Missing in action...A 2 week report. ACTION!!!

Well, I apologize for my delay in writing about what has ensued for the past couple of weeks. Although nothing dramatic or major has happened, it still is a good idea to keep everyone updated as to what is going on with me, my group and our film project. Please do pardon my lateness and my squeezing of two weeks' updates up into a single blog.

So, two weeks has gone by pretty fast, and I can't believe that I am in the process of studying my head off for finals. Although I can't wait to get the semester over with, there's one thing I'd miss; my Honors film class. I already miss our movie nights and all that goes with it. Then as a substitute, we started doing our own movies. Then as quickly as it went, we are done shooting our film. Yaayy..it was a great success and I am really proud to have worked with such intelligent young scholars. Last two weeks was our last week of shooting our film, and the last but one day was really an interesting one. When unsuspecting people walking and driving around campus came to the scene of a young man lying helplessly on the floor, believed to have been knocked down by the blue TOYOTA car,that was parked a few inches away from him, with people gathered around him and some shouting out for help, they began to utter words like "OMG!! What happened??" and "Oh no..call the ambulance!!" The expressions on their faces was enough to convey a sense of sorrow and their willingless to help. Unknown to them, a group of young, intellectual scholars had gathered to do what they've been thought to do for the past couple of months. Haha...We must have been really good actors and actresses to have given that impression to unsuspecting passer-bys.

Then the final day of shooting came. On that bright Sunday evening, we were set to shoot a scene of mostly dialogs between our 2 main characters. Our crew gathered and met at the specified place and we all moved to our location. Then, our director had his script ready, actors were ready for a quick rehearsal to go through the lines, and the bag containing our camera laid on the floor, staring at us "smilingly". Then, it was time to shoot.Camera was brought out, turned on, and actors were ready to go. Director shouted, "Action" and after a few dialogues were exchanged, the next thing everyone heard was "Dang!! we ran out of battery."
"OMG...seriously???" I thought to myself, hoping that it wasn't true. But no, I run out of luck, it definitely was. Both batteries had been used up and had just a few minutes, if not seconds, left on them. Now, we definitely had to get those last scenes shot that evening,so we put ideas together, and definitely got things done. Our actors run through the lines as quickly as they could, and we conserved the battery as much as we could. And JUST when our female character said her last word for the dialog, the screen displayed "BATTERY EMPTY" and went out!! How AMAZING!!!
So we finally got our film shot and done with, as planned. Now the next step was to edit, and make the multi-million dollar award winning short film of the year, ready for the markets.

So last week in class, we all gathered just to see what the fate of our videos were. We then had to get our shots digitized, so we could begin with the editing process. Since a lot of other groups had presented their tapes, they had to get theirs digitized first and due to some circumstances, the process took longer than expected. Unfortunately, our tape was not digitized... :( and we have barely 2 weeks to get everything done and submitted. But, once again, our smart director devised a plan. Clint has been so helpful and hardworking in getting this short film going, and I'm really happy to have such a person on our team. He finally got the tape digitized, and hence ready for editing. I must confess that as I write, I have no idea how far editing has gone, but to the best of my knowledge, our sound director, Jessica, is very much ready to put in some wonderful tunes and get the short film READY!!

I can't wait to see what the final product of our efforts has been, neither can I wait to see what my colleagues in other teams have...May 6th should hurry and get here!!!! Goodluck everyone....
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