CCR

This is my creative critical reflection. Before watching, I wanted to apologize for the blurry screen on most of the video, I'm not sure what happened. I tried my best to fix it and filmed multiple amounts of times but nothing else worked. But luckily, there's not necessarily anything you have to read. I hope you enjoy and thanks for watching!!

Here It is

Hello there! I meant to post the video yesterday but something came up. We finally we finished!! Here's the final piece. I wasn't aware that the film opening was going to end where it did, but it looks good to me. I'm not really in the film until the very end when I'm introduced last minute. The clapping is supposed to portray my sarcasm. Also, I was hoping the audience would understand what Rae is talking about in the voice over, which is theater. Because its clear that she's talking about something she's passionate about and we expect the audience to understand she's talking about her acting without actually saying it. Those were really my only worries about this opening so I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome. I hope you enjoy!

2 More Days!

Time flew by way too quickly. Jessica is wrapping up the video tomorrow morning so I will be posting it on here tomorrow afternoon, and then I plan on making the CCR. I haven't had a lot of time on my hands which is what I think our main issue was during the journey through making this product. It was hard for all of us to find the perfect day where we could all shoot the film. Whether it was too much homework, or having to work, it was the only major obstacle I had to deal with. But despite these issues, we found a way to get it done.

I'm planning on looking at some examples from last years projects before I make my CCR. I know that the CCR is just as important as the film opening so I'm going to try to find the most efficient way to do it (most likely a video).

This project was a lot of fun while it lasted and I couldn't have asked for better partners. I'm happy to be able to say that we worked together and compromised really well! I'm excited to share our final piece to the class and Mrs. Stoklosa. We worked really hard on making it the best we could and got a variety of clips to be able to get it just right. I hope everybody enjoys it as much as we enjoyed making it!

Voice Over

  This is the written draft for the audio of the voice over we are embedding into our video. The way this audio was written is supposed to express Rae's feeling towards the school system versus what she really wants to do in her life. We tried to do this in the best way possible so that the audience can further predict what the rest of the movie will be like. This is supposed to intend that she's going to further explain her feelings through her actions throughout the film. 

Something that reminded me of what we're doing is from the new Netflix original series "13 Reasons Why". In the beginning of the first episode,there's a voice over of the girl who dies (which is what the show is about) speaking about how she's going to tell the audience "about her life" and "why she ended her life". This audio helps the audience understand what the entire show is going to be about and gets the message out there right away, just like what we're doing. 

Although I didn't like this show very much, I thought it was a good idea on how to introduce the characters and the plot. There's many movies and shows out there with this type of beginning which is an interesting story line method in my opinion.

"13 Reasons Why (TV Series 2017– )." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.

   

That's a Wrap!

Thursday night was the last night of our film shooting. So basically we went to Jessica's house and filmed an entire scene there but.... we're not gonna use it. We have the auditorium scene and then the scene we just filmed at home and we didn't think they flowed together well. It also seemed like we were trying to squeeze as much as we could in only 2 minutes which isn't necessary.

So I guess we're sticking with the auditorium scene! I think this scene can capture  the meaning of our film. We wrote the voice over (which I will write about on the next blog post) and it's going to explain how Rae feels about school and her dream. I wrote it as dramatic as I could. We're most likely going to layer some music with the voice over to give it more emotion. In this scene we also introduce her friend Julia and we're going to give her a sarcastic kind of persona.

Plan for the Last Week

  Wow these weeks have just flew by. It's actually pretty alarming. I remember picking our groups in the beginning of the school year and now the project is coming to an end, as well as the school year. This is the last week we have to work on this project and my group is planning to do it with all of the potential we've got.

  As I said in the previous post, we still have to finish filming. We're going to finish the auditorium scene tomorrow after school. We may not add this into our project but on Tuesday we are planning on filming a scene at Rae's household, depending on the amount of time we have left for the maximum 2 minutes. I think we'll be okay with just our auditorium scene but there's nothing wrong with some extra production making. Better safe than sorry! It's definitely extremely important to film the same scene over and over again from different shots and angles so that we can make sure the film looks the way we'll be satisfied with, which is what we did.

   When I find the time this week, I'm going to eventually help my group with the voice over script. It's going to be slightly difficult to fit this into the scene we want but it's manageable. Over the weekend I'm going to make the critical reflection. I'm hoping to figure out how to do one of those videos such as this one here (previous student Gaby Eseverri).I think this is the best way to describe the production of our project without making it too boring and dreadful. Other than the reflection, we are still working on the background story, which is almost finished, and the ending of the movie. Jessica is going to be editing the film throughout this week on her A day's where she has her CBTV class and can use those editing tools to make the film look fluid and ready to present. Other than this, we are basically done and I'm excited to share this with the class!


"My Creative Critical Reflection." YouTube. YouTube, 10 Apr. 2016. Web. 02 Apr. 2017
 

 

Filming Day 1

 Thursday night was the first night we began to film. Rachel asked her drama teacher if we could use the auditorium for our film setting (thanks Mrs. Lutwin).  I think the school auditorium was a great spot to introduce our character and her passion for acting. You can tell from this scene that she practices theater a lot and it's something she puts all her effort into.

When we got to our set, we decided that this opening should have a credit scene that represents the entire moving setting and plot. Since it's pretty much surrounded by the concept of school, we got different shots of different angles of the auditorium aspects such as the seats, clock, stage ropes, the actual stage, spotlight, etc. And when we put these all together, we'll insert the credits into each shot.

After the credits is when Rae begins to perform and when the voiceover starts. We still are in the process of writing the script of the voiceover so it perfectly fits the scene of the performance that we filmed. The only person in the room watching her is her friend Julia who, again, isn't very supportive.  We got all types of different shots (that we've learned in class) and I think it's going to be composed very well when the editing is finished. We didn't get to finish filming the entire second part of the beginning but we will continue tomorrow after school. I honestly had fun with this project so far and I'm excited to see how it's going to come out. We played with the lights in the theater to make it realistic and I'm proud of what it looks like on camera. Jessica did a great job with her camera work and I enjoyed helping her out with the directing the scene while Vicky did all the light work. Our group works together really well and we compromise all of our ideas.

There's more to come and a lot more to film which is something  I'm excited about! I've been doing many projects over the school year with this same particular group of people and I think this is the best work we've done. I also believe that we managed our time better than we ever have before!