Final Task

 This was definitely the hardest project thus far, and we had somewhat of a rough time but by the end we persevered, Personally i think disregarding our past Issues we did really well, There's some minor discrepancies in the video pretraining to the plot but i think its amazing for a High-School Film Project and honestly its pretty enjoyable to watch, so i feel like the viewer will enjoy it 

Editing Software's Blog

 

 We used three editing software's during the production of this video. The first one we used was called Capcut. This was used to help link the clips together for the video. This made the whole video for us and all we had to do was put it in. This software also helped trim many of the clips needed for our video. If we didn't have the ability to trim, we would have a 3 minute long video. This software is undoubtedly the most important software that we had to use. Without this easy to use software, we probably couldn't complete this video because all the rest are priced or on laptop. This software allowed us to do it on our phones meaning we could edit anytime we wanted. The next software we used was called Bandlab which helped with the audio part of the video. This helped with making the audio we spoke louder. We also could add sound effects to our video. So much audio that we couldn't add with capcut made this editing software required for our video. Our last editing software is one we did not talk about yet. It is called Youcut. This helps edit the completed video even more. Since we could not combine the audio with the video with capcut or bandlab, we used youcut to help us. This helped us extremely because there was no other wway for us. This also helped putting the titles of the words for our video. Overall these software's had helped us because they could all do what the other cant, and I am very excited to show you my completed video.

Changes made from film review

 After Mark did the film review for us, we decided we had to make some changes to our video in order to make sure it is fit to be the best it can be. The first thing we changed were the voices in our video. We decided to edit the audio so that everytime we speak, we put it into a new track. We started using an app called Bandlab in order to fix the audio. This helps alot with adding the audio, putting effects, lowering and raising volume, putting filters, and many other things. When putting the audio on a different track, we made it louder. This made it so we can actually hear the audio. Since we couldn't go out to film, we worked on audio. The only thing that we actually could work on is audio. This made it hard to fix all of Mark's problems. We still tried our best to make things right though. Although it was hard and rigorous, we fought with everything we had. Our battle was fierce and upsetting, but in the end we won. This video is the reason that we have struggled so far and we will not give up. Even if Jason and I cannot finish this until the end, we will try with everything we've got. We tried submitting into Mark's wishes, but we decided to do things our way. We will not get help from an outsider who only plays DRAGON BALL LEGENDS! RISING RUSH! Thus, we will finish the video our own way. Even if Markzy disagrees with us.

Filming Blog: Our Destinations True End

 While we were editing we came across some issues, our scenes really didn't seem to be coherent, Jason and Chad brought this up to me and Ethan while we were in class, It seemed like a big problem so to remedy this we went back out and recorded, after we figured out what was junk in our film we cut it out and we were left with 30 more seconds to fill in our required time for our movie, so after this was done we had to brainstorm what the next move would be, and we came to the conclusion to add more to the fight, even though it would leave some discrepancies in our story board we recognized that it would be needed for a good film, so what we did was just add more to the fight, After the initial fight, Jason and Chad hop back to gain some space in-between each other and in response to this Jason sees Ethan's sword on the floor and he starts duel wielding them to gain an advantage, Jason had subpar duel wielding skills so Chad was able to block all three of his accounts, after this Jason Spun backwards to gain distance between Him and Chad, After this Jason does a Jump and cuts down-wards with this happening the Film ends there, Jason Chad and Ethan dont think enough effort was put but i personally think its alright for what it was.

Peer Film Review

 The one who wrote the criticisms for our video was a junior named Mark. Mark is an aspiring rapper and has made many songs already. I wanted to ask Mark to make a criticism for our video because I thought that he would have the most unbiased opinion. So me and Jason asked Mark if he could watch and review our video. At first after the first time he watched it, he laughed which was fine because I would have done the same thing. After he finished laughing he watched it again and started criticizing. He said many things like I felt the overall emotion in the battles. The suspenseful moments caught my eye quite quickly upon only just now seeing the characters. The angles were thought out carefully and executed in the right way. The sound effects were relatively as close as possible as can be. The facial expressions gradually shifted all throughout the film. The first 21 seconds of walking took too long. The voices were too low to a certain extent. The scenery was rather bright and didn't match the overall aesthetic of the Dialogue between characters. The running in the battle felt a little delayed and too weak. The sword was conveniently placed by a tree without any thorough explanation. The impact of the hits during the battle seemed a little more fast forward. The ending had me wondering what would happen next. More emotion could have been put into everything leading up to the fight. The runs felt very stiff. So overall, there were many things right with the emotions, but the actions themselves needed some work.

Editing Blog: Tying up loose ends

 With this editing session, we got very close to finishing our Project, and all we had to do is just fix very small things. We got the music from Jamie Christopherson and the music fit perfectly into our video. The next thing we had to do was the voiceovers for the video, We had to do voiceovers because in one of our videos their was a lot of background noise and rather then going back to record we just opt in to doing a voice over which was way eaiser then going back to our scene and get it one for one, But, we didnt have to do voice overs of all our clips, everything ended up very good so we just started trimming to fit our quota since we had a little bit more footage then needed, the only thing that need we really need to do was settle on a group name.

Editing blog: Working Together

 For our editing blog, i was pretty hands off, as most times Me and Ethan only really provided advice as to where to go next with the editing, I never really work on editing but it seemed like it was going pretty well since Chad and Jason barely asked for advice, as they were editing I was thinking about as to what we could do with our transitions and title cards, and we really didnt talk about it just yet but after that we started to getting work refining our project, we were far from done but were making alot of progress.

Obtaining Music Production Blog

 We had kind of a difficult time with our music decision until Chad brought this one guy and with a little bit of discussion over it we decided that he would be be our choice, and the music he provided was amazing! he didn't disappoint , with his music and our filming being done, we were one step closer to being done with my project, now came the arguably the hardest part is our Editing, we have to make sure that it looks as professional as possible, along with the music matching the overall vibe and aesthetic of our film, this would tie everything up amazingly if our Composer has the right song, which he undoubtably does, so we are in the clear to keep moving forward as we unanimously agreed to pick one out of hundreds of songs, but after we did we known it was the right and perfect song, the next step was to message our Composer and ask for permission, after this we waited for him to respond, after we got the green light for us to use his song we quickly went to work to incorporate it into our film

Filming Blog: Encounter

 For this filming session I couldn't participate due to the fact that I was sick, So instead I looked through examples of films, gaining experience and giving advice to them, other then that I really couldn't participate so I stayed at home

Filming blog: The Final Showdown

Our complete team went out on Saturday, March 12th, to film the rest of our scenes after we didn't finish the initial recording session. We got everyone present this time, and because we had previously completed the majority of the scenes, it was time to wrap up the project. We had Ethan pick everyone up at their homes this time, and it took a long time because it took almost an hour to fetch everyone. However, after we had everyone picked up, we immediately headed to the vacation park to film properly. At this time, I took up the sword Chad had given me and prepared for our recording; I didn't have much to say for the main purpose I was there, which was to help Chad by plotting my death We discussed whether to wait or find another area, but after learning that it had only just begun, we opted to seek out another location. This time, we chose an empty soccer field as the location for filming. We decided to start from the scene where the Joker says "After him, Ren, Akira!" and then show Me and Ethan running after Chad and attempting to harm him. Because Me and Ethan didn't know how to run with our swords, we had to do multiple takes until we got what Chad and the rest of us wanted. Overall, it was a lot of fun to record even though we had a few minor setbacks, mostly minor ones like just messing up , we completed most scenarios in one take, and those that we did very well took a little longer due to the fact that all of our members were spaced apart.

Storyboard

Panel 1: Drake starts to monologue in a field of grass (medium long shot)
Panel 2: Drake starts to think about how his life has changed for the better
Panel 3: Drake's phone starts ringing. (Non-diegetic sound - Phone ringing)
Panel 4: Drake answers the phone. Close up-shot
Panel 5: Drake is confused from the caller. Medium shot
Panel 6: Drake learns the news about his sister. Medium Shot
Panel 7: Drake thinks to himself about gearing up and starts running (edited)
Panel 8: Drake sees his sword (Over the shoulder shot)
Panel 9: Drake takes the sword and runs off (Close up shot)
Panel 10: Drake approaches the place Joker called him to.
Panel 11: Drake looks around for the caller (over the shoulder shot)
Panel 12: Joker finally appears surprising Drake
Panel 13: Drake and Joker have a staredown (Two shot)
Panel 14: the two start talking to each other
Panel 15: The two start arguing with each other
Panel 16: Drake yells for his sister back (close up)
Panel 17: Joker then taunts Drake (close up shot)
Panel 18: Ren and Akira appear out of nowhere (three shot)
Panel 19: Joker will send Ren and Akira out for Drake
Panel 20: Ren and Akira start to walk up to Drake (Two shot)
Panel 21: Ren and Akira start to run ready to attack
Panel 22: Drake and Akira clash swords
Panel 23: Ren will start to attack Drake from the side
Panel 24: Drake will parry Akira and block Ren
Panel 25: Drake strikes down Ren
Panel 26: Akira gets angry at Ren's defeat
Panel 27: Akira will rush Drake and get struck down
Panel 28: Joker will smirk and call them useless
Panel 29: Drake and Joker will start to run towards each other
Panel 30: Joker and Drake will clash being the final scene

Title Design Blog

 Name of the studio: Studio JECS

Name of the production company: Studio JECS

Actor names: Jason Pierre, Chad Johnson, Ethan Lavalle-Stablein, Sebastian Suarez-Espino 

Film Title: Ambition 

Music By: Jamie christopherson 

Edited by: Jason Pierre 

Producer: Ethan Lavalle-Stablein

Executive Producer: Chad Johnson 

Story By: Chad Johnson 

Written By Jason Pierre 

Directed By: Ethan Lavalle-Stablein 

The title will appear in the setting and fade out. The title is "Ambition". The font that will be used is irregular display. The title will stay on the screen for 5 seconds.

Other Info blog

  Roles and Participants: 

Actors

Chad Johnson - Drake

Jason Pierre - Joker

Ethan Lavelle-Stablein - Akira

Sebastian Suarez-Espino - Ren

Maria - 

Filming 

Ethan Lavelle-Stablein and Sebastian Suarez-Espino

Editing

Chad Johnson and Jason Pierre

Health and Safety:

 Although we are going to be using prop swords, they will be wooden instead of metal. This way if we accidentally whack each other, the impact wouldn't hurt anybody as badly. Another solution that we considered was attacking with the swords very slowly, then editing the footage to make it look faster. This way, there would be no way to injure anybody while swing the swords. In order to make sure we don't hit anybody else who are bystanders, we plan to record secluded from others so they couldn't be in the background or get caught in an accident. In the worse case scenario, we will place 2 of our phones down in a secure place to be ready to call the police in case someone gets hurt.

Schedule

3/4-3/6: We plan to film the first part of the film in this time period. The first part of the film is the introduction to Drake and the phone call about his sister and him rushing off.

3/7-3/11: We will spend this week working on the proper editing for our video.

3/12-3/13: We're going to finish recording by filming the action scene and the ending

3/14-3/18: We'll finish editing the movie, add all the titles, and then make sure it is peer-reviewed.

Back-up Plan

When the weekends do not work for one of us, we would have to meet after school in order to film. When we cannot edit in class, we will work on editing at homes and collaborate over call. 

Script

 

Scene 1 -

Non Diegetic Music plays: Carnival of Delight

Drake (V:O) : Hey, my names Drake, and I'm a former gang member of the wire gang. I was a dangerous place for me and my sister was the one who made me change my ways. She made me realize that violence isn't the answer to everything. I was the only one to break out the cycle of constant violence and endless regrets. I never expected it would come back to bite me.

Diegetic Sound: Cell phone rings 

Drake: Huh, who could this be?

Diegetic sound: Answers*

Scene 2 -

Drake: Hello. Who's speaking? 

-Joker (V.O): We have her... 

Drake: Huh? What're you talking about? 

Joker (V.O) : Your sister.. want her back? 

Drake: What was that?

Maria (V.O) : Drake! Help me Please!

Drake: Maria!

Joker: You know where to find me... be there in 10 minutes or else... 

Diegetic Sound: hangs up*

Drake: This can't be happening, I have no other choice.

Scene 3 (Gearing up) 

Non Diegetic Music Plays: Zero Gravity

Drake runs to gear up*

Drake grabs sword and runs away*

Scene 4 (Walking up to the designated scene)

Joker: WELL WELL WELL.... guess who decided to FINALLY show their face... 

Drake: NO WAY, IT'S YOU?

Joker: Haha seems you still recognize me.. 

Drake: Why're you doing this.. I told you why I resigned from the mob. I couldn't live like that anymore and you know it. 

Joker: You think you resigning from the mob would fix everything? All the violence and chaos. WE NEEDED YOU, and this is how you repay everything we offered you! 

Drake: Joker... enough talk. We can handle this like men or like enemies however, GIVE ME BACK MY SISTER 

Joker: You can have her.... but you'll have to get through us... AFTER HIM, REN, AKIRA

Ren/Akira: Run towards Drakes and gets slashed then falls to their knees*

Joker: Ugh I knew they were weaklings anyways. Guess I'll have to handle this myself. 

Drake: Try if you can, RAGHHHHHH

Joker: AHAHAHAHAHA

clash swords*