Final Reflection

4. Early in the year I learned the importance of making clean in and out points. You can see that in my first film of the over the shoulder exercise, I didn't do this, especially in the scenes where I look down to view my script.On my secong project I learned to make better decisions on when to cut certain clips. A scene that shows this well is when I get up and walk away and the boys are still looking at me trying to decide if they shout make a the right choice. This film was called our "Final Draft". Later in the year I showed that I really had learned that concept well, since I showed this in other projects. One good example is from "Star Promo" in all the scenes where I cut them short enough to understand what they say, but short enough to keep the audience interested.

5. Something that I learned from watching films is using the Rule of Thirds. I tried to use it in my films but when it came around to it I just forgot. I liked when others used it because it was something that caught my eye. I also watch for the Rule of Thirds when I watch films at the movie theater. This aspect does get annoying, it does help with my film making.

6. I had a good experience in this class. I met a lot of new people and have a new interest in film making. I would like to keep making short films because that is definetly one of the things that i enjoyed doing in this class. Another thing that i liked about this class was actually editing the videos. I started getting really good at it and I was able to edit it videos in a very short amount of time. Overall I think this was a very good class.

The Final

Music Project

The story we were suggesting was an army going across the ocean on a big ship to go fight in a war. When they get to this foreign country they walk across the land to find the battle grounds. Once they get there they prepare themselves to fight. The two opposing sides have a stare off to decide who will make the first move. One side makes the move and they begin to fight. Then the winning team walks off victoriously. The part I am most proud of is the first 30 seconds.The part of the story that we were trying to suggest during this sequence is when they are on the boat in the middle of the ocean. This helped with the story because it is of boats and the ocean the sky. There were anstract images of the sun shining through clouds.  Our video is a little over 50% of abstract images. W used blue to suggest that it was an emotional time for the army.I learned that abstract images can really tell a story and make it look interesting.I learned that music and images can be combined to tell a different story. My partner edited all of the effects while i gone taking an AP test.I spaced out the story to fit certain parts.

Michaela and Brad Sandbox

We used the twirl effect. It is in the destort folder. We adjusted the angle so it twirled alot.We adjusted the radius a little so that the span was wider. W adjusted the center so the center became wider. I would use this in a film if a character got all psycho.