CCRs

 Hi, so here are my CCR's. The first is a podcast called The Insider, and the second is inspired by Wired's series of Answering The Web's Most Searched Questions. Hope you enjoy!

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Film Opening EEEEEK

 Hi, so here is my film opening for Knock On Love. Hope you enjoy it!

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Portfolio Final Reflection

 Hi blog, so I am at last done with my portfolio project. After 8 weeks of editing, filming, and practically crying from the stress, I am done. Now that I get a chance to look back at the whole process I think we should have a recap. So, I started this whole process by researching and researching and more researching. I analyzed countless romantic comedies, looking for what I liked and what I didn't. After choosing what type of way I wanted to approach the credits, establish character, and display opposites attract, I began to brainstorm with my team how we would like to depict all our ideas into a cohesive opening. This brainstorming process proved to be a lot more difficult than the research. I felt as though I succeeded in researching too much, if that was possible since all my ideas seemed basic and seen already. At this point in the project, we were due to film soon and were expected to begin making storyboards and scripts. Yet, we could not decide on an idea that we genuinely liked. That is until one late Facetime call between all my members turned into a brainstorming session that basically answered all our prayers. As soon as my team member thought of the meeting by getting the wrong apartment, I jumped into making a script and planning a storyboard. This idea gave me so much excitement as it was one that I felt like we began to build upon. Most of my blogs from there on out were all different ideas that I wanted to include within the opening. How I wanted to play around with the sound, by making it cut off as they meet, and how I wanted the credits and colors to match the personality and mood of the film. To say the least, I became completely devoted to the planning out of the process, and the lack of creativity I had before seemed to have stopped being a problem. 

 All this excitement was dampened though, as I had trouble with the filming. At first, it was because my actors had athletic tournaments over the weekend and could not miss them. Then it was a matter of finding an apartment to film in. When I realized that my aunt has a beach house/apartment here in Miami, I was elated. I thought this was the perfect setting and even went as far as buying a UM flag to go with the Miami setting and use it as a prop. Unfortunately, even after I had communicated with my aunt about wanting to go film there, it seemed I did not communicate enough as she notified her security too late and we were unable to film on the weekend we wanted to. Now something about me is my love for balance and schedules. If something happens to go awry, I tend to get overly stressed. This is what happened to me when I heard that the day before we were set to film, we had nowhere to actually film. I am guessing my dad saw me in my time of need and called his friend to help out. His friend offered his own apartment and we were able to film after all. The filming process was a little chaotic, as it was a completely different setting than what I had envisioned, but nonetheless, I was grateful to have an apartment to film in.

Then, when it came to editing, I realized that one just has to have patience. At times, I would get frustrated with Adobe Premier Pro and Adobe Express, but eventually with a little help from classmates, I got the hang of it. I used my previous blogs to create the credits that I was planning on making and made sure to include all my ideas such as the sound. I may have gotten a little crazy while editing trying to make everything perfect, but I realized that I just have to try my best and be content with what I create. This process was the same with my CCRs as I re-filmed and re-edited until it was as close to my end goal as possible.

Overall, looking back at the whole process, I have realized how far I have come since the beginning of the year. I knew so little about the media world in general, let alone how to edit. But after consistently going to class and constantly giving my all in all the projects I was able to learn so many different techniques and aspects of films. I believe I could have improved some things within my project such as procrastination, and watching more editing videos to enhance my skills. I learned to communicate more with my team members as well, since at time we did not speak for days and it took a toll on my stress regarding the project. If I were given the opportunity to redo it all, I would go back and pay more attention to these aspects and ensure that not only are we ahead and well-planned, but we take a better use of the time we had in class to develop more of the project, instead of doing most of it at home. Other than that, I am pretty happy with how it all turned out. Stay tuned for my film opening and CCRs!

CCR Update

 Hi blog, so quick update. I basically just re-filmed my second CCR for the billionth time, ant this time I counted down the seconds and timed myself to make sure that it was exactly 10 minutes. It was pretty simple to film this time around see I had a clear understanding of what I wanted to say. I realized I had to cut off a lot of my intro that I wanted to do for my first CCR, which made me a little disappointed. I am currently in the process of trying to make the 0.4 second of the intro I have look good, but there's not much I can do if I am being honest. 

Other than that, the two CCR's are completely edited and cited. After asking a peer how they cited their own, she told me that she did a kind of rolling credits, which I went ahead and did as well. I used this site to create each citation and found it to be very helpful. 

CCR 2 Process

 Hi, so basically I went to visit my sister at her apartment in UF and she helped me film my last CCR. I realized that I haven't mentioned what I had in mind because I have been so busy editing that I just keep forgetting to update my blog once I made progress. So, anyway my second CCR is inspired by Wired's youtube video of asking Olivia Rodrigo the web's most searched questions. The video is attached below.

I thought this was a creative way of answering the last two questions as well as the final statement. I created my own Google board by printing out a Google search bar and gluing on some questions as well as blank pieces of paper that I could peel off to reveal each question, and then gluing that piece of paper on a piece of cardboard. I forgot to take a photo of the process of making the little board, but below I have attached a photo of how it turned out.

A few parts of the video with Olivia Rodrigo included short clips saying that they were going to ask her some burning questions along with upbeat music over it. I wanted to do the same, which is why i took a picture of my sister's room and blurred it, and then used the sound Shake That by FASS, which I found from the site upbeats where I have chosen all of my non-copywrited music so far. The photo below is the one I took of my sister's room prior to blurring it.

Now I am almost done with editing the video and realize that I am going to be a little over the 10 minute mark. This worries me greatly since I do not know how to fix it. I feel like I answered all the question and elaborated upon my responses which is why it took so much time, but if it means that I answered them appropriately, then is there really an issue? In the meantime, I am trying to quicken the pace of my words to see if that will help, if not then I may have to think about cutting some parts of the clips, which I would rather not do as I think it is better to include details of my elaboration and explanation behind the whole process.

First CCR Process

 Hi, so like I mentioned earlier I wanted to do a podcast type of media for my first CCR. I decided to write a script of what I would say and chose my mom to interview me. The script is the back-and-forth conversation between my mom and I, but despite trying to film it, my mom gave up on it as she said it was too difficult for her since English is not her first language. This led me to make the slight change on having my friend Daniela play the role of the host. Remind me to thank her later for staying up until 1 am with me to finish filming this. Anyway, the script I had was not intended for Daniela, so we made quick changes at the moment, but I would still like to show you what it mainly consisted of.

Now you may be thinking that that is quite a long dialogue, and you are right. After I filmed it all and began to edit I realized that it got quite long. So, I made the decision to leave out some clips, such as a mention of utilizing social media to engage audiences. While the mention is important, it does not necessarily have to be included as it is more among the marketing aspect and not the distribution one that is being asked. I am a little worried about going over 10 min though, since the final video after all my editing for the first CCR is 6:13 long. Hopefully, it all works out once I begin to edit my second CCR.

I also wanted to mention how I changed the layout of my entire living room to make it seem like a nice podcast. I mentioned in previous blogs about being inspired by Jake Shane's podcast and the warm colors of his setting, which is why I tried to replicate the same using warm light and green and brown colors.

Here is a video of the state of my living room once I had moved all the furniture around. let's just say that my mom was not very happy about it. But, anything for the project right?

Lastly, I made a little intro for the beginning of the podcast by simply taking clips of my backyard and greenery around me in Gainesville that I thought was visually appealing. Then I created a logo on Canva and put the sound Uplifting Future indent by Oakvale of Albion, which I found from the non-sopywrited site: Upbeats. Here is the logo I created on canva, I wanted to add the palms around the podcast name: The Insider so it would match the plant in between my friend Daniela and I, as well as the clips of greenery in the intro. 

The intro aspect was inspired by the opening of the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. I was thinking about doing a talk show instead of a podcast, until I realized that a talk show would be more realistic with an adult, which I did not have, so my friend would be best suited for a podcast instead. Below is the opening of the Tonight Show that inspired me.

Update of editing

 Hi, so I basically edited all the clips and I am trying to make them into a montage on adobe premier pro. I managed to use a variety of unboxing clips and make fast cuts between them. While I have gotten used to using adobe premier pro, there are still parts to the platform that I do not know how to use, specifically inserting text. So, I downloaded my edited video as an mp4 and planned to edit the credits on adobe express. 

Once I started to cut the video into parts to make it simpler to put credits, I realized that it would be difficult to allow the audience to read a credit such as " director and producer: Alexandra Nunez" within the 1.5 sec cut in the little montage at the unboxing scene. This took be aback for a moment since it made me realize that the original plan will not work out to our liking. To try to get inspiration on how others implemented their own credits I began to look at past students' projects and noted that their credits were within short clips that did not last longer than 4 seconds. This made me get the idea that instead of a fast montage, I could use the same idea, but just make each shot stay a little longer on the screen than I had originally planned. Once I edited it in that way I noted that it looked a lot more professional and visually appealing as each clip, such as placing a book on a shelf, was only seen once, whereas in my prior video, it was seen numerous times alternating between other shots. 

I also wanted to add a little production company logo as the beginning to make it seem more like a real film. I planned on using Canva to create it, and chose upon a simple name: Blue Bird Films. I found a little blue bird that flew across the screen and paired it with a large green tree as well as the title that could be animated to rise up. Then, using the site with the non-copy write songs, I found the noise of a bird chirping, and put it all together. I am quite content with how it turned out and look froward to showing my group members