Final Blog

So, I thought it was necessary to do one final blog post for the semester.

Last night was kind-of crazy. I was really worried that we wouldn't be able to finish in time, but we did! I wanted to write up a summary of all the work we did these last couple of weeks, but a lot of it is a blur right now.

For us, the budget was perfect (No pun intended. I swear, I can never say that word again without cringing). It was enough that we were able to still go out and film some last minute emergency footage. Although, had we not needed the extra b roll we probably would have been much more under budget.

Working with Meg and Jess was amazing. Jess is extremely organized, which was really helpful for Meg and me. She kept track of everything for the project and was honestly just a really fun person to be around. Meg is one of my closest friends, so of course I'm gonna love working with her. It was helpful that we live together, so we could discuss and work on the project whenever.

This is the project I think I am most proud of out of everything I've written or made since coming to IC. It was a challenging, sometimes infuriating, but ultimately amazing experience.

Life, right now.

 

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Worked on the rough cut some more this past weekend. Our schedules were all over the place, so we just kinda had a revolving door thing going on. Someone would leave and someone would come back to work on it. We were originally going to mix music for the rough but decided against it because we were worried we'd be told to move things around and would just have to re-mix everything anyways. 

I think we were a little confused also about how the rough cut process was going to go. We thought we were viewing the trailers as a class, but after that turned out not to be the case we figured we'd be doing the same thing with the roughs. That's the reason we didn't export it or kill ourselves as much as we did when we tried to get out trailer done in time for a class viewing.

Today, Meg and I took out the camera and got more shots or Erin and the counseling center. Meg took the camera back up to the house and got shots of Red Bull and pills. 

Tomorrow, Meg and I are planning to edit and hopefully get most of it completed. 

Some updates

Over break Meg and I split the documentary in half to work on the rough cut. Meg ended up finishing the whole thing, so we just decided to use hers as it was already in one file. I've been using the half that I did as reference when editing.

Jess started the trailer over break, and we finished it when we got back. I played with mixing music in Soundtrack Pro, which was fun at first but definitely a bit of a challenge. I definitely don't see scoring films in my future.

The three of us got together on Friday to work on the rough cut some more, and I think Meg and I are going to work on it more together tonight. 

Monday Meeting

I feel really good about our documentary. Meg, Jess and I just had an awesome meeting. We went though and outlined most of our project: we decided how we wanted to order the doc and the "plot" of it. Over Thanksgiving, I'm going to work on half of the rough cut and Meg's gonna do the other half. Jess is going to go through the b roll and choosing all the best parts. We're meeting next Monday to put together the trailer. So yeah, I'm pretty excited by how well this is going.

Saturday

Sorry for my last blog. There were a couple deaths this past week, and it was taking a toll. That's also why I stayed home from class that Thursday.

Saturday was a bit of an... adventure. I would like to preface this by saying that people make mistakes. Shit happens.

So here's basic story of what happened on Saturday. Meg, Jess and I were driving to Auburn from Ithaca to re-shoot Zach's interview. When we got to Auburn Meg realized the SD cards were missing. We were kind of freaking out because we had nothing to save our footage on to. Meg went out and bought new cards, but they wouldn't work because they were class 4. We tried basically every other place in Auburn that might have class 6 SD cards, but nobody did. So, we all trooped back to Ithaca (luckily Zach was nice about it, and came along) where we shot the interview and got some b roll.

It was a long day, yes. I feel bad because I think Meg thought I was mad at her. But I really wasn't. I was just kinda carsick from all the driving, so I might have been acting a little weird from that. And honestly, Meg is always on top of her stuff. If she didn't mess up every once in awhile I'd start getting worried she was some robot coming to take over the human race (I still have that fear every once in a while). I know she was really worried that Jess and I were mad at her, but we weren't. There honestly wasn't a moment when I felt even a little angry. Mostly, I just felt really bad that Meg also had a Newswatch package to worry about and had to figure out time to grab stuff from her house to renew her license. So Meg, if you're reading this, don't worry! Just be happy that we are done with interviews. Done. DONE. OMG WE ARE FINALLY DONE.

 

Now, we've just got all that pesky editing to do...

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Meg and Jess interviewed and got b-roll of our Mr. Anon. Unfortunately, the times he was available that worked best for Meg and Jess were times I have class. But his interview was awesome, and has some great quotes.

I helped shoot b-roll a bit today also, but had to run to class. Meg and Jess interviewed the psychiatrist, but I was in class yet again. Stupid class getting in the way of everything, you'd think I was going to school or something.

We're all set to go to Auburn on Saturday to reshoot Zach. Meg went down last Friday to shoot him, but the footage came out funky. I was supposed to go down with her, but the world decided to hate me and give me a stomach virus. So instead I stayed in the health center until 8pm. I feel really bad that she had to go down alone. Luckily, this time we'll all be there.

Sorry if I seem a bit blah in this, it's been a rough couple of weeks.