Episode Final Submission - Marshall Hunt

 After 9 weeks, I have finally finished my film opening. Here is my 2-minute film opening for Episode

https://drive.google.com/file/d/162QZ-pn5881IRoRJC0Tx0QqPYI-Or5gr/view?usp=sharing

Creative Critical Reflection

 Here is the link to my CCR for my film opening episode - https://drive.google.com/file/d/16pqW7rai4YnMgC1QIke0nG28DQ2iJDh_/view?usp=sharing

This CCR video discusses my planning, problems, changes, distribution, and technology that was a part of my film opening. 

Final Review

     Over the 9 weeks I worked on this project, my ideas have changed a lot. I started off thinking about an action genre film opening with transitions between live-action, stop motion, and even animation. After taking a second thought about it, I realized that the stop motion and animation alone would take way too much time for it to look good. I bit off a little more than I could chew so I decided to change my story. I wanted to use cars and fast-paced shots but I realized that it's a lot harder to tell a whole story in a 2-minute action film than I could in a drama film. Rather than just going with a typical drama film about a happy-ending love story, I thought it would be more interesting to take a twist on it and give it a more negative vibe. 

    After researching the drama genre and its sub-genres, I felt that psychological drama was the perfect genre for my film. I knew that I would be the one acting in my film so I wanted to step out of my comfort zone a little bit. I have never been a huge fan of expressing and showing any kind of sad or depressing feelings, so filming myself while doing it was definitely something I wasn't used to. While I knew my acting was going to be a little lacking, I thought it was worth trying. 

    In terms of my actual work, I regret how I managed my time and wish I would have given myself a true schedule that I followed strictly. I fell behind a bit on time and had to rush a little bit. I still have 2 days before I upload my film and I'm fairly happy with it. I need to add some music and change up some coloring and I think I'll be satisfied. Overall, I'm not too disappointed with how my project turned out, and I might begin to really like it. I could definitely tell a difference in my work from when the year first started to where I'm at now. I'm not upset with the work I did, if I could have done a few things differently I would have, but in the end, I'm happy with my project,

Filming Overview

 I have all of my shots completed that I could do on my own. All I have to do is put everything together and cut some excess parts out. In all honesty, I'm pretty behind with my film, but I know everything will be done by Saturday at the latest. I'm just waiting to film the "flashback" shots with my girlfriend. I asked her to film with me tomorrow, it won't take any longer than 30 mins total and then I'll have that part done. My one big problem now, I don't know how I want to end it. I filmed a shot that could be my ending but I don't love it, so I need to think about what I really want to do that could end my opening. The editing really won't take long. I have a free class period next class so I should be able to do 90% of the editing in that class and have most of it done by the time I leave school today.

I liked how most of the shots came out, I was just hoping it would rain, but I can't control the weather which kind of stinks. I have been waiting for it to rain at night for over a month, but it hasn't. The longest part of the editing process for me is to probably create a title for me to use. I want to lay it over the opening scene along with the credits. I already chose a font that I think I will stick with so honestly, all I have to do, film a couple more shots with my girlfriend, film an ending, spend an hour putting clips together, and I'm done.

CCR

 The final thing I need to work on is my CCR. Although my film is not 100% completed, I can still begin a script that talks about my research, filming process, technology, and a bunch of other stuff. Rather than writing a script that I can read word for word, I would rather create a bunch of key bullet points to help me base my ideas. Writing a whole script seems like it would be a little too time-consuming, but if the bullets don't work, I wouldn't mind writing a script. My teacher recommended that we answer these 4 questions to help us create an efficient and satisfactory CCR.

I'm aiming to have my CCR be around 5-7 minutes so that I have enough time to say everything I need to, but not too much time to a point where I'm saying nonsense to make it seem like it's long enough. I began writing a script about the first question and based it off of my previous blog posts about genre research. Rather than bullet points, I ended up writing an essay-type response that I may be able to read off during filming. I also started a Google Doc to keep track of all my citations and websites to add at the end of my CCR