Film Opening

 

Link to Film Opening : The Residency

Creative Critical Reflections

 CCR #1

This CCR answers:

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

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

Link : CCR 1 - Q 1-2

CCR #2

This CCR answers:

• How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

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

Link : CCR 2 - Q 3-4

My Reflection on Portfolio Project!

     This project has been such a journey and a wonderful experience. I'm so glad it's finally over and I can stop worrying about this. When I first talked about this project you can practically sense the fear and nervousness off my writing. It was a lengthy process that made me realize that you can overcome any challenge and to STOP PROCRASTINATING!!! Procrastination has been my biggest enemy for most of my school life and this project has helped me tackle that by being split up into small parts. This project deadline date seemed so far away and now it's finally here, it's very surreal. 

    Going into this project I knew very little about editing and I have never done a long-term project before that took a lot of research and planning. This is the prime high school project that I have done where I've been working 8 long weeks to finish. When I was first talking about making a 2 minute production I was terrified and worried that I wasn't capable of doing everything by myself. The editing, filming, researching, and planning. I was then told that everything I've been doing throughout the school year has prepared me for this project.

Starting Out...

    I first wanted to make a schedule about how I will approach this project and I was keeping a baseline because my creativity went dry. Most I could come up with was a horror genre that was in the 1990's but I had no plot, no characters, and I was unsure of what exactly what to focus on. I kept looking at different horror movies and their openings and my ideas were still dry. I went into a group meeting and talked about my ideas and they gave me some critical feedback on what my plot should be and I finalized on a plot and storyboard. My classmates Maria and Jacey recommended that I did something in the medical aspect and I had a dental office available to me therefore I went with a horror dental film. 

Group Meeting #1

    Once I started to research and plan the stress was coming off of me slowly but surely. I felt more confident on what I would film and include in my project. After I got my actor I felt really secured on finishing my project in time without any problems. However, this proved me wrong. My filming got interrupted many times by scheduling issues and hours available to film at the office. I got to overcome these issues by effectively communicating with my actor and I got to finish filming before finishing my CCRs. 

    Editing was a huge task for me in terms of how to add transitions into videos and text as well as the sound overlay. I started my editing with caution due to me not having extended knowledge on how to use Premiere or most editing apps. I chose Premiere due to us being introduced to it at the beginning of the year for this class and I used Youtube tutorials to learn how to edit specific things and include transitions into my film opening. I also included many behind the scenes to fully document everything on this blog and share my experience with you all!

CCRs

    Starting my Creative Critical Reflections, I wanted to approach by making one very different and exceed the creativity levels from the second one. I decided to do a Day in the Life as a dental assitant and I wasn't sure on what to do for my second CCR. I then got into a group meeting and got the advice to do either a podcast or a presentation and since they were both good ideas I just outlined what I would talk about and decide when I film. This probably wasn't a good approach but I ended up on a presentation using voiceovers and images to answer the second set of questions.

Group Meeting #2

    When editing my CCRs I finished my first one and added the link before publishing it in order to have everything finished and then I continued my second CCR and finished the entire presentation in one day and then add and edit voiceovers into the presentation.

CCR - Presentation

CCR - Day in the Life 

Overall, I really enjoyed this project and although it was a bit challenging and asked for my timing to be generous, I got to exceed my own expectations and produce something that I really liked. My final submission is coming very soon and I'm very excited to show off my final film opening as well as my creative critical reflections. I personally believe that all these elements that I acquired throughout my film represent my personality throughout my portfolio project. I enjoyed the journey and the destination. Thank you Cambridge I hope you enjoy my final products see you again very soon (hint). 

    

    

   

Editing my CCRs!

     Hello everyone! I have edited my CCRs and I'm polishing them up right now! I just wanted to share my process of how everything is coming together in terms of both of my CCRs. If you recall, my previous blog post mentioned that my first CCR is a day in the life as a dental assistant and I, as the director, am being interviewed throughout my day about my new production film The Residency. My second CCR is a presentation talking about how my production skills have developed throughout my filming, planning, and overall process as well as the technology that I was utilizing throughout my project finalizing with a reflection. 

CCR #1 - Day in the Life as a Dental Assistant

    Im editing my first CCR with Adobe Premiere due to it having video and having to do voiceover a few images. When I started editing, I realized when I filmed it was just a talking head and I needed to divert from that with images and voiceover. I first started off with viewing my footage and seeing where I could add pictures next to my dialogue and the first opportunity is when Stephanie mentioned the studio she is from. I then thought to make a company logo and put it next to my head to visually show that this is a real company that interviews upcoming artists.

Using Canva to make logo

Editing the logo into Premiere

    

    I also decided to add in visual examples of what I was talking about then go into more detail with images and voiceover. I would talk about why I made The Residency and then bring up examples of the inspiration that I took and then later on I would highlight on the genre conventions from these examples in voiceover. I also directly used the microphone in Adobe and didn't need to use myvoice memos 

    Over here I was talking about the different types of lighting and shot types that are commonly used in horror films as well as including it after the dialogue but cutting up a whole scene so it's not a run on. 

CCR #2 - Presentation

    My second CCR is done through Canva and my editing is adding my Voiceovers over the slides as well as the transition because I will be exporting it as a mp4 for my final submission. A few transitions that I used was pan and bounce for the text and baseline for the pictures. For the filming slide I had a cool idea to use a Old TV graphic since my film is based off the 1990's it would be a nice easter egg to add into my powerpoint when showing examples of my film production scenes. 

Visual

    In terms of voiceover, Canva has the option to import audio and let you play it when it's a presentation. However, since I am exporting this as an mp4, I decided it's better to record myself and leave it as an option to play automatically. There is an issue with this recording and that is the gmail profile picture that anyone uses to log into Canva will show up in the recording. I will have to remove it so it shows as the default and not a "C' because it throws off the presentation and may confuse viewers or listeners. 

Producing My CCRs!

     Hello everyone! Last time you heard of me I was planning for my CCRS and getting ready to film them! Today I have come together to bring all my materials to the table and talk about my CCR production process. 

CCR #1 - Day in the Life as a Dental Assistant

    My first CCR was a day in the life as a dentist. This was a CCR where I, as the director, am working as a dental assistant and get interviewed about my movie while I take care of a few things around the office. I have already finished filming and making my script for this CCR. This was a CCR where I had to talk about the genre conventions of my film and how I challenged them as well as the distribution process of my film and target audience intentions. 

    I had my mom be the interviewer and I gave her a script and highlighted her parts and for the big paragraphs I highlighted my own and had my dad behind the camera use them as a transcript for me to read or remember what I was just talking about in order to avoid repeats of information. 

Script used for the filming

    Due to the script being a big part of the filming I also had to leave out the parts that I would voiceover such as my distribution, plot, and genre conventions. These are just general examples there are many times I had to incorporate voiceover with multimedia and while I was filming I had to make sure no sound was heard in order to avoid the conflict of having to voiceover the scenes along with the extra information that is needed to be added later when in post production.

    I answered Question #1 and Question #2 in this CCR. First, I discussed genre conventions and how I challenged as well as utilized the conventions in my film opening. I also had to discuss social groups such and in mine I discussed young women who seek validation from others. This was a very niche social group and I thought it pinpoint exactly what my main character's theme was. Considering the second question, I mentioned target audience being young adults and late teenagers due to the film being gorey and being Pg 14. I decided to mention that my way to engage with the audience is using gore as a convention in my film as well as pertain to the psychological horror aspect. I finally discussed my distribution plan to get my film production outside in the media sphere for audiences to see. 

CCR #2 - Presentation

    My second CCR I have finally decided to do a presentation due to it being a choice that I could particularly show my technology and production process better with pictures and voiceover rather than a day in the life like my first CCR. I went with the approach of having a real setting and scenes for one of my CCRs then one which was mostly pictures and audios. 

    For my presentation I used Canva and I was adding in audios to have me speak and I figured out I can export the audio from voice memos on my I phone app. I will be going into more detail in my post production CCR posts. I had to take pictures from my recent blog posts and put them onto my CCR presentation such as my hardware materials, software screenshots, and actual production examples. 

    For Question #3, I discussed my actual production process along with my skills developing such as being able to coordinate my schedule better and film more effectively as well as learn how to be a director while being in control of all the shots. In terms of Question #4, I discussed the hardware, software, and online material I utilized throughout the making of my production and how they helped me make my film opening the way it is now. I discussed examples of me utilizing each software program, how I used each hardware material as well as how I used YouTube as a online resource to find tutorials on how to properly use the previous two components. 

The link to my Presentation on Canva: CCR #2 Q: 3-4

CCR Prep - Question #4

     Hello everyone! Welcome to the last CCR prep post for all the questions! I'm so nervous yet so ready for this portfolio project to be wrapped up. I'm simultaneously filming my CCR and will have a post production post about editing before we wrap everything before my due date! It's a good thing I planned for a buffer week incase of issues because timing is really on my side today. Like I said in my last blog post my CCR for the second set of question (3 and 4) isn't finalized due to my ideas dying out on me last minute. 

The 4th question I will be answering will be:

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

Hardware

    In terms of hardware for this project, I used different cameras from the company Canon which was my digital camera and a professional camera someone had lended me. This digital camera was very essential in getting that grainy texture in my film opening. I also used my Iphone 11 pro to film the scenes in the beginning but re did them when I had the idea of using a different camera and I would have it as a backup in case the SD Card got corrupted. I'd also use a SD Card converter for me to put these videos in my computer which I used to edit. 

Canon Digital Camera

SD Card Converter

SD Card

Canon Professional Camera

    Now, I also had to use a different method to include the red lighting in my film which was not colored gels like I saw some people use in YouTube tutorials. I had top put red sharpie on tape and cover a phone flashlight in order to give off the effect of red lighting in the room which I thought turned out really great.

Software

    When using software throughout my production and planning I utilized Adobe Premiere for editing the actual film opening. I did this because I have more experience from the beginning of this school year using Adobe in previous projects. I got to learn how to use Adobe coloring effects, transitions, and use keyframes in order to edit my title sequences on the screen. Moreover, I also used Canva for my planning process such as creating mood-boards for the characters and get a better idea of their character development. I also used Pixibay and Bensound for free copyright audios in order to make it easier for myself when editing so I abide to copyright laws. With this, I also used word documents in order to make my screenplays and figure out what fonts and colors I could use for my title sequences. This helped me know exactly what I wanted to say during any dialogue sequences I was going to have until I cut it out.

Using Key Frames in Adobe

Creating title sequences/transitions in Adobe

Making Mood-Boards in Canva

Editing Title Sequences Fonts in Word

Unrevised Screenplay

Online

    There was times I had to search up YouTube tutorials when I didn't know how to edit something or figure out how to sound overlay and it was a very nice tool for me to use during editing. I searched up how to do horror movie lighting on a budget as well as some popular camera shots and composition to have in my film opening in order to have that same horror movie feeling that I was going for. This helped my project become authentic and professional in the longrun. 

CCR Prep - Question #3

     Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog! Today we are answering Question #3 and what my second CCR will consist of. Now, I have mentioned in my previous blog posts that my first CCR was a Director commentary/interview between my interviewer and myself as the director. Now, my second CCR isn't set in stone but I do know what I will say in order to answer this question along with graphics.

The 3rd question I will be answering will be :

• How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

This is it, I'm finally done with portfolio project and we are on week #7. This entire project was a process that was both experimental and exciting! With this, lets reflect on what I learned and how I advanced in terms of a producer. 

My Overall Process

    When I started this project, everything seemed so overwhelming, the planning, the editing, filming a whole 2 minute production all by myself. I can admit it was quite intimidating. I started with making a schedule out for myself on where I should be each week and noting it down and repeating the process for the past 7 weeks. Throughout this production I have learned it's okay to mess up, my production skills have improved, as well as my planning process before filming as well as editing everything all together. Figuring out what I was going to focus my opening on was challanging but it forced me to step out of my comfort zone and realize that it really isn't hard to make something creative and original if you have an open mind. I picked a horror film to make and it is pretty in character for me because a lot of my posts before this project was focused on horror. It is easily my favorite film genre and I really did enjoy producing a film project based on the mystery behind killings. These skills will not only help me in this class but in many more instances moving forward such as overcoming obstacles, planning and researching, and making my own analysis for the things I create. I'm very proud of myself on how far I have gotten. 

Sound Research

Storyboard

Rsearch and Planning Process

    The research process was very ejoyable for me. I got to research some movies that I loved watching in the free time, their openings, the movie credits, and overall the types of themes they gravitate towards. For my time period I also had to establish what kind of mise en scene props I had to integrate and I researched on two films (The Black Phone and Scream) in order to get the proper inspiration from the 1990's. Researching the genre conventions was the most important step to take because I had to first learn about my genre before starting to produce it. This explains why it was one of my very first blog posts concerning my portfolio project. I developed my plot online, drew a storyboard, created mood boards, as well as research about the types of dentist offices there were available in the 1990's. This all brought me towards the end of my portfolio project where I got to start planning for my actual production. I had to plan what music I wanted to incorporate and adapt my shots to my storyboard and tweak things here and there before I started the actual production. 

Production

    I spent a very long time filming. It was a major obstacle for me in terms of scheduling due to me having an outside actor that was busy alot. This led to me filming for 5 days in the span of 2-3 weeks and I still had to reshoot while editing and finalizing my project.  It was very hard to do everything in 2 hours or less every single day because those were the only hours my actor was available to film. I realized I had to schedule more effectively and communicate the hours that are needed before agreeing therefore, time won't be lost in the future. But, lesson learned and everything was figured out in time thankfully. I took a long time figuring out what shots were better for each scene and sometimes I ended up not following the storyboard and going based off a general idea that I had outlined due to my mind changing mid production and I'm glad it did because the overall product came out really well! I had to bring out many people to help me with filming that wasn't my actor such as my other friend and my parents that help lights and camera. When I didnt have that help I was moving alot in order to get the perfect angle with the perfect lighting and everything worked out in the end once I started editing. 

                                                                        Production Shots:

Obstacles:

Reflection

    It started with learning how to edit and get used to the Adobe program with a One Word Project. This project helped me transition into editing and mess around with a few techniques but not really being a master at it and having to search up tutorials but not having to do anything complex but putting together a few scenes and add music. We were tasked with a tone word and we had to make up a story without any dialogue and give off a sense of appreciative throughout the film. Me and my partner decided to make a story about a girl sitting alone at lunch and someone else coming over to give her some company which made her appreciative of that girl. This project helped us know how to plan with storyboards, think about shots and movement, and overall edit it into a sequenece which was a great transition into this class. 

Link to My One Word Film Here: OWF_Romero.mp4

    My next big project was learning how edit only audios with our very own foley sound creations as well as audios from online copyright free music websites. Me and my partner were tasked to make a soundscape with no video at all and only sound overlay. We decided to make our setting a medical clinic and overlay sounds as if the subject was walking through a pediatric clinic. This project gave us a lot of issues because it was very challenging to make a well enough sound scape without sounding too artificial. It did help transition me into learning how to overlay sounds and prepare me for this project. 

Link to My Soundscape Here: RomeroSeoane_soundscape_per7.mp4

    Our final big project was cosidered as our midterm and everyone was tasked to be in a group of 4-5 people and create a music marketing campaign as well as a music video that goes together with that campaign. This project gave me the most experience necessary to effectively complete my portfolio project. This process included the research and planning the editing as well as the filming all together put into one. Our group made a music marketing research chart to gather some background information on the genre just as I did for this project. We also completed a storyboard, props, and decided on the variety of shots that will be used. This project was very demanding but we finished in time and I found it a very nice experience

Link to Our Music Research Chart: Music Research Chart.docx 

Link to Our Timeline: Music Marketing Project Development.docx

As I'm typing this blog up, I can very proudly say I loved every aspect of this process even though it was challenging. It forced me out of my comfort zone to be creative and plan accordingly. I learned many skills that I will be utilizing in the near future. The editing was the hardest challenge by far and my favorite part was the actual production process and the planning that goes behind it. It is very tiring but I am overall pleased with myself on my final product!

    

CCR Prep - Question #2 (And the full script for the first CCR)

     Welcome back everyone! Today I will be covering my answer for question #2 and also a full development for the script for the first CCR that I will be using in my project. This prepatory blog is supposed to make my filming much more effective and quicker due to only having one day available to film in order to have it finished and edited with everything set in stone.

My second question I will be answering is: 
    How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

My answer:

    My product establishes a sense of mystery and curiosity within the audience. This further engages the audience with suspense on what will happen next. The eerie sound and background music lets the audience wonder what this dentist is setting up for. Re establishing this through setting design and stylistic choices like the digital camera view leaving a grainy texture on the video symbolizing a old 1990's film production. The constant hand held shots and shaky movements caused by the camera can make the audience feel uncomfortable with what they are watching as well as the tight close ups of the bloody arms and neck. In terms of distribution, this film would start being showcased on film festivals and since Cypress Bay has its very own lightning film festival that would be a good choice to start with. I would obviously submit my film in the horror category in order to ignite my story within a far reach of audiences. In these film festivals the attention of movie distributors could be caught by my film and maybe distributed through a independently owned movie theater here in Weston in order to get more publicity. Examples would be Savor Cinema at Fort Lauderdale or Cinema Paradiso at Hollywood. This will also all start with the entire film being publicly distributed through the YouTube platform as well as teasers and trailers.

My Script

My script will include an "spend my day at work with me while we talk about my new film" as an interview in disguise:

   

There is more inclusions of graphics that will be mentioned when I edit that will be included when I start editing my CCR and will be included in a post production post! I will then update on the research and cite the required resources. Graphics such as my title sequence, the film from where my inspiration was from (The Black Phone), reoccurring suspense scenes and shots of the kill scene, and the genre conventions that I decided to challenge (The clever mindset of a killer). 

The link to my script is here. CCR Script (1-2)

I will soon be producing my CCR as well as deciding what to put in for my second CCR Response which will include Questions 3 and 4. Stay tuned for those updated blogs!

  

Group Meeting #2

    Hello everyone! Welcome back to my update about my portfolio project! Today, we were assigned to another group meeting basically like a ending checkpoint before the last level of a vidieo game! It is nearing the end of our deadline and we have less than two weeks to finish our opening and CCRS. I cannot tell a lie, I'm a tad nervous but bringing all of these discussion points together. Me and my group discussed each others projects and since we are nearing the end most of the discussion reared towards finishing touches and mostly Creative Critical Reflection ideas. I used this document to jot down notes and suggestions made about each group member including myself to look back into later for when I'm polishing up my opening. 

This is my group for the second group meeting! I know, we look so cute!

My Process

    So, our discussion started off in a circle in our group and we started off with me. My project was practically finished with the exception of editing a few sequences together. My title sequences and transitions are pretty well figured out and my group liked it. However, my title wasn't set in stone and I thought it was too cliche and I wanted to get some ideas from my group members. After telling them that the main antagonist is at this dentist due to a residency of 6-11 months and from that she has motives to outshine her coworkers, Tiziana had a great idea to name my film The Residency instead of drop dead because this entire thing had sprouted from a residency that took place. 

A rough draft of the title in my opening

    The Creative Critical Reflection for question #3 and #4 was something I was a little puzzled on due to me already having a set idea for question #1 and #2. I then got the idea from my team members to do a red carpet interview due to the other two questions being suitable to answer under a paparazzi setting while still having a creative sense. This changes how I was probably going to approach question #3 and #4 without much thought process. 

    

    I also got some advice for some music I can use such as any royalty copyright free music. This advice was given from Jacey due to her figuring out her sound and being able to overlay her sounds thought the use of Youtube tutorials and since she is editing on I Movie it means it would probably be as effective and simple on Adobe Premiere Pro. Thankfully due to this, my editing process will be quicker and finished in time to effectively make my Creative Critical Reflection in time before the deadline of March 25th. 

Jacey's Process

    For Jacey, she was probably the farthest that has gotten throughout our entire group due to her already editing her film with sound, title sequences, and CCR ideas. She had one flaw in her production which was how her film title was displayed on screen with a black font and white border. That was what our criticism mainly focused around. I gave her the idea to fit her title with a color scheme that matches the background as well as have the transition come in flipped just as her actor does when flipping tarot cards. 

Pedro's Process

    in Pedro's Drama opening, he had informed us of his delays due to him not being able to film until next weekend. however, I do like the fact that he has become very prepared in other aspects of his opening such as voiceovers. His opening tells of a man who lives an everyday boring life over and over again and he decided to utilize voiceover. In this voiceover the word "work" is repeated 3 times and I thought it would be an interesting idea for the actor to change clothes each time to represent many days have passed since he hasn't started filming.

Vicky's Process

    Something I really loved about vicky's opening is that her concept about this girl luring in men to kill them has a unique play on words in her title. However, Jacey recommended that instead of her title being "Manslaughter" she changes it to "Manslaughter" which was clever due to the actor killing many men in the film. She has challenging conventions as to the woman being the atagonist instead of the man in many horror films. 

    For her CCR (the first one) she will like the idea of a talk show where her group members will come live and have a game that has hints towards her film. It was a bit of a rough draft and the group tried to hammer it down to it being a talk show one on one but it could be a group, however, it would have to be filmed multiple times for each member of the group.

Tiziana's Process

    Tizianna hasn't started filming but I do enjoy her opening idea which has changed from her storyboard. It is a mystery where a case of a missing person gets re opened due to a recent murder that she has escaped from and have found out she has connections to the murder. 

   When talking about the Creative Critical Reflection, Tiziana mentioned that in the beginning of her film, the woman will be baking cupcakes. I thought the show "Cupcake Wars" is something she could take inspiration out of and do a cooking video while talking about the film like it is a talk show pretending to be a baking channel. 

    It is important to keep noted that even with everyone having messed up schedules, it is important that everyone has had scheduling issues with groups, actors, and even locations. Nonetheless, my project has been under the works and I have started my Creative Critical Reflection Scripts and will be filming this weekend in order to have a set deadline for myself. Thank you for reading everyone! Stay tuned for following updates on my project. 

 

CCR Prep - Question #1

     Hello everyone! what a crazy week! I am back with a surprise blog about my creative critical reflection. Which is a fancy term of just me reflecting back on what I did, how I did it, and how it all led up to my final product. Today I will be answering CCR Question #1 and don't get that confused with the scripting of my entire video since I am doing two CCR posts.

The CCR Question i will be answering today is... :

• How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups?

Genre and Social Groups

    In order to answer this we have to question what is my genre conventions and what are social groups. So my genre is horror, more specially slasher film horror. I have done many blog postings about horror in the past and one wasn't even apart of this project but it was done on October 31st for reference. I have my citations all ready to be put at the end of my CCR as well. My film decided to challenge genre conventions of horror genre because usually the killer is masked and clever enough to erase their tracks. However, in my film, I decided to portray my character as too shrouded in their own obsession it fogs up their mind and leads them to make very careless mistakes and decisions. 

    The social groups part of this question was a little tricky of me to understand but after seeing a few references I understood what it meant. Pretty much just asking how my genre represents my characters. In my case, my main character is represented as a villain who is coming from a troubled past of rejection and not enough attention. This is reflected psychologically due to her obsession with receiving validation from her mentor/doctor. 

    Keep in mind that this is the information that will be covered in my CCR, however, it will be set in a standard script that will be finished once I have both of the questions that will be answered in my first complete CCR so stay tuned for that!

Script Idea

    So for my first CCR post, I will be interviewed as a director and perform a director commentary. However, this will be in the dentist setting that is seen in my opening. Also, I will be interviewed by a news reporter of some sorts that comes into the work places of upcoming directors and interviews them about their new movie. 

    I will be walking through my day and taking in clients as well as documenting their charts on a computer while I'm being asked questions. These clients will be my family so they would have already shown up in my film and could be little easter eggs the audience could keep an eye out for. Below is a picture of what the background would look like more or less. It is the same picture used from my set design due to it being filmed in the same setting.

Post Production Editing!

     Hello everyone! Welcome back to the editing segment of my opening portfolio project! I'm so excited to finally edit my title sequences. I have already picked out font, color, and sizes as well as how they will be displayed on screen. I took my inspiration from the Black Phone as previously mentioned from a past blog of mine. Some of these transitions are also symbolic for my film.

Title Sequences (Font, Color, Size)

    Using this color picker, I was able to figure our the exact color shade I wanted but not necessarily the color because from my editing timeline the coloring is a bit weird when put on the screen and the beige contrasts with the background of my film. 

    From my inspiration, I decided to not use a pre made transition that Adobe had to offer and make the titles come onto a screen in a distorted, glitchy manner like they do in the Black Phone opening. However, some of these title sequences do just show up and I do want to alter my title sequences to have an interesting way of popping from the background. This should be especially done when it is my Movie title that I had a different idea to display it on the medical tray background instead but it will be edited in with text.

Here is an example of the black phone opening title sequences as a refresher just in case it was forgotten or it was needed as a reference to what I'm going to thoroughly explain.

    For the size, I wanted it to be very minimal and small. This font that I used is very similar to the one used in the Black Phone with the word "Film" in this example. I did, however, have to use the Black Phone's title sequence as a reference pretty closely in order to have a more attention grabbing graphic and have the audience pay attention to the background as well. While the title doesn't blend in too much it shouldn't contrast the background where it stands out and distracts from the actual opening. 

     

       

    As you can see the second example is the closest I had to the original reference which is what I ended up choosing for my actual opening since I did want a very close resemblance but not necessarily copy.

Transitions

    As for the transition and display onto the screen, I wanted to make the visual pop out and seem very glitchy because in the narrative world this is all being filmed with a digital camera so the images will be a slight distorted and blurred. I want to be show a clip of the transition because I am really proud of it and due to not having worked previously with after effects or anything of that sorts I am really proud that I came up with this. Obviously I had to get a few tips from peers who knew how to edit from my class. 

Clip of the title sequence transition

    Now, the transition is pretty quick I can admit and that is the intention because the nurse is working really quickly to get rid of this evidence and the shakiness does resemble the fast paced movements and contrasts with her relaxed movements while doing something inhumane.

    Below are a few time lapses of me working on the editing for these title sequences and I cannot tell a lie, it took a while but I have found a method on how to do this quicker and more effectively! This was me having to copy and paste the transition that I have already made and just change the text and font and then I'm good to go! This would only work for a few things like when a singular title is on screen, however, when it's a series of titles such as actor names, I will have to just display it on screen normally when a new clip is shown. 

    The first two Timelapse's were done in class and they were split up due to my battery running low on the first one then having to charge it. In the first time lapse you can see Maria was telling me where the effects were for text and I told her what I had for my vision and she gave me a few techniques I could use such as lowering the opacity, using a blur and making it vertical, all sorts of things that I used in order to come up with the final product. 

    The second Timelapse was me finally getting a handle on my own editing and I finally got to finish the where exactly I wanted my text to be along with making it visually appealing on the screen. And clearly the third time lapse was done in another classroom because I was dedicated to finish the transition during school. I was switching between two screens to see frame by frame the reference I had in order to make my transition not too choppy and with a few revisions I was left with an amazing final product! 

    For the record, I had everyone's permission who had their face in my time lapse to be posted on my blog and here is my evidence!

    Thank you for reading everyone and stay tuned for more future updates on editing. Also, a surprise blog post will be up tomorrow about a very exciting portion of this project!

Filming! Once Again

     Hello Everyone! It's been a while but I finally got to film yesterday and my editing has been halted to my title sequences at the moment. But all is well and don't fear, I have come to the rescue with my handy SD card! 

    I'm very glad I got to film with Maria again and I know she is such a busy girl but man am I so happy that she was able to film. Today I filmed the kill scene and the trash bag scene. Hopefully tomorrow will be the day we film the dialogue, if it's needed, and the clean up scene.

Behind the Scenes Day 4

    This time I had more access to camera equipment such as a professional camera along with the digital camera from before. I know, not very ideal to bring this up towards the end of my editing but I feel like better late than never. Also, not to mention that the beginning part of my film is supposed to be filmed digitally in the narrative world so it all checks out!

    Down below is my behind the scenes footage that I have filmed throughout my filming. Here I talk about the gore effects I used, the lighting, as well as different camera techniques that I used behind my production process and how it will work out in my editing process. 

Something that I really enjoyed from today's editing was utilizing the fake blood to the maximum and I got some pretty crazy shots of my film. Here's a few sneak peeks!

    I am really going to look foward to editing due to many ideas popping into my head about the title sequences I can use, what editing techniques I can incorporate and basically learn more with this hands-on experience. As well as talk about foley sounds that I have created.