*CONTAINS SPOILERS*

This week, I went to the movies and saw A Quiet Place. I’m not a horror gal- like, AT ALL, but I still really really enjoyed the film because I love apocalypse stuff, as well as when scary things have real purpose. I chose to do the Swede a Scene assignment and took some creative freedom. The movie is quite difficult recreate, but I was inspired by the opening scene when the family is tiptoeing around the store, and she’s quietly searching through the medicine bottles to get her son some medicine.

I tried my best to take some creative shots of me tiptoeing around, as well as picking up pill bottles slowly and methodically. I chose not to edit the scenes too much because things in the movie are very drawn out since they have to take their time and think about absolutely everything so they don’t make a noise.

I also took some creative freedom since it was only me doing this and did things like brushed my teeth and turned the water on- things that seem so simple to us now but wouldn’t be to them. For instance, when I swallowed the pill, I chose to dry swallow it because if I was that character, turning on the water wouldn’t be worth potentially making too much noise and dying over it.

At the end, there is a clip of my phone ringing after I leave the room and start doing other things. After it rings for a bit, the screen goes to black and you hear the noise of a monster. This is meant to symbolize when the little boy dies after turning on the rocket in the first few minutes of the movie. I don’t think the characters would be naive enough to keep their ringers on, but I wanted to keep the noise coming from a technological source, just like the toy rocket.

I’m WELL aware this video isn’t great but I really really tried on it and did everything to the best of my ability since I was working alone.

I found this assignment surprisingly easy to put together! I first decided on the five questions I would answer and wrote down the times in the original video to make editing easier later. One of my two difficulties was finding a place to record. It’s a dark day outside, so I had to rely on indoor lighting, which I always have difficulties with. I eventually settled for my room because it’s in a basement, so it has a creepy large window, and there are several lights and lamps!

After I recorded the first question using OBS and replayed it, I realized it was not recording my sound at all. I recorded the question again, and this time the audio was severely delayed and a low quality. I eventually used QuickTime to record and the audio was much better. Although, I move around a lot so you can hear the earbud microphones bumping into my hair a few times.

Answering the questions themselves was fun and I made a point not to plan out what I would say! My dream and the last time I ate cow products are both completely true, so hopefully these are not symptoms of the end!

I used iMovie to combine my video with the original, and this was easy to do. I have now used iMovie several times and I think I have the hang of it! If I changed anything about the video, I would probably say “um” less. It’s something that seems so normal to say while I’m thinking, but it seems so excessive when it’s in video. Maybe that’s just because I’m paying attention to it, though!

I did the 4 star assignment This is My Story.  I decided to tell my story using notecards.   I told the story of what Mufasa and I are doing these days, and that we sorely miss or friends from the Barn.  It has been two weeks since we presented our story Apocalyptic Airwave a story of survival to others.  After we told our story Mufasa and I moved on from the barn trying to find other survivors.  I made this video to let my friends from the barn know that they are dearly missed.  Here is my video below:

Vanessa Locke asked me to answer some questions for whatever reason… so I chose a few and responded (in many cases a little too thoroughly and I had to sped things up or edit them down).

Making this video wasn’t too challenging. Again, I had to use my phone to record so shout out to my Galaxy s7. I tried to give a more interesting background and use my Marauders Map tapestry that always hangs on my bed. I hope my answers were sufficient for Nessie.

I did the 3 star assignment Where do your shoes take you in a day?  In this assignment you had to tell a story using a video of only your shoes!  Well I guess i misread the instructions because I definitely didn’y have socks on for part of the video, other parts of the clip I was wearing my socks.  But regardless I showed a video of where my feet took me that day.  Initially I was at home home here in Fredericksburg.  I then traveled to Fort Lee hence the video of my feet driving.  I then arrived at a baby shower hence me actually wearing dressy clothes.  Lastly after a long day which felt like 500 miles of walking I relaxed at my sisters at Fort Lee.  Here is my video below:

So I decided to watch the film Children of Men as my second film.

I enjoyed this movie way more than Night of the Living Dead. Children of Men was very beautifully done. The message of faith and hope was really shown throughout the film. The only thing that bothered me about it was that pretty much everybody dies. I’m not a huge fan of movies, or stories, like this. However, the story was just brilliant, and I was especially a fan of the use of long takes. I know how much work gets put into long takes such as these, so all I could do was appreciate it immensely as I watched the film.

Throughout watching it, I kept thinking about what I would do my Supercut It Assignment on. I had several ideas that I could do (this includes things specifically involving characters such as smoking, alcohol, cursing, etc.), but I ultimately decided on the long takes. I think this filming technique was just really important in the feeling that the film gives the audience. There were actually quite a few of them. In my compilation I included 6 long takes. There were some more that weren’t quite as long, so I didn’t feel like I could count them, but there were quite a few instances where it amazed me it hadn’t cut yet. These 6 were the most amazing ones.