Sizzling Sunday!

Here is my CCR, creative critical reflection for Onil and I’s film opening :)

Thank you for following along with my progress and process!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Friday Frenzy,

Wow, I can’t believe that Onil and I have finally completed our film opening; it feels so unreal. I know you guys are itching to see “Inheritance,” here it is!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Thursday Thrills,

Back again with more updates and information pertaining to Onil and I’s film opening! As the time is ticking, the deadline is nearing. By Sunday at 11:59, everything that we’ve worked on will be completed. Mrs. Stoklosa will be grading our projects first, and the Cambridge, super nerve-racking!

In today’s posting I wanted to reveal our finalized film title. Our film opening title will be Inheritance! Onil and I thought this would be the best title as the main character’s superpowers will be inherited from her mother. In addition, we want our project to be sophisticated and portray elements that will be presented throughout the film.

Some hiccups we have been faced with:

1. On Wednesday, March 20th, I posted a blog about which font we want to be displayed for our credits and title. As we are editing our film on WeVideo, we realized that the website has their own fonts, and the fonts I chose came from Google Docs. Previously, we picked the font, Lobster, but now we must chose another.
2. As I stated in yesterday’s posting, we have finished filming. As Onil and I started to edit everything, we found that some of the shots we’re lacking technique and emotion. In turn, we will be re-filming some scene tomorrow and we hope to finish our video by early Saturday.

All in all, this journey has been enlightening and insightful. I have yet to do my CCR (Creative Critical Reflection) video, discussing our completed product. I started writing a rough draft on some things I want to say, as well as gathered videos and pictures so the CCR will be interesting. I want to utilize the website → Screen-O-Matic, which is a screen recorder to present all my information in an organized fashion. Check it out! https://screencast-o-matic.com/

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Wacky Wednesday!

Hello my terrific readers, Onil and I’s process has been on a roll. Yesterday, we finished filming and I was going to blog about it then, but my brain was fried! We have been editing all day today, as Onil did not go to school today due to her sickness. Even when we’re feeling ill, we are still on the grind.

Here’s a picture & some clips:

I am manipulating the mise-en-scene. I specifically dressed up in all black, to show the mourning I am feeling and to fit the scene, as I am coming from my mother’s funeral. Black is the color that represents loss, and lack of soul. It is plain, dull, and as no colors that bring out life. In addition, we are releasing our secret to making it look like I have the power to move objects → transparent string!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Friday! Friday! Friday!

Hi again, I’m back with more amazing content pertaining to Onil and I’s film opening. We are on a roll and we have been steadily filming these past two days, and it’s coming out spectacularly!

Here’s a sneak peak of some of our important settings and objects below :)

1. The first picture is a full view of my kitchen
2. This is the closet in my guest room that opens to the bookshelf. I know the bookshelf is messy and covered by the golf clubs, so my apologies. We will be manipulating it and clearing out any unnecessary items, so our main points will be enhanced.
3. Picture number 3 & 4 are of our precious album containing the letter from my deceased mother, as I am the main actor (SURPRISE, SURPRISE!)

As Onil and I are both aware, my acting skills are not Grammy worthy, (very far from it) but we are getting through it. The amount of takes we have taken to perfect it are insane. We cannot believe this upcoming week is the last week till we have to submit everything, the time has flown! I guess that’s where the saying, time flies when you’re having from comes from. As the end is nearing, Onil and I will be grinding to perfect and adjust our opening to the best of our abilities. Don’t forget to stay in touch with my postings.

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Happy Thursday!

Onil and I have had such a great spring break so far. Working on our project has been our first priority though, with said we have finally finalized our storyboard!

Check it out!

Of course, there will be changes along the filming process, but overall we are super excited and content with what we have come up with. As previously stated in my last 3 postings, filming has been a rollercoaster. Onil and I are constantly making adjustments, so our process as been very unsteady. For example, the funeral scene was changed to just the tombstone, and now it’ll be a paper pamphlet from the ceremony. Hope you guys are as eager to see our finalized opening as we are. Thanks for reading!

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Amanda

Change Sunday,

Hello everyone, I am back! You must be wondering why I would bless you guys with two posts in one day and that’s because of two things. The first thing is I forgot to update you guys on Saturday, which I’m really bummed about as I always blog on that day, but it’s okay. The second thing is that Onil and I have made our first change to our opening, so I’d love to go over that with you guys.

In today’s earlier posting, I explained how we filmed our first scene, we decided to shoot it in Onil’s backyard. This was the most convenient setting that we thought we could easily manipulate, hence the reason we chose to shoot here. We came to find when we put it on WeVideo, an online video editor that we’ll be using to make our opening, that it didn’t look the way we wanted to. Check our this amazing website, which is super neat and easy to work with → https://www.wevideo.com/

How we plan to resolve this issue: We decided to discard our last filming, and refilm in a different setting. The new setting, we hope will work, is my backyard. I think they will be better as my backyard is less modern compared to Onil’s. We don’t know 100% if this will be the better option, but it wouldn’t hurt to try! Next posting, I will include pictures. See ya!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Sunday Madness,

Surprise, surprise my viewers and readers! Onil and I have officially started out film opening, and let me tell you, it’s been very interesting. Although, we only filmed the first scene, (funeral) we are already gaining momentum, so this is relieving some stress that I have pertaining to time. The main character’s gender is drumroll please…… A girl! She is dressed up in all black, per the scene calls for this attire.

Another topic I’d like to discuss with you guys is that we will not be revealing the name of of our main character’s name. We believe this will make it much more mysterious and help to develop our upcoming superhero’s secret powers. The best things always come unexpectedly, and her new powers are a new addition to her identity, therefore she needs a new name. Onil and I were thinking that maybe the title of our film could he her name. Just a thought though, this is not finalized. Refresh frequently for our new updates. Cheers!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

It’s Friday!

Hello beautiful people of this world! I am back with some more details regarding Onil and I’s film opening! We haven't started putting things together quite yet, but in this posting I want to bring up the topic of the title we will be using. Unfortunately, we think that coming up with a title now would be much harder than recording the whole opening and deciding then. Although this process may seem a little backwards, it fits us perfectly. We don't want our title to be cheesy, we want it to be clever and unique. I’ll see Onil this weekend to start brainstorming and hopefully start filming. Stay cool & happy spring break!

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Amanda

Happy Hump Day!

I am so eager for Spring Break to start. Onil and I will officially be on break tomorrow, at 12:45. As we’re getting ready to live our best lives, we still have our eyes on the prize (our film opening). Beyond the whole storyline, we started to brainstorm the font we want to incorporate throughout our opening for the credits and title.

Below, I have some ideas and I hope to gain positive feedback from Onil.

One thing I hope to capture and establish with the font, is the tone and genre of the film opening. Out of these seven fonts I’ve picked so far I’m leaning towards permanent marker, caveat brush, or pacifico. These fonts have a creative, and powerful feel to them, which is exactly the feelings I want my audience to inhibit through my opening.

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Sunday Funday!

Every Sunday, I spend time with my family. Throughout the week, we’re a household of four workers. My mom and brother work till late at night, so I only see them right before I go to sleep. On the other hand, my dad comes home around the time school is over, but then I have to go to work. Growing up, my dad has always been more present than my mom, but I still spend as much time as I can with her. In turn, I’ve always looked forward to Sundays as we all would be together and I love it. I never take my family for granted, and every moment I spend with them as a whole or individually is time never wasted.

Anyway, Onil and I have been working vigorously to plan everything out before we start shooting. We haven’t settled on all the shots and techniques we want to utilize yet, but we are currently in the process of doing so.

Us currently:

We don’t look like we’re working here, but I promise we were. I’ll have visuals for you guys next posting, stay in touch. Have a beautiful week!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

On this rainy Saturday,

I’m stressing out about the deadline of this entire project. I’ll try not to get ahead of myself just yet as Onil and I still have time. Looking back onto my last post I realized that filming someone’s tombstone at a graveyard (as that what we were thinking of doing) would be super insensitive. I wouldn’t want a high school student filming any one of my family member’s tombstones, so we had to come up with a new way, but we want to maintain the same concept.

Great news, I was looking on YouTube and I suddenly had the brilliant thought of searching up a DIY (do it yourself) for tombstones. Personally, I love doing these as I have made so many things ranging from clothing, accessories, and gift ideas. Back to what I found, check out this sick video → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCAfhXtQn0 !!

This way, we will be able to film the funeral scene, get our hand dirty, and creatively make the tombstone the way we want it. I think this will be very effective and I can’t wait to buy the materials to start working on it with Onil!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

Happy Thursday!

Today was such a good day, as I had another group meeting to discuss and get ideas from my peers about my project. I met with Raul, Juan, Malena, and Rachel, which was super helpful to further establish my opening film.

Here’s a picture of all of us:

Since there was so many tips they all gave me, I want to share the most insightful one. As my opening is starting off at a funeral, I pondered how Onil and I were going to make this happen. I told my peers that we would either set up a funeral scene at a park, or go to a cemetery. Onil and I were leaning towards creating our own funeral scene, but then my peers said it would be very time consuming to get the proper actors and manipulate the mise-en-scene. They told me to film when the funeral is over and the main character is leaving, maybe as he/she is putting their flowers down at their mother’s grave. This was super helpful, and when I discussed it with Onil she was very on-board with this revision. We’ve got that settled, and I can’t wait to film it!

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Xoxo,

Amanda

On this lovely Tuesday,

I have some super interesting information for you guys. Onil and I are still stuck upon our superpower film opening, which is really good news. Both of us are very spontaneous people and our minds are constantly evolving, so it says a lot considering we haven’t tried to change our story. In order to stay on track I’ve decided to make a monthly planner and I will try my best to make sure we stick to it.

Check it out:

Well, that’s not how I planned to show you guys it, the text boxes that I inserted on Google Docs aren’t working with me :(. The main thing I want to point out is that Spring Break is starting for us on Thursday, the 21st till the 31st. Onil and I plan on filming most of our video during this time. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday we will be enjoying our break, but the days after that, it’ll be business time. I can’t wait to show you guys some sneak peaks!

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Amanda