Group Meeting Discussion

 For my last blog post, I'll discuss about a little group meeting we had in class. For this we get assigned random groups, with different people from our class so that we can discuss how our production and blogs are going. It's overall a very fun activity as you learn more about different classmates and also they're projects. 

For my groups it was David, Gabriel, Emma, and Samia, and we had to take some notes on each other's blogs and discussion. This is my group on the right!

So here are my notes for this discussion:

Samia:
- Very well developed notes in bullet points

- Has information but not overly boring information 

- Chooses carefully not copyrighted sounds and music

Emma's idea for her CCR

- To create a car crash scenario

- Is asked a bunch of questions regarding the CCR's instructions to keep consciousness

- Also shared her idea of her film opening, which is basically a gymnast that got injured and even after healing is stubborn towards her process.

Gabriel's Idea

- A spy sort of movie that the main character gets set up and police start chasing and has to escape.

- Follows his storyboard

- Wants to add creative shots of his film such as POVs when escaping and that sort of stuff

David's group idea and his production

- About a serial killer, production is made to look very old timey in black and white

- Has good shots, especially the one opening a hand to a note in a dead body

- Prop of newspaper made specially for the film, that has information regarding the murders going around

- Has very different techniques involved into his film which makes it look very well put together

Some good tips that I got from my classmates were:
- Trying to download the footage beforehand so its easier to import

- Having visuals in most blog posts

- Not editing in phones which just makes it all harder overall

- Taking multiple shots of the same scene just in case one turns out to be bad

- Being more elaborate with blog posts.

 

CCR Question 4 Research

 For the last question of our CCR it's:

How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, and online - in this project?

So for my project I will be using a Sony Handycam HDR-XR150, which is an old family camera that has 1080 HD resolution, so as old as it may be its still be able to be used for filming. It also will give the film a feeling of not being so new, as it is an opening film it can portray the film as something from the past, giving it an old time feel.

 I will also include some shots in my phone, portraying some cuts to give it a feeling of "future". For our editing software, its the one that I learned to use in my first year of high school during my TV film class that I mentioned last post, Adobe Premier Pro, which is basically a beginner editing tool for most schools, or individuals that want to get into editing. It provides simple tools as well as editing shortcuts, and effects to be able to implement into one's film. As well as for most of this project and as a "notetaking" tool of sorts, I've been using Blogger, to update you guys on what we've been working on as well as keeping track of all the necessary things that I need to do!

This is a visual as to what Adobe Premier Pro looks like while editing 

CCR Question 3 Research

 So, to start this blog post after discussing both questions 1 and 2 of the CCR, we have another type of question of CCr that is needed. its another 2 additional questions 3 and 4, and question number 3 is:

How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

For this question I am able to relate to it a bit more than the others. Previously in my first year of high school I was given (without a choice) a film class, TV Video. At first I believed that the class was useless and didn't serve me too much purpose, through the class I had learned how to use the program which we are using for editing (which by the way little spoiler I will talk about in the next blog post). In this class we learnt a lot of skills about editing, which to this day I still remembered, and things such as angles and shot composition. But with AICE Media, my knowledge of these things completely transformed. It has helped me become more efficient with the composition of my film making skills and now I feel confident enough to be able to transform an idea into a film that displays that idea.

Also, during the explanation in the video I will add visuals as to what I'm talking about, so that there is some visual representation and its easier to understand for the viewer. So whenever the editing process is mentioned then I will add a picture or video of how it was.

CCR Question 2 Research

 Hey blog, hope you're having a good week! For this blog post I have to do research about our second question of our CCR, which the question is:

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

My answers to this question will be in the response as CCR 1, combining both both but I'll make it clear as to which question is which so that there is no confusion! My product of my film basically engages with anything that is related to cooking, it is a sort of heartfelt film that will not only target a culinary audience, but also a broad audience of feelings that mostly everyone that has felt failure goes through. Since the film is based on the broad emotions when one feels with failure, on a culinary basis but it relates mainly to failure in one's trying, meaning that my film connects deeply with one's feeling, as its normal human nature to feel failure, and overcoming it. Now as for why it would be distributed as a real media text? Due to the feeling of failure being a thing innate in every human being, I don't think there is anyone who hasn't experienced it, it's a feeling that has been here from the first beginnings of mankind. So depicting a failure, turning into a success is something that may appeal towards someone that is feeling failure at the moment.