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Critical Reflection

Link to Critical Reflection document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wv02iU8XPnwHerS8Ixp43KrYaRQxN8sKNJueMmSktoc/edit?usp=sharing   1.         How do your products represent social groups or issues? All the products of this project represent the social issue of substance abuse, specifically alcohol abuse. Today, alcohol use has become so widespread and normalized that many people forget the multitude of negative effects that come with it. This is a problem that affects people of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds, and causes so much pain to both the users themselves and those around them.  I wanted to help bring awareness to this problem through the film “Echoes of Awakening,” which portrays a character who suffered from a drunk driving accident. To truly share the depth of the severity of this issue, the film uniquely makes it so that the audience does not know that the character Jack was in an accident until the very end of the film. The film first shows Jack living a seemi
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Short Film Package: Echoes of Awakening

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Hey everyone! The product is all finished, so I wanted to give you all the information about the film. Below I included the website, postcard, and the actual film posted to YouTube. It has been so much fun creating and producing "Echoes of Awakening," and I can't wait for you all to see the product of all our hard work! Thank you for supporting me through this journey, and I hope you enjoy! Website:    https://exantusmarvin28.wixsite.com/echoesofawakening Postcard:  https://www.canva.com/design/DAF_NmWluIk/5yRNb5x1Os-vpGYC3hE4ZQ/view?utm_content=DAF_NmWluIk&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=701517aDz_4
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Almost There!

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    Hi everyone! The film has gone through its last few edits and I’m here to tell you all about it. The first thing I did was add some edits to the intro. At first it was too long because the group had filmed some extra shots on another day and added it into the film. I liked the new scenes, but some establishing shots were too long. So, I played those parts through, and when I wanted to cut the clip short, I would split the footage at that point. This allowed me to delete the extra footage that I didn’t want to include.      With that fixed, I moved on to finding a filter that would match the intro. For the film, we have high intensity, gloomy music playing in the intro to create a humerus contrast with the happiness of the radio playing and actor dancing that comes later. It creates this shock for the audience because from the intro you would think something sinister is going to happen, but then you see this happy setting of a man cooking dinner for his wife. I like that contrast c
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Changing for the Better

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    Hey guys! Time to fill you in on the next part of the editing process. I was in charge of most of the final edits that needed to be added to the film. The first thing I did was fix the speed of some parts of the film. For example, for the portion where the character first started getting flashbacks, I wanted to add some effects to make the footage seem distorted. This would help emphasize the idea that there was something wrong with the character's reality. To do this, I first edited the portion of the footage where there was a dutch angle. What I did was slow down that footage, and then I played around with some extra effects. I thought I had found the perfect effect, where the colors of the video blurred together, but then I realized I could not use it because it was only available to CapCut subscribers. So, I instead used a filter called "edge glow," which still gave the scene that warped aesthetic.      The next thing I did was use a fade out filter at different p
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An Outside Opinion

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     Hey guys! So after finishing the first round of edits for the film, I decided to get some outside opinions. I showed my mother and father the film and asked them to give me their honest feedback. Since my gorupmates and I have been working on this film from the beginning and are so familiar with it, it's hard for us to be unbiased. Personally, I feel like I've essentially become numb to the film as I've seen it over and over again. Not to say that I think the film is boring in any way! I just feel that it is hard for any one of us to really provide a valuable analysis of the film at this point in the production process.      It never hurts to have a fresh set of eyes, so I showed my parents the film. They first started with giving me the positive feedback. They said they really liked the clear storyline, the plot twist at the end, and they thought that the overall filming was well done. However, they did point out that the lighting in the hospital scene was a bit dim.
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A Few Obstacles

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    Hey guys! I'm here to give some updates on what's happened recently. After filming all of the scenes for the film, I ran into some troubles. First, I struggled to upload the iPhone videos to my laptop to begin the editing process. I first tried to send myself the videos so that I could access them from my computer and transfer them into my editing software. However, when I opened up all of the footage on my laptop, it seemed like the videos' quality were reduced. I tried resending myself the videos through email but that didn't help much. I even tried to export the videos in higher quality, but no matter what I tried, nothing seemed to work. I couldn't leave the footage in that state, so I did some research.     I found that this issue can occur when transferring footage of certain length, and there were a few other factors that were contributing to the problem. So, I followed the advice of some online articles and decided to upload the videos into my iCloud fro
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Final Filming

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    Hey  everyone! It's the moment we've all been waiting for, the filming finale! In this blog I'm going to tell you everything I did to film the final car scene. The first thing I had to do was research! My vision for this scene was to film a car crash that shows why the character was in a coma in the first place. However, there were some obvious limitations to this plan. This included the fact that I didn't exactly have the money, equipment, or knowledge to safely execute a real car scene. Since this scene is so vital for the plot of the film, I knew I needed a way to overcome these obstacles.      I started with some basic research on google. I was able to find YouTube videos showing how to create a car crash scene with no damage! I learned that I can actually create a car crash scene with some simple editing techniques. All I had to do was experiment with some craft angles!     So, when my group met next, I knew what I needed to do. I planned to have this car crash
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