CCR

I decided to make a podcast as my creative critical reflection! I hope you enjoy!

Click here to listen to it!

I'M THAT EXTRA

Hi, I know I'm done with the project by now but I really wanted to make that cover for the movie. I know I said that I had an idea in mind if I called my film Spotlight but at the end I called it  The Scene. I had no ideas for the cover the day of the filming so I didn't take any pictures. Still I wanted to have that cover picture so bad. I decided to draw it digitally since my digital drawing skills have improved.

FILM OPENING

Can't believe I'm saying this but my film opening is FINALLY READY.

Just to give a little background information Olivia, the main character, gets trapped in the modeling industry and everything that comes with it: drugs, alcohol, eating disorders, sexual harassment etc. The first half of my film shows the "after" of this whole process and the second half the "before", as we see Olivia getting ready to her first audition, where it all started.

EDITING 101

In this blog post, I would like to discuss how I edited the first part of my film. Since a lot of people were asking about, I thought that it was a good idea to dedicate a whole post to the editing.

To begin with, I layered the same clips to make it look as she was hallucinating. To do so, I copied the clip and then dragged one of them on top of the other. I also dragged the video a few seconds after the other one. I did this in order to get that dizzy feeling.

Now let's talk boy sound baby! (caught the song reference?)
Some of the sound effects that I used:
1) High Pitch sound
2) Drops Falling
Going chronologically, I first put the High pitch sound to convey that she's not aware of her surroundings. Then, I took the drops falling sound effect and used Garage Band to make it sound very echoey. This was a whole new experience for me because I had no idea how to use Garage Band and literally spend a whole day watching youtube tutorials and now I'm decent at it.
Those 2 sound are prominent throughout the whole scene.
For the voices in her head, I recorded my own voice on Garage Band saying quotes like "You're ugly, you're fat, you're not enough" one after the other as one big clip. Then I did the same than with the drop falling, I edited it and added echo but swifter so you could still understand what it was said. Once I imported the clip to i movie, I spliced them and placed them all spread but juxtaposing each other. I wanted to do this because it helps convey that her mind is full of negative thoughts and is overwhelmed.  (I named it voices Olivia)

After finishing this, it didn't sound as I wanted it to sound. I wanted to sounded very busy but even with the different voices talking, there was something lacking. I remembered that for a past project for this same class I had to record people whispering and I still had that clip so I used it and everything started to come up the way that I wanted.

Once she let's the bottle fall to the floor. I stopped all these sounds and the layering of the video. Why? Because I wanted to emphasize that she's now unconscious and so the sound perspective stopped as well. Because there's a lot that was cut all of a sudden I wanted to make it smooth so I gradually ended the high pitch sound effect with an option that iMovie offers. (I named it Ringing)

Because the majority of the sounds I added and are actually part of the clip, I also added the know on the door I just recorded myself knocking on the door without editing any of it. 

And this is how it came up! 

And to finalize, the editing of the second half was fairly easy. I just put it all the clips together and made it look fluent. The only thing I added, was sound effect of nature and birds to help mesh together the visual and auditive narrative. 

I also added the credits with a duration of 4 seconds. 

Well, that is it for my editing! Can't believe I finished my film opening... Times flies, don't you think?

BEHIND THE SCENE VLOG

I finally filmed! I think I got a lot of good footage. I can't wait to start editing and see how it all turns out. This marks a new phase of this project, almost coming to an end, I'll try to make the best out of it. But for now, enjoy my little vlog!

RECORDING WAS FUN!

Yesterday I spent the whole day recording the song for my project. I really like how is coming out. My voice is ready but now my friend will help me add a few sounds and arrange my voice He said that he would have it ready by tuesday or wednesday. I am really excited of how it's going to come out! I have a few videos and pictures of that day.

Now the next step is to finally film!!!! I finally found someone else that is willing to help me by providing her camera. I will film the first part tomorrow after school and spend the whole day filming the second half.
I decided that i wanted to make tangible credits for that art of the movie which is why I decided to film that last so I can plan how I wanted and all my shots planned.

#STRESSED

Well... With this project I realized that people have no commitment whatsoever.
I was supposed to film yesterday the second half of my project but the girl who was supposed to film the project (I texted her the day before to confirm) told me last minute that she couldn't come and she wouldn't let me borrow the camera either. My actress got bored of waiting for me and went eating and when I finally found a camera, she was long gone.
With this post I just want to express that it's so hard put people with different schedules to help you with something by their own will (no money involved).
Just to update my bog, I don't know when I'm going to film... Today the actress is unavailable, friday I'll be the whole day recording the soundtrack of my film and saturday I'll be in a law mock trial.
I'll probably film the first half (the girl trying to kill herself) because it doesn't need of the daytime or much light by any means. THE THING IS, I don't think these people would want to help a saturday night. Hopefully it won't take long and they'll access to it. Catch me this Saturday night filming and this sunday editing the whole day :))))))))
I swear I try to be an organized pal sometimes but nature doesn't like me.