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On our new editing program, Grace and I discovered that we could also solve the issue of the shakey camera. When we premiered our film to our class, there were a few students that commented on the shakiness, describing it as "distracting to the scene and actors". Clearly, after receiving this feedback, we immediately researched a way to fix it. While filming, as we did not use a handheld stabilizer, we instead devised a sort of self stabilizer. We had Marin sit in a swivel chair, holding the camera in her hands and filming, while I pulled it back as the actors walked forward. This helped erase some shakiness due to footsteps, however, not hand shakiness. We employed the use of the "Cam Stabilizer" in the iMovie toolbar to help even it out. Although there still is some shakiness, we did the best we could to erase as much as we could.

The second, and most prominent revision necessary, was the watermark. The original program we used to edit the extract was called Movavi , which in hindsight was a poor decision. But, since then, I have completely re-cut and re-edited the clips, in iMovie.

The first revision that Grace and I found to be one of the most prominent was the audio. There are certain parts of the film where the actors cannot be heard what-so-ever. In order to fix this problem, we made a voice over of sorts to insert in the short sections that could not be heard. We considered re-filming these sections, but in the end we concurred that re-filming these entire sections for a short couple of lines, would be more hassle then it would be beneficial to the clip. Also the time crunch was a large factor in this plan, as we had trouble finding a time that we could use for all of our actors to be at the same place in the same outfits.

Our fellow classmates were very specific about what exactly we needed to change. Which was extremely helpful. They mainly were all about one of these three things: the watermark, the audio of the actors voices, and the shakiness of the camera. These we all plan of fixing by, re cutting and editing our extract in iMovie, increasing the volume of the actors voices, and using the "camera stabilizing" feature in iMovie.

This movie trailer challenges many of the aspects of the romantic comedy genre. Not only do the two main characters not like actually each other, but also they are happy with their lives and do not follow the basic plot formula of romantic comedy. Also this is not the typical love story, the main characters do not fall in love even though it seems as if they do at the very end. They have to kiss despite their protest but, they then unexpectedly immediately begin to argue again. This movie excerpt represents the stereotypical high schoolers and their friend groups.