Sunday, April 24, 2011

Closing In

With the lyrics of my favorite music blasting, I am almost completely done with my movie. I booked editing time Monday after my morning classes to finish this thing once and for all. I only hope someone will be there to help me compress my movie files.

Oh, almost forgot that I have to make a slideshow, too! Oh boy. I'll have to export my movie and then save certain files to another project to make the other video. I think I might do the outtakes with the interview, or do the outtakes separately and only have the slideshow over the interview.

Checklist for Monday: Camera, camera cord, and patience. Let's get this done!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Finishing Up

I finished shooting everything else I needed yesterday morning and I am nearly done editing. I just need to finish the ending credits and add some music and I'll be done. I was going to bring the edited version to class but it would've taken nearly an hour to export, and it's not even done yet so I won't bother.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Pushing My Luck

I'm hoping to shoot the final shots I need on Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning. I'll bring the hoodies to have Julia and Jimmy wear and then get a camera from the school, along with a digital camera to take photos with.

I decided that I would lay my old interview over photographs and stills from the footage I already shot and will shoot in the near future. This way I won't have to redo the interview and will have very little work left to do.

I still need to finish editing the footage I already shot, but I'm starting to think that I won't finish in time for the film festival. True, it's about three weeks away, but I'm nervous. I should probably edit tomorrow after my history class until I have to work, and make a list of the things I need to shoot still. That way I'll know for sure what's left to do.

For now, I might as well go out and buy my own Rubik's cube because I won't be able to borrow Jane's before Tuesday. Maybe I'll have the two actors pose in Delaware Park, where we're shooting, with books instead of a Rubik's cube and a book.

And don't get me started on the DVD stuff. I haven't even thought about compression and design or anything. I totally forgot how to do the compression of the movies, and the music I have I haven't even imported yet into Final Cut Pro. Sooo much work. Sooo little time.

And no credits, done, either.