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Week 8: We're Done!

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Creative Critical Reflection: It's Complicated

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Week 8: We're Done!

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It's Complicated

COMPLETE RECAP

Week 7: The Final Countdown

    That's it. Tomorrow at 11:59 PM, this entire experience is over and I will just have to sit and wait for my score. I can't believe I actually got through the entire thing!! Tomorrow I'm going to film my CCR and I am a little nervous. I'm good behind the camera, not so much in front of it. But regardless, I think it will be really fun to make!

The 4 questions we need to answer in our reflection are:

    1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
    2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
    3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
    4. How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware, and online – in this project?

Question #1: Gay!

Question #2: I have to talk to Gianna about this to make sure we are on the same page, but I wanted to possibly create a film festival at my school where we would have different categories (such as a possible LGBTQ+ genre). 

Question #3: I can talk about this for DAYS. 

Question #4: Our phones, Premiere Pro, and obviously blogger, were my best friends for the past 8 weeks.

    My CCR is pretty much done content-wise. I just have to write a script and put together the video in a funky, fresh way! Also, we are almost done with our film. The only issue is we have two versions and we need to decide which one we want but Gianna is currently asleep so I will discuss it with her tomorrow.

    Tomorrow is submission day!! I'll see yall tomorrow for our last blog ever 💔

Holy Time Crunch

Week 7: The Final Countdown

    I don't want to expose us but let's just say our film is not done yet and it's due in two days... yeah. We are obviously going to finish but all I keep thinking about is how I would have done everything differently. Basically, all we needed were fonts for the credits, music for the entire project, and fixing any shots we didn't like.

    We were picking between three different fonts:

    We ended up choosing Marvin for the credits and Chinchilla for the title. Discovering Adobe fonts may have been the best and worst thing I have ever done... it took us a very long time to find these fonts.

    Music has been a HUGE pain in the butt. We originally didn't want music so we thought we were good! We thought we didn't have to deal with any of the issues all of our friends were dealing with! No. We changed our minds. So I went on the search for royalty free songs and let me tell you, when you search up "royalty free teen gay indie angst songs", not much pops up. I consulted a friend and ask what he did and he informed me that acient songs, a.k.a. songs before 1930, are on the public domain; therefore, totally legal for us to use in our film (shout out to Jack Sussman!!). So we chose "Little Jazz Bird" by George Schwab and Ira Gershwin (very much written in 1924).

    We changed the set up of the opening to what I said we were going to in the last post. Antoher change we were thinking about was possible adding a short voice over the last few shots to tie in the fact that the girls are laughing at the end. I don't know! I guess we'll see. I'll come back to you guys with a complete update as well as a CCR (Creative Critical Reflection) post. It makes me kinda sad that this is one of my last posts... I'll miss you guys :(

I'm Not Sure How to Feel About It

Week 7: The Final Countdown

    Gianna titles her last post "I Hate It" so I decided to title mine how I feel about our project at the moment, which is essentially unclear to myself. If you were to ask me how I felt about it this morning though, I would have agreed with GG. Before class, our project looked like a very unclear, amature short film, NOT a film opening. When Gianna brought this up to be, at first I was just frusterated. I almost felt like she thought it was my fault and what she was telling me about it just seemed like she wanted to completely scratch the entire film and make a new one... yeah that wasn't going to happen. After taking an entire 24 hours apart, Gianna and I then got back into class, discussed our feelings, and got on the same page before reorganzing our film (I like to call this therapy).

The order of the scenes before class today went like this:

        1. Nature shot #1
        2. Nature shot #2
        3. Nature shot #3
        4. Bike scene
        5. Entering house/door scene
        6. Sami looking at vinyls
        7. Maxx reading a book
        8. Both girls doing their thing
        9. Maxx gets bored
        10. Wrestle scene
        11. Intimate scene

Please, picture that in your head and imagine it as an opening to a coming-of-age, teen, gay romance movie. Yeah... you can't.

Now, this is how the order is:

        1. Nature shot #1
        2. Nature shot #2
        3. Nature shot #3
        4. Bike scene pt. 1

        5. Neighborhood shot #1

        6. Bike scene pt. 2

        7. Neighborhood shot #2

        8. Bike scene pt. 3

        9. Entering house/door scene

        10. Poster shot #1
        11. Sami looking at vinyls

        12. Poster shot #2
        13. Maxx reading a book

        14. Poster shot #3
        15. Both girls doing their thing
        16. Maxx gets bored

        17. Wrestle scene

        18. Intimate scene

    Okay, so this may seem like there is a lot more going on. But when you watch it all together, it honestly makes it look like there's less happening. It's more focused on establishing setting and characters rather than giving away too much of the storyline. We also decided to choose a blooper for the last scene (fun fact about me: I LOVE when this happens). Gianna and Gianna cracked up at the end of the "intimate" scene. GG and I thought that by using this scene, it doesn't give away that they are in a relationship or that they are queer. The audience has to infer that from the room and through their chemistry. 

    Simplicity. I get it. Just kinda sucks that I just now finally understand it... when our project is due in 3 days... full circle.