Im Back Again!

 Hey again everyone, it's me, Logan. I am still 16 years old. Packaging and assembling BMW street and race car parts at Condor Speed Shop is still my awesome job. Racing is now what takes up the majority of my time. I have now built my own spec e90 BMW and have done a couple of track days along with some races already. I am super excited to start working on this final project. I already have some ideas that io think could turn out great. I am ready to tackle the challenge of creating an idea that I feel could be turned into a real movie. Something I really want to include is a couple of tracking shots of a vehicle moving. I want to take what I learned from the commercial in these shots and get the shots in a smooth pan. I also want these shots to be from a lower angle to show that the person driving is more powerful than others on the road. The action category has peaked my interest and I want to try and create something that captures the exciting drama. From the music video, I hope to implement the editing techniques I learned and want to improve significantly on the editing. I also want to try and include some dialogue. I want to include dialogue between multiple characters at one time. At the beginning of the year, my teacher introduced all of the terms we would be using throughout the duration of this class. At first, I was very overwhelmed, but after carefully studying I was able to understand each term. I struggled a lot with distinguishing between different camera movements and shots at first but I feel that I have a good grasp of them now. I have still been going to movies with my friends but have not been to as many as I would have liked to recently. Avatar the way of water was a cool movie but it felt disconnected from the first movie. I am excited to start this project and see how well it ends up.





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