Kyle's Super Swag Film Blog

Over the past few weeks I have been extremely busy with a multitude of different projects. However, this hasn't stopped me from working on production for my next film. Despite my limited time to work, the following is a reflection of the work I completed during the Production stage: Changes From Pre-Production Even though I had a general idea of what the film would look like, I still ended up making a few changes during the production stage. The first of these changes is the removal of the whole "time travel" idea from the film's concept. I originally incorporated the idea that time would rewind each time the the briefcase was opened. However, I thought that explaining this idea and actually showing it on-screen would be difficult. Now, each time the case is opened it simply causes something random to happen, which should be easier for the audience to understand. The second main change that I made has to do with the film's ending. The ending that I had completed a

Over the past week I worked with members of Mini-THON to film a skit that will be shown at the elementary schools. The focus of the skit was to teach the story of the Four Diamonds in a way that was both entertaining and easy for kids to understand. As the Technology Chair, my duty for this project was to serve as both the cinematographer and editor while other chairpersons acted and directed. The following is some of my thoughts about working on this project. Shooting Due to myself acting within my previous film, I haven't had the opportunity in a while to solely serve as a project's cinematographer. However, due to one of the Mini-THON Overalls taking charge as the director for this skit, my only duty was to be the one behind the camera. The amount of time we had to produce this skit was very limited, so when I arrived at the school on Friday to film, the only amount of preparation work that we had was a script. Despite this, I worked with the director to come up with ways to

I've previously spoken a little bit about DaVinci Resolve and how I would like to learn how to best make use of the program and it's features. Now with the release of Resolve version 17 being released, I thought that now would be a good time to finally dive into learning the program. As of now, I haven't had the opportunity to use Resolve to edit a film or video, so the following is just my thoughts after viewing some tutorials regarding how to use the program. Similarities To Premiere Like Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve is a professional video editing software that contains all the needed tools to produce and edit video. Both programs feature a editing timeline at the bottom of the screen which allows the editor to cut, trim, and manipulate clips and effects in order to create a composition. The timeline in Resolve allows you to trim clips by dragging and by using the razor tool, exactly like Premiere. Both programs also feature a centralized program monitor used to view yo