Editing Update

 Hello everybody I hope you all are having a fantastic day. After 2 days of editing, I have made a significant amount of progress in the completion of the project. I am about 75% done with the editing process and I am very excited because I think it's coming out great. 

The challenge here is to choose the videos and takes, we took so many and very long as well that I have to look at all and start choosing,  it's hard to fit it all into 2 minutes. I will love to do a longer version, maybe a will only for my use because I have so many cool shots, and it helps that I am very passioned with snowboarding.  

I will update you guys when I finish and soon you will all be able to see the final product!!!

Editing process

 Hello and good morning to you all! Today I will be starting the editing process for my film opening. The program I have decided to use after taking a good look at my options is iMovie. There really is no point in using adobe premiere in this situation because I don't need very complex forms of editing for this project. 

iMovie is a great program that is relatively simple to use and can do everything I want to for the opening. Another factor that has contributed to my decision is the fact that iMovie is free and adobe premiere is $20/month and I would rather not pay that money when I have a perfectly good program here on my computer at my disposal. 

I made some drafts yesterday and I think it going to turn out great, I have good ideas at least. My plan is to fit as many scenes as possible to end up with a very dynamic film of a lot of short takes and that could summarize the whole process, also iMovie has very cool features that I learned to use today, so exited!

Filming complete!!

 Hello everyone!! I have arrived home from the trip and I am proud to say we are completely done with filming! It was a lot easier than I expected and took much less time than anticipated. I'm glad I got to enjoy my trip without having to spend a crazy amount of time filming. 

Everything went very well with the production process besides the little hiccup we had with the GoPro that didn't really matter in the end because the videos on the iPhone looked and sounded great.

I end up doing the film mainly about me, my brother and my dad because I realized I was trying to get to many character and scenes in only 2 minutes. Only logistics were easier this way. 

Next week will be a hard week of editing and soon you all should be getting the final product!!

I also will be creating my CCR soon so stay tuned for that as well.

Filming pt.2

 Day 2 of filming is complete! Today was a very productive day for filming in general. Weather was great, sky was blue, temperature 40+ degrees and we decided to go up the mountain as a family (only us 4)  so we can take our time in getting the shots I need. I took 2 days to snowboard with my friends and now is time to get to work. 

The videos came out super cool but at the beginning we ran into a problem. When we stop for lunch and saw the first takes we realized the GoPro does not provide enough stability and the videos end up being very shaky, so we decided to use my moms phone which is new and takes great videos, she volunteer to film so we can be more precise, she does not snowboard so is easier for her to film in the skis.

I had to re-film some of the shots from the first day because we realized we did it vertical and we wanted to do a full horizontal screen but it was not trouble at all. 

I love what we have so far, we have a lot of takes, great quality and good material to choose from. 

Filming!!

 Hello everyone, I have safely landed in Denver, Colorado and I have already started the production process. So far I have filmed the airport scenes and rental scenes. I am so excited to continue filming on the actual mountain where the real fun stuff happens!!!

I has been a couple of snowing days and I don't think those are the best for filming up in the mountain because the visibility is not great so I want to wait until the blue sky is back again. 

Everything so far has gone smoothly. I have only filmed with my phone so far but this morning I mounted my GoPro onto my helmet and It is now ready to go! My mom has helped me a lot so far and I'm so excited for all of you to see the final product.

Lets go!

Final check

 It is almost time everyone. I'm leaving today and everything will soon go into motion. Everything I planned will finally happen and all the time I spent gathering everything will finally pay off.

I have done one final check of all my equipment and packed everything in my luggage to finally leave. I have a checklist written down on my phone just to make sure I get all the shots I need. My brother and my mother will be assisting me with the filming part of the project while I will take care of the technical and editing part.

I am beyond excited to not only film the opening but to share it to everyone reading this. I'm sure it will come out great! 

Order of shots

 Hello everyone, today I will be showing the planned order of the shots I mentioned in the previous post.

This will most likely be the final order in which the opening will be.

• Airport 
• Taking off
• Car views
• Vail town
• Our cabin
• Equipment
• Getting ready
• Walking to the slopes
• Gondola
• Securing the board
• Mountain top view
•  Snowboarding
• Taking a break for lunch
• Lift
• View from the lift
• Down the lift
• Snowboarding
• Back to the cabin
• Returning equipment
• Gondola after hours
• Back to Denver
• Landing