Friday, April 17, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Toned.
Music:
1. "Volatile Reaction" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2. "Stormfront" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Final editing
I have been editing on Windows Movie Maker because it is the program that I have the most access to at home.
This past week I have been trimming various of the clips within the documentary in order to make them fit nicely. I ended up sticking to the two royalty free songs that I found online and I managed to incorporate them into most of my documentary.
I'm also putting some final touches on my website and trying to make it look professional. I made a Twitter for my documentary two days ago and have been adding pictures to the website constantly.
This past week I have been trimming various of the clips within the documentary in order to make them fit nicely. I ended up sticking to the two royalty free songs that I found online and I managed to incorporate them into most of my documentary.
I'm also putting some final touches on my website and trying to make it look professional. I made a Twitter for my documentary two days ago and have been adding pictures to the website constantly.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Documentary progress and research
As I am finishing up my documentary, I decided to research a bit more and read some tips from professionals.
I ran into an article about Michael Moore and his 13 rules for making a documentary film on IndieWire. I was able to learn a lot from just one article and highly recommend it to others.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/michael-moores-13-rules-for-making-documentary-films-20140910
I am also finishing up my poster for the documentary. I have seen various other posters aside from the ones I found last week. I chose to use the poster for "March of the Penguins" for reference since my teacher, Ms. Stoklosa, has a physical copy of the poster.
Lastly, I created a website for my documentary on wordpress. While I am not very familiar with the program, I have been able to slowly add things that will hopefully make the website look complete and professional.
I ran into an article about Michael Moore and his 13 rules for making a documentary film on IndieWire. I was able to learn a lot from just one article and highly recommend it to others.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/michael-moores-13-rules-for-making-documentary-films-20140910
I am also finishing up my poster for the documentary. I have seen various other posters aside from the ones I found last week. I chose to use the poster for "March of the Penguins" for reference since my teacher, Ms. Stoklosa, has a physical copy of the poster.
Lastly, I created a website for my documentary on wordpress. While I am not very familiar with the program, I have been able to slowly add things that will hopefully make the website look complete and professional.
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Editing, editing, editing
I have managed to realize that technology is not always on my side.
I began editing 4 different times, and all 4 of those times something went wrong and I lost all of my work.
I decided to use a different computer to edit and I have now been editing for 3 hours. I hope that my progress actually saves when I click save!!
I'm really seeing the documentary come together and I'm very happy with how it looks. Everything is in order as of now, I just need to fix up some details and add some more music.
I began editing 4 different times, and all 4 of those times something went wrong and I lost all of my work.
I decided to use a different computer to edit and I have now been editing for 3 hours. I hope that my progress actually saves when I click save!!
I'm really seeing the documentary come together and I'm very happy with how it looks. Everything is in order as of now, I just need to fix up some details and add some more music.
YEAH ROYALTY FREE MUSIC!!!
I've been trying contact multiple companies in order to get permission to use their music, but I've had no luck.
I decided to start looking for royalty free music instead.
The websites and options are endless and I couldn't find something that felt right.
FINALLY, after hours of browsing, I managed to find two songs that could fit well with my documentary. I am still on the hunt to see if I find something better, but for now I am very satisfied!
I found the music on this website:
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?collection=044&Search=Search
I decided to start looking for royalty free music instead.
The websites and options are endless and I couldn't find something that felt right.
FINALLY, after hours of browsing, I managed to find two songs that could fit well with my documentary. I am still on the hunt to see if I find something better, but for now I am very satisfied!
I found the music on this website:
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?collection=044&Search=Search
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Technical Issues
I have dealt with more technical issues than I expected. I filmed all of my footage for my documentary on my iPhone and when I transferred the videos onto my computer, I realized it was all wrong. I made a huge mistake filming the shots which ended up making them look very low quality. I tried fixing them by downloading different programs, asking around, and trying to research solutions, but nothing worked.
I ended up having to re-film every part of my documentary.
Though it wasn't planned and I was very frustrated, I was able to re-think some of the shots I wanted to get and in the end I think it only made my filming better.
Now on to editing and figuring out if I need to film more.
Progress with poster
As I began photographing for my documentary poster, I knew for a fact that I did not want a person's face in the picture. My documentary includes two people that play a vital role so it wouldn't make sense to have just one person on the poster and having both would just make it too simple.
I played around with various angles and locations and ended up taking multiple photographs of bars and weights at the gym. My documentary focuses on what the gym, but not just the fact that people go there to look good, rather, how others use it as a foundation for bigger dreams. The people I am interviewing have different aspirations, but training at the gym is what they both have in common. Due to that, I decided I wanted the poster to include the gym.
After hours of trying to take the ideal pictures, I have found the picture for my poster.
I definitely need to do some editing to enhance the quality, but it is absolutely what I was going for.
I played around with various angles and locations and ended up taking multiple photographs of bars and weights at the gym. My documentary focuses on what the gym, but not just the fact that people go there to look good, rather, how others use it as a foundation for bigger dreams. The people I am interviewing have different aspirations, but training at the gym is what they both have in common. Due to that, I decided I wanted the poster to include the gym.
After hours of trying to take the ideal pictures, I have found the picture for my poster.
Documentary- Poster Research
My documentary will also be based on fitness and health. It has a slight twist regarding what kind of a foundation the gym sets for some compared to others. I am pretty familiar with the topic due to personal experience and the research I did for my magazine.
Today I began researching how to create the poster for my documentary.
These are my favorite documentary posters that I found during research. I have come up with multiple tag lines that I will include in my poster aside from the title. I have definitely decided that my documentary will be titled "Toned." All of these have a different placement for the title and tag-lines. My decision on where to put these will be in accordance to what the picture I choose for my poster looks like.
I will be taking pictures for my poster tomorrow afternoon.
Friday, April 3, 2015
Finishing the magazine
I'm at the point where I am simply looking over every part of the magazine and fixing up anything I can.
I am making sure that everything I have designed is in high quality mode and looks good. I was reviewing my table of contents and decided to completely change one of the main pictures I had showcased. This was mainly because of quality, I felt as though that one picture was not as high quality as the rest, regardless of editing.
I also fixed the font in my two page spread because I didn't like the flow of it around the page. I used one of the fonts that I downloaded from dafont.com called 28 days later. Since my two page spread has a lot of text, I wanted to avoid having it look boring so I played around with underlining specific words that needed to stand out.
I'm really proud of my magazine as a whole and I'm impressed with everything I was able to create. I feel as though I really put my all into this layout and I hope it is evident to people reading it.
I am making sure that everything I have designed is in high quality mode and looks good. I was reviewing my table of contents and decided to completely change one of the main pictures I had showcased. This was mainly because of quality, I felt as though that one picture was not as high quality as the rest, regardless of editing.
I also fixed the font in my two page spread because I didn't like the flow of it around the page. I used one of the fonts that I downloaded from dafont.com called 28 days later. Since my two page spread has a lot of text, I wanted to avoid having it look boring so I played around with underlining specific words that needed to stand out.
I'm really proud of my magazine as a whole and I'm impressed with everything I was able to create. I feel as though I really put my all into this layout and I hope it is evident to people reading it.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Final touches
I am putting the final touches on my cover page and table of contents page. I am thrilled with how it looks.
The cover looks awesome and I am so happy with the way everything seemed to fit in. The title is placed exactly the way I wanted it to be and it took so long to get it just right.
The table of contents page is just right in my opinion. I used some inspiration from similar magazines but kind of put a twist on it. It ended up being simple but not too simple which is exactly what I was going for. I was able to fit in a couple of pictures that help illustrate what the main stories are about.
As for the two page spread, I am almost done. I have to add some more text that I just received along with a link to a video and that's basically it.
I am so satisfied that all my hard work is really paying off and that I am happy with the way everything looks.
The cover looks awesome and I am so happy with the way everything seemed to fit in. The title is placed exactly the way I wanted it to be and it took so long to get it just right.
The table of contents page is just right in my opinion. I used some inspiration from similar magazines but kind of put a twist on it. It ended up being simple but not too simple which is exactly what I was going for. I was able to fit in a couple of pictures that help illustrate what the main stories are about.
As for the two page spread, I am almost done. I have to add some more text that I just received along with a link to a video and that's basically it.
I am so satisfied that all my hard work is really paying off and that I am happy with the way everything looks.
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