Creative Critical Reflection

Hello all! This is my Creative Critical Reflection on my film opening "Valid."

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 I hope you all enjoy

Film Opening

Hello all!
After months of hard work and perseverance, I present to you all my film opening: Valid!

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Hope you all enjoy!

Project Reflection

What started out as a film opening about an artist struggling with Schizophrenia to one about a social media influencer, has been this film opening project that my group and I have been working since February! As I come to see the ending of this project process, I look back and see how much my group and I have gone through and grown together. To be honest it's been a lot and I'm beyond pleased to have worked with the both Austin and Katherine for the time that I have. Katherine has been the creative mind and voice of common ground and reason when the two "dudes" were freaking out about what to do next and not only is she a great set designer, but actress as well. Austin has been the brains and technical guru throughout, as well as coming up with the finalized concept and edit of the project. And that leaves, me, who has proudly served as the cinematographer, equipment manager, and producer for our opening. Throughout the around two months this project took, I have seen myself learn that the inner workings behind making even a film opening is a lot easier said than done. Even though it is a lot of work, I never thought of it in the way I normally think of school projects (a chore). It was incredibly refreshing to have a project that challenged and drove me creatively to the point where I looked forward to working and adding to the production process.



As much as I will miss creating this film opening, I am incredibly relieved to have completed it all. All that's left is to finish my CCR and I. AM. DONE. Until next school year my people!

Eh-da-ting

Due to the distancing this quarantine and increasing regulation against social interaction from both my city and parents, the task of editing has been mainly bestowed upon Austin due to us beginning at his house where I have not seen since I began line editing. Austin has been working on various tweaks to be done for editing in the comfort of his own home by himself. Throughout the week, he would be giving my updates on to his progress until today when we decided to get on a Discord call to lay out our final touches on the opening ad for me to review what he has done so far.

Discord logo

The great thing about using Discord is that he could share his screen while in Adobe premiere so I could see exactly how the film has been edited and what we can do. It's as if there was no quarantine! 

The first cut of the film opening he showed me was more potential than polished. Which is where we discussed the addition of a different font, use of color grading, as well as helping him with something that would really help the opening get to the next level was our audio. We decided how to lay the audio tracks for the music, when to up the levels, and what sound effects we could add to help give the opening more depth when viewing. When shown to our friends and each other, the consensus was that all of these tweaks and changes helped make for a greater film opening that I am more than pleased to say has been finished editing. 

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The final cut of the opening will be posted soon on my blog soon for everyone's viewing pleasure :)

CCR Update

Happy Friday to all! Hope everyone is doing well (all pandemic events considered). After a long complicated week online at school, I am beginning to work on my CCR and well...

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There is a lot of information about the entire production process that I not only have to be able to discuss, but also do so in great detail. So as of now, I decided to break down the main four questions that I have to address in my CCR and outlined some notes on what to say. Here they are:

1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
1. Genre was drama- character journey and change throughout film (we followed)
2. Social media influencers, as well as teenagers and young people (16-24). Deal with issues regarding social media portrayal and the negative effect the need for validation through these platforms can have
2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
1. Engages with audiences through use of relevant topics and issues in a way that can relate to viewers and create an effect/change in their lives. 
2. Would be distributed through streaming services due to prevalence in use by target audience
3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
1. Originally schizophrenia so planning to use trippy visuals and complex stuff
2. Production skills of camera work to convey a story were improved upon (working with tv and stn before helped). 
3. Research included use of color and mis-en-scene to help storytelling
4. Learned working with others better
4. How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware and online- into this project?
1. Technologies include my camera, tripod, (lighting supposed to)
2. Adobe, blogger, WHATSAPP

I will of course add more to the script and flesh it out further but this was done just to have a basis for how to script and go about writing my entire reflection. Will keep you guys posted on further updates to this script!