Creative Critical Reflection

Final Project

Setting up the reflection

     As I am finishing up with this project creation journey, I am making my final editing touches as well as reflect on how great of a journey this actually was. From not knowing what to do at all, to making a decision, to gathering research, to doing everything over again, oh jeez. What a ride.

     To create my Critical Reflection, I have decided to use iMovie in order to express my ideals in a much more organized manner. I will be creating a "movie" in where small clips, screenshots and slides will be displayed in order for me to explain my process meticulously  and for the viewer to get a better understanding of it. I will also be recording my voice through iMovie, implementing it, and cutting it out right to assure a good quality audio.

     My journey is coming to a close and I can not resist to express my thanks to everyone who helped me out in the creation of my film. From my classmates, who critiqued me and opinionated on everything that could be improved, to my actors, who were kind enough to take time out of their day to help me out with my project, to my teacher, who gave me all the resources possible to assure that I succeed in the creation of this film. Thank you. 

Just some editing left!

     I did it. After filming my whole entire film opening, realizing that it was not good enough for my expectations when editing, making the stressful decision of having to restart from the beginning, and filming everything all over again, I have officially finished with the hardest part of the project itself, which was to put all my ideas together and film them. I finally have a set of clips and music that I am satisfied with and am glad to turn in!
     Now, that does not mean I am done, whatsoever. I want this film opening to be amazing. In fact, I want this film opening to be the best academic project that I have ever completed. In order to do that, I need to maintain my focus, be patient, and keep in mind that anything could ever be improved. Although I already have all the clips that will be used within my opening, I will need to gather my peer's opinions about what they think could be improved about the film, reflect on them, and improve my film opening as a whole. I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE FINAL PRODUCT!!!!

So Many Changes...

     If there is one thing that this production process has taught me, is the fact that not because things do not go as planned out, does not mean things did not go well.
     As mentioned in this blog, my film opening would consists of three characters (girlfriend, boyfriend, mother) and would have dialogue throughout the whole opening, right? Wrong. I started filming what I had planned, and did not like a single thing about it. I did not like the dialogue, I did not like how so many questions were answered within the first two minutes of the film.
     I decided to completely alter what my film opening would have been into, what I feel like, is a much better film opening because it better fits for my plot and target audience as well as maintain the fundamental techniques that I had initially. My new film opening will consist of no dialogue, music playing in the background, and various shots of the girlfriend preparing (packing) to leave to college. Also, the film opening will NOT focus on the boyfriend. This is done to make the viewer wonder who this person that the girl is thinking about is, rather than tell the viewer right away and answer many questions right away. Aspects on characterization will also be established as the camera shots will point to various items that have taken a role in the girl's relationship in which trigger memories within the girl's mind, even though the viewer does not fully understand why, yet.
     This film opening will not only make the film more interesting, since it creates so many questions that will later be answered within the film, but it will also remove the "cheesy" and awkward aspects of the film opening that were there from the start.
     Figuring this out has made me so relieved since I finally like what I am doing and feel like I am actually producing a good film. I am excited to reach a final product and know what you guys think(:


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My first solution...

     I found a solution to my picture problem!!!!

     Unfortunately, I do not have to figure out a way to go back in time in order to get the time-progression pictures. Darn. I wanted to go back in time. 

     Anyway, I found a much simpler way for a "couple" to show that they have lasted a long time through the use of pictures. My male protagonist currently has a girlfriend, who is also my planned female protagonist, in the real world. Although he has not known her for long enough to have dated her since his elementary school years, he has known his sister since that time. 

     No. I will not be using a brother and a sister to star as a couple in my film opening. That would just be weird. However, what I am going to do is that, since the sister does relatively look a lot like his girlfriend in the fact that they both have black hair and light skin tone, I am going to get the pictures of my male protagonist and his sister through the years and make it look as if those are images of the current couple. Simple.