Creative Critical Reflection

 Here are my two creative critical reflections. Enjoy!

Creative Critical Reflection Presentation

Creative Critical Reflection Video

Film Opening

 

After a long eight weeks, The String is finally done. Enjoy watching! 

The String

Halfway done with the CCR

     Hello everyone! As this is the last week of my project, I am working on finishing my creative critical reflection. For the first part of the reflection, I decided to create a presentation with a voiceover answering the first two questions.

    After I finished designing and creating the presentation, I created a script for my voiceover recording. writing this script, made it much easier for me to get the voiceover done and inserted into my presentation quickly. 

Working on the script

The first slide of the presentation

    The final part of my CCR is to answer the last two questions. I have come with an idea that I will film a "get ready with me" video where I am doing my makeup, or hair, and getting ready for the day while answering the questions about my project. I think this will be a creative and entertaining way to respond to the questions, but also keep my audience engaged. 

I will create a script for this as well and then began to film it  Stay tuned for the final product! Bye.

Starting the CCR

     Hey everyone! It is officially week eight of this project. The last week! I can not believe this project is quickly coming to an end. I am starting to create the last part of the project, which is the creative critical reflection. In the reflection, like I previously blogged about, I have to address four specific questions. I will answer the first two questions in a Powerpoint presentation with a voiceover. I will answer the last two questions in a Get Ready with me video, where I am doing my makeup and getting ready for the day while discussing the project. 

     I began working on the presentation first. I wanted my presentation to look clean and easy to read, so I stuck to the same theme throughout with the same font colors and text size. The presentation did not take too long to create and was actually fun to do. In the presentation, I will give a quick summary of my film opening, representation of social groups/issues, and genre conventions. I also will discuss my target audience and distribution practices for my film opening.

Working on my presentation

Next, I will write a script and add it a voiceover to the presentation explaining each slide. Once I do that, I will be done with the first part of my CCR! Bye for now!

Learning How to Add in Text

      Hey blog! This is my last post for this week! My film opening is almost done. As you saw in my previous post, I finished clipping the scenes and adding the music to the background of the opening. The final step was adding the title and credits. Although I knew how to add text to my opening, I was unsure of how to add a specific font. I searched a tutorial video on YouTube how to add it. I came across a very helpful video and was able to teach myself how to incorporate this font. 

The tutorial video that I used

    I found this website called DaFont.com and found a font called Ethonocentric. I liked it a lot and it gave me a sci-fi vibe. I wanted the text to go with the entire theme of the film opening. I added the title of the film and credits with the font and decided how long each text would stay on the screen. The project is pretty much finished, I just need add some final touches!

DaFont.com website

Bye everyone!

Editing Time

 Hey everyone! Welcome back to my blog. I am officially done with filming! It is time to start the post production process. 

    I added all of my clips to the app iMovie on my laptop and edited the clips on this software. All the clips combined were over four minutes and thirty seconds, which was a problem, since my film opening could only be a maximum of two minutes long. 

      I went through each clip individually and took out whatever parts were not necessary or didn’t add to the story. I also took out some clips when the actor was not ready to begin or when they were looking directly at the camera when they should've!

After going through all of the clips, I was able to cut it down to two minutes and thirty seconds.  I knew that I still had to take some scenes out. I was able to delete some full scenes that I thought did not have any relevance. 

When my opening finally came down to two minutes and two seconds, I was good to go. I came to a decision and chose a sound from YouTube, that I blogged about previously. I was able to convert the audio from YouTube to a MP3 on an online website converter. The score is three minutes long and is able to run the whole film opening. 

     The next step to finishing my opening is to find fonts for my credit and title scenes. I’ll update everyone when I do! Bye!

Filming Sophia

      Hey everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today I filmed with my actress Hailey who plays the character Sophia Davis. The filming went very well and I was able to film her in less than an hour and a half. My actress was very cooperative and easy to work with. We filmed at night, just like I did with my other actresses. 

Filming with Hailey (Sophia Davis)

     The production process is officially done! I am going to start the editing process very soon. When I begin to combine all my content together, I will be conscious to make sure the opening is at least two minutes. If it is under two minutes, I may need to shoot some more content. If it is over way over two minutes long, I may need to cut out or shorten some of the scenes. I will update you if there is any obstacles when I begin the editing process. I think this film opening is going to turn out great! 

    Thank you for reading. See you in my next post!