Week of June 12

Well this week was beyond productive and far more than what i would have imagined. Our group got the chance to film all of our scenes for our final film last Saturday and so all this week we have been editing and trying to finish this film as fast as possible. In addition, we have to create a film for our AP Calculus class and so Frankie and i have been working on that as well from recording, to singing, and editing this all before Monday 5th period. Ultimately, throughout this week i felt extremely happy working in this class. Unlike previous weeks.

Week of June 5

This week has been one of our most productive weeks yet. My group, Areli, Natalie, Jose, and I finished filming our music video and since Areli could not appear in our music video she was in charge of the storyboards. In addition, once Jose finished editing and adding the final touches on the music video we decided that it was time to continu filming our third film. We have a lot of scenes for our third film as of now since we started early on it and so we only need to finish recording a few more scenes of action and then we can import. The editing on our third film will be a little bit tough considering how it is an action film and it has to have good or at least decent transitions so that means I have to be careful with how i edit the film. In conclusion, a very...unique...experienced happened to us while we were filming for our third film on Saturday of last week. So we decided to go to Sunset Blvd. and film some scenes of action there after visiting the Psychiatric museum but while we were filming Areli a man passed by in a bike and dropped Natalie's bag to the floor. Initially, we believed he was just being rude and wanted to drop it only but then he turned straight to us and laughed while telling us "I can't believe i missed it." As he left Areli had quickly picked up the bag and we realized he tried to steal Natalie's bag. That was a very scary experience in all honesty.

Week of May 29

This week we have been revising our screenplay and we finally have a strong plot. Our narrative is a spy action movie where i chase some villains that have done a "bad" thing but if i say the conflict it would ruin the plot right now. Anyway, we also have decided where we are going to film. We are going tomorrow to the Psychiatric Museum in West Hollywood and we are going to film our chasing scenes and more there are multiple locations we can run. In addition, we are adding more scenes on Tuesday where there is a plot twist and as of now once we have the scenes we that will be filmed tomorrow, Saturday, on Monday i will import and begin editing so that when we have the rest of the scenes we can simply add them.

Week of May 22

This week, although it has taken us an extremely long time to write it, we finally finished writing our scrip for our drought narrative. It conveys the struggle of trying to have water for the future generation and not kill off the species as we know them. In addition, we are also filming this Saturday and Sunday to try and finish filming our narrative as soon as possible to be able to edit. This film seems like a very interesting one because we have never filmed a film that addressed a worldwide problem that has been getting so much attention lately by the media and even our teachers. Therefore, it excites me to see that we can possibly make a film that has multiple shots and has decent editing in order to achieve to send out the message that we want, which is to preserve water because it is not longer as prevalent as we have grown accustomed to believing. We will have to find a group that can share a camera with us because there are no more cameras but we will try to share with someone from 5th period and we will be filming at Areli's house.

Week of May 15th

This week was not very different from the last one because as a group we were continuing the writing of the script and makes sure we liked how each scene was turning out. In addition, we established which roles would be given to each individual in the film and which people we could use as extras. Over the weekend i decided to attend the LACMA film presentation and i really enjoyed it. Our film was featured in the presentation and we were still VERY shocked that they chose our film. I liked the feedback of people's faces when they saw our film.

Week of May 8th

This week my group and i have been quite indecisive about what film idea we are going to officially go with. Initially, we wanted to do a music video about a song on The Smiths but Mr. Lansdown pointed out that our music video needed to have one type of conflict which it didn't have. Ultimately, we ended up deciding to do a PSA on the dangers and impact of overuse of Earth's water and we decided to pitch it to Mr. Lansdown which he did a few suggestion on how to make our film much more impacting to the audience. After finally having a stable and approved idea for our PSA we have began to write the script and the storyboards to which we will follow unlike our previous film, which was good but, we didn't follow our script for that one. This week has consisted of constant argument as to which idea of ours we would use for our next film and with the compromise of each one of our members we all agreed. Jose, Natalie, Areli, and myself have agreed that perhaps our next film will be a narrative on action because we want to have a bit more fun working as a group on our film.

Week of April 24

This week was primarily focused on editing our film because we finished importing the last piece of our film i believe on Monday. With the importing done, i just had to edit and areli and natalie from 5th period came into class because i needed any opinions that they had in regards to the transitions i was using on the editing. They approved of it and we agreed on a music to transition as the individuals filmed because we did not want a quiet background to be while there was a change in the person since that seemed too banal. In addition, We attempted to begin thinking of new possible ideas that we can use for our next film because we need to move quickly since we feel we are a bit behind and because AP exams are approaching very swiftly. Ultimately, this week was productive because editing is something that i truly enjoy since i see the recording come together due to my editing and it seems quite smooth of a flow.