Creative Critical Reflection

 After many long months I've finally wrapped everything up and am proud to show my CCR! 

CCR Part 1 - Post Game Interview (YouTube Version)

How does your product use/challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

I had a lot of fun doing this question in my CCR as I am a big basketball fan and I wanted to show that through my answer! I kept my answer in tune with how many of my favorite basketball stars would answer. 

CCR Part 2 - Beach Vlog 

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

In this section of my CCR I decided a beach day vlog with me and my friends would fit the theme of this question as it touches on audiences. You're only young once is a common theme in the coming-of-age genre and I felt like a beach day would convey that message perfectly!

CCR Part 3 - Get Ready With Me (Youtube Version)

How did your production skills develop throughout this project? 

For one of my longer responses I wanted to do a 2000's inspired makeup look to answer how my skills developed throughout my filming process. I love the 2000's and have always wanted to do an inspired makeup look for it yet never found the opportunity. 

CCR Part 4 - Magazine Page

How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware and online - in this project?

For my CCR as a whole I wanted to take my creativity to the max. In the beginning of the year, I knew from the start that I wasn't too fond of everything that it takes to make a magazine. However, I wanted to push myself and make a magazine page in order to answer this question. 

In all, I gained a lot of experience from this project and it pushed me to think outside of the box. I had plenty of stressful moments but it was all worth it in order to produce such a piece like this!

Final Brief

 After many long weeks we finally finished our film opening! We present to you Off Script by Sophia Espinosa, Jocelyn Villa, and Gabriella Offredi!

Production -- Adding sound

 Me and my teammates went back and forth to see what we wanted to add in the time sequence that one of our main characters is getting ready. We weren't surfe if we wanted to add sound effects as she opened and closed makeup products or keep a non-copyrighted melody over the clips.

We decided to add both. We found the non-copyrighted music off of freeplay music and downloaded it to then be added. 

Production -- Editing

 Based on previous editing experience I already knew it was going to be a process. This is the first time I've tried to collaborate on a group editing process so it felt like I was re-learning how to use Premier Pro. 

For one me and my teammates wanted to evenly split the work so we could all collaborate on aspects that we liked and dislike. With a bit of research I learned that you could start a project on premier pro that the people you invite could work on together as a collaboration. 

Source: Premier Pro Team Projects

I was able to successfully invite them to the project; however, when they opened it, none of the clips I had added were showing on their screens. We continued to research to try to find a possible solution, but found none.

Instead, we decided to divide the editing process into 3, and on our projects, we'd edit each sequence. For example, Gaby would edit the car scenes while I would focus on the closet scenes of Alejandra. After everyone edits their portion, we'll sequence them together. 

To make the editing process more seamless, I airdropped all the clips to my MacBook and, duplicated them and created a folder that I labeled 'AICE MEDIA'. This ensures that all my clips are in one place and I can always go back and retrieve them.

This is the layout I stuck with when editing. I think the default editing template works best for me rather then having everything mismatched. Plus, I have enough room to see the clips clearly in the preview. 

Production -- Sunday Filming

  Due to us not finishing filming on Friday we decided to meet up on Sunday to finish the remainder of filming. 

  Our initial plan was to meet up at 1, finish the rest of filming, and dedicate the rest of the time to editing. With me going on a trip on Wednesday we really had to make sure that we at least have everything filmed. For this portion of filming, we utilized my iPhone to take footage because I felt like my Nikon D5000 was too blurry, and I wanted to produce my best work.

  We focused on getting the morning scenes as it was still bright outside, and we had already filmed the car scenes. The more we filmed, the more I began to grasp the idea that this project takes a lot more effort than I thought. Reshooting scenes began to feel repetitive, and I couldn't wait to finally wrap this project up. 

A good thing was that we didn't have to focus on tuning the lighting too much, as the scene takes place in the early mornings, which makes the piercing light more believable. A good thing was that we communicated well about what we wanted to see in certain scenes and things we thought could be adjusted. 

Production -- Friday Filming

  We were able to meet on Friday in order to film our opening! We focused on filming the car scenes first, as we wanted to make the most of the daylight due to daylight savings.

For the most part, we filmed with the Nikon D5000, which is a nice change of pace. It is an old camera so its not as high tech as an IPhone but I felt like it got the job done for some scenes.

 

However I felt like the audio came off as choppy and instead we should've just filmed from our phones.

Production -- Storyboarding #2

In case we don't reach our two-minute mark, I decided it'd be a good idea to storyboard again. Building on our previous storyboard, we are focusing on this point forward to their dialogue in the car. 

Gabriella's storyboard:

Joselyn's storyboard:

My storyboard:

When creating this scene, I got lots of my inspiration from the car scene in Lady Bird. This film had a great car scene that displayed plenty of emotions all in the short span of 2 minutes. 

Source: Lady Bird car clip