Blog Entry #30 Creative Critical Reflection Question 4 DRAFT

Creative Critical Reflection Question 4
-How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware, and online- in this project?

Throughout our films production there were many ways that my group integrated technologies to create the final product. Our group also used many different software's, websites and programs to help mold our film. Throughout the project each member of the group kept a Blog (Google Blogger) to help with organization and to show our groups progress in creating the film. The Blog was a very helpful tool as we can write ideas and show our films progress which helped other group members if they did not understand something or missed a day.  As the film editor, I had to learn to overcome. By sitting down and researching all different types of software's and combining their uses to create a film. This was honestly one of the hardest parts in creating the film as learning proper uses of this software to create the finished project. All in all the group my group integrated many different technologies to create this project.

Blog Entry #29 Creative Critical Reflection Question 3 DRAFT

Creative Critical Reflection Question 3
-How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

When our group decided to do a film project we thought that it would be quite challenging since not one member of the group had any practice with creating films. When we were given jobs and roles in the production of the film, my job was the film editor. This was something I have never done in my life. I did lots of research on different types of film editing software and found that windows movie maker was the easiest to use. It took many days of practice to understand how movie maker works but once I understood the basics everything else was easy. Adding clips, trimming and deleting parts of the scene were all challenges that I faced in the production of this film. But as an overall question, my production skills have gotten a lot better as time went on in creating the finished product. My group was satisfied with my material and this really boosted my confidence for future productions.

Blog Entry #28 Creative Critical Reflection Question 2 DRAFT

Creative Critical Reflection Question 2
-How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

In the film industry there are many ways that films engage with the target audience. Our films target audience is young adults that run into social and economic problems. This film really can compare to the real world young adults that need help because of financial troubles. Our product shows Zack, a hopeless young adult living day to day with one job. His normal life turns upside down when he receives a call from his boss that he is fired. This to many young adults can be a tragedy, stressful and the feeling that life has deceived them. But when all faith was lost Zack receives a text from his best friend Josh that said "1 million dollar scratch offs sold at Publix for 1 dollar!". Zack feels like this can be a life changing opportunity that he has to take. Without hesitation, he goes out to get it, and won! Our films plot can really relate to a large percentage of young adults in our country with daily problems and struggles. If you have good friends they can sometimes change your life.

There are many different ways that films can be distributed in the film industry. As a group we decided that our film will be distributed to our community. The way we will distribute information about our film is that we will hand out flyers at local high schools (with approval), hang up flyers in stores all around town (With approval) and stand downtown handing out flyers to the locals as well as the snowbirds to get our product name out there and get people talking about it. We would also get in contact with our local news station (CNN and SNN News 6) to talk to them and ask them if we would be able to advertise and talk about our film on the news (to get our product seen by other social groups other than our targeted audience(Adults, Elders, etc.)). These are just a few ideas that our group decided to distribute our film product to our target audience as well as other social groups as a real media text.

Blog Entry #27 Creative Critical Reflection Question 1 DRAFT

Creative Critical Reflection Question 1
-How does your product use or challenge convection and how does it represent social groups or issues?

Our final film used convection, we conveyed convection in our shots. Here is an example, we shot an over-the-shoulder shot of Zack to show that he was in charge of the house. This shot shows that Zack has power and confidence. We used this technique because we wanted to symbolize that Zack had many responsibilities as a young adult. When I say responsibilities of a young adult I mean adults ages 18-23 that go to work every day and rely on a weekly pay check to pay bills, feed themselves and pay for other necessities. But when we speak of just responsibility we noticed it in a few films that we have viewed for research. We have seen this shot before in the "John Adams" episode we watched as a class. The over-the-shoulder shot that was portrayed in the "John Adams" showed that John was a leader and in-charge of his town. It also shows courage because he was the only one to go and help his people in the madness.  Our product also represents social groups and issues as young adults living day to day on one job and it can all fall apart when you get the call of being laidoff or fired. However in our case of the film Zack's problem was solved by spending a dollar on a 1 million dollar scratch off from publix changing his life.

Blog Entry #25 Revision 3

As soon as our group gets the final clip to add to the film my job will be to insert that clip into the old film. I have decided that I will post the original video, then the additional clip, and I will post the original video again to crop these videos to finalize the video. As a group we also decided that we will edit the clip when Zack drops to his knees and celebrates because we thought that this was an akward ending. We have chosen to end it right when Zack drops to his knees.

Blog Entry #24 Revision 2

We refilmed the clip to add to our film, however when the video showed up on the computer to edit the video file was blurry and unclear.

Our group still wants to add a clip to fill the hole in the plot, so we will reshoot a clip of Zack reading the text he recieved from Josh outloud.

Blog Entry #23 Revision 1

Revision

We decided that we will film a clip of Zack recieving a text from Josh saying "1 million dollar scratch offs at Publix for 1 dollar". By adding this clip it will hopefully fill a hole in the polt, becasue in our first class revision the students were confused about why Zack went to Publix until he purchased the scratch off.