Film Opening!

 FINISHED

It is done. After all this time and effort, I finished my film opening "Blood Money". I'm really proud of myself. I hope you enjoy it 

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CCR!

 Creative Critical Reflection 

Today I started and finalized my CCR for the Media Studies Portfolio project. 

Here's the link for it:

Creative Critical Reflection

Final Idea

Movie Name: 

BLOOD MONEY

As finalizing all the ideas for the movie opener I have done my final edits and have completed my final idea for the prompt. It goes as follows: 

Police officer Constantino is in charge of trying to find and arrest the newest cartel owner. Her identity is yet unknown. However, we know she is from Latin America and is running one of the most dangerous drug cartels ever seen before. As she manages to escape the hands of justice, her drug house is discovered leaving great amounts of evidence behind, helping officer Constantino continue his search, this way making an opening for the plot of the movie.

EDITING pt2

 Editing

Today I edited the last parts of my opening. It was pretty challenging considering I'm new to all this editing and not so familiar with this software. 

Here's a picture of my progress:

It's done, I just need to review a few things and check if there are any issues. I'm now 6 days away from the due date and I feel pretty good about it.

Group Meeting!

 Meeting!

Today, our teacher assigned the class into groups of around 5 to 7 students for us to discuss our projects and our progress. At first, I felt really nervous since I was going to see how all the other students are doing and I started to overthink whether I'm behind. Luckily, I found out we are all at the same level. I felt so relieved to know that I'm not the only one nervous.

We discussed our projects and some even showed parts of their film opening. We also talked about the reflection we need to include on our blogs and gave each other ideas and ways to approach it. I wasn't feeling it at first, but this group meeting really helped me.

Shots pt2

 House Shots

Today I recorded the house part of the film opening for my portfolio project. Here are a few of the shots I took while recording. 

Luckily I was able to finish recording everything today, so all that's left for this project is to edit it and put it together. In the following days, I'll be editing and finalizing my film opening.

Mise-en-Scène

Props

One of the many lessons I learned from my teacher was mise-en-scene, which is the importance of props and scenery Props make the scene look more real as well as bring another feature for the audience to lay their eyes on. One prop I worked on today was the "drug table" for Officer Constantino to find as another clue to catch the cartel leader. To assemble the table I used sugar to play the role of the drugs, a knife and money. I also added some random objects to make the table look more realistic and less set up. These items include, tissues, a wine bottle, a gift card to take the place of a credit card, medicine to take place as pills and a cup. All of these props serve the purpose to make the scene look more realistic and fit better with the plot.