Last Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOPGhTlkVAw

This is our final movie. To say about our organization, i'm quite satisfied with my group, although we might do it even better. Emese was chosen as a director, as she likes a lot to be leading. I prefer backstage staff, so i first gave the idea, we agreed on that, though later we made lots of changes in it, because of problems with our actor and different ideas raised later on. Julia was our actress. And Katinka rewised our final storyboard at the very end.

So, what were problems we met?
First of all, organization. The main problem is that Emese likes to lead, but she cannot lead properly sometimes. She cannot make people come on time, she didn't separate the work among us. No one actually knew their role in the group. She likes to make everything herself, feels like she doesn't need us.

Another problem was that Julia and Katinka were not available most of the time. So, the main part was made by Emese and me. Though in the editing part Julia helped a lot. We sat with her for almost 6 hours at school editing the whole staff.

Third problem occured when our main male actor could not come for the shooting, because of his personal problems. At the same time, this was the last day we could gather all together (Friday), so the shooting was urgent. Therefore, me, Emese and Julia started looking for an alternative actor first at school then in the streets even. Finally, we found a man on Margit Sziget, where we were planning to shoot our last scenes. And i proposed that we change our story, but not much, just to involve a happy old couple. The reason was that it's harder to find a single man in a park and make him play in our movie, much easier to find an old couple, who are free all the time, and more likely to help us.

Fortunately, everything turned out well, we found a couple after 20 minutes of surfing through Margit. They were Canadian, but spoke good Hungarian as well. So, it was just perfect. We could freely communicate with them, and explain all we needed from them. We took their contact information (and a young man's), and sent our final movie. Hope they like it :)

Overall, even though we met lots of quite difficult problems, we were creative enough to find solutions and work it out.

About working in 4s, i think that's not the best thing i experienced. Much better to work in couples or in a group of 3. There were just too many people, but lack of responsibility inside the group. But the result is not bad at all. ;)

Stern Film Studio

To say honestly, this expedition was way more exciting for me than the one with Andrea, although I'm more interested in Events Management. There we couldn't go to the backstage, we didn't discuss things about organizing this event, but rather about the design of the building and the whole layout.

But here, we could go and see all the important features of the place, both studios (where we could even climb up to the catwalk, that was an experience:)) , then we saw the workshop, the catering, offices, and even make-up rooms. We were able to ask her many important and difficult questions, and she was so nice to answer all of them. I learnt lots of staff from this class, starting with what is the marketing promoter's main responsibilities, and finishing with a saying "Nothing ventured, nothing gained". And we had lots of fun. Thank you, Phil, for this day! :)

A Letter

We all know that Emese was the story writer, Fathir was a cameraman, and i was editing the whole staff, that's the main reason the video clip seems confusing a little bit, as we all had different ideas and view while doing our job.

First difficulty was that we had our computer turned off, we didn't have a charger with us, and we didn't know a password as well.
so we couldn't make it the right way: we were planning to draw in Paint or any other software on the computer, but we couldn't.
So, what we had with us were just sheets of paper, and we decided then to draw on them like if we were drawing on a touch pad.

Then the typing scene is about an apologizing letter from her.

Then comes a scene when she gets up and jumps into another world, i made a mistake here: i should have put some other effects here which would show that this is all happening in her mind and dreams. And that in reality she is just sitting there and writing her letter, that she didn't even stand up.

The flash backs represent her thoughts, her feelings as well as it is to add some contrast in an action, and to make us feel the same way as the main character. We know that when we have huge contrasts we feel things harsher, like here we have this sad and boring scene with the main character typing smth, and drawing; and then we have this dancing girl in a dress, she is not upset or anything, she is just enjoying her life. This makes the first scene appear even sadder, more bitter, her life be more miserable.

And the song... I had a problem with that. First of all, i was not planning to show my version of the video to the class; what i wanted was just to try the new software and see what i can do alone. And with that in mind i've chosen the first song that came to my mind.
i was not thinking a lot about the lyrics, i was rather focusing on beats and melody.

And the last scene.. It's hard to explain, but i'll try. The idea was actually to confuse the audience. First we think that this is a dream when they are dancing, but then the kiss comes in reality. What i was thinking was that when Emese met me in a fantasy world, i started forgiving her little-by-little, i invited her to dance with me, and then at the end it's like if i forgave her everything and excepted her in reality now. :)

But we don't have this thing in lyrics that's why it's quite confusing.

week 8

The deadline for our assignments was this week's Tuesday, so we had to decide which version to show. I wrote a message to Fathir, with a link to my uploaded video on Youtube, asking his opinion on that issue. He did not want to hurt neither of us, so he said that both of them are good, and different from each other, that they have different ganra even, and that he cannot really compare them. But for showing to the public we would prefer the second one.
So, after asking a permission from Emese, who didn't mind, we finally decided to publicize my version with changed music and little bit of story even.
People from the group agreed that the second one was made more carefully and looks more appealling, so i hope everyone liked it.

To say about others' works, i loved all of them. But to mention the best for me, i think that's Natella's with Damla and Julia. I like their idea of changing their everyday look for something new and unusual in a way. The role of Julia was really shocking for me, i didn't know she can be so hot. :) And the music they chose is still playing in my ears. The editing was , i can say, almost perfect, with all the flashes and fades. It looks professional, doesn't it? :)

week 7

With the coming of the new software, i decided to re-do our movie, as i was not quite satisfied with it. I didn't tell Emese about it, wanted to try it myself, and see if it's gonna work.
First of all, I decided to change the song from George Michael's "Amazing" to One Public's "Apologize". I prefer it to the previous one because of the beats, and also the whole singing and all small breaks between some parts.

I managed to finish the work till 10 p.m. and went home. I think this version is much better, as I didn't put any of those weird video effects, as making huge contrasts, putting all in red and black, and colourful scenes. And what i liked in the program is that it finally had the speed up and slow motion effects. I could manipulate them easily. I enjoyed working along actually, as no one was dictating anything, i was free to do whatever i want, and i was experimenting a lot.

One of the main problems i had was the fact that we didn't have many shots taken. So, it was really hard to crop and copy same parts every time, but in a different way. I think I tried my best, now let's see what the public will say about it.

Link:
my version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeIw18IGZzs
Emese's version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GkQhM6Cl2o&NR=1

week 6

This week me and Emese made the editing of our video. Mostly we had to use lots of special effects, as the shot material was not of the greatest quality. (lack of light, wrong camera movements - it was due to the fact that we didn't have much time to watch after little things, which was a huge mistake as we see now.)
Was very difficult to make speed up and slow motions, because that day we didn't have the new software; and we had to import-export the file many times from one program to another, what caused loss of quality even more.
Most probably we will re-do the editing next week with the new soft, 'cause now we can see clearly where we made mistakes, and some solutions for making it look better.

Week 5

Assignment #2

Now the group consists of Me, Fathir and Emese. After brainstorming we settled on an idea of Emese. The song is called "Amazing" of George Michael.
We decided to make something like a parody to him, so it's going to be a movie about love between two girls. :) Guess, who are gonna play them! ))

The action starts actually in an old collapsing house, where Emese is sitting in front of her laptop drawing her ideal girl. Then that drawing comes alive , starts moving . Emese gets up and jumps into the screen to find that girl. And the last scene is about those two girls dancing and kissing at the end. :D

Waiting forward to edit it and watch it from the beggining till the end. :)