CCR scripts!

 CCR 1#

Hello and welcome to the media podcast, Today I will be answering two CCR questions that are being ask frequently. So lets get right into it. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups and issues? So there are some reoccurring themes in coming-of-age genre films. Stuff like growing up, youth, self-discovery, or youth transitioning into adult hood. In these types of films there is a main focus on what exactly the main character is going through, basically their arc or an event that they have to overcome. In our film opening, there is a romance that thrives on the main character to overcome emotions, jealously, trial and error and other. In some romance films there is a love triangle that really creates the conflict in that film and the leads will have to overcome that problem somehow. Examples like the notebook, or to all the boys I love before have these love triangles that the leads get through somehow. So the convention in our film is prettyy important. In our film we are repersenting the woman that are the leads. Showing the struggles of what teenagers go through growing up, the loss of relationships, the change of personality/mindset. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text. So, when I was researching coming of age genre, I try to see what the targeted audiences was for these types of films. I come to notice that the target audience was around 12-18 year olds. Because this genre is something they can relate to because it base around a teenager growing up and them going through the stages of youth to adult hood. The choices me and my partner dani made in this film was to reach the targeted audience of 12 to 18 year olds. Its come to my attention a lot of people like romance in coming of age genres. Especially love triangles, maybe its the thought of two people giving them attention that makes this type of romance so appealing to the audience of this genre. When creating our film opening and creating the story. I think two best friends liking the same guy is actually pretty common for teenage girls. So it would interest them more into watching the film because its something they can relate to. We would distribute this film to YouTube, and post about in on social media platforms to promote the film and let it get recognition. By distributing the film to multiply platforms really lets us get enage with our targeted audience

 

 CCR 2#

Hi, I’m Brianna Gutierrez and this is my creative critical reflection for my film opening whoever gets him first. A question that is frequently asked is how my productions skills developed throughout the project. Well, when first researching this project me and my partner Dani look through many film openings such as mean girls, the Florida project, the perks of being a wallflower, and others. These were great films to go over because their genre is coming of age. We had to find out genre conventions, what type of music, font, color scheme and mood is needed to be use in this type of genre. I feel like one of the biggest things that really helped make this film's opening follow the genre was mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene is basically the setting, costumes design, props, makeup, and lighting. We created a Pinterest board of characters in our film, so we really understood what they were going to wear and what their personalities were like. All these factors make the film come together. Me and Dani were confident in creating a film that would be good. We have done past projects in the past that tested our knowledge on shots, angles, editing, movement, and sound. So, we're prepared. We had major setbacks when my partner went to ecduor to get her wisdom teeth removed, although we worked even harder to not fall behind. From the start to the end, I think we got all the details down and really made this film opening come to life. Another question that is ask is How did I integrate technologies like softwares, hardware, and online in this project. Well when filming this project we only use an iphone 14 pro. Which at first might seem not the best thing to use. But it had great camera quality and went nicely when filming. That was great because we didnt have to use an high quality cameras that probably cost a lot We didn’t use anything for light much, natural light was the best thing to use for our film. The softwares we use for editing was a app call VN! My partner Dani actually found this app and it really has a lot of features and it was free! My partner Dani found out about it when filming our other projects in Aice media studies. There is one more technology that we use while making our film opening. It was the blogs! The blogs basically documented the entire process of us creating this film opening. I felt like the blogs made me a lot more organize and help motivate me to make this film opening the best it can be. Honestly couldn't have done this project without these blogs. Thats all I have for you today, once again I’m brianna gutierrez and Ill see you later.

CCR 2# idea

 Hello! So for my First CCR I wanted to do director's commentary CCR, Basically showing many photos, videos, movie clips of where of I got my ideas from. So I will be answering two questions in this one and the other 2 in the other CCR, basically my idea is showing my face and introducing myself and everything and then start showing pictures as I start to answer the first question. So basically I will talk about the first question and answer it to the best of my ability and then moving on to the next question I would say something like "Another question I get ask frequently as the director of the film is" and I say the question and I start to answer. For my background I want to blur it out because I don't want anyone focus moving towards something in the background. anyways you wont see much of me, it will be mostly be photos and videos and a lot of other stuff so i don't be a talking head. That's basically what I'm doing for my first CCR and the next week I will create the script so everything is smooth when i record! I wanted to do something a little more creative but I'm not much of a creative person myself unfortunately. Although I love speaking and talking a lot so I think this idea will be fun do to and edit. 

CCR 1# Idea

 so for the second CCR that will be answering questions 3 and 4 is a podcast. This wont be any podcast though, I would have to add music and background noises. Adding a lot of different things into to this podcast to make a different then a normal podcast that just has people talking. Moving forward with this idea, I gotten may ideas from people that have done podcast in the past so I have a idea to what I'm going to do wit mine, editing wont be as hard for this one since podcast doesn't have edited photos inputted in. Doesn't mean I will slack off from this CCR. I'm going to make a script for this one this week as well. I'll have to record this week so I don't do this until the last minute. That's all for now!!!

Poster prop!

 Heyyyy! so this is one of our props that we are using for our a film opening, basically a poster about a guy, Yes it is a little creepy but honestly in real life girls will find everything they know about a guy they like so its kind of realistic 🤷‍♀️Anywaysss here it is!

Font research!

 So I needed to some research on what font I wanted to use for the title. I wanted a font to give coming of age or gave off a summer vibe. Something that just fit the vibe are film opening soooo here are some inspo that I got from many coming of age movies. 

So I look over mean girls and I did like the opening font but i wanted to look for something that gave off the summer school vibes I was going for. and of course I wouldn't copy the same font but something close to it but clearly this wasn't what I was looking for.

I look over the Florida project and honestly wasn't my favorite cause I didn't want have my font being cursive, i just thought it was too fancy for my film opening                                                              

  

So the font that the perks of being a wallflower choose was intersting but didn't really catch my eye, although I did like how some of the words look messy giving of coming age

This font was really nice and I did like the lights of the words and how one word had it and the other word didn't, This font was really nice.

So when I was looking over movies I was really looking for something that gave off childish vibes or like gives of teenagers vibes. Honestly these all gave me ideas but I want a font that messy. I look over fonts and these are some that interest me.

-Josefin Sans

-Caveat

-Permanent marker

-indie Flower

-Architects Daughter

  I really like "indie flower" Which is the name of the font and is something that I was looking for, its giving the vibes that im going for and hope to use this one for my film opening.

MUSICCCCC

 Heyyyy blog, this week me and partner could not record unfortunately. We were planning to record this week but my partner parents were out dropping of her sister in college. Her parents dont let her leave her house if their not there. This was really bad for us because we are already so behindddddd. But not to worry were gonna start recording next week or in spring break, which i know recording in spring break is wayyy to late so I'm hoping to record this week and start editingggg.  So we decided to use are time finding stuff we need that would help us with our editing and music. Music is a big part in film openings so we decided to find it now then later. This was kinda hard to find good music.

me and dani have found our music that we are going to use!! Honestly hardest thing we done since the script. Its actually so hard to find music that is royalty-free. Most websites these days you have to pay to get these music, but good thing in my class there was a lot of good website that were recommended that had free music. We are planning to use this music when our title pops up after the call. We wanted our music to give summer vibes, or something that was upbeat. We had many options that we have pick out, but came down to our top 3 which was Wrong Way - Soundroll, What a Feeling- Hey Pluto, Psychedelic Summer- Opening line music group. But we ended up pickingggg "Wrong way". We felt like it was the best choice out of all of them. Honestly were gonna keep this one but the music might change, it just depends on how our film is gonna look like. Thats all for now!!!!!

https://musicvine.com/track/soundroll/wrong-way

https://catalog.bulletproofbear.com/album/10183295

https://uppbeat.io/track/hey-pluto/what-a-feeling

Research into necessary techniques

 soooo basically me and my partner look into more techniques that we want to use in our film opening. We found so inspo!!! 

First Technique!

Soooo this scene is from the movie mean girls. So basically one technique that we wanted to use in our film opening. Viewers are seeing a phone call happening with all the girls. So we want to do the same thing but with only two girls. The editing app that we will be using VN to create this. Although that might change if we can't figure out how to use it on that app. We want to use this technique when Sabrina and Ellie are calling each other and when Ellie reveals that she has the info they been wanting.

Second Technique  

This is from the show stranger things.

So for another shot that we did research on is for the biking scene in our film opening. This shot is going to be a tracking held shot scene. Unfortunately we don't have a drone or moveable cameras. So were using a car! So someone will be in  the back on a truck recording the whole thing while the driver drives slowly. We are using a handheld camera for the aesthetic were going for. Ellie will be the one riding the bike, because she riding her bike to Sabrina's house.

CCR Notes

 Heyyyyyy! So I have my Media Studies class and we learn what CCR is, also know as Creative Critical Reflection! Basically we have four questions to answer but For two questions, instead of just answering them, we have to answer them in a more creative way, and in the notes our teacher gave us has some options or ideas. 

Two Media Products

-Create two media products that strive to respond to the questions

Here are some options:

• Presentation w/ voiceover- export as a movie
• Director commentary- combination of director speaking on camera and examples from production  
• Talk show-"host" interviews director                                                                                   
• Enhanced podcast- discuss responses to questions, contextual sound is edited in to ensure engagement
•  Other- develop creative way to respond to prompts and illustrate techniques

How to answer each questions! 

Question 1!
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups and issues?

• Start by discussing genre conventions-cite where you found this information
• Next, discuss which genre conventions you choose to challenge or discuss why you choose not to challenge genre conventions
• End with a discussion of representation. Remember, representation refers to the choices made in how individuals, groups, events, and issues are illustrated within a production.

Question 2!                                                                                                                   How does your produce engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text.

• Discuss how you arrived at your target audience cite necessary research
• Discuss how your production choices, content, etc. Work to engage with your target audience
• Next discuss how you plan to make your film available to audiences
• Response should address realistic options for an amateur filmmaker. For example, you would not release your film worldwide to theaters- this is only an option for major productions.

Question 3!                                                                                                                        How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

• Reflect on how your process evolved throughout the production
• Discuss how you begin with research and planning
• Offer specific details about both of these processes
• Discuss your approach to production. What did you have to change or adapt as you worked on the project.
• End with a reflection on where you started and where you ended. You may also discuss previous projects completed in class and how they helped you to develop your portfolio project

Question 4!                                                                                                                        How did you integrate technologies- software, hardware, and online-in this project

• Begin by discussing any technologies that you used while producing the project
• Discuss hardware- cameras, lighting, microphones, phones, tripods, dollies, sliders, etc
• Discuss Software planning tools editing tools animation tools graphic design tools filter creates
• Blogger

Discuss - How you used technologies

• Did technologies help you solve your problem?

Soooo this basically the notes that I think are really important. I did have an idea but got told by my teacher that I shouldn't because it was over use last year and most of them were bad. My idea was get ready with me. Basically a trend that's going around on the app Tiktok. I'm a little brain dead on ideas right now but I will look on that a little later.

Character boards! 🙋‍♀️

 Ellie

Sabrina

Tristan

Setting 1: Sabrina room

Setting 2: Ellies room 

story board!!!

 

Props list! (Mise-en-scene) 🥸

 Heyyyyyy! soooo I need to figure out what props I'm going to use for the film opening because before we can even start recording we need all the props in hand so on the day if recording we dont stop because were missing a prop because that would be really bad..... BUT anyways here is my prop list!😋

-Bike

-poster

-phones

-a paper with a fake schedule 

-color pencils (maybe)

-paint (maybe)

- a piece of paper for the pact

-rulers (maybe)

-paint brushes (maybe)

-pencils (maybe)

-pens (maybe)

-markers (maybe)

Soooo for the props that I said maybe on is because in the script it said that Sabrina grabs supplies for the poster, and honestly it can be any kind of supplies I just not sooooo sure on which stuff it is until we actually work on the poster. This is a very short short post but it does help me stay a bit more organize. Honestly its not a lot of props, but that's not necessary a bad thing. I may update this post if i decide to add more props in the up coming weeks