bouncing ball

For this project, we returned to the classic bouncing ball project. We started out by heading downstairs and taking videos of us dropping a golf ball, a bowling ball, and a tennis ball from five feet. We then took those videos into Photoshop and measured out where and when the balls hit the ground. Once we had all the measurements, we went into Maya and modeled the balls. I really liked the way my golf ball and bowling ball turned out, but I feel like my tennis ball could have looked better because it is smooth. The bouncing turned out really well. I really liked this project and the only thing I would change is the tennis ball.

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Perks of Being a Wallflower

For our movie trailer, my team recreated the Perks of Being a Wallflower trailer. We had to recreate the video as close to shot-by-shot as possible. There were some scenes that we couldn't really shoot (the homecoming scene specifically) so we had a bit of creative freedom there. We had to work around two work schedules, a rehearsal schedule, and a softball schedule; finding time to shoot proved to be a little difficult.
We had two main days that we did the bulk of the filming. It was very hard to find extras that were willing to shoot over the weekend. Our main cast was very helpful in getting everything done and squared away, luckily. It was sort of hard to wrangle extras when filming and that set us back a little bit each day. We worked right up until the deadline. We tried to edit at home, but something wasn't converting correctly and we weren't able to. Both Jenna and I have different editing processes and I took a little longer than she did. Some of the clips came through without sound and we had to reconfigure our project to use the voices and sound from the original trailer. It proved to be sort of difficult to make your clips match the original trailer when you didn't have them saying it with the trailer to begin with.
I learned a lot about how to manage people and how to communicate. I had a really hard time at first trying to get people to listen and to do what we needed them to do. It took most of the process, but by the time we were almost done filming, I had learned -mostly- how to direct people and be patient with them. I think patience was a ting I had to learn. You have to make your point clear and wait for them to fully understand and not get frustrated with them.
If I could redo this I would make sure all of our actors were talking with the actual trailer so their lines matched up. Or, I would be more careful with the sound and making sure it came through correctly. I really liked the way our music video was planned out with the locations and actors. I thought we did an alright job planning it out and making sure everyone was on board and on schedule.