CCR Brainstorm

 So with my filming and editing finished my video is officially completed. Now i have not too many days left to complete my 2 CCR's. I have been brain storming what exactly i want to do for my CCR. Here I will show to ideas i have to be done while answering the questions. 

1st idea: Film my CCR in my house walking around showing where i filmed the scene as i answer the questions. Ill end up having my mom film me as i talk to the camera showing where my film was made. Also i will be doing no cuts just the camera walking around my house with me as i talk and show them where we filmed everything.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOQ-wZQhZZo&ab_channel=Vogue

2nd idea: Film the CCR in the car. I will get some index cards and say that they are questions from people and i'll end up reading the questions for the CCR and answering them. All in the car as a friend or mom drives or something around that. It wont be exactly like the example i show cause that it Karaoke and i wont be doing that. But it will be the same environment like in the car talking to the screen. 

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-0PB4cbtDc&ab_channel=TheLateLateShowwithJamesCorden

3rd idea: I do a simple powerpoint with the questions and talk over it like ive seen before. I have no example fr this one but it's really the most simple idea i have and i probably won't be doing it unless i run out of time and i have to do one quick. 

Group Meeting (pt2)

 Group Meeting

Today as a class we did some group meetings. It was really like a checkup and a way to see and critique some of our classmates projects and blogs. There was one person that has finished in my group but everyone else is either finishing their filming or adding their final touches to editing and starting their CCR's. 

I think i'm at a good place right now if i can finish the editing the next couple days. For the  CCR's i think i have a good idea on what to do. I'll likely make a Youtube video on me talking about it all with every detail on how my process has gone. Someone in my group is doing an interview with their sibling in a car as they drive so it's like a talk show in the car. I might have to do that as well but i think the Youtube video is great. 

My classmates that were in my group seem all to have a correct idea on what to do and how to do it. I got some ideas from them also for my project and i will be using them. Like the music in the beginning with the credits. For my opening credits I filmed the houses on a bike with a POV shot and added the credits in them. But i can also just add a black screen and add them. Today I will finish editing and get to the CCR. By the end of the week i will have one CCR completed and the ides for another one. 

Editing Process

 Editing

After finishing the filming today I was editing. I have been editing how I wanted to in the beginning and adding slight music in certain scenes so it adds the suspense. I'm not completed with the editing of the project but I am close and I think it’s going well in the editing part. Again I'm not the best editor and as I am the only person in my group I’ll adapt. I've been watching videos for the past couple weeks to help with the editing but I’ll have it done.

 So far I have the credits and  the first couple shots for the opening scene edited and I will continue on tomorrow. Also, with my luck my premiere pro was not working. I do not know exactly why yet but I ended up editing it on an App called " VideoLeap"  where I can still do everything I wanted to do on adobe but on the phone. Here are some screenshots of me editing some on the shots I took yesterday.

Screenshot of me editing: 

Film

 We have completed filming: 

Today me and my friends finished filming. We have all the shots I needed and it did not take us too long to complete. After a hour I finished the process and had everything ready for editing. In this post I will just talk on my film process and show some pictures from the behind the scenes of my opening from some of the shots we did. 

So the process was fairly easy as I had my storyboard and everything planned out before hand. Tomorrow I will continue on with the editing process and make sure everything is ready for Monday. On Monday I will start the CCR and finish it mid week so I have the rest of the week to complete the other posts. 

Here are some pictures from todays filming process for the opening. these are just pictures from the shots I filmed. The editing process will be started tomorrow and hopefully completed by the end of the day. If edited correctly it should come out as I wanted it to originally. The only difference from the shots and my planning is that it was not dark outside and my TV cable was not working.

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Location and finishes

 

So tomorrow I will be finishing my filming and will have everyone over to complete it with me. 

So here is some pictures of the locations on where this will all be filmed and where everything is. We will be using the parts of the house shown as there really the only ones necessary for the filming process. So the living room and some shots outside will be took. Also it might not be dark outside when we film because of some lighting issues we had attempting to film it earlier this week so we will be filming later in the afternoon like around 5:30-6:00 PM.

Pictures of location: 

Stay in tune for the post tomorrow with all the filming process being shown and maybe even some shots from the opening to be shown. 

Custom Newspaper

Hi There, Juan Again

Ok so for a mise-en-scene element i decided to do a custom newspaper with the local news on what's all going on. Though its spring break right now i wanted to not make the time on the newspaper be the same as today so I changed it up a little and made it earl march. here is a picture of me editing the newspaper on google docs. 

So what i did is i got a template or a old newspaper and i edited it all out with information fitting my story on the opening scene. I have fake news like past killings and the description of the suspect all added on the news so it makes it look more realistic in a sense. I also added pictures of police scenes that happened recently in Miami. In the pictures you can even see the police men are dressed in Miami police gear so it again makes it look like these scenes are from the killings in the story, as the setting is in a home in Miami. Here is the finished product post printed and this is what will be used in the film.

So I will be doing a close up shot of the newspaper on the  counter on the kitchen as the scene goes on. Maybe I’ll even have one of the characters talk about the newspaper and show it to the others. 

Sound In Film

 Sound planning:

Ok so i will be doing the planning of the sound in both the editing aspect and the filming right now so i have it set up for filming. For sound i will be using music, foley sounds, and ambient sounds in the opening so it helps with the tension and suspense that is to be shown. So for the foley sounds i will be using different items to show different things. I know for a fact that when i get to the scene of the character outside making a phone call i will be using lots of silence to create suspense. The silence can be a powerful tool for creating tension in the viewer. 

According to a couple videos i watched "use silence before a sudden action", So thats what i will be doing. Before the antagonist attacks the teenager i will have no noise going on at all. The teenager will hang up the phone and begin texting someone on his phone. As he is texting  nothing will be heard except the noise which is made as you send messages on messages. There will be slight chatter being played in the background which will be coming from inside the house. But what i will do is kind of zoom it out and make it just be a slight noise that is being heard not anything too loud. 

For the music part of the sound i will be using it also to create the tension with the audience. As the tension builds in the scene i will be adding some music. The music will start off as low, background noise and it will gradually increase over the scene until the antagonist appears and kills the character. Hopefully the music creates a sense of danger and scares the viewer, adding on to the suspense I need to show in the opening.  The next post will be on the newspaper i create for the mise-en-scene throught the scene.