CCR 2 #41

 HELLOO! Down below i’ll attach the second CCR. Enjoy! :) 

CCR 1 #40

 Hi there! Down below i’ll attach my first CCR. Enjoy! :)

Final Film #39

YIPPE! The time has finally come!! Down below you’ll finally be able to see all the hard work come to reality. I REALLY hope you enjoy it! 

 https://youtu.be/4n_R70ZEHTE

Self Reflection #38

What a year! 

Welcome backk you guys! :) For some of you today’s blog may be a little bitter-sweet considering this is the end of our journey. However, to create more of an uplifting tone I want to reflect on the past few months and all the new information that i’ve gathered. 

To begin with i’ve learned so many new camera angles and its impact on films! For example, for a character to feel more superior and “powerful” it’s best to do a low angle. Whereas if a character wanted to appear weaker and more fragile a low angle would be the best option. Not to mention, I now understand the importance of diagetic and non-diagetic sound and how they both heavily influence a films central theme and the emotions being displayed. I don’t want to bore you with to much info hence the manyyy long detailed blogs prior. That said, let’s reflect on my personal experience in this class. 

Although this class wasn’t my first option or initial course, i’m glad I took it and got to experience first hand the production process of a film. Now, would I take it again? Definitely not! This was a once and a life time experience and i’m glad to finally end this chapter lol. However, I do have so much respect for the filmmakers who pour a lot of time and energy into filming, editing and producing films! 

That’s all for today, till next time! 

Filming my second CCR! #37

AH, what a long journey this has been. 

Welcome back!! For today’s blog I want to dive into what my second CCR journey has been like. As a friendly reminder this second CCR requires us to answer the remaining two questions. (3) How did your production skills develop throughout this project? (4) How did you integrate technologies in this project? These were pretty straight forward compared to the last two therefore I wont spend to much time explaining it. 

As i’ve mentioned before, when it comes to me talking AND recording myself I don’t do very well. That said, I figured why not do another voice over! Only this time I included images to help the audience get a visual representation of what i’m tryna to say. Most of these images were found online whereas others were from my actual short film. 

In terms of editing, I wanted to add a news channel background to the beginning to reiterate the fact that this is a news channel station and to make the voiceover sound surreal. Additionally, I had another voice-over audio in the background to add to the drama. However, I did notice that some pictures came out blurry and i’m not quite sure why. It can possibly be because they’re screen shots but overall it looks pretty good. 

I hope I didn’t yap too much for you guys. 

Stay tuned to see the final result! 

Filming my first CCR! #36

Hi there! 

Due to all the previous complications I’ve had to take a little break from filming my CCR’S. But we’re back on! 

As a friendly reminder in this first CCR i’m targeting two main questions. (1) How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? (2) How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? 

For those of you who are a little confused just as I was, I’ll break down what the questions are asking. For question one: how does your genre (drama) fit/ or not fit the typical standards for that genre and how does the film represent social groups or issues? For question two: how does this project capture the audiences attention and how would I get this out in movie theaters? These are all things I want to keep in mind while filming. 

Luckily for this CCR i’m not showing my face which is a huge life saver considering when it comes to me showing my face AND TALKING I get super camera shy and stutter a lot. For those of you who may have forgotten this CCR is meant to mimic a radio show that ultimately reveals me winning best film reward. They will then proceed to ask me for a short interview promoting me to answering the following two questions. 

Was their anything you would change? 

Absolutely yes! I had the bright idea to film the radio guy (aka me talking in a British voice) all in one shot and the guest (aka winner; aka me) all in one shot as well. Let me tell you, biggest mistake. This made editing SOO much harder than it needed to be like honestly. I had to trim the whole video which took forever because I kept stuttering and would let the video play only making it longer and harder to cut. After about three hours of me editing the whole two videos down I was finally able to put everything together on Capcut. 

Yes their all in my recently deleted because I cannot bear to deal with seeing these videos again! 

Moreover, I didn’t want to just have the audio and the blank screen so the next best idea was to input a photo of me for when the “guest” would speak and a photo of some random british character online who would ultimately be the “radio man”.

That’s it for today stay tuned for my second CCR!

Let’s plan this new film out! #35

Hey. 

Welcome back guys. Today we are running on a tight schedule. Considering this is super last minute I didn’t really have much planned. However, I did have a super long mirror in my room with a new box of cookies and chocolates at arms reach. 

What did I add to the film? 

For starters I included a variety of shots. One to create realism and two to make transitions appear way smoother. Some shots included mid angle, low angle, side view and my favorite, P.O.V shots. The P.O.V shot of my character looking at herself in the mirror and grabbing her stomach is my favorite being that I believe it truly does reveal the struggles that someone with an eating disorder may experience in terms of insecurity’s. 

Like isn’t that shot just perfect! 

What were some changes made in this new film?

Well not only were the shots different but I also added Andres’s guitar instrumental as background music. It was perfect and all I had to do was loop the sound on CapCut to make it last throughout the film. 

This was a very minor change that took very little editing. Speaking of editing, I basically did the same thing as I did in the other film which was use “fade-in” and “fade-out” to transition between each character. This was very effective and made the cuts appear seem less. I also decided to film in my bedroom this time being that this film is targeted towards teens and I believe teens spend the most time in their room as a form of comfort. So what better way to create realism than putting myself in their shoes! Andres’s part was pretty simple being that he left everything the same and only changed about two scenes being that they were filmed vertically and Ethan also changed up his film after watching the Youtube video I linked last blog. 

What mis-en-scene did I add? 

Well, as I mentioned up above I changed my setting from the dinning room table to my bedroom. This was to help the audience (mainly teens) personally connect with this film. Additionally, for props I used food such as chocolates and cookies to emphasize my characters unhealthy eating habits (her addition to bad food) ultimately causing her to feel “fatter” leading to an eating disorder. I also added a blanket as a prop and this is used to shield and comfort the characters, to hide the “ugliness”. In terms of clothing I purposely used a shorter shirt so that my stomach can be out ultimately causing the character to feel insecure in her own skin. I’m then shown putting on a jacket and this is used to reinforce her insecurities and to provide comfort and shield her from the thoughts of her looking “bigger” than what she actually is. 

Well that was easier than I thought. Thank God!