Here it is! The long awaited for film opening! Both links should work, however, the google drive one may be higher quality. Enjoy, and thank you for following me along on the journey!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hq9x4jpZnBf1zvuE-2p8_av3ltLQ2VVE/view?usp=drivesdk
Hey again, I’m back to upload my CCR. Within this video I answered the 4 essential questions behind the film opening project and provided details about many things such as the process behind planning different elements of this movie, how we found a target audience, and more. I also reflected upon our process and my personal feeling towards the experience. Film opening coming soon! Both of the following links should lead directly to my CCR, but the google drive one may be higher quality. Thanks!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S-6BRZ12V8paYDqhYzpGWA6kJ0pcMJrD/view?usp=drivesdk
This will sadly be one of my last process/ reflection blogs before I post the final film opening project. I wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the key moments of my group’s experience and process with this project.
I think one of the very first key moments was deciding what we wanted our film to be about and what we wanted our opening to establish. There was a lot of debate and back and forth with me not really wanting to originally do a sports-based movie and other members of my group not wanting to do a rom-com type movie, but eventually we settled and compromised on a sports drama and determined establishing conflict in the opening was our goal as dramas are typically and characteristically filled with conflict.
Actually getting together to start filming our project was another big moment for us as well because along the way we made some slight changes. For example, some of the lines said were changed to make them more concise and less awkward when said aloud because when writing them they sounded fine, but sounded too formal when actually speaking them to create conversation for the opening.
I think another big key moment was when we changed the script/ opening from having both parents within it to just the mom because this was vital to keeping our project within the time frame and I think ended up benefiting our project more rather than ruining it.
Lastly, seeing all the clips we’d filmed come together was also a pretty big moment for me because I could see the final product in front of me rather than visualizing it in my head, like we had been doing for the entire length of this project timeline up until this point. Overall, I’m glad this project went fairly smoothly as I had a great, hardworking team and was able to easily grasp and utilize the knowledge I’ve learned in this media course to do so. Project reveal coming very soon!
So the big moment has come in which our project is done, so I just wanted to blog a little about how I feel about the overall experience and seeing how every aspect over the past month has pieced together and led to this ultimate moment in which my group has a physical visual symbolizing all of our collective hard work and dedication toward this process. Although at the beginning, seeing the ending seemed very difficult and unrealistic, we have finally gotten to the end and it has definitely been worth it. To see what started with a bit of research on a genre, target audience, and struggling to come up with a plot for the film opening and film itself, turn into a 2 minute film opening is very much rewarding.
Since I was the one in my group who was more behind the scenes, in terms on filming the project and editing it, rather than acting in it, I was gradually able to start visualizing everything coming together as we were filming it, but once I actually sat down and pieced everything together and made adjustments on iMovie, it became clear everything had worked out. This whole process and experiment just goes to show that every independent element we’ve learned throughout this course was able to come together to allow us to show how we’ve adapted these skills and lessons and apply them.
P.S. - project coming soon!!
Are you ready for the biggest and best update yet? Drumroll please……….our film opening is DONE. We added the opening credits and it really pulled the whole project together.
We decided the most important opening credits we’re “edited by:,” “directed by:,” “cinematography by:,” who the film stars, and the title of our film, “Kicking It.” That’s why those are the ones we decided to include. Also, when edited in the credits I tried to include them on the beat of the background music to make the credits more appealing and satisfying to view.
I also chose a bold font and the color white because it stood out from the green grass background and blue sky and I also didn’t want to choose a color that was too bright or bold because I didn’t want it to distract from the overall visual of the scenes of soccer. However, the title is in a bright blue color so it stands out from the rest of the credits yet looks aesthetically pleasing to the overall picture. My group is very excited to soon share all our hard work by revealing our film opening soon. Stay tuned!
BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! We are almost done with our project! I edited together all the clips and created one cohesive video. Although I may have faced some setbacks along the way, the process was definitely a fun learning process.
The main struggle was getting our opening to fit into the 2 minute time frame maximum. I originally edited everything to the length I thought it looked perfect at, however, then I saw the video was just over 3 minutes long. I knew I had to cut down on some of our footage, so finding parts to cut out that were the least important/vital was difficult to do. What I ended up doing was reducing the number of clips of our character Gabriel playing soccer toward the beginning and one of the short scenes of Gabe in his room after he slams the door closed because my group felt as though these added to our opening the least. This caused me to run into one tiny other problem though. Now, we had to find a way to slightly shorten each clip while still producing quality scenes that show continuity and have proper pacing, so our opening wouldn’t seem rushed. Eventually, after much manipulation, we got it to a point where we were happy with the final product while still keeping out final elements with pretty decent pacing.
The only thing left to do is add the opening credits to the final piece. Looking forward to it and updating you guys until the end of the whole process!
Here it is! The long awaited for film opening! Both links should work, however, the google drive one may be higher quality. Enjoy, and than...
