Editing is complete!

Hello! 

I am proud to announce that the editing process is DONE! D-O-N-E. 

Honestly, I don't know how we managed to finish it. All I can say is that a LOT of hard work and determination went into this film opening. We edited until we couldn't edit no more and everything looked just like we planned to. Here are a a couple of pictures from the editing process. Our film is called "What's Next?" and I'm excited to show it to you guys!

Now on to my final posts! 

Bye Bye now!

Thank God for Royalty Free Music!

Good News! 

Today, while Mariana and I were editing we were having a crisis with the sound element of our film opening. We asked a singer if we could use their song for part of the opening, but they never responded back! 

So as we were struggling, Mariana's sister told us to go AudioJungle to find royalty free music. We followed her advice and went on the website looking for a song to save the day. After hours of searching, we came across a song that had a homey and latin vibe to it. So, we purchased it and implemented it into our film opening! 

Stay tuned in for more!

Late Friday Night Editing

Where do I start?! Today was full of editing, editing and more editing. We worked on editing from 5pm to 10:30pm. WHAT A DAY. Here's a picture of Mariana and I editing. She looks so happy and alive, but the truth is, she was drinking coffee to say awake. Honestly, we were both falling asleep but we made it!

We aren't completely done, yet we are off to a very good start. We plan on editing for the next two days non-stop due to our change of plans. We aim to be 100% done by Sunday, that way we can finish the rest of the project on time to enjoy our Spring Break. 

At first, Mariana and I were kind of lost with what to do, but we started looking through our footage and deleting footage we knew wouldn't work. That way we could lay all of the useful footage down on iMovie and start the editing process. It seemed a little overwhelming because all of our footage reached like nine minutes and we had a lot of the same remakes of some of the footage. But, we took a deep breath and started with the beginning of the opening and worked our way to the end. Today we finished off with six minutes, but tomorrow we are meeting up in the morning and finishing it off. I have a lot of faith that it will turn out fine because of all our determination this past week. 

I will post some pictures of the editing process tomorrow and Sunday. I just wanted to tell you guys a little recap of how today went!

Stay tuned! 

Post Filming Feedback!

Hello again! 

Today was an extremely stressful day, thank god it's almost over. Between our actress's busy schedule and filming, but I can finally say the filming process is done! 

I will add some pictures and short clips of today (including bloppers). Enjoy!

Actor Probs

At the beginning of this project, our teacher told us that without a doubt we were going to endure many obstacles with our projects. I tried not to think about it too much, but she was right. Just when everything is going great something inevitably happens...

Sadly, the actress we used for the previous video can't film today, but I called one of my close friends and she said she was willing to do it. 

I introduce to you Rebeca Sanchez! 

Even though our other actress couldn't, Rebeca still fits our the role perfectly. She's seventeen and hispanic, from Venezuela. She's also tall and very pretty, so it all fit perfectly!

Well, now off to filming!!

Camera Research

Hi guys, 

So, today I had my SAT and I really don't feel like doing anything else besides sleeping, but I must keep you guys up to date on what's happening! 

I never really mentioned what we were going to use to film. The camera we are using isn't the most professional one, but it is good and our only option besides our iPhones. 

We are using the Nikon COOLPIX P500. Since it's my dad's I haven't really gotten the chance to use it that much besides for taking family pictures. 

With that being said, I have no idea what features it has for filming. Although, this doesn't pertain only to this camera, I did some research on how to do shallow focus. It's something that Mariana and are considering of trying for parts of the opening. From reading this article, it seems pretty simple, I tried playing around with the aperture and zooming in. I failed a couple of times, so I'm not sure if its a good idea to do it for the opening. 

Tomorrow we are finally filming!!! I am so happy, yet nervous. I hope everything goes as planned. We have our actress, location, camera and determination to get this done. Wish us luck!:)




Hyman, I. (2016, December 08). Depth of Field in Your Video: Why and How to Use It. Retrieved April 05, 2017, from http://www.izzyvideo.com/depth-of-field/

Hicks, L. (2013, August 16). FPT: How to Create Depth of Field. Retrieved April 05, 2017, from http://www.digitalcamerareview.com/howto/fpt-how-to-create-depth-of-field/

Filming Research

Little recap on today! 
So, Mariana found an interesting slideshare on filming techniques of the Coming-of-Age sub-genre. Although we already made our storyboard, we still looked through it just in case it could help us. 

The slideshare mainly emphasized that Coming-of-Age films are 'emotion driven' and the characters emotions are constantly present and remain the film in focus. Since the process of coming-of-Age is a personal, psychological, and moral growth and is achieved my experiencing different emotions, it is our job to make sure that those emotions are the focal point. In order to achieve that, we must make good use of the actor's performance and specific camera angles and movement. 

Shots
What really appealed to us about the slideshare was the information on close ups. Knowing that in most films close ups are used to identify important characters and show a persons emotion. It mentioned that they are very important in Coming-of-Age films because the personal growth and change is emphasized through the emotions the person has. 


Here are some screenshots of the examples the person gave: 

Seeing this slide on the Two-Shot made us think that it could possibly help us in showing Daniela's relationship with her mother. Since they can demonstrate complicated home life relationships.

Editing
It mentioned the use of cutaways and push ins to show emotion and emotional response. There is a a shot at the end where we were planning on using a push in for that same reason. 







Tune in tomorrow! Xoxo



Creighton, B. (2012, December 06). Camera Angles/Movements and Editing. Retrieved April 04, 2017, from https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/beccacreighton7/camera-anglesmovements-and-editing