Thats all folks!

Here it is!!

The moment you all have been waiting for.....


Our film opening!!!!!:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q9s0Iexx6OIQQ8WDWZ7TP3RWi1ut7CaQ

Also, here is my CCR!:

https://youtu.be/m6O-uVv9y5k


Im also going to be submitting my CCR. A CCR is a creative critical reflection where im speaking to you all about my journey through this project.


Im so grateful that everything is over and the stress is in another dimension.



Thank you all so so so much for following along and just know i am full of appreciation.

As of now, no more to come,

Peace Out :)

Editing

Hello!
In this post, I want to share some information with you all about editing. 

I don't know how much one can say this but, editing requires patience!!

Film editing can be described and referred to as an art or skill. A highly skilled film editor can be engage the viewer so much that he or she is not aware of the editors cuts, crops, etc. This is something I drive for when editing the footage from our opening.

My partner and I finished filming on Wednesday the 4th of April. I have been editing ever since and i'm still not done! editing takes a very long time and it would be wise to give yourself a decent amount of time to gather all those clips together exactly as you want them.

You can also, as your editing, discover that you have missing footage, need to reshoot a clip, etc. This is why getting your editing done with a decent amount of time before the deadline is ideal. My partner and I tried doing this and I would say we mostly succeeded.

and i also haven't stopped editing! As i'm typing this post i'm still going back and forth and editing our opening. Im so excited to show it to you guys! You wont be ready >:)

We also plan to use a coloring program on my partners computer to also add to the ominous tone. The song I've added that I mentioned  in my last post also really helped convey the tone we chose. Im so relieved that everything is coming together and this project is almost done!!





As always,

Thanks for reading,

More to come,

Peace out :)


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Our song!

Happy Saturday y’all!

The process to find a song that fit perfectly for our opening was very difficult. My partner and I spent hours trying to find a song and it took a lot of searching but we finally found it.

This is it:
https://www.killertracks.com/#!/results.aspx?pageNo=1&resultsPerPage=20&viewTags=1&mode=work&sortFilter=Default|Desc&keyword=714973&keywordType=1


I found this song to convey an ominous and gloomy tone, and i feel that it fits beautifully with the mood we are trying to get the audience to feel.

We retrieved it from a website called Killertracks.com. This website is an extremely handy tool that allows you to search a specific type of genre, characteristic, etc. of any type of song or piece of media. This site was a great help in finding the exact song my partner and I were trying to find to include in our opening to make it more ominous.

Other than that, we’re almost done! We’re almost finished with the editing and i am starting to plan my CCR.
A CCR is a creative critical reflection where I’m going to be talking to you guys and answering questions about my journey and the ups and downs.

Thanks for reading

More to come,

Peace out :)

Finally finishing our filming!

Hello gorgeous guys and gals!



Last week was stressful for my partner and I with the bumps in the road, but i'm extremely happy to say that we have finished filming!!

It feels so good to have that weight lifted off our chest. We have also started editing and im so ecstatic to see the turnout.

Editing is an extremely long process so, I have been taking a couple hours out my days to edit our project. My friend, Dakota Benca, whom is also doing the film opening project, finished filming 2 weeks ago and has been editing ever since and still isn't done. So much goes into editing and the process of it all and the people who do it are so unappreciated. I bow down to editors of films, media and more. To be an editor requires a lot of patience.



Here are a couple pictures from our process:

These are just a few shots that will be featured in our opening. The first photo A lot of these shots I and my partner took and hand held. We did a good job for the most part in keeping the camera steady and at the perfect angle.  It took us about 6 hours to finish filming and boy were we tired after!

Thanks for following our journey so far,

Were almost done but as always,

Thanks for reading,

More to come, 

Peace out :)

          

Problems and Solutions!

Hello to you beautiful people!


I hope your Sunday was spent well but my partner and I have a little update.

Our actor from before, Connor:

Was unable to act for us in our film opening due to an emergency and his inflexible schedule.
The person who was also going to help us film also became extremely busy and had to back out.
:(

These few mishaps did scare me and Taylor Wolf. We were very worried that we were not going to find another actor for our opening within an reasonable time frame to edit and re-film if needed. We quickly started asking around and thinking about our options.

Our new actor, Nick Constantin, a good friend of mine, popped into my head and couldn't imagine a better person for this role.
This is him! :

He fits the role that my partner and I want to portray PERFECTLY and i'm extremely relieved that his schedule is flexible and he was willing to participate.

This past week has been very stressful for my partner and I but i'm glad that me and her work together so well and are able to solve these problems and an efficient and swift manor.


Thanks for following our journey so far,

More to come,

Peace Out :)

A bump in the road...

Hey all,

:/

My original post for today was going to be this:

So we’re finally filming today (3/31)! I've been waiting for this day for a while and I’m ecstatic it’s finally here.

Our original plan was to film at my house utilizing my parents bedroom, bathroom, and our kitchen.
Our new filming location is my friend Tomas’s house! To introduce him, Tomas Quilaqueo is a sophomore at my High school and I’ve known him for 4 years. He’s been in the CBTV club for 2 years now, but on his own he produced/created videos utilizing top quality cameras. He’s a great friend of mine and was more than happy to offer a hand with our film opening.

He’s also helping us with the filming process :) 
His house is spacious and conveys the exact kind of demeanor my partner and I desire.

Cant wait to share the process with y'all and some sneak peaks ;) !

But sadly, it didn't work out that way.



Our plan to film fell through because our actor had an emergency. This was a slight minor setback and my partner and I were anxious about this news. 

Even though our plan to film on Saturday fell through me and my partner maneuvered around this problem and scheduled to film the beginning of next week on Monday and Tuesday (April 2nd and 3rd).

I'm grateful to have Taylor Wolf as a partner because her and I quickly overcame this bump in the road and calmed our nerves about our filming being completed in at a reasonable time.



That's all for now folks!

Thanks for reading,

More to come,

Peace out :)

Coloring of our opening !

Hello, Hello, Hello!

In this post I want to speak about the coloration of our film opening.

In any production, conveying the tone/mood efficiently is important. This can be done in numerous ways. One way that my partner and I want to focus on is the coloring/hue of our opening. Since our genre is Horror/Thriller, we felt that adding an overall dark tint and lowering the saturation will have an increasingly positive effect on conveying the mood.

Taylor Wolf (My partner) has a program on her computer called Magic Bullet Looks. This program allows you to add different coloring and tints to your project. We both feel that this will definitely help us achieve the correct mood we desire.

A production that utilized color alteration is The Matrix and Transformers. The Matrix utilized this technique to give the production a more authentic feel. An example is below.

Transformers also did this by changing the color of the robots in the movie from black and gray to turquoise and orange. This aided in conveying to the audience that these autobots were foreign and alien like. An example of this is below.

Side note:

Tomorrow (Monday, March 26) we start filming and i'm very excited! Once we begin the editing process i'm positive this post will come in handy and will be on my mind.

Thats all for now folks!

Thanks for reading.

More to come,

Peace Out :D

“How Color Correction Is Used in Movies.” Digital Media Academy, 15 June 2017, www.digitalmediaacademy.org/2015/08/07/how-color-correction-is-used-in-movies/.

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