SerenaPeeps blog
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Checklist?
Hello
Friends, I hope you all are having a lovely day. Its Sunday and here I am
blogging after I promised not to wait last minute again. I know, shame on me.
It is an evening, and might I say, the wind is a little strong today and
bipolar! First it would be hot then all of a sudden in comes a strong gust of
wind. I’m not complaining but when I walked outside, I was expecting and hoping
for it to be hot because I’ve been in cold house all day and I needed some
sunshine but when I went outside, I was just as cold as I was inside...Talk
about disappointment. Anyways friends, This project is slowly coming to an end.
It is due at the end of the week or so but currently editing is not done nor
the critical reflection. Honestly, I don’t even know where to start on my
critical reflection, and it’s sad to say but I’m lost. This week, my critical
reflection is what I will be working on ONLY. By the end of the night I will
finish editing and that is all there is to do. For editing, I have to add in
the shots I re-filmed today, and fix the sound maybe even adding some
touch-ups. I started this project strong and I will end it that way. I managed
to maintain an A in this class, and I am hoping to keep it that way, now is not
the time to slack off. If anything, during the process of doing
this project I have become better with my time management believe it or not. Having
these assignments due back to back has helped, and also the teacher making us
submit portions of our work so we can have it all in on time has helped. I also will touch up my Blog and make it more presentable over the week.
Re-filming
Hey
guys, I hope you all are doing well. This is my first blog post for the month
of March. This month is actually looking good because it started on Monday!
Anyways, so today we re-recorded a shot and added one other shot. I didn’t have
an establishing shot, and the previous shot we did in the beginning failed to continue
continuity so we re-filmed to make it look better although there were a couple
of shots that had some sort of blip in it, we only re-did the one we could. On
set was pretty smooth and calm. There were only three people present when I was
recording, my mom who came for support, big cousin who is the director, and Franchesica
Jones. The waiter couldn’t make it to film, so we re-did the shots that were messed
up that only had Franchescia Jones. Also, the wind was blowing hard today and
while setting up we didn’t have tape so every time we went to shoot, the
pictures would fly off the table and this was so annoying. I didn’t want to
walk all the way around the house to get it but in the end everyone got tired
of it happening so I had to go get it.
One of the shots we had to re do was the crying scene and this time we had to
get it actually coming from my eye. This was hard because I tried to drop them
in with my finger, but it wasn’t working; every time I tried to, it would just
go in my eye and not come out as intended also causing my eye to burn because
of the makeup. In the end we used a syringe to get it right. This was more sanitary,
and it worked very well, we only had to re-shoot two times.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Reflection
Hey
guys I hope you are all doing good. I’m alright myself but I’m tired and I want
to go to sleep. This weekend I wasn’t really able to rest, but I did as much as
I possibly could. Concerning the project there is a lot of work that needs to
be done, and the game plan is to get it done tonight and tomorrow so we can
move on. My opening sequence is not completely edited so over the time span of
today and tomorrow that is what I will be doing. This month went by super
quick! We were in the postproduction stage last week, its ridiculous! Anyways,
for the editing there is only minor things that need to be done. That of which
adding the credits, the title and fixing the sound. Those are the only three
focuses in editing and when those are complete, we will sit back and revise
anything, but it’s easier said than done. I am very much longing
for this to be over; I think I will do good on the critical reflection part and
partially good on the blog part, but I’m just worried about the video piece. I
really put my best efforts into this and its just disappointing when your very
idea just doesn’t work out and falls apart. Right now, I have little and low
spirits for this project but what I can’t and will not say is I didn’t try. That’s
about it for today guys, I will go and work on editing now, wish me luck! XOXO
Friday, February 26, 2021
Stage 5 Already?
Hola
Hola Chicas! Como estas? I hope you are all doing good! Today is a beautiful
day in the neighborhood but I am tired. Lately I haven’t been getting a lot of
sleep, only the minimum amount required, and work has just been off lately
because I’m so tired during class I can’t focus, and after school I forget
about the work or I procrastinate. I’m working on doing better, so in the end
it will all work out. We are currently in the end stages of the project, specifically
stage 5. In this stage we focus on editing and stuff. It doesn’t really feel
like the end is approaching but I really wish things were looking better. Now
all of a sudden, I don’t like the way I built my project up. Even though it’s
getting done, I hope and pray I get a good grade. In my opinion my blog looks
well put together, my video is not so bad, and my critical reflection will be
good. I’m just here thinking about what I produced, and I can’t help to feel remorseful.
In the moment when I reviewed the shots, they looked good, but as I sat and
watched them all together, they’re not well planned, and just sloppy. There’s
so much failure to continue continuity it’s like a slap in the face!!!! I will
end up redoing it but not for the rough draft assignment but most definitely
for the final production piece. Besides the aforementioned, pertaining to the
editing piece for the project, we are using a website called WeVideo, it’s very
supportive and I like it. It provides things like sounds, and backgrounds that
can be put to use! I would rate it a 9/10 because it even allows you to collaborate
with others, but it’s a little difficult to use so you may have to play with
its features.
Creative Critical Reflection
CLICK HERE TO WATCH CCR
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