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.