Creative Critical Reflection

THE CCR'S ARE DONE!!!!!!

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Film Opening

 IT IS OFFICIAL!

THE WAIT TIME IS OVER!

HERE IS THE FINAL PRODUCT AFTER ALL THE HARD WORK!

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Week 7

 STRUGGLES

My group and I were trying to plan out another day to film the second half of our project, unfortunately it hasn’t turned out do well. We have all been extremely busy doing our own separate activities. For example, on Friday Javier had a family event so we couldn’t film that day. On Saturday I had work in the morning then I had a soccer game at 5:00 P.M. Enrique also just started working at the same place I am working at and has been getting long hours. Today I had work during the afternoon and Enrique had work during the morning.

We have been struggling a lot to correlate our schedules in order to get the filming process done. This next week we will try to find a date that we all can get together and film. An important note is that the second part needs to be filmed during the day so that limits our possibilities.

On the bright side, Javier is going to start editing all the work we got done on Thursday. I can’t wait to see how it all turned out. One thing that we are all intrigued in knowing is how much time we have left to film the second half because when we were filming, we were terrified to not leave enough time for the “cleaning up” part.

Week 7

 CCR

This past week I have been thinking deeply about what I am going to do for my CCR. I am still not quite sure on what I want to do but many ideas have risen. I think that the question that is asking about "your production skills being developed" will mostly have support to be answered after our second day of filming. When we are doing the clean up part, we will utilize most of the techniques we have learned. Even on our first day we used so much terminology and our main focus wasn't the shots, it was to build the story, I can't imagine all the shots we will create.

I am really loving the idea to create a youtube video more than the interview now. I feel like it'll be great to just show my personality to Cambridge. I do think that those two are going to be the ways I convey my messages.

SPRING BREAK

THE BUILD-UP

My group and I finally started filming during this long break. We wrote up all the information about what we wanted to film and what to wear on our google calendar. We all agreed on different colors to wear so that none of us were matching. We met up at Aaron’s house at around 7:00 P.M. to get the filming started. I myself filmed the first shot of the house during the day time, then when it was night Javier filmed the same exact shot to transition the scenery.

FILMING

After those two shots were taken, we talked about the other shots for about 45 minutes due to some problems we started facing. The first and major problem was that we couldn’t get enough people to come to Aaron’s house and make it look like a party, so we had to improvise. We decided that we were going to change it into a film that has a group of boys planning a party. One of the boys will black out and wake up the next morning. We filmed all of the first start of our portfolio project and will finish the rest soon.

Week Six Pt.2

THE START OF FILMING

Today is the last day of school before spring break. This is going to be the time that we mostly film and see major progression within our project. It is perfect for us because none of us are going out of town and we are going to have unlimited free time. The fact that we have no school is crucial, school takes up so much time plus all the extracurricular activities we all have. The only problem during spring break could be my work schedule, my manager told me that I would be scheduled a few days during the break. The shifts can vary from 4-8 hours so this could possibly affect us. Although I am positive that we will around it. Also, we still haven't confirmed on a specific date but we once we do it'll be up on our google calendar.

Week Six

ROLES

This week my group and I discussed what each member is going to be responsible of. Javier is going to take care of all the editing for our film. He has previous experience besides this class with editing and is confident he can do a great job. Enrique is going to be the producer. He is very creative and comes up with great shot composition. Aaron and I are going to be the main characters involved in the film. Throughout all our group projects we have mainly been the ones to be actors. We really don't get shy during filming which Javier and Enrique lack. As a team and using each of our strengths we are
confident that our film will come out amazing.

MORE ABOUT ME

I have honestly loved being the actor in all the projects this year and I know that with this project it'll be no different. When we write the script and storyboard, I like to create my own lines, this makes me feel so much more comfortable while being on set. I also have gotten very good at improvising my lines, I like being creative and catching my peers off guard, I even surprise myself. This role as a rebel teenager that when behind their parents back shouldn't be too difficult for me to act, at the end of the day I am a teenager myself.