CCR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVpv2hH_C7M

Here is the link to my CCR.   

movie opener final cut

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7M3j8ouww

We decided to add a black screen with text at the end of the video so people can have a better understanding of what the movie is going to be about since that is what the biggest concern on the peer reviews. On the black screen, we put "Keep watching to follow them in their college baseball journey." Because of this change we had to make another change and it was putting the title of the movie at the beginning of the movie opener instead of the end. This is because we put the text at the end and it didn't look good with 2 black screens back to back at the end. We also tried to make the video clearer. It was hard because of how big the movie was but we ended up getting a clearer picture. 

Peer Reviews

 

Everyone said our camera angles were good so i'm glad to hear that because we worked hard on trying to incorporate different angles. Also people said they liked our song/audio choice which is good because we thought it was a good match as well. 

On the other hand, some people said they thought dialogue would have helped people understand the plot and some said that they understood what was going on the whole time. I am probably going to leave the music because it went well but maybe add a little dialogue when we are signing to college with Courtney (the recruiter). The whole point was there to be no dialogue and for the music to be intense and show how hard the athletes are working. I'm also glad people understood why we pointed at Courtney. 

There was a good idea presented to add brightness to the film, I'm not completely sure how to do that, but I will definitely look into that because it is a good idea.

The main concern from the peer reviews is that there was no dialogue. That was the whole point of our movie opener but we will think about adding dialogue at the end. 

First Draft

 https://youtu.be/8srN8f6ZjD0 

week 7 editing

- This week, we decided on the background music. As you can see in the photo, the green bar underneath the film is the music that I downloaded from youtube. 

- The same people working on this weeks editing is the same as last week. We didn't have to as much as last week because we did majority of the work already. Me, Peter, and Courtney all worked together to find a good background song to put behind the film. 

- The titles and fonts we used were the same as last week and we didn't add anything this week. 
Also, we did not add any new video effects and transitions because we finished it all last week. 

-For audio, we watched tutorials on how to legally upload songs to your computer and then into iMovie, the editor we used. We then figured it out on YouTube studio, and successfully uploaded the song to iMovie. 

- Some problems faced was trying to figure out how to upload the music. We had a lot of options and ideas that we liked but most of them were copyrighted and we couldn't download them.

- Our solution to these problems was looking up tutorials on how to find the legal music that we could download. We followed the tutorials and picked a song that fits the video well. 

- We spent 2 class periods trying to figure out how to get the music on the computer. Then once we figured it out, we spent another class period trying to pick a song that we all agreed on. 

-Overall, editing went very well this week and we finished the video completely. 

Week 6 - Editing

 - This was my screen during editing. I decided to use iMovie to edit our film because that is the software that I feel the most comfortable with. Overall, iMovie gave me no problems while editing and everything went smoothly.

-This is a photo of my group members working on the editing. We all worked together to decide what order the clips are in and made sure they were all the same length. 

     

 

- We decided to put the titles at the end of the opener to make it a little more dramatic. The title that we came up with is, "The Next Level". We felt as if this title portrayed our theme well of going to college to play baseball which is the next level for high school athletes. We chose the title to go into the middle of the frame.

-Some of the video effects and transitions we used were in between each clips. We used the fade away transition for most of them because they fit the best. We also used cross dissolve, and cross blur. 

- So far in our editing process, we have not used any audio but we decided weeks ago that there would be no dialogue in our film and it would just be music. We haven't decided the song yet but that is going to be our next step for editing. 

- We discovered not many problems while editing. I was successfully able to transfer all the film over to my computer from my phone to upload into iMovie.  The only trouble was finding everything but once I noticed the problem, I fixed it right away by making a folder, and putting all the videos and pictures into the one folder. This fixed the problem immediately and made it easier to upload videos. 

- I took the whole week to edit and most of the time was transferring all the videos to my computer and making sure my team members had all the clips needed for their blogs. I spent 2 hours straight on the editing of the video making sure all the clips were flowing together and all were up for the right amount of time. 

- Me, Courtney, and Peter all worked on the editing together. They gave their ideas of what clip should go where and I used my computer to put it all together and edit the video. 

- While I was editing all the clips into the final video I noticed we had some extra clips that we did not have to use. This happened because we recorded more than enough clips just incase we would of found issues in the clips later on in the editing process. 

Week 2- Beginning to film

 This week was our second week of filming. Me and my two partners, Courtney and Peter, were able to get onto the field this week. We completed all of the shots we needed for our movie opener this week.

We did not have any issues either. We worked and planned out our day of filming very well. We made sure we would be able to get on the field by having an administrator take us out to the field and unlocked all the gates for us. We also made sure we had all the equipment needed such as cleats, gloves, balls, and bats. Luckily, the weather and the lighting was perfect for our day of filming. 

1. 

The first to pictures we got from filming this week are me and Peter fielding the ball and throwing to first. These shots play a big role in our movie opener because the majority of the film is Peter and I playing baseball. Courtney took these photos while she was filming for us. 

2. 

These 3 photos are from the shots we took of me pitching and Peter catching. These are also shots featured in our movie opener of Peter and I practicing.  

3. 

This picture is of Courtney who is acting as our college recruiter from Florida Gulf Coast University. This is a very important scene in our movie because this is when Peter and I notice the scout sitting in the stands of our baseball team. Then we go over to her and introduce ourselves which then leads us into the next scene of the movie opener. 

4. 

Our last scene shown in the picture is when me and Peter go to a table outside the baseball field and talk to Courtney, the college coach. This is when Peter and I sign the paper committing to play baseball to  FGCU. Then, the screen goes black and shoes the name of our movie, "The Next Level".

Overall our second week of filming was very successful. We ran into no issues and we planned very well. We also worked very well together and got things done efficiently.