Hi everyone here is my creative critical reflection!! Hope you enjoy!!

The film opening is complete, Amanda and I worked so hard on this! We think it looks great I hope you all love it!

Happy Sunday world,

     Ultra was this weekend and I am extremely jealous that I did not go, all of my friends went but I didn't because I did not buy tickets ahead of time. I am so sad and extremely jealous but I know that I will be going next year.

       Other than me just blogging about Ultra, let me get back on topic. Amanda and I have been filming a lot this week and we are almost done. We plan on filming the rest Tuesday, so far it is coming out great. We are still debating our tittle and background music but for now we are not putting our full attention on that. Down below I am going to show a couple pictures of our set location and props.

-The first pic shown is of the photo album that would be used for the film opening. Inside this photo album Amanda will be going through memories when she comes across a note that her mother wrote for her.

-The second picture that is shown is of the shelf that will be used when filing. This shelf will have the photo album on it and this scene would be when the photo album drops.

-The third picture shows the kitchen, this scene will be when Amanda is pacing back and forth throwing her tantrum as soon as she gets back from the funeral.  

Hi my friends,
           I am so happy that spring break is here, Amanda and I have been having the best times of our life. I have been going out all night and tanning all day. But just because spring break is here does not mean we forgot about our project. Amanda and I have been working hard. Amanda and I created a storyboard a couple weeks ago, and made changes to it. So I am going to upload the storyboard we created early this week. This is our final storyboard and Amanda and I think that it's going to look amazing when filmed.

Amanda and I made an adjustment to our first scene from a funeral to finding a simpler way of showing some ones death. 

Happy Happy day everyone,

Amanda and I have recently come across a change in our project today! We started filming our first scene in my backyard and we have come upon a problem, my backyard is to modern and does not fit the funeral scene. In my backyard there is way to much light coming in which doesn’t not make it seem like a funeral scene. Even though we are using WeVideo and it always you to lower the brightness we prefer using a scene that looks more realistic. Amanda and I have decided to make our first change and we will most likely be using Amanda's backyard for the funeral scene. I will keep you guys updated on when we try it out. I hope that Amanda's house will work for the first scene because if not we will have another issue. I will start updating you guys with more pictures of the work we are getting done. I will update you all soon on what is going on! Have an amazing day!

My house did not work because their is to much furniture and not enough grass for us to be able to create a funeral.

A Tittle

Hello everyone,

Spring break is finally here and as the days go by Amanda and I are moving fast with our project. Last blog post I talked about the kind of font that we would like to use. This post I will be talking about a potential title for our film opening.

In most super power movies the title of the movie is named after the main character. Some examples would be Lucy,The Hulk,X-man,Spider man,Thor, and etc… In these movies the titles are either the name of the main character or just their super power.

My idea for a title is to follow these guidelines and give our main character a name that pops out and use it as the title. I would definitely have to talk to Amanda about it but for now this is my idea on a movie title.

Font

Spring break starts on tomorrow and I am so excited to have a great break! Amanda and I have recently been discussing we really need to focus on the small details that make a film great. Amanda and I need to decide on what kind of font that will be used in our film opening. We need to find a font that is powerful and extremely bold. So I am going to show you guys some fonts that I have considered down below.

Superpowers - Ultra font

Superpowers- Orbitron

Superpowers- impact

Superpowers- Bree serif

Superpowers-Roboto Mono

I know that fonts are an extremely important part of the film opening, so Amanda and I will have to choose wisely. I like the Ultra font the best because it is bold and shows power. And that is what our film opening but Amanda and I will have to agree on one together.

The hulk title is bold and we need a font like that.

Happy Sunday readers!

          I just got back from key west and had an amazing time. For today’s blog I don’t have that much content for you. Since Amanda and I have not made a decision about the template or how we will be showing the funeral in our film opening.

      Although I was thinking that we don’t need to be showing a funeral at all. Instead we could just show pictures of a dead women and hint that she is no longer alive. But I can’t make any decisions alone so as soon as I get an answer for all of you I will update you on this blog.
Amanda mentioned that she wanted to make a tombstone, so I am assuming she still wants to create a funeral scene. She doesn't know what I think about it yet, but I know we will come to an agreement and will choose the idea that will only benefit our film opening. 
Amanda and I are still scheduling when we will be filming over spring break, we want to use this time wisely. As well as using our break as much as we can. I will update soon, have an amazing day.

        

Creating a funeral scene

Hi guys!

       In my last blog posting I talked about how Amanda and I were not sure on how we would create a funeral scene. So I started to do some research on how to make a template for the loss of someone. Although Amanda and I have not agreed on what kind of scene we would create for the beginning. I decided to do some research anyways.

As I was looking up ideas with funeral decorations. A great tutorial came up on how to make template for someone whom you’ve lost. It gives you a good website to use and shows you step by step on how to use it. As I was watching the videos I started to think that the best way to start off our film opening would probably be by using this template to start it off. If you would like to watch the YouTube video please click the following link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q803QN9kb30 . This youtube video also gave me a link with the website to actually use it which is http://funeralprogram-site.com .

This is how the template would look like 

In my next blog I will talk about if we will be using this as the first couple seconds of our film opening and if not I will keep you updated on changes in the next blog

Meeting up with my classmates

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all having an amazing day! Today has been a little better than yesterday, I feel less stressed. Today I had an amazing time in class with my peers. Mrs.Stoklosa put us in groups to talk about our project and how everything is coming along and my group had a lot of advice to give.  

As we were all put in groups of 5, I got put with some amazing people who helped me so much. When I was talking about my idea and the storyboard some of my classmates had some concerns with my opening. They don’t think that I will be able to pull of a scene with a funeral happening. I was told that it would be extremely difficult showing the tombstone and the background of it all. So as I team we all started to brainstorm ideas of a better way for me to create the scene.

My classmates and I came to an agreement that I would not be able to create a whole funeral scenery. So we all came up with the idea of starting my film opening of the main character in the car with a pamphlet from the “funeral” saying words like rest in peace with a picture of the person. Another idea was that we would have the main character walk out of a funeral home and have it hint that it was the mother.

Although Amanda and I have not made a decision about this we will soon and i will let you all know.

Planning

Hi my friends,

Today has been an extremely rough week for everyone. This week is known as “finesse” week, the week when every teen has 14 tests in every class and tries to bring their grade up. So Amanda and I have been pretty busy with other classes.  But the good news is that there has not been any changed to our idea!!!! (Amanda and I have been bipolar with our ideas) And we discussed our filming schedule and how we will be moving forward in the next couple of weeks. I am gonna show you a calendar below and tell you when Amanda and I plan to be filming.

Amanda and start our spring break on March 21, so Amanda and i agreed that we would be able to enjoy our first weekend without worrying about filming until the following monday. Over the 10 day break we will be done filming and hopefully start editing our project.

Amanda and I have agreed to be filming at least 6 times over spring break, depending on how well everything comes out. I will definitely be updating you guys as we are filming and editing our project!

Camera Shots

Im back,

As I said in my last post, I would talk about the type of camera movements,shots,angles,lighting, and etc in this blog. As promised I did my research and this is what I have done for you guys as of now.

Camera shots

Low Angle: In many superhero movies this angle is extremely common, this angle is showed to make the person seem very powerful and strong. In many super heros movies that main character is supposed to look more powerful than others they are surrounded by and this angle helps make them look more of that.

Medium shots: This angle is common as well because it allows you to be able to capture more body movement. With body movement you are able to see more emotions, along with allowing you to capture the scene around. (common in ALL movies)

Close up shots: Close up allows you to pay specific attention to a certain object/person, in this film opening we know we would use a close up shot to when the boy discovers his mother letter. We would show the close up of the letter and his reaction to when he is reading it. This shows emotion and allows the audience to focus on what is important.
Zoom shot: We could use this shot to be able to show something important. In this film we could use a zoom out to reveal a character or frame that wasn't shown before. In the start of this film we could use a zoom out from this young boys eyes to showing the funeral.

In the paragraph above I researched some camera shots that we could use in our film opening to make it look great. I will definitely be doing some more research tomorrow and hopefully by wednesday I will be able to upload our storyboard onto the blog. I know that Amanda and I will have some changes in our storyboard over time. But it would be great to have something on paper for now!

Storyboard

Happy Happy Saturday my readers,

I hope that you all are enjoying your day on this beautiful sunny day. I know that I am happy on this beautiful day because Amanda and I found a film opening idea that we both love. Now that we have our idea, the next big step forward would definitely be creating our storyboard. A storyboard  is essential and will help us tremendously when filming. It allows us to be visual and plan out our steps efficiently.

The other day in aice media class my teacher had mentioned a website that allows you to be able to upload your drawings and this website would create an animation for you. Amanda and I had agreed on trying this out, but we have not planned our storyboard out yet. When we do have a storyboard on paper we will try to transform it onto the website https://storyboarders.com and if that website does not please us we will just post pictures on our blog of the physical storyboard.

In my blog tomorrow I will began to research what camera shots,angles,lighting, and ect is used in movies with super powers. I definitely will need to do some research on the shots we will include before creating a storyboard. I'll update you guys tomorrow!!

An example of a storyboard above.

A new (amazing) idea

Good Morning  my readers,

This week has been horrible, we had the SAT on Wednesday,the quarter is ending soon, and I have been feeling pretty sick these last couple days. But the good news is that Amanda and I came up with a film opening idea, and the idea is so unique and original. There are a lot of changes that will be made it in the future but this is the idea we have for now.

Our film opening will start off by showing a women’s funeral (but we aren't sure how we will show the death of this lady) We then would be showing a young teenage boy and the viewers will later find out that this is his mother. As this boy gets back from his mother’s funeral the setting would be very dark and of course he is extremely sad. As this boy is grieving his mother's death he goes to the book shelf. As he is skimming his eyes finding what book to pick out, he spotted a family memory book. He then stares at this memory book when suddenly it falls off the shelf.

The boy was the confused as it fell off the shelf, because he did not know how it happened. The boy then sits down as he is flipping through the pages of the memory book when he finds a letter written from his mother. As he is reading the letter we will have a voice over of a women reading it. (we are not sure about the voice over yet) In this letter his mother talks about how her son (the boy himself) is very special and has a gift that he will discover. The boy seemed confused but kept the letter. As he is walking around his house he finds himself staring into objects and notices that they are moving. He thinks that he is hallucinating until he realizes is that his mother’s death passed down a gift which allows him to have the ability to move things around with his mind.

Amanda and I came up with this idea in class and I hope that we will stick with because its very different from many movies. It’s original and no one will have the idea of this. I know that Amanda and I will be able to produce an amazing film opening from this idea.

Super Powers

Hey friends,

Today Amanda and I had class together and we both decided that we need to find a better film opening idea. We want to make our film opening unique and different. So we started to brainstorm and it took us an entire hour to come up with the idea of a “superpower”. We really think that we are capable of making something amazing with this.

Meanwhile brainstorming we started to look at movies that we had watched that had to do with superpowers. And Amanda found the movie sky high that had to do with teenagers who got sent to a high school that worked with their superpowers. But then I kept researching to find other movies when I came open a movie that I absolutely loved when I was a kid. This movie is Lucy and I remember that this move was so unique and different from many other movies I watched. The way that her character is put out to the audience was incredible. I absolutely loved how in a way some people can see it as realistic and not completely fictional. This movie was so different because it did not include powers that could make you fly or even swing through a city with a spiderweb. The movie Lucy showed a different side of superpowers that worked with the mind, and this attracted many people. I overall would really love to work with a film opening that is unique and includes powers.

Amanda and I then agreed that we would work with this idea. As we came up with different ideas we shared it with our classmates and they told us that it sounds great but we would have to be able to pull it off. We are now 100% sure that we will be going this route. In my next blog posting I will be posting in more detail on our idea for the film opening...

Will this be our film opening?

Welcome back to my blog,

I know I just wrote to you guys , and I did tell you guys that my next blog would be about our new film opening idea. So here I am writing to you guys about what we have come up with so far. Our new idea would have a teenage girl be the main character. The time this film will be taken is in the 1980s. This film opening will start off with an establishing shot of a girl walking through the hallways being the center of attention. As she’s walking through the hallways we will have some slow motion shots of her, along with her smiling at everyone around her. You can tell right away, all the other girls want to be her and all the guys want her. We then fade the sound of her heels meeting the hallway floor and voices of the students.

As we keep the main character at the center of attention we see that the people around her respect her and think very highly of her. Our next scene would then have the screen turn black and then the viewers will receive a flashback on the screen that says “one year before people started to recognize me”. We then would use the same shots as before showing the same girl. In this scene the girl is shown as an outcast, in many of the shots you will see that other people around her see her as gross. We will also include shots of her getting bullied by those who now respect her. The girl she was a year ago had horrible taste in clothing and didn’t not care about her physical appearance at all.

This film opening would show the teenage girl in the present being the most popular girl in school, into a flashback on the most unpopular girl in school. The storyline behind the film would be about how she was sick and tired of getting bullied. One day she finally decided to change her appearance,friends,etc… Amanda and I still need to make many changes to the film opening, but for now this is our best idea. I hope that in class tomorrow we would be presenting our ideas again in groups, because I would love to receive feedback from my peers and see what their opinions are on this film opening. I will update you guys soon!

The popular girls (the main character will be shown like this in the present)

Drama wins!

Good evening readers!

I know it's getting late but I truly enjoy doing my work on sunday nights. Yesterday I received good news and Amanda has finally agreed to the genre of drama. At first we both chose to research a lot of information on Horror, thinking this would be our genre for our film opening. But then Amanda and I completely changed it, and we have been changing our genre from horror to drama nonstop. Although yesterday Amanda and I completely agreed that we will be using drama in our film opening, and we will not be changing our genre anymore...

I am so glad that we have agreed to choosing drama, in a way I feel closure and am happy that we are certain about something. I feel that if we would have chosen horror for our film opening it would have turned out pretty bad. If we choose the horror genre we would need good props to use, with a scary place of setting, and a very unique storyline. Most horror films completely suck in my opinion, most of the storylines are basically the same or they don’t make any sense at all. I know if we did choose horror it would have been extremely important story behind it, and the storyline we considered was pretty basic. Often times horror films aren’t even scary and they end up being funny, because the film sucks so much. If Amanda and I chose this genre we wouldn’t be able to create a film opening to our full potential and I am so glad that Amanda sees my point of view on this.

Other than the whole horror situation, Amanda and I have come up with new ideas for our film opening. I will be discussing our new idea in the next blog, but for some reason I feel that I want more drama in the film. The idea is great, Amanda and I decided on it over the weekend. Although I am still not sure that this will be our film opening. We will definitely be coming up with things we will add to the film and even take away. We just aren’t 100% sure what they are yet. But anyway I will share the new idea with you guys on the next blog.

Changing Ideas

Hi my people!

I hope you guys are having an amazing day. For me today has been a horrible, I woke up late and did not study for my history test. (typical) The only thing that made me happy today was going to my aice media class, which is weird. I like aice media but not enough to make me that happy. Once I got into class today Mrs.Stoklosa told us that we would be put in groups to talk about our project process at the moment and our ideas. As I was in a group with 4 other students there film opening ideas were being told and I really liked them. In the groups we all shared our blogs and had a deep discussion about our projects. As soon as it was my turn to discuss my project I was not sure how confident I felt about the idea anymore even though the group that I was in loved it.

As I was discussing my project the people in the discussion loved my idea but their only concern was that they were worried that two minutes would not be enough to present my film opening. As we continued to talk about my idea I came to a realization that, my film opening was to unoriginal and basic. I know that I am capable of presenting something better. I immediately knew that I wanted to change it. The class was ending in about 10 minutes and I went up to Amanda right away to tell her my thoughts on our idea. And Amanda was just about to tell me that she wanted to change our idea for the film opening as well. So we agreed to changing it immediately but we still don’t know what we would like to do.

Although Amanda and I had an issue with this, Amanda wanted to change the theme back to horror meanwhile I think that the genre of Drama will be better for us. I also know that I promised some kind of storyboard to be posted today. But I lied completely because as of now Amanda and I are not sure with which genre we will be using for our film opening. Amanda thinks that horror would be so much better to do, meanwhile I am not sure on how well we can pull that genre off. We are currently not agreeing with which genre we want to present but Amanda and I have worked together on many projects before and I know we will agree on a genre soon.

Good Afternoon readers!
I  hope you guys have had a great start to the week, even though it's been pretty crazy for me. This week Amanda and I will be getting a lot of things done for our project, including our storyboard. (Hopefully we will be productive this week) Anyways the storyboard...In my opinion a storyboard is a very important step to a good film. So Amanda and I need to be sure we create our storyboard exactly how we want it. The image in our head needs to match the images on the storyboard. We have already discussed what we would like to do, but we will need to write it down with detail this time.If we are on schedule with our planning I hope that I will be able to post our storyboard on the blog by late Thursday.

Other than the storyboard Amanda and I need to keep our new genre in mind. As I did some research about our genre of Drama we need to remember to include the important aspects of it. Including a story,flashbacks,pain,betrayal, and many emotions. We must include this in our film opening, but Amanda and I have our main goal set. We truly want our viewers to be able to relate to the story that is about to be told. Our story truly challenges our audience because there are many people who feel like an outcast and truly would do anything or even change themselves to fit in better. Our story line also brings awareness to social issues that happen in young teen lives today. We hope that it represents real issues that happen on a day to day basis, and we also hope that teenagers will find a better way to deal with these issues.

Amanda and I have agreed to meeting up at least two times a week outside of school. This week Amanda and I will be discussing specific aspects for our project. This includes exactly what needs to get done in the next couple days. During our meeting we plan on talking about what snacks we want to eat before starting. But other than the snacks our main focus of discussion this week will be our storyline, we need to make sure every single clip captured in our film opening has a purpose. Other than the storyline this week's discussion will include specific days in the future when would like to film. Other than that I will be updating you guys with our storyboard! (Hopefully soon)