Overall movie Blog

This commercial brought us to the conclusion of our projects in media studies and judging on the quality of this video, I can safely say that we ended off on a high note. Working together as a group this year had its highs an lows but I would never be able to sit here and say that we didn't get work done with everything we had. This was one of our larger projects which makes sense because this is what we would be ultimately turning into cambridge. We also probably can all agree that we have not worked as hard in the class as we did on this particular project. The hard work truly paid off in the end because the commercial looks great and we ended as a group together. This project is definitely my favorite because we used all our past knowledge on film making to do it. We spent less time learning about film and more time applying what we learned and developing a quality product. We really got to give this one are all with everything we learned which in my opinion is why it turned out the best out of all our assignments in the class. This was the conclusion of videoing in this class, but not the end of the group who strove for success in it

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Overall Music Video Blog

This music video is different from the rest of our projects because it took a drastic turn in terms of our group mates. For this one, our group had a moment of weakness and split up. It was Eli and me for this assignment but that didn't stop us from giving this project our all. I remember getting the assignment in class and us two immediately start to pick out songs. We came up with the song Hey There Delilah and stuck with it throughout. Us two working together was very different. No only did we have to bring in another group mat, Peter, but we also had way more work then we usually would. I remember a sort of competition brewing between us two groups that gave us that extra drive to want to do the best that we could. We made all of our due dates and then some, trying to finish before Paige and Roscoe. We did all our filming in one go because we wanted to do it during a christmas celebration in young circle. After me and Eli split up the work fairly, we executed and got it all done. Our music video, despite the change in group, turned out good and we were happy. We weren't only happy about the grade but also the idea that we didn't need the other members of our previous group to get a good quality clip. In the end however, we ended up all back with each other because we felt we worked a lot more efficiently like that. The project itself taught us a lot and we familiarized ourselves with other jobs that we didn't do before. We also learned how to more effectively use out time wisely which proved to help us in later projects. I was glad that we got the opportunity to work without each other but now that it was out of the way, we came back to each other instantly.

Overall Commercial Blog

Being that our project of making a commercial off of a product given was so long ago, I consider it as the practice run of all our projects. In this commercial, we were walked through and taught all the basics. These basics included, editing story boarding, and finally filming. I remember getting a brief explanation of the three before hand but it wasn't until we experienced for ourselves first hand before we really got the idea of them. This commercial was a lot of trial and error which was normal because it was our first time. We also in a sense were testing out our groups and seeing if working with these classmates would be a problem or not. Looking back at the project now, it really wasn't difficult and the reason we had trouble with it before was because it was all new. We took this one way to seriously then what we probably should have since it was our first grade in the class as well. I also consider this one to be one of the more fun ones because we got to work with Nike products which is a brand I wear often. We went through our fair share of struggles just as any other group would which again is expected. We did however get all the requirements for it done, got it in on time, and walked out with a high grade. We couldn't have asked for it to go better for our first time. Especially since to this day we as a group are still together.

Filming Blog: Corona Virus

  In my last blog, I talked pretty optimistically in terms of the whole corona virus not effecting us in media studies that much. Unfortunately, ways have changed and now all the group needs is a chance to get together. For the first couple days, talking over the phone wasn't to bad but I can't say the same anymore. Finishing up the last parts of editing has proven to be the most tedious part of this whole project. It seems as if none of us can link with each others schedules. We need to be able to sit down together and just get it done. That simple idea is just getting harder and harder. Especially with the corona virus. This corona virus keeps becoming more and more restrictive but for good reason. The Governor has already put into play action against going out of our house with no issue. Now there is curfew and we can't leave without reasonable cause. A media studies project doesn't fall under that reasonable cause. This however changes nothing. Why coming together physically as a group will be a lot easier, we should still be able to do it over computers like all the other groups. It just would be nice if we were able to work to our full potential together. The restrictions are just going to get more extreme so it won't get any easier. The only thing we can do is to find a way to work more conjointly as a group with the circumstances we've been given. Maybe we can try implementing new tactics like group facetime. The only thing is we would have to plan ahead. We have to get this done no matter what case.

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Filming Blog: Re-shoot

    During this time, we are currently battling the Covid-19 pandemic and Broward counties first wave of action is shutting schools down for this week. We were coming near the end of our our third quarter when school was closed but this changes nothing in terms of due dates for this class. Most of the things we turned in were computer based anyway so it changed nothing. As for the groups who didn't complete their filming, going out with your group was risky. Despite the clear warnings, we took that risk. Unfortunately, after reviewing our put together film, all we did was name the things we should have changed. We constructed a list a few classes before of all the things we would have changed. Yesterday, we came together, pulled out the list, and started filming. We did consider the fact that we would have to wear the same clothes which we did no problem. There was changes to the environment however which through us of. With our luck, the city of Hollywood ended up re-paving Paige's alley just when we are trying to do our re-filming. Now during our film, some parts have brand pavement and others are cracked, and old. We continued with our filming anyway though. We started with the truck scenes because my dad had somewhere to be, and moved on to smaller hings like the text from my mom, and the tying me up parts. Another thing that changed was the fact that I had got a haircut a week before so personally I look different in some scenes now to. There was no telling the effect this virus would have had on our schooling so there's not much we could do. Not that it has any difference in this class, our third quarter has been extended so the quick absence of school shouldn't effect us in the long. Honestly, our teachers have not been in contact with us as of now but for this class specifically, Ms. Marchione was aware that this could happen so she told us ahead of time that it would change nothing. All due dates will stay the same and nothing has been extended. So far, we've done good keeping up with our due dates and communicating with each other within our group through call and text. I don;t see any drastic changes in terms of his class. It also helps that as of now we are pretty much done with our entire film with only a few small things left to go.

Editing Blog: Team V.S. Sound

     I've talked a lot in my previous blogs on our editing experience because honestly, it's been the most tedious past of this whole film. Just when I think were finished, something happens that has opening the editing app for that "one last time." Today for example, we thought we were going to have an easy class to just review until we realized the titles were not the right colors and some played to short. While this may have been a straight forward fix, our next issue was not so simple. For the titles, we went in, changed the colors, and made the clips longer. The sound on the other hand, had us reverting back to the drawing board and trying to find new no-copyright music. After listening to the film with headphones in, it wasn't hard to realize that the different songs did not flow well together. That and some of the songs were almost like a joke in the positions where they are. Alone, the music sounded good in the occasion but when we were sitting there listening to it, we knew it had to change. Luckily, we had some other pieces of music previously saved from when we first were trying to find music. We only had to get one new song for a piece for the film. After inverting the newly positioned and changed music into the film, it sounded more professional. I think it's safe to say however that there's still a lot more work needed in that category. In one of my last blogs, I talked on our availability when it came to the re-shoot. Paige was able to get this weekend free'd up so now we are planning to use this weekend to our advantage. We don't plan on filming large parts of the film again because that's just not needed. We are however going to re-film some of the small flaws we found. We have good things planned but i'll save that for a new blog. Until then, we will continue to edit the shots we have and have it stay a well, first constructed film. Our last intentions is to go backwards in progress. We will continue our momentum forward while at the same time, tweak the obviously flawed components.