Film Opening

ITS FINALLY OVER I CAN STOP WORRYING!!!

Hello Blog!! for the last time this year :( 

Relocated is FINALLY DONE!!

 

This project has been a wild adventure and taken so much work, I'm so glad its finally ready! Hope you Enjoy :)

Creative Critical Reflections

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Reflection and Changes

 Wow Its finally pretty much over. I genuinely feel like a different person after this project hahaha. No but, genuinely all jokes aside I've grown a lot over the course of these past two months. This is by far the largest Media related project I've taken on and I did it individually!

Talking about doing individually its something I don't regret per say but.... I definitely won't be doing it again next year. On the bright side, it really taught me about every single part of the production process, in a comprehensive way that I haven't really done before. But, working alone is tough. Not neccesarirly because it takes much more time to work alone, although it definately does, but the biggest things for me were the pressures that if anything goes wrong its all on you, and that you have no one else to help keep you accountable, you must wear many different hats all at the same time, and make sure none of them get dropped. 

An accurate depiction of me trying to manage this project individually.

When it comes to changes I had to make to my film from what I'd planned in my storyboard, there was one scene I cut out. Its a pretty small scene right at the end. Before, after this alarm clock scene, which ended up being my actual final scene, I was going to have a final shot of Yolanda working away at her school. However, logistically this shot would have been a significant challenge to film. 

Shot of clock which ended up being my final shot

Getting that shot within school would have mainly been difference because of my Mise-En-Scene elements. The school has a very serious scholarly aesthetic, which has a few different implications. First the actor for Yolanda would have had to wear a suit to school, which frankly I did not want them to go through, and second I would have had to get Extras to also wear similar suits. Logistically, it was just too difficult for a 3 second shot that didn't add much to the opening, so I simply decided to ax it.