https://youtu.be/SBd1ahNGdf0
XOXO
-Corina
Friday, April 17, 2020
CCR
Here it is guys! I present to you my CCR, I truly can't believe that this is the end. Thank you so much for joining me through the journey of this project. Until next time!
XOXO
-Corina
XOXO
-Corina
Monday, April 13, 2020
Final Project Reflection
Finally finishing this project feels unreal to me! Time has flied since we were picking an opening film idea in class and asking our teacher about it. Since I have finished my project, I feel a huge relief but I am also happy to say that I enjoyed this journey. This was my first time creating such a big media project, which means a lot to me since this is what I want to study this upcoming years in college. I can't believe that my high school career is officially over and this was truly a great leaning experience to end it with. In this project I learned how to set up and manage a blog, how to make up a story line out of pure creativeness, and produce a whole film all to create the best opening film possible.
Ever since we started this project I have been very excited for this. I was obviously a little nervous at the beginning, hoping that it would turn out perfect. This was meaningful to me because it was officially my first project out of many hopefully, so I wanted the experience to be mind opening. As I started this process, I actually felt confident of what I was doing, planning like crazy and getting feedback from my teacher. I planned the location of where I was going to film, the friends that were going to act in my opening film, and even the friends that were going to help me shoot since I am working on the project alone. Right when I was about to start filming everything changed. The coronavirus spread globally, creating a pandemic. Because of this, we had to stay quarantined to avoid spreading the virus, which caused a lot of problems for the world and for me in this project personally. I had to ask my family for help in order to shoot my film and I had to change my story line a few times, which ended up giving me results I really loved. I am glad I was able to adapt to the situation and just make the best out of it instead of complaining about it. I just wish I would have been more prepared for the COVID-19 issues that arose, however I understand that that was uncontrollable and I am proud of the way I managed to adapt.
I can't believe this is all really over. I am extremely happy with the final product, all the knowledge I gained in this class and in the production of this film, and with how I managed to adapt to the situation. I hope this is the first of many projects!!! Thank you all for always staying tuned!!
My Opening Film
Enjoy :) XOXO
-Corina
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Almost there!!!
Helloooooo!!
As I said in my last blog, I already added the credits, the title and the music to my opening film and I am loving it. Right now I am just sending my opening film to a lot of friends so that I can get some critiques back before I finalize it. My friend, Jonathan, said that he absolutely loved but that I should put 'Vera Productions' instead of 'Vera Products,' which I did change. My other friend, Ana, told be that she really liked it and that it was 'super cool' but recommended that I did my music shift a little bit earlier but I didn't to it because the music shift starts where it does because of a specific reason, it all starts to change when she feels the paper in her pocket (just like her life will also change, get it?). I also showed it to my other friend, who is also named Ana, and she also said that she loved it and that if that were a film she would have kept on watching it because she wants to know who wrote that, why did they write that and what Corina is going to do about the note she just found. Lastly, I asked a friend named Natalie and she told me that she liked it,however she would have added more dialogue. My original idea had a lot of more dialogue as Corina walked into the store and socialized with different people but because of the virus I had to make it in my room where there is no one else. I thought about the dialogue thing before and that is why I added the phone conversation scene. I thought about making the conversation longer and on speaker as Corina changes and she talks on the phone at the same time, but the scenes wouldn't have been the same if she was holding a phone and if I were to put it on speaker it would not sound the same. After getting all of my critiques I feel pretty confident about my work, I did not get any negative feedback, just constructive criticism, which is what I asked for after all. I am turning my opening film in on Monday, writing my CCR script on Monday, and recording/editing between Tuesday and Thursday so that I can turn it in on time by Friday. I feeeelll goooooood, WE ARE ALMOST ALL THE WAY THERE AND I AM LOVING MY WORK!!
XOXO
-Corina
As I said in my last blog, I already added the credits, the title and the music to my opening film and I am loving it. Right now I am just sending my opening film to a lot of friends so that I can get some critiques back before I finalize it. My friend, Jonathan, said that he absolutely loved but that I should put 'Vera Productions' instead of 'Vera Products,' which I did change. My other friend, Ana, told be that she really liked it and that it was 'super cool' but recommended that I did my music shift a little bit earlier but I didn't to it because the music shift starts where it does because of a specific reason, it all starts to change when she feels the paper in her pocket (just like her life will also change, get it?). I also showed it to my other friend, who is also named Ana, and she also said that she loved it and that if that were a film she would have kept on watching it because she wants to know who wrote that, why did they write that and what Corina is going to do about the note she just found. Lastly, I asked a friend named Natalie and she told me that she liked it,however she would have added more dialogue. My original idea had a lot of more dialogue as Corina walked into the store and socialized with different people but because of the virus I had to make it in my room where there is no one else. I thought about the dialogue thing before and that is why I added the phone conversation scene. I thought about making the conversation longer and on speaker as Corina changes and she talks on the phone at the same time, but the scenes wouldn't have been the same if she was holding a phone and if I were to put it on speaker it would not sound the same. After getting all of my critiques I feel pretty confident about my work, I did not get any negative feedback, just constructive criticism, which is what I asked for after all. I am turning my opening film in on Monday, writing my CCR script on Monday, and recording/editing between Tuesday and Thursday so that I can turn it in on time by Friday. I feeeelll goooooood, WE ARE ALMOST ALL THE WAY THERE AND I AM LOVING MY WORK!!
XOXO
-Corina
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
This part is hard
Hellooooo!
Today I am facing a real issue. I can't find the right song to choose. I am really regretting not asking artists for permission to use their song, however, I don't think the music I would have put in my original idea would be the same as the one I am choosing for this version of my opening film. I am imagining an upbeat, indie rock kinda music that runs throughout the whole film as Corina's room is shown, during her talk, during the changing her clothes scene and during the scene where she finds the note inside her coat. Since I did not ask artists for permission to use their music, I need to use copyright free music. I went into my teacher's pinterest account, under the 'Media - Film' folder, because I know she has links of copyright free music sites there but none of the convinced me. I went on different sites such as zapslat.com, and freesound.org, but none of them had what I was looking for. The first site that puts up when I look up 'Copyright free music' is a website called bensound.com, which I decided to look into. When I did, I found a song called 'Can You Feel It' under the 'rock' section and when I went to download it, it said I had to purchase it for 139 euros. That was for sure a NO from me,it is not the time to be spending that type of money, especially when there are free ones. As I kept on digging under the 'rock' section, I ended up really liking three free songs, which I asked my family to help me choose. The three songs were 'Punky,' 'Beyond The Line,' and 'Rumble.' After putting all three in the opening film to see which one felt right, I finally chose 'Rumble' by Benjamin Tissot. Even though choosing a song was a pain and took me a while to do, I am very proud of the song I chose and how well it fits with my opening film. After so, I chose my font for the credits and for my title. This part actually wasn't that hard for me. I easily chose the font 'Yellowtail' in WeVideo for my credits and 'Promesh' for my title. I am really happy with how everything is turning out..Lets finish this off the right way.
XOXO
-Corina
Today I am facing a real issue. I can't find the right song to choose. I am really regretting not asking artists for permission to use their song, however, I don't think the music I would have put in my original idea would be the same as the one I am choosing for this version of my opening film. I am imagining an upbeat, indie rock kinda music that runs throughout the whole film as Corina's room is shown, during her talk, during the changing her clothes scene and during the scene where she finds the note inside her coat. Since I did not ask artists for permission to use their music, I need to use copyright free music. I went into my teacher's pinterest account, under the 'Media - Film' folder, because I know she has links of copyright free music sites there but none of the convinced me. I went on different sites such as zapslat.com, and freesound.org, but none of them had what I was looking for. The first site that puts up when I look up 'Copyright free music' is a website called bensound.com, which I decided to look into. When I did, I found a song called 'Can You Feel It' under the 'rock' section and when I went to download it, it said I had to purchase it for 139 euros. That was for sure a NO from me,it is not the time to be spending that type of money, especially when there are free ones. As I kept on digging under the 'rock' section, I ended up really liking three free songs, which I asked my family to help me choose. The three songs were 'Punky,' 'Beyond The Line,' and 'Rumble.' After putting all three in the opening film to see which one felt right, I finally chose 'Rumble' by Benjamin Tissot. Even though choosing a song was a pain and took me a while to do, I am very proud of the song I chose and how well it fits with my opening film. After so, I chose my font for the credits and for my title. This part actually wasn't that hard for me. I easily chose the font 'Yellowtail' in WeVideo for my credits and 'Promesh' for my title. I am really happy with how everything is turning out..Lets finish this off the right way.
XOXO
-Corina
Monday, April 6, 2020
What's next?
Helloooooo!!
Now that I am done shooting it is time to do one of my favorite things: edit. As soon as I finished my project, without even touching my room or changing my outfit, I cut out the clips where they needed to be cut and put them all together to see how long my video was and it said 2:53 minutes long. My opening film has to be 2 minutes, therefore I obviously had to cut out some scenes and some clips to see how long it could be and it only got to 2:34 with all the necessary clips. I then started to freak out a little bit, not knowing what to do, and finally decided to re-shoot a few scenes. The main problem was that at the beginning of my film, where Corina is talking on the phone with her friend, I lost track of time at first and the scene was 48 seconds long. That dialogue did not need to be that long, the important information could be shot in 6 seconds, so I decided to call my brother into my room again and make him help me shoot that scene once again. After recording that scene, it went to roughly being 16 seconds long instead. As I replaced that new, shorter scene for the longer one, the opening film ended up being roughly 2:04 minutes long, which was a great relief for me. Today I officially put all the scenes that will be in the opening film together, I adjusted them all so that the video ran smoothly from cut to cut, and even adjusted the tone for every clip so that they all have the same amount of color and lighting. I am actually very happy with how my work turned out, even though I need to obviously choose the right music and font for the credits, which will make an enormous change in my film opening. I am very excited to see how everything will look, I can't wait to finish editing but I need to finish up some online school assignments and manage my time the right way.
XOXO
-Corina
Now that I am done shooting it is time to do one of my favorite things: edit. As soon as I finished my project, without even touching my room or changing my outfit, I cut out the clips where they needed to be cut and put them all together to see how long my video was and it said 2:53 minutes long. My opening film has to be 2 minutes, therefore I obviously had to cut out some scenes and some clips to see how long it could be and it only got to 2:34 with all the necessary clips. I then started to freak out a little bit, not knowing what to do, and finally decided to re-shoot a few scenes. The main problem was that at the beginning of my film, where Corina is talking on the phone with her friend, I lost track of time at first and the scene was 48 seconds long. That dialogue did not need to be that long, the important information could be shot in 6 seconds, so I decided to call my brother into my room again and make him help me shoot that scene once again. After recording that scene, it went to roughly being 16 seconds long instead. As I replaced that new, shorter scene for the longer one, the opening film ended up being roughly 2:04 minutes long, which was a great relief for me. Today I officially put all the scenes that will be in the opening film together, I adjusted them all so that the video ran smoothly from cut to cut, and even adjusted the tone for every clip so that they all have the same amount of color and lighting. I am actually very happy with how my work turned out, even though I need to obviously choose the right music and font for the credits, which will make an enormous change in my film opening. I am very excited to see how everything will look, I can't wait to finish editing but I need to finish up some online school assignments and manage my time the right way.
XOXO
-Corina
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Shooting day!
I FINALLY DID IT!!
After all these weeks working on my project, I have finally completed a huge part of it. I am not only really happy that I got this done but I am very happy with how it turned out. I am really proud of myself for using all the techniques that have been taught to me throughout the school year. I asked my 15 year old brother to help me film, which he did and was actually extremely helpful. My brother actually took film in his school last year so he has some knowledge on different types of shots, angles, and the difference between a pan and a tilt. Filming took about two hours to do and I am not going to lie it was actually kind of fun, especially because it is one of the most productive things I have done in this whole quarantine. Something that I have to mention is how grateful I am for my dad and his beautiful, extremely helpful tripod that he went to get all the way to his office just for me. I feel like I was really lucky at coming up with this way of adapting my story, at having a tripod, and having a brother that helped me get all of this done the best way possible. I put all the clips together and the time is just right. What I am planning to do is to edit by the end of this week so that I can just focus on my CCR next week and be able to turn in my whole project by next Sunday. I am really excited to see how it turns out after I edit it.
XOXO
-Corina
After all these weeks working on my project, I have finally completed a huge part of it. I am not only really happy that I got this done but I am very happy with how it turned out. I am really proud of myself for using all the techniques that have been taught to me throughout the school year. I asked my 15 year old brother to help me film, which he did and was actually extremely helpful. My brother actually took film in his school last year so he has some knowledge on different types of shots, angles, and the difference between a pan and a tilt. Filming took about two hours to do and I am not going to lie it was actually kind of fun, especially because it is one of the most productive things I have done in this whole quarantine. Something that I have to mention is how grateful I am for my dad and his beautiful, extremely helpful tripod that he went to get all the way to his office just for me. I feel like I was really lucky at coming up with this way of adapting my story, at having a tripod, and having a brother that helped me get all of this done the best way possible. I put all the clips together and the time is just right. What I am planning to do is to edit by the end of this week so that I can just focus on my CCR next week and be able to turn in my whole project by next Sunday. I am really excited to see how it turns out after I edit it.
XOXO
-Corina
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