day 13, Tuesday May 25th

Hours worked: 1
Time of post: 7:24

So it's the final day... oH MY Goodness has it been crazy! I can't believe it's over. Tomorrow at 5:00pm everything is due for our final project and today we put the final copy on Dvd's and made sure they were all done and ready to go :D Amanda has her review tomorrow and I think I have mine on thursday so here's to a great last two weeks! Hoping I pass. I'm feeling pretty confident so we will see! fingers crossed!

xoxo
-D

day 12, Monday May 24th

Hours worked: 2
Time of post: 10:59

Today was a bit of a slow day. We started out by adding the play button to our movie. We imported the final version of our movie into iDvd with the intention of adding a Main Menu and a Play button. We succeeded at both of these rather quickly and then planned on burning the Dvds. As we were burning them we realized that the movie we were burning didn't have the credits we had been working on last week so for about another 45 minutes we tried to figure out what we could do about this. We're hoping to talk to Anna Hanlon about the possibility of erasing what we burned on the Dvds and re-burning them and if that doesn't work than we will hopefully be able to get 6 new Dvds to use and make sure we add the credits. Hopefully tomorrow is a little more successful.

xoxo
-D

Weekly Reflection #2

Total Hours: 25

Time of post: 11:04

            The second week of senior project went much more successfully than the first one. We started the week off with a good sense of what it was going to take to get what we needed to finish our project. We continued to put in many hours for editing and filming. As the week went on we worked up from basic editing skills to more advanced ones like playing with opacity and angles of the clips. We added in some overlapping clips which look really cool and repeating clips as well.

            Last week was not as enjoyable as this week either. It was a lot of filming which is a part of movie making that I don’t enjoy a lot. I enjoy the editing process a lot more because it lets you do whatever you want.  You can manipulate a clip a lot when editing but when filming it’s pretty standard and boring as to what you can do. Granted I don’t know all there is to know about filming and I am sure there is more to learn but I enjoyed this week a lot. It was full of editing and spending a lot of time in the tech lab as usual. The good news is that we did manage to get everything for the video done though. We made final edits on Friday and it’s ready to be put on DVD’s on Monday.

            As we head into the last few days of senior project I look forward to making going over the video again and looking at what we could have done different and if we want to change anything about it. It should be a good end to the year. J

Xoxo

-D

Day 11, Friday May 21st

Hours worked: 5
Time of post: 11:03

so guess what... WE FINISHED THE VIDEO!!! Yup, it's completely done and ready to be put on DVD's and everything!!! I can't believe it! We put in the final edits and credits and everything and tomorrow we're working with Jim to put it on DVD's. I think that says enough for one post :P

xoxo
-D

Day 10, Thursday May 20th

Hours worked: 4
Time of post: 10:35

So today was productive. We finally chose a song and added it to our video this morning. I worked on final edits for the rest of the morning and then proceeded to take the afternoon off because I was exhausted but the exciting news is that tomorrow we will be finishing our video :D All we have left to do is finish the end of the video add in credits and a title page and then make sure everything is the way we want it. SO exciting! I can't believe how quickly this has come together. Stay tuned!

xoxo
-D

Day 9, Wednesday May 19th

Hours: 4
Time of post: 7:53

So wednesday. It was a long long day. BUT the good news is we have even MORE of the video. We have almost every clip in that we want to use which is super exciting! Tomorrow we plan on filming a few last shots that we realized we needed today in our video and then we will be DONE :D We are spending an hour of tonight to choose a song that our video will be put to tomorrow and then we will be working on our final edits which is right where we need to be heading into the weekend. I'm really glad that this week has gone as well as it has been going. We're keeping on schedule more so than I thought we would and its making the process just THAT much better. Tomorrow should be a productive day as long as our good streak continues. Cross your fingers :)

xoxo
-D

Day 8, Tuesday May 18th

Hours worked: 7

Time of post: 10:25

so yet another very successful and productive day. it was actually amazing. we woke up casually at 7 and stayed in bed till 8 which was really nice. Continued to get ready and get to the tech lab around 9. we worked solidly through till lunch. I was only interrupted in working once because I had spanish class which was also super productive seeing as it was the last class before our oral exam on thursday which is consuming my free time with studying. 

We officially have 1 minute and 37 seconds of our video done which is REALLY exciting. we have a little under a week until our project is due and we are well on our way to being close to final edit day which makes this day AWESOME! If you can't tell already I am SUPER pumped about the project.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to make just as much headway as today so we can go into the end of the week with almost a full 3 minutes. Hopefully my hope comes true haha.

xoxo

-D