Creative Critical Reflection

    Wrapping up my filming journey I will be answering my CCR questions. Reflecting on my brief made me realize how far I came and I hope you guys enjoy!  

CCR Part 1 -Podcast

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

    Welcome to the Filmy podcast, where we discuss the question of film makers. Today is Isabella Camelo sharing out her horror film.  She's here to share out a question based on CCR question 1 Tune in, you don't want to miss. 

CCR Question 2 - Magazine Page

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

CCR Question 3- Reddit Video

How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

      Grabbing the attention of Gen-z is hard these days. As of right now stories like Reddit and TikTok reddit videos have made them consumed into the video all the way through. They take stories and make them more humorous and entertaining. This is what I wanted to accomplish while answering question 3 of the CCR. Let's see if your attention spam can last all the way through the video!

CCR Question 4- Magazine Page

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

Final Film

 The Final Film is here!!

    The final project is finally done. After all the research, planning, and production.

    I present to you, our finished film! 

Production- Behind Scenes

Behind the Scenes Video

        Hey guys, we've finally finished our filming Arisa was holding up the camera, getting all the shots, while I was holding the boom stick for the mics. Me and my sister put our phones in the background to capture this memory and also to see the progress on our filming day to get our final outcome.

    There were good moments like getting lines right and bad moments too, like when Arisa leaned to back, her hair caught on fire with the candle and I had to swat her with our boom stick, messing up lines and others. So, lets dive into the behind the scenes of this film and see some insight on the film. Hope you enjoy it!

Production- New Title & Font

  Heyy.. so I have new news. Basically we had to change our font because premier pro had a different font instead of the Weiss font we wanted. It does though look more scarier and better to be honest. Searching for the Weiss made us find the font, Lehmann.

    We liked this font. It gives a sharp look that we wanted from the other font, but it has a bit more of a scarier look. The letter edges are slightly sharper. We used this font for the credits too. We did change the color though because we wanted to make it look more like a slasher movie, as if it was blood. Changing the size of each of the letter gave it more of a deranged look to it, so we messed with it to give us the final product.

Ending Editing

    When the title comes up at the end of the clips, Arisa wanted it to zoom in all the way till the screen turn black, however it was truly hard trying to figure how to edit it like that. The speed would keep changing to fast or to slow. It just wasn’t right. We are both new to premier pro, so we didn’t know exactly how to do it. 

    That's when I came in clutch and zoom it the full title instead. It still gives the zoom affect without messing with the speed. So instead of zooming all the way it would just zoom till the title and then change to the clip of the black screen.

    This was the last hiccup of our film. Now I can’t wait to show how it ended it up in the film.

Production- Audio

 Fixing the Audio

    Hello! Whiles editing the film, we need to edit in sound for the scary music and make sure the actors voice were to loud.

    When editing we edited down their talking to make sure everything was in one frequency.

Here we are setting the audio to the same amount. The side bar shows audio setting as well. Not only did we have to tweak the audio we had to make the thud sound louder than the original audio, so it make it feel more like a jump scare sound. 

    In this picture below, background noise of someone dropping something found its way to the mic so turning down the volume on the clip helped so it couldn't be heard and also help use the clip.

 In this picture, muting the sound of Ana rustling with the blanket when getting up was used. 

    That dip that's shown on the audio clip under then clip of video, you can see a dip which the volume of the audio is going down. Understanding the way audio works helped us and mainly Arisa how to edit parts of audio we don’t need or removed.

Planning- Newspaper

 Creating the Newspaper

    Hey guys, so for our film, I wanted to add a magazine to add to the plot line. I wanted it to be a magazine, but I later found out that it had to be a newspaper instead because magazine has more pieces of other topics and I only wanted it to be a piece on the girl only.

    The plot was that there’s been in a killer on the loose and has been killing people in their houses. I wanted to give back up context so the audience can see that they are aware of a killer out there and this action of killing and that there's a killer after someone isn’t uncommon.

    This was the format of the magazine in the begging.

 

    I then made an explanation piece of the killer's victims and in particular one, Sophie Viglo.  

    I did though add other news article so it like it looks like it fresh from the mail and they placed it on the table.

    We both liked the outcome of the newspaper, "magazines," added to the plot. This will be a little key element to the plot and help lead up to the ending, the kill.

Production- Lighting

 Lighting

    Hey everyone, right now we are editing and we came across with our first problem…our lighting. 

    We were looking back at the footage and saw that our lighting was just too dark and wasn’t capturing all facial features we wanted. We didn’t considered how hard it would be filming at night, especially with the lights avaliable to use were lamps, candle and phones to use. Even though it wasn’t the smartest thing to do, it was a choice we made to get that dark, gloomy, vibe to the scence.

After changing the lighting settings on premier pro, we found a filter that makes the lighting bright and also making it look natural still.

Before

After

Though the lighting still seems off, at least it got brighter. We tried our best to get it brighter to make it look less spotty, but unfortunately, we couldn't, but hey, we did our best.