CAP Hollywood

This past week has been a lot better for our film. We've gotten almost all the footage into our film and have the music in our timeline. We have also cut our film down, so it is not as long as it was. It still needs to be cut shorter though, so we will have to work on that this week during the HSAs. The audio is still not even, but we're going to leave that for last. I know that Andreas may want to color grade the whole film, but I think that we should finish our whole project before we do that.
Overall, we just need to fine tune the film and add some voiceovers to it. Some of my group members and I plan on coming in this week before school and after school to finish. I'm hopeful that we will be able to finish our film in time.

Here's the image that will (tentatively) appear title slide for the film.

CAP Hollywood

This past week was a bit bumpy for our film. We didn't have our footage on Monday, so couldn't edit that day. This was a big problem because we then had to rush to finish our rough cut. But we were able to get it together enough to have the create the general timeline of our film.
In the time spent editing, I was able to type up the credits. The only problem with this was that we didn't know some of the actors names because we picked them up at the park. I guessed the one guy's name, but I knew the general sound of his name. Once I finished the credits, I was able to find the music needed for our film. I knew that we would need a lot of different sounds, so I went on to Soundcloud and found a basketball warm-up mix that had lots of different songs in it. By doing this, I was able to find versatile music quickly.
We still need to put the credits and the music in, but I think it is better to put the music in after all the footage is in place. We'll do that this week though and narrow our rough cut down closer to 4 minutes.

This is the link to our music.

Reflection

This past weekend, my group got all of the footage needed for our CAP Hollywood film. We filmed on Saturday at the basketball court. We were lucky enough to have Connor help us film with a the really nice camera, so now our footage is of a higher quality. There was a slight hiccup in the plan, as many of our actors didn't show up. Fortunately, one guy did show up so we used him as the main character. There were other people playing basketball at the courts who played the other characters in the film. We also lost one of the drug dealers halfway through filming so we had to refilm the parts with a new drug dealer.
Overall, this film has proven a real challenge, what with finding actors and scheduling a time to film. But we were able to get it done which means that we are on to the next step. I think that with some really nice editing, our film will look really good. We got some extra footage for b-roll, just to make it more dynamic, and we have a variety of shots so that it doesn't look like a home video in which we just stuck the camera at one place the whole time.
This week, we hope to get a very rough cut of our film and mainly lay out the footage in sequential order. If needed, we can also play around with filters in final cut to see if any will work with our film, but that is just a possibility. That's it for this week!