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.

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

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.

Final Production

 Hey guys, I hope you all are having a lovely day! So on Febuary 21st, I finished filming, but I may have to re do them. It was a hetic day because it rained on set and as soon aw we went inside it stopped. I was angry because my crew was late, and they werent cooperating which made things harder for me but in the end it came together and it was enjoyable. As far as eqquipment goes, I used a Iphone 12 pro max as video recording; I was not able to get the tripod because I couldn’t find it in my house but it still worked out. During production and working with the camera I learned that iPhone cameras have more editing options than I thought. They have a feature where the camera holds steady even if your hand is shaky which made production 10 times easier. I didn’t have to use any outside resources to figure out how to use the camera because I’m already familiar with it. Now the storyboard was supposed to help make production simpler but honestly I’m not the best artist lol, so my mom was helping with the framing and putting my shots into action and those were my a ha moments because just when I was ready to try a different way she made it the original way. There were NUMEROUS bloopers, me and my family are goofy and we kept laughing and kept having to redo the shots.

Hair/Makeup

Hey Guys!!! So, in my previous blog you seen that we did a practice shoot today. It went really good and smooth. I did the makeup for the production and honestly, I was just winging it. I was aiming to make Franchesica Jones look tired and just mentally drained, but it looks like she got beat up XD I have never worn makeup or worked on it until today and honestly, it didn’t look too bad. I used 2 makeup pallets, an eyebrow pencil, and translucent powder to achieve the pale look but as time went on, the makeup started to look old and you could barely see it. Honestly, it hurt just applying the makeup on my skin because I was applying it rough and quick because I was kind of rushing, but It worked out in the end. In my opinion you could barely see the makeup but others said it was noticeable so I just left it alone. I also couldn't do anything with my hair because I just got it done and I couldn't have took it out.

I used these makeup pallets below. I used the shades Ashanti, Jezebel, Kenya, and a little bit of Madagascar. ( I just took off the makeup and my face hurts because I may have blended the makeup too roughly XD)

A Taste of Production

Today is Film day! Before production I will need makeup, a tripod, and pictures! I am current writing this before production and I'm nervous. I'm worried that I may not have everything I need for production considering the fact that I don't have access to all I need, my mom is bringing the things to set.

 

A couple of hours later....

 

So, filming today was actually very fun! My mom brought everything except for the tripod but that's because she couldn't find it. We went to Walmart to buy a shirt for the production and it all worked out great in the end, My favorite part of production was saying "Quiet on the set". I kept laughing and we kept having to start over! Not only did I enjoy it but the cast, and my supporters could also agree. My mom started off as the camera man but she’s pregnant an can’t stand for long, so my big cousin took over. We didn’t get to film all of it so today was basically a practice day. All of our phones were dying, and we lost track of time, and we were starting to lose daylight, so we stopped recording for the day. We took an ice-cream break which interfered with time, but it was still amazing. My grandma, and my mom sat out there and watched to support me. When we got out there it was kind of hard only because the we had trouble timing each shot and we didn’t know how to position ourselves, not to mention the TERRIBLE acting...Everyone was saying that I could not act to save my life which is so true! Down below I will insert some pictures of the process and the experience today, but I don’t think it could have gone any better. I don’t regret picking the filming location because my backyard really can pass for a café! The mosquitos were eating me up though!