Film opening

 

CCR Question 4

 

CCR Question 3

 

CCR Question 2

 

CCR Question 1

Ccr 1 

Wouldn’t let me post like the others ones!

Idea for CCR 4

 My last and probably least favorite ideas is a podcast. I like the concept of the podcast so the audience can really listens,, but that seems boring to me. I will add some opening and closing music of the pop group, Katseye, which we got our inspiration for out production company name, Dogseye. I think question four is the best question to talk in a podcast so I can get as much information out as I can. The cover will be the same film production company tag as the film to pull everything together.

Idea for CCR 3

 My idea for CCR 3 is to make a pipe cleaner tutorial but have a voice over and maybe some music to put everything together. That question focuses on theme and genre so I will make a burgundy, thriller themed flower to match my blog. I will also add what supplies are needed as well as how to do things with little captions in the video. 

Idea for CCR 2

My idea for CCR 2 was a movie poster because that question was about how I would market the film opening and that was one of the ways I would. My idea for the poster is to make it really eerie and take a picture of a hallway. My font is going to be skinny and long. I will add maybe a stalker in the hallway as well. At the top will be the actors and myself. At the bottom it will say the name of the film opening and how I directed and produced it.  I will definitely be creating this in Canva.

Idea for CCR 1

 My idea of doing a drawing CCR was because I love to be artsy. I chose to do a time-lapse of a duck with a flower on its head because to me ducks and flowers symbolize innocence. This relates to my project because I believe that students should never feel unsafe when they come to school. Students, teachers, janitors, or anyone that goes to a school, are innocent. No one should ever feel threatened at a place that they trust to put their education in the schools hands. That is also why I specifically chose to do CCR 1 for this drawing because I talked a lot about the social issue and why I picked it.

Sound Editing

 

Editing the sound was an entire process on its own. Unfortunately, our camera did not pick up any sound, and if we used the microphones the entire time, it would pick up too much background noise. To troubleshoot this issue, I edited the sound of breathing, jiggling handles, and banging on the doors all my self from using a sound website call Pixabay. This website has non copy-right music and noises. Creating the sound was the most difficult part single-handedly. With all of the needed missing sounds, I also added heart beating, tense, stress inducing copy-right free music, and the lockdown announcement. Layering all of these was a long process because I hade to adjust the audio gain based on how loud each sound clip needed to be. I also needed to make sure every knock and handle jiggle was lined up exactly to the actors hands. 

Text message edit

 

The text message edit really adds to the movie and keeps the audiences engaged while waiting for the bigger scenes to arise. To the left, there are four pink boxes. These boxes are the text messages that I edited on Canva if you look below. Creating the text messages were easy. I just used a text message element, then put a text box in each message. I made sure to type in a specific way for the student and mother. The student is more laid back, while the mother texts formally. After I added each text, I green screened each one by coloring the back round green and color matching it in premiere pro to get rid of it. 

Under the pink is the green sound bar, which I lined up texting sounds, send sounds, and receiving sounds for each message to give it more realism. 

Movie poster making

Making the poster was difficult, although I made it in Canva, which I’m pretty used too. I wanted a gradient effect with cool undertones and it was definitely hard to find in the elements. I also added the stalker in the hallway as well as a line to draw the readers in. To gain audience, I also added only in theaters so more people would want to go see it because of its important meaning. 

Masking edit

Masking was one of the hardest challenges I had to face. One of my shoes were in the background of a shot, so Mr. Z helped me figure out how to mask things out of the shot. We formed an oval around the shoe and did it with each movement of the camera until premiere pro filled in the rest. Then we adjusted the shadows and brick flooring to blend in with the background. To the left is before and below that is the after. 

Props

 I decided that the phone would be the main prop because of the texting scene in the beginning. But I also wanted the audience to know that the student is involved with school by have a band shirt on and a flute in hand. She drops everything to go and run for her life. Which she has too, everything in students lives when shootings happen has to wait so they can find a way to survive. This should never have to be a thought and I feel strongly we need to make a change as a society to fix this.

Clip editing

 

Editing each scene and clip was definitely a journey, but it ended up turning out exactly how I wanted. Most of the clips don’t have transitions into the next one, they are just cut or shot-to-shot. In the ending of the movie opener you will see a film dissolve if I remember correctly, from the student to the POV vignette shot of the shooter. At one of the cuts, I added a transition to make it look like he blinked! 

Vignette making

 The POV shot of the shooter is a vignette. In premiere pro I added a main color, red or burgundy, then turned down the opaqueness and added a vignette around it. I feathered and colors the vignette a slightly cool color and rounded it out as needed. I think it really brings value to the shot and makes it stand out. There was a minor technical difficulty where the lighting in the dark room made the vignette darker, so next time I would have to take lighting into a bigger consideration.

Lighting

 I chose to stick with natural lighting because I really wanted to represent a normal day. This is because school shootings are always a surprise and no one knows when it’s coming. The natural light also complemented the scenes well. When she gets into the room to hide, I didn’t want too much lighting because its supposed to be dark, although that effected the vignette, I think it was the best ideas considering the situation the character was put in.