http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdNZ5vXWMxQ

I have to give you the link because that's the only way I can get it into the video. Sorryyy.

This week the British kids are here, and they're leaving on Sunday, but it was really fun. I had one stay at my house, her name is Emily, and we're totally best friends now. So for film class, we did this project where instead of continuing on with our boring documentaries, we worked on these new fun projects. Everyone got into groups, and then each group got assigned a prop. Our prop was this postal service box filled with tubes and beakers and some weird clocks and also some fairy wands.

So then we had to brainstorm ideas. Most of our ideas revolved around aliens or spaceships or something like that, but seeing as it would be really complicated to actually film a 60 short set in a spaceship and make it look believable, we decided that instead we would go with a mad scientist who makes an android, then falls in love with the android, but the android doesn't know what love is, so the scientist teaches the android how to love with computer coding and a montage, and so the android finally learns to love but once it does it dumps the scientist for some other guy. And then we had to write our script.

We decided that our film was going to be silent because that's just so much easier. So we wrote out a basic script that was pretty much all just description of what was going on, then we did our shot list, and then we did our storyboard and it all turned out beautifully. So then the next day, we borrowed a room from the science teachers, and I got a lab coat (it was so much fun to wear), and then we set about filming. We had to come in after school to film the rest of our movie because it took us a while to figure out how to work out Katie's mom's complicated camera, but once we did, everything was fine.

So we had all our film, and then we set about to editing. We decided to use color correction, so that as the android learns to love the colors slowly turn from colder colors to warmer colors. I'm really glad we thought of that, because that made our short look so much nicer. We also had this thing where after the robot leaves the scientist, it goes to black-and-white. That also looked really cool.

Everything turned out really nicely, and I'm really glad we got a chance to do it. It was a nice break from the documentaries, and it was also just really fun. So after this we go back to documentaries, and then from there on to CAP Hollywood which I am quite excited about. Second semester in general sounds really fun. We could make really amazing films for CAP Hollywood if we put the effort into it, and that's exciting to me.

Anyway, hope you liked the short, and I hope I wrote about everything I was supposed to write about in this post.