Filming Blog: CCR

     Our group had one last scene to film before spring break. The COVID-19 pandemic had our county have us on a "Stay-at-Home" order. Due to this, our group was unable to film the last scene. We are still unsure when it'll be safe enough for us to return to school. Just because we're unable to work on the movie, doesn't mean we still can't get work done. I decided to start working on my Creative Critical Reflection. At the moment, I'm brainstorming ideas for the CCR from interviews and talk shows. I'm writing down a script of the questions and answers. I want it to be a passive comedic talk show but also show the knowledge I gained in a mature way. I've always had inspiration from famous award speeches. I've been introduced to TED talks in my speech class. Ever since I've always wanted to do something honorable enough to have my own speech. I want to use this project as a way to portray that vision. I wanted to include friends in the video to have more fun. However, our county is still unsure when it's safe for everyone to interact with each other. We're trying our best to get as much work done as possible while staying safe. If filming with friends isn't the most practical idea, I'll record safely at home.

Editing Blog: Second Half

     After we filmed the second half of our opening sequence, I put the clips in order on iMovie. I decided which clips should be used and which ones didn't. I waited until the next class day to edit with my partner. We went through the footage and discarded any that we couldn't use. There was this one part of the clip that was a group of us continuously laughing. Obviously, we couldn't use all of that clip or else it would've been too long. I also had to detach the audio in one scene. We need a bell to ring in that scene and you can hear the background noise. We still need to add our background music. We're waiting on a confirmation email from the artist. We also didn't have enough time to record the very last scene. All we need is the main character talking to her friend about her mom in Australia. Due to this, we're unable to do our titles since it goes throughout the rest of the opening sequence. We're unclear about when to film due to the COVID-19 virus that's occurring in our county. Our group is keeping in touch with one another making sure we're safe and figuring out a way to finish this film. All we have left to do is add in titles, the background music, and the last scene. We can get started on the titles and just wait till the last scene is filmed. We are unsure how to contact the artist's music we're using.

Filming Blog: Second Half

     We still needed to film the second half of the movie. In our shooting script, we set the location to be at school. Until we realized we couldn't film at school. We had to change the location so we decided somewhere close and accessible for our filming crew. We decided to film at Dairy Queen which is close to the school. We scheduled with our group to film afterschool. We planned on filming for about 1 hour. There were only 3 scenes left we needed. First of all, we had to confirm the people we were filming with could come. 2 people weren't able to film. We brought another one of our friends to film. I also decided to step up and be in the film as well. Right after school, we all decided to meet up at the bus loop. We proceeded to walk to Dairy Queen which took between 5-10 minutes. We all ordered some food so the area can clear out so we didn't record anyone that didn't want to be recorded. We had to reshoot the first scene a few times because we didn't know our lines. The rest of the scenes were less diligent and we got done with them faster. We still have one last scene to film.

Re-edit Blog

     We re-edited our blog after we refilmed our scenes. I put all of our clips in order on iMovie after we refilmed. We waited to trim and cut the scenes in class together since we had a time limit that day. During class, the group looked through each scene and discussed what we need and what isn't necessary. We decided to add the titles and transitions later after we fully edited the movie. One of our actors was unable to film the other half of the movie. Due to this, we had to find a replacement. We also added the new footage we recorded. This part was the other half of the opening sequence. Again, we had to trim those clips down to fit the time limit. Our scene can only be 2-3 minutes long. We had to cut to only the parts we needed so we can fit everything. We also got permission to use a song. We're waiting for a confirmation email from the artist. We still have to film one more scene and we would be done with filming.

Reshoot Blog

     We refilmed on March 2nd. We decided we need to refilm the week before after we finished editing all of our footage. We had to refilm most of the bedroom and kitchen scenes. We went to the same house we used earlier. We started filming around 4:30 and we had a time limit since it was a weekday. We had on one computer out shooting script out and on another computer our edited footage. We followed what was on the script. We also tried to make it match the scenes we already edited. This helped us with time so we didn't have to refilm the whole scene. We had to film the bedroom scene a few times because the awkward silence was comical to our group. That meant we had to reset the alarms so the camera couldn't pick up our laughter. We finished around 4:45 but we took a break and started filming again at 5. We started to film the kitchen scene. We had no previous footage of the kitchen scene so we decided what we were going to film is what we will use. The scene wasn't long and we finished close to 5:30. All we needed after the kitchen scene was one part outside. We hurried in case the sun would set. We just had to film our main character holding her phone and walking down the sidewalk. That scene took less than 5 minutes to film. I had all the videos emailed to me and I put the footage in order on iMovie so it would be easier to edit later.

Peer Review

     Our teacher assigned the class to peer review on March 3rd. We had to write down every member of our group and pick a number the week before. We had to give the other group as much of the movie we filmed. We had a paper to fill out on the different aspects that were in the movie. We had to film Monday, March 2nd or else our movie would have two scenes. I could only edit out the parts we didn't need. We didn't have enough time to add titles or transitions. We mainly just filmed so the group reviewing us had more to look at. On Tuesday, we had to figure out who we're reviewing and who was reviewing us. Some groups weren't put down on the list. Most of the class were juniors and most of them were out for SAT practice. Everyone was asking around for the groups they were peer-reviewing. We found out the group we were peer-reviewing wasn't in class that day. We assumed they were a junior and decided to come to school the next day to see if they would come. Our class was scheduled to be the last class of the day. When we came in it was mostly empty. We were asking around again for the group we were peer reviewing and they weren't there again. Our peer review blog was due the next day so we just decided to not review theirs since we wouldn't see their movie in time.