MOVIE INTRO!

 I can't believe that project finally over. Me and Brianna have come a really long way to get here. We went through many setbacks (me having to get my wisdom teeth out which delayed our filming process, me getting stuck in Ecuador, everything was mostly my fault), but we are finally at the end and I really couldn't have done it without her and the blogs. The blogs were keeping my stable they helped me stay on track and really push myself to the best of my ability. Well enough saping here is "Whoever Gets Him First" Thank you so much for following my process along the way I am really happy with the results of our portfolio project. CLICK HERE TO WATCH IT OR CLICK DOWN BELOW

ENJOY THE FILM OPENING!!

CCR!

 CCR

I finally finished my CCRS. ENJOY WATCHING THEM

                                                              CCR 1 Questions 1 & 2

                                 https://youtu.be/RLuvPQJvMEM?si=T7LI1rZiir6s8qkK

CCR 2 Questions 3 & 4

https://youtu.be/0aJ-8I5h1DA?si=0RVN5Ylk3HpxPoZ1

The Last Portfolio Project Reflection

 In the beginning of the schools year  on the day our teacher explained it to us. I thought it seemed impossible, I didn't know how I was going to create something when I had zero background knowledge on films, cameras,shots,angles, etc. Little did I know all the projects we were doing were preparing for this exact final moment... The end of my Portfolio Project.

It was Feb and our teacher had told us to do a transition post for this portfolio, in the beginning, I lookey thought we had so much time, but boy did that time go flying by, I feel like it was just yesterday when she was telling us we'd have to write 3 blog post a week and write our scripts, character boards, genre research, you get it. To begin our process my partner Brianna began researching genres, but unfortunately that same week we had begun the project I was in Ecuador getting my wisdom teeth out. I had this trip planned way before our teacher told us we were starting the project and me and Brianna were so nervous about falling behind. And we did, we fell behind so hard I remember doing group meetings and everyone had already had their ideas, scripts, and genres picked out. Me and Brianna had done nothing, now this wasn't completely our fault, I was on bedrest for the entire week, in excruiable pain, and ofc I wasn't going to count on Brianna do do it alone because that wouldn't be fair. So the emails came out, to each and every one of my teachers explaining my situation and what was going on, thank god for this bc my amazing teacher Mrs Stonklosa gave me an extension and me and brianna weren;t too far behind that we knew we could catch up.

Friday of that same week came and Brianna and Myself were on a phone call for hours discussing genre, genre conventions, and movie ideas, until we finally nailed it down to the coming-of-age romancestory that we made our production on. We knew that we were on a role so we decided to write out the plot that same day, we used a shared google doc and shared ideas for what we wanted to do, damn this part was difficult because we didn't want our ideas to be extremely cheesy, or too cringe. I mean in reality you have to except coming of age movies to be a bit cheesy because their all about growth and that's the state we are in. Yeah going back the reason we chose coming of age is because we felt like we could do a good job creating a film that would attract the target audience of people our age. After all, we are teenagers currnelty expiring the world and going through the conventions of a coming-of-age film. It was getting pretty late so after writing out the plot of the love triangle we called it a night and agreed to call in the morning to do the script.

Doing the script was like the hardest thing I have ever had to do, for some reason me, and Brianna were exhausted and trying to figure our what our main characters Ellie and Sabrina were gonna say. It took us 4 long hours but we successfully finished and we were proud of our script. After the script we knew It would be time to edit any final tweaks before it would be time to film. So we did final research and character boards, to get an idea of what our characters personas were going to look like. We made them on Pinterest and submitted them to our blogs.

Then finally came to film, we recruited another actor to play as the second main character along with brianna, and we got to work. Sadly we forgot to take pictures I wanted to add some onto here but something I learned from filming is that I need to learn about shots more I belive in 2 of my shots, I kind of made up some movements that aren't correct. I also learned that I need to make my clips connect more, some of my clips look a bit separate and not in unison like a movie should be, so in some bits it looks more like a collection of clips instead of a film introduction. I tried my best to fix these mistakes as best as possible. I edited the project with my partner brianna making sure that all the audio was synced up, and all the effects looked good. We did some peer reviewing to try and get rid of any mistakes we missed, cleared those mistakes, distributed it on youtube, and now I have to submit it here!

CCR script 2

 Second CCR Script 2

Hey guys welcome back to my channel today I will be doing your most asked questions about my movie “Whoever gets him first”

To start off let’s begin with an overview of my film, this story is going to be about two best friends, Sabrina and Ellie, who like the same guy. (Tristan) They both develop a crush n him over summer break at camp, they realized that this guy was going to the same high school as them the next year Once they found out the news they both realized that they wanted to try and at least get a chance with him so they decided to create a plan.  Before school starts they found out info on him his hobbies, lifestyle, classes, interests, etc, and before school starts so they could find ways for both of them to interact with him.  After getting his schedule they completed the plan but come to realize that what if liking the same boy will tear them apart. Spoiler alert it does….

Now lets move on to the question number 1 How does your production use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups and issues?

Well our movie is a coming of age film and common themes for these films are youth, growing up, and there’s always a main focus on the main character arc. But our movie also contains romance aspects that thrive on the characters working through their emotions, overcoming setbacks, and the leads growing closer together. In almost every romance film there is a love triangle, you’ve seen it and I have too. The notebook, “To all the boys I’ve loved before”, and Twilight are all good examples. For our film this covention is the most important because that’s what our entire film surrounds itself on. That being said that’s why it is important for us follow this convention instead of challenging it. In our film we are choosing to represent women in our film and the struggles of teenagers facing their growing up years, loss of relationships, changes in bodies/mindsets, etc.

Onto the next question How does your production engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text. 

Me and my partner Brianna arrived to our target audience when we were searching researching our genre. We noticed that coming of age films generally have a target audience of 12-18 year olds because these are the people that they can relate to the films as they are currently in the stage of their lives where they are growing up into adulthood. Our production choices such as the overall outline of the movie was created to attract that audience. We notice that people generally like love triangles and this is because they like the idea of being special and two people giving them attention. I mean if it were you and two people were fighting over you imagine how it would feel, actually comment down below what you would do in a situation like that. Another thing we noticed is that writing a story about two best friends going for the same guy is a common things teenagers go through and we knew that it would be a topic of interest to girls that relate to the situation of Ellie and Sabrina so they could watch the movie and enjoy it more because they can relate to the characters on a more deeper level. Considering we are a small production team at the moment we have decided to publish the movie on YouTube considering it’s completely free. Hoping that maybe if the movie gets enough streams that we can potentially move on to film festivals in the futures. Going back to our target audience by choosing to distribute the film on we are engaging with out target audience because this is a huge platform for young adults.

CCR script

Dora Episode

Hola soy dani and I’m at the beach. Have you ever been to the beach? I love the beach. Today we are going to be answering questions about my movie insert picture of “Whoever gets him first”! Do you have some questions for me, really well I’m going to answer them. There should be a paper around here with the questions. Do you see the paper, if you see the paper yell paper. THE QUESTIONS!!!!, let’s start shall we!! Questions 1 How did your production skills develop throughout this project?  That’s a great question well, okay to begin and my partner Brianna researched all about the coming of age genre. When researching we took a deep dive into the film openings for the movie the edge of seventeen and mean girls, those were our biggest inspirations. We figured out genre conventions, like what type of music is used, the font, the mood carried through the scenes, color scheme, and mise-en-scene. That’s a tricky word, do you know what mise-en scene means??? Well I’ll tell you, it basically the setting and props of the scene.  After learning all this information when it came to   approaching the production me and Brianna felt more much confident in our ability to create a good film. We spend an entire day trying to figure out what story we wanted for our film and we finally came to the decision of a love triangle story of two girls who try to go for the same guy. Well doesn’t that sound silly.  We knew we didn’t have that strong of a story but we what wanted to focus on was the editing, shots, angles, composition and movement. We knew we could impress people with our knowledge of what makes a coming of age film a coming of age film! Do you think we can do it??? I cant hearrr youuu, say it louder. YESSSS. Some examples we have is this bike scene, we were originally going to do a scene where the character drives to the others house, but we decided it would be more fitting to have the character bike to the girls house. Another example when editing we decided to change our original song idea, to a pop one that fit the genre better. Talking about dancing why don’t we have a dance break to the song that’s going to be in our film, dance break. I love that song! So next we need to reflect. Doing previous projects in our media studies classed help me and my partner come to where we are now.  One of the most helpful ones in my opinion was the no sound mini movie project. This project helped me and my partner really understand important shots, cuts, and focus pulls. With the help of our teachers grading and corrections, and the lessons we have learned along the way, we have learned so many production skills that are really going to take our project over the top. 

Ahora lets move on to the next questions let me get the paper from my backpack. HEY! Where did it go, did you see where the paper went???. No??? Do you guys see anything. Swiper!!! Oh not we have to stop him. SWIPER NO SWIPING SAY IT WITH ME SWIPER NO SWIPING SWIPER NO SWIPING SWIPER NO SWIPING SWIPER NO SWIPING swiper- AW MAN. YAY we stoped swiper that was a close one. Alright let’s move on to the next question, How did you integrate technologies- software, hardware, and online-in this project. Awesome question. Okay let’s being by discussing the products we used during the product. Well I should have them right here in my backpack!!! I need your help will you check my backpack to help us find the technologies??? You have to say backpack  

Backpack- I have 2 things dora and friends here you go! 

Wow a telephone, a computer Well you may be wondering how I used each one of these products. Well my telephone was for recording the whole film, I used a special mode called cinematic!! My computer was used for researching, posting on my blogs, and editing! When thinking about hardware, in reality I used my iPhone 14 for the cameras lighting, and microphone. My phone includes 3 cameras that I believe to be pretty high quality so that came in handy because we didn’t have to use a more high tech camera. There is also a built in microphone and special lighting settings that accommodate to the sunlight in our outside scenes. Isn’t that cool?!? Well for softwares we used quite a few, my all time favorite is this amazing app called VN. I discovered this app while creating one of the old media studies projects and I fell in love and have used it ever since. I also used adobe premier pro when it came down to editing the side by side scene of our film, and the transitions when showing the title of the movie, since the iPhone app couldn’t do special effects such as those. Now there is one last super important integration of technology that was used in the process of making my production, can you guess what it is???? YESS THE BLOGS. The blogs were an essential part of my project, this is where I documented my entire process from start to finish, things like script, movie and genre ideas, character boards, etc, are all on the blog. Making this production would have been a lot harder without the blog, because it motivated me to continue on and keep my progress on track!!

Well now it’s time to end our journey, but in order to do that we need to find our way back. OH NO I think we are lost, what do we do, let’s think…. Ding I GOT IT we can use my map. I need your help to check the map and find out where the sound is coming from. I need you to say map, one more time, louder . Map comes out shows us the way back home. We get to the house and I do my ending. 

Do you guys want to come along as I talk about the outcome of my film. Alright follow along!! When thinking about the outcome of my project, I have to say I am proud. With the help of my partner I think we came up with something that we are both very proud of. Of course there are some things that we could have improved. Somethings I have learned that I could have integrated lighting more into my project. We didn’t really make it our main concern but when I have had time to review our final product. There were many scenes where we had integrated some low-key or even high key lighting. Not only would it have made it look more professional but It would have been a great way to show off our knowledge on the subject. I also learned that I could have integrated some stabilizers and tripods to make our scenes look smoother and less shaky. In some of our scenes it would have been preferable if it wasn’t a hand held shot, but nonetheless we tried our best to keep it stabilized. If I could change something it would definitely be timing, I think me and my partner struggled on our planning, I think our storyline and film could have been more thought our and better detailed if we had taken more time to think about it. Something I wish we could have improved on was the movement and composition. I feel like I wish I could have gone back done more things like focus, zooming, pan, tilt, etc. I feel like our film lacks all of that and it could have been better if we had taken the time to learn more about how to integrate those into our film specific to the coming of age genre. To me our scene feel a bit plain and adding composition like that could have made our film stand out more.

Poster for film

Hello! so as u may have read in the script the girls in our film pull out a poster. This is a huge part of the movie because this is all the information the girls have on the boy. A little creepy right, well I wanted to share it as a blog post. When making this we used a poster board, markers, scissors, and glue. I think it came out pretty neat, can't wait to use it in the film!

MUSICAAAAAA

Blog I have unfortunate news. So orginally me and my partner had planned to film this weekend. Sadly my parents decided to be out this weekend to go drop of my sister at collage. Not to get too into detail but I'm not allowed to leave my house if my parents arent home, meaning I wasn't able to go to my partners house to film our scenes. I am dreading this so badly because we are soooo behind but, thankfully for us spring break is coming and that means filming filming filming. So we are currently creating a spring break schedule with our actors and guardians that will work perfectly to ensure we finish this as soon as possible because editing is still needed. Now this may seem like a huge setback but we have decided to use this time to create film poster, create a social media for our movie, and our CCR videos (since that is something that we are going to be doing separately)

Me and bribri came down to business and we choose our song! Let me tell you, it was so hard. Like not only because picking a song for your intro is hard but because all these royalty-free websites make u pay for this music or they have so many options its hard to find a good one. Dont worry tho we did it. We want the scene to begin with indie/pop summer vibes. We were looking for music that brought adventure. We are planning to play the song and the title after the phone call scene. So the phone call ends the title pops up and the music begins playing. We have a list of songs that were options but we have brought it down to the top 3. Wrong Way - Soundroll, What a Feeling- Hey Pluto, Psychedelic Summer- Opening line music group. Ultimately we are still deciding between but for now, we believe "Wrong Way" is the winner but we don't know if anything could happen and it could be changed. See you in the next blog!!!

https://musicvine.com/track/soundroll/wrong-way

https://catalog.bulletproofbear.com/album/10183295

https://uppbeat.io/track/hey-pluto/what-a-feeling