Ernest M Blog

  Film Opening Peer Review Form Up The Score│ By JoeBuckersProductions  The thing I like most about my peer's video was the transitions specifically when one of them kicked it to the camera to the point we only see that shadow then with the shadow they used it to transition right back to the player's face. And the  dialogue  they had when Joseph (Defender) was trash-talking the main protagonist when he blocked his shot.  I thought this film was damn  near perfect it was a lot like The Rise project the kids from Cambridge made from their opening scene so I didn't dislike anything.  Well  personally  it was a nice 2-minute  clip of friends going toe to toe against one another if they left it off as maybe the striker about to make the goal then cut it off before he kicked the ball into the net that may make me want to know what happens next but it felt like they put a whole plot of a movie into those mere minutes so it  didn't  feel like a movie  opener but a short film. 

For Editing #1 I was focused on making the grain on our video not as bad as it was with the neat video demo now I'm trying to edit our opening scene of Floridas everglade ranch as I'm now putting key frames on my audio to make it slowly fade and rise up as how I set my film dissolve fade on my video. Then I proceeded to incorporate our logos as me being the distributor, Johlissa (partner) playing the production, and Michael (partner) being film department. And for me and Johlissa I personally made the logos with Adobe Photoshop with me just getting a dog blacking it out adding in my shapes and her name and with me a free image of a hand and simply putting my name under. Then I proceeded to try and see if I could make the stock footage pop a little more so I used Adobe Premiere Pro Lumetri Color to try to adjust the brightness to make it look brighter for the light areas and shadows to make the shadows to look darker and pop out more. Lastly I made adjustments to my temperature

  With having experience with editing using the app Premiere Pro last year for my Video Tech class along with getting the certification and using to form my sound art project out of the 3 of us in our group I'd say I have the most experience. Now to start off with effects, I used a black and white filter of the video and lowered the opacity of it so the video below it with color could be darker as we wanted a low-lighting/  dark tone for our video some other effects would be a simple fade of text when introducing our characters.  And for this being a form of a documentary we're planning to use simple fade transitions between each video since our video is not action packed whats so ever. Now the biggest problem with editing was trying to reduce all the grain within the video as we failed to realized that when iPhones record in low lighting has a lot of grain to show compared to broad daylight I've spent an the whole entire night finding ways to make the video have less grain