Filming

This week, we didn’t really have the chance to film again. We both haven’t had the opportunity to get together for different reasons. I’ve been busy and my partner hasn’t been able to either. This means we weren’t able to film anything new for our project. This is a slight problem but hopefully soon we will be able to. We still have a few things that might need refilming. The last scenes in particular might need it. Overall though, we are getting close to finishing our project. We just need those final scenes done. Then we’ll be on our way to finishing.
Another thing we weren’t able to do since we couldn’t get together is edit. All of the editing has to be done on one computer which raises a few issues. The computer used can’t really transport to school for us to finish. This means we have to edit it all outside of school. It isn’t too much of a problem but we still need to get together to get it done. One thing we were still able to do was dump previous footage online onto the google drive to upload it to the computer. That way we can access it anywhere. This was useful since we couldn’t do much in school. We could at least get one thing done.    Despite these setbacks we are on our way to being completely done with the video though.

Editing Blog

We ran into a few problems from the start when trying to edit. We tried to open up pinnacle studios and were met with a screen saying that it wouldn't respond. I reloaded the computer a few times only to find out that it just wouldn't work. I then put that computer away to get another one and try again. I repeated the same process over again with the new one. Yet again I was met with the screen letting me know it wouldn't work. I tried one more time with a third computer but none of them would work. It was then we realized we would have to do most of the editing at home. So, I uploaded the footage to the google drive and logged off. I volunteered to do some of the editing on my own at home since we needed some edited for our peer review.
To edit we decided to use imovie since it had a lot of the same functions and was easy to access and use. One good thing was importing the footage took little to no time since we had uploaded it onto the google drive already. Then, I sorted through the footage and found all of the usable clips. From there I organized them and put them in. Then I shortened the clips to the correct length so they moved cleanly from one scene to another. Another thing I did was add background music to build suspense in the scenes. I had to go online and find royalty free music that was downloadable and get it from there. I found one that really worked and added it on to the video. This really enhanced the feeling we were trying to go for in the video and actually made it a lot better thematically. Overall, we were able to get a lot done for our first time editing, and most of what we have left is just adding the titles.

Peer Review Blog

This week on Monday, we had our peer reviews. The peer reviews were basically where we had to give what we had worked on so far to another group for them to review. While our video was being reviewed, we reviewed another group's video. The night before peer reviewing, I had to edit some of our video since we hadn't been able to yet. Thankfully, we had something to show the next day during the peer review. The way the teams were decided was by picking a number on a piece of paper from a box. The number we chose was the group we looked at. When I got to class on Monday, my teacher wasn't there so I just followed the instructions on the board. I first checked which group was reviewing mine and gave them my group's video. Then I went and got the sheet we were filling out for the peer review. It had a series of question we had to answer based on the video we watched. After that I found the person who we were going to review and got a copy of their video to watch. Me and my partner watched the video at around the same time so we could talk with each other to help grade the video. We had to check for the amount of titles, sound quality, and lighting quality. We also checked for the different angles used when filming. A lot of it was just checking yes or no to the questions. After, finishing, we talked to the people who reviewed ours. The main critique we got from the group that graded our video was to have better lighting in the shots. That will be something we edit later to make it look better. Overall this helped show how far we've progressed in the project.