Week 11

10/22/24

This week our teacher gave us the class in order to finish up our blogs and give those that have not done a few to catch up. We went over loglines, editing and vocabulary. We were also given time to reflect on what we can improve in the following film. We then started to think of what we were going to do for our scenes. Our teacher had told us that we had to be more specific when making our blogs. We also had the bright idea to include scenes from our films into the blogs to show our work as well as the process to finish our film. So this week was mostly made up of catching up and reflecting on our progress throughout the school year.

10/24/24

 This week me and my partner Eduardo were assigned a group project. We were thinking about doing a film on a soccer player. As his team is reaching states the pressure is mounting on to preform. He does not want to let the team down, and the pressure is getting to him. We might get back to the idea to film a commercial as the filming will be hard to get access to since we need permission from the security to go down to the field. We were also handed a paper explaining what our blogs should look like and how they should be formatted according to Cambridge. We were a given our storyboard in which me and my partner started brainstorming on and we were able to finish it halfway. We are planning to start filming this weekend in order to give ourselves time to edit and figure out what we can do better.

Week 10

10/16/24

PSAT

10/18/24

This week we were presented with a serious obstacle. When my group and I were trying to open our documentary the file said that it was corrupted. We were faced with a decision of waiting and losing time recovering what we had done, or we could restart the whole editing progress. Luckily for us this file was easily recovered, after only 20 minutes my partner Eduardo managed to recover it by opening a later file that was not corrupted. This is what we called a learning process, it helped us learn what we can do next time this problem occurs. We all our our assigned things to do some worked on the script while I worked on editing our film. To do this out teacher gave us a rubric on what we needed to include in our film. My group later got together to finish up the credits so that we would make sure al the music and extra videos were credited. We made a valuable amount of progress today, and I hope it continues going like this.

Week 9

 10/7/24

Today was a slow start for our group. We had just came back from the weekend and we did not feel like working, but all things must come to an end. We eventually started working by watching the clips we had already edited. We all noticed that one of our clips was blurry, so we had to refilm it. We had to wait until one of the other groups was finished in order to finish up on our filming. Our microphone was picking up all the other conversation around the room, so we just decided to finish the filming at home.

10/9/24

We had some miscommunication and ended up not recording anything which would delay our filming and give us more work to do in the class. After 20 minutes of logging into the computers since the WIFI was very slow we got into the green room and recorded our scenes. We had started editing our clips, as well as adding some very needed voice overs to make out film more original. We had finished filming as had been said over and over, and we were on to the next day.

10/11/24

We were actually finished with editing, now all that was left was for my partner Eduardo to download clips and put them into our film. He did a very good job and it led to us being finished before the end of class, so I decided to spend the rest of the class working on my blog for this week. This week was very stressful, but my group did very well and handled the various situations.

Week 8

 9/30/24

Since our region of school was having hurricane threats we were behind on our film. All of the rush led to shots we were not quite accomplished with. We had retake the shot 6 times, and ultimately ended up picking the least worst one. The shots were voice overs so we had to go into a quiet room in order to film. It took us longer than expected since we had to be entirely quiet. Even with these issues, my group was able to have most of our shots done and we were able to start focusing on the most stressing part of editing, but in order to even get to that part we had to troubleshoot many, many times. We were all caught up where we should have been, now it was onto the next day.

10/2/24

Today was the day we finish our film. We decided to add two more shots in order to compose more original shots into our film. Me and Eduardo were focused on editing, until we realized it would be more efficient if only one person edited and the other worked on the other parts of the documentary. So I had started creating a marketing poster on the film with my two other partners, Kyle, and Garrett. We were finally done with the film and we spent the few minutes left of class catching up on our blogs.

Week 7

9/24/24

Today's class was quite similar to last class. We mostly spent our time accordingly in trying to find the best clips to produce and successful film. This proved to be worth the while since we were doing our film on the Avengers, we had to pick in choose through a vast variety of their film series. In my group since we all have a different mindset, it was known that we would want to include different clips into the film. While some wanted fighting scenes, others wanted montage on how the film was made. We had gotten some progress done and we were on track to making a promising film.