Week 9 Post 3 (Video Link)

 https://youtu.be/T5_hKAWVZRo

Week 9 post 2 (CCR Link)

 Here's the link to my Final CCR!

https://youtu.be/5CgpaGXFdSc

Week 9 Post 1 (Reflection)

 The process of creating the film introduction for the film "Trip" was a very long process. It is interesting to look back and see just how many adaptations the story went through before it became the final product.

Originally, we wanted to create a film to represent teenage social anxiety and represent the difference between a teen's reality and actuality in any given social situation. After hard deliberation, there was no way to trigger actual fear with a topic like that. Eventually, we ended up with the story of a kid, who one day was peer pressured into taking a substance that he had never heard of before. Being that he had never taken illegal substances before, he was very nervous to do so. Once he takes it, he has a very bad reaction to it, which the introduction shows. 

At the very end, a random man can be seen entering the scene and picking up the remainder of the substance that our main character had left behind. The rest of the movie can pick up from there, showing either from the bystander's perspective or our main character's perspective on just how harmful drugs can be. 

Week 8 Post 3

 Today, I finished the final touches on the movie intro and made my CCR.

I started off the day with a very rough draft of the final edit of the film opening. After spending a couple hours putting the finishing touches on the cuts and the sound edits, I had the finished product. Now, the only obstacle was adding in all of the credits. This proved to not be too hard as my group and I had already decided where the title and all of the credits should go. After figuring out how to add text over the video clips on premier, I finally had the final cut of the film opening. I would say it turned out pretty good... as you will see in future blog posts.

The final part of the project however was all that was left for me to do. This was the CCR. It took a few hours but I put together a pretty lengthy script, got together my extra footage, and shot the CCR. I think it came out pretty good... it ended up being just over 7 minutes long which was the goal.

Week 8 Post 2

 Today, I continued editing the film introduction.

After figuring out the whole audio situation, I had all of the clips that I had shot arranged in order. I did run into one last issue though. With everything together, the full video was over 5 minutes long. In planning, I hadn't anticipated for all the time the walking shots would take in order to retain its continuity. That said, I needed to find somewhere else to cut time off. 

Unfortunately, I ended up landing on the trip scene. It actually ended up going on for longer than 2 minutes by itself. I cut out all of the extra shots of the car, all of the changes between the trip, and the normal shots of Donavan walking. This not only got the video to its correct time slot, but it also allowed for more continuity and better quality overall. 

Week 8 Post 1

 Hello Blog! Today I continued editing the film introduction. 

Unfortunately, after finally having all of the clips in order, I realized there was another problem. Since the microphone I was using was so sensitive, there were subtle but noticeable differences in sound between clips. This not only made the edits noticeable but hard to listen to. 

After messing around with adobe premier for a few hours, I eventually tuned the audio to remain at a consistent level between clips. This made the intro much easier to watch and to listen to. 

Week 7 Post 3

 Today, I wanted to continue the editing process. 

In order to attack this opening, I wanted to begin editing the end of the scene first as I knew this would be the hardest to put together. I had the most outtakes from that part as it was very hard to match up the different sequences between David walking normally and crawling on the ground. During filming, I decided to utilize the trees in the park to attempt to transition between these two stages. While editing, I realized that this idea worked out almost perfectly. My group members feared that this would make the scene hard to follow, however, it ended up working out perfectly.

The only issue I ran into while editing this part was that I had the volume on the microphone turned up a tad too much, which meant that the mic was picking up my footsteps over David's. I figured I would deal with this problem later as it probably meant that I would eventually have to re-record the audio for the entire scene and just stitch it over the video.