Vivian's Blog

   This week, 9/22 - 9/26, was spent editing. Now that we had all of our scenes filmed, we had to use Adobe Premiere Pro to edit our film and turn in the final product.      The first day we started editing, it was me and one of the other members, Samantha. We tried to edit the first four scenes. This was a bit challenging because we’ve never used Adobe Premiere Pro before. Despite watching the tutorials, we were still a little lost and confused. This is when we really had to put our computer knowledge in use. We figured out how to download videos from our phones to the computer, how to add the videos into Adobe, how to cut the clips, how to fit them into the frame, and how to make sure it saves.      The second day, we were pretty much able to finish our film. However, it accidentally got deleted. The whole thing. We felt panic and fear because that meant that we would have to repeat the whole process, again. We tried figuring out how to get our ...

    This week of 9/15 - 9/19 was spent on filming the scenes for our first short film. The first day I was absent from school, so one of the people in my group, Alana, filmed all the scenes for that day. They turned out very good, and I was very pleased with how well the scenes were shot. The camera work was very unique and satisfying to watch.     Then, the next class, the whole group was together again. We went out in our school and filmed the rest of the scenes. We faced some creative differences, but it was handled with respect and kindness. Everyone did their part, and they did it well. We focused on trying to film our scenes in one go, without many cuts or shots. It kind of reminded me of the camera work in Old Hollywood films, where the camera mostly stayed in one place. One of my favorite scenes, is the one where we had to make one of the character disappear, because she is a ghost, while the other character had to stay in the scene still talking to her ...

      This past week, my group and I worked on making our movie poster. Our film is a mystery horror, so we planned to make the poster creepy. We added a ghost figure and worked with the fonts to make the poster look good. We used Canvas as it was the easiest app to work with.      Today (9/4), we watched a tutorial on how to use adobe premiere pro. We learned how to drop videos, how to add audios and edit the audio to synch with our scenes, and we learned how to add effects. 

    This week, we worked on our movie poster and we had a guest speaker come and talk about the program he works for.     For our movie poster, we decided to have something simple, yet still give that horror effect. We titled our movie Let’s Be Friends. We included who does what, like who is starring in it, who is directing it, and who edits it. This is our movie poster:      Later in the week, we had a guest speaker, Jim Guarasci, from ShortCutsTV. He talked about this program that is dedicated for high school students who are interested in further pursuing a career in film. This program allows for aspiring student filmmakers so have access to equipment that allows for better production for their films. Jim also talked about ways to make good films.  Story Arc: the introduction and the set up is where we get to know the characters, the conflict is where a change/conflict occurs, and the resolution is where that problem is solved.  Story...

      This week we learned how to make a story board and what goes into it. We learned about making shots and how to incorporate them into making our story boards.        Today in class, we worked on putting together our story for our first short film that we are going to make. We worked on making our story boards. As a group, we went scene by scene, figuring out what each scene is going to look like and what is going to be in it.       Our story will be about a girl who befriends an odd girl. Their friendship starts off just as awkward as any other friendship between teenage girls.  However, it goes very wrong when the creepy girls' evil intentions are revealed as being a spirit who is trying to take the girls' form. We decided that our short film will be mostly filmed in school. 

    Today in class we learned about the different camera shots. I learned that there are nine different shot sizes: establishing, master, wide, full, medium full/ cowboy, medium, medium close up, close up, and extreme close up (can also be an insert shot).      I found it very interesting that every shot size spreads a message about the environment, characters, or the plot.      After, my class went to the courtyard, and we practiced taking pictures with the nine shot sizes. I went up the stairs to take my establishing shot. I asked my friends to be my "models". Then, we learned how to use our google drive by uploading our pictures and download it to our computers onto a folder.