Here is my creative critical reflection for my film, For You. Hope you enjoy!
Special thanks to Isabella Espinosa, my project partner, for collaborating with me for this creative critical reflection!
- AC
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Final Comments
We did it! We made it through these last seven weeks! Isabella and I have managed to finish up all of our project components in the last couple of days and though we may be sleep deprived, it was all worth it in the end. I am so incredibly proud of Isabella and I, I really could not say it enough times. Throughout these seven weeks, I have changed and grown in a way that I didnt know I could. Working with Isabella was a delight, and I could not have chosen a greater partner for this incredible journey.
Thanks for coming along this journey with me!
As always,
-AC
Thanks for coming along this journey with me!
As always,
-AC
Monday, April 9, 2018
The End Is Near
Welcome back guys! I can't believe I'm actually saying this but...the end is near! This is absolutely crazy to me!
Heres a little update on where Isabella and I are on our project:
Heres a little update on where Isabella and I are on our project:
- Our trailers are finally complete! Editing these trailers took what seemed like forever, but we finally did it! We finally finsihed them both!
- Our movie poster is almost done! So close, yet so far!! We have are main image, our layout, and our title done, but we still need to insert the credits and main characters onto our poster. Hopefully, we can finish it up soon so we can finish up the rest of the project!
- Our website has been created but not made...does that even make sense? Let me try to explain... Since we have dedicated so much time editing, our website has suffered the consequences. When i say our website has been created, I technically mean our website actually has a workable link but no content on the site...at least not yet!
- My creative critical reflection is currently non-existent, but dont worry, I will do it soon!
- AC
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Peer Critiques
Can you believe it's Sunday already!?
Welcome back guys, today's post will cover some crucial information so pay attention!!
This weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), I drove up to Orlando, Florida, to visit the college I will be attending in the fall of 2018, and resolve some issues regarding my admission. Because of this trip, I was not able to go to my AICE Media Studies class and missed out on some very important things.
During class, our teacher sperated the students into groups, allowing them to showcase their progress on their portfolio projects and ask for crtique/advice on portions of their projects. Luckily, Isabella was in class and was able to show one of our trailers to her designated group and asked them for advice on our project. We got some amazing feedback! Isabella updated me right after class and mentioned to me that the peer critiques were really helpful and that every single one of her groupmates inputed valuable advice and tips. With their permision, she recorded the whole critique so she could send it to me, so I could hear exactly what my peers had to say! Because of privacy reason, I am not going to upload the exact audio of the critique, but will talk about some of the tips they mentioned!
One student believed that our trailer was a little too slow for a trailer, which Isabella and I strongly agreed with. After mentioning this, the student advised us to cut the clips more often, and creat jump cuts in our scenes in order to fasten the pace of our trailer.
Another student mentioned that our static clips seemed awkward and off because they were clips of bars and tones and not static. He explained to Isabella that bars and tones were often used in Televison during a technical error while static screens, like the one below, were mostly used during damaged film.
When we first inserted the bars and tones static screens into our trailer last week, I had mentioned to Isa that those were mainly used in televion as opposed to film. However, she decided it was best to keep the bars and tones, so I let it go and move on with the project. After the peer critique, however, Isabella realized that other people agreed with me and that it was best to use the black and white static screens. So, we created new static screens and inserted them into our trailers.
This critique was so helpful to Isabella and I, and even though I was not there, I am so glad my classmates were able to have that experience and chance to gain feedback/advice on their works. Thank god for peer reviews!
-AC
Welcome back guys, today's post will cover some crucial information so pay attention!!
This weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), I drove up to Orlando, Florida, to visit the college I will be attending in the fall of 2018, and resolve some issues regarding my admission. Because of this trip, I was not able to go to my AICE Media Studies class and missed out on some very important things.
During class, our teacher sperated the students into groups, allowing them to showcase their progress on their portfolio projects and ask for crtique/advice on portions of their projects. Luckily, Isabella was in class and was able to show one of our trailers to her designated group and asked them for advice on our project. We got some amazing feedback! Isabella updated me right after class and mentioned to me that the peer critiques were really helpful and that every single one of her groupmates inputed valuable advice and tips. With their permision, she recorded the whole critique so she could send it to me, so I could hear exactly what my peers had to say! Because of privacy reason, I am not going to upload the exact audio of the critique, but will talk about some of the tips they mentioned!
One student believed that our trailer was a little too slow for a trailer, which Isabella and I strongly agreed with. After mentioning this, the student advised us to cut the clips more often, and creat jump cuts in our scenes in order to fasten the pace of our trailer.
Another student mentioned that our static clips seemed awkward and off because they were clips of bars and tones and not static. He explained to Isabella that bars and tones were often used in Televison during a technical error while static screens, like the one below, were mostly used during damaged film.
When we first inserted the bars and tones static screens into our trailer last week, I had mentioned to Isa that those were mainly used in televion as opposed to film. However, she decided it was best to keep the bars and tones, so I let it go and move on with the project. After the peer critique, however, Isabella realized that other people agreed with me and that it was best to use the black and white static screens. So, we created new static screens and inserted them into our trailers.
This critique was so helpful to Isabella and I, and even though I was not there, I am so glad my classmates were able to have that experience and chance to gain feedback/advice on their works. Thank god for peer reviews!
-AC
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Movie Poster Progress/Ideas
Happy Thursday!
Today's post will be about our film poster progress and upcoming plans and ideas, enjoy!
Picking a font is never easy, but as an aspiring graphic design artist, I knew our film needed a font that perfectly fit our genre, target audience, and theme; so, i dedicated hours of my time trying to find the right one. Isabella and I agreed that a script font was the best way to go as it captured the attention of women (our target audience), regardless of age, and stuck to our theme/genre. The font we decided on was "Strawberry Blossom" which we found from the font site, dafont.com can be seen down below:
After downloading the font onto my computer, I began to use Adobe Photoshop CC, a program that I know how to use well, to create our movie poster. For now, our movie poster only has our title and main actors at the top of the page, as you can see below, but will be finished soon!
Today's post will be about our film poster progress and upcoming plans and ideas, enjoy!
Picking a font is never easy, but as an aspiring graphic design artist, I knew our film needed a font that perfectly fit our genre, target audience, and theme; so, i dedicated hours of my time trying to find the right one. Isabella and I agreed that a script font was the best way to go as it captured the attention of women (our target audience), regardless of age, and stuck to our theme/genre. The font we decided on was "Strawberry Blossom" which we found from the font site, dafont.com can be seen down below:
After downloading the font onto my computer, I began to use Adobe Photoshop CC, a program that I know how to use well, to create our movie poster. For now, our movie poster only has our title and main actors at the top of the page, as you can see below, but will be finished soon!
Trust me, I know it looks empty for now, but Isabella and I have been planning what we are going to do for the main image of the poster and cannot wait to add it in along with the bottom credits to finally finish this poster.
What exactly are we planning you ask?
Well, we decided the main image on the poster should be a picture of Ryan, played by myself. Since Ryan ends up finding the footage her father had left for her mother and becoming inspired to be a film-maker, Isabella and I planned to capture an image of Ryan holding a camera, signaling her inspiration to become a film-maker. However, we do not plan on showing Ryan in full detail, to create a mysterious, dramatic vibe, so we intend on making Ryan a silouhette holding a camera. This image against an image of a sunset or something that has meaning in the film will enhance the poster and attract the attention of the viewers, without giving the whole story away.
Hopefully we can finish this as soon as possible, time is running out, and we still have a lot to do! See you soon!
-AC
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Video Effects
Welcome back guys! In today's post I will discuss some cool effects we added to our footage so keep reading, hope you enjoy!
Because our film revolves around the found footage of Eliza and Spencer's love story, our trailers include scenes from that found footage that Spencer had recorded prior to his death. After putting all of our scenes together into imovie and editing/tweaking clips and audio, Isabella and I watched our trailer a couple of times through and realized something was missing.
We concluded that there were 2 things that were weakinging our trailers. First of all, we hadn't created the static clips we were planning to use as a transition, and second of all, the clips in the trailer that are meant to be part of the found footage did not look like they were filmed an an old camera. After realizing that, we instantly began to create our own static transitions!
Isabella and I watched a tutorial video on how to create static screens but realized that all tutorials were completed on Adobe Premiere Pro, not iMovie. I told Isabella that I have a student adobe account with access to all adobe products but did not know how to use Premiere pro, but after watching a few basic tutorials on YouTube, I started getting the hang of things.
After playing around with Premire Pro and following a tutorial that we found on YouTube, we created our own static screens. Check it out below!
Now that we solved our first issue, we were now faced with our second obstacle, the found footage scenes. So we began to question ourselves, how do we make it seem like we filmed those scenes on an old camera?
Well, since we found a tutorial on how to create a static effect on YouTube, we figured, why not search how to create an old camera footage look? Due to poor wording in our search, we found around 15 different tutorials on how to create this effect. Without hesitation, we watched all 15 tutorials and all that was ledt to do was follow one of them and create the old camera effect on all of our found footage scenes.
Isabella and I decided to follow the tutorial below and created, what I believe is, a masterpiece!
Because our film revolves around the found footage of Eliza and Spencer's love story, our trailers include scenes from that found footage that Spencer had recorded prior to his death. After putting all of our scenes together into imovie and editing/tweaking clips and audio, Isabella and I watched our trailer a couple of times through and realized something was missing.
We concluded that there were 2 things that were weakinging our trailers. First of all, we hadn't created the static clips we were planning to use as a transition, and second of all, the clips in the trailer that are meant to be part of the found footage did not look like they were filmed an an old camera. After realizing that, we instantly began to create our own static transitions!
Isabella and I watched a tutorial video on how to create static screens but realized that all tutorials were completed on Adobe Premiere Pro, not iMovie. I told Isabella that I have a student adobe account with access to all adobe products but did not know how to use Premiere pro, but after watching a few basic tutorials on YouTube, I started getting the hang of things.
After playing around with Premire Pro and following a tutorial that we found on YouTube, we created our own static screens. Check it out below!
Now that we solved our first issue, we were now faced with our second obstacle, the found footage scenes. So we began to question ourselves, how do we make it seem like we filmed those scenes on an old camera?
Well, since we found a tutorial on how to create a static effect on YouTube, we figured, why not search how to create an old camera footage look? Due to poor wording in our search, we found around 15 different tutorials on how to create this effect. Without hesitation, we watched all 15 tutorials and all that was ledt to do was follow one of them and create the old camera effect on all of our found footage scenes.
Isabella and I decided to follow the tutorial below and created, what I believe is, a masterpiece!
After following this tutorial step by step for each found footage clip, we then began to re-insert the clips into iMovie to finish our trailers. Finally, we had found what was missing! Here's a look at an example of a found footage clip with the effect from the above tutorial. Enjoy!
As you can see, editing isn't always easy! Sometimes, editing may be one of the most tedious and hardest parts of production. Luckily, Isabella and I were able to work together and conquer the editing beast!
Until next time,
-AC
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