CCR for Final Task

 

Final project

This is our final task! I'm so happy that we're finally done. This project was a lot. There was so many blogs. Now we have to work on the CCR. If I remember, it's a video. I'm really scare to do it. I don't like how I look on camera. I have no choice though. I hope I get a good grade. Not just for this project but for this whole class. I wish to pass.  

Waiting

 As I type this, Vanessa is editing. She is working endlessly. She showed us her ideas. She's thinking about adding in 3D titles. She claims it doesn't take long but two hours is quite long. She also sent a clip of the opening. When I saw it, I was originally confused. For starters, the clip looked like it was filmed on a rock. When I asked about this she explained that it was to make it easier on her computer as she edits. She told me that once she renders it she'll put it back to the original quality. We also had to come up with a title. It didn't hit us until editing start that we never named it. I had no idea what to call it. So me and Vanessa decided to just go with frenemies. It reminds me of the Disney show. That is all I have seen so far. I trust her to edit this to perfection. Until then I just have to wait. We also decided that I will once again be the one to upload it to YouTube. Hopefully this comes out good. 

     

Sending videos

 After filming, they met my cat red then went home. You would think that since we just finished working on the assignment I would send it straight away. I ended up not doing that. I honestly forgot about it for a day until I started texting people. When I saw the clips in my gallery, I was shocked. Shocked that I forgot to send them. So I originally planed on emailing the clips since it would keep the quality. Turns out I could only send about three of them because the others were too big. You would think Google would be more advance. After that stressful failed attempt , I had no other choose but to ruin the quality. The quality was ruined by me sending them over Instagram Messages. The app is known for ruining the quality of videos and photos. They all ended up sending but it took nearly all day for them all to send. I'm honestly surprised they sent on Instagram since there's usually a time limit. I'm guessing they upgraded the limit. The important thing is that Vanessa has the clips needed. She will be editing it since she already knows how to. I know she will do. I have faith in her. We all of faith in her. 

  

Chasing each other!

 As I mentioned before, originally I was supposed to be the chased. I had believed in my running skills. Yet those skills were demolished once me and Rose did a practice sprint. I was no where near her. How could our film be tense if the chaser was so far away? Maybe it was a good thing, I wasn't the one being chased. She would have caught me instantly. I don't understand why we picked our film to be about running. None of us can run for anything. Not to mention how after we did the practice run, my knees were in pain. Maybe I'm not running correctly. After the practice run, my spirits were crushed. All my excitement for filming were gone. I wanted to give up but Vanessa and Rose wouldn't let me. They forced me to run after Rose. I was doing good for the first few seconds. Then by the end I was suffering. My knees were even worse. Not to mention my breathing was awful. Hopefully I don't look stupid in the film. 

   

Yelling Match!

 Now I'm going to paint a picture. Imagine you go to a small park that doesn't get visited often. You go there to either relax or play basket ball but you're bothered by two short teens yelling at each other while being filmed. That's what it was like while we were in the park. We, well actually I was, screaming at each other and getting up in each other faces. Only to burst out laughing. It's hard to pretend to be arguing with someone that has been your friend for years. We did actually manage to get a good few segments of us arguing but some we can't use because we didn't react fast enough. What I mean by this is that it's scripted for us to push each other. Rose was supposed to push me with just one hand while I was supposed to shove her with two and with force. She kept on messing up by not pushing me and instead continuing to argue. I believe we were not communicating enough because we didn't establish a cue.

      

Filming Role

 I originally drew the storyboard for this project. While drawing, I had in mind who would play who. Even though Rose spoke about wanting to film instead of act, I knew Vanessa would film. Ever since the instance of Zaha filming vertically, she has taken over filming. Which meant Rose and I would be the actors. I originally planned for me to be the one being chased because I had believed in my speed. Me being the one chased automatically would have made Rose the chaser. This never happened. I should have kept in mind our personalities. For our rehearsals, it became clear that the roles were wrong. The roles needed to be swap. For Rose can not get angry for the life of her. The characters needed to get progressively aggressive for the progression of the story. Yet she seemed uncapable of doing something like that. So we switched. I became the chaser and she became the chase. The switch was natural. I'm typically more snappy and temperamental compared to her. When the argument started getting heated, I was generally getting heated. I believe having me as the aggressive one made the filming move quicker.

 

First Step

 Once we got to the park, we didn't immediately started filming. We scouted for an area to film. Rose ended up going the long way around the park and we followed. We complained because it was extremely hot out. Then we found out that the area we filmed in last time was taken. Then for some reason we looped back around the long way to where we started. We set up at the area under the over hang and metal benches. Vanessa set up her laptop and pulled up our script and story board. Since we haven't worked on the project for awhile, we forgot some things about it. We only remembered the main theme and genre. Rose especially had to reread the script. After discussing the materials and making sure everyone understood it, we had to decide whose phone will be used. The competition was between my phone and Vanessa's iPhone, Rose was instantly disqualified since her phone is the worse. My phone somehow ended up winning. So we used mine to film. My poor phone was suffering from filming and giving Vanessa's my hotspot. It was also my first time using my phones camera to film. Apparently for my phone, you have to click the recording button twice to get it to stop filming. It took me a while to figure this out. My camera quality is surprisingly good.   

This is the type of phone, I have.

  

Parks

 Me and my group members did do our plan! Remember how I spoke about filming on our half day? We managed to actually do it. All three of us had enough time to film. We decided to be easy on ourselves and went to the park down the street. Fun Fact; this is the same park we filmed our music video in! This park was not what I had originally thought of when we decided to do thriller. I had originally thought of doing the filming in a different kind of park. What I mean is the type of parks that is just a big patch a tree and a dirt pat. I still believe that would be better. I think those parks would have given our film a better atmosphere. I also wanted to film at night. I think it would have been cooler. Yet it would have made everything ten times harder. The lighting would have been hard to control. Not to mention how both Rose and Vanessa would be extremely uncomfortable. It probably was best for us to just stay in our comfort zone. Plus the park is near the school which mean our usual dismissal area was near by. Which was especially useful for Rose. This park has been extremely useful this school year.     

 

Ideas and meeting up

 It is the fourth quarter finally. This means that our project's due date is coming up quick. We need to start working on it some more. I came up with the plan to film on our schools psd day. I am still talking it over with my group members. So far, the plan seems to work out. I don't have anything planned for that day. Vanessa said she believes she doesn't have anything either. Rose is currently thinking it over but she seems down to work for that day. I actually came up with this idea with her in mind. Since she has to pick up her brother after school, she can't really work on the assignment after a normal school day so this will give her time to do so and still pick up her brother. It will also work out for all of us in general. None of us want to work on the task during the weekends. Plus on the psd day we all will be there so no need to plan for regrouping. I haven't thought of a location. We could go to the park where we filmed our last task but I feel like that won't fit our genre. The park is too spread apart it would be better if we found a patch of trees. This project is very important. We will work hard on the task. We will get a good grade.