Creative critical reflection

 This is a ccr of a vogue like interview

https://youtu.be/5_yf9KQH1w4?si=oKbZb7rLQCyiaDRe

This is a ccr of a PowerPoint with a voiceover

https://youtu.be/LpkHGj40AVU?si=JV-80UF5d594mAY-

Film opening

 this is my film opening

https://youtu.be/3SFTS7SBo1U?si=w6c5YxyQUAgECw-B

Final Reflection

My final thought about working on this project are gonna be some what harsh but truthful. I do feel confident in the film me and my group put together however I do wish we worked a little harder on it. We waited almost until last minute to finish up the filming for our opening and I just feel like if we had a schedule and perfectly stuck to that schedule maybe our project could've been better than what we think it is. On the other hand though i really did enjoy the whole creative process of this project, I don't think in the 12 years that I have been in school that I've had a project that challenges my creativity such as this one.

This project definitely taught me a lot of things, like for one I'm glad to have worked on a film that I truly think is good . The other thing it taught me was just how important time management is and how following a schedule can make or break a project your working on.

Non copyright audio

https://youtu.be/6BSIR8s-3S8?si=KWQZV8WFqvgHSFmr

https://freesound.org/people/gagglepod/sounds/539535/

these or the two non copyrighted audios I used in my film opening

Filming of my CCR

 For my ccr I decided to go with a vogue styled interview and had my girlfriend Jackie be the one interviewing me. For these interviews a person usually shows up outside of a celebrities house and then they have a walk thru of the house while also answering the questions being asked. As seen in the image below we followed the traditional way of walking thru the house while being interviewed.

I enjoyed doing this format for my ccr. I don't know why but I honestly felt like moving around while answering the questions really helped me get what I wanted to say about our film out in a seemingly easy way. Shooting for these 2 questions I had to answer went smoothly, we started and finished on the same day. However this wasn't my original plan, at the beginning I really wanted to do a "wired" styled interview where they answer google questions like this for example.

The reason I didn't stick with this idea is because I felt like it would look visually better if I walked around instead of sitting IN front of a white wall the whole time.

Editing Day 1

 The beginning of my editing process is beginning and I feel pretty confident. I plan on using Adobe premier pro because I am familiar with there platform. The first thing I wanted to get done was the title.  I wanted to use a technique where it puts the caption behind u, like this for example.

So far I am definitely struggling on understanding the tutorials. I feel like i follow them perfectly but it  doesn't end out the same. I can't tell if it's because I'm using a free trial of Adobe or not but this is how mine looks so far.

I'm hoping to be able to finish it before the due date but if I'm not able to do it I am happy with leaving it like this.

Final production day

 Our final day of filming is finally upon us and our group couldn't be more excited to start our ccr's. This final night of shooting included the following.

1. Adding a new scene to make the phone call scene more realistic and the transition more seamless

2. Improve our kill shot so the audience is left in mystery of what happens.

3. Refilm me and Jackie running after I receive a phone call.

Our final day of filming was almost as long as the last 2 production days combined. We forgot to charge our microphones so in the middle of our scene they died and we had to wait a considerable time for them to charge. Once they were charged we wasted no time getting back to filming. Our kill shot turned out better than I could've imagined. The time it took to get the perfect shot was so worth it. I never would've thought that I'd be filled with such a feeling of accomplishment after getting the perfect shot and wrapping up our film.

I'm grateful for how hard my group and I worked on this film opening, but the finish line isn't quite here yet. The following days I will be dedicating a lot of time to editing and filming our creative critical reflections