Links to Final Film Opening And CCR's

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Final Reflection

Now that I have complete all the steps for my portfolio project, it is time to reflect on everything that I have done throughout the process. Firstly, the research stage. The research process is the step that I usually skipped in projects throughout my school years, but this project has taught me just how helpful it can be when trying to create something. Next, the planning process. The planning process greatly helped me organize my thoughts and plan out how much time I would need for each step of the project. At first I thought I wouldn't like the production part of the project as I would have to deal with many issues like lighting, prop design, costuming, and camera angling/stabilization. Instead, once I pushed through all the issues that arose, I actually enjoyed the production processes quite a bit. And finally, the post-production, I expected this step to give me much more headache than I had actually experienced. In reality, I felt as though this step was the easiest and least time consuming part of the project. Overall, I really enjoyed the project and believe that it helped me grow and will continue to help me with future projects throughout my life.

CCR Post-Production

I have completed the final part of my portfolio project, the CCR. My PC, not being high quality, did not have enough power to run Adobe Premier Pro. For this reason, I decided to start editing my CCR on my smartphone using the CapCut application. It was then when my father's computer was made available to me. But because I already started using the CapCut app on my phone, I decided to continue using it on my father's computer using the PC version instead of transferring it to Adobe Premier Pro.

CCR Production

Now that the film opening is completed, it is time to reflect in my creative critical reflection (CCR). In this CCR I will analyze the processes and messages within my project. In total there are 4 questions in the CCR that I must answer. I created 2 videos each answering 2 of the questions. The 2 videos I created were of 2 different forms. I answered the first 2 question together in the form of a street interview and the last 2 in the form of a podcast.

CCR Questions:

1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

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

3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

4. How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

Film Opening Post-Production

After a day and a half of filming, we finally collected all the needed footage. Although there were many bad takes because of lighting issues, forgetting lines, or interruptions, I feel that the final takes we used turned out well. After collecting all the footage, the last step to produce the final film opening is to edit the footage in post-production. I had originally planned to use Adobe Premier Pro to edit my film opening because I know that it is a great program with many features and it is provided by my school. But, the computer that I have access to at home didn't have enough space to download the program. It was an easy fix to free up some space for it though. Unfortunately, another problem with the program occurred, the computer that I have at home does not have the power to run Premier Pro. For this reason, I resorted to using my phone and cap cut to edit my film.

The editing went over pretty well and the hardest part of the post-production process was finding the audio clips that we needed from the audio databases. Thankfully, I had me and my partner searching for the audio at the same time so we could cover more audio samples until we found the ones we thought would work in the the context of the visual components.

CCR Q#3 and Q#4 Research

The third question of the CCR is "How did your production skills develop throughout this project?"

The way that this project developed my skills is through experience. It taught me that I should always have many backup plans for each step of any project, as it seemed like anything that could've went wrong, did go wrong. Although everything not working was extremely inconvenient, it furthered my problem solving skills greatly. It also helped me develop my artistic skills while creating the monster out of clay. It also improved my production skills with lighting and camera angles.

CCR Q#1 and Q#2 Research

The first question of the CCR is "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?"

The main convention that our product challenges is showing the monster attacking people in the opening of the film to hook the audience. Our film only implies the violence using audio and visual techniques.

The main social issue that is represented in our film opening is how the government remains mostly unchecked by the population and they are able to do. This can sometimes lead to disasters as seen in our film opening

Another social issue is represented in the film opening is how human beings as a race believes that they are above nature and have absolute control over it. This is not true and often leads to problems, as seen in the opening.