The End

 Hey guys after these past few weeks of hard work the job is done. Today I did some final touches on the project, and I am glad to say that this is over even though this project was a great learning experience it really drained my energy.

But enough talking on my part this link is a link to a Google Drive where the final project is plus the two CCRs there are 3 different links one for the final project and two for the two separate CCRs.

I hope you guys like it, I spent a lot of time on it and tried my hardest to create something you guys will enjoy. I can't believe this is the last time I get to say this but Peace out!

CCR Editing and Filming

 Hey guys today we got some big updates on the ccr.

Today I filmed and edited both videos.

The first video was pretty hard ti film as I had to memorize the script that I had written and the editing it wasn’t as hard. I just had to insert some clips of the project as I was talking about it and put evidence on the screen as I said it.

The second video was easier just because I had the script in front of me if I needed help remembering it but as I had just remembered the whole other speech it seemed easier to remember this one as I was writing it.

In conclusion both videos were different but doing the harder one first helped improve the other. Then the editing felt pretty easy after doing the opening. Something tells me this experience under my belt is going to come in handy.

The end is near…

CCR Research

 Hey guys after all the work in the past couple of weeks it's coming to an end but it's not over yet.

Today I will look at the CCR questions and how to respond to them. In a previous blog post Named "Start of the CCR," I posted notes on the CCR that we had taken in class that day. The two ideas for the two separate videos will be the same. One will be in my room looking at the script while the other is going to be an interview that my sister does to me when she accidently finds me in public. I'm thinking of three places to film the interview one is in the park where we filmed part of the project, another is my town's center where it's more public, and lastly just walking around my neighborhood. I'm thinking the neighborhood one might be the one I will do because there would be much less noise than the other options.

Today I'm going to be looking at previous examples of CCRs that previous students of my teacher have submitted in the past. With the help of these videos, I will see what to expand on in my own CCR.

I'm back, WOW! Those were some incredible samples. They were engaging and interesting to watch and didn't feel as if they were a waste of time. Thanks to these examples I have an idea of how to the questions better. 

For these questions, I'm going to first look at the background information and then respond to the question. For example, the first question asks how the product uses or challenges conventions and how it represents social groups or issues. I would start by saying how the Drama genre usually represents the sports players and how my product changes it and then talk about the representation of the characters in the opening. This is just the first question but all of them will be responded to like this.

Woah that was a lot but it's what it needed to be. That's all for today, catch me later.

Editing part 2

 Hey guys great news... The editing is done!

This is insanely good news because for me and Matias we thought this would be the hardest part of the project. But now that we are finished, we can go back and laugh about it with all the struggles that we went through. 

The first is timing the chosen song, which had strong beats with what was happening in the opening. So, as I mentioned before the song would only take place in the training part of the opening, and we thought maybe timing the strong beats of the song with events that are on screen would make the project look and feel a lot better, but the truth is that this was easier said than done. We had to re-film some of the shots just to make this happen. Ultimately, we are very proud of how this worked out for us even though it took a lot of time.

Then there were many problems with the sound and inserting it into the scene of bullying. This scene is the only scene that has dialogue, so we used a microphone to make it sound better than if all the audio came from the phone we filmed on. Getting the audio just took an extra step and made the process a little more tedious when we had to put the dialogue into the scene.

Lastly, the easiest thing was using techniques such as shot/ counter shot to sow dialogue in the bullying scene.  This was the only scene we needed it for because the rest of the opening really just focused on the main character Jake. This scene was really important to the opening because we would've liked to show in the entire movie that the bullies would try to become friends with Jake after he became famous. This technique showed Jake responding to the bullies not with words but by showing how he was feeling at the moment that he would get bullied. Also, because we used this technique so well the audience would kind of feel more sympathy for Jake now that his emotions were shown more clearly.

It was a hard process, but we managed to get through it, and we came out alive on the other side. I will update you guys on the CCR soon but for now peace out.

Filming part 2

 Hey guys last blog post on filming. Yay! But the jobs not done.  

The filming was in the school (this blog is posted a couple of days later as we are now in spring break but the job is done). The bullying scene as it was written in the screenplay and the shot list was a great way to help us out with the filming and have us a great kind of time line to follow. But even though the shot list was perfect we might cut out some of the shots out to not drag out the scenes.Ill let you guys know if we carry that idea out.

Overall I think the filming exceeded our expectations after learning all the techniques over courses time so I guess the progress is well looked at. 

So today we finished filming so that is great news but the thing is the hardest job is yet to come the EDITING. 

So me and Matias are both great at splitting the work so like the music editing we will split the whole project in half and then put the song over the final film opening.This part of the project is the most important because it’s the part that puts all the parts together so I guess we verter get to working soon.

But that’s for another day. 

(By the way the blog post for filming part 1 was posted early and because i had to change the name just now it looks like I just wrote it but that isn’t the case)

Start of Filming

 Hey guys exciting news for today.

We started filming!

Today Me and Matias went to Regional Park one of the locations that I mentioned that we were going to film at. We filmed the opening scene of our film opening the soccer scene It was kind of hard to find a field that wasn't occupied by team training, but we found one and filmed there.

We also had a problem with the sound around the park, but we realized that since there was going to be music over it, so it didn't really matter. 

The shots were just as I imagined them and the look of it is just like I wanted it to be. Hopefully, editing will make them look even better and make them the best quality for the final cut.

I'm not going to show you guys the shots to not spoil it and make the final result surprising but trust me everything went smoothly and to plan.

We were lucky enough to complete it and have taken a part of the project off our plate. Now we have the Bullying scene to complete in school and then the scene of Jake going to bed and waking up which we decided that were going to do at my house. 

There's only one problem I'm leaving on vacation in a couple of days, so we have to do everything quickly and then edit while I'm away.

Gotta got lots to do for now guys so talk to you later.

Editing part 1

 Hey guys welcome back today is a continued version of the music blog post from last week. 

So this is just an update on the situation on the song that we had chosen but the only problem was that we had to shorten it to fit the desired length of the scene. I know, a mouthful. 

Well we just finished editing the song so that it would transition smoothly from the part that we cut it to to the part that it starts back up. Matias did the first half and then he saved his document and shared it to me. The only problem was that when we did this we had to duplicate the song and cut it again which might be confusing but really it was just having half done and the other part had to be cut and put with the other half. I don’t really know of another way to explain it but this is just to give you an idea of how irritating it was but we did it and it has turned out perfectly.

Even though we edited the song we will still give full credit to the artist when we post the full film opening on any platform.

I’m not going to put the song here so it makes it that much more special when you guys hear it in the project.

(I know you guys are dying to hear about the second part of the filming and I swear it’s coming soon.)

That’s it for today. See you later guys or should I say read from me later.