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Thursday, April 6, 2023
Creative Critical Reflection
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Final Film
After receiving feedback from my peers, my group and I made several changes to our film and finalized the product. As stressful as the journey was, I'm proud of how this film came out. I especially enjoyed collaborating ideas with my group and creating something straight from our brains. The process of picking a location to editing is all crucial in making a film and it's a lot more complex than picking up a camera and acting. There's so much tech stuff that goes behind it like picking camera angles and framing. This is definitely one of the more fun tests I've had this year.
Monday, April 3, 2023
Post-Production: Editing
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Production Week: Final Day
After receiving feedback on our movie, our group realized we still had a little more work to do. While I thought the first draft was great, I'll admit it was missing a lot of things like a voiceover, credits, title, production logo, and time. Another short filming day had to be planned to make up for these mistakes.
We were never able to film the first scene in Ms. Vincent's class, however, we felt that the introduction would be too long if we added another scene to the beginning. Our end was good, but it wasn't strong. The audience should have a reason to want to see more of a film after watching the first few scenes. After some discussion, we decided to add a scene, with another teacher questioning Carla in a suspicious manner. This leaves the audience wondering "was she caught?" or "will she get away with it?" and makes them want to watch more.
The day of filming, I wore dark colored clothes to contrast the costume the beginning of the movie. This portrays the evolution of Carla's character. She went from a bright, smart girl to a dark killer. Jada and I added another small prop too, a folder for Carla to mindlessly flip around as she thinks of what she did.
Later that day me and Jada met up to film the final scene since Brandon had class. We went to our teacher's room and asked her if she wanted to play the teacher who would interrogate Carla and she gladly accepted. We named her character Ms. E and discussed how we wanted the scene to go. Our group was on a time crunch, so we didn't have much time to write and memorize lines, all we could do was make a general outline.
The scene takes place the following day and Carla is wondrously flipping through her folder with no thoughts, just guilt, until Ms. E stops her and asks if she's heard about Mr. Johnson's death. Carla gets nervous and asks, "what do you mean" to which Ms. E responds "Carla I think we know."
After talking about the outline, we quickly filmed the scene, which was mostly improvisation, but we made it work. The camera work was kept fairly simple since the scene was really short, being less than 30 seconds. The camera movement went from a slow zoom (before Ms. E) to random movement. This portrays Carla's mind which is all over the place after committing a crime. The shot goes from medium full to just medium and the angle stays eye level. The camera framing remains one shot, only showing Ms. E's hand. This was done to give Ms. E a sense of power, the audience can only hear her voice and see her hand, making her a mysterious yet intimidating character, leaving Carla in a vulnerable perspective.
Monday, March 27, 2023
Peer Feedback
First drafts are never going to be perfect. As much as I enjoyed the first draft of our movie, there are many aspects that can be improved or worked on. Because I want our film to be the best it can be, I asked friends for constructive criticism so my group and I can take note and apply it to our film.
Right off the bat, the first pieces of criticism we received were technical aspects. Our movie is 30 seconds short of 2 minutes, so our friends suggested recording another scene. Another technical aspect we were missing were credits, company logo, and a title. This is critical information for the audience to know who made or participated in the film.
Our friends seemed to really like the sound effects we used. This includes the heartbeat and echoing of voices in Carla's head. One thing they suggested is adding music. The reason me and my team didn't add music in the first place is because we couldn't figure out how to make it fit. We didn't like the idea of the film having background music the entire time but figured having music at the end to build suspense would make the audience not only want more but also added synchronous sound.
Taking all of this into account, we were able to make the proper changes to our film without altering the plot or original theme of the movie. My team and I are very grateful we were able to get the criticism necessary to improve our film.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
First Draft Opening Film Submittal
Me and my group completed the first draft of our film. Our film takes place in present time and revolves around a hispanic teenager, Carla, who has high expectations to meet due to her mom’s strict behavior. Carla is walking out of class one day when suddenly, she receives a notification from her teacher, Mr. Johnson, regarding her final. Looking at her F, she panics and starts to think of her mom yelling at her for not meeting her high standards. Carla snaps out of it and goes inside the theater to talk to Mr. Johnson. Inside, Carla tries to negotiate with Mr. Johnson but is met with failure. As she walks away in defeat, Carla starts to feel overwhelmed by negative emotions, until she spots a knife. Carla slowly walks up to the knife and stabs Mr.Johnson behind his back. His now dead body lying next to her, she takes his laptop, changes her grade and quickly leaves, taking the evidence with her.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Production Week: Day 1
Creative Critical Reflection
My creative critical reflection! I loved putting this PowerPoint together and making it match the film created with our group.
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