Music Video CCR

Music Video

This is my music video project. I worked on it alone, but had two of my friends help as actors. It gave me more experience as a director, filmer, and editor, and I enjoyed the process of choosing a song.

Commercial

This is my commercial project. I was assigned it in the beginning of the year. It helped me get a hang of the filming process. It let me gain experience in storyboarding, filming, and editing. It is a commercial for Dunkin' Donuts coffee.

Creative Critical Reflection for Commercial Project

Peer Review

Today our class did peer reviewing. I had to review another classmate's film. She did a horror film. It had good suspense. It also did a good job of drawing me in. It made me want to watch more. In some parts, the lighting made it slightly difficult to make out the movements. The lighting was fine for the most part, though.

Editing Blog

I finished editing. This is only the first draft of my film. I will definitely have to go back and change some things later. For now, it's ready for peer review. Once I get some critiques back, I will be able to make better choices and changes to it.

I'm fairly comfortable with editing. This is mostly because I have done it twice before now. I had to edit my commercial, in the beginning of the year. I also had to edit my music video project. This one was more recent. I started off bumpy. I was not very sure of myself or my editing skills. While I'm still not a 'master' at it, I am more confident in my ability to edit a film.

Filming Blog: Finished

I have finally finished filming today. I didn't have to go anywhere. Some of the shots were outside. We had to shoot them relatively early. This was so the lighting wasn't too harsh or too dark. First, my mom changed into the outfit I decided on for shooting. There were multiple outfits, but one of them was used for longer than the others. I also had to use a car during filming. We didn't go anywhere, just drove around the block so I could get a shot of her driving. I made sure to take multiple shots of everything. That would help with reshoots and make the process quicker and easier. I followed my storyboard. I tried to line up every shot as I had previously planned it, but a couple didn't look as good as I had thought they would. I adjusted those to what I thought would work better. There were no accidents, but we were near home or inside home for the entire filming process, and I was filming on a phone even when we were out driving. 

Filming Blog: Starting

I filmed this past weekend. I used my mom as the main protagonist. She was also the only character. We started filming on Saturday. I got most of the shots done then. Some of it needed to be shot outside, though. For these, we waited until Sunday. It was already too dark to shoot them Saturday. Filming was fairly easy. I had to figure out how to choose some positions. In some, I had to make sure that my shadow didn't fall in front of the camera. I think I managed it though. I'll be able to get another opinion when we do peer reviews.