Links to CCRs & Film openings

 Film Opening-https://youtu.be/nuur4Wmc85M

CCR 1 and 2-https://youtu.be/N0Ou28P8MhM

CCR 4 and 3-https://youtu.be/Ab_SYopNO34

Final Reflection

 Overall, this was one of the most challenging yet fun projects I've ever done. I mean what makes something fun is the challenges involved with it and this was difficult to do since I had to get this done before I left for vacation. But, I'm going to miss recording film opening with my friends and hanging out but what I'm not going to miss is the challenges and stress throughout this. I mean that nicely it's not bad but throughout this project, I've lost footage and editing components that I needed to re-edit some scenes and I couldn't because I had to keep the last footage I had. But I would like to think I did a great job and I love to see what grade I'm going to get. Moreover, throughout this whole project editing and filming would have to be my favorite part, although writing my CCR scripts was almost as fun as doing those things. Hope you enjoy my film opening and CCR and I hope to do this again someday.

CCR post-production

 While filming I had some funny bloopers, you can also hear my father in the background and some Portuguese since that's my family's language. Although memorizing the scripts was annoying it was funny seeing myself fail over and over again. 

When I finished filming I went straight to editing, I had barely any difficulties until I finished editing all of my scenes and noticed when I went to post CCR question 2 which is my news analysis had become completely grey I solved this issue by making the news PNG almost transparent and put a black bar so you could see it a little better although this also had some negatives it was better than not seeing my face at all. Overall, I hope when I edit again I can fix this issue but I've been trying to fix it for over 30 minutes and can't even find a tutorial about it let's see how the end turns out. Hope you enjoy them!!

CCR Production

 For the beginning of my CCRs, I did some planning on how I would make each CCR with a planning sheet as well as get the materials I would need to make all of them. This included my camera, phone, microphone, and my planning sheet.

For the set I would need mainly outside with trees and cars passing by this was accomplished by me going out to the road and my dad being the cinematographer, all of this was done in 2 days since I am going to leave for vacation tomorrow. However, I tried my very best on each of them staying up until 12 AM editing all of my CCRs so I can be stress-free for my vacation. This is one of the 3 spots I would film my CCRs in.

I hope that you will enjoy my CCR's!!!

CCR script question #4

 This is my final script for my CCR the journey has been amazing, and I don't regret taking this course it was fun and an interesting experience. Regarding that, if you want to see my final CCR script it will be here.

CCR script question #3

This is question #3 on my CCR I'm close to the end of my project and I'm very excited to see how the final product of my film opening and CCR's are going to look. So, with all the production processes that I've had there will be a lot to talk about in this CCR. I hope you enjoy it; you can access it here.

Group meeting #1

 Today we are less than 2 weeks away from submitting my CCRs and film opening, so we decided to do a group meeting, this included taking brief notes on advice and taking a picture with my group. However, in my group we are currently struggling with finding dates that we are all free to film, for example, we were planning to film on Tuesday, one week all 3 of us could at first, but one of us last minute said he had a meeting which caused us not to go. We made a big impact on this since we could've already finished our project, but we are maneuvering through it and filming together on Thursday. This will help us finish and edit our projects on time while leaving enough time to finish our CCRs independently. The group meeting is set up using random groups, and we all talk about our project while taking notes on advice that we should include in our video or take out. Moreover, the notes and my partner's notes from the film opening were both short, which means we are on to success since there are few corrections we need to make. This is a picture of my notes and group!!

This group meeting helped me work on my project in many ways, and some of my group meeting members advised me on some tips to do for my CCRs. Although it was only a few tips, some of them weren't too good, so I'm going to need to brainstorm some things for my CCR this week, so I can finish it before I go on vacation for spring break. Overall, I would love to do this meeting again when I'm done with my project to see if I achieved perfection on my project.

CCR script question #2

 CCR question #2 was a straight path for me as I already did research on target audience and so all I need to do was integrate it into my script. Aswell as most of the other things I needed to include in my CCR such as where should I distribute my opening to target audiences. In the script I also added statistics and research about target audience. So, I hope you enjoy my script you can access it here. Enjoy!!

CCR script question #1

 For my CCR question #1 I would like to think I did a great job, but I will need to wait for my grade. However, I expressed all of my feelings with the question and included different pictures of research I did. Most importantly I included what I should show and say while filming so it is easier for me to plan and edit the full thing out. While doing this script I took advantage of one of my blogs (Script blog) and used it for some help with the looks of the script.

Here is my script. Enjoy!!

Editing #2

 Credits

For this editing blog, I saved it for the credit sequence, this is the fun bit of the editing since it's more challenging and requires skills with fonts and placements of words. Although it was my first time editing a credit sequence, it was a very fun experience and improved a lot of my problem solving skills. This is because while I was editing the size and placements, many things were off, the first thing was the title introduction, it was popping off from the bottom right and ending up big in the top left, but I wanted it to stay in the middle and get larger every second. I resolved this mistake by also, instead of timing the size of the font, changing the placement of the letter so that every second it stayed in place. Additionally, another similar mistake I had was with the credits where I couldn't place them in the same locations I've had before, so they were all spread apart every time a new credit appeared. I fixed this mistake by taking off the fades and looking at where the last ones were and aligning them with the new credits. So I think this enhanced my abilities of editing (and my patience) because I somewhat mastered how to place, size, and move texts to where I want them to be (as well as making them gradually increase, which you will see in my film opening). Here's what it looked like when I first started my credit sequence.

And here's what I ended with:

Editing #1

Film 

                                                                                                                   The first piece of editing I started with was the scenes, these were the simplest part and since we set each of them up for transitions, I didn't have to add any fades or extra things. So, what I had to do was just put them all together and do some quick cuts of us just talking in the end or the start of the scene. However, one big mistake which a talked about before is how I removed a scene I thought was bad but in the end I deleted the good one and left the bad one so my advice for my future self while filming is "always look through each and every single second of a scene even if its long", this led me to contact my group telling them about the mistake I made. Although, my group ended up reassuring me that it was ok and that we can do another one even better with actual apple juice (because we had to do it out of water "vodka" because we ran out of apple juice "whiskey"), so good thing they weren't upset. Here's a picture of how it looked while I was in the middle of editing it, and I'm very happy with how these scenes turned out (except for the one I deleted). Overall, I'm happy with the mistake I made because it was a short scene. After all, if I had made this same mistake with a big scene that would have been troublesome for my group.                                                     

 

 

    

Production Process

Filming- Day 2

 For our day 3 of filming, we decided to repeat some things we did last week, since we thought it wasn't good enough, so this time, we did some of the same scenes, just with better quality, and it reached the point where it was perfect. However, when I got home, I went over the scenes and deleted some of them, turns out that was a big mistake, I deleted one of the good scenes and kept one of the bad ones. I resolved this by telling my group immediately and they were fine with it since they didn't really like that scene. So, on our last film day, which will be Sunday this week, we are going to film that part again and film the other final parts of the film opening. While filming, we were thinking ways we could transition into that scene without adding fades and editing transitions, so we could just do straight cuts. We wanted to do straight cuts because if we kept adding fades it would become way too repetitive. One of us had this idea while filming to make a neat transition happen.

And this is what we were transitioning from:

Overall, we loved the way each scene looked, and we hope we can make the perfect film opening for you to love.

Production Process

 Filming- Day 1 part 2

These are the shots that we will have to remake since they were too dark, this scene is meant to be about the guy leaving the bar and walking around clumsy and stumbling at night, but we realized in the night, the camera wasn't capturing the shots the way we wanted. So, we are resolving this problem by picking a time frame better and shooting when it's close to dark but still visible for the camera to capture great shots. Moreover, we will have to do this for the forest too, since we were planning on it being at night, but these 2 scenes in particular made us change our minds about the night time filming plan.

These are clips of us filming the scenes, but I don't want to show the actual scene since I want it to be a surprise on how it looks. But as you can see, it is really dark outside and if you look at the camera screen in this picture you will understand more about what I mean.