Movie Postponements

 Again due to the spread of the corona virus, movie companies have began to postpone the release of movies. For example Disney, is delaying 3 of their movies due to the pandemic. As well as the Netflix show Riverdale has delayed their filming due to someone testing positive, on set, for the virus. This is very similar to our situation right now as our production has come to what feels like, a complete end. We are also not ale to go back to school so, our chances of meeting with each other to discuss these things are little to none. Netflix has actually set aside 100 million dollars to pay people in the entertainment industry who are being effected right now. I hope that means we qualify! Aside from movie production, entertainment almost seems as a necessity to the way we live. So having to hold off on it slows us down economically for sure, but as well as bringing pure entertainment to us and our families. Kind of weird saying we'll be working on this project over spring break. But considering almost everything is closed we have no other choice. This is good for me because we have more time, I feel, to work, on the film as well as or CCR questions. Plus we have been preparing for this since January so it's not like we are really short on time. Because we have basically completed the project it makes this pandemic a little easier. Of course knowing that AICE Media is handled.

https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/a31469986/disney-delaying-movies-coronavirus/

A Worldwide Pandemic

                                                                                                                                                                         The whole entire world has been faced with a huge adversity and disadvantage. We have been forced to practice this thing called social distancing which the CDC proclaims works best if we stay 6 feet away. Due to the spread of the Corona virus it has been hard trying to get together and conduct our re-shoot phase of the project. The entire film industry as well as big corporations are taking a major hit as well. By having to shut down in order to quarantine and create a safer space. And with filming coming to a halt we can relate in so many ways. With production stopping it has effected our schedule to film and get together to re-edit our film. The conclusion that we came to is to just have me re-film any opening shots since we did use my house to film. Then in about a week Josh and Amelia will come over to film a few scenes. I am not sure how we want to tackle the editing process, we do need a different way of going about it. 
     What I would like for us to do is come together and edit together as a group. That way all of our ideas are said and implemented. Furthermore, we do plan on re-filming in  about a week, giving us time to each work on our critical reflection questions as well. We do not plan on filming over a lot of scenes just maybe 3 or 4 and we need to ass scenes as well. Our film came up a little short on time, about 30 seconds. So we can definitely add in a few scenes to make up our time of 2 minutes. Our group member Josh actually hasn't been responding to our texts, so we are worries because he has all of the clips and edited version on his laptop.  And right now that is where we seem to fail, is communication. Aside from that everything should go as planned.                                                                                                                                                                               

Is It Over Yet?

  As a group, we continue to fail when it comes to editing. We have yet to finish our editing process and we have not moved on to the re-editing process. As stated previously, Josh is the one editing and we actually didn't include any titles or films. We basically just have a film that is put together, and that is what we presented on peer review day. We actually didn't have our saved film because Josh decided it was a good idea to leave the flash drive at home. So, we actually had to upload our clips up to IMovie and edit something really quick. Our plan for re-edit is to move more efficiently! The best way we will achieve this is, not having Josh edit! He does exclude us from the process so we never know what our movie looks like or how it's going. Which in the end falls upon our communication skills with each other.
  Another thing about editing is, I really want to ensure that we have all the appropriate editing details we must include in the film. Otherwise we will not be receiving a good grade on this project. Music is also a big issue for us, I'm nit sure as to why but we just do not have music in the background and that also will cause us to fail. We have to look up royalty free music and make sure the background song we chose will, in the future, not be copyrighted. Lastly we have to stick to our plan of staying on top of this, so we can allow time to transition to our Critical Reflection questions. I love the idea of being able to re-edit the film because now we can fix any small/minor detail. In the end, editing has been sort of a weird and difficult process solely because we aren't on top of it.

Filming with No Direction

  Filming was super easy! It went by in about an hour, and we actually went through the whole entire film. One thing I wish we did differently, was having a better plan on how we wanted to achieve this film. As well as sticking to that plan because we went completely off track! Our storyboard and original scheme, did not play out how we would have liked. We really wanted to tackle a different genre because we knew the most basic genre everyone would go after. And in the end that's how our film played out. We had no sense of proper planning or coordination for what we all intended on filming. We failed to work as a group and put in a lack of effort all around.
  The film went from creepy sci-fi to "who done it?" real quick. And for that I was a little disappointed in because I really looked forward to taking a different approach to the film. One thing that actually worked out on film day was that our school camera was actually dead. We only panicked for about 2 minutes, before realizing we can just use my IPhone. Which had so much better quality than what we would've gotten from the camera. As previously mentioned it was raining on and off the whole entire film time. So we did eventually move filming into my garage and then began to just make up scenes as we went along. Scenes did start to become a little questionable, and we completely changed the story line.

Peer Review

  The person who I was assigned to peer review had her film completed and ready to go for us to watch. One thing I enjoyed about her film was the direction that her genre had taken. She had a really good concept and story line to the film. It created much suspense throughout the entire film as well as a sense of "what's going to happen next." I enjoyed her titles being simple and not hard to read because I feel that is very important, legibility and conciseness.  I also liked the fact how evenly they were spread out and didn't take away from what was happening in the film. She did a good job including all of her angles, and shots needed. She also executed the shots and angles in a way that you can barely tell so I thought that was really good as well.
  One thing I can say I didn't enjoy/ something she can improve on was content. While the story line was there, it was not very clear as to what the film was about. We had to ask her what was the whole point of the film. She also didn't use any background music so she should go back and fix that when it is time to re-edit. One suggestion that I would suggest is to change up the plot of the story a little bit and lead with a better cliff hanger. Her film can be so good if she just changed up the line of event within the film.  For example, the part of the film where she is laying down and the hand touches her, she could've added a little extra umph. It got confusing at a point and I really had no clue what was going on. Another scene is when she is talking to her mom like she could either completely take the scene out. Overall the first time around was a test run and once we re-shoot i hope she has a better deliverance.

Near the End

  Our peer editing day is tomorrow, and because Josh is editing at home we are not sure if he is done. He barely has communicated with us on how he is doing. In addition that is what's making the editing process so difficult. I feel as if we should've had more of a hands on experience with editing, and not just leaving it to Josh. So that is where we failed as a group. I am not sure if it will be ready for tomorrow's peer edit session, so we are hoping for the best. Because we lack in the communication area, it could possibly throw off the rest of our project. And we are so close to finishing. While there isn't any other project to work on the areas we lack in. We can quickly resolve this problem when it comes to our re-editing, and re-shooting stage.
  We do have a lot of faith in Josh that he did complete the editing process. But also him being him we really aren't too sure. From the past we have actually edited our films pretty quickly and actually got them done in about a day. Our grades reflect work that looks like we spent about a week editing so we really just take a lot of chances. But being this is our final project we really want to make sure everything is perfect. I actually really liked editing and  would've had no problem if we all had tackled a share of the editing process. I feel as if that way would've been more effective. We aren't sure if josh knows, that this particular project is focused on titles and we really want to make sure that every title is included. Because without it we will not pass this class.