Third Entry

This week we have also been working hard. We have been mostly editing, which is the harder part, more harder than filming, which surprises me because I thought it was gonna be the other way around. The only day we recorded last week was on Thursday May 3rd. We had a really tight schedule that day, given that we filmed in the cubicles of the music rooms, and they only gave us 1 hour to use. But we manage to do it and the scene ended up being really good. We have to shot one more film, and we will do it tomorrow. That scene, we recorded two week ago, but it was at night and the light is awful, the expression in the faces is really bad, so we decided it was better to shoot that scene again. The editing is coming really good. We already have four minutes edited (except for the sound) and we are missing two more scenes to edit. The sound is not really a concern to me. The movie has a good sound quality considering the lack of microphones, and the songs are already selected and I found this program where I can download different sound effects such as a gunshot, which are needed for the movie.

The producers had their guidance last week. They were told a trailer has to be done plus a web page and a poster. The idea of the poster is cool and I am looking forward to it. The web page and the trailer are the things which concern me and bother me a little bit. There is really few time to create a webpage and a trailer. The trailer could be both easy or hard. Depending on the editor and director and on how fast we can choose the scenes for the trailer. The scenes can take to much time to select as well as the music to accompany it. The web page I honestly don't know how we will do it, or at what time, but we will have to figure something out in order to create the page. We will have to organize ourselves in time.

In class time we finished watching "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock. I liked the movie a lot. It was really good. The shots were great. They were an excellent combination of what we studied previously in class. This shows that a combination of all the shots is needed in movies. Another thing was the sound. There was only one part when they showed music, and it was some children singing like in a choir. The sound effects were also really good. The bird sounds were very good and things like the explosion or the car were also excellent. Things like the birds, the blood or the background were very fake fake. But considering the year the movie was made, the effect are really well made. The only thing I didn't like and that I hate about those type of movies is that they leave you with why that thing happened? Why did the birds attacked? That was the only thing I didn't liked about the movie. He clearly managed to create suspense in the movie, it is excellent.

Our movie is coming out good, and I hope people really like it. I have seen some movies of friends and I really doubt I might win or my group might win an Oscar, but with people liking my movie I will be satisfied.

Juan Felipe Mendez

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