Editing troubles

Editing has been, for better or for worse, really hard. When I was working on projects on my own, I was able to have full creative freedom. However, in working with a team, I have had to compromise and work on listening to my group. As a perfectionist, this has been hard in deconstructing my own ideas as to what should be done. But, getting to have differing opinions has led to solutions and ideas I never would've come up with on my own. As I and Anya were mostly acting, Angel was the one behind the camera for the majority of the filming. Halfway through some of our film days, Angel would take some extra shots or have us redo a scene from a different angle. Getting to see these ideas come to life in editing has been amazing. Little details being zoomed in on and working in longer takes seemed insignificant at first. Now, that they are starting to come together, they are more important than ever. It has been generally agreed that some of the shots we have are not as good as they could be. For now, we are putting in the scenes we have as placeholders. We now have a general idea of the movie and how long each scene will go on. Using that, we can easily cut down on filming time. Maximizing the amount we can get done in one filming session is important, especially considering we are working against both the sun setting and our preexisting schedules. I want to take a day to chat with both Angel and Anya to get a more detailed idea of what we have left to refilm. Thankfully, for every scene we have to redo, there are at least three more scenes that were really well done. Anya has been doing a great job of playing the Mystery Woman. This is to the point where I was genuinely a bit scared that she might chop my head off during filming.

This picture was taken during the filming of me and my mom's scenes in order to better understand the lighting we would need to make it happen.

Until next time, Danniella Miller signing off.

Comments

Short Film Research: Tangles and Knots

Short film description: A sticky, intimate bond between mother and daughter becomes threatened when the mother helps her teenage daughter throw a party to impress new, popular friends. Sound: In the dialogue, there is no difference in how the mother and daughter speak to each other, speaking more like friends than mother and daughter. However, when the party starts, the mom begins interjecting herself into the daughter's conversations, teaching her how to take a jello shot and encouraging her to come into the pool. The added sound contributes to the setting, with dance music that helps bring the idea of it being a party altogether. This is made apparent when there is no dialogue and the daughter is just dancing, where all that can be heard is the music she's dancing to. There is no dialogue that needs to be understood or listened to, more so the viewer can focus on the daughter's awkward movements and how she feels in that moment. Mis-en-scene: The opening scenes work a...

Planning the storyboard for my Pentel commercial

First Scene: This will be the shot comparing other pens to Pentel pens. It will give the audience an idea of the kinds of things you can do with Pentel pens and why they're so much better. It will be a zoom shot. As the actor continues writing, the camera will zoom in to look at how the pen is acting on the paper. Second Scene: Here, the actor will take a highlighter to the generic pen and it will smudge everything up. This will be an extreme zoom. As the Pentel pens' inability to smudge and fast drying times are a huge part of their advertising, I wanted to include a shot that would compare Pentel pens to other pens. This will still be on the same desk as the first shot, but it will instead be an overhead shot truly focusing on the paper. Third Scene: It's well known how infuriating it can be to have a pen smudging up all your hard work, so I truly wanted to show that emotion here. The audience can empathize with our actor's struggle and want to help him find a better ...

Issues while Editing my Music Video

So, since my last blog, quite a bit has happened. I managed to lose all my progress on my video. Now, let me explain. I was editing my video and decided to render it so I would be able to watch it without having to let it load. So, as I'm waiting for the video to render, a message pops up that my computer is about to die. Usually, I have a couple of minutes to plug it in, but it ended up dying right away and basically reset. I immediately plug my computer in and turn it back on. As I open up Premiere, my work on the music video was completely gone. I was completely shocked and upset. I started looking up how to recover my work because all that it said I had done was import my files into the program. All of the tedious editing to the lyrics was gone. I'm looking through every file on my computer, every possible place where it could be. The reason I hadn't saved a separate copy and knew where it was was due to the fact that I was relying on the auto-save feature, but I didn...

Danniella Miller AICE Media Studies

Search This Blog