CCR Inspiration

Inspo for my CCR

I have spent the last couple of days chatting with my group and doing the finishing touches as well as thinking of how to answer these last 4 questions, shown below.

I going to be answering these questions in two separate manners, which means I will be answering two questions per video.

I feel like the first two questions require much more professional thought so I chose those to be answered in a more put-together manner, which will be a presentation that I will talk through.

The other two, which also require a lot of thought, can be answered in a more light-hearted or fun manner. For these, I wanted to do a silly way to present the answers and I thought of doing some sort of interview. As I mentioned in my last blog I had a good source of inspiration for this style of interview which is the "Chicken Shop Date" hosted by Amelia Dimoldenberg.

It is hugely popular on platforms like YouTube and TikTok, which is where I see it the most. I love the style of these interviews, it is not only about the questions but they have food. Although I am still thinking about whether I should or should not implement the food, I love the way that these interviews flow. It honestly just seems like good friends hanging out instead of such a strict and formal interview situation, especially wiht the amount of humor and sarcasm.

Below I will insert an interview from this channel and the one I will be taking the most inspiration from.

This way of interviewing shows a lot of personalities while still doing what I was tasked with, which was answering these questions fully with the necessary details.

I am going to be writing notes for myself, somewhat a script since I will be filing both my CCRs between today and tomorrow which I have the weekend to edit.

I will be back soon to let you all know how the filming went. I will also be posting both the final products of my CCRs and the opening itself.

CCR Ideas

Hi guys!! I am back with another quick little blog. I had the weekend to brainstorm with my team but also by myself for my CCRs. I wanted to put my ideas out there with these blogs.

Regarding the CCR, I have been thinking of creative ways to answer all 4 questions. For this social media has been very helpful because there is always something new and creative going on. For one of my CCRs, I am certain I want to do just a presentation, either PowerPoint or Canva. But for the other, I do want to be a little more creative and I was thinking of doing some fun little interviews, which I will post a blog talking a bit more about and explaining it further. But here is a little sneak peek:

I also wanted to give a quick sneak peek of how the opening looks right now. All editing has been mostly complete and I think the only thing we are missing is sound, or the music we are going to have, which is still something we are discussing and working on. 

In this little clip, you can see the fonts we decided on going with. As well as the names of the actors, that we made up, and of the production and distribution company, which I did mention we were discussing in a previous blog.

I am honestly super happy with how everything has been going. I am super proud of how me and my team have been managing our time, like in no moment have I ever felt super stressed about our timing. I really appreciate all the hard work my teammates have been putting in and I love how we work together. Now that our opening is at its final stages I have to direct my focus on my CCR and so do my teammates.

I will be back very soon with more details on my CCR and when our movie opening is complete. See you all soon!!!

Updates

Editing

Hi, I wanted to come on here to post a short blog about how editing is going. Alex, who has the role of editor, put all the clips together. As a team, we went over it and had some comments, like fixing some cuts, which were all fixed. Some good news is that we had the perfect amount of clips, a common mistake we avoided by over-filming.

Sound

Our next focus has been the sound and music in our opening. Although we know what type of music we want to be heard, very low, but we have not found it quite yet. But we have reviewed all the other noises. I will insert some notes below.

I will be posting a blog soon discussing websites for copyrighted music and what we end up choosing as a team. Sorry for the short blog today, I just wanted to give a quick little update on how everything is going regarding our movie opening.

Production and Distribution Company

Fonts

We have decided on the fonts for our opening. More specifically for our credits and title. Below I will be inserting screenshots and a video from the opening itself.

Name Ideas 

I have found two websites that generate company names. https://www.shopify.com/tools/business-name-generator and https://www.squadhelp.com/business-name-generator .

Although it isn't the most important part of our project, I do think coming up with these names is something that needs to be thoroughly discussed as a team. It can literally be anything, but in my opinion, it should be something creative that goes with our group.

This next week, which is spring break for us, I think is the perfect moment for us to be doing these finishing touches. Especially since we will have to drift our focus into our CCRs, which as we know are individual work worth a lot.

I will be back soon to discuss CCR ideas. I'd like to begin and share my CCR progress with my blogs here. See you all soon!! 

Editing Update & Font Ideas

Editing

Our editing process has officially started!!! Both Alex and Lucia, my partners, are splitting that role. Alex will edit the actual scenes while Lucia will edit more with the sounds. I wanted to give this quick little update about how our project is going. I will be linking Alex's blog which goes into detail about how editing has been and a slight issue we came upon on. 

https://alexportfolio5.blogspot.com/2024/03/editing-problems-already.html

Font Ideas

Now onto some font ideas for our credits and title. Since our project relies a lot on a written letter, Mara's suicide letter, and Val's letter back. We thought it would be a great idea to mainly use a handwritten font. That way we show more of a connection to the letter.

We also did agree that when we begin to show the first stage of grief, denial, we won't be using that same font. Instead, we will use more of a basic font, which can be seen in many movie titles.

Here I am going to link a website with fonts we as a group will be discussing. I went through the website and saw a bunch of good options. All that is left is to discuss as a group and pick our favorites and the one that seems more fitting.

I will be back soon with more updates and when we pick a font. I also want to research music in movie openings since that is an element we will be using in our project. See you all very soon!!

What is a CCR??

CCR Lesson 

Last class, we went over what a CCR was. Although I always knew it was a big part of the exam, I wasn't really aware of the details and what I had to do specifically. I wrote down a lot of notes, that I will include in this blog.

I will definitely be using these notes and looking back at them a lot. I am super glad I took a bunch of notes on it. Especially the ones that describe each of the 4 questions in more detail, stating exactly what it asks.

I know I will have to put all of my time into these CCRs after the editing is finished. As a group, we agreed on trying to finish with the opening itself as soon as we can so that we can all individually focus on our CCRs, which isn't done in groups.

I will be back soon with updates on how editing is going and with details such as fonts and music, which my group and I will be researching and discussing the rest of this week and the following week. See you all soon!!!

Dear Mara

Filming

So, yesterday we filmed. We came across some issues beforehand meaning we had to change the actor for one of our characters. Originally our roles looked like this:

Director: Lucia

Producer: Alexandra

Writer: Andrea

Cinematographer: Lucia

Editing: Alexandra and Lucia

Character-wise the roles were like this:

Valerie (Val): Andreina (a friend of ours)

Mara (Mar): Andrea

Isabella (Bella): Gabriela (a friend of ours)

Due to schedules mixing our friend, Andreina, wasn't able to come so Alexandra stepped in as Mar and I played Val. Although it was kind of annoying at the moment to have super last-minute switches, everything ended up fine and we definitely had a lot of fun.

BTS

I also wanted to share some photos of us filming and how we also filmed some extra sounds we needed.

Now, as a team, we are going to be revising our footage and seeing what we need. I am confident we got exactly what we needed yesterday since we made sure to over film so we have more to work with. I will be back soon with more updates, see you all soon!!!