3 Hours of Failure

I was a little disappointed in last week's class. I felt like it was very unorganized and as if nothing was really accomplished. I am really thankful that our footage was digitized first! But even having our footage digitized didn't help with getting a heads up on editing our movie. Rather Austin spent some time in trying to find out how to work the program for editing in general. That moment, I wish, like how the cameramen had the chance to play around with the camera, I think the editors should have been given the opportunity to play around with the software for editing. But after fooling around with the software, I think as a group we realized it would be better if we just stick with the editing program we already know how to use: Windows Movie Maker. After realizing this, we needed to get our footage onto a flash drive. I left around 9, but Austin waited longer to get the flash drive, and after waiting for an hour or two, sadly all of the clips did not even fit on the flash drive. So we practically waited for 3 hours to accomplish something in regards to our film, but all we accomplished was digitizing our footage! But it probably is more progress then a lot of the other groups' progress!

Aside from so many technical difficulties in class last Thursday, we also got to film our movie last week! Overall, it was fun, and surprisingly not stressful at all! On Tuesday, we filmed our main scenes, and some of the other side scenes. Overall, it was quite successful, because we would shoot a scene and actually be substantially satisfied with it, and so we would just move onto the next scene. I noticed that our screenplay was important, but didn't play the most vital role, it was there to just remind us of what scenes we need to shoot, and an idea on how the dialog should be said. But this probably was more true because our team worked as a group for each scene, everyone needed to agree before we started shooting the scene (which was not hard at all to accomplish). One of the greatest things was that as we were making our movie, we made some changes in scenes and even created new scenes on the spot!

I think our first scene we shot had a lot of detail, which made me really happy. In fact, I felt like all of our shots were well thought out, and tried to make the scenes as crazy looking as possible. I once watched a movie directed by Farhan Akhtar (Bollywood director) and I really liked how there was distinct detail in even background objects, and long shots with less cuts. This seemed pretty cool and sufficient! And when our group decided to do a similar shot, I then realized our movie is going to be pretty legit.

Matt was a really good camera dude! I really liked how he experimented with shots, recorded it, and then as a group we watched the shots played back and thought, "wow, Matt! good job!" Jo Beth was pretty darn awesome on acting like she was trying to commit suicide with a bottle of ibuprofen and gallon of chlorine. And I think Austin and I did a pretty good job in trying to act like a couple!

I'm quite happy about the footage we have collected, a little nervous on editing the movie in two weeks. But I think once we get the entire footage on to the flash drive, we can work on the movie on our own time and actually get it done. But from what it seems, our movie won't require that much editing either, but we do need to put our scenes in order! And hopefully next class will be more productive!