AICE Media Studies AS- Lotti, A

 After filming all of my shots and editing everything together, I decided to work on the sound of the movie. There were some places where I needed the back group sounds, such as at the airport and on the airplane.  The other clips had unnecessary sounds that were not important to the film so instead of muting the sounds I adjusted the clip audio and lowering the balance of the volume for the whole clip. This is to ensure that there will be some backdrop music but there is no obnoxious sounds over the music. I also anded key frames in the music to bring down the music volume at times that someone would speak. Overall I feel like I completed the editing stage and did a good job in making the sounds work out. 

After presenting my film to the class, I received many comments about how the title and the credits are intriguing and fit well with the clips included. Many students said that they liked how I included clips from the airplane which really includes into the main characters point of view. I had many reviews that said that placing the title in the beginning can lead to the title being forgotten, so there were many ideas to place the title on the end right as the music cuts out. They also gave me an idea to increase the sound of when the character is talking on the phone so it becomes more understandable to the audience and also adding sounds for when the kidnapping does happen and add struggling sounds which can be done by a voice over. There is one clip that has a different color scheme that the rest so I can try to lower the color so it’s darker and goes along with the rest of the clips, as for the title I might make it slower so the audience can read it. I am aware that I need to ...

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  Over this weekend I talked with all of the actors that were going to be in my film and made a plan of when and what time to go to our city’s airport to film. As soon as we got there we started to film, and I was telling them where to go and when to move into the frame. Overall, it was really fun to film everything and the more we filmed the more ideas came into my mind of a better way or angle to use and how to put animation in the film. After collecting all my film clips, I uploaded them into premire pro and started adding key frames and when to add title slides or not. For the rest of the week, I was planned to finish putting the clips in and making smooth transitions so that later on I would only have to add any sounds needed.

Today is the first day that we are receiving help with using premire pro and it was a great help to me. Although I only had a couple of clips and not the complete film, I was able to add text to the shots and also learned what a key frame is. When wanting to add effects to the video or the text you have to put key frames of when you want it to start and stop. At first it was confusing as to how the different effects worked out but, in the end, we figured it out. I spent some time figuring out how I wanted the words to slide across the scene, and I decided for the first clip to include the title of the film and have it zoom out and fade as the clip is moving. For the clip where the plane is taking off, I decided to include the rest of the credits, such as the producer maybe even come up with a company name and include the rest of the characters.    

  Today I return home form my trip and I was ready with taking the shots that I needed to take again for the film. The flight was so long, but it gave me time to really think about putting everything that I have so far together, the setting and the dialogue included. I came home and uploaded the take-off video, the monorail shot and the shot of the airplane in the sky. The idea of these videos is to make it seem like it’s the main characters point of view. When inserted into premire pro I thought of also including the credits into these few shots as I believe it will fit well as the shots aren’t too distracting. I have not thought about the title yet because I wanted to see how well the filming would come out and decide afterwards on what fits. I feel like I have accomplished a lot this break and finish filming by the first weekend when school starts so I can have time to talk with the actors.  

Today is officially the start of my vacation as I am going to California to visit some family. I thought this was a great opportunity to think about the beginning of my film and decide if I need any shots from the airplane or the setting I was going to. I took a few shots from the airplane taking off, in the sky, and the taxiing. As soon as we landed, I could tell that the weather was not super clear, so it wasn’t a good time to take any shots. Throughout the trip of going to visit parks I asked myself if I needed any footage from here in my film, but I did not. I wrote down a list of shots that I still needed from when I fly back home. I needed a clip from the monorail and of the plane landing. Thinking about the clips I immediately had a great idea of what I can include on the clips when I’m importing it into the computer to edit.  I am thinking of including transitions in premier pro to put the airplane scenes together as it will flow better.