FILM OPENING

HERE IS...

remains;

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CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION

 Here are my CCRS!

Interview of remains;

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Presentation of remains;

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REFLECTION

HII BLOG!! Today officially marks the day that the AICE project comes to an end! Although I can't help but say I'm excited, but also extremely grateful to have gone through this whole process, and especially to go through it with my closest friend, Nicole. Without her, I literally would NOT have known what to do and would've been so lost. These past 9 weeks have been stressful, yet super exciting and fun as it is rewarding to see everything come together in the end.

Honestly, the whole 9 weeks did not feel long at all and felt like 4 weeks at most. From the beginning, I had serious doubts about this and was extremely nervous, as this was something super new to me and my partner and we had never even THOUGHT of doing anything close to a movie opening. But as time went on, I soon learned that I knew more than I genuinely thought I did, as everything that I had done prior in that class all came together and helped me in the making of this. Since this project allowed so much creative freedom and was not strict on rules, it helped me and my partners' creativity flow as much as we wanted it to, which helped us a lot too as we never felt restricted or like we could not put our own original ideas out there.

One of the things I mostly struggled with was editing, as prior to this project I had only done minimalistic editing for basic projects, but I knew that for this one it would be more complex. Something that really helped me was the own schedule I had made prior to even starting the project, which helped with staying on track and helped me notice if we were ever falling behind. Even though the schedule was not followed, it was still a good guideline to have.

I can honestly say that in these past 9 weeks, I have learned so much. This project helped me with not only editing and filming, but also managing time, and with skills that I will need for my whole life. I can proudly say that these 9 weeks went by smoothly, and I'm super grateful to have the end product of our opening, remains;

My last 2 blog post will be my CCRS and opening. Thank you for following along this journey, and I hope you enjoy!!

CCR REDO

 HIII BLOG!! So basically, the first CCR I did which was the talk show host one got deleted for some reason, but I had made sure to download my clips, so all of today I made sure to re-edit the CCR, and I have all done! 

As for my second CCR, I will be doing a canva presentation and speaking over it, but to not make it boring I will make sure to include many clips of our movie, so the audience does not get bored. This CCR I will be finishing tomorrow, as I have the presentation done but I was extremely busy over break and could not get to it. 

As for the film editing, everything has been going super smooth, and I and Nicole have been switching between various different editing applications, as different things are easier on different platforms. 

I have decided to edit my CCR's on capcut as it is the easiest platform for me to use. The hardest part of this project has been the editing part, as I am very good at filming and with shots and angels, but usually not very good at editing, as that is why I only know how to use capcut, but this project has helped me step out of my shell to try new things.

FONT RESEARCH

 For the font of our intro, we have decided to do research and not just pick any font, as we know that font is also a specific detail that helps shape movies in general. We wanted to find a font that fit the specific genre we were doing, but we also wanted to find a font that fit our specific movie opening as well.

Some of the options we had were:

Madina

Magnolia Script

The Muday

Bebas

For me and Nicoles movie opening remains;, we have decided to pick the font Bebas. We chose this font due to it fitting the many different movie openings that we watched. We made sure to watch many openings that had similar plots to ours and mystery movies that included teenagers, and the font Bebas was the one that was the most similar to our genre and plot.

CCRS/EDITING

 HIIII BLOG!! So basically, this week has been super rough due to it being spring break. Me and Nicole have started editing, but I do not have any pictures due to it being on Nicoles computer.

Our intro starts off with a black screen, then it cuts to them talking that was filmed on a digital camera, and then the screen goes back to black with the title name appearing. 

For the font, we are not really sure yet what it will be, but my next post will be figuring out which font we will choose. We want the font to be a distinct font that shows the fear and mystery that we want to project in our movie.

Also, for my CCRS, I have officially finished editing my first CCR! For my second one, I will probably film it tomorrow it Sunday. It will be either me talking to the camera, or I will make my mom or dad asking questions pretending to be part of the press. When I was trying to research ideas for my CCR, that came up and I thought it was super good, and it gave me some inspiration, but I don't know if I would do that, due to my first CCR being that someone already asked me questions.

FILMING/CCRS

HII BLOG! So today we OFFICALLY finished filming! I do not have any footage right now as I have not taken it out of my camera, but when I do, I will be sure to show you guys some clips and funny bloopers! 

Today filming went great, everything was super smooth, and we had an amazing time! I'm super grateful for my friends Gabby and Alex for letting me use them as my main characters!

Now, the next step after filming is to move to editing. Me and Nicole still have to discuss some of the techniques we want to approach while editing. Tomorow I will take out all the footage and send it to Nicole so she can put all of the clips together, and then we will meet up to edit them some day this week. 

As for MY next step, all I currently have left to finish is my one CCR, which i'm still not sure what I will be doing. I was discussing with some of my friends, and I was thinking about sitting at my desk and answering the last two questions, but to not make it boring I would add many funny sound effects, or just sound effects in general.

(Me doing Alex's makeup before filming (Mise-En-Scene elements))