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I have finished my interview with cam and have the final product now I am trying to find out an idea for my psa and once i find that out i will do my storyboard and then start videoing.

Mathias and I just finished are interview with a piece of bacon.  It did not come out as well as we hoped.  I have to start my PSA now.  Also I need to start thinking about ideas for my final.

I am working on the Carlton Project video right now with Cam. Collette and I are going to film our action scene this weekend. We are brain storming ideas about our news broadcast and also our final. I am still waiting for videos from my family for my documentary.

Zach, myself, and Dom have not been keeping up on these weekly updates recently, due to the fall of the economy, Wall Street, and everything else we can blame. The set was set up with jerseys behing the desk, a football was placed on the desk, as well as the league trophy. We started filming last week, starting with me, then filmed Bird talk about how trash his team was, and the brutal trades he made. Arguments ensued about the Calvin and A.J Green trade, and behind the camera reactions were filmed. Jess couldn’t film due to her looks, and we are planning to film her soon. I also started the hockey highlight reel, and am hoping to finish that by monday, March 18.

I am working on my documentary and my action scene. I am waiting to get videos from my family to finish my documentary. Collette and I have finished our preproduction and now we just have to film and edit our action scene.

I still need time to search my house for pictures of youthful dad. Most of the ones I have are family photos and I am searching for some from his high school.

Alyssa and I are also working on brain storming for other projects. Filming over the weekend for our action shot and planning/storyboarding our news show.

I am mulling over my documentary and know about what I am going to do, but I am yet to storyboard it. I am thinking about my movie trailer and we will see what will be applicable to a competition later.

Thank you 🙂

ps. My mom is sitting

I am thinking about how I am going to do my documentary for Video II and am working on my final for Video I. My final is coming well, but I don’t have all of the pictures I want. Grammie is in Florida and can’t search her house for photo albums 🙂

All in all Mary Poppins is a wonderful movie. I’d never before watched Mary Poppins before looking at how it was edited. In Mary Poppins, there were a lot of scenes that made me wonder how it was done. Thinking to myself throughout the movie, I was pondering how this was done. Taking that I probably can’t make any of the amazing things that the editor of Mary Poppins did, even with all the effects software today. It just makes me think about how hard it was to do all the effects in 1964.

One of the things that made me wonder about this movie was when Mary Poppins was taking the items out of her carpet bag. The bag was obviously bottomless, but it was set on a table and there was nothing under the table. I had a theory on how Cotton Warburton, the editor, made this happen. But that theory went away when Michael, Mr. Banks’ son, crawled under the table. What I think he did was use green screen under the table and shot the scene two different times. Once when Michael crawled under the table and once when Mary Poppins was pulling things out of her bag. For her pulling the things out of her bag, I think they cut a hole in the table. But that is another theory that has to be wrong because Mary Poppins moves her bag to the other end of the table. I could be very wrong or I could be right. I may never know.

Another scene was when Bert, Mary Poppins, Michael and Jane jumped into the drawing on the ground. That whole scene when they are in the picture made me wonder. First when they actually jump into the picture, the effects are amazing. Getting that perfect must have taken a while, I can’t even begin to think about how I would do that. Throughout the picture when everything is animated and they are riding the marry-go-round and the horse come off, and they are riding the horses around the countryside. And how they are real people in an animation.

The part that probably made me think the most was when Mary Poppins slid up the railing, like people slide down railings, she was going up the railing and sliding across a flat surface. This happens twice in the movie, but the second time she is with the children and they are going down but they still go across the flat railing. How I think they did it was that they used stop motion on the parts when they are sliding across the flat part. When Mary Poppins is sliding up the railing, I think that they filming her sliding down the railing and just reversed it. But I again could be completely wrong.

In conclusion, the editing in this movie was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. That’s the only way I could describe it. The movie Mary Poppins was greatly edited by Cotton Warburton. 

-Randi 🙂

Before I started watching The Sound of Music, I was thinking back on all the times I’ve watched it before. I honestly could not think of why this movie won an award for editing.

Yes there would have been many times the editor, William Rynolds would have had to make sure the audio and video were matched up, but other than that I couldn’t find or think of why this movie would win an award for editing. Of course this movie was filmed in 1965 (or thats when it won the award) and that editing would have been much harder than it would be now. There aren’t any significant parts in the movie that jumped out to me that would want me to give it an award for editing.

There were a couple of parts that I think would have taken green screen (if it was invented back then) or just really good positioning of the camera.

I personally love The Sound of Music, but I feel like it shouldn’t have won an award for best editing.

-Randi 🙂