social media posts

 So as I said before I have to make fake social media so here are all the posts that would have been in the social media if real the inspiration was hozier. All pictures taken by me and the artist for the project really liked how it came out. 

editing part two

 this whole blog will be dedicated to the atrocity that properly mixing the audio to the videos was. It was honestly so tiring and difficult to get this part right because trying to perfectly sink the videos with the platform I used for editing cost  money so I had to go and do it myself manually I had to personally go and stretch the audio bar so far to the point where I could find where they would connect it was honestly just such a dreadfull process but we got it done.

Apart from that I also added some text to the music video to make it seem less bland which was honestly the main issue of the project. But adding the text also helped connect to the digi pack which is good. Overall this part of editing was not to long but it did for sure have its issues I do wish that there would have been a better way to prevent the whole audio issue without having to pay for some dumb membership (aka fix my laptop so my editing software works) but hey what can I do.

Welp this is pretty much the end of the music video since I now finished production and editing which is good one thing I will say is that I do wish there could have been different ways to go along the editing process so that not only would it have been easier but also would have had better results overall thats pretty much it for this short blog. See you guys next time!

Critical Reflection research

 So now is the time to start stressing about the critical reflection honestly my main concern is I will procrasinate and not get it done in time which wont happen but I still worry. So to begin this part of the project I decided to go and look at past critical reflections through the public project postings. I went in and researched about 5 past project creative reflections and used them to gather information about how I will write my personal one.

Doing the research for this part of the project was a good idea I found that most students started off and ended the same they made sure to stay in topic and tried to find ways to talk about random part of their projects to answer the specific questions. Viweing multiple creative reflections also allowed me to reflect on my personal project and understand how I can or how I will reflect and answer the questions when in regards to my project. My main concer is after reading the project of others was that mine might get to repetitive since my music video and the song used follow a very specific theme. Hopefully I find a way to not get stuck in a cycle and instead just continue figuring out how I can reflect the questions properly and attach multiple ideas from my project. 

The main goal for now is to make a bit of planning for the critical reflection so that when it does come to making it It will be easier for me. But overall researching some other reflections helped understand how I should go about the creative reflection and gave me ideas as to ways I can attach my personal project to some of the questions without making it seem super repetitive. Honestly dreading the day of submission and it has been very stressing. But thats all for now see you guys next time!

actual photo of me knowing Its almost submission day

Production part five

 Hi guys todays blog is dedicated all to the digipack and to the cover for the song itself. I decided to do the vinyl since I love vinyls with every single inch of my soul so I though it would be cool to do the vinyl. Honestly there is not much to talk about expect how much fun this process was. The way it started was by taking photos for the original album cover which is the same photos and design I wanted to use for the vinyl since thats usually what artisits do. This part was super fun to do and honestly was very simple and just entertaining here are all the producs of this part

Album cover and front of vinyl

Back of Vinyl 

Poster (vinyl content)

Production part four

 So this is the first day of editing. Now I am seperating the editing into two blog posts the first one being the actual cutting of the videos because that was such a long process. For this part of editing what I did was put all the videos into my editing software (Sadly Capcut because mine is not working) and placed them into the editing bar. 

the first thing I did was watch each video and select the clips I liked from those videos cut them and then pasted them into a seperate section so that I could like I said before pick and choose which parts I liked. The annoying part about this is that I had realized I made some mistakes in some parts of filming. I should have probably made a better attemp at filming and even gone back to film a third day. Anyway no time to feel sad about the past. I continued to pick and choose clips it took me about only a billion times of watching the multiple videos to figure out which ones I liked.

The next thing I did was grab some of the clips I liked from filming and started randomly mixing them to see how they would look as an actual music video. Now I kid you not this was horrible...I am a very indecisive person so I did not know which one of all of them I liked the most it took me at least three hours to actually go ahead and choose which one I liked Honeslty horrible but whatever. I honestly just need to lock in and actually commit to this.

At the end though I found one which I thought was good mixed all the clips together and called it quits because editing felt like an eternity and I am not even done so in the mean time we are done with that. I  will make a second blog for the second day of filming but for now that is all no  more editing please. Anwyay see you guys next time and here is some pics of how I did the whole process.

Group meeting part two

 So I did not think this was gonna be something we did but I am sure glad that Mrs. Stoklosa made us do this. We had ANOTHER group meeting. I honestly really enjoy these group meetings and do think that they help since we are getting others perspective and help and it is also just super cool to see what others are working on.

Anyway as what we talked about im going to section it into four different parts starting with

Nathaniels Project- For nathaniels project we mostly talked about his social media. He showed us all the stuff hes done and how his project is coming along for now which in my opinion is coming out very well I do think his idea is pretty funny as well. He also did inspire me to see what I would make for my social media posts and overall did not have much issues he did mention though that his audio needs some work so hopefully he finds a way to fix that. He also told us he has someone making original music for his film which is super cool. Overall though it seems his project is going well and hopefully he figures out the whole audio issue thing.

Me- We did not really talk much for mine since there was nothing to talk about we did talk about how I do plan to actually make a vinyl using the cover and backpart of the digipack just for self pleassure I even though of buying one for my teacher but well see if I can even do that before graduation. One critique I did get was to make a fake social media because the one issue we had was that we did not want to get the project one confused with the artists actual one so I will be working on making fake posts through canva and then sharing the file in the final project so that it can be graded. I do wish that this was not what I had to do but due to scheduling issues and the whole getting mixed up thing I wil be having to go through this path.

Mahatee- Mahatee only had issues regarding her social media. She did not really know what to do or what to post so what we mostly talked about was some ideas as to what she could do for the social media part of the project. We gave her ideas like meet the cast or meet the director which was what most people doing the short film were doing. And we also had sugested to use a symbol of some sort to tease the film. Honestly that was pretty much all though there was not much to talk about except social media post ideas.

Juan- For juan we mostly talked about his social media as well. Same as Mahatee we gave those same ideas and even added he should use memes. One thing we also talked about was the music in his film. I had suggested they should find a way to make original music for the film and use that so hopefully he does go trought with that plan so I feel cool. That was all we talked about and it was just a fun day.

I really enjoyed this day since we got to see our friends creative process hopefully they all do good with their projects and use the ideas we gave I know I will be using some. 

Production part three

 So this is the second day that I film and it also went well so thats good. Today we filmed the four other locations in the same park and it all went well.

One thing is that I do not think I will be using one of the shots because I honestly did just not like how it came out. It looked odd and it did not feel like it fit the overall idea we had for the music video but apart from that it all went well.

The first place we shot at was in one of the trial areas near the other spot in which we had filmed. This part was just for the extreme close up shots I will be using in the video and also as a just in case background parts for the video. The only issue I had was mantaining the camera stable and making sure that the video did not look shacky. Sadly I do not own or can borrow a tripod or stablizer so I gotta try and just be stable myself.

As for the second location in which we did filming it was this very interesting spot. It was a set of stairs and ramps in which the artist himself thought doing a couple tracking shots would come out cool for some parts of the video and I totally agree it took a couple tries because we wanted to execute this part right but in the end it came out exactly how we wanted and so thats good. I will say my camera management skills do need some work though.

The last location we used was a part next to this lake. I am not really sure wether I want to use this or not but I will be using a photo that I took in that same place as part of the digipack which is the next thing I will probably work on before editing. But overall the reason why I might not use this specific area is becuse I found that the idea of a long shot or extreme long shot did not look good in most parts of the song itself and just did not properly match so for now I have to wait and see if I will use it or not when It comes down to editing. 

Overall though filming went great today I really liked how some of the shots came out and I am already starting to picture how the music video will come together but filming today was fun and well see if any changes are made later on.

Here is an example of the shots. Thats all for now bye guys!!!