Film Opening

Our film opening

    

    After 9 weeks, our film opening is here. We worked hard throughout these past few weeks to create this. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

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Don't Look Back Film Opening

Creative Critical Reflection

Here is my completed CCR! 

    In this video, I cover the entirety of my journey throughout this project. The ups, the downs, and everything in between. Enjoy!!

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Bianca Bonaventura CCR

End Reflection

 Approaching the end!

    Even though it’s been 9 weeks since I started this project, it feels like the time flew by. A lot of effort went into it, and I think it’s safe to say both Nati and I believe we did a nice job, especially for it being our first long term project with filming and editing. Looking back on the beginning, I was really overwhelmed and stressed but as the time went on, we took it one step at a time and ended up with a project we truly love.

    I began editing my CCR today, and I’m almost done with it too! If I stay on track, I should be done by tomorrow, and it will be up on my blog. After having all the clips added to Adobe Premiere, today I cropped the beginning and ends of some clips to make it flow better. I began adding in pictures and videos over myself talking to show additional information in a visual way. I made some slides on Canva to include and also took screenshots of websites for these pictures. (Shown below) Tomorrow I’m planning on adding voice overs to some of the pictures, to further explain what’s being shown. 

    The only issues I really had when beginning the editing process of my CCR was not being able to download DaVinci Resolve due to storage on my computer. I tried deleting what I didn’t need but it wasn’t enough, so I stuck with Adobe Premiere.

    As for my film opening, Nati and I made a few changes I discussed previously. We decided to change the credits’ font. Before we had wanted a font that looked, in a way, handwritten but we finalized our decision on a font that was more simple in order to not take away from what is being shown. Our emphasis is on the entirety of the film opening.

Screenshot from website

Made on Canva

    Next blog posts will include my film opening and my CCR! Stay tuned to see the results!

CCR Filming Update!

 I finished recording my CCR!!!

    Countless takes and many interruptions later, I finished filming! I surprised myself when I started going off script towards the end a little. Throughout the whole beginning I was on script word for word because I’m not used to filming myself talking, but as I kept recording I got more comfortable and was able to speak without referring to my script! This made the filming process so much easier because I wasn’t worried about saying the “right” things, when in reality anything on topic is right. I started off slow but again, as I got comfortable I also did less takes.

    Now, my plan is to take the weekend to edit, and if I need to I can also edit Monday. I downloaded the videos onto my computer already, so tomorrow I will upload them into Adobe Premiere. I decided to use Premiere to edit because DaVinci Resolve takes up a lot of storage and iMovie is not the best for editing. A friend recommended Premiere so I am going to use it for my CCR. It’s also provided to me for free by my school.

The videos uploaded to google drive