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

Audio issues

 After the last night of filming we did, we looked over the videos and realized our mics were a little weird. What I mean by this is out microphones may have been to good. When we would film we realized only our voices were being picked up which was not our goal. Since our filming location was in Town center the audio has to be more lively. In our film you can see all the people in the background talking but none of the audio picks up.

This puts a delay in our schedule, since we wanted to try and start our creative critical reflection over the weekend. Our new plan is now to finish over the weekend and do our ccr's over the week. This plan almost works out better than our original since spring break is about to start. My group and I are free the whole week so we expect to get our ccr's done and edited by Friday.

Production

 Today in our production we had countless retakes. Out of all the filming days this was our most challenging because of our microphones. For some reason we dealt with a problem during our phone call scene. Every time I would answer the phone my voice would echo and to be honest it just ruined the way the scene sounded. After about 30 minutes of troubleshooting we finally fixed the issue and could move on.

The image above is the scene that took us the most time to perfect. We wanted to make the kill scene subtle so we decided to reveal it through the shadows. At first I thought it would be annoying to try and get the perfect shot for every one of our scenes, but the more days me and my group work together I find myself being excited to film.

Even though we filmed the kill shot our filming is still not over we still have to include our newspaper scene which subtly hints at the possibility of 2 killers.

Production day 1

 The first day of production went better than I thought and it makes me excited to think about what the end product will look like. Our filming process couldn't have gone smoother if we wanted it to. Julio brought microphones with him which greatly improved our audio for filming. for some reason the microphones didn't have any clips and they were struggling to stay on so we had to tape them to each other for them to stay.

I can't lie since this was my first time filming something in a crowded area I felt a little nervous because everyone would walk by and look at us. After a couple of practice shots and just focusing on the scenes I found it to be fun and enjoying. Our film needs to be no more than 2 minutes and on our first night of filming we have roughly 45 seconds of film.

The next 2-3 days in a row we will be filming and finishing up so we can start the editing process. Tonight took us about an hour and a half for how much we filmed which may seem like a lot but we wanted to make sure our shots are perfect. By the end of the night I wanted to keep filing but everything in town center was starting to close so that was our queue to leave. Overall I think the first night was a success and I'm excited to get back to filming tomorrow