CCR

Mestre: The Unthinkable 

Here is the final product!!! Hope you like it :)

Fun fact: I ended up using my Common App essay as some dialogue in the voice over. Haha, weird, right?

Soundtrack, voice over, and final touches

       I am proud of my progress! A good friend of mine has film scored for me using Garage Band and Logic Pro X. Above,  I have written permission to use his music for my film introduction. On top of the soundtrack, I recorded myself speaking as if I was Audrey Mestre. I do not want to portray the somber end of her life but the adventurous soul within this young woman whilst doing what she loves most. I did not write a script for the voice over, but poured my own emotion into an improve as I believe I share many similar emotions towards the ocean as Mestre does.

       Along with finishing the last of the sounds, I completed all last minute editing. My film intro could be about ten seconds longer but I believe it looks better without the prolonged shots. I used many more cross dissolve transitions than I thought I would, but I was also not aware that existed before today. I also used jump cuts, the enhancing feature of iMovie, fade to white, titles, and the stabilizing feature. I am happy with how my film intro has turned out and I am even more excited to share it with Alexis, the main (and only) actress. 

Look forward to my film intro and CCR on upcoming blog posts!!!!

Progress-ish

Slow and steady wins the race, right? Who knew editing would take so so long. I have watched the first 30 seconds of my film opening so many times that I could write a story board so detailed I could have a drawing for each second without even looking at the screen. At least I am learning one very important thing from this whole process: I should NOT major in anything even remotely related to film. I can't wait for this to be finished so I can show Alexis. She is the best free diver I know and Audrey Mestre is an idol to both of us. I'm not 100% committed yet, but I think I am going to title my movie "Mestre: The Unthinkable." I wish it was a little more original but I want to make sure people watching it knows its about her or she and the realistic world of free diving will not get the proper recognition it deserves.
Until next time,

The more you know!

Who knew iMovie had so many features! Don't laugh, I said before that I am not all that great with technology. So far I have stabilized my imported videos, flipped my footage, tried out a couple of filters, and detached the audio. At the moment, I think I want to do a voice over to add a more dramatic affect to the film. If so, next up on the agenda is writing the script. SO much to do in such little time! I still have not figure out how to move the on screen text, (honestly I am glad I could figure out how to out text on the screen at all!) but that's what the technologically advanced juniors in my class are for. I tried out some filters but I could not figure out if there was a way to adjust how strong they were. They all seemed too apparent and I just didn't like the feel.
Thank you iMovie for being easier to use than I thought you would be.

Full of questions

Jump cut or fade to black? Stabilize and reduce quality or leave it shaky and less professional looking? Speed up the cuts throughout the opening to intensify or slow them down to calm the viewers. I have so many questions!!! And worst of all, I have no answers. I keep going back and forth in this jumbled head of mine but I find nothing. At the moment I am trying to figure out how to put text where I want on the screen and how to edit the film in terms of color and brightness. Youtube, here I come. Filming in the ocean turned out to be much more difficult than I thought it would be in terms of stability. Unlike filming in a parking lot, I was constantly moving, and so was my camera. Every piece of footage is shaky, some more than others but, still, all to some extent. Hopefully my viewers will see this as a positive and accept that I just don't have the equipment to produce very high quality film opening. I am not IMAX! (But I wish I was)

How am I supposed to produce good footage with mother nature behaving like this?!

La La La

Music is much more important to a film opening than I would like it to be. I've been listening to copyright free music for weeks and I can't find anything that sets the mood exactly how I want. And, I know nothing about garage band, so that doesn't help. Luckily  I have a close friend who enjoys composing, but that is so much to ask of someone. I want the viewer to feel a sense of adventure and happiness, but also a sense of suspense, because of the dangers of the sport. Every song seems either way too happy or way too somber for my film opening. I am also not sure if I am going to do a voice over or not. I'm pretty happy with how the filming turned out. Most shots came out clear but the above water shots are all a bit shaky. Hopefully my computer can stabilizes the footage without reducing the quality too much. By next post I will hopefully have some decent editing accomplished...