Final Submission!

 Hi blog! This is my final post as a Media Studies AS Student, and I am so proud of how far this course has allowed me to grow, and without further ado, here are my final links!

Film Opening

CCR 1

CCR 2

Just in case those links don't work here is the YouTube link:

CCR 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPSUCe5615Q

CCR 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acG41e2yqzE

Film Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jteVLyxFAKk

CCR 2 Production

 Hi blog! Today was my final day of filming for my portfolio project, and I was very proud of how well it went. 

   So I ended up changing my idea from the board to a night show, because my dad wanted to be included in a way, and since he is like my best friend, I couldn't say no. He ended up being my host, which worked out very well. Our costuming was formal, as it would be on a real night show. I wore a sparkly bronze floor length dress, and my dad wore a suit to portray the host attire. Here is a shot of our costumes from the CCR itself.

    We had a lamp that matched the night show vibe and lighting as well as chairs that resemble couch-like chairs that could also commonly be found in a night talk show interview. I liked this idea much better than the original plan I had, as it was more connected to the audience, which was what many of the questions were about. It was also more entertaining, because of my dad's fun personality

    The editing of this CCR was much better in my opinion because I got to include laugh tracks and clap tracks, which I found really fun. Speaking of, I used Pixabay for those foley sounds, including the drum intro and it was very easy to navigate, as well as Canva for the talk show logo.

    That's all from me blog, the next post will be my final uploads!

CCR 1 Filming

 Hi blog! For my first CCR, I used a steady handheld tripod to keep my camera from being unsteady, because I was having my mom film it, and I wanted to make it as easy for her as possible, while still having it look good on camera. Here is what it looked like!

I was very happy with how it looked, and overall I think that on camera it looked pretty solid. It ended up being too cold to go to the pool, and there were a lot of people in the area so I filmed outside of the pool, but still showed the location in the background. Pretty much every shot other than that went exactly according to plan, and overall I was very happy with the results of this CCR. I think it represented my constantly busy schedule very well.

The editing was kind of stressful, as it is my least favorite part of the process, but it turned out better than I expected. Anyways, that's a wrap on this CCR, and I am very excited to work on my second one, because I changed up my idea a bit, so I can't wait to show you!

CCR Scripts

     Hi blog! As promised, here are the scripts for each of my CCR videos.

CCR 1:CCR script 1.docx

CCR 2: CCR 2.docx

    I do want to mention, I changed the idea for my second CCR because I didn't have the resources that I thought I did, so instead, I decided on doing a night show theme. The ones that I got inspiration from were The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Daily Show, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. These shows all have similar setups and usually have a guy interviewing, so I recruited my dad to help me with that part. I am even more excited with this idea, because I grew up with night shows, which makes me feel very nostalgic.

    Since my dad has problems memorizing things, I am going to give him the script in his hands to read off of, which will allow for the interview to run smoothly.

CCR Question 4

 Hi blog! For my last and final CCR question, about technologies, software, and hardware that we utilized during the creation of this process, I will be using the board concept I explained in the question 2 post. I made this choice because it is very specific and objective, which I suppose would be the easiest to explain with a visual representation of what we used. 

    Some examples of what I will include is:

• Adobe Premiere Pro
• SanDisk 32 GB card
• Camera (T7i Canon)
• 
  Voice Memos
• CapCut
• Music
• Foley
• Blogger
• Canva
• Pixabay
• Bulletproof Bear

    This question, while relatively simple in theory has a lot of parts, and truly is what will express what I used to bring the whole product together, and it is vital that I include as many examples as I can to show that the project was 100% created by my team and I. Here are some photos I will use on the board to answer the 4th question.

CCR Question 3

    Hi blog! To answer my third question of the CCR, which is about personal growth and development of skills, I will express my answer in the "WIRED" video alongside question 1. I decided to do these two together as I think they are the most personal, and I want to talk directly to the camera with no other distractions or focus shifts like I will require in my other video idea. This question is very particular to each person, which is why I am going to spend a large portion of the video discussing how my skills and understanding of media have developed and improved over not only the past few months of creating the film opening, but over the whole span of this course. 

    I would also like to mention that as I mentioned in a previous post about my group meetings, I will slightly change the style of the video to answer 1 and 3 to be more specific to me, and overall more creative. As I described my specific locations for filming this video, I will use 2/5 spots to answer this question, as I want to split the video to evenly express answers to both questions, since another 2/5 will be used for question 1, and a small intro in another location. I want the two most personal and lively environments to be answering question 3, to reflect the question itself. I am leaning towards doing the pool and the color guard scenes, since guard is such a huge part of my life and it connects to how we scheduled time and worked around problems.

    The guard scene is going to be the major part that makes it "Kenna", because it truly is my life, and was the only thing keeping my time management in check. I also don't think that anyone else will include the same concept, so it will make it even more specific to me. That's how I am going to end the video, since I think it would be the easiest to lead into a conclusion.

CCR Question 2

     Hi blog! I am now fully switching gears to the CCR, since we wrapped up filming, which I will make posts about later next week! So in honor of such, I was thinking about what I would like to do with question 2 of my CCR. The question is "How does your project engage with audiences and how could it be distributes as a real media text?" I would like to answer this question along with question 4, which I will explain in a future post. I selected these two questions to partner together because they are the ones that I feel I can answer best with a physical board next to me, which I will explain.

    You may be thinking: Kenna, what prop are you talking about? Well, as I plan to do my CCR with half of the videos in one (1/3 in the wired video) and the rest in the other (2/4 in the board video), I needed to come up with a second creative idea on how to sell my answer to this question. In my head, I like to organize things in a specific way, and I am a visual learner at my core, so I thought a creative way to express my answer to some of the questions was to map out my thought process for the camera to see exactly how my brain was organizing it. I am going to create a chart where I can connect my plan for distribution and audience as if on a murder mystery episode. I got this idea because one thing I learned from this project is that you have to work around things, and connect dots that are not going to be very clear, but it is needed to get the finished product (which I will also post next week once editing is concluded).

    I also planned to do this because I am still new to editing, and I want to make it easier on me later to edit and not have to include numerous amounts of images on screen, as I can print them out physically. I will include images of the actors, with their diverse appearances, movies that inspired our film, film festivals we aspire to distribute to, social media to advertise where we are going to distribute, and much more about our process that relates to the question.

    Here are some image examples of what I plan to do to answer my question 2:

    I will upload all of my scripts next week once I have finished them all for easy access.