Re-Shooting

We didn't find it necessary to re-shoot. Our main focus was to make sure that our editing was good. We needed titles, transitions, and music. Over the past week that's all we've been focusing on. Our editing was our main priority and we did our best to make sure we fixed that. When we we're originally shooting we made sure that everything came out the way we wanted to. We re-shot on that day. When a scene came out a little off or something wasn't right, we re-recorded that scene for it to match with our storyboard. Even during the peer review we didn't see it as a problem. Our reviewers watched our video and marked on their paper however didn't give us any outstanding comments. They didn't really question the filming or suggest re-shooting any scene. Were just making sure that our editing was up to par. Like I mentioned our lack of titles and transitions where something that we needed extreme work on. Another reason that re-shooting wasn't really working was because me and Andrew both have busy and similar schedules. We both play the same sport for the same school and have been flooded by games and practices. Even then it still wasn't something we were focusing on. We have so much raw footage already that we can easily go over the required time. Some of our scene that we have written on our storyboard don't even fit into the movie in terms of time. So when it comes to having footage to make the movie, we have extra. And as I mentioned earlier we were so specific and careful with our original shooting session that we aren't missing anything.

Re-Editing

The feedback that we got back from the peer review was really useful. Me and my partner learned that we needed to add more titles and throw in smoother transitions. Our re-editing session was very important. Firstly we had to wait about 20 minutes for the pinnacle studios to boot up on our computers. And we had to go through a number of computers to finally find the ones that worked. Eventually we found a functional computer and could finally edit. We imported our raw footage through the techniques we learned from the previous projects. We set all of our raw footage into one folder on our desktop labeled "Movie," then when we go to import we click the plus sign next to desktop and then the folder labeled "Movie," and then we have all of our footage and then all we do is click import. After that, I was mainly in charge of the editing. Because we had such few functional computers and editing is really just a one-man job, Andrew wasn't clicking anything. However, he still gave me lots of suggestions and also chose the music that we are going to be using in our music video. Originally, we planned on getting permission from RCA records to use Teddy Bear by Elvis Presley, but they never responded. So instead we chose the easier route. We looked up "Elvis like royalty free music" and got many options. We chose for something a little different than our original song. This music is much more upbeat and lively and more like a rock song. But after watching over it a few times it was clear it fit in perfectly. The titles haven't been added in yet, simply because we ran out of time. Transitions to us look clean and well-placed. And finally, we are still looking back at our video and adding more footage to make sure it reaches the time that it needs to reach.

Peer Review (Add Pictures)

Monday was the peer review session for our Media class. We entered the class room and looked at our names on the board. Our names were given each an individual number which matched our teammates. From there some other group got our number as the group they had to review. Me and my partner Andrew were number 16 and were given to review number 9 who was Angelo. The peer review went through very smoothly. We asked Angelo for his movie and he gave it to us immediately. Me and my partner watch the video 3 times. Once just to watch how Angelo's film was coming along and what it was about. Then we watched it while answering the questions on the peer review worksheet that was given to us. Then we watched a third time to make sure we had the information correct. Of course we kept rewinding and fast forwarding to make sure that we had counted the right amount of camera angles, for example.His film was about a basketball player who, while warming up, is having flashbacks to a moment he shard with his father, where he would teach him how to dribble the ball and how to score a point. Angelo like us was lacking in terms of editing. He could've done more with the background sound and also forgot to add the titles. But his film has potential of becoming a very good final project. It was a really fun and easy process. We also gave up our movie o the group that was reviewing us. It was Zachary's group and it they were really helpful in the process. One thing that I think we could've worked on as a group is timing. I don't expect that we got a good review on our peer review because we could've worked a lot on the editing. The computers at our school are very unreliable in terms of whether they can successfully open the editing program, but we got what we needed done. Something else that would've helped with the editing is the timing. Me and my partner ended up filming the day before the peer review so once again our editing was really lacking in that front. Luckily, their group was patient and let us at least put all the raw footage together.