FINAL PROJECT!!!

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Film Opening

CCR #1

CCR #2

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IM DONE!

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I finally finished my portfolio project!!!!!

 It's hard to believe that I've been working on this for over 8 weeks. I can't believe that I was actually able to get it done when I first started. It seemed like a very daunting project and I didn't know if I would ever get to the finish line. It's honestly kind of hard to believe I've done something that I've been working on every day when I go to class for a really long time and it is suddenly just over…

This project allowed me to get out of my comfort zone and  be able to experience a lot of aspects of film that I never thought I'd be able to. This entire project was a great learning experience that I  generally enjoyed working on.  Even though we did go through a lot of setbacks and challenges we continue to power through. My group was amazing and I'm so glad that I got to work with this talented team!  While there are some things that I wish we could go back and change... we just had to roll with the punches and the only thing left to do is to be proud of our final project. While I did get to learn a lot from working on the film opening I also got to learn a lot from working on my CCR’s. I got time to reflect and look back on the project and everything I've done, all the research and all the time that was put into this project had a purpose. 

Overall I'm really happy with how  my portfolio project came out and I'm so glad that I got to go through this amazing learning experience that allowed me to become a better filmmaker.

Here are some previews of my final project!

CCR Post Production

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So I finally finished editing both of my CCR’s and it was definitely a process…
I didn't realize how much I actually talked about the questions in my CCR's and I had to cut down so much information in order to get them to be the time that they needed to be. I forgot how hard and horrible editing can be... But I was finally able to do it and I finished! I did end up having to do some graphics for both of my videos. I made a few graphics for my most asked questions, and I made one graphic for my second CCR. For my first CCR I did  an informational  most asked questions video and it was a little hard for me to get b-roll for it but I was able to pull enough videos for my phone opening and able to cover up some jump cuts and be able to cover  myself up so it wasn't just me talking the whole time. I did change what I was going to do for my second CCR, instead of doing a game show I decided to end up doing a podcast just because I wasn't able to get anyone to help me be the game show host and I just thought that I'm podcast might be a little more approachable for me to do given  the fact that I couldn't really get another person to be my video. for the podcast but I decided to do it as I asked myself questions and I changed the pitch in the interviewer's voice so they would sound different. I've never done this before so it was very interesting to learn while it does sound a little funny…  I think that it works.

Here is a picture of the editing timeline of one of my CCR’s

CCR Production

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 Today I'm going to be talking about my CCR's and the production process while filming.

 It was such an experience because not only was it filming, but I also had my friend Oriana film hers on the same day. We had to go out and get many supplies but we were able to get everything that we needed for us to be able to film for CCR. Mine was a little simpler than hers so we didn't really need to go get anything for mine, I did have to however get a little creative because I didn't want to just do a little basic most asked questions, so what I did was I wrote my questions in a piece of paper and I put them all in a jar and I took them out one by one and that's how I answered them in that order. I did run into a little trouble though, I forgot to check out a camera :(  I know that I am able to film The CCR's on my phone but I still wanted it to be good quality and I wanted it to be consistent with my video. Lucky for me my friend owns the camera and that's why she helped me with my video. Sadly I didn't really get pictures when filming because I was too focused on trying to get my CCR done that I forgot to take some so I will be attaching  a picture of the camera that I used to fill my CCR below.

Question 4

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In this blog post I'm going to be answering my final CCR question: how did you integrate technologies – software, hardware, and online – in this project?

We incorporated many technologies while filming this project that included our equipment,  our editing software,  and any online services that we used. 

Here are some of the technologies that we worked with:

The Canon t7i camera that was used through the entire production process

 Adobe Premiere Pro for editing

 Canva for the making of our graphics

 voice memos for a lot of our Foley sounds and dialogue

 bulletproof bear for music

 pixabay for some sound effects

 and of course blogger for our blogs and our progress. 

here is a picture of the camera below:

Now, since this is my last question  that I need to answer for my CCR I'm going to be talking about what I'm going to do for my second CCR where I'm going to be answering my question number three and question number four.  for this CCR I want to do my own game show, however this might be a little difficult because that would mean that I have to get someone to help me film.  My plan for this was to get me as a contestant and someone as a host to ask me questions about my film opening (questions will be attached below)  while I answer questions points will be awarded  if I answered successfully. If I'm not able to execute this my backup plan would be to do an interview with me as the interviewee.

Here are some of the questions that I would be asked in the game show:

What is the name of the camera that you used?

What is the name of the editing software that you used?

What were your roles while participating in the film?

 Do you feel like participating in these roles made you perfect your production skills?

Name three choices that were made that ended up benefiting the film?

Name a challenge that you encountered doing the film that you were able to resolve and  that helped you grow as a filmmaker 

These and a few more that I might come up with before filming are going to be the questions that I'm going to be  answering in my second CCR.  I will keep you updated on my  production process for my CCR’s and I will be posting about that next week.

CCR Question #3

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Today I'm going to be answering my CCR question number three. The question is how did you production skills develop throughout the project?

 I did start  this project with a little bit of prior experience filming and knowing a little bit about how to edit because of my television production class in school, however I feel like this project helped me become a better storyteller and cinematographer as well as producer.  While I do have some prior experience in my TV class I mostly focus on making news segments so I don't really get to work in films as much, so this project was a really cool opportunity for me to be able to step out of my comfort zone  and try something new. Starting with the  writing I helped write the script and it was a very interesting experience because I've never had as much creative Liberty with making a film before I was very involved in the process and I was trying to come up with ideas and how to better the story  I loved working with a big group of people because I feel that by all of us sharing ideas together we were able to create a great story.  producing this was very fun I was able to be really involved in the process of making a lot of decisions that would ultimately end up being a part of the film I produced alongside with Kenna and it was fun talking to her about many choices that we ended up going with and she helped me plan many things along with the group.  The Thing that I feel like I  contributed the most during the project was  filming.  I was  the main cinematographer in our film opening. I worked very closely with the director and with my fellow producer to be able to develop the scene and get our vision in the camera. Taking on that responsibility helped me become a better cinematographer and it got me thinking about how we wanted the scenes to look in order to be able to get the film exactly how we wanted it to look. Overall I feel like this entire project was a really good experience and it made  me be able to develop my production skills a lot more than I would have ever imagined.

Here's a picture of me with a camera below,  I'll keep you posted on my progress and I will post the script for my second CCR on my next blog! 

Group Meetings

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 Today we had our second group meeting and we discussed CCR's and we updated each other on the post-production process of our film openings. In my group I worked with Vicky Aiden Nati and Victor. We also shared our blogs and we reviewed them to see each other's process and get caught up on everyone's film openings. We gave each other a lot of really useful feedback on the editing process and we were able to watch a bit of everyone's film openings and they all looked pretty well done so far.

After talking about film openings for a while we shifted the conversation towards CCR's. most of us didn't really know what we were going to do however I did end up coming up with a few ideas and they helped me develop them a little further. As I talked about in my previous blog, one of my CCR’s is going to be me putting a bunch of questions in a jar randomly taking them out on answering them.  for the other one I think I'm going to do an interview with myself in order to answer the next couple questions but I still haven't fully decided I will talk about that more in  my upcoming blogs.   Despite our lack of ideas at the group meeting I still think that everybody left the group meeting with at least some sort of idea of what to do for one other CCR's meaning that the meeting was successful and quite useful.

Here's a picture of my group!