Sep. 2nd

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY

First half of the class:

While Stephanie speed edited our footage with some of my direction and Hannah's advice, the rest of us started sending all of our sound effects and soundtracks to her. We discovered that we missed quite a few, more than we had expected and it turned into a mad rush to get the perfect sound effects while I took over the syncing with the audio and video. It was sloppy, I didn't get to equalize everything in every sound. I missed a couple of sound clips though, and it definitely showed in the second half of class.

Second half of the class:

Then came the screening and it turned out alright. It could have been better- the soundtrack that we eventually decided on could have been better but in the rush of things that was pretty decent, I believe. Ms. Wong felt that our selection of clips was pretty effective, and I agree somewhat, though the very choppy editing didn't help at all. There was some people who disagreed, and they said that one of our clips of choice- a clip where one of the main characters is piercing the other main character's ear, because it was too easy to see what was going on. 

IB LEARNER PROFILE

Risk taker. We took a lot of risks today when we edited that quickly, especially in terms of quality, but in the end it all paid off. Things like the choppy editing- scenes flashed by so quickly nobody fcould really tell what was going on, and that turned out to prove to be useful, very useful. There was one scene where there was a prank being played on another character and it looked like it was actually a gory scene. However, it was apparently very effective and there were people who actually were taken aback. Our risk had proven to turn out okay.