Reflection

Refection

CCR!

Attached is my CCR for the film project!

CCR Youtube

CCR Google Drive

COMPLETED VIDEO!!

Hi! Below is the completed film opening, attached by a youtube link in order to view it. Similarly, it is saved on my google drive account, in which a link is attached! Enjoy!

Infatuated Youtube

Infatuated Google Drive

CCR struggle

Hi blog! I have been having a personal struggle with the CCR. I feel as if this week was just a mixture of being presented with a problem and overcoming an issue, both group-wise and now individually. I do not know when the CCR is due, so I felt that it would be in my best interest to start working on it this break. However, I just do not understand it. I am confused on the whole purpose of it. I understand I have to answer the four questions presented in 5-10 minutes, but I do not get what I am supposed to show as I film myself saying it. In the class examples, people showed the same clips over and over again of their film, with a voice over in the back. I just feel like this is pointless, because the audience will get bored. The clips also have nothing to do with the questions asked, as it is just the end product.

I understand the questions asked. I am good at analyzing the piece and explaining why we chose to do what we did. However, I just think the main issue is putting the entire CCR together and tying it into a video. I have been jotting down bullet points for each of the questions in which I think can answer them. I am going to go talk to my teacher on Monday so I can make sure I am on the right track before I start filming the video. I am kind of disappointed that I am still confused on this, because I wanted to finish it while I had a light load of work to do. I already know I will be stressed when I get back to school, so I am upset I could not finish this work now. I just need to focus on time management to make sure it gets done.

Editing complete (basically)

I am back from my trip now, and have been working hard on the project. I think we have a head start compared to other groups in my class. After talking to some of our classmates and teammates, most have not even filmed their opening scene yet. On the other hand, ours is basically done with editing now! The clips have been put in order and merged together to create our piece. However, it is not final yet because we are unsure if we like transitions in the scenes. As well, we do not know if we want to create a title page for the movie, or have it pop up with the credits when the shrine is being created. Besides these small two fixes, the film opening is done. We just have to work on finding a royalty free song that could fit well in the opening, which has to be creepy yet upbeat. This is something we have been struggling on.

We did end up facing another issue recently. Due to Callie going to Mexico, the product was saved on her laptop. We tried to share it with me so I could edit more, but it would not go. We spent an hour trying to figure out how to download the movie opening to her computer and send it to mine, but we failed. We went with the next best option of doing a flash drive, but that does not give me editing properties to work on the clips. This does pose an issue, but not a very big one due to the fact we are almost done anyways. I am now going to start working on the CCR to get a good start before we go back to school.

Solving the sound issues

I have been stressing out about the sound issues so much over the past few days. The voice memos that I filmed, after tons of tries, fit perfectly with the clips that we filmed. This made me feel a lot calmer. However, we are still missing our other sounds like footsteps, running, and breathing. The fact that the ones we filmed did not work puts such a damper in our work. However, I have spent time looking online for royalty free music sounds that could work, as well as filming myself doing sounds. I went for a run to film myself panting, recorded my footsteps, and even made impromptu sounds. This issue is causing me so much stress because I really want it to be solved.

However, after working hard on making and recreating sounds, I realized it is not that bad. We could have lost clips or even not filmed parts correctly. The fact that only the sound is the issue honestly does not put us in the bad of a position. After spending the day working, we overall have recorded or found online enough sounds to make the clips work perfectly. Teamwork makes the dream work.

This is the first real issue that has been thrown at us since we started working on the project. However, I truly am glad that it was not bigger. It could have been ten times worse, and we have been doing so much to accomplish our end goal. I think this showed us how well we all work together, and allowed us for the opportunity to learn to trust one another more. Our team pushed past this, and succeeded in the long run.

Voice Recordings for film

Hey blog! Callie has been editing the first part of our movie while I have been in North Carolina. However, we came across an issue that I hope is resolved soon. The night we filmed the first part of the opening, where we buried the body at regional park, we did not get the sound quality in the clips that we thought we would get. Now we are stuck in a sticky situation where we have to redo the sounds in the exact perfect timing and tempo in order to have it fit perfectly with the film. When Callie called me to tell me this, I was overall frustrated because this seems like a huge issue. I am very nervous with the way it will turn out now that this is an evident issue present.

In order to solve the issue, I started filming over the parts that we are adding into the clips. These are a few voice memos that will be inserted throughout the film. However, it was so hard for me to get the pacing one hundred percent correct that it would match perfectly with the film. Attached below is the sayings of the voice memos that I recorded. I will keep you updated blog to see if the issue is resolved, in which I truly hope it is. I am extremely nervous on the way the film opening is going to turn out, especially because we just hit a major bump in the road. I think we can work through this to resolve the main issues!