editing blog: getting the titles done

                     Many of you might not know but I enjoy editing and producing movies.
When I was little I liked to make movies with dolls and edit them to make their own little movies. On Tuesday night I took the time to sit down and figure out how I wanted the last title slide to be. I wanted to get ahead start on it so next weekend it wouldn't be all cramped up between filming and editing the whole movie. I liked where I had gotten last time with the idea with the newspaper but I don't know if i want to make it like that anymore. I got some paper and put it down and drew out some logos i thought could be cool. So i ended up sticking to the newspaper idea. It went in the intro the smoothest and worked out the. Best. I have been editing this cover page for about two days and the last thing I need to do is fix the pictures on the newspaper. I redid the newspaper about three times using different templates. i typed a different way of telling the story each time. IN the first one i summed it up in a pretty short paragraph.Then the second one i went into really fine detail but it ended up being to long and going off the page. im not done with the third one though. Even though really I only need to put the pictures in i am proabbaly going to edit the wording of the article. Im excited for this weekend its gonna be the last weekend of filming for us. Lily has spent the week getting her house and all the props ready for the shoot. And aniyah has been coming up with some more in depth shots to make th movies even better.

filming blog: getting the dates

  Hello everyone. Yet another weekend where we couldn't get enough time together. I am quite stressed about the dates that the projects are due. It is Real hard to get together when all these other activities are going on. I have been so busy lately with doing other projects and getting my grades as high as possible. It has been a struggle to try to juggle it all. I want to get a good grade on this project though. I want the girls to get a good grade too. They also have a lot of stuff going on in there lives. Getting together gets pretty hard when we all live 30 minutes away from each other. But we did, however, get about two hours to film all the mall parts. We went to the mall and we asked some stores if we could film. We got turned down a couple of times but then we finally went to an h and m and they let us film in the store as long as we didn't get any other customers or make a mess. We couldn't get any of the customers on camera or disturb them. It was really hard because there were a lot of people in the store. we waited for a lot of time for people to go and even changed locations in the stores where fewer people were. We got some shots but most of them were very rushed and not very good sound. There was loud music in the store and babies crying in the back. The music would have been good if it was lower but it was much too loud to hear the girl talking. We didn't get any shots to put in the movie so we are gonna try a different mall next weekend and get the house shots at lilys.

  

filming blog; hard to get everyone together

 Hey, world its Stephanie again. This is the first weekend we have gotten to have time to film and wouldn't have been a great one. The weekend started off nice and bright and perfect conditions to film. But as time past through Friday things started to change. The weather took a turn for the worst. It was gloomy and the sun was hidden behind dark rainy clouds. If only we could have had time Friday morning to start the filming process. I know you guys don't know this but since the school we go to is a magnet school we have the chance to come from all over Broward county to attend the school. Living so far apart makes it hard to come together often to film and work on projects. I live in planation, Lily lives in Hollywood, and I believe Aniyah lives in pompano. We live about 30 minutes away. However, I am kinda in the middle of both Aniyah and Lily. We although always make time for each other and come together and film. That's why we make such great partners we do anything for each other and help each other out when we need it. We will make time one of these three weekends to film. We always come together and when we do, we will make the best film we possibly can. I am kinda upset that we couldn't get together this weekend though. It is a long weekend in fact it is a five day weekend. We tried to get together but our schedules just weren't going together this weekend. We probably couldn't have filmed anything outside though because of the rain. But maybe we could have been able to film the parts that are inside. Anyways here is a picture of the sunset after it rained.

planning the storyboard

      Hey it's Stephanie! We have finally reach the last and final step of the planning phase: the storyboard. In this part of the planning phase, one of my group members, Lily took the lead in this. Usually, Aniyah takes care of this part, but we decided to try something new. Aniyah helped Lily get started on the storyboard and she let her know how this part of the process goes. After that, Lily went on by herself. She has learned well and has shown great progress with the storyboard. The storyboard puts everything together. It puts together the actions, camera angles and movements, and shots. It maps out every second of the film. The storyboard truly depicts a good image of what our film is going to look like. This google slide will present to you the storyboard.

planning the titles.

out of all the parts of this movie, title slides are really important. They are gonna show what we understand and how far we have come in our movie-making process. In today's slides, I am going to take you through just what we have planned the titles to be popping up on the screen. There is gonna be some detail about the location and the font. Also, there will be some telling about the amount of time it is going to be up on the screen. We have to fit a lot of important titles into one short 9intro to a movie but do it well. It has to be there long enough to read but no longer than to take up the whole time. It has to be perfect and if it isn't it could make the whole movie bad. In here we also spoke about the spacing and the contrast.

planning the location and schedule

We have come a far way once again about how we are planning to get our movie finished. Today we go over procedures we are taking to make sure this movie gets done safely. We are talking about the health and safety codes we are following. We are also talking about the places we have decided to film our movie in. Although those aren't always definite because of course some malls are too busy and don't allow filming. But we also made the schedule that we are going to follow to make sure this gets made on time. The purpose of the schedule is to keep on track and make sure the proper steps are followed to get a good grade. As always you are only seeing the behind the scene of this project ad soon you will be able to see the whole things done.

dialog and sound script

It is officially that time of year to start getting out script and background work together. We have been working so hard o this project to make it the best one ever. We have all come so far in the last year learning new skills. We have learned to edit, filming and just working as a group better. We are so excited to be able to share our script with you guys. This is gonna be your little sneak peek into our movie. Though we have been working super hard we still haven't got all the details down pat. But I promise the second we do we will let you guys know. In this blog, I will be going through all the sound effects that will be going into the blog. I will also we giving you guys the script that is gonna be in the movie. After this blog and the one before this, you will have a good understanding of what exactly our movie is gonna consist of.

planning shooting script

We have officially began the first planning step in the making of our movie. Our group and I have done a lot of discussing on how we want the movie to go. It took a lot of time and thinking because they were many different aspects to consider. We have to figure out what angles, movements, sounds, and editing techniques to use. We also had to figure out the meaning behind each angle, movement, sound, and editing technique and how it would not only grasp the audience attention, but also how would it keep them engaged. We eventually came up with great ideas of how we want it to go and it all connects very well. We have created a shooting script that maps out what will go on in each and every scene. Although, only the angles, movements, and editing techniques are planned out, in upcoming blogs, there will more insight into other details about the movie. Thank you for reading and blog you later!