and the Oscar goes to...

We're proud of what we did..no matter how cheesy XD



"Harry Potter and the Damer's Crumpets"

(Cast and Crew)

Alyssa Ortencio - Hermione, editting, videotaping
Vivan Rashotte - storyboard, props, input for editting, (voice over)
Eryka Nilsen - Ron, storyboard , input for editting
Josie Santiago - Lord Voldemort, editting, storyboard, videotaping
Kim Navarro - Harry Potter, editting, graphics, extra clips, and music
Tara Fraser - (voice over), props during shooting, ...

Other version of same movie can be found in my YouTube page:

http://youtube.com/user/kristamaen

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Everyone is present.

I forgot to mention that yesterday (Tues) we uploaded a version of our video on YouTube. Howver, it is not the final version we have.

Today, Tara recorded a voice over but the group decided the the use for a voice over is not necessary so we're just not going ot use it. THe video is satisfactory enough for the group and the voice over would not do any justice to the movie. It did not seem like there was any effort put in it. Vivan recorded a more lively version of the voice over. However, just like Tara's, it did not made the video.

We added an extra clip to our movie and changed the audio settings that would fit better with the movie.

I tried to save the iMovie file as a DV but it did'nt fit on my USB so I just saved the .mov file. It's not the best quality.. but that's okay.

The group wrote our duties and responsibilities on Josie's blog. I believe the older version of the video is linked there.

I think that's all.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Vivan is away

Today, we started wrapping up or video. We finished incorporating the right HP clips onto our movie and made it our own. We inserted the MUSIC and edited the clips further in terms of video FX and such.

A bit of drama today concerning Tara but really.. I don't know what to do with the situation. We offered her to do things but she declined to do anything. So, its not up to the rest of the group that she didn't do anything. Seriously.. she can't turn this around and blame it on US. Geez.

Umm... the video is basically done and all we need to do is do the voice over.
To be quite honest, I don't think that the voice over is necessary but since Tara did'nt do much, I guess she has to do the voice over just so she actually did something.


FIN

Monday, June 9, 2008

Everybody is present :)

Today, I brought in the graphics for our video project.
We basically put together all our clips including some excerpts from the actual Harry Potter trailer. So far, the transition is a bit choppy but we're hoping that when we put the music and voice over, it will be less noticable.

The video at the moment is about 2:20 minutes long - which is where we want it to be.
The video FX seems to be working well with our clips except for some parts that we can't really fix like for example the preview sign and the coming soon and what not.
We don't want the stills/pictures to automatically start zooming in. It would be better to be just a still and not do anything because frankly, it just ruins the graphic and you can't read everything on it.

Hmm.. what else?

I have to make two more signs for our movie

AND

Vivan is bringing the soundtrack tomorrow and Tara is going to record the voice over for the trailer..

C'est tout.

Friday, June 6, 2008

VENDREDI!!!!!
(Mr. Sir is away, Mr. Vandersteen supplied)

Today, only Josie, Alyssa, and myself were present for class (Eryka, Vivian and Tara were away) So, it was up to the three of us to continue working on our movie. We further condensed our clips from 1:25 to about 55 seconds. We realized we had a lot of unecessary clips and it would make more sense for a trailer to be under a minute.

We watched the second Harry POtter movie trailer for inspiration. (YouTube as represented by Numa Numa Kid)
It was only after we watched the trailer that we realized that movie trailers dont put scenes chronologically. So then, we rearranged our clips, jotted notes down and came up with a voice over as there would be in a real trailer.

The voice over, graphics and transition are set to be inserted on Monday.
Also, we are going to put video FX on Tuesday.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Back in the ROOOM today! YAYYYYYYYYYY.

So today, Josie and Vivan were away so it was up to Alyssa, Tara, Eryka, and myself to continue working on our project.

WE did not have a lot of class time to work because of the alternate schedule for today. We only had 45 minutes to work and about 5-8 minutes was spent setting up the Mac and switching with another group who mistakenly took our computer.

We continued on editing our movie. We got rid of unecessary clips and tried to condense the content of our video. We started inserting transitions for the clips however, we could not save it with the transition because we wanted to figure out each transition before we put it together. So far, we got a good chunk of our video put together (although not yet pieced as one). We would edit a bunch of clips that would go together as one scene and then move on to the next scene.

We would have to put the scenes together by Monday because by then, we would have hopefully figured out the graphics and whatnot.

Worst Case Scenario would be that we wouldn't have the graphics by MOnday. I guess we can just put background music Monday and Graphics Tuesday. But, we'll see. We seem to have lost a lot of class time to work on our project. Tomorrow (thursday), there is a mass and closing assembly so we don't get ANY class time to work at all.
Friday would be our last day this week to continue editing clips.

I'm hoping that we choose our background music by then and start putting the video together.

Another long entry by Kim.
SO once again, I shall stop writing
MAINTENANT.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

It's MARDI!!

The group (except Eryka who was away) continued working on our movie.
We were yet again in Ms. Tarrarran's room so it took a bit of class time to set up the Mac. We lost a bit of time to work on our movie but, what could we have done? She needed the projector thingy.

Anyways, the group finished editing all our clips and all we had to do is put it together and add our graphics, music effects, and voice overs. We did not get to do much except editing clips but we started planning what else we were going to do for the trailer/movie. Since the movie was originally due for Wednesday the 4th, we wanted to save the clips onto a CD so either me or Vivan can work on it at home. But then we had no luck. It would take a while to burn our files onto the CD but also, we figured it would be better to burn a DVD so we can have chapters and such.
THe problem was that Mr. Padilla didn't have a DVD so we couldn't obviously back-up oru files. I tried saving it on my USB but the files were too large. Anyway, it would have taken a long time since the files were in iMovie format. I would have to change it to Quicktime then into an MPEG so that I can use Microsoft Windows Movie Maker. I would have to do a lot of converting back and forth and unfortunately, I would have taken a reaaaaaaaaally long time to do. Plus, Vivan would probably end up doing the same thing.

So we decided to just work on the movie at school.
On wednesday, we wouldnt have a lot of time to work on it because of the Non-Academic Assembly going on. Hopefully Friday we can put the clips together finally and put transition effects. For Monday, all we would have to do is put graphics, music, and voice overs.

Wow, what a long entry.
And for that, I will end it
NOW.

Monday, June 2, 2008

(Class moved to Ms. Tararran's Room)

Today, my group uploaded the clips onto the Mac.
It took a while to do it because first, the battery was dying, and second, the chord when a.w.o.l. But after we resolved that, my group and I started editing our clips.
We got rid of some clips that we weren't going ot sue and tried to trim different clips of the same content so that there would be variations in angles for our video.
None of the group members really knew how to use the Mac so we sort of took that day to get familiarized with the programs.

Since the group took a long time trying to upload the clips, we only had about 20 minutes to actually edit our movie. The rest would be continued for the next class.

End.