Rebecca L.'s AICE MS blog

6106 Creative Critical Reflection

The most notable revision that we made to our film was reshooting the remaining shot with black bars on the screen. We turned this shot into two separate shots that did not have black bars. The two shots now do not sport the same extremely visible black bars on the sides and feel more like they are shot with care. Our second revision to our fourth quarter submission was editing the opening credits. The film's original opening title was displayed over a black screen for about one second. We added the title card over the beginning of the film to make it more dynamic. We also changed the font of the opening credits to match the opening title.    The original vs the changed font

The first shot of the film is a wide shot that follows the actor. We used this shot as it gave us the perfect opportunity to add the opening credits to the film. The third shot is a match shot, as it begins where the camera was last pointed. The camera then follows the actor to the training room. Our first shot of the actor entering the training room is a mid shot. We used it to capture the expressions of the actor and to give enough room for the flickering lights to work. This over the shoulder shot shows the actor getting a cup from under the sink. As the actor lifts the icebox and the demon stretches out it's hand, a close up is used to show the actor's hands. The final shot of the film is a two-shot, as the two actors are shown in it.

How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, and online - in this project? We used Adobe Premier Pro to edit our film together. The standard IPhone Camera app was used to film our shots and youtube was used to upload our film to the public. Blogger was the platform where we created and updated our blog. tbc To edit our film, my partner and I used Adobe Premiere Pro. The laptops we used for putting together our project had the software installed, and it was easy to handle, so we used it for our film editing process. For the gathering of the film footage, we used my partner's iPhone 6. The camera app on the phone was simple to use and offered a convenient way to get all of our footage. The footage filmed from the phone was clear and was not blurry. Once we procured our footage, we transferred it from the iPhone to the laptops via a flash-drive. The flash-drive allowed for a convenient way to carry our film footage from laptop to laptop. The aforementioned laptops...