Realizing what we need to fix; re-editing

Hello! So far I’ve told you about our filming delays with the coronavirus happening. Now it’s time to talk about our editing process during the pandemic. So far I’ve had a lot of time on my hands since school has been let out and everyone is practicing social distancing. Though these are key measures that are needed to be taken in order to get over this pandemic, I have realized how much time that I have accumulated. This pandemic Is getting really serious. Especially around Florida, that’s why it’s so important to practice social distancing. Though it’s very important it’s really putting a damper on all of our plans that have to do with reshooting and re-editing. Instead of having my group members over at my house so that we can re-shoot and re-edit we have been stuck in our houses with only FaceTime as a communication. Though we are very lucky to have FaceTime it would be better if we could communicate face-to-face with each other. This is so If we have any problems, our group member could be there to help guide us but instead we have to communicate through our phones. While in this break I plan on trying to edit what we do have for a Movie. I don’t have a lot of experience with editing but as I did before I’m going to try my best to make our movie look presentable and clean. Just today I was on my mothers computer trying to edit I Movie. I’ve came across some bumps in the road though. While trying to edit I was trying to put in the beginning titles and I can’t seem to put them at the right time. Instead of having a group member over at my house I had to FaceTime a group member. This made it very unclear because the group member wasn’t with me. Though this is challenging I’m going to try my best to push forward and re-edit our film.

Editing blog

Hi! In a few weeks we had to plan, film, and edit. We’ve covered all but one category, the editing process. My group and I really wanted to get our editing done for the holidays. I feel really bad about not having a part in the editing process. I have course put my own critiques in when asked. I’ve never been quite good at editing. I’ve always been better at filming. On our schedule that we made, we had our editing time a week during the holidays. While this was a good plan it didn’t end as well as we wanted it to. Instead of using a Camera provided by the school and pinnacle studios, my group chose to film on our phones and to use iMovie‘s for our camera and editing software. The problem was that our editor did not have the proper software which was I movies at their disposal. Our game plan had to be changed. Instead of editing our whole movie properly, we chose to do a quick edit for our peer review. This is why some scenes might have seemed choppy. The editor in our group decided to edit the movie on her phone using iMovie’s. For our final edit we want to use two different fonts and use better transitions. Along with this problem another obstacle occurred. This was that our film was too long. Well this seems like an easy problem to fix this is quite the opposite. We felt that all of the scenes we are vital to the story that we wanted to convey. To combat this problem we chose to cut some scenes in the editing process.Our new game plan is to use our critiques that our peers gave us and re-shoot some scenes then to re-edit as needed.

 

Movie titles!

Hello, we finally chose a name for our movie! My group and I came up with: “possessed”. We chose two fonts for the titles. The first font is called “Permanent Marker”. We chose this font because it had a rough and mysterious look to it that matched the aesthetic that we were going for. We chose to space this font out to make it more dramatic. With this font, we also decided to make it a dark crimson red color to add a more negative connotation to it and to add a more symbolic approach because the color that we chose as a strong association to the color of blood. The second font that we chose is called “Shadows into the Light”. We chose this font because it is closely related to our first font. This font also adds to our creepy horror aesthetic. We decided not to space this font out be we will be putting it in all caps to have it create a greater Impact on the audience. We will be keeping this font color white so that it will be able to contrast into our dark scenery. The titles that we want to prioritize are the film title, actors, and the director slide. The decisions that we made are not final because we may come up with better ideas along the road.

Some bad news :(

 Hello! Today I have some bad news to share. I have to have a big surgery that is come up. This surgery was a massive surgery that had to be done for my health. This means that I cannot contribute to some of the parts of me project. Most likely I will not be able to help edit and I might not be well enough to re-film some of the scenes. This does not come with an easy heart. I am very very sad that I could not help with any of the editing a re-editing that has had to happen for the movie. The surgery was a big surgery, in total it took 12 hours end it took a big toll on my body. If I feel well enough I have course will do my best to help my group mates film and edit our movie to make it the best that I can be. The recovery time for the surgery is very long very hard. Believe me, I needed the surgery and I put it off for as long as I could. I was so worried about the repercussions it had for the movie and the filming processes and editing Processes. With the surgery also comes check ups and doctor visits. This also takes away time for the movie. Though I’ve been in recovery and in surgery, I have of course still been maintaining the social media account for the movie. Since the time of my surgery I’ve had more and more people follow and like the social media platform that I’ve built for the movie. This makes me so happy to see that I at least have a little bit to give for this movie. Not to mention I am still in the movie, we filmed it before I had my big surgery. I will be trying my best to help out my group meets as much as I can throughout this recovery.

Social media update

 Hey! Today I’m gonna be talking about how my social media‘s for the movie Possessed I’ve been going. I have been in charge of maintaining the Facebook account for our movie. On this account I provide content such as sneak peaks, potential movie posters and more. Recently, I have gotten a lot more people requesting to follow our movie Facebook account. I’m so excited because this means we’re getting our content out to more people. Somethings that I don’t like about Facebook are pretty simple things. first, I am a generation Z so I have grown up not using Facebook as my main source of media. This shows to be extra hard when dealing with controlling the app. I especially have trouble with navigating to where I can post. I’m usually the one teaching people how to use different sources of media, but now I am in a whole new world with Facebook. I am also very confused about how people see our pages and how to look at other peoples pages. It seems that if I tap someone’s icon I can see their page, every day that I try to go on it I think I get better with learning how to navigate it. Some of the things I’ve been posting have been getting a lot of likes and shares which I’m so excited about. Another weird thing that has happened when I signed up for Facebook was the amount of notifications I’ve been getting. This is very strange mainly because I signed up for no notifications. Recently I’ve posted a couple of behind-the-scenes photos from the shoots that we have participated in the past few weeks. Another group member, named Ava, has had the job to manage the official Instagram for our movie. I can imagine that this job would be a lot easier for her then managing Facebook account. This is mainly due to our generation growing up on Instagram, therefore she would have no problem locating anything and knowing exactly how to post things. She has also said that there has been many people Looking at our posts and sharing car photos that are about our movie. Overall our social media‘s have been doing amazing!

Filming day 2

 Hello today I’ll be talking about the second Day of filming. On this day we got a lot a majority of the filming done. We filmed half way through film to the ending part of our film in the duration of this day. My job through all this was to act in the movie, help film, and also lighting. This day was especially hard due to the fact that we asked for help from some of our classmates and people that we know from school. This was a little bit of an issue due to Covid and trying to be safe and also we unnecessary noise that became A problem from these people. For the first situation, we all had to of course be 6 feet apart which is the standard feet to stay apart by Government instructed guidelines. We also kept mask on for people who were acting in the actual film. Along with both of these precautions we also quarantined before our time together just in case. For the second situation, it was pretty simple. We, myself and Jake (group mate), reminded the people who came to help us to stay quiet one the group was filming. This problem did become A bit repetitive but we got through it in the end. The scenes that we did film were mainly the scenes where the friend group were being murdered by the possessed friend. These scenes were very very fun to film mainly because we got to bring out some props and film some yelling scenes. The first murder scene we filmed was when Ava ( the possessed friend) kills another group me named Alex in one of the abandoned rooms in the creepy abandon house. For this scene we had to bring prop fake blood and put it on Ava‘s hand. After we did that We made Ava wrap her hand around Alex‘s neck to show the wounds that the “possessed“ friend did. We also had to prop up Alex and we had a whole scene of Ava moving Alex into a chair to make her seem alive to the other friends in the friend group. The next “kill scene” was Jakes scene. For his Ava kills him in the bathroom which is parallel from the room where Alex was killed. We used the same technique with the fake blood on the throat to show that he was killed.Overall this day was a very busy day, but I enjoyed every part of it.

Filming day1

 Hello! Today is a special day for my group and I,we get to the star are filming! With our movie are filming days had to be cut up into two due to the fact that there are two different locations where we will be filming. On our filming day one we had a majority of our filming actually done. When we first started filming we had to figure out what devices we were going to be using for the filming. To make it equal my group mates decided to use all of our phones that we had and just alternate filming on each others phones. The first scene that we filmed was the beginning scene where the group of four friends were walking down the street to the abandoned house. This scene was kind of hard to film due to the lack of light from the sun. For letting my group and I had to get a little experimental, we used our flashlights on our phones and physical flashlights that I acquired from my father for our lighting in our movie. For the beginning scene we had to use some props and costumes for our style that we wanted to convey in our film. We used Halloween costumes like a cat costume, a Harry Potter costume, a pirate costume and a hippie costume in order to show that the season was Halloween season. The second scene that we decided to film was the scene of us splitting up and searching the “abandoned house“. When filming this scene, production production was quite easy compared to the first scene that we decided to film. In this scene it also shows the character Ava Finding the haunted mirror and becoming possessed. Now this scene was quite intense when it came to lighting and vocals. My group and I thought it was a good idea for when the actor eventually became possessed that she would scream. The scream was very convincing and I was very pleased with the vocal stability that the actors had. Overall the production day for day one was very long and intensive. Also on day one we had to acquire the make up needed for the costumes, for example we needed black eyeliner for the cat costume, and fake blood for the victims in the movie. Overall the day was very productive and I’m very pleased with how everything turned out.

Filming planning pt. 2

Hello! Today starts the planning on our filming experience! Today was when we made a plan to film for this weekend. As you may already know my group and I are doing a possessed, thriller, horror movie for our project. While planning my group and I had a complication when it came to one of the scenes that we needed to film. While most of the beginning scenes are going to be filmed at one of the members house. Two scenes in particular needed certain aspects that this house did not possess. One of the scenes has a hallway in which the characters walk down to then later find the murdered character. The other scene includes a shot of the bathroom where one of the characters will be found dead. This seems easy to fix but the first house does not have windows that open in the way we need them to. So instead of filming in one house my group and I decided to film in two different houses. The first day of filming for the movie is on the 4th. We are going to film some of the ending scenes for the movie. This is because one of our members plan to have family over so we needed to film as soon as possible. For the scenes that we plan on doing tomorrow we needed some props and supplies to make these scenes more realistic. Theses props include a A mirror, fake blood and some Halloween costumes since the time setting is around Halloween and our movie. I’m really excited for what we have planned! This type of film is really exciting to film especially when I get to work with my friends. I really hope everything goes as planned.