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. 

Week 1 Beginning to film

Me and my group decided to start filming this week. We decided to clips this week that didn't require going all the way out to the baseball field because we did not have enough time this week. So we decided to film clips such as putting the clips on and walking to the field. 

 1.  

This is Courtney taking a picture of me and Peter walking out to the baseball field which will be the first scene of our movie opener. We did it by the entrance towards all the schools fields. We couldn't go closer to the field because the gates were locked which were our first obstacle. So we improvised and did what we could for this scene. 

2. 

Next we decided to film the scenes of me and Peter tying our cleats which is going to be a close up shot for our movie opener. We did these outside the field and me and Peter both got our cleats and tied them while Courtney video taped us. 

3. 

Our next shot that we filmed is me and Peter stretching getting ready to throw to each other. Courtney got good angles and good lighting of us on grass fielding. The picture above is a picture of Courtney filming us while we started to stretch. This is going to be the fourth clip in our movie film.

Today we faced the challenge of not being able to get onto the field but we worked it out and filmed the parts this week that we don't need on the field. Next week we are going to make sure we have a key to the field so we can shoot the shots that need to be on the field. We have about 4 more shots to film and then all we have to do is edit it together and add the background music and effects. 

Q3 week 3 - preparing to film

Actors- Courtney (FGCU Scout), Theresa and Peter (athletes). 

Costumes- Theresa and Peter (Softball/Baseball clothes including cleats), Courtney (FGCU gear)

Props- Softball/Baseball bats, gloves, balls, cleats for Theresa and Peter. FGCU folders and clipboard for Courtney.

Location- The Lely High School baseball field, the bleachers outside the field, and tables by the field. 

Dates and times- Unsure about the date but planning on filming next week or the week after. (Week of the 8th or 15th). Planning on filming after school and sports practices so around 4:30 or 5:00.

Scripts- Going off of the storyboard we created last week. Only dialogue will be between Theresa and Peter talking about who the lady (Courtney) is sitting at the bleachers, and also when Courtney is talking to the two athletes. The rest will be music. 

Film equipment- Theresa's phone using the regular camera app so then editing can be done on the same phone.

We plan on using establishing shots, close ups, extreme close ups, and pan shots.