Creative Critical Reflection

The link below is for my Creative Crtical Reflection for my Aice Media A project:

https://youtu.be/pSSwIaqhsiM

This is my script for the CCR:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FXeyYNqM387DPyczNUdTR_laIZlGr6meCC0-iDFA6nk/edit?usp=sharing

Film Promotion Package

Film Poster:

Below is the Poster for my film Senior year. In it you can see the four main character's in their own little worlds. It all works together to show what each character is like and give a preview to what the film is going to be about.

Film website:

Below is the link for Senior Year's website. The website is very  important when it comes to promoting the film because it gives the audience more information about the film and allows them to connect through various modes of social media.

http://senioryearfilm.weebly.com/ 

Film Trailers:

Below are the finalized trailers for my film "Senior Year." They both work as a sneak peak into what Senior Year is going to be about. Trailer #1, varies mainly between closeups and mid shots in order to bring an emphasis on each character's unique personality. In Trailer #2, I also introduce each character and the problem, but It doesn't go into much detail about their personalities because it is meant to focus a bit more on Bailey, the main character, and what she goes through.

Trailer #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLeC5NtRAxs 

Trailer #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n5JKFxJjQ8

Almost time...

     Hey! I'm approaching the finish line and Thank God that i'm almost done. I have a few finishing touches left, but am almost done with it all. I started and pretty much finished the poster. This website, along with various movie posters, really helped me with the process of making the poster and which elements to include. The only thing i have yet to do is the CCR, but I should be finished with that by tonight. One of the things that I wanted to share was a few additions I made to my project. I added a Facebook, Instagram, and twitter which can all be accessed through the film's website.

     I also added a whole other element, which is the #Mysenioryear. The hashtag is going to serve as a way to get the audience involved with the film. It is going to allow them to tag the film, which would help promote it and it would also allow them to connect with other viewers by sharing a bit about what they have gone through on their senior year or they can also share how they let loose through all of the stress.

Editing, Eating, & Sleeping

     I spent the majority of yesterday editing, eating, and sleeping. What a combination. So far I've pretty much finished one of the trailers, almost finished the second one and have narrowed the poster pictures down to three. So far I've been editing for the majority today as well. The only things I'm missing, in regards to the trailers is the background music,  a few voice overs that I asked bailey to redo and some finishing touches. Besides that they're almost done. I have also been looking though copyrighted and non copyrighted music and there are so many choices. For the few copyrighted songs that I really liked, I already emailed the artist's representatives to see if I could get permission to use the songs. If none of them get back to me on time, then I'm going to end up using some of the non copyrighted music that I found. Since I already added voice overs, and still need to add background music and don't know how to with MovieMaker I had to look up some tutorials. What I found was this:

So, before I am able to add the music to my trailers I have to finalize them each and then I'll be able to add the music to it. Unfortunately I have to go to work soon, but in the mean time ill be trying to find more music, and i'm going to chose the poster image and start to edit it. I'll let you all know how it goes tomorrow!!

Title Sequences

      Today, I set aside some time to continue editing. It sucks how meticulous editing can be, but in the end that's what makes films and trailers so good. What I've been doing is adding clip by clip in the order that I want them in. Each time that I add the next clip, I also add the voice over that goes along with it and trim it. I'm close to finishing one of the trailers, but I plan on setting aside most of tomorrow so that I can edit some more and maybe even finish them, or get most of it done. For the animations that I was thinking of including in the beginning of the second trailer, I have a few images/video ideas in mind that I could make for those. Some of the production companies that I've been looking to as examples are:

In many of the film trailers produced by Paramount, this iconic mountain image is shown right at the beginning of each trailer. Which tends to last from about 1 to 2 seconds. The films trailers that I've seen with this logo at the beginning tend to only include that production company.

      In Fox searchlight films, the Fox logo is always included right after the mpaa sign. In the film trailer for Me and Earl and The Dying girl, the film trailer starts out with the fox image and with the image of another production company, Indian Paintbrush. From what I've been seeing most of the trailers tend to include about 1 to 2 images representing the production companies. I originally had thought of including three images/videos to represent the production companies, but now I see that the convention is to only include 1 or 2. Depending on how I like the animations that I create, I think I might only include one.

Image editing

      Hey! So something I forgot to mention in my last post was that I edited two of the images that I used in the website. Both of the images that I used, one as a header and the other as a background image (which are the images below), I edited on my phone. All I did was screenshot the images out of two of my videos and once I got the image that wanted I saved them and clicked the edit option on my images. There I clicked "effects" and used the cartoon effect for both of the images. The reason I even thought of doing this was because the images were both from videos  they both looked a bit blurry, but once I applied the cartoon effect they gave the images a bit more personality and made them look 10 times better. It's good to know that my phone provides me with those options because I might be able to edit my movie poster on my phone as well.

      For my movie poster, I've already narrowed it down to a few pictures, but I have yet to choose which one I like best and once I do I can finally start on the movie poster. Which shouldn't take too long since I already have a general idea on how I want my movie poster to look. I'll most likely be working on the poster as well as editing tomorrow, so I'll be sure to let you all know how that goes. 

  

Status update

      Hey everyone! It's almost time for spring break! These past few days I've been working on editing both the trailers and the website. As far as editing goes, I still have a good amount to go. When it comes to the website, I'm almost done. I finally switched out the headers and images to my own images and added my own text descriptions as well. It's coming out a lot better than I expected and now that i'm almost done with the website I only have the poster, editing, and the CCR left to do. Every day I get closer and closer to the end product. Which is a bit scary considering that there's still a lot left to do.

Here's a sneak peak at the "Cast" section of my website:

      In regards to editing, I'm still working on finding a song, but I already have a few in mind. What I'm thinking of doing is narrowing down the few songs that I like, asking for permission and waiting to see which one gets back to me the quickest. I'm also going to keep my eye out for non-copyrighted music since it would save me from having to ask for rights and waiting or the producers/managers to respond. In one of the trailers I decided to incorporate a school bell sound, so I found a non-copyrighted version and downloaded it. I also could've recorded it myself at school, but every time I remembered that I had to record it, it was way too late. Another thing tat I decided to do was add a few graphics to the beginning of one of my trailers. Last year, I did that as well, but I used videos that were already made. Since I can't do that, i'm going to try to make quick graphics using some images/videos that I took and by adding animations to them. Along with continuing to edit the videos, that is something that I'm going to try to do and will let you all know how it goes.

Starting to Edit

      Hello, everyone! Today I got a few more shots that I had been waiting on! Although I still have a few more shots to film, I have the majority of what I need. Since I have so much of the necessary footage, I've started putting some of it together and it's been a bit harder than what I thought it was going to be. I'm used to editing things like home videos, and other things, but I've only ever used the old version of Movie Maker and IMovie. With the computer that I have accessible to me I've been forced to to use the newer version of Movie Maker, so I've had to adapt to some of the changes. One of the main things is how the program is laid out. On the older version of Movie Maker, I was able to import all of the footage and pick and chose the ones that I wanted to use, just like IMovie. On the newer version y the videos that you import are automatically put together, so I've had to add them one by one instead of adding them all at once. I also noticed that Movie Maker doesn't allow you to add more than one audio, which is a bit of a problem considering the fact that my trailer is going to include both voice overs and music, but i'm going to have to find a way around it and adapt to the newer version of Movie Maker.

      Since I started to edit, I've been listening to the voice overs and I realized that there are some that i'm going to need to change to fit the mood that i'm going for as well as with the footage. Although its a bit of a bump in the road, I think that its only a minor problem since I can simply just ask Bailey (The main actress) to redo the voice overs in order for them to sound the way I need them to. I'll let you all know how it's going as I progress. Have a wonderful rest of the night!