One Last Thing...

     Hey Cambridge! I just wanted to say thank you for following me on this amazing journey, I've had so much fun doing everything even though it has been all over the place. For your convenience... my film opening link at the top.

Film Opening: Tommy

CCR #2

     Hey again guys! This is my second video for my CCR. This time around we made it seem like an online talk show, similar to what a lot of talk shows like Stephen Colbert did during the COVID-19 quarantine with celebrities. The show is simply through something like "Zoom". Thank you to Enzo Sequini for being my actor here! Edited with Adobe Premiere Pro.

• How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

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

CCR 2

CCR #1

     Hey everyone. My project has officially ended and here is my first reflection upon finishing this project. The questions I had to answer here were...

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

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

    The following video is my reflection, made to look like a red carpet interview. I'd like to thank Mia Sequini for being my interviewer/actress and Enzo Sequini for filming.

CCR Video 1

    

CCR Scripts

 Here are my official scripts for both CCR videos.

    CCR Script #1

    CCR Script #2

Can't wait to film and show these to you guys!

I tried to go with a funnier more personal approach for these but I also made sure I was obviously talking the most. I'll be filming tomorrow! Hopefully done editing by Saturday!

CCR Videos

     Now that my filming is over and I've published my film for everyone to see it's time to move onto my CCR! These are my Creative Critical Reflections and it follows 4 questions.

• How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
• How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
• How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
• How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

    So, I've decided to cover 2 questions in a video, therefore having 2 separate CCR videos. Now I'll be publishing my scripts super super soon for both videos as I get them done. I've decided video #1 will be a red carpet interview, as if somebody were to interview on some random red carpet for questions 1 and 2. The next video will be a talk show interview, something Jimmy Kimmel vibes, that'll answer questions 3 and 4. Stay tuned for the scripts!

"Tommy"

     Here's the official link to Tommy!

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Editing Is Finito! Get Ready to see Tommy!

     So, I finished all my editing in a surprising 2 days. I felt it was super easy to find my clips for each cut as I literally directed and filmed depending on what I envisioned for all the cuts. Anyways, I was so happy to be done with everything and finally get to show my final product... here's my editing sequence, stay tuned for Tommy.

The blue indicates footage and audio clips from my iPhone, the purple indicates PNGs (production logo and title card) as well as text (credits). The green signifies sound effects that I found on a no royalty and no copyright website that I completely blanked the name of, so sorry. 

Making My Own Titlecard...

     Hey people! Now that I'm in my editing stages I know the most important factor of this opening will be my unforgettable TITLE CARD!!!

    I've taken it upon myself to design my own rather than just grab the fonts from Adobe Premiere Pro and have at it. I wanted to make it fun and true to the character I developed earlier in this project. The title card has sort of 2 title cards... rather than 1. As I said before Thomas is a spy who is addressed by others as Tommy for how young he is compared to the other spies around him, and he hates it. So I made a title card that represents that.

This is the original title card, the first one you'll see as it is the name of the film opening.

This is the second one, the one that represents the character more than anything, he hates his nickname and he hates the title of this film.

Footage is DONEZO

     Hey guys!

    I finally got all my footage in for this film opening, I do have to say it took me some time but I'm glad I was able to get everything done with the help of my amazing actors and friends who have been here with me through all of it. 

    

I've had so much fun making this film opening with my friends because it really was an eye opening experience for me, it made me realize how much I love this kind of stuff and I'm so ready to continue working on things like this in the future. Here's a quick little shot of me filming the last scene in the opening, a scene that took us about 20 minutes to get perfect.

Drone Footage YIPPEE!

     Heyyyy guys.

  So I finally got my drone shots and I thought my wonderful people over at Cambridge might want a sneak peek into what I've been up to. First and foremost I'd like to thank my friend Santiago Salguero for allowing me to use his drone and operating it under my direction.

The drone shots I found were pretty simple but I think they'll add some professional kick to this film opening that was obviously made by someone who isn't a professional just yet.

Below is the shortest drone footage we have of the house we used, thanks to our actor Enzo who offered his house up after our first filming location didn't work out.

Goodbye Elevator Scene :( + NEW LOCATION!

     Hey everyone! So, as I said before, my filming was a flop. The location wasn't good especially because it was a completely public area that made it practically impossible to have 0 background noise or at least background noise that isn't entirely distracting. 

    Thankfully, Enzo (who plays Thomas) has offered up his house to use for filming, I'm going to try my best to make it look like some sort of secret spy base, might have to bring random screens from my house there to his house but I'll make it work. That being said there is a sacred scene that I now have to let go because of this :(...

We have to say goodbye to my elevator scene...

The elevator scene was actually my base for the combat sequences in this film opening and I'm so sad with this new location I'll have to work around it as obviously a house isn't going to have an elevator there.