Creative Critical Reflection

Here's my creative critical reflection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQiFV_CIvg

Just in case this is the link to the google document containing my script for the creative critical reflection:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WqvpbkTp9kWX8v7ZM1fV2MRzjFS3HQ_qxJd866G1LjI/edit?usp=sharing

Lilac - Film opening

Hey guys after all of the hard work, here's Lilac. I hope you like it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouQ19Va7gw

Filmed & Directed by: Angela Mujica & Stephanie Tamayo

Final revisions

      As I mentioned in my last post, we only have a few days left to finish up the project. Thankfully, Stephanie and I are almost done. Not much has happened overnight, but we did decide that we're going to stick to naming the protagonist Lilac Gilmore. I wasn't sure before because I thought it might be too much, but it actually might work. If we were to name the protagonist Lilac then the rest of the movie could be about how the criminal (possibly Chuck) is targeting her by hurting those around her. If the movie were to continue, there would definitely be more characters. Those that I didn't mention last night include:

• The protagonist's friends
• Later witnesses
• Family members
• A possible key detective / policeman

       And any other characters that would help develop the storyline later on in the film.

     We don't have set names for those characters i'm not sure if they would be included within the beginning credits. If we add anyone else it would be the key detective (if there is one), and one or two of Lilac's friends if they were to play major roles within the film. The last things we have to do are add any sounds that we're missing. I looked through the sounds that we found previously, but they all required me to make an account and put in my credit card information, so I decided to look elsewhere. The site we decided to go with was a site called audionautix and it was full of wonderful choices. In this site we found a few sounds that we liked and decided to download them right away. Once we had them on iMovie we started plugging in the different sounds, and have yet to chose one that we really like.
     Since this is going to be one of my last postings I would like to thanks everyone that I had a chance to work with, especially the actresses, and all of the people that gave Stephanie and I different ideas and input. Also a special thanks to Alfred Hitchcock for his wonderful influence. Thank you! Until next time...

Shaw, Jason. "Free Production Music." Audionautix. Web.

http://audionautix.com/index.php

Close to wrapping it up

     Hey guys, so today Stephanie and I continued editing and finished putting all of the shots together! It didn't take us too long and gave us time to think about the last few details we're missing/ need to look over. We need to look over the sounds, both diegetic and non diegetic, finish the credits and place the title. I was also a bit scared that we wouldn't know where to place the credits, but I placed them throughout the opening and tried spacing them out equally. So far they look good, they're a bit far from each other, but there is one credit that needs to be in a specific place and if it's placed there the rest have to be spaced equally from it. The title... I was going to leave placing it for later, but I wanted to try and place it within the film to see how it looked. I tried placing it where we had originally thought, but it doesn't really look right. Even though we're still having trouble figuring out exactly when and where it should go, I feel pretty confident that we'll get it the next time we revise it.

     Another thing I want to touch on are the characters' names. Throughout this whole process I didn't really specify what the characters would be called and that's because Stephanie and I hadn't really thought about it. Today while we were putting in the credits, we realized that we need to include more than two and needed names for all of them. So far we've only included:

Samuel Kelly as Chuck (Possibly the killer)
Sara Gonzalez as Sarah Gilmore (Protagonist's sister)
Stephanie Tamayo as Lilac Gilmore (Protagonist)

The name of the protagonist is still under consideration. Since the film's title is Lilac I feel like it might be too much to name the protagonist Lilac too. It could work depending on the way the rest of the movie unravels.

     We've only got a few more days to go! We're wrapping it up!

Lilac

     I have some pretty exciting news to share with all of you guys! We finally decided on a title. We're going to go with Lilac. I know it wasn't to hard of a decision considering that it was the only idea that we had and the fact that Lilacs play a key role in our film, but i'm glad we finally chose one. What now? Well Stephanie and I are still editing, but we don't have much to do. We're playing around with the different sounds and trying to work with the best clips that we have. Besides the title, we're still missing the credits. I was thinking that since they're not too difficult we could add them once we're done putting all of our shots together. I know that while choosing their location we might want to change the length of some clips and other elements too. Hopefully those would be our finishing touches.
     Sadly, we're quickly approaching the deadline for our film. I have mixed feelings about this since Stephanie and I have been having lots of fun, but I know that it's time to put together all of our hard work and finish this film off with a bang. Along with finishing our film, I have to start working on the other part of the project, the Creative Critical Reflection. In case you don't know what that is, it's just a presentation that we have to do (a slideshow with voiceover, podcast, screencast) where we reflect on everything that we've learned and achieved while doing this project. I'm still not sure which digital format i'm going to go with, but in the meantime i'm going to answer the required questions on a document so that when I start the presentation I know exactly what I'm going to say and how i'm going to say it.

Sound info

It was recently brought to my attention that I haven’t really touched on diegetic sound. Which is true, besides the music we want to use, were also going to use diegetic sounds. Stephanie and I were thinking of maybe making the song in the intro, “Be Ok,” seem like a diegetic sound. Since its a song we inserted into our video, it wouldn’t be an actual diegetic sound coming from the film environment, but we could make it seem like the song is coming from the car radio. If not we would just stick to making it background music, so that way we could fade it out when the protagonist enters her house instead of it ending abruptly as the car is turned off. I’m having trouble imagining how the songs would transition into the scenes, so I’m going to look into some more film openings and different movie scenes to see how they transition to different songs/sounds smoothly. Another diegetic sound that we would have would be the protagonist’s voice. As the protagonist walks into the house and notices the disorder, there are going to be clatter sounds, and the protagonist is going to be talking/yelling at the sister. She calls out for her sister and slightly scolds her for leaving the house in such a big mess. All of her dialogue would fall under diegetic sounds. Depending on how it sounds, we might also add footsteps to add more tension to scene. We’re also considering skipping the suspense music all together and adding more sounds from the environment. I feel that if we were to go this route that it would make the film more realistic and possibly create more suspense. I’ll let you all know what we decide to do.

"Diegetic and Non-diegetic Sounds." FilmSound.org. Web. http://filmsound.org/terminology/diegetic.htm