The final project

 Its crazy to think that its finally over this project was a perfect mix of stressing yet exiting and im glad to have shared the process with all of you thank you for following along and without farther to do I present "Not Alone" please enjoy and again thank you!

Film opening "Not Alone"

creative critical reflection

So here is the ccr for my project it includes 2 videos for both of the parts and I Hope you guys enjoy 

CCR PART #1

CCR PART #2

well now we just have the film opening to go and then I can rest like this cat

Creative Reflection

 So I realized I didnt mention what the ccr is oops. Ccr stand for creative critical reflection the whole point of this activity is to revise and critize the whole progress of the film opening and overal just answer some critical questions. The ccr is 2 parts the first one I chose to do was an interview. The so called interview is just a one on one conversation in which someone will asks me questions about the film, now as for the second one it will be a video like that of a director commentary explaining mostly the strategies and film production and how the whole film opening was edited.

So to begin my first ccr I will be getting interviewed by one of my friends. I took inspiration from podcasts and overall interviewing scenes from talk shots as well. But here are some examples of my intended idea. 

As you can see there is some items a nice background and both people have some sort of cup or drink so I want to find a way to apply all these things to my interview to make it realistic.

Lastly I had to develop a script that would assist me in making my project just overall look more realistic and also answer the critical questions that we were given so here is the script I came up with 

Of course I cant memorize all of this but this is a rough idea of what I want to say and what I intend on responding hopefully it all comes out good and once I finish Recording ill put examples here of how the shots looked and the overall vibe it gave. 

So I did finish recording and here is how it looked im honesty pleased and think I made it look as best as possible but well see once it comes down to atually editing and finishing it up 

Now I also began the creation of my ccr number 2 the director commentary this video will be a youtube style video in which I will explain the production skills I developed in the project and the technologies used from the video it will be around 3 minutes long I as well developed a script for this explaining my favorite parts of the film and overall responding to the questions without them being actually asked here is the script I came up with 

Well basically that is the end of the road. Thank you all for following my aice media project adventure and after all the sweat and stress it is finished I will be uploading both ccrs and then my actual film opening soon I hope you guys enjoy and like I said thank you for everything.

Editing part 3 sound and credits

 So I am now back and I began the audio part of the process so luckily I did not need to do as much with this step now that does not mean that it was not important in fact audio is a really big part of my film opening. 

The audio in my film is what creates the sense of a sad mood so the way I did this was by muffling a part of the audio whenver it jumps to the perspective or overall shots of the main character sebas aswell I added a non copy right sound track of melancholy music which I found trough an audio database Im pretty happy with how it has been coming out and overall the audio seemed right I also went ahead and added a small part in which the dialogue is easier to hear since the camera gets closer to one of the characters. This hopefully will give it an effect as if the reader was a part of the conversation.

Lastly I pretty much used the audio I got from the recording of the shots and only added small amount of audio and edited the volume and compression of it. Here is some of the process. 

Here I want to show the audio pause I did now I do not plan on doing all the editing on capcut and if anthing I will make changes through a different software but here the audio pause I mentioned was the music I involved ending as the main character is touched by the female character I was extremly happy with how it came out and cant wait to show you guys with the finished product

In this image you can see short cuts in the audio these cuts are the noise slowly fading away as jumpcuts show my main character walking away I still have to get some timing right and overall fix a couple minor issues but it should come out perfectly.

Lastly I want to mention that I finished editing by implementing the final thing I needed the credits for the film. The order for the credits was in a strange way since I wanted to show my title at the end and most of the credits as the opening goes on.

Here is a list of the credits I implemented:

Producer

Director

Editor

Title

Main actors

Cinematographer

Screenwriter 

 

Lastly here is an example of the font I used and what the credits look like in the actual opening

Well thats all for editing basically done with the project just need to begin the ccr and edit that and we should be all done all I want to say is thank you for watching the journey of the creation of the opening for not alone all the creative input it gave me and ideas were extremly fun and im exited to show the final product see you guys soon!

Editing part 2 Effects

 Hey guys back on the editing but this time im editing the effects of my film and overall editing the actual look of the shots I took

I simply began by editing the saturation and coloring of the shots through a different software although not a very good software for editing I had to use Capcut. The reason for this is that I had to reput together the film opening because my laptop had an issue with the editing software I was using and unlucky for me that was the first time it has ever happened. While I fix that so I can begin sound editing I began by using built in effects from capcut and filters to make my image look better

Here are examples of the before and after 

In these shots the before is the top one and the after is the bottom on as you can see I implemented different editing plans for example effects and color changes to add more brightness to the actual film. The whole point of this is to show the "happier" people with a more bright and colorfull shot.

In the other hand I did the opposite here although I did use effects and messing around with saturation and other things I  made the image darker my reason for this is to show the gloomy world in which my character lives in.

Im honestly very happy with the way all these effects came together and im even happier with how its coming out. What I have next is a sound editing blog which like I said in the past blog will be seperate since I am in the middle of break and have some things to take care of like me becoming a US Citizen! but thats all for today and ill see you guys soon!

Editing day 1

 So I decided to devide my editing in shorter blogs since its gonna take me a while after looking at it.

I want to begin by showing the actual putting together of the film and explaining the software I used and why.

So I decided to edit my project through davinci resolve since it is a editing plataform I have used before and so I have overall experience using it, it is also very easy to use and there is various tutorials online as to how to use this software but if necessary once I begin sound and effect editing then I will use different softwares to give it the look I intend on achieveing. I also came up with a title and decided to name the film "Not Alone" honestly very simple and straight forward but I think it will help the viewer kind of understand the film opening. 

So to beging I began by creating a new project in davinci resolve to add the videos I took into the editing software 

Through here all I had to do was access my folder with all the imported videos from my camera in which I filmed with to export them into the software and then start grouping them

Here is the simple and striaght forwards proccess of just dragging the video into the davinci resolve timeline and the final product would look like this.

With all the shots I took now in the timeline I can begin shortening and extending them and overall just adjusting the image to better fit the idea that I have of the film now all thats left to do is beging the sound and effect editing which due to plans my mom made I can not currently do. But I will make a blog post actually begining that progress next week see you guys next time!

Filming

 Since its spring break I was able to gather only a couple people sadly to film I got 4 friends to help me film and 2 of them are actually also taking aice media so im using theyre creative imput to see if I make any changes any how here is how filming went 

This is my main actors Isabel, And Lote they are going to be playing the girl who takes interest in the main character on the main character.

So we arrived at the filming location and immideatly we began recording since the sunrise was still visible. I began by taking an opening shot of the area by taking a video of the beach and waves and sunrise this will be used as my establishing shot for my film opening which will the be followed by the title which I have yet to come up with sadly.

Afterwards we began filming with taking simple shots for example the long shot of the main character which I will name sebastian after my friend under the pier viewing the group of teenagers conversating. After wards I took a mediium shot of the group conversating following a medium shot too show more expression in my other character which I will name Isa. Then I took the long shots of the characters walking that I mentioned and I continued with my Shot list which I updated recently. But the filming ended up going according to plan and here are some images of what the shots will look like but without the editing since I have yet to get to that part. 

Well thats a quick sneak peak at some of the shots I took for the film and hopefully the idea pulls through once I get to actually editing all of it together im overall very exited to show the final product and well discuss the editing proccedure once I am able to begin it since like I said spring break has started and theres a lot going on but hopefully im done soon. See you guys next time!