CCR!

This is the link to my CCR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDBXBP-RkUA

Film Opening!

This is the link to my film opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9PIVx-i-8

Looking back

Now it is on to the CCR. I have some ideas on what I want to say, but I am not sure what through what kind of medium. Right now I am between a podcast and a screen share. I quickly nixed a video of just me talking because I believe I would get nervous and mess up a lot. This would waste way to much time. So for the screen share I believe this would be super cool, but I have no idea on how to do it. Also I believe the podcast may be good because it will just me strictly talking about the film. Before I just jumped into doing the podcast , taking the easy way out, I figured I would attempt to figure out on how to screen share.

This turned out to be well worth it thanks the this some help from apple support https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201066  . Since I have this figured out now I am defiantly going to use it. I know I can incorporate lots of cool things into this screen sharing like addition images, maybe some bloopers, and the actual video itself. I am going to be using Quick time player to make this happen. Now I must think critically  and really look back on what I did right and wrong.

This is the application I plan on using for CCR!

So,so close

Being finished with a project never felt to good. With Ellie and I's well managed time, we finished quickly giving us plenty of time to edit, review, and make changes if necessary. I seriously recommend for everyone doing this project that they don't wait to the last minute, one thing can seriously change the whole course of the opening and time is of essence. Working along the side of Ellie was an amazing experience too. We both got even closer than we were before, sharing  this experience made us think in ways never before. We needed to step outside of the box we were in to get a creative, good storyline.

Our personalities contrasted each other just enough to get a good turnout, but not quite enough to cause many disagreements. But, when either of us didn't agree we did speak up.  That was a positive about being such good friends, neither of us got upset by criticism. We both knew that it wasn't personal, it was just to better the project. This was my favorite part about working with a partner. Bouncing ideas of each other also made this project so much better and I now I wouldn't change a thing! Since the bulk to the project is done, all I have to do now is my CCR, I know this may be hard, but I am excited to look back and reflect at my journey.

One last look

"Five" is finally complete and the last thing Ellie and I wanted to do was to share it once more with our peers. Last time we did this is was super beneficial and loved the feedback. Now that everything is final we presented it to them and the only thing they commented back on was the color again! They said it should be even darker. We took their input and made it darker, only to find that, honestly the darker the scene, the better it looked.

After watching it a few more times we picked up on one of the sounds not being exact, so we had to tweak everything around for a little. Honestly that was a little stressful. With the extra time we had we knew we had no rush and wanted it to be as good as it can possibly be before we finalize it. Scrutinizing it several times definitely made me sick of the opening let me tell you that, but in the end it was all worth it. With all of this said and done, we decided that NOW we are done. We ended up finishing faster than expected so we had time to look back and admire the work we put into this, we are truly amazed. Five is one movie I would like to see!

Wrapping it up!

With everything except sound done, the project is turning out very well. All we had to do today we record the newscast and create the folleys. One issue we had was the newscast voice over. My voice simply did not seem like a true newscasters. One of my friends, Zach Cohen, is an aspiring newscast reporter and had the perfect voice for the job. We sent him the report Ellie and I created and he voice memoed it right back to us! It worked out perfectly. Another thing we had to create were the folleys, we had to create one for the gloves and the tape. For the gloves we simply just used a shower cap made of the same material because we lost the gloves, but re-recorded it so the sound could be heard, Unfortunately the voiceover we made for the tape can't be heard over the voiceover and the music. Even with lowering the volume of the other clips! It is okay, because we both felt that the sound wasn't vital to the storyline. Another task at hand was Ellie's voice over. That part was probably the easiest of them all.

One last thing we needed was the music. Music is everything in this opening, it had to set the mood perfectly. To find this suspenseful music we simply used the ones available to us on iMovie. There were three to choose from, but we found that the first one fit the opening the best. One issue Ellie and I thought we would encounter never  happened. We were convinced that when putting in all of the extra sound that nothing would fit correctly and it would turn out horrible, but it was just the opposite. Everything fit almost perfectly and flowed well. We reviewed it several times after before showing my parents and they absolutely loved it! Although we are going to make sure our peers don't have anymore suggestions to add, I believe that this film opening is complete! I am so happy with the turnout and would off never thought it would of turned out this good. Ellie and I made one good team!

Editing pt.2 :)

It's officially crunch time! As the due date is coming closer, we both knew we have to wrap up this project as soon as possible. Today in class Ellie and I continued on putting all of the scenes together, which once again took a while to find the right transitions. After we finished putting them all together we thought, what could be better than some peer reviewing? We knew that we were missing the sound, but any feedback was good at this point. We grabbed some friends in our Aice Media class and showed them the opening.

They all really liked the concept and thought everything looked more realistic than they thought it would be. Some things they pointed out to us was the color. They believed the color was to bright for a scary movie, and they were so right. The bright lights contrasted everything we were trying to prove in the opening. It completely slipped both of our minds, but that little changed made the opening so much better. Also the scene where we zoom out of the number 5 paper on the wall they believed was to fast. More emphasis was needed there.So to fix this we put a time lag to slow it down. This scene being slower really did allow the viewer to think and make that connection between Annie and the poster number 5.

 Other than these two things they believed that it was really good, but they want to see it with the sound. Sound really does give the scene a whole other dimension and is vital to the opening, but we agreed to do it at someones house this weekend so are in a quiet environment where we can make the voiceovers/folleys the best. We will show the next class after everything is finished ( hopefully)!