Final Products!!!

Hey there, blog! It's time to finally show you all my completed film openings and CCRs. :) I utilized many of the things I talked about during these blog posts, and I know you've been anticipating this. I hope you guys like what you're going to see! 

CCR 1 and 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BPY113Tyfb_zlGhNoR3EX2NkJpfl7PRB/view?usp=sharing

CCR 3 and 4

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIzJ89et3uB7GJYiJy3YM9a_u-7lFxHb/view?usp=drivesdk

Film Opening

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ojg73ZnBt0GNop1dkZd3qf_ncsrjeh05/view?usp=drive_link

Reflection

 Hey there blog! My time with you guys for this project is coming to an end sadly... I had a lot of fun working on my film opening and CCRs, sharing my process has been really therapeutic and a way for me to grow and learn. 

My film opening was fun to do and I got to work with a really close friend which helped! It was a wild ride from scheduling issues to finding costumes, and our whole project deleting temporarily... But, I grew a lot from it. I'm very proud of our end result and I never thought I could create something like this. It felt good to create something and have freedom, even if it was for a class! Overall, I believe our film opening exceeded my expectations in many ways, from how we went about it to our actual product. 

Both my videos for my CCRs were also well made. For the video where I drew my project, I spent a lot of time on it. I think I have over 50 videos in my camera roll of me retaking each take of me drawing something, I really wanted to get it right! Editing it also wasn't that bad, it was just a matter of timing. The raw footage looked questionable, but once edited with the voiceover and speeding up the clips, wow! If I could, I'd post it on YouTube lol! 

For my podcast, I definitely liked it but I did think there was something I could improve. The sound effects! I think I could have found better ones or made them blend in well with my voice or what I was saying more, making them less random. Nevertheless, I loved my podcast. Especially the advertisement! (Thanks Mom!) 

Go check out my completed film opening and CCRs in the next post! 

CCR Editing :)

 Hey there blog! I started editing, huzzah! It was really refreshing to finally finish everything related to CCRs and see my final results. I'm very proud of myself for being able to complete everything and still have done really well in editing!

Podcast

As I mentioned in my last post, I used Podcastle to record my voice for the podcast. Well, guess what? I used it to edit other sounds too! I found some non-copyrighted sound effects on Freesound and inputed it with my already recorded voice. 

I added sound effects so it was at least a little engaging and fun instead of just my voice being heard the whole time. I pretty much just trimmed clips and did fade-ins/outs as there were no visuals. 

Draw my Project

You'll never believe this... what did I use to edit my video? Podcastle! They not only have an audio version, but a video version also! Although not having Adobe is a pain, this website isn't so bad and is a basic alternative. 

I sped up the clips of me drawing or else the video would have been like 20 minutes long, and I did a voice-over on those clips. I timed the speed of the clips to my voice so the clips wouldn't go by too fast or too slow, and overall I really liked how this turned out! It's not bad at all!! 

On top of that, I wanted it to seem like a true YouTube video so I made a YouTube intro. I made the intro on Canva for aesthetic purposes and exported it. Then, I found non-copyrighted sound and put both the intro video and sound together on Podcastle. 

Even though this was the most time-consuming part of my CCR, editing these projects was still fun :)

CCR Production!

 Hey there blog! I started filming for both of my CCR videos! I already finished the scripts and realized it was about time to start filming. 

Podcast

For my podcast CCR, I tried using Adobe Premiere Pro... But, like I mentioned before, my computer SUCKS and said it didn't have enough storage to even open Adobe (bruh) So, I did some googling and found a website called Podcastle. It's a website that lets you input audio and edit it, and most people use it to make podcasts anyway! 

I filmed myself speaking on the website itself, I still need to add some sound effects and shorten/lengthen clips to edit. But for now, I'm off to a good start!

I even used my mom's voice as an advertisement in my podcast! Fun!!

Draw my Project

The set up for filming me drawing on a whiteboard at an overhead angle was tricky. I used my tripod and angled it downwards until I got the perfect angle. I had to take into consideration so many factors such as moving the whiteboard, timing myself, shadows, etc. It was definitely time-consuming to film but I eventually did it! 

The said setup…

My drawings arent the best but at least it's informative! 

Overall, I'm so happy I finished filming because spring break is about to start! And I don't want to stress over this, soon ill start editing!

CCR #4

 Hey there blog! This is my last CCR post (honestly easing my anxiety lol) For this final blog post I decided to start working on my script for CCR 4, obviously, I'll do the other ones eventually but here's this one! 

As I mentioned in my blog post about CCR #3, I plan on doing a storytelling video with drawings and a voice-over answering questions 3 and 4. But what will I even talk about for CCR 4? CCR 4 requires us to talk about what software and physical/online technologies we utilized throughout the duration of our project. I'll mention multiple things like our use of Adobe Premier Pro, lighting, microphones, and a camera (my phone..) 

I'll also talk about issues we may have run into, why we chose to use certain technologies and the outcomes. For example, a technology that I believe especially helped was the lighting Mrs. Stoklosa let us borrow! It added to our film in various aspects. 

Here's the script for CCR #4: 

Editing (Continued..)

 Hey there blog! Today was our LAST DAY OF EDITING! Marissa and I went to Starbucks to wrap everything up :) She did some editing on her own time throughout the week, and it was a rollercoaster, but we did have a lot of fun today!

Marissa told me she compiled some more clips together and added audio. She told me to make some foley sounds like walking on grass, a lighter being ignited, and a thud. She timed those with some clips. 

But then... she told me our project got DELETED. She couldn't find it anywhere. But then after restarting her computer and reopening Adobe Premier Pro it suddenly came back. 

I genuinely felt so bad for her when she sent me this photo... 

I used Canva to make the title slide, and I incorporated some blood splatter and fangs to add to our horror element. I sent this to Marissa and then she added a sting to the clip! 

Onto today! Marissa had some issues with using keyframes to make text fade in and out or enlarge photos gradually. So, I helped out with some of that using my experience! We also realized our film opening wasn't long enough, so we added some companies at the beginning of our film! 

I designed the company names and logos through Canva and added it to the film opening. 

Here's us rewatching our film a billion times to make sure we finally have everything right

That concludes our film opening! After lots of planning, filming, and editing, we're finally done! Marissa and I had a lot of fun and we definitely learned a lot from making this film opening. We're really proud of our work and I cant wait to share it with you guys :) 

Another Group Meeting!!

 Hey there blog! We had a group meeting today with some classmates to discuss our ideas for CCR and share some of the footage we had of our film. 

We started by sharing our footage as we went around in a circle. 

Two people in my group filmed on an actual camera! (tryhards.. lol jk!!) Their footage looked really well done, the camera had a grainy aspect to it that they said was on purpose, I loved that. One thing I will say is that the footage they showed wasn't compiled so it was a little hard to follow, but I assume they'll edit it soon! Looking good!

Two other people in our group said they didn't have any footage because it was with another group member. That's understandable, so instead they talked about what they had but didn't exactly show it. One of them was a coming-of-age film while the other was a suspense film! We gave them some ideas for editing like using coloring to change the mood, which they seemed to be receptive to, overall they also seem to be doing well. 

Finally, I shared my footage and a lot of people complimented our lighting! They really loved the blue which I was happy about since I took a lot of time to come up with it. My group also liked the overall idea of our project and thought it was unique :) (hooray!)

I started by mentioning my ideas for the CCR since I already planned it out before! I talked about the idea for a podcast and a "Draw my Life" style for filming it! No one really had any notes to say they just thought it was a pretty good idea! 

Other people in my group had one idea in common, an interview-based CCR. Everyone thought it was a good idea and so did I, but I did ask some questions about how they would make it unique since a lot of people are doing it. They said they still had to think about that which is fine, hopefully, they came up with something! 

We all discussed ideas for CCR 3 and 4 because most people had 1 and 2 figured out, everyone had some pretty cool ideas! My friend Angelique didn't know what to do so I told her to try a "behind the scenes" thing, where she pretends to be filming her project again and someone interrupts her to ask her questions! 

Overall, I think everyone in my group has a good foundation. We all promised to share our CCR's eventually, I'm excited!