My Creative Critical Reflection

 Week Nine: The End is Near

This is not my baby, but this video encapsulates me!
You can also rewatch the opening here if you would like :)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HVpr3cbVyLMoEvseKE3wAaUxZ0rlJv63/view?usp=sharing

My Film Opening

Week Nine: The End is Near

Here is my baby. Handle her with care. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AouQm4Sy9oilJTh8kojgCs-qqyXMTpl3/view?usp=sharing

What We Changed... Sorry

Week Nine: The End is Near
The end is so close I can almost taste it. Am I stressed? A tad. Not that I want this project to be over with, but it has been time-consuming, and I am exhausted. The marvelous thing about procrastination is that your deadline likes to creep up on you and stab you in the chest. April. Fourth. 11:59 PM. I am on the brink of tears. Editing has come along nicely, besides Hannah's laptop crashing every time we exported it. Hannah started petting her computer just to make it work. I will give you guys a quick little sneak peek. 

Oh, yeah! We moved the title from the end to the beginning. Our intro now seems more like an intro and less like a short film. It looks nicer here too. Also, look how beautiful the font title is :)
SHOUTOUT TO ADOBE FONTS!

One aspect we did keep was the music, but BOY, is it brutal to find decent royalty-free music. It simply does not feel the same as songs we are accustomed to. Hannah sent me one audio to see if I would like it, and I peed my pants. It was horrible. Hannah knows this, by the way. She, too, agreed that it was gross. 

It sounds like a Disney Channel Original Movie Intro

Disgusting.

Literally, spot the difference. 

Our new audio is MUCH better and actually matches our movie's mood/tone, but I am not going to show it to you because it isn't time yet (Yup, I am that type of person). It is crazy how credits and music can tie an opening together. I am relatively confident with the final product, but Hannah and I wonder if the end needs tweaking, so it may not be TOO final. We might add a quick narration -- something along the lines of "The world likes to lock people in closets, but I decided to choose happiness. I chose her. But I haven't told her." Too cheesy? Maybe. That's what we are afraid of. 

Creative Critical Reflection

I am going to be transparent with you all. I created the script for the CCR, but I am dreading filming and editing. I don't know why. I think I am procrastinating, but also I know that this is the last THING to do, which means a grade will soon follow. I have grade anxiety. Anyways, IF YOU LOOK RIGHT. That is proof of the script being done!

It's Complicated movie opening coming soon!

CCR Crazy, Again

Week Eight: Time Crunch

I honestly am more excited to film my creative, critical reflection than I was my film opening... oops. I don't want my CCR to be rigid or me staring at a camera answering four questions. I would like the information to come out naturally and allow each question to flow into the next. I plan on doing one take in front of the camera but then add inserts of me doing funny tasks that correlate back to my question. I also plan on including examples from the coming-of-age openings I watched and screenshots of data I found within my research. Both of these will be overlapped by my narration. The CCR doesn't seem too complicated: basic editing, personality, and information that I already wrote about in my blog or notes. 

My CCR notes. Yes, I handwrite my notes because I am a nerd. As I took notes, I wrote down what applied to my project. 
For example, question four asks how technology was integrated into our project. I quickly jotted down a few: Blogger, Adobe Premier, Google Docs, and Canva. 

The Four Questions Outline

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

• Coming of Age Conventions (Research Necessary)
• Representation 
• Costume:
  Sami and Maxx - Grunge
• Setting:
  Nature and Suburban 
• Groups:
  Teenagers and LGBTQIA+ youth
• Challenged and Unchallenged Conventions 

2. How does your project engage with audiences, and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

• Discuss Target Audience (Research Necessary)
• Does the age of the characters matter?
  
• Does the costume of the characters matter?
• In short, were choices made that target your audience?
• Distribution
• Based on the Coming-of-Age genre, how would you distribute it to your target audience?
• Youtube, TikTok, Twitter, etc. 
• Film Festivals (Research Specific Ones)
• Genre Based Festival?
  
• Student Admission?
• Pop Up Event?

3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

• Discuss Research and Planning (Refer to Blog Post)
• Discuss Obstacles (Refer to Blog Posts)
• Discuss Modifications (Refer to Blog Posts)

4. How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, and online - in this project?
(Discuss any technological obstacles)

• Adobe Font
• Adobe Premiere
• Adobe After Effects
• Blogger
• Google Docs
• iMessage for Communication 
• Canva