Links to film opening and CCR's

It's officially over! Here is what you have been waiting for:

CCR video #2

                                                   CCR #1

Film opening

My final thoughts on this project

 Wow! Honestly this project has really took the most out of me. I have lots of emotions currently after finishing this project. I feel relieved, happy, and I also feel weird. Since I finished this project, I don't have to finish up anything but I still have a sense that I still have things to do. It's going to take me a while to finally realize that I am done and have to move on from this project as we have more things to do. I'm happy for all the members of my team that has helped me throughout the project with filming the video and communicating to help me understand the project and help me out with some of these blog posts that we have done. At the end of this, I can give my reflection on my film and I feel like this was done well with the editing done and the production during it with all the pre-production posts with learning mise-en-scene elements and the lighting and the shots that we had to make during it and with the things that not only my group have learned, but what I learning throughout this project was really making me a better worker and how I plan to approach project like this and others in the future. 

Post production of CCR's

Finally, I am officially done with the CCR's and I am about to wrap up this project BUT FIRST, these blog posts are going to be done first and I will give my final thoughts on this project in tomorrows post. 

1st Video:

So for my first video, I added in some transitioning effect being the dissolve effect as I felt like it matched with the situation the best and it was a clean transition in my opinion. I also added a sponsor for this video being A24 studios as it's a good way to make it more authentic and look like a legit interview. I was debating adding an instrumental in this video as it would be a good way to stabilize the film but I see other interviews and they don't really have instrumentals so I wanted to hold back on adding any extra audios so that's why there is not as much editing in this one but with my next post, you will see more editing features in it.

2nd Video:

For my second video, I added a bit more elements into the editing. First, I added the transitions using the black fade into the next shot  switching up from the dissolve, then I added in the sponsor at the start of the film. After that, I added in 2 new features while editing this video being me adding in an instrumental music. Now I used the music that Adobe rush gave me and I found something that I thought fit the idea of the video and I think you guys will like the instrumental that gave the video a bit more of an effect than just me talking for 4 minutes on it. The second feature I added was adding in a couple images after answering the first question. These images gave the viewers a more real sense of how I improved my skills answering questions 3 by showing the process of me making my film.

 

Production of CCR's

 So now that I have finished making the CRR's, I will have to edit them now. In the meantime, I will talk to you guys about my production of making these 2 videos:

1st Video: 

So for my first video, I got my mom to record this CCR for me to help me out. She has great experience with talking with others and interviewing them so that was a plus for me and made it easier to record. We made the video around 7 minutes long with answering the 2 questions and role playing as me being a director and her being a journalist interviewing me. We did many takes while doing it with setting up props like the journal and getting on professional clothes for the scenario and I will enhance the video during my editing process.

2nd Video:

In my second video, I did just a sit down talk with my viewers explaining to them about some of the questions they had while answering the CCR questions. The video I made was around 4 minutes as I tried  to shorted the video without adding any filler into it. During my editing, I plan to add some images while I answer the questions and add an instrumental as I will be just talking.

These productions were all done in my dining room as most of the rooms in my house sadly didn't have that good of a recording atmosphere so I settling here and I still think my recording were decent and I hope I can enhance this videos while I edit them to see if I really did make them well.

CCR question #4

 Finally, here is the last blog posts for the CCR questions and for this one, I'm going to be talking about question #4

In my last blog post, I talked about my idea for the video and just like for questions 1 and 2, there's a video for questions 3 and 4 as well so once I finish talking about my 3rd question, I'll transition to the 4th question being: How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware and online-in this project?

Software tools-

So to start off, some of the software tools that I plan to talk about that we used is Pixabay which is a free stock photography website and media website that lets us share photos, illustrations, sound effects, and film footage which helped us in making our film.

To make some of the sounds in our film, we used voice memos on our iPhone and soundboard tuna in the editing process of our film to help add more of an effect to it. The sounds in our film are a crucial part in not just our film, but in many horror films, sound is important to hear when the viewer is watching it as they want a realistic view of what is going on during a horror film to create a more scary, eerie and dark environment.

The last software tool that I integrated was how we edited the film. We edited the film by using Adobe premiere which is a great website for editing the process of our film as it gives us lots of different features and items to utilize when we edit the film. Another thing about adobe premiere is that it was honestly fairly a simple use and we could edit the film with minimal complications so I would recommend it to new filmakers like me who are starting out trying to make films

Hardware-

Our film did not utilize much hardware and I still think it turned out fine. Some reasons that our film did not use many hardware in it is the POV shots that we took as well as the handheld camera. as we did not use any sort of set-up device on the phone camera to help stabilize the shots. We did this since like I said, there are many POV shots of the phone camera on the person, but the many handheld shots also created the aspect of a real horror situation that way happening. The shakiness of the camera gets the viewers a sense of worry and a frightening aspect of the scenes in our film.

The other source of hardware was the phone being a lighting source for the shots that we made. We had some complications with filming due to the shots being too bright or being too dark but we adjusted the phone lighting and put the phone in different positions to get the right shot so it would look the best that we could possibly make it our too. 

Online-

Now this part is going to be short since we also did not use online that much but some of the stuff that we did that was online includes the Google drives we made to store the clips so we could get back to them and have them for editing and using YouTube for any type of sounds, music, and tutorials in order to make our film better. The tutorials I feel like helped us a bit since some of the shots were pretty tough to make so watching tutorials made it easier to shoot along with the music and YouTube which actually is where we got our instrumental for most of our film.

CCR question #3

 So now that I have talked to you guys about my last 2 questions and the video idea I have, I am going to talk about my 3rd CCR question and my idea for my second video in this blog.

The idea I plan for my second video is a slideshow/interview format where I talk to the viewers directly with putting up images of the film and what I am going to be talking about in the video and explaining to the viewers about my film with answering questions 3 and 4 to them.

Now like my other CCR blog posts, you need the question to make this post and the 3rd question is: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

So to start off, I feel like my production skills have not only evolved through this project, but with all the projects I have done so far. The process of us thinking we are going to just buy fake blood and us actually making it adds to the fact of producing props for the film to make it seem as realistic as possible and the locations we talk over about, the costuming, the lighting and the positioning for every shot that we need for the film feels like I was actually becoming a director while also being an actor when I was in the shots redoing certain takes to make sure that the film looks not just good to submit as a project but also as a sense of realism that would be present in an actual film. 

I started out on this project expecting for it to be a simple project that we could just do easily without much thought into it and this project has taught me on how to improve my production skills and work ethic by planning out an idea, testing the idea to see if you like it and if you don't, you can always try a new one and if you like it, roll with it and invest your time into perfecting it. 

Some examples of my production skills improving are retaking certain shots. We thought that just putting on dark clothes would be a good idea to portray the monster in our film but we realized that it didn't look as good as we thought it would when we looked back at the footage, so I improvised as I got my Halloween costume and cut of any necessary pieces to make the monster seem as realistic as possible and we retook it and the shots looked much better. The other production skills I improved was the angles and type of shots we took. In the past, the shots I tried to make looked off and I did not really understand the actual meaning of how to identify and replicate the different shot types but with this, I feel like we not only improved on the shot making, but also incorporated more shots into the film, adding a more wide variety of shots in the film. 

CCR question #2

 Following-up from my previous blog post on my CCR questions, I talked about CCR question #2 and my plans and thoughts of how I was going to answer and describe the question and my film opening. Here is a follow up since I explained how I am going to format this video since I'm going to answer both CCR question 1 and 2 in the same video. Questions 3 and 4 are coming soon with new ideas...

To make this blog post, I have to list the question that I am going to answer, so the 2nd CCR question is: How does your project engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

After transitioning from question 1, I'll start talking about my audience that I would be getting my movie out too and then talk about how I plan to get the movie out to my audience.

Audience- 

The target audience I'm going to aim for is 16-34 year old's and people who are into psychosocial-horror films like the Shining and American Psycho.

From American Psycho(2000)

How I plan to get these types of people to my film?

I plan to market in both physical and digital distribution ways with physical I would put up flyers and host a meet-and-greet where I would have some of the actors which you can meet and tell you more about the film. With digitally, I would use mainly social media as that's a great way to get attention from people especially if they don't want to get up from there room to go see it. I would use TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube to promote the movie. I would put the trailer up on YouTube so people would get a better idea of what the film is going to be like while on TikTok and Instagram, I would post videos about the production of the film, the actors in the film, and some clips from the movie without spoiling the main point of it.

My production choices would engage with the audience because a lot of the scenes in my movie are dark, eerie, and create the horror aspect that you would want when seeing the film. There's some bloody scenes so the people will be warned before watching but I think the idea of the kid being traumatized throughout the film is going to get some people invested especially if they can relate to losing parents and not just at a young age. 

How I would make this available to my audience-

I plan to make this film available to my audience in lots of ways such as:

Streaming services- I'm going to get them onto streaming services by partnering with film distribution companies to help me get this onto streaming services. Some of the streaming services that I would want to put my movie onto is Netflix, Amazon prime video, Hulu, and as many as I can get them onto. If I add subscription services with this as well as getting my film out to as much streaming services as I can, I feel like my movie will become a big hit.

Online platforms- While streaming services is the main thing I plan to use, I can also utilize some online platforms like YouTube and Vimeo as some ways to get my movie out to more people

Social media presence- Just like how I plan to get people to draw attraction to my film from social media, I also plan it for a way to get people to my film. I'll set up dates and where my film will be released and where you can find it. This can help reach a wider audience and engage with some media outlets and journalists assisting me and building the public image of the movie more higher.