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Critical Reflection

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 How do your products represent social groups or issues?  Our products represent an issue that has been fought for many generations and different social groups. The issue is that of people feeling as if they cannot "change their future". Many people feel as if their future is set in stone, especially after they perform a singular misintended act. For example, students may feel like they should just give up on becoming their dream career because they can't pass one particular class. Or adults give up on "finding their soulmate" because they aren't married by the age of 30. These examples of people giving up on their future happen way too often, and it is portrayed within our film, Wednesday Drive. April, the main character, deals with having to relive the same day over and over again until she realizes that she can change her future by just doing something differently. This happens very often in everyday life, people go through the motions of life doing the s

Final Movie Blog

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 Filming this short film was a stressful but fun process. I am happy that I was able to go through this process with the group members that I chose. Overall I am very satisfied with the product we have produced and hope you guys enjoy it as much as we do. Short Film: https://youtu.be/moii5AUbfPQ Website Link: https://gilbertnessa2107.wixsite.com/website-1 Postcard:                               FRONT                                                                           BACK

Production Blog: Finishing Touches

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    Hello fellow viewers! My group and I have edited our audio! We ran into a few problems tho. Firstly, in some of the shots, the real audio was too low. We brainstormed and wondered if we should do a voiceover for these scenes. We then decided to not do that and to just put the audio up to 100%. This slightly fixed the problem. Not perfect but it's a solution. We also ran into a problem with the song for the alarm. The editing software wanted us to purchase the song but we did not want to do that. We then decided to do a voiceover for the song on iMovie. This worked perfectly. We then re-watched the short film a million times lol. We wanted to ensure each scene was synced perfectly with the sound. We also added text for the opening sequence. This was a bit difficult because the text wouldn't align properly. This caused us to have to move everything over again. We also had to re-shoot a scene. We had to do this because the actor's hair changed and it didn't look as smo

Production Blog: Editing

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  Hello fellow viewers! My group and I have begun editing. All of the members within my group have some sort of Apple device. This allowed us to all use iMovie at ease. We all just logged into the same account and got to work. iMovie is such an amazing app so the editing process isn't very difficult. We first had to offload all the clips from our phones to our computers. One of my group members is using her iPad to edit though. We used airdrop to transfer the videos from our phones to the computer. Once we did that, we aligned all of the scenes into the order that they should be in. Aligning the scenes took some time because we had to cut some of the scenes. It also took some time to fit all of the scenes into the time frame we were given. After doing that, we edited the scenes. We changed the hues of some of the scenes. We also made some of the scenes very bright to add to the vision we were going for. Next, we added transitions. We used multiple transitions. Some of them were fas

Production Blog: Last Day of Filming

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     Today was our last day of filming. the filming process was actually kind of fun. We were able to get so much done in such a short amount of time. I'm really proud of my group and I. Today we focused on re-filming the car accident scenes. Since the last time we filmed, it started raining. This caused us to have to re-film these scenes today. The car accident scene happens a total of 3 times throughout the short film. Each time it happens something changes. This leads to her finally ending the loop. Since the scene of the aftermath of the car crash required the fake glass and blood we thought it would be best to put that on the scene after we’ve already filmed the beginning of the car scenes. this was so that we wouldn’t have to constantly be changing set with the props. Our actor for April is Vanessa. While filming this scene, we kept laughing. It took a lot of re films to finally get it right. Our group member Dru is actually an actor. While filming, Dru had to give Vanessa a

Production Blog: Second Day of Filming

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     Hello fellow viewers! Today my group and I began the second day of filming. For the second day, we decided to focus on a particular scene. We wanted to get the car crash scenes done. This scene is when April gets into a car accident because the cake falls. After this scene, her life will start to repeat over and over. When we were filming this scene, we ran into a few issues. Firstly, the weather began to act crazy! It became extremely windy. This caused the sound in the video to be a bit muffled. This was a serious problem because the dialogue in this scene was important. We then noticed that clouds were beginning to form. Then our ultimate nightmare came true. It started to rain! This caused us to have to go inside. Due to the fact that this scene was meant for outside, there wasn't much we could do. While inside we did a bit of brainstorming. We decided that it was best to re-shoot some scenes.l We re-shot a few scenes so we could get them to perfection. By the time it stop

Production Blog : Setting The Scene

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     Hello fellow viewers! Yesterday we were able to finish the first day of filming. We got the scenes that we wanted to get out of the way done. It was truly a success. Today we will be preparing to film the scenes for the car accident. We had to get a few things to make it realistic. We had to find a smoke machine. Along with fake blood and fake glass. To make the fake glass we melted sugar and left it to cool. As it hardened, it became more clear which resembled glass. At first, it was foggy. But we came to accept this because since it's a car accident the glass does not need to be in top-notch shape. It also tasted really good. For the fake blood, we just bought some. Finding the right location to film this scene was a bit difficult. We couldn't just do it in the middle of the street. That would be way too dangerous. We had to find a street that was empty. We looked on the internet on Apple Maps. We were able to find a few streets that had little to no traffic going throug