Creative Critical Reflection!

https://youtu.be/lh9fuJVuqTc

Final Product: Jo

poster: 

website: http://jo-movie.weebly.com

trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab5QNgWP9qM&t=2s

trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izRTTnJfrFo

It's all ogre now

I had lots of fun doing this project! I thought that it was such little time to work on it but it was just perfect. There weren't a lot of problems, but some changes of plans which I don't believe that they were problems since they had a solution! This project is really different from the ones I've done in the past so it was super interesting. I'm super excited to post everything already to show it to everyone in my class! I personally think that I could've done better in some aspects of the film but I don't really know how to fix it since I'm a journalist and I don't really consider myself a filmmaker but I think that I really did my best. I'll honestly miss this project. I think that it was lots of fun but "it's all ogre now". I learned so many cool effects on every software while working on this so I'm really happy that I'm satisfied with my project and I learned from it. Hopefully during the summer when I'm in college I'll get to practice my filmmaking skills! I hope that the people taking the class next year will see my project and find some inspiration for their own project.

Until next time (?)
Karla Recio
Independent Journalist

Almost there!

I'm almost done with editing, so now I can finish writing my CCR! I didn't face any problems in the process of making this project since I already had everything planned before and nothing changed. I sticked with my plan the whole time and it actually worked! I'm really happy with how it's coming out. I thought that I was going to be having problems since I went to California for a whole week and the week after I had a lot of makeup work to do, but it didn't really interfere with the process of filming this since I had the website and the poster all ready to go before I left. This was probably one of my only projects in which I felt confident about timing and quality of the product. Also, I'm going to be using rundown creator to time for how long my CCR is going to be. Since I want it to be concise, giving all the information needed but not the information that isn't necessary. Quality beats quantity!

Until next time!
Karla Recio
Independent Journalist

It was all a (fast) blur

I was trying to play around with Premiere Pro while I was editing for another video and I completely forgot that the effect fast blur existed. It's an effect with which you can make an image as blurry as you want. It's really cool and I might use it for the movie trailers to give it that effect of losing the vision since the main character is experiencing vision problems thanks to the disease that she has. If y'all would like some cool transitions for a film here's a video that I found that makes super cool smooth zoom effects! I don't know if this effect is going to help my video or not so I'm just going to give it a try to see if it looks good!

Until next time!
Karla Recio
Independent Journalist

All I do is EDIT EDIT EDIT no matter what

Filming is over and now I can move on to editing! I'm editing both 2 minute movie trailers at the same time because when I'm editing one of them I get ideas for the other that would fit really well. One of them will have text, vo, and soundbites in it and the other one the story is going to be told through a voice over.  One is going to be shorter than the other one so it can be an advertisement for Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube, when the other one will be shown in TV programs. I'm already half way done with what it looks like a 2 minute movie trailer and I'm so excited to start the other one! It took me 15 minutes to edit that I'm proud of myself. I'm using Premiere Pro CS6 since if you get the opportunity to use an amazing editing software you have to take that opportunity since you need to make you video as good as it can be. I'll be putting updates soon on how's the editing process going!

Until next time!
Karla Recio
Independent Journalist

I'll be on the first flight home

Fun Fact: Jake Miller was in my flight from Fort Lauderdale to LAX!

Corina and I didn't place in our contest but we're really proud of what we did. But, we placed in a group contest! We got 2nd place in the nation it's honestly such an honor to had the opportunity to work with everyone in 1 contest.

At Disneyland I got shots of Corina with her friends laughing and some of her getting nervous. I think that they look perfect! Now I can put everything where it's supposed to go. Editing is going to be super easy since I've been working with the program for 4 years now I find it really easy to use.

This past week went by extremely fast and but it's okay since I'm so close to completing this project and I have a really good feeling about it.

I going to be filming a 360 degree shot tomorrow and I've never done one of those so I'm so excited to be trying something new in film! Since in some parts editing is going to be really slow and then it goes faster it's going to be a really easy project to edit. I'm so excited to see how the final product looks like!

Until next time!
Karla Recio
Independent Journalist