Filming blog

Friday 11/22 me and my group were discussing our filming process. We were coming up with when we were going to film. But everyone was going to be busy the following weekend. Alexis had work. Adrian had to meet with family. And I had a club meeting. So we all decided to do it during break. Or the following weekend. But we know what we are going to film. How we are going to film it. We know our roles and settings.

Saturday since we couldn’t film I cleaned my house. I was cleaning my room. The bathroom. I did the dishes and swept and mopped. Then after that I started binge watching a show on Netflix called Jessie Jones. It’s about a girl who is basically a superhuman. She got her powers from when the doctors revived her after she was in a car crash. They added extra chemicals to her blood stream. It gave her the ability to fly and have extra strength.

Sunday we still aren’t feeling because this is the day Adrian meets his family. Sunday I went to breakfast. We went to spoons. It’s a family owned restaurant near my house. Then are I came home, I did some homework. I took a nap. Then I woke up and continued the series from Saturday. Around 4:00 I left to go to my club meeting. The club, is black youth assembly. I’m apart of the fundraiser Committee.

Storyboard blog

Camera angles: Tracking shot, 2 shot, point of view, long angle

Camera movements: Close up, long shot, establishing shot, medium shot

Editing: Fade out, fade in, action match

Sound: Sad, the song

C- normal clothing

L- natural light from the sun

A- Me and Adrian will be acting in the music video 

M- no makeup

P- fake blood, bike

planning blog

Location: The location is at Adrian's house. We based the storyboard around Adrian's house.

Health and safety: There’s a scene where Adrian “falls” off the bike. Our biggest safety issue is to make sure he doesn’t actually fall and hurt himself.

Props: Fake blood, Bike

Costume: Casual clothing

Schedule:
11/18- planning blog
11/19- work on storyboard
11/20- Work on finishing the blogs
11/21- turn in blogs
11/25- filming blog
12/3- filming blog
12/5- editing blog
12/9- music video due

Music video research

Intro:
Today is the first class after finishing up the commercial project. I enjoyed parts of it and have trouble with other parts. I enjoyed the filming in the commercial but had trouble with with editing portion. I enjoyed the filming because it was just interesting to me, doing all the angles and movements. I had trouble with the editing because I didn't really know how to work it and where I should add the transitions. But today, November 14th we're starting a new project, a music video project. We have to chose an appropriate song and make a music video for it.
Song:
We choose the song Ransom. We choose this song because one of my group members, Alexis, favorite genre is rap. This song is Hip-Hop/ rap. It's considered this because it has rhyming. The artist of the song is Lil Tecca. A 17 year old artist from New York.
 Conventions:
 1. Costumes- Baggy clothing with big chains and gold teeth. Or we can wear regular clothing with lots of jewelry.
 2.Lighting- For lighting we are going to use natural lighting. Meaning we're going to use the sun for lighting.
 3.Acting- We are going to be outside, we may lipsync to the song and might add a short dancing clip.
 4.Makeup- No makeup is needed.
 5.Props- Chains, hats, and maybe baggy clothing, and gold teeth.
 6.Setting- Is outdoors.
Camera angle/ shot movements:
Low angles, hand held, over-shoulder, medium shot, close up and medium close up. Tracking shot is going to be used for movement.
Sound:
The music

Editing blog

We started the editing process Tuesday, November 5. I uploaded my video from the desktop on to google drive. Then I got a laptop from the cart to start the editing process. When I opened the laptop I realized it didn't have Pinnacle Studios downloaded. I was going through the process of trying to download it for free. But I couldn't find anything.  So I ended up not editing that day. Instead I thought more about how I wanted to edit the video. And substitute apps to use. Then I decided i'm going to edit at home.

When I got home I got on the computer and started researching more apps to use. I uploaded my video onto the computer. As I kept researching I realized most of the good editing apps need to be paid for. So I came up with the idea to just use a laptop from school but one that had Pinnacle studios already downloaded. After I came up with that idea. I went back to thinking about the edits I want to make. Like I was visualizing the parts I want to cut. And the parts I want to add transitions to. I was also thinking about adding a voice over. If I do add a voice over it’ll only be to certain spots and not the whole video.

Today during editing I was watching people edit to give me ideas. Like this one group deleted unnecessary parts to shorten it. Another group slowed down some parts. I opened Pinnacle studios and started experimenting. I cut out some parts that were an accident. And some parts that were unnecessary. I also faded in some scenes. After that I started this blog. But I plan on working my hardest to get this done. I am expecting to be done by Monday.