CCR

   Hello everyone! It's the final countdown. The final frontier. The eye of the tiger. Everything has been leading up to this moment right here, right now. My Creative Critical Reflection. It has been quite a journey. Honestly, I'm incredibly proud of what Daniel and I have accomplished with this project. We hope you will be too. Thank you all for your support throughout this journey of ours, we really appreciate it. You can access it on

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0By500QDKRJ97U2gzZkZJTWZ1TDQ

or

https://youtu.be/dgaqyZwDFzY

Until next film, 

Nicole Abuid

Our final video:)

    Here is the final product everyone! The link to our film, Jasmin. I hope you all enjoy, and thank you so much for traveling along this journey with Daniel and I:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW-JKRcT0QE

Until next post,
Nicole Abuid

EDITING?!?

     Hello everyone! The entirety of my Saturday was spent editing. Or should I say, half of my Saturday was spent editing while the other half consisted of me trying to fix my glitchy computer which kept shutting down on me and even erasing my project file! 

Flashback to Thursday 4/6- Nicole, yelling at her computer as premiere pro decides to completely look the other way and say it cannot locate the media that is oh-so-clearly on my desktop. 

Flashback to Friday 4/7- Nicole, figuring out why the files do not have audio, screaming at her computer yet again for dooming her yet again

Flashback to Saturday morning 4/8- Nicole, finally fixes and redoes the gun scene

Saturday afternoon- Nicole, writhing in pain as premiere pro shuts down, losing her project file

Saturday night- Nicole finds an earlier autosave of the project, completes the last finishing touches with daniel and exports

     Daniel and I worked to edit together on Saturday night through a software called TeamViewer where it allows you to share your screen with another person. We struggled to fix some continuity errors which we did not realize would be a problem while we were storyboarding (such as Jasmin standing in one shot, then kneeling in the next). We also struggled with the differing audio levels because we used different devices and/or recorded them at different times, such as a voiceover. However, we soon found a solution to the continuity errors and fixed the audio the best that we could with what we had (there is no easy solution in post-production unless we were to use adobe audition, and we did not have the time to begin to even mess with it). 

     Editing would've gone a lot smoother if there were not so many issues with the conversion of our files and the glitchiness of my computer- but we couldn't control this. If my previous issues with my Dell computer haven't convinced me before, after this experience I am team Mac. I actually ended up going to the apple store and found out that a Macbook Pro is great for editing. But I digress. Daniel and I are completely finished with the video itself and WOW is it relieving. It was an incredibly long and hard process- I can't even begin to estimate how much time we put into this project, but definitely over 50 hours. It's amazing what you can accomplish with so much planning and so much effort put into it. I do have to say I'm a bit disappointed that it didn't come out as perfect as I imagined it, but that's why this is a learning process! I definitely learned more than I ever thought I would while creating this project, and I can't wait to learn more. 

Until next post, 

Nicole Abuid.

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It’s time to talk about Editing!

It’s time to talk about Editing! Get it? It’s time to talk about Kevin? Because in the film Kevin is incredibly frustrating and hurts people who care about him? Replace the name Kevin in that sentence with editing, and there is truly no difference. Truthfully I do enjoy editing, but it is a bit tedious, and more than a bit frustrating when things do not go as planned. Daniel came over to my house today to edit the film with me, I named all the night before he arrived. I didn’t realize however that the clips from the gun scene had no audio when played on my desktop, and when I improved them into premiere pro it had audio but no video! We were so confused and tried just about everything we could, yet nothing worked. Daniel even called window’s help line and cursed out Bill Gates when they said we’d have to pay to skip the one hour wait time). Finally I thought that maybe converting the files to a different format would help. I converted a file (which took five minutes), imported it into premiere, and it worked! Thank you mp4! Because the 23 files we needed each took so long to convert (one took 20 minutes), we decided to start the claymation scene first. After the time reached 8 pm, we then decided that I’d finish converting the clips for the gun scene and put them in order, and together during class we’d edit it during class.

We did end up finishing editing the claymation scene aside from color correcting (which we also will finish in class). Daniel is a color correcting guru. It was a really fantastic experience seeing us both work off of each others strengths and weaknesses throughout the entire process of the project. Since I had named the clips before we imported them into premiere, the entire process was so much simpler. During class this whole week Daniel and I had looked through our clips and deleted the ones which we were not going to use (the best out of two shots, shots where Jessica said her line wrong, etc), which also made the editing process easier.

    We already had a selection of music which we intended to use for this particular scene, yet after placing them over the near-finished product we decided none of them worked. We continued our quest until we found the perfect song. We never intended our song for this scene to have a psychedelic feel to it, however when placed over the other video/audio tracks it made perfect sense. The colors we intended to emphasize within our set and costume choices seemed even brighter and more noticeable with this song complementing it.

    The audio of the video clips themselves gave us a bit of trouble though. Even the separate audio which we recorded with my iPhone did not sound the best, and static could be heard in the background. However with the use of audio key framing, we were able to keep the original audio attached to the video clips, and when the music track was laid over it, the audio actually sounds decent. Thank you key framing!

Until next post,
Nicole Abuid

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