my CCR

During my time working on the movie, I have created a Creative Critical Reflection (CCR) to answer the 4 specific questions about my movie:

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

To see how I have answered all of these questions, click here.

Hope you enjoy!

the moment you've waited for!

 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! It was finally arrived! After months of revision, anxiety, and a little tweaking, our opening scene is ready!

Click here to watch the incredible premiere of The Stupid, Brave New World.

We hope you enjoy :).

the stupid, brave reflection post

 I am going to publish both my CCR and the film opening very soon this week. 

This will be my reflection post. So, let's start reflecting.

First of all, it's been really fun working on this silly little project with my partner. We were on the same page with many of the elements for the movie and got along really well. And whenever one of us was having trouble with anything relating to the movie or the CCR, we were always there go give each other pointers about any lines, camera shots, or suggestions to anything. 

I also gotta admit, choosing to have our movie genre be coming of age made me have some second thoughts, since I thought I might come up with a very clique plot. But, I learned throughout the project that as long as you put your head on creative mode and brainstorm as many original things as possible, chances are you can make something really great come to life. Which, in my opinion, is exactly what me and Isabella did.

I also learned to never give up. With all of the challenges that this movie has thrown my way, such as editing, thinking of something original, and even just trying to think of something good to blog about, I've learned to just put my running shoes on and run through those obstacles one by one.

Okay, that metaphor I just wrote might've sounded a little cheesy. But oh well, my whole blog is cheesy anyways. 

With all of that being said, I wanted to tell you all reading this that I hope you enjoy what me and Isabella have come up with. It's been a crazy yet fun couple of weeks working on this, and we're really proud of our production. 

almost towards the finish line

 Wow... editing was such an experience for me, for lack of a better term. Wasn’t easy figuring out all the effects and how to make a proper edit, but I finally learned how to become a better editor. 

I’m so proud of myself for learning how to better use my editing software. I really feel like the opening will be incredible and that my CCR will be a lot easier for me to edit! 

A few roadblocks I’ve had with DaVinci were how to bolden the fonts, how to input voiceovers, and how to input the audio for the background music. Took several days for me, an amateur editor, to figure out, but with a little bit of practice and a lot of free time, I have our film (almost) all edited! Still need the voiceover audio from Isabella, and after that, voila! We have ourselves a coming of age film ❤️!

voiceover activated!

 Was it easy? No, no it was not. But after hours of research and one mental breakdown, I figured out how to insert voiceovers in DaVinci without screwing up. So, at last, I can continue editing! 

I wanted to show you the progress I’ve been doing with editing the opening. Take a look at me editing in the credits for the beginning of the film in the photo below.

    I know the text is hard to see, but that will be fixed to have it be seen better soon. 

the struggle of setting voiceovers

 O-M-G! So, let's discuss the tea.

So, there I was, trying to figure out how to set up a voiceover on DaVinici Resolve. It let me drag in a test voiceover (which was another audio that I had saved on my laptop. I couldn't use the real voiceover audio for the film since Isa won't be able to send that to me until next week). Anyways, as soon as I hit the play button after seeing that the audio was applied, I somehow ended up muting the whole film? It was so weird. I did everything I could, from searching up YouTube videos about how to insert voiceovers in DaVinci to turning up the volume in the film as much as I could- but it all led me to nowhere.

Alas, I refuse to give up! Tomorrow will be a new day and I will remove the voiceover, calmly figure out what the issue is, and hopefully have it resolved ASAP.

But as for everything right now, the titles and edits I'm making aren't much of a blunder. But please pray for me as I try to figure out the art if applying voiceovers in DaVinci. 

editing

 Allow me to admit to something: this is my first time ever using a editing software on my laptop. And was it difficult to understand at first? Absolutely, since I am definitely not a tech person. But, did I slowly start to learn how to use this software to edit the opening, yes I did ;). With the help of some helpful YouTube videos, I was able to get started on editing The Stupid, Brave New World. 

I used DaVinci Resolve for editing since it’s free to use and is widely known as a great editing tool. Take a look at the picture below to see a little snippet of my editing.

Although I am still having some difficulties with completely figuring out how to master the art of using Davinci, I’m sure that I’ll be able to understand it and end up making a fantastic film opening.