ALL DONE !!
Opening Film
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vj5tvtoeECPpQqI69yHb-LWQiRsz0y3r/view?usp=drivesdk
CCR’s
1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aD1SXhHkRChPDeU-bPEwKxhDbhYc7dlw/view?usp=drivesdk
2:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SbZNKaD_G199bSr_4B_H0quIAX8d7B52/view?usp=drivesdk
Backup Links
Opening film:
https://youtu.be/o5AFIgBx3s0?si=TMN8GSS6qCr1vtk3
CCR’s
It's the end, and it's all wrapped up, we're finishing up the final retouches of the opening film and we plan on submitting it tomorrow. The CCR's were pretty fun to film and edit and so was the opening film. I learned a lot from this project, some that I say on my CCR's. The acting and just in all use of the angles and shots was very fun and helpful to learn. For someone who is interested in all of this for their future, they would love this project, I loved the process, the working with my friends and the teamwork in all.
I worked with an amazing team, they new way more than me and new more about how to make a scene better with the shots that we used. They also taught me a lot about the lighting, how the lighting from simple candles could transmit to much of the message we want to give out. They were enthusiatic about it and wanted better from what we had. Scenes that could've been left simply, the made sure to turn them into something bigger, and better.
I also learnt a lot in editing, and fonts. The fonts played a big role, our teacher also taught us on how the font needs to pop up and be big, also the credit sequence. How to organize it and place it correctly onto the screen, in the right corners and in the right place. Editing is really important in a film, without editing our film wouldn't have turned out as we wanted it to come out to be. Adobe Premier was extremely helpful, the foley sounds also helped with making the sound in the scene be better. Lastly, the music made by Juandi was and extreme help and I am more than happy and thankful with it. It really helped make our film better.
I'm very thankful for this opportunity, and couldn't be happier with the team I got to work with. My favorite part aside from working together had to be the acting, the bloopers were the best and when I got the right and perfect scene the feeling was amazing. It's officially the end to this amazing project. Hope you enjoy the final product. See ya later! ;)
As I said on my last blog post, the filming of my CCR's was somewhat stressful but also fun, I enjoyed it and had a lot of fun with my friends. The editing was simple, there wasn't much. I just had to but the clips together that were cut and upload the mutli media onto the videos. It simple and easy, there wasn't much to edit too. For the podcast I had to make a fake sponsorship, I used canva for it and for the animations. It was fun to make and this is how it turned out with he animations included.
I finished filming! the process was long and a little stressful since there were some throwbacks and difficulties in the process, but entirely it went great and we had a lot of fun. The first CCR came with many problems, The second CCR came with even more, but at the end we made it work.
Before hand, I decided to order mics for my CCR's I wanted the audio to be perfect for the second CCR since it was a podcast, and for the first CCR I ordered a fake mic that was made to look like a news or paparazzi mic. These are the ones i ordered.
For my first CCR the initial idea was to film the paparazzi coming up to me and asking me questions, but its didn't turn out exactly like that. I had initially told 4 friends to come and help me film, they just needed to have their hands extended out hold a single mic. The problem was that only 1 was able to show up, for the rest their plans and rides got in the way. So, i simply decided to just have my best friend be the one to film and the one to ask me the questions.
My second problem was that in the plan I was supposed to get into my car as I left my house and they came after me asking me questions before I entered my car, and in my car I would wrap up the questions and say bye. The problem was my parents had taken the cars, there were no cars since I was home alone so we had to switch it up. We thought of many ideas and ended up doing the least creative one unfortunantlly, which was basically me leaving my house to go on a walk and on the walk I would get questions asked. It took us time but it worked just fine.
It took us many shots and retries to get the perfect scenes, but finally with some retouch editing everything came out great.
Lastly, for my second CCR, there were more complications but this one came out to be more fun. Initially, the mic I had ordered was going to be used and also another 2 mics I had with a big speaker that would reflect of them and would be placed next to the camera on the tripod. On our way to the office were we filmed we realized I had left the speaker, we had to turn back and get it. It took time away from us but we still had some left.
Once in everything was setup I went to connect the podcast mic to the phone and the adapter broke. This threw up back like crazy, we needed a new adapted or else it would've been impossible to get the audio to sound right. We found another adapter thankfully, since we were in an office they lent us one. We got to filming and this was the set up.
After finishing both me and my best friends podcast, we got to editing, I edited the "sponsership" which was fake and made up.
Editing was fun and so was filming, it felt like we were in an actual podcast. Finally filming overall came with some technical difficulties but was fun and an experiance I really enjoyed.
My 4th CCR question which covers the last half of the podcast is "How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware, and online-in this project"
The script follows with me saying " We integrated a lot of technologies when it came to editing, saving and recording the videos and including sounds like foley sounds, also when recording with our camera and the lighting (apart from the candles) that we used."
Like I mentioned I don't have much time so for the podcast the answers are short and easy, depending on how editing turns out I'll wake it longer.
My second CCR posting is the podcast idea for which I'm excited for, I have planned out the setting and the materials I'm going to use. The question I'm answering for the first part of my podcast is "How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?"
My script after the question is asked by the host is the following, "Our film engages with the audience as we gave them that genre many like, the typical thriller suspense genre of the killer and the victim. It is also distributed as a real media text when it represents an act that could happen in real life or has happened before, the toxic relationship that signifies of one partner or both being 'crazy'. It would be distributed through platforms like streaming platforms"
For this part of my CCR I'm trying to make it short since i only have around 5-6 minutes and also have another question to answer, plus the advertisments and welcome.
As mentioned in my past blogs, I had some ideas for my CCR. I tried filming the karaoke carpool idea but it didn't work. The set up was complicated, the lighting wasn't good, and in all it wasn't interesting, so I decided to go with another idea. Which was the paparazzi idea, basically I would be leaving a place and the "paparazzi" would come to me and ask me questions.
In this CCR I will be answering the questions "How does your product use or challenge conventions and How does it represent social groups or issues?" and " How did your production skills develop through out this project?" I felt this was the better order to go with.
For my first questions, "How does your product use or challenge conventions and How does it represent social groups or issues?". My planned script so far is "The film challenges conventions by including "the killer" or "the victim", also by such big plot it has. On the other hand it represents social groups or issues when it shows the main character being an obsessive intense character, also to those who love seeing the act of suspense and thriller on TV. Lastly, the biggest issue it represents is of those who are in a toxic relationship with partners or themselves who don't control themselves."
For my second question, "How did your production skills develop through out this project?", I have planned say "I learned a lot, a lot to do with facial expressions being key to a film, specially when there are scenes were there is no dialogue, I also learned a lot about lighting and how angles are key to the production and plot of a film"
I have yet to improvise more and do a bit more research but this is what i have so far.
We came up with multiple CCR ideas for each other, ideas that included interviews and podcast. We got inspo from YouTube videos that interview celebrities. Some of the ideas including a talk show, carpool karaoke, cooking and answering questions, or even a house tour. For the podcast I came up with the idea of filming it and creating a podcast setting, the setting would be created from scratch. At home we would create a setting with the 2 chairs and the background could be a TV that would show some of the BTS, raw footage and bloopers while the host will be asking me questions.
The group meeting are always really helpful, but this time it was extra helpful since most of us were looking for something. or confused. I look forward to the advice helping my project be better.
Now, comes the CCR posts. So far, I haven’t done much but it sounds pretty fun. Specially with the ideas I have in mind. For my question, “How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?” I don’t have a script yet But, I do have an idea of how I will plan it out.
Even though there is no script yet, I am working on it and I’m thinking of doing one if my CCR’s a sort of drive and answer questions as someone is asking me questions while i’m driving, at one point we could stop to eat some food and talk. This idea came from a Youtube video I saw of James Corden’s segment where he does karaoke carpool, mine will be similar but just not karaoke.
So far, I’m working on my script still. Trying to figure out the perfect answer tot he question and also how to not make is seem boring to some people. I’m planning on asking my teacher about it and seeing what she thinks. Hopefully, she can give me advice that could help me and guide me a little better with this idea.
We're nearly done with our editing. Not completely but we're getting there. We've been communicating through our group chat and in class/school what to edit in and what to edit out. Communication for our editing has been key to our success.
After, looking over the film a few times, we thought it was perfect and nice until a huge gift was given to us. I received a text from our male actor Juandi. Juandi is currently a student at our school and extremely very good friend of mine. He's practiced music since young and is practically a musician or at least he's working hard to get there. He sent me a sample of a song he composed with a text following "lmk if this works for your project, hopefully it does." I listened to it and it was perfect. Perfect for our credit sequence. Below is a video of him playing it on his piano after composing it.
After ending our filming we quickly started editing. We sat down at Dani's room and started editing everything. We're still getting the perfect editing but so far we've gotten through most. Editing has been hard but not much of a struggle.
We started off with shortening our clips, picking up which clips we're using and what sounds for what parts of the film were good to use. Entirely we came up to give 4 minutes. That was WAY too much, we had shorten up many clips. After shortening up most clips and 'being done' we came to be up to 1 minute and 20 seconds. That was too little so we had to add more clips or make some longer. After, doing so we reached 1 minute and 46 seconds. Way better, now we just needed to fix our sounds and organize our credit sequence and where it's going to go.
These are some of the images and footage from the BTS of the filming process.
As mentioned in the last blog, we had big complications with casting last minute. This was the reason to why we couldn't film, completely messing up our schedule and our filming spam. The friend we had initially casted couldn't make it, for the day of filming and for the rest of the days. This caused us a big problem making us have to re-cast the guy.
We got to work, this time we all got together to find a guy who was good for this role and too would be able to make it to filming dates no matter what. As stated in past blogs the characteristics for our guy had to be mainly tall and look sort of older. a characteristic we also needed but didn't realize until re-casting was that they had to have good english, this means our character was for the united states so the actor who played it had to come with having a good english. This characteristic complicated out a lot since we're friends with many people from outside the united states who might not have that much of a good english. After looking for 3 days, we finally found someone, a friend of mine I initially thought of but didn't think of fully going through the idea of casting him.
I texted him, and asked him. I ran him down the things he would have to be willing to do and thankfully said yes. This made it perfect. We were able to get over our problem but unfortunatlly too late to be able to film this week. What mattered is that we had our new guy.
This obstacle was huge. It stopped us and prevented us from filming. It was one of those obstacles that might get to a point of being unfixable without unorganising everything. In this case for us, it happened like that. It completely flipped us around.
The day of filming came up, everyone was ready. They were on their way with all the props. The guy who was casted to be the boyfriend was already with me. We were waiting for the rest of the group to come to film. All of a sudden unfortunatally something came up, the guy had to leave. It was a personal problem related with family causing him to imidietally leave. I contacted the group about this issue as soon as I could and we canceled filming for that day. Thankfully it was just the beggining of the week so we thoguht we had time to film later in the week.
No. We were wrong. last that day he called me to let me know and excuse himself that he won't make it. He won't make it for the rest of the shooting because of this personal issue that had came up. It was horrible news, he felt horrible and recommended us to find someone new. We got to work quickly trying to find someone but found nothing. It took us 3 days to finally find someone. This guy was well suited we texted him and he said yes. The problem was that by then it was already too late in the week. Leaving us no time to film. Moving our schedules completely back.
