~~~Movie making~~~

March 13, 2007

The movie had one theme and four different ideas for that one theme. This movie was our first time making one and it was pretty hard but fun. There were times where our group argued a lot, but it turned out okay.
We were seperated into four groups like depending on your grade level. Each group had to first draw out a storyboard on what they were going to do. We did ours on sports. We made it on soccer and basketball. We argued on what to do in the movie but it turned out okay except for the voice over…to me. We decided that sice we only had 45 seconds to do this to just start the movie in the soccer field at like 7-10 feet away from the goal. We made Johnny goalie and Micah, Steve and Brian the players. Micah passed the ball to steve and he shoots it in. Then each person shoots it in the goal. Well at first it was pretty hard to shoot it, so we had some hard times, and in the end it was totally different from our storyboard. The hardest part was figuring out the time limit and shooting the scenes to me.

We were going to also shoot either volleyball or softball, but the gym wasn’t available and usually the soccerfield was used by the ninth graders. The only day that we used the soccerfield was when the ninth graders were inside.

Since the gym was being used, we used the basketball court near the playground and we asked the 8th grade group to be in the movie. We used Andy, Joel, and Rigel. Rigel had the ball at mid-court and Joel tries to take the ball, but Rigel dribbles and bounces the ball under Joel’s feet and then Andy tries to take it, but doesn’t succeed and then Rigel shoots it in the hoop. Daniel took this movie part and it was really good even though.

Now we used Imovie to complete the whole thing. So we combined the five movies together and edited it. Editing it was kind of not hard but… well we argued over who should be on the computer and who’s turn it was since we all wanted a turn. Well the only thing I didn’t like about it was that the voiceover was kind of weird and to fast and there were too many words.