27.5.14

Today was a challenging and a long day as today was the day when I combined everything using Windows Movie Maker and took the second last step to the finish line. It was quite a difficult job as I was not very experienced at doing this. But I somehow managed to complete joining them all. For this very first time, I took more time than predicted/expected. This happened because, I did both joining and editing today! I had a lot of fun and learnt a lot! Joining the videos and the different scenes were very easy. But then I realized that the videos that I recorded- its audio was not very clear. To prevent any confusion, I decided to add subtitles which was not difficult, but was very time consuming! Initially, I wS very unsure about adding subtitles and did it in a very complicated way. But when I started experimenting this software a little more, I realized there was a faster and an easier method to this! I used this method and finished adding subtitles quickly! Then I added the music, which was quite challenging. It was difficult because I had to know the exact timings of when I need the music and when I did not! Sometimes, the music collided with dialogues which made it sound weird. But then eventually, I realized that it did not sound that bad! I was also hesitant to trim the music again as my internet was very very very slow!Then I added the transitions which was the easiest. I added random transitions which surprisingly made it look very very professional and good! I love my video and I am very proud of it! 

                                                                 19.5.14

Today's activity was very easy as I was only doing the last three scenes which were Acknowledgements, Production name and Cast photo. This was very easy and only took 15 minutes for me to complete it! Firstly, for my acknowledgements, I had to acknowledge only three people who were, Namrata, Saumya and Rithwik! This took around 5 minutes. I liked it when the acknowledgments scrolled as it made it look very professional and nice! Secondly, for the production name, I only had to copy and paste the first scene and remove "presents" from it. This took less than 5 minutes!Thirdly, I already had the cast and group picture which made my work easier. I just had to add the picture in a scene and then lastly make another scene which thanks the audience for watching! Making all this was very easy and I feel that this activty was one of the easiest I had ever done during create stage. I did not face any challenges while doing this activity and enjoyed a lot as it finished quickly! 

                                                              18.5.14 

Today I called over Saumya and Namarata to my house to act in my video. I had allotted more than 3 days for acting, but surprisingly, all the acting got finished within 4 hours. It was very fun working with Samuya and Namrata and I can proudly say that both are amazing at acting! They did most of the acting and the most difficult job for them was that they had to play various characters. But, both did it with such an ease that I was very happy. It was an amazing experience working them and I myself learnt a lot from their acting skills. I did not want to act as Acting is not my cup of tea. Most of recording was done by but one scene was done by my brother. We did not face any challenges and also managed to show fire in a room by moving the curtains and also by using a torch. This was very fun and loved the idea which was suggested by Saumya. I did not face any challenges today and had a lot of fun working with my two good friends!! 

                                                                                     17.5.14 

Today I was to look for video showing a kitchen on fire and videos showing a fire brigade extinguishing the fire and download them. This was quite a difficult job and now I have a feeling that I might not use this idea as I will face many challenges while adding it to my video. I went on YouTube and tried to find videos showing a house on fire and a fire brigade on its way to rescue. I did find the video but I was not very sure if I should use them as I did not like them much. I have downloaded and trimmed them for now, but I am not sure if I should use them or not. To overcome this challenge, I would like to take my peers' opinions and then take the final decision. But I have downloaded and trimmed the parts I want to be on a safer side! Until then I will try and look for other ways of showing fire in the kitchen. Today I did enjoy quite a lot but not as much as I had expected to because I was not able to find appropriate video to use for my video. On Monday, I will also ask my peers and my teachers if I should stick to the plan of having the video or just throw it away in the bin. Overall, today was not very productive and I am quite disappointed with myself and hope to work harder during the next activity! 

                                                     16.5.14

Today, I Created the 34^th, 47^th, 48^th, 49^th and the 50^th scenes as these do not also require any acting or the cast. Today was very similar to yesterday because, the activity is almost the same but it is just that the scenes that I was creating were different. I had a lot of fun and I enjoyed doing today's activity unlike the previous activity where I was depressed about not being able to completely follow my plan and did not enjoyed doing my work as much as I did today. It was a very simple activity and did not eat up as much time as I had expected it to. I had expected it to take up maximum 150 minutes while it only took 30 minutes. It took less time than expected because the backgrounds were already ready. All I had to do was summarize the information and write on the scene. Again I faced the challenge of summarizing my information. But this time I took my peers help to overcome that challenge. Making each scene took around 5 minutes which meant that I took approximately 30 minutes to create 5 scenes today. Overall, today I had a fun experience and hope to continue being active and excited about the rest of the create stage!

                                                              15.5.14 

Today I created the 26^th, 27^th, 28^th and the 29^th scene as they do not involve acting.This was quite simple. According to my plan, I was supposed to be done with the shooting of the videos. But I had completely forgotten that that weekend was just before the day of exams and that no one would sacrifice their time to act for my video. That is the reason why I did not record the scenes during the weekend. I don't think that this will cause much of a problem because I have allotted another weekend and 2-3 days only for recording which will be more than sufficient for me. I feel I did the correct thing by not taking the risk and keeping backup days for recording. The scenes I created today mainly contained information. I had to summarize the information from the design stage as it looked very cramped and boring with too many words in a video! I faced a little challenge when summarizing the information as I kept getting confused about which information is important and should be kept and which one should not be kept! I overcame this my taking my parents help which made my work easier and faster! But overall, I enjoyed today's activity and hope to enjoy the same way  but follow my plan at the same time! 

                                         Friday 9th May 2014

Today's activity was also pretty easy! I had kept today's day for finishing yesterday's activity if I had not! But then I had completely finished yesterday's activity, so I did not have any other work except for making the fourth scene which was so very easy!! But I am going to face a very major challenge in the near future and the cause of this was not planning properly! I had forgotten that there is going to be exams next week and it will be impossible for me to call the cast over the weekend as they will be extremely busy! I am really not sure what I should do next! I should have thought properly before planning! I am thinking of replacing next weeks activity with the one of this week as I will be able to call them next week. I will think about this idea and see what I can do next!