GOODMORNING BLOG!! Been a while since I've been on here! My team and I have been HARD at work to bring you all the best project we can possibly make! It is now April, and that means the finish line is only getting closer and closer! With that in mind, a couple days ago I began the line edit for our short film along with adding audio and color correction :D Joaquin and I are the main people taking care of post prod so I'm confident that we will end up with something that looks pretty awesome cuz the power of friendship rocks!
oki im gonna talk about it in depth now r u ready
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CUTTING UP MY MOVIE AND STUFF: THE LINE EDIT
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more on that shot up there soon mwahhaha
hello i am easter emi
I don’t remember the exact day I started the line edit but it was as soon as possible so we could get a nice head start on post because personally, I think it’s a very arduous but fun process that can take awhile, but luckily I won’t be alone in this!
omg dude i exited out of this post for a minute and everything that i just wrote after that little sentence disappeared
i am red
emi is mad
she is never mad
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oki i try again emi is happy now :D
This USB thingy is a blessing idk where we would be without it! I got it way back around the 2nd quarter of my Sophomore year after buying a GoPro typa bodycam except it wasn't a GoPro so my dad and I called it GoBro BAHAHHA to film some marching band rehearsal videos to save for future Emi to see and be like "woahh Breathe 2024 was lit" (watch Breathe 2024 im in it :D it is indeed lit :D). After recording my last rehearsal of the year, I went back home, watched it, and then was like "man i wanna like have this thang on my phone and computer and stuff" so then I asked my papa to buy a USB thingy so I could do just that! It supports both SD and micro SD cards so I could transfer to my hearts content!
Thanks to sophomore Emi and her need to watch her marching video on her computer, I now have a USB thingy to transfer all my movie clips and stuff so I can like pass this class! YEAHHHH HOORAY FOR GOBRO AND THE USB THINGY! Everything indeed does happen for a reason!! WAHOOOO if u look around here you can see a lovely photo of myself and my USB thingy posing for the cam cam and being awesome and stuff :D! Call the chriopracter Im back!! USB thingy is back! Emi how do u spell chirocparcater? Idk Emi u tell me how to spell cheiuiroapctror! Dude I literally just told you that I do NOTTT know how to spell fhvchriaiaportor! ARE U KIDDING!?? CMON DUDE YOU HAVEEE TO KNOW HOW TO SPELL CHRICOPAOAHERT!!! DUDE I LTIERALLY JUST TOLD YOU I DONT KNOW HOW TOSPEPL LCHDCSIIERIIGBNGJGTEOROTPRTORGAHHAHHAAAAAA GAHHHHHHHHHHH GAHHH FGHGAHAGAAAAAAAAAAA
constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated! :D
all roads lead to emi's tadc hyperfixation
oki wait let me just save my work rq here so i dont almost jump off a microwave again
anyway BAHAHAH WHO AM I
while working on the line edit I came to a realization during the Otto and Mable car scene that a close up shot of myself was out of focus! DUN DUN DUNNNN!!! I tried to find a way to fix this in Premiere Pro since it was INSANELY out of focus but it was to no avail because it still looked pretty poopy butt after I tried fixing it soooo Andrew Joaquin and I agreed that we were going to refilm it on Saturday 4/4 along with Mable close up because Joaquin didn't like the way that one turned out! :D Hoorayy!!!
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HOLD UP!
anyway look we filmed the car shots they came out pretty awesome! More on this stuff in the next post :] For now just look at the comparisons and be like GUAOOO EMII WOWWW WOWWWOWOW UR SO COOL AND AWESOME AND SO IS UR TEAM GUAOOOOOAHHAHAHA EASTER BUNNY
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olddd otto shot
newww otto shot!!
olddd mable shot
newwww mable shot!
YAYYYAYY!! With the help of these two lovely shots, the line edit (and everything else edit) began to look SO much better! These shots and the rest of the shots that we got this past weekend have been FIREEE and I am SO excited to see how they turn out put all together! Anyway time to hand the mic to the other Emi now :D BAIIIIII!
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For the line edit, I went all the way up to the end of the Issac scene since that was all we had in terms of footage. For the parts where we didn't have footage yet (which we will get VERY soon), I simply just clicked on the text box, inserted a black screen, and wrote "INSERT SPECIFIC SCENE HERE" so we can have a good idea on what holes we need to fill to complete this thang safely and soundly! :D
like dat :D
That's pretty much it for the line edit for now! Chances are since we're gonna be refilming a couple shots, that I'll have to change the entire edit but theres no harm in that! Just ends up making our film all the more better :D Hooray! Now let's talk about audio cause I have indeed spent a lot of time with the audio! Man dare I say it's the hardest part! Help!
CUTTING UP MY MOVIE AND STUFF: THE AUDIO
So as I probably have mentioned before, for this short film we are recording audio on my phone with some nice new lavalier mics! At first I was very unsure about how the audio would end up sounding like but after giving some audio clips a listen and importing them on Premiere, I was like "hmm okay this is not that bad! :D" but then, once I tried syncing up the audio with the video for the first time I was like OMG WHAT IS THIS HOLY SHIT WE ARE GOING TO CRASH AND BURN GHAH WHATS HAPPENING!!!!2121!! I was quite freaked out, but once I got back home from school with more composure in my bones, I got out my computer and just really started to dig in on the edit, especially with the syncing. And yay!
At the end, it came out pretty decent :] We got good audio for the Otto and Mable car scene and for the Issac scene! There was a huge problem unfortunately with the audio during the Mable parts of the Issac scene though...and that was that the audio didn't go through! Why you ask? CAUSE THE MICS RAN OUT OF BATTERY! I THINK I TALKED ABOUT THIS ALREADY BUT STILL ACT SURPRISED EVEN IF YOU HAVE READ MY POTENTIAL
"uh oh our mics died" LINE A COUPLE POSTS AGO! We will fix this issue soon once Isa, Joaquin, and I meet up again this coming weekend by recording their lines and putting them back into Premiere! Should be peachy keen :] Despite this issue though, I am pretty happy with how the rest of the audio turned out! Shout out to my phones Voice memo's app for keeping all our audio nice and organized!
voice memos- you're welcome emi!
emi- awwwww what a sweetie
I admit, syncing up audio is pretty annoying and probably one of my least favorite parts of editing this film so far, but can be SO satisfying. No feeling tops that of PERFECTLY aligning the audio with a specific clip ITS SO NICE. It's also worth mentioning that since this weekend we are reshooting some of the Otto Mable car scenes, I may also have to switch up the audio in my timeline a WHOLE lot, probably to the point where I'll have to restart some scenes entirely. But heck, the reward of getting it all done is so amazing and I got some more experience on my hands to go at it sooo I'm up for the challenge!! 10000 HIGH STAKE FILM PROJECTS VS 1 EMI WHO WINS? EMI.
alrighty time to color a lil bit
CUTTING UP MY MOVIE AND STUFF: THE COLOR
So for The Scourge's general art direction, I have chosen to have the entire film have very warm colors all throughout. The entire story of our short canonically takes place over the course of 4 days, the first scene (opener, otto and annie convo, mable otto convo) happening on the first day at sundown, the second (Issac, car scene), happening on the second during early afternoon, and the last (finale), taking place the next during the evening. So basically the warm colors are gonna be like: Warmmm, kinda warm (!), darrrkkkkk but warrmmmm mmm warrmm i love warm :D I have done a teeny tiny bit of color grading on my edit, so far only officially with the opening sequence but I plan to follow the warm uhh kinda warm darkk format that I have set in stone up there for the rest of the shots :] I don't have that much experience with coloration if we're not counting the CCR's from last year, but I'm not totally new so I have a good idea what I'm doing! This movie's gonna look very cool everybody I am saying it now!
nice lil comparision of no color vs yes color :D i love coloring no matter what art form :D
Anddd that'd be all for today super awesome blog readers! Stay tuned for much much muchhhh more in the future! Gameday is soon and we are close to gettin this thang done! As for now though I'm gonna like idk play Roblox or something :D
Bai baii blawg! Los quiero mucho!!
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