CCR is here!!

After a long journey and hours of editing, I present to you.... My CCR!!!

Here's a link to the CCR:
https://www.wevideo.com/view/1656326850

FINAL FILM OPENING!!!

HEY GUYSS HERE WE HAVE THE FINAL FILM OPENING!!

 I just wanted to thank my partners, Isabelle Gambrill, and Maria Jauregui for creating this film opening with. Thank you for helping me through this tedious production process.

HOPE YOU GUYS ENJOY!!

Reflection

After completely finishing, the film opening, filming and editing it I have learned quite a few things. Before, we began the project and were just brainstorming we had in mind to film a scene to the film opening where Elena got hurt in one of her races. This was to be the conflict, but she would eventually recover in time for the race where the scouts were to attend. After further brainstorming and a meeting with our teacher, Mrs. Stoklosa, we thought it best to focus on the other parts of the film opening. The film opening we meant to serve as a way to develop her track career and establish her as a main character to the film. Then the last thing anyone would expect happened a global epidemic, COVID19. This causes a bit of change to our project as it was now harder to get together to film and school was closed. A scene that was originally in our plans was to film a clip of an in-person meeting Elena was to have with her coach, in which she was to mention the importance of the state race where the scouts were to be. Elena was to do good because this would grant her the ability to get the money for college, a scholarship. In the end, since schools closed we had to modify this scene. We decided for it to be a phone call with her coach where we made it very clear she was talking to her coach about the important race. I believe, in this process, I have learned a lot. Among those things is that anything can happen at any time and sometimes we need to adapt to change.

Final CCR research post

In this post, I will be discussing the third question:

How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Through this process, I have learned quite a few things about film. Prior to this project, I had really not put together a film opening or anything close to that. I really learned how much work is put into films after finalizing this project.

Additionally, I realized how important every aspect is to a film, whether it be the location, shot type, and the music. Every single thing adds to the end product in some way. When filming I also noticed how having a variety of shots matters because if the film was the same shot the whole way through it would be boring for the audience. Furthermore, the lighting of each shot is very important.

Lastly, I understood the significance behind the target audience of a film. This is because it decides how well or poor the film will do.  Moreover, films that have a specific target audience tend to do better in the movie industry. Overall, I believe this was a learning experience that really taught me the value of hard work and dedication.

MORE CHANGES

Update: After we listened to the music we planned to have put in our film opening, we decided to go with a different sound. This is because we found our original choice didn't go as well with our plot/storyline as we anticipated it had before editing the opening.

The original choice was the TIK TOK (No Copyright Sound) Rap on Beat HamburgHood Records - (FREE MUSIC, Trap, Instrumental, Beat) one we found on YouTube.

As mentioned before, we thought the song didn't match up with the vibe we were going for as much of the film opening is her running. Instead, we decided to go with a song we found on Bensound under the motivational/sports column. We believe this matches up better with the pace of our film and the sportiness aspect of our film.

Here's the link:

https://www.bensound.com/index.php?route=product/search&search=punky&sort=relevance&order=DESC

 

Representation clips

Since, Elena is a Latin-America, specifically from Colombia we decided to make this very clear in the opening, We decided to include additional clips of her room. As of before, we had the clips of the medals in her room, the participant numbers, and the wake-up scene. But, we decided to incorporate more.

First, we decided to film a clip of some Colombian soccer shirts with Colombian hats that Elena has hung in her room. This helps to show not only her Colombian heritage but how she really is proud of her Latino origin.

We also decided to add a note in which her mom tells her she left early and wishes her a good day at school. This is also of course to emphasize her Colombian heritage. We decided to put the note on her headstand because we thought it was a place that made sense as she would see it when she woke up in the morning, it is a reasonable place. 

Another CCR post!!

Yes, I know I have made quite a lot of posts on the CCR. But, this is because I plan to do as much research as possible beforehand. This post will be about question number four:

how do you integrate technologies- software hardware and online- in this project? 

For the project, we decided to edit using the editing software system WeVideo. This was because it was the only we found that was free and multiple could edit at one time. Especially because of corona we couldn't meet up to edit so we did it through WeVideo. 

In addition, when adding the audio we found originally on YouTube and mentioned in an earlier blog post we encountered some problems. We found the sound was not downloading properly and therefore we had to find an audio converter to be able to insert the music and make sure it sounded good. This was especially helpful to us for the clip where Elena is talking to her coach about the upcoming race. 

We also play to distribute our film through Youtube. We found through our research that it was the best platform to upload the opening due to our budget, lack of contacts in the industry, and lack of experience. Youtube is free and basically, anything can be uploaded to the site as long as it is appropriate. This is perfect for us as we have no budget and are very inexperienced in the field. 

We also decided to distribute our film opening through the site called FilmHub. This is a good choice for many reasons. First, 80% of the profit goes to the owner, us and there are no additional fees. Also, it is free and we get to keep the rights to our film. In addition, it is good to use because the platform tells you when's the best time to release in order to gain the most profit. They have specialized analytics that does this for the creator.