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   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7M3j8ouww On the peer reviews, many people said they were confused about where the movie opener was going, so we included a black screen at the end of the opener to provide some insight. The screen reads "keep watching to follow them in their college baseball journey. From this change, we had to place our movie title at the beginning rather than the end to create more contrast.

  Everyone seemed to like our camera angles, as we spent the majority of our filming time taking different action angles so our movie opener would be long enough. They also thought our audio choice matched well.  Although some people thought dialogue would give better context and by describing what Theresa and Peter were signing at the end. My group has discussed it and decided to leave the music, but include dialogue toward the end when my character comes into play. Although the point was to keep my character mysterious, which is why we didn't include dialogue. The only real concern seemed to be the lack of dialogue, which we will fix at the end of the opener

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 This week we continued to edit our film and finalize the background music. Since we did most of our editing last week, all that was left was to focus on adding the music which can be seen in the image below. Then, Theresa, Peter, and I looked over our opener one last time. Almost everything from last week remained the same. We had the same title, fonts and kept from adding any more visual effects or transitions, as it would disrupt the flow of the film.  For adding audio, we had to look up legalities for adding and uploading music on your computer then into iMovie, the editing app we used.  One of the problems we faced was uploading music that we liked and wouldn't be copyrighted. However, after watching tutorials we figured out how to do it.  This took us two class periods to figure out.

      This is what Theresa's screen looked like while editing. While Peter and I helped out, Theresa editing the main parts and added music.     These are different photos taken from all of us editing different parts of the movie opener. We all discussed what order the clips should go in and made sure they were all the same length.     We placed titles at the end of the movie opener to create a more suspenseful and dramatic atmosphere. We titled our opener "The Next Level," as it seemed fitting for highschool athletes who are signing onto be a part of the collegaint level. The best place for the title seemed to be in the center.          Some of the different video effects used were fade away, cross-dissolve, and cross blur.   Fadeaway was used most of the time because it provided a seamless transition into the next clip.           During the editing process, the decision was made to use ...

  Filming Day 2: Today, my group and I got the majority of our filming done. This was a better day to film, as it was sunnier outside but a little cooler. Out on the field, we took a lot of fielding and throwing shots. Some close-ups, some boom shots. Overall, today was very productive.