Saturday, November 1, 2014

Week Number Nine: Biotechnology Film Reflection

I really enjoyed making our film for this project. We named it “The Sane” it took a lot of work. I did a lot of the editing and I’m very pleased with how it came out, especially because I was using new software that I had never used before and I was teaching myself new things the entire time. My group didn’t have any real problems that I know of. We met after school the first Friday after the group had been defined and started brainstorming. We had plenty of ideas to work with like alien invasions, zombie apocalypses, and a few other thriller themes. After eliminating a few because of the lack of effects possible, we decided on the storyline that our film follows. We tried to meet after that without incident but with multiple deaths in Logan’s family and birthday parties and family obligations for various other people, we had a little difficulty gathering everyone together but it worked out in the end. The music played in the background came from a variety of artists and was rather random when assembling it all together. Songs from the Pirates of the Caribbean, Linkin Park, West One Music, Bastille, Soft Cell, and Phaelah were used. One thing that really took me by surprise is that I had no idea that video files were so large. After producing them through my program we chose to upload them to Google Drive and the final video took around 10 hours to upload. It would have been faster to transfer it to a flash drive. Google Drive files are much more versatile, in my opinion.

I really liked the idea behind the other group's movies, especially Kaylee and Quenton's. I found it to be really fun and although the blue screen left Quenton without legs for a portion of it, I felt it added to the overall presentation. If the whole thing had been serious, I don't think it would have worked as well. Sophie and Mikayla's group have had some technical difficulties and I wish we could have seen the real final cut of their video. Savannah and Jacob's video was really clever. I liked how Savannah brought in themes from our Principles of Technology class into it. 

I really hope the next group to do this enjoyed it as much as my group did!  

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