CCR script for question #3

 Script for CCR Question #3

How did your production skills develop throughout this project? 

Interview: Hi are you Peyton Chatman? 

Peyton: Yes I am!

Interviewer: Wonderful.. can I interview you?

Peyton: Yes of course what do you want to know?

 Interviewer: How did your production skills develop through out this project?

 Peyton: Soo.. this might take a while to answer, I believe my skills have developed in so many ways while doing this project!

Interviewer: Really! Can you explain to me how? 

Peyton: Of Course!!

Peyton: In our previous projects.. I typically did not use a tripod or any sort of equipment to keep the camera stable and non shaky.

Interview: Really wowww! 

Peyton: Using the tripod really helped me produce the best quality scenes we possibly could

Peyton: This project is the first one that I had to make sure I used equipment and made sure the camera was centered and not shaky at all!

Interviewer: What equipment did you use?

Peyton : I used a tripod, funny story actually I did not think I had one in my home but my dad hd one in the garage.

Interviewer: Do you think using the tripod helped your production skills improve? 

Peyton: Of course 1000%, you can also see a huge difference form the quality of this project compared to the other ones that were filmed in the past. 

Interviewer: Do you think your production skills have improved? Yes 100%, when filming in the past I used to just keep the first clip we filmed, but now throughout this project I have learned that it may take 3-4 tries to get the best quality footage possible.

Script for Question #4!!

 Script for Question #4

-How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

Interviewer:  So How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

Peyton: Well.. We used many technologies I will tell you how.

Interwier: Ok!

Peyton; A software we used is called Imoive. 

Interviewer: What did you use it for? 

Peyton: We used iMovie to piece the scenes/clips together after we were done filming, and we trimmed some of the clips that we had in this software.

Interviewer: Wow! I bet that was really helpful. Isn't iMovie free? 

Peyton: Yes!! and its very easy to use!

Interviewer :What other technologies did you use?

Peyton: Canva!

Interviewer: What for?

Peyton: We used canva to do our credit scenes, we found a texting video template and we customized it to fit all of the credentials we need for our credits!

Interviewer: Wow!!

Interviewer: Did you end up using any softwares??

Peyton: Yes we used premier pro. It is what we used to edit our film instead of iMovie. 

Post-production Process!

 Prost-Production Process!!

Editing 

The first step we did right after we finished was start our editing process. We re watched all of our clips to make sure everything was good and to see if we needed to reshoot any scenes. we are going to use Premier Pro for our editing resource, we were going to use iMovie at first but many of our classmates recommend to Premier Pro instead, and its free!! 

Credits 

For our credits since we use texting in our film, we decided that it would be a good idea to find a texting/messaging video or template on canva and edit it to fit the different criteria we need. For example we need director, actors, writers, editors, and a production name. So we customized it to fit everything that we need. 

Music

I gotten multiple suggestions on music, especially with the coming of age genre. Many coming of ages movies find a way to layer music in their scene and also to have it low enough to where you can still hear what is going on. I think I definitely need to add music for the very first scene, the mirror scene. The mirror scene would be the perfect time to add music into our film.

 

I am very happy with how our film and filming process turned out. I am so glad we were able to make things work even with roadblocks, and adjust.

Group Meeting

 Today was a very productive/successful day in aice media studies! We had a group meeting!

Group Meeting

A group meeting is where a group of students sit together and have a discussion about whatever their topic may be. I find whenever we do group meetings in class to be very inspirational and very helpful, every time we have had a meeting I leave with new ideas, and answers to questions that I did not know how to answer. Our topic today in the group meeting is about our film opening and the CCR. My group consisted of 5 people and it was randomized, I had Lee, Camila, Mathias, and Micheal.

Film Opening 

For most of our group meeting we talked about our film opening since that is what everyone in our group has finished. Everyone in our group has finished with filming but, none of us are done with the editing process. Peyton has 1 person in her group, Camila has 3 people in hers, Lee has 4 people, and then Micheal and Matias are working alone. Our group suggested to me to finish editing by 3/15 so I won't be stressed or craving anything over the break. The editing platform that everyone in my group is using is called Premier Pro they said it was better than iMovie. I was wondering what platform to use for the fonts for our credits and they recommended using Canva because they have a big variety of fonts to choose from. I was debating on wether having music in the film or not but, Micheal said that its a good idea and there's a way that you can have it low enough to where you can hear it and still hear what's being said in between the characters. 

CCR 

I had sooooo many questions about the CCR part of our project because I missed it due to being ill. I was told that for the CCR we have to go into depth with our responses..as I expected LOL. Lee told me a good idea on how to break up the four questions, I am going to do one video for 4 minutes long and another one that's 4 minutes long. Apparently it's easier to answer the 3rd question last and so I will be answering the 3rd question last.  I was so glad that my group members explained to me what it is and suggest some ideas because I was so lost. I am thinking of doing a Presentation with a little bit of a Ted Talk spin... so I am going to have a pen every time I click the pen a new image is going to appear and the image is going to be related to what I am saying. Almost everyone in our group had a general idea of what they were going to be doing. I got a suggestion to have my CCR edited by Monday and have it filmed by 3/17. 

So.. in conclusion this was by far the most successful group meeting ever!!!

Production/Filming Process

 This is the closet scene, this was one of the quicker clips we have in our film.

Closet Scene

In this scene Peyton is looking in her closet and trying to grab the basket with the bathing suits in it. Peyton doesn't look too happy in this scene because she is really dreading picking out which swimsuits she is going to be wearing on Saturday at the beach. 

Problems/Solutions

This scene took about 2 attempts to get it right. On the first try I ended up dropping the basket, I have no clue how that occurred but for the second try I definitely made sure I held on tight.

Mirror Scene

This scene was by far the most awkward thing to film ever!

In this scene Peyton is looking in the mirror at her body. Peyton is very sad in this part of the film, because she is really dreading going to the beach and having to wear a bathing suit. She is feeling very insecure here and feels like she's ugly and has many flaws.

Problems/Solutions 

This scene was very awkward to film and I couldn't keep a straight face. So this took about 4 tries to film I really tried to look sad here and was thinking of things that make me sad because I am just always smiling so it was very challenging for me to look sad/depressed.

Production/Filiming

 This scene was very easy to film and din't take us too many takes!!

Fridge Scene

This scene is one of the more important ones and has a lot of value in this film. Peyton goes into the kitchen area and goes into the fridge because she is hungry. What she pulls out of the fridge is MacDonalds, Peyton doesn't want MacDonalds mainly because she is going to the beach with her friends on Saturday and has to be in a bathing suit. Peyton doesn't really like to be in a swimsuit because on the inside she is really insecure, but no one really knows that she is actually insecure.

Problems/Solutions

We didn't have too many issues with the filming of the kitchen scene. We filmed about 3 takes to get this scene right. One of the problems we had with filming was we didn't know where we could put the phone inside the fridge to where you could see the MacDonalds bag and also see my whole face in the frame. We figured out how to include both myself in the frame and the MacDonalds bag in the film we titled the phone upwards and we were able to see us both in the frame.

Production/Filming Process

 This was scene by far was the easiest scene to film and we spent the less time on it then the other scenes.

The swimsuit scene

This scene is definitely my favorite scene personally out of all of them because, I really enjoy the beach and the excitement of picking out a swimsuit to wear to you breach plans is the best feeling. The context behind this scene is Peyton dumping out the basket of swimsuits she has and is trying to figure out which one she is going to wear to her beach plans on Saturday with her friends. Peyton doesn't like any of the swimsuits she has in this basket because she doesn't really want to be in a bathing suit at all and on the inside she is feeling really insecure about herself.

Problems that occurred while filming

This scene was the least problematic out of all of them and it took us about 3 tries to get this scene right. The problem with this scene was that after I would finish talking I would look at the camera right away which was too soon. I had a hard time remembering to not look directly at the camera right after talking. After the second attempt I finally got it right and how I fixed this problem was after I finished talking I counted to 3 in my head and stayed looking at the swimsuit.

Production/Filing Process

Filming 

After changing the script we finally finsihed filiming!!!

In one of my previous posts from last week I mentioned that we may have to change the script and we did ended up having to change it and it was one of our biggest problems throughout this whole process.

The mirror scene

The mirror scene is the main part of the film and in my opinion the most important part. The mirror scene is the most important part because this scene lets us know the context of the film opening, and once you see this part of the film opening everything else after that will make sense.This is where the beginning of the film opening takes place. 

Our plan was to set up our tripod at and angle where you cannot see the tripod and camera in the background but can see me perfectly into the frame. We followed this plan after filming our first take we realized that when recording the phone call part one of the we had to put both phones on mute because since we were so close to each other there was an echo and when we played the clip back we were able to hear my voice. 

To fix this problem as soon as I answered the phone I put myself on mute and so did my partner.After we figured out how to get rid of the echo it made a huge difference in this clip.

CCR QUESTION 2!!

 

                                         Perfect-Ish Audience

How does your product engage with audiences? 
After doing my research I came up with an answer! My product engages with my target audience pretty well! Most teenagers enjoy this genre of films because it comes off as relatable to them and they understand what the character is going through.

How would it be distributed as a real media text? Since I am not big in this industry,

 I would post it on YouTube which is kinda perfect considering the fact that our target audience ranges from the ages 12-18 years old. I think publishing on Youtube is a really good idea especially since 93% of teenagers report as an active user on the platform. Youtube is a highly accessible platform and it is free!! Which is even better when trying to reach this target audience. 

CCR QUESTION 1!

Research for CCR Question 1!!

Since we first started planning our plot for our film opening project. We came up with a theme and plot, as we kept on developing our story the one thing that stayed consistent throughout was the plot.

What's a good coming-of-age film without a concealing personality?

Even though we didn't want our film opening to look to much like the basic coming-of-age films. We still wanted to add in the "high school" feeling. Since the target audience for the coming-age genre is from 12 to 18 we had to include that because that the stage of life that most of the characters are in and the audience is in when watching the film. Most coming-of-age films have a character were they are not a complete open book, most characters have at least one thing about them that they are insecure about or do not want to share. Due to the feeling of being judged or not "fitting in".