Film opening

 The long awaited film opening, here is the link:

https://youtu.be/V83uf3wL1ZE

CCR

 Here is the link to my ccr: 

https://youtu.be/G8gDKzHRtAg

The End is nearing

 The next two post will be my last. What an experience this has all been. It was fun to create from scratch a film opening and the idea created by me. This process that took over nine weeks was full of ups and downs. Many setbacks and failures but I have managed to work through it all. It was also a really stressful experience however. Nonetheless the day has finally come where everything needs to be submitted. I'm honestly quite proud of myself for creating this from scratch. 

Now this blog post aims to answer the following questions for my CCR.

    1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or                  issues?

 2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

4. How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware, and online – in this project? 

1. As this is a crime drama, I didn't really challenge any typical drama conventions. I felt as if the typical crime drama convention fit as to what I was going for. Typically a murder occurs, Involves criminals, crime family and betrayal. The only convention I did challenge however was the main characters. I had 3 main characters and 2/3 were females. Which is a nice change as it's typically male main characters in crime drama films.

2. It would be posted on YouTube and be promoted on Social Media such as Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. As our targeted audience and the target audience of crime drama is mainly teens to adults. Nowadays many are on social media so I will capitalize on that and promote my film opening on there. I can also promote my film opening at school as it does also target teenagers. 

 

3. I took everything I have learned about shots and angles and editing and used it on this film opening. If there was anything I didn't understand I also went to YouTube to seek the answers I need. 

4. I integrated technology such as My phone and Laptop and editing software's. I filmed on my phone and editing on my laptop using CapCut an editing software I stumbled across on my YouTube ad recommendations. It seemed fairly simple to use so I gave it a go and edited my film opening on there. I didn't have any professional lighting equipment's so I just used my house lights.   

This is where I'm at cya for my CCR and my Film opening.

Production Process

 We filmed about almost 2 minutes of footage. I'll need to edit some excess footage out, The whole thing took like 2 hours. As I did change some things during production. I took out the smoking scene as I couldn't figure anything out to make the scene foggy. I also changed some different shots and angles on how I wanted the scene to look. The shot with the cup was also taken out and everything else I did incorporate into the opening. This is where I'm at as of now cya on the next one. 

Shooting Schedule

 We shot the film opening over the duration of Spring Break. We had to figure out our conflicting schedules as one of my friends had to go out of state on a certain date. We had to finish our opening before then. I will then have enough time to finish shooting and editing. We filmed at my house and the setting mostly took place in my living room and kitchen. The shooting went well with a few slip ups. It's nothing too big of a deal however. We were able to work through it. This is where were at for now. Cya on the next one! 

Storyboard

 

This is the storyboard, the first 3 panels are introducing the cast using a pan to introduce them all in one shot. They have cigarettes in their mouth but I will probably take that detail out. In the fourth panel is one of them is supposed to play music on their phone and then the music starts playing. They start playing Mahjong and then someone accuses one of cheating during the start of the game. They laugh it off and then (Phoenix) ends up finishing her drink and (dragon) asks the waiter (Juan) to refill the drink for her. Juan comes and goes back to the kitchen. Shortly after Juan hears a knock on the door and goes to open it. A messenger comes with shocking news!

Layout Drawing

The simple layout is within my living room and kitchen as you can see there are 2 tables one where Mahjong is being played and the other where a drink is placed. The 3 figures around the table are the cast. The waiter is posted by the kitchen washing dishes when he is called over to bring another drink to one of the crime family members. The dotted lines show you the path the waiter takes from the kitchen to the table and back to the kitchen. Then he hears a knock on the front door and the waiter goes and opens the front door to a surprise.