Here is the link, to trailer of my film.
file:///Users/NolanMcGuire/Movies/iMovie%20Theater.theater/Archives%20-%20CEBA84FC-C1F2-4AEA-B851-2F29134B57E4/N&P%20Philms%20Presents%20Where%20The%20Tuna%20Fell%20(A65BCB8F-D6AD-4195-AF5F-15CDD3F61954).mp4
Here is the link to my film.
file:///Users/NolanMcGuire/Movies/iMovie%20Theater.theater/Archives%20-%20CEBA84FC-C1F2-4AEA-B851-2F29134B57E4/N&P%20Philms%20(6FBE61D2-E09E-4B68-A9AC-6B98ECE04604).mp4
Here are several images from the process.
file:///Users/NolanMcGuire/Movies/iMovie%20Theater.theater/Archives%20-%20CEBA84FC-C1F2-4AEA-B851-2F29134B57E4/N&P%20Philms%20Presents%20Where%20The%20Tuna%20Fell%20(A65BCB8F-D6AD-4195-AF5F-15CDD3F61954).mp4
Here is the link to my film.
file:///Users/NolanMcGuire/Movies/iMovie%20Theater.theater/Archives%20-%20CEBA84FC-C1F2-4AEA-B851-2F29134B57E4/N&P%20Philms%20(6FBE61D2-E09E-4B68-A9AC-6B98ECE04604).mp4
Here are several images from the process.
Work log:
Wednesday 3-11-15: Today my partner and I designed and finished the logo for our film. We started out with a few ideas, of but many of them were too detailed for the guidelines we were required to follow. For the most part I was the one who drew the logo, designed it and colored it. In the end our logo came out a little bit different than we were expecting.
Thursday 3-12-15: Today was by day for me when it came to the film. I didn't really work on anything that was relevant to my film. The reason why I did this was because I wanted to get caught ahead in other subjects, such as physics, humanities, and math.
Friday 3-13-15: Today my partner and I started the synopsis for our film. When we were first given the assignment we didn't really take it as serious as we should have of. Instead of writing out the plan for our film, we collected and gathered, many writing pieces about taco salad from previous reflections and stitched them all together. In the end we turned in a reflection that was not even close to being relevant to a synopsis.
Saturday 3-14-15: Today I am going to go back through the synopsys and edit it. Overall today is not going to be a day that I work on my film. I am going to be going fishing, and enjoying my saturday.
Sunday 3-15-15: Today I plan on starting the real synopsys for our film. Although we did not take it seriously on friday I plan on doing so today. Overall this is going to be a relaxing sunday.
Monday 3-16-15: Today we took another try at our synopsys after it was shot down like we were expecting. When we turned in the synopsys we were not expecting it to get signed off, but we were hoping to get a good laugh out of it with our teacher, Mr Aguirre. Now that it was shot down we knew that had to get into game mode, and actually write our synopsys. So we got to writing, and after an hour of writing we were done with our synopsis.
Tuesday 3-17-15: Today I didn't really do much regarding my film. I attempted to take a break from the film and work on other subjects. Today I completed a lot for physics and math.
Wednesday 3-18-15: Today consisted of alot of work. I worked on the storyboard for our film as well as the genre of music, and the script. I egun the day with a positive attitude, but unfortunately ended the day upset at the process. Although I was upset I was able to form a rough draft of our story board. Once I achieved this I was able to move on to filming.
Thursday 3-19-15: Today was a day that I would of enjoyed working on our film, but unfortunately was unable to do so. Instead of getting work time today, we closed the partition and worked on each subject for a select amount of time during the day. We had around two hours in math, two hours in humanities, and one hour for math. In physics we worked on the cosmic absolute, in humanities we worked a text revolving drones, and in math we relaxed. I wish that I would have taken advantage of the time I had in math, and worked on my film. Unfortunately it didn't work out this time, but possibly the next time I will use my time wisely.
Friday 3-20-15: Again, today I did not complete as much as I was intending to complete. Unfortunately it seems that at this point in our film we've slowed down a lot. Although the work process is beginning to slow down, I feel like we are in a good place. Although I have been able to complete a lot of work these past weeks, I plan on pushing myself to do even more.
Saturday 3-21-15: Today I worked on summarizing the synopsis.
Sunday 3-22-15: Today I did nothing for the film.
Monday 3-23-15: Today I didn't do a single thing for my film. Although it is a frightening thing to think about, I know that we're in a good place. One thing that I’ve learned during this process, is time management and honesty. Not necessarily honesty with my partner, but honesty with myself.
Tuesday 3-24-15: Today was a very progressive day. I managed to complete the synopsis on my own, to my standards. My partner and I had already finished our synopsys previous to this, but I felt like there was always room to improve, because of this I went home, revised the synopsys and made it out to my standards. Once I was complete with this, I begun to go through all of the images that I took for our film, and arrange them by category on my laptop. Once I had all of the images organized, I begun to go through them and critically place them into the timeline of our film. Once all of the photos were organized and placed into the timeline, I went through and edited them. Enhancing the photo so that they looked realistic.
Wednesday 3-25-15: Today was what I would consider a “by” day. Meaning I did not really do much for our film. Although I did not do much, I was able to achieve a lot more in other subjects.
Thursday 3-26-15: Today was another imaging processing day. I started out the day, going through all of the edited images that were in the timeline, and attempted to pick out all of the images that I would deem irrelevant. Once I completed this, I went to the Fred Hall show, located in delmar. The Fred Hall show is a fishing show located in delmar, where all of the big name fishermen come and talk, advertise, promote, and sell their products. Luckily enough I was able to meet many big name fishermen and talk for hours. Overall going to this show was a wise decision. Not only for me but for my film as well. Although this was a success, my partner phil got alot of footage aswell.
Friday 3-27-15: Today was a big day for me. Today was the day that I begun to travel up the oregon coast. Over this vacation I plan on going to several big aquariums and filming as well as going fishing up the coast. While on this vacation I plan on booking several interviews for when I return home.
Saturday 3-28-15: Today consisted of driving for about fourteen hours of the day. With all of time I had on my hands, I knew that working on my film was going to be the right thing to do, so I begun to do this.
Sunday 3-29-15: Today I woke up after, a long night of driving, and begun to edit photos from my film. I started out with a total of thirty photos to edit, and managed to complete all of them. Because I finished them I decided that I wanted to complete many more. So I scanned thirty more photos, and managed to enhance and filter all of them.
Monday 3-30-15: Today is the third day of spring break. I’ve been on the road for a while now, and am almost to san francisco. Once I arrive in San Francisco, I plan on going down to the local fish market, and hanging out in downtown chinatown. I plan on filming the fishmarket, for my film but other then that I will not be working on the film.
Tuesday 3-31-15: Today I will be driving the majority of the day. I am going to be leaving San Francisco, soon and heading down to the Big Basin Redwoods. Once I arrive I will be setting up camp, and enjoying time with my family. I do not plan on working on my film today.
Wednesday 4-1-15: Today I am going to be leaving the Big Basin Redwoods. And heading down to the Montarea aquarium. Once I arrive there I plan on walking every square inch of the complex and film every living creatures that swim in there contained cages.
Thursday 4-2-15: Today I plan on going through all of the footage of monterey aquarium, as well as put all of them into the film. I am going to be editing these images in the car on my way to the big sur redwoods.
Friday 4-3-15: Today I am on my way back home, I plan on stopping at moon rock as well as pismo beach. I am going to be spending the majority of my car ride, working on the film and editing a few things on imovie.
Saturday 4-4-15: Today I am not going to be doing anything on film, that requires much effort. Although this is true I plan on showing the film to several of my family members so that I will gain feedback.
Sunday 4-5-15: Today I plan on working on my film in the comfort of my bed at home. I don't plan on doing much, but I would like to go through the images from the trip and categorize them.
Monday 4-6-15: Today I am going to be going to lake miramar, or miramar reservation. I plan on going there to try out a few lures, and test out my gopro for upcoming interviews.
Tuesday 4-7-15: Today is a work day for myself. I plan on not working on my film at all.
Wednesday 4-8-15: Today I am going to begin going through several shots from my film. I plan on showing several of them to my family and get their point of view on them to see if they are relevant to my film or not. I also plan on attempting to edit some of the film with my partner for this film.
Thursday 4-9-15: Today I am beginning to go out and fish, and film for my film. My partner phillippe decided that it would be a good standpoint to have in our film. The fishing in mexico. At the moment I thought It would've been a great idea, but now reflecting back on it, it was just a chance to take advantage of the time we had. Fishing in mexico was not relevant to our film, but was a great day out on the water.
Friday 4-10-15: Today I am going back out to the islands, to “”film for our film. Phillippe and I plan on catching some yellowtail, as well as several other species of fish.
Saturday 4-11-15: Today I plan on doing nothing for my film.
Sunday 4-12-15: Today I am going out to the islands with my friend phillippe, and my partner for the film. We plan on fishing and having a good time. Although this is not relevant to our film now, it was a while ago.
Monday 4-13-15: Today is the last day of spring break and were going to go to mexico to fish.
Tuesday 4-14-15: Today I am back in school, after a long two weeks of spring break. I plan on working on my film and getting back into the rhythm of things academically.
Wednesday 4-15-15: Today my partner and I plan on editing some of the clips in our film. Today I am actually really excited to be doing this because it will be the first time in a while my partner and I will be editing our film together.
Thursday 4-16-15: Today I am doing nothing for my film.
Friday 4-17-15: Today I am setting up an interview. I am setting up an interview with my tuna neighbor Armando. I plan on interviewing him for ten minutes, and taking a tour of his fishing collection. Once this is complete I plan on going home and editing the footage, and adding sound. Once this is complete I will add it into imovie, and be on my way to the next step in my film.
Saturday 4-18-15: Today I plan on going over to my partners house, to work on our film.
Sunday: 4-19-15: I am now home after going to my friends house, and am unfortunately upset because he did not want to work on anything involving our film. I am now forced to stay up late on a school night and finish the editing that is required to be complete.
Monday 4-20-15: Today I am exhausted from staying up last night, and do not have the energy to work on my film.
Tuesday 4-21-15: Today marks a landmark in the film. My partner was able to help me complete the logo for the film. Our logo is now animated and ready to go.
Wednesday 4-22-15: Today I edited footage and inserted it into Imovie.
Thursday 4-23-15: Today I worked on my film, and interviewed many people. I wrote the questions the night before, and staged the area that we were going to film.
Friday 4-24-15: Today I am doing nothing for my film:
Saturday 4-25-15: Today I am going to my friends house to work on my film and have a good time. I plan on editing the film and attempting to make it better.
Sunday 4-26-15: I am now home again,after going to my friends house, and am unfortunately upset because he did not want to work on anything involving our film. I am now forced to stay up late on a school night and finish the editing that is required to be complete.
Monday 4-27-15: Today I did nothing for the film.
Tuesday 4-28-15: Today I worked on extracting all of the unnecessary files on my computer so that I could have room for upcoming images.
Wednesday 4-29-15: Today, I was bummed my partner did not help me out with the editing at all. I feel like I don't want to bug him about it while at the same time I feel like i'm doing the project alone.
Thursday 4-30-15: Today I worked on the film, and watched it several times to make sure that I had it pretty much complete.
Friday 5-1-15: Today I am going to begin going through several shots from my film. I plan on showing several of them to my family and get their point of view on them to see if they are relevant to my film or not. I also plan on attempting to edit some of the film with my partner for this film.
Saturday 5-2-15: Today I did nothing for the film.
Sunday 5-3-15: I am now yet again home after going to my friends house, and am unfortunately upset because he did not want to work on anything involving our film. I am now forced to stay up late on a school night and finish the editing that is required to be complete.
Monday 5-4-15: Today was by day for me when it came to the film. I didn't really work on anything that was relevant to my film. The reason why I did this was because I wanted to get caught ahead in other subjects, such as physics, humanities, and math.
Tuesday 5-5-15: Today I didn't do a single thing for my film. Although it is a frightening thing to think about, I know that we're in a good place. One thing that I’ve learned during this process, is time management and honesty. Not necessarily honesty with my partner, but honesty with myself.
Wednesday 5-6-14: Today I am working on the film, and compressing it onto my laptop, to see the quality of the video.
Thursday 5-7-15: Today I did nothing for the film.
Friday 5-8-15: Today I worked on editing.
Saturday 5-9-15: Today I went around to my peers and asked several questions, on how my film was.
Sunday 5-10-15: Today was by day for me when it came to the film. I didn't really work on anything that was relevant to my film. The reason why I did this was because I wanted to get caught ahead in other subjects, such as physics, humanities, and math.
Monday 5-11-15: Today I went through the film, and worked on the transitions.
Tuesday 5-12-15: Today I did nothing for the film.
Wednesday 5-13-15: Today I did nothing for the film.
Thursday 5-14-15:........ It's hard doing this alone!!!!
Friday 5-15-15: Today was by day for me when it came to the film. I didn't really work on anything that was relevant to my film. The reason why I did this was because I wanted to get caught ahead in other subjects, such as physics, humanities, and math.
Saturday 5-16-15: Today I enjoyed a relaxing day, and filmed something I enjoyed for mt project.
Sunday 5-17-15: Today I did nothing for the film.
Monday 5-18-15: Today my partner and I left class, and went around point loma to acquire interviews for our backup plan. Our backup plan is something I thought about, that would work if our film failed. It would allow us to use the footage if our film got deleted or something didn't fit.
Tuesday 5-19-15: Today I did nothing for my film, except for take a break from it. The only thing that is keeping me worried, is the fact that while i'm taking a break my partner still does not work on the film.
Wednesday 5-20-15: Today I felt like I was over the whole filmmaking process. It is tough pretty much doing it alone. Because of this I didn't do anything for the film.
Thursday 5-21-15: Today was a serious day, I attempted to try my best to find flaws in the film.
Friday 5-22-15: Today was the last day with the senior teachers, and it was a funday. I was able to have fun with friends and not stress about the film.
Saturday 5-23-15: Today I went through and made sure all of the pictures were panned properly.
Sunday 5-24-15: Today I went through the whole film and made sure all of the sound was perfect.
Monday 5-25-15: Today our teachers are back from their week off. I am glad that they are back because the process without them has been a mind twisting rollercoaster.
Tuesday 5-26-15: Today my partner and I are going to get our film critiqued, for the second time. Tyler and joey decided they would critique it, and I am glad that they did. They gave us great feedback and allowed us to make the changes we needed. Although i enjoyed the critique I am quite upset at the whole process. My partner phillippe made it out that we both split the project evenly when if fact I did the majority of it.
Wednesday 5-27-15: Today, I am alone working on my project, my partner has other things going on, so I decided to stay in class and go through our film to make sure it is perfect. Now that I’ve gone through it, I have found several things that I am not happy with, and am going to go back through and edit them.
Thursday 5-28-15: Today my partner and I worked on our film, we went through and edited it. Once we were done with this, my partner decided to take a break, when he took a break I continued to edit the film, because I felt like it was not edited enough. I knew that it had to be perfect, or at least almost perfect.
Friday 5-29-15: Today my partner was not at school, and I have no idea of where he is. Although he was not at school I finished what I called my own film today. I was able to finish it, render it and get it downloaded.
Reflection Main:
Prompt:
If you could change the way your partner works. what would you change. What struggles did you have, and how did you overcome them.
Reflection:
Why did it seem that, doing this film practically alone was difficult when in the end I feel like I achieved more by doing it alone.
Did I learn more from, practically doing this film alone?
Why did it seem so difficult working on the film alone?
When is enough, to just be done?
How did I complete this?
Should I have devoted more time into talking to my partner for help?
Why did my partner work like this?
Am I the reason why I did this alone?
If so what did I do?
These are several questions that have been haunting my thoughts since this past weekend. It seemed that I have been working my hardest, pushing myself to the limit in order to make the film the best I could make it, yet in the end what I thought was a partnership project was really a solo project. It started out as a stressless project, where we could work during class, and still enjoy our free time. It started out like this because of the ongoing vision I had. The vision of it being a partnership project, where the work would be split evenly amongst both of us. As I seemed to marinate on this vision I knew I couldn't assume, I just had to wait and see. As time went by what I was wishing to be true was nothing but a lie. It turned out that I was working on the film alone, and my partner was enjoying his free time. Unfortunately from this project, I feel like I never want to work with my best friend again. Not because he's a bad guy or because he prioritised fun time over work time, but because he wasn't a serious, honest, and reliable person to work with during this project. It seemed that I stayed up late on the weekends and on weekdays, just to get our film to where it was supposed to be, and personally even then it didn't feel like it was enough. If there was one thing that I could change about my partners work ethics it would be actually working. Overall all of these struggles got to me, but I knew that I could overcome them by doing the right thing. So I attempted to talk to my partner but I couldn't seem to get to him, which resulted in me carrying the project alone for the majority of the time period. In the end I worked on this film alone about ninety percent of the time, and what was supposed to be called a partnership film, I can barely call now.
Weekly reflection:
Week one:
This week was a long one. I feel like I got alot done. I was able to achieve the goals I set for myself, as well as establish plenty more. This week was the official start to the taco salad project, yet my partner and I already extremely ahead.
Week two:
This is week two, and the amount of work I completed amazed me. I was able to fully complete my synopsis, as well as achieve the many goals that I had set for myself. This week was a effective, productive, and spontaneous week for me. Over this weekend I plan on going fishing and getting more footage for our film.
Week three:
Now that it is the end of the week, I plan on setting better goals for the next week.. This week was one of my worst. I did not seem to get anything I wanted done and edit your clips as much as I wanted.
Week four:
This previous week was a phenomenal week. My partner and I were able to achieve as well as succeed at completing our goals. This week was a trade mark to remember.
Week five:
This week was another dead spot for our film. We got a lot done, but not as much as I wanted. We were able to go through clips, and edit some of the footage. Hopefully next week will be better.
Week six:
This week was an intense week.It seemed that my partner and I have been working our hardest pushing ourselves to the limit in order to make our film the best we could make it. Yet now that i'm looking back at it we haven't even really achieved that much. Up until last weekend my partner and I were on a role, overcoming every obstacle that came our way. Then Friday hit and my partner didn't come to school. We both had planned on completing a lot for our film and out of nowhere he just didn't show up. Because of how much we already achieved in our project I didn't really think much of it. Then friday night came and I wanted to work on our film because it was beginning to become crunch time, and my partner confirmed with me that he was needing to work on other things this weekend. Because of this I begun to over exaggerate, about our film and begun to start to stress. In conclusion I feel like my partner and I have gotten to this point in our film, while being oblivious to the obstacles in our way. I just hope that in the future we will both be able to sacrifice a little bit of our free time into working on school generated priorities.
Week seven:
When we started the Taco Salad project I had this imaginary image of how the project was going to go. An illusion of reality. An image unrealistic as it can get. I assumed that this project was going to go as smooth as possible, without any wrinkles in the outline. I soon realized that this wasn't true. This is when I begun to notice the struggles we were having as well as the struggles that were going to come. After I realized this I knew I was going to have to try my best, to resolve any issues we were having as well as any issues that were to come. The biggest issue that we were having was, the fact of little communication. The reason why this was so big for me was because, we were best friends and couldn't seem to communicate about a project. Once we sat down and resolved the issue we were good to go. Struggle free. Now we are caught ahead on our project and, complete.
Week nine:
This week was phenomenal. Simply the best.
Week ten:
I am pretty much done with the film and can't wait to be done.
Week eleven:
Done with the film.
Work behavior guide:
According to the “work behavior” guide, the number one thing we need to work on, is self evaluating ourselves.
The reason why we need to work on this is because we write, compare and asses each other but not ourselves.
According to the “work behavior” guide, we are extraordinary at organizational skills.