it will just get easier to make our movie.