For third-quarter we are doing a movie trailer. Our movie trailer is called Grandpas Goodbye. It is about this boy named Tom who lives with his grandma and grandpa. Tom hears has been hearing these weird noises the night that his grandpa goes out and doesn't come back home. But when he asks his grandma about his grandpa and the noises she tries to play it off like Tom is making this a bigger deal than it actually is. So the next night Tom's best friend Brad comes over for the night. But while Brads stay at the house he hears the same thing that Tom has been hearing for the past couple of nights. So Brad suggest that they should go and check it out and Tom agrees. Since Tom assumes that the attic is where the noise is coming from that is where they go and check first. When Tom turns on the flashlight and looks around the attic, Brad and Tom finds an unpleasant surprise. My job in this project was to make the movie poster and help edit. My job was also to take foley and I was the voice actor.
Of course like every other project we ran into some difficulties and challenges. One of our major challenges was filming. Since our story is based around night time we had a hard time getting the right lighting and the right angles without messing with the exposure. We especially had a hard time filming with everyone there. We all made it to our filming sessions but one or two of us had to leave early because we are all middle schoolers with crazy busy lives. Another challenge we had was finding the correct appropriate music for our movie trailer. We also had a difficult time correctly placing and balancing our foley. Although we had our challenges, all of us have experience with making movie trailers. We have been in GT for about three years now. So we knew how to do most things. Such as our foley and filming. Our foley matched our movie trailer story. We also had everything eventually filmed correctly. When I say "eventually" I mean that at first we had some difficulties with lighting and adjusting the camera. But towards the end we got it right and we filmed some pretty awesome scenes.
For our critique we did pretty good. Not the greatest, but pretty good. I think that we got what we deserved for our critique. Except for the "Audience" portion. I didn't really understand how we got some room for improvements on that one, and I am really proud that our creativity and our requirements portions didn't get any room for improvements. But hey at least we made it to the top 5. Thats pretty awesome. That means the class liked ours enough to be nominated! There were so much things I have learned in this project. One thing I have learned is to manage my time wisely. Managing your time wisely is going to help what ever project you have be less stressful and your project or what ever you have to turn in by a certain time will end up having quality work written all over it because if you don't manage your time correctly, by the time the deadline rolls around your probably going to end up rushing to get it done which brings down the quality. Unless you are a super human that does everything perfectly. Another thing I learned is that communication is key. There has been too many times during this project where we plan something out, then at the very last minute something changes. We know now to plan things ahead of time and communicate effectively with each other if we want to get anything done right.
