Here is the link to the Canva presentation:
this literally took me till the early hours of the morning to fix (did it with my school account first...long story...anyway goodbye forever now...but enjoy!)
Monday, March 31, 2025
#39 CCR Pt.1
Here is the link to my first CCR! CCR Pt.1
Some things I forgot, pictures and videos attached here:
wardrobe in beginning
wardrobe at the ending part
natural, brighter lighting
man-made; low-key lighting
Marketing for the film intro
It Ends with Us (2024) film intro
(mainly just the first two minutes, like the film intro we were assigned)
Sunday, March 30, 2025
#38 It's Finally Here!
After months of work, it is here for you to enjoy! (well, hopefully you do...)
Yeah, A Great Valentine's (2025): Yeah, A Great Valentine's Film Intro
#37 Personal Reflection
The Checklist is finally complete!!
This journey of my videos has been a whirlwind of emotions. Definitely it had its ups and was pretty exciting, but it has also been super exhausting (lol). I would say if this was my only class, I would be GAS at it but having three other Cambridge classes have not been easy, and it had put a lot of stress on me. So sadly, there was a lot of frustration, sleepless nights, and crying frankly, but there have been some been fun times. Creating my marketing, making presentations, creating my film intro and feeling like a real film maker (and honestly the researching and planning was so interesting, especially when it came to being inspired by different films and super analyzing it, seeing what details/things filmmakers and producers think about)
The actual journey of these videos by myself has been a lot, maybe too much don’t really recommend doing it alone, but if you don’t want to deal with people who can’t hold their weight then I guess go get it girl (or guy). Doing filming, editing, creating, scheduling, researching, planning, crying, everything by yourself is a LOT on your plate, and that is why in the real world, film makes have a TEAM, because there’s no way for one director/film maker/producer to do an entire film on their lonesome. And I mean this was just the intro and another video with blogs, if it’s hard now, imagine other things (yeesh).
I’m grateful for this journey and the lengths and limits it has taken me, proving my God given strength, but I’m also very tired. Loved doing this, but I didn’t “like” the process you know. It’s like when couples say “I love you, but I don’t like when…” that is how it feels like with this portfolio. A relationship. And that ties in with the themes of love and heartbreak in my film intro. This was such a loving and fun experience, but it also broke my heart and was tiring and frankly a bit annoying sometimes. Like a relationship.
I’m so glad to be able to document my journey and experience it with the ones who’ve been reading. I hope I get good marks, we will see. (My college life is riding on this lol)
Till next time! (Or not tbh…)
#36 Editing Pt.3!!!
Just a quick one for today…
Editing the CCR Pt.1 and the film intro took over three days. Gathering footage, cutting, splicing, putting voiceovers, adding pictures and music, took FOREVER. Honestly, it took the entirety of spring break to really do it, but truly three days: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (and well now Monday aka 4 days), were the days in focusing on the final stretch of this portfolio.
Ultimately, I chose Cap Cut to put all the footage together, with transitions and music, and after exporting, I put the final videos into Canva, to easily put photos and videos next to my face, and place opening credits. So, it was a tag team type action. Honestly, this process has been tiring and stressful considering the fact of what I had to do even PRIOR to editing and AFTERWARDS. Gathering the footage took multiple emails and some didn't even send, so I had to do “i cloud drop”, which made me click each individual video/image and download it, and that occurred at least 20 times. When I finished putting the first CCR together, and was SO READY to export, guess what, MY COMPUTER HAD NO SPACE (Just great huh just great, Praise be to God still though, He gets me through these tough times and tests). So, I had to delete a bunch of stuff, (it was like 600,000 items….) but in that culmination of items, important stuff got deleted (at least now it was more difficult to access files), and my computer looks empty now. I was afraid of big stuff being important, but I saw one folder taking too much space and thought “this is meaningless, ah let’s do it* DELETE*”. Side note, this was all very late because I was working, but still not very smart decisions here guys. When I deleted all those items, no files from the CCR got lost, and I’m like “oh, ain’t this a swell time”, so I had to go back, figure out what I was missing, and cut down files again. After the whole back n forth (which occurred over TWO DAYS YES DOS DIAS), it was FINALLY ready to export. I was scared because it was LAGGY AS HECK, but it turned out to be ok, not perfect, but just ok, (I just need a pass at this point). And I mean that was JUST the CCR Pt.1, the film intro was quicker, but I noticed I was getting short on time, which was weird. I normally am OVER THE TOP, but for the intro I was just fine. The longest process for that was adding the music, transitions, logo, and title card.
After exporting the two, I put the film intro Canva, where the opening credits were placed in. the CCR Pt.1 on the other hand was too big to upload to Canva, so I had to resort to just putting the pictures, videos, etc. that were going to be put in the actual video, into the blog itself. I'm just glad it's ready to send out! (Thank the Lord finally, i get to enjoy spring break ~ not really, I have two other homework and it's the last day…yay… :))
January 18th-20th: Further blogs on idea
January 27th: blogs due
February 1st: chose filming location
February 3rd: Blogs due, reveal title of film intro
February 7th: ask Frances (again) to be in video and write the plot/dialogue [half done]
February 10th: figure out costumes, camera, and editing software (AND BLOGS DUE)
More like the 11th… (DONE)
February 14th: Get filming down for first 45 - 60 seconds of film intro
Will probably be moved to the 16th.. (DONE)
Things occurring on that day may interfere with filming
February 17th: Blogs due
February 24th: Blogs due
February 28th: Get filming done for the second half
March 1st: (need some parts done for the second half so will be done the 1st.) ~ NOT DONE
March 3rd: ALL FILMING DONE/blogs due
March 7th: Begin editing process
March 7th: See if you have time to stop by You Media. (no time 😡)
March 10th- complete CCR Pt.1/hard deadline on blogs
March 14th: complete CCR Pt.2
March 17th - 21st: Edit CCR and finalize the film intro
Monday after spring break [March 31st]: PORTFOLIO DUE
Thursday, March 27, 2025
#35 CCR Filming !!
Thank God!
Filming for the CCR pt.1 is officially done! To recap, the first CCR is a video that I based off of the series Chopped –from Food Network– but instead made it CCR. This was inspired by my first ever video done (aka 30-second creation project in the beginning of the year), where I made a 30-second video about a chef presenting to a tough food critic. Flash forward to now, I am continuing in the culinary theme and chose to base my CCR off it. This video covered the first two questions out of the four which ask:
How does the film opening use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues?
How does the film opening engage with audiences, and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
How the CCR ran…
So, to be creative, I filmed this as if it was an episode of Chopped, with a “host” and everything. My brother (obviously) took the role of the host and presented me with a basket holding ingredients to make a dish on the spot, but weirdly, I also pulled out a microphone and a light, two essential things used in FILMING, not cooking. I just go along with it, and begin cooking while also yapping about the film intro as I am cooking, but also cutting to the “interview” portion of the show, where I go more in depth about the film intro (basically answering the questions in more detail, while also keeping the comedy)
So primarily the video will be in the interview portion, and it will be edited with a mini title card saying my name, candidate number and film intro name, as per CCR requirements. But, the video will cut back to me in the kitchen in various times to keep the Chopped them going and then I’m going to finish by revealing the final product made with the ingredients in the basket (which was my brother and I’s actual lunch that day~ I planned it that way), and being like “Yeah, A Great Valentine’s” in theaters (such and such). So, the CCR is a Chopped episode, mixed in with marketing (like what one of the questions asked about distribution of the film), to promote the film intro.
Evidence…
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me opening up the famous basket
presenting my dish and film intro
a transition to the "interview"
one of my "interview" portions + bloopers (basically trying to figure out what to say in this moment)
my "host's" entrance
January 18th-20th: Further blogs on idea
January 27th: blogs due
February 1st: chose filming location
February 3rd: Blogs due, reveal title of film intro
February 7th: ask Frances (again) to be in video and write the plot/dialogue [half done]
February 10th: figure out costumes, camera, and editing software (AND BLOGS DUE)
More like the 11th… (DONE)
February 14th: Get filming down for first 45 - 60 seconds of film intro
Will probably be moved to the 16th.. (DONE)
Things occurring on that day may interfere with filming
February 17th: Blogs due
February 24th: Blogs due
February 28th: Get filming done for the second half
March 1st: (need some parts done for the second half so will be done the 1st.) ~ NOT DONE
March 3rd: ALL FILMING DONE/blogs due
March 7th: Begin editing process
March 7th: See if you have time to stop by You Media. (no time 😡)
March 10th- complete CCR Pt.1/hard deadline on blogs
March 14th: complete CCR Pt.2
March 17th - 21st: Edit CCR and finalize the film intro
Monday after spring break [March 31st]: PORTFOLIO DUE
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