Blog Reflection

      Early in the year, i learned the importance of taking my time on the videos and making sure that they were as good as they could be. you can see this in my first film, i didn't do this, especially in the beggining scene with my title, because it was off to the right and my camera work was horrible. on my second project, i learned how to make the cuts cleaner, but they were not quite perfect. the movie "Baler Interviews," really shows my cutting and in and out points all in work. Later in the year, I had showed that i had learned that concept very well, since i showed this in other projects. one good example is from "cyber-bullying" in the scene when we cut from an interview about cyber-bullying into a group of girls yelling, :"Cyber-bulling is bad!"

     some things i learned about film making, would be the rule of thirds, and that you need to keep your shots consistent. i can demonstrate with a video of my own about the rule of thirds but i feel it is so important that i need to mention it anyways. the rule of thirds clearly states that an object needs to be in one of the intersecting lines in the grid of thirds which looks like this #. now the other thing i cannot demonstrate is keeping our shots consistent. i can give you two examples of of this, one is in ryan's values video and another is in "stomp the yard" they are very noticable and make the shots look kind of bad


    i would like to say that this class helped me to learn alot about videos and computers and editing.  the teacher was very helpful, and explained throughly about what to do and how to do it. he helped us learn alot and we learned alot of manners under his teaching to.

Spider-Man Trailer

This video is a parody/spoof trailer about the Amazing Spider-Man. It stars Isaiah Sanchez as Peter Parker/Spidey and Ashley as Gwen Stacey.

Zuniga

Bend Effect

To do the bend effect you drag a video clip into the time line, then you open the folder video effects, and you go down to the folder distort, then you add bend to the video clip in your video timeline. After yoou do that you go to the project panel and you change it so that the video will easily change the way the video bends and moves in the clip. After you change the effects you can put in keyframes to change the way that the bend effects the video and how crazy it moves.

Strobe

to do this effect is easy. you just drag the video and add the desired strobe effect to the clip. then you drop the folder down and click stylize and you will see the effect strobe light. i added two effect to increase the strobe light effect. then you see a way to change the color and i left it white but for the second one i changed it to a bright red. then i randomly played with the effects of the way to edit it and i got lucky with the efects and then boom! this video clip was super crazy strobe light.

Jabberwocky

We used the effect "Solid Composite" the best. we used this effect in the beggining with the dead man on the floor, and it starts to flash red and then goes back to normal, then we went back to red to try and show the man was dead, James Bond style. We tried to commuicate a kind of jolly mood with all the other pictures being happy people and what not, except for the beggining, it was a sad serious mood because the man died.  we showed funny pictures, and happy people, then we made kind of silly effects to show a happy mood.

Directors Cut

i noticed that we did not focus almost half of the time and that alot of the stuff we filmed we did not use.
we realized that we worked hard to make this film and we had a lot of fun making this film.
we left out all the work that actually went into it like the planning and the storyboards and what not. we also left out a bunch the actual footage that we actually took, we lost all of the footage of us working on our script and storyboards so we just put in the bloopers and talked about how we had a hard time working with this directors cut.

Final Movie

Suggestions and good feedback

SUGGESTION
One edit we would change was when Cesar and Isaiah were talking at the lunch tables. We noticed that the camera was moving up and down on that scene. We think you should cut that part out.
-John and Joselyn
another thing you can do is actually try to show the message to your viewers i really didnt get what the value of this video was
Jose
We think that you might add a shot right after this extreme close up of another extreme close up of the first swing/slap/punch thrown
-Ivy
But our strongest suggestion is next time don’t make it look childish because this video looked like a little cartoon not a good value video
-Anonomyous
GOOD
I liked this one shot of Isaiah that got speeded up when he was running across the tables it caught my attention during the video
-Krystian and Zoie
We especially like the extreme close ups of Joe and Cesar during the final fight scene because it helped emphasize the idea that Cesar took Isaiah’s advice to heart and he is ready to fight
-Ivy
We think the most important clip for the music is in the beginning when the bully comes out of the bush
-Anonomyous
titles in between the clips of that moment going to another time were good titles
-Anonomyous
What we really liked about the video was how it was up beat and went with the flow , it wasn't choppy and i understood it.
-Michelle
The conflict was between an innocent kid and a bully.
-Eduardo E, Ashley P, and Sabrena
The first use of music is when the bully came in the scene. It was used to emphasize the idea that the bully was tough.
-Eduardo E, Ashley P, and Sabrena
The music was most important before the fight because it emphasized the mood, which was a little violent.
--Eduardo E, Ashley P, and Sabrena
The shots that contributed to the rising action were when Isaiah and Cesar were talking to each other about the fight in the beginning and the close ups of Isaiah N.'s face and Cesar's face when they are about to fight.
--Eduardo E, Ashley P, and Sabrena

This added some tension and pretty much showed what was going to happen in the next clip.
-Eduardo E, Ashley P, and Sabrena

conversation

we realized that we needed to stay stationary the whole time, and that we also needed to shoot all the scenes of one person at the same time. we followed the rule of thirds through the whole entire video by keeping our head on one part of the third grid. this creates an impression that the characters are having a conversation, and they actors are having a conversation so this worked really good. our dialogue seems like two people were actually talking during the video and we had almost no challenge with our videos because the acting was done well. our video's tone was kind of silly because we joked around and had funny expressions and a funny reaction shot. the observations we made were that the over the shoulder the shots really help create a dialogue effect. we learned how to edit the videos so that we can shoot one person the whole time and we can make it look like a talk between two people