The final project is due this Friday, making this the last progress report before the finished product. It has been another busy week for our group. This week we finished filming everything! (YAY!) We were supposed to all meet on Monday to finish the rest of filming but Macie had an emergency and could no longer meet. To remedy this, the rest of us met up and filmed our confessionals, and Martina and Macie planned to meet on Tuesday to make up Sapphria Mae’s confessionals and we all met on Wednesday to film the big fight scene. This took a lot of planning because it’s finals season so we’re all busy, and Macie and Martina are seniors so they’re extra busy. When Macie and Martina went to film Sapphria’s confessional, the green screen from the HCC green screen room was gone. But we bounced back! Martina and Macie were so great because they were able to make time again on Wednesday to film the confessional. The rest of filming went pretty smoothly. The climax of our project is a fight scene, and the only hitch was that there was a scene we had to do in one take, and I stuttered on my line. I’m hoping I will be able to fix the flub in editing because I think the scene will come out really great without it.
Additionally, some of us are making commercials and bumpers to go in between the scenes. For the commercials, we agreed to reuse the ones from our podcast project with small tweaks to make them fit a new medium. I had been procrastinating my commercial but I finally got to work on it today. The commercial came out good, but the process ended up being difficult. I liked the idea of an animated commercial, but I can’t draw static pictures, much less moving ones. I thought Canva would be the fix because of it’s moving elements but it ended up being a hot mess. You can’t import sound on Canva so I would make my clip, export it, put it in Premiere Pro and adjust the timing. If anything needed fixing, I’d have to re-export the clip and add it in again. Thankfully it’s done, and you can view it below.
The rest of this project has been really enjoyable. My group mates and I were joking that Martina and Macie need to stay an extra semester and we have to join a film class. I am beyond excited to see the finished project. We split up the editing so everyone edits a scene and then Martina will put it all together. It’s a fast turnaround but we’re getting it done!