Creative Critical Reflection

To end this long awaited journey off, I present my CCR and my last blog for this project. Enjoy :)

Alternative link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r7PVel5XPEU6ReN2oSwjpXnrAlAE-LKe/view?usp=sharing

Affliction film opening

Hi bloggers!

Today is the day, without further ado, I present to you all Affliction. Enjoy!

Alternative links:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=11J8A6OJK2iG96wAXCkYY__wb2phNVHWr

https://youtu.be/sbiVI58E_5w

Project reflection

Over the course of the last couple weeks planning, organizing, filming, and editing I can say that my skills have developed and our final result came out well. Our vision went according to plan and we let some things happen on their own so felt more natural. We had an outline of each memory but let the actors, as they were a family, do their own thing so it felt more natural and like it was a home-recorded video. My group and I accomplished our goal in producing a coming-of-age drama about a sensitive topic that brings emotion alive to our audience. There were no complications because our group all knew how to talk to each other and our ideas just clicked. Collaboration was high and this was an important factor into how our end product came out. I am happy to say the next time I upload it will be the release of Affliction, our film opening, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it and want to know what happens next. Till next time :)

Outlines

Hello guys :)

I wanted to show and document the outline for my creative critical reflection so here we go!

I have my script set but as I talk I want some visuals so the video can be engaging and it's easier to understand something when there is a picture attached. I downloaded a screen recording software called ScreenCast-O-Matic and it perfectly recorded my screen with audio so you can my visuals and listen at the same time.

The visuals I'm showing are going to change as I speak and answer the questions. Some of the pictures I included are:

1. The title card

2.Scenes from the film opening

3.Youtube and Florida Film festival statistics 

4.Storyboards and lists of shots

5. The camera and editing software we used

6. Blogger

Here's my test run of the recording software to make sure everything works 

I answered all the questions regarding my project and I think it was a reflection well done. I've learned so many new techniques from this project and can't wait to use them in my next project.

Progress!

Hi bloggers!

Today is an exciting day as the star have aligned and... what am I saying? Today is a good day because my script for my ccr is complete and all there is left to do is record myself talking. I have my exact plan on what I will be showing while I talk to make the video a little less boring and add some visuals to it. This week is the final week to this entire process and I'm sad but also happy that we are nearing the end to be able to show the end result. Have a good week and I will be posting real soon :)

Updates!

As time moves by closer to the due date, things are getting done and one of them is our official film opening. We are just checking on a couple of final details but we can finally say that this journey is coming to a close. This project was such an experience to get hands on and see from a producer,director, writer, and actor's point of view what it takes to film an opening to a future movie.

Before we end this journey though, there needs to be a reflection to see what went well, what could have gone better, and if we were to redo this, what changes would we make. I am still in the brainstorming process for my creative critical refelction because I want it to be creative and engaging. This way viewers can learn without getting bored and so I don't get bored myself. Either way I know I'll come up with something during this quarantine and get passed this block in thinking.

As far as life beyonf the film opening, I have been keeping busy between running, working out, trying new food creations, netflixm and talking to my friends who I miss so much. It's crazy to think how dependent I can get on social interaction and being with people. I'm driving my family crazy and need to get out which is looking like won't happen for a while but when it does, it's going to be the best feeling ever. Going back to normal will be a blessing and I've learned to not take things for granted and appreciate life everyday.

For now, I hope everyone is staying stafe with their loved ones and I'll update very soon in the next weeks for the end of this journey!

Best regards,

Jessica

Editing time

After all the planning, brainstorming, filming, and communicating, it's time to sit down and edit what we have created for our project to complete it's vision. Our group parnter, Gaby, has a great editing software and enjoys editing so she really wanted to take the lead on this part of the project. The rest of the group members and I helped her with anything she needed like the order of the shots, the font of the credits, the credits placement, and the music and when there was sound or not. We all pieced in our creative input and it all came out into a great film opening.

Adobe After Effects is the editing program Gaby used to put our project together. I do know a bit about editing and how to put clips together with different effects but not as much to be able to use this program so I'm glad we have Gaby in our group. I still want to talk about what Adobe After Effects has to offer and it's advantages.

According to Storyblock, the advantages of this editing software is the ability to "layer multiple audio and visual clips on top of each other and use the software’s many tools to blend them all together, adding visual effects, and the ability to make title and 2D animations." These benefits match our needs well because we want to layer several clips to have the visuals but also the music, we need to add credits since this is an opening, and everything on the software is organized and easily accessible to make the process go smooth since editing can be stressful and time consuming.