The process of filming

        Since we started this short film project it’s been a very fun and stressful time. Fun because it’s nice getting to do something new every once in a while and this was a little different then when we filmed our music videos and commercials last year for AICE Media AS. It was more detailed and more footage but overall it was a fun experience. Overall stressful as well because there was many complications while i filmed and it just made me stressed because Lúcio got injured and that kind of ruined things for me because i knew i needed to re-shoot but since he got injured like 2 days after we first filmed it was just bad. Our footage wasn’t the worst but it also wasn’t great and i was really upset because i could’ve done so much better but i had to work with we had taken so i can’t complain. It was fun getting to film with Lúcio and also working with him because he helped out a lot because with our his help i honestly don’t know what i would’ve done to get this short film done and i’m glad i had him to help me. Wiyh out him i would have no one to help me film this and no one in my group to help me brain storm what i woudl make and film the short film about.

To be honest my short film isn’t great but it honestly came out better than i thought it would’ve become. Of course i thought it was going to be great because i had everything planned out in my head but at the end it wasn’t the worst thing i’ve seen technically. 

At the end im very proud of what we have done and created, even though he got a bad injury we got everything done at the end and im very glad we did. My family and his family enjoyed watching and i hope others like it as well.

Overall a very fun experience for us both and my family as well since they helped with feedback and was there through the stressful times.

  

Re-Editing

I had to re-edit my short film because after sending it so my family and friends could tell me their opinion on it they each told me somethings i could work on and i went ahead and started working on those little details. I began re editing the ending and some of the clips in between the middle and the beginning because my dad said that i should edit some of the beginning and make it more about the actual injury rather than just the the backstory and the whole thing. 

but since i wasn’t able to re shoot because of my actors injury so i had to work with what i had since the beginning, and it honestly wasn’t easy to re edit because i barely had any different footage to add onto the short film so i kept it mostly the same i tried to cut out some clips but it just wouldn’t look good so i kept it mostly the same as before. Some things that i have changed on the short film while re editing is the police sirens and i took out the subtitles. I felt like subtitles didn’t really matter and it was just taking up too much of my time, everything in the short film, all the dialogue is very clear and audible so adding subtitles wouldn’t do much affect. Also my mother had also mentioned as to why the subtitles were there because it’s a person choice if they want close captioning and subtitles. So i took them out and just left it normal. 

After i was done i sent the finished short film to my friends and i asked them if they preferred the re edited version or the old one i showed them and they said that they liked both but they preferred the new and re edited version that i had sent to them today. 

I also sent it to my father and showed it to my mother, my father said he liked it and that even though there wasnt much of a difference between the old one and the new one he said he liked the new one more. My mother said the same as well and she said i did a great job and that she would be sending it to my aunt and to my grandma so they could tell what they thought as well. At the end they said they really liked it and i was really glad they did

 

Peer Review- Friends Re- Edited

    I texted two of my friends, Maria and Felipe. I asked them both what they thought about the re-edited version of the short film.

Maria was the first one to answer so i sent her the short film and she said that shed watch it and let me know what she thought. After she was done she said she liked it s alot and that it was very similar to the other one and i told her i was not able to re film or add any footage due to Lucios injury. and she told me she had heard about it and that the short film is still good and that she enjoyed watching it. She said she wished that there was more action for the injury rather than just the background but that it was still good. She said that this was also similar to what she saw last year, our music video. Because she was with me and my parents when i showed them it last year. She said she thought it was good. She did say she preffered the music video over the short film which i agree with her since it was better and it took us more time editing.

I texted Felipe and after a little while he texted me back, Felipe is my cousin so i had a higher chance of him being 100% honest with me than my friends. I sent him the short film and asked him if he could tell me what he thought about it and to let me know what he liked and he didnt like. After a couplle minutes he texted me saying he was done watching it and that he was in between liking it and disliking it. He said the same thing pretty much everyone said but he said the only reason he was in between about things was because there was very little actions and he enjoys action movies a lot and my movie would fall in that perfect category. He works a lot with television and radio and commercial stuff in brazil, hes a couple years older than me and he works with a television and radio company so he knows a lot of stuff about editing and commercials and videos

Peer review- Family

After i was done asking my friends to tell me their opinions on my short film i waited for my parents to get home and tell me their opinion on my short film. First i asked my mother her opinion and she watched it and told me it was great and that she really liked it and i told her if there was anything i could fix or that she didn’t like and she told me she really liked it and that there was honestly nothing to fix overall.  She even asked me to send it to her so she could show my grandmother and my aunts and she said they loved it. Even though they couldn’t understand much because they don’t speak english but they loved it. I told them that i wasn’t 100% done with it and that i’m still going to re edit and maybe re shoot 

it but that i wasn’t completely sure but i’d be showing them the final product and everything soon and they said they couldn’t wait.

After talking to my dad i waited for my dad to get home and when he did i showed him the short film and let him watch it. After he was done i asked him what he thought about it he told me he liked it and that it was good. I asked him what his favorite part was and he told me it was the part where he gets injured but he said that there could have been more time at the end where it happens and that there could’ve been more action during it. He said i could’ve made the short film more about the injury rather than just the backstory and then the final game and then the injury.  but he did say he liked it and when he watched it he was with his coworker and his co worker said i did really good and that they are both proud of what i did, i told them that i will still be re editing and that i will show them the final and complete version in a couple days once im all done with everything and that i would send it to them.

Peer Reviews

         When i was all done with editing and just overall done, i texted my friend Sophia and asked her to watch my short film and i told her that it was for a school project and that i needed her opinion on it, her honest opinion. After she watched it she texted me saying it was good and since she's the type of person to not take anything serious of course she found the ending, when Lucio gets injured, funny. I did call her after to get her honest opinion and she told me it was good but that there was something missing and she couldn't place her finger on it. I told her i felt the same way but i had a feeling it was the footage and that there was honestly nothing else i could do because we aren't able to re film due to Lucio's injury. She agreed but she did say that was we had was fine and it worked fine as well. She found the end funny because the way he fell right after the shot and he was on the ground. I did agree that it was funny and that i should've made the injury part much longer.

    After Sophia, i texted my friend Jose asked him to watch my short film and i told him that it was for a school project and that i needed his opinion on it, his honest opinion. He agreed and texted me after watching it saying that he liked it and that it was really cool. I did the same thing i did with Sophia, i went and called him when he had his free time. After talking for a while he told me his honest opinion about the whole thing and he said that it was really good and that he has never seen something like that in his life before. I told him about Sophia's opinion and he kind of agreed but he said for him it was good the way it was and he also knew about that Lucio had gotten injured so he said it was really cool and funny that the day after we stopped filming he actually got injured. He thought it was ironic that we were filming a short movie about a soccer athlete who gets injured and then after were one filming he actually gets badly injured and isn't able to play for a while.

Editing Short Film- part 2

     After i had everything downloaded onto iMovie and almost done the taking parts out and cropping each clip i had, i began watching over every clip to see if it had sounds in the background and most of them did so i had to go over every clip and cut the beginnings of most of them out. I was good though because i did have almost 10 minutes of the clips when they weren't edited but then after i did that i had around 7 minutes. After i did that i started fixing the volumes on each clip because i had some clips that the volume was too loud due to wind or it was too quiet so i had to go over most them and either put the volume up or down. Most of the clips were fine i just had issues with the clips that were shot outside due to the wind it was too loud and too hard to hear if there was any dialogue. After everything little thing i did to the film i went and re-watched the whole thing to make sure nothing was missing and to make sure i didn't accidentally edit something out that was important, every little detail is important and very noticeable if there is a mistake. Luckily i didn't make any mistake but i did forget a couple details every time.

After i was done using iMovie i began using an app called Splice. I honestly thought that it wouldn't work but it was actually a good app to work with and it was easy to use. I was a little confused at first but i got the hang of it after a while. Using Splice i worked with adding subtitles and added things that were needed. I did have to wait a couple days for Lucio to available for us to work on it together because since it was just us 2 in the group we had to use our voices to voice over the other characters that were in the short film but didn't appear in it such as coach and Lucio's mother. After adding the subtitles all i had left was to place them on the right place of the screen and the right timing and added some sound affects such as the ambulance sirens when he got injured and added them as background noise to make it seem like they were far away but still close and on their way.

Editing Short Film

         Since i filmed thought the thanksgiving break i thought i would get a head start on my editing during this first week of  December to just get it all done and over with so i don't have to worry about anything after this week. Since we have midterms from the 14th to the 18th its going to be a stressful week. I really want to finish everything by the next week, so i don't have to worry about doing any work over winter break while i have family over and then Christmas and new years gatherings. I began editing on November 29th and i finished on December 1st. On November 29th i gathered all the footage i got from filming in the week before and i watched everything over again just to make sure i had everything right and that it looked the same as the storyboard, which they were and i was so happy. Lucio and i re-watched everything together after we filmed on the same day and we laughed about some of the videos we shot because they were so bad that it was funny, i will be adding some of them to our website for bloopers and behind the scenes.

When i first started editing i had some issues with the footage downloading. I had to spend like four or five hours just deleting stuff off of my phone because i had around 16 thousand pictures and videos on my phone. After that it would still take like 15 min for everything to get downloaded into iMovie. I used Imovie to get everything down and just see how many minutes and in total i had almost 10 minutes of just footage. So after i had all the footage down i started cutting everything don and editing out the parts in each clip that either took too long to get to the point or it just wasn't working with the whole film. Then i started adding the transition which took a while because i couldn't choose which ones looked better and i also couldn't decide how long i wanted them to be but at the end i kept them at either 0.5 or 1 second long each...

Re-Shooting

     During the thanksgiving break, on the 26th, Lucio got injured. He went to play soccer with his family members, cousins and friends, and one of his friends side tackled him and kicked his ankle/shin. While his friend got up he noticed he wasn't being able to stand and he noticed that he was starting to feel pain but also his leg went numb. They went to the hospital because he couldn't feel his leg, and he was in a lot of pain. He spent around three hours at the hospital, and when he got out he had crutches and a little cast. The doctors told him that he tore his ligament and that he would be okay to walk in two weeks but to play soccer he would have to wait around four to six weeks. Due to his injury i believe i wont be able to re-shoot any scenes or re-shoot at all in any way. We had just started filming on Monday of thanksgiving break and we finished on Tuesday and he got injured on Wednesday. Having to turn this in, in January doesn't give us enough time to re-shoot since he wont be able to play by then. 

At the end we do have something good and presentable to work with. On the day we finished filming, i went home and started going over all the footage we took. We had way more than we needed and i was glad because i really was starting to think that it was too short. When i went over all the footage we had i separated them and put the bloopers and the clips we weren't going to use in one folder and the ones that were good and that we were going to use in the other folder named "short film". Most of the footage we had was long and not short at all and we had at least two of each scene. When we were filming i wanted to be sure we had everything right and good to go so i decided for us to film two of each scene we were recording in case we did have to re-film. When i went over the re-shoots i took, i noticed that i was missing three scenes. So i will have to do with what i got from the first shots. I find it funny how the short film is about a highschool soccer athlete getting badly injured and it really happens in real life!