White Coat, here it is!

White Coat has finally arrived! Here it is:

Link: https://youtu.be/dvAsmo32uo0

Creative Critical Reflection

Here is my Creative Critical Reflection:

Link: https://youtu.be/QS4n-ezLgEQ

Had to add something

We finished editing our opening and realized it was missing something important, we were missing natural sound. The only way we could add audio without having to reshoot the entire thing. We concluded that it would be best to use foley sounds to mimic some things in White Coat. What we could record was water falling, glass clinking, water boiling, ropes, water drips, a screech, the turn of a switch, and other sounds as well. I think with these sounds our film opening will be complete and well rounded. 

These foley sounds will add an extra layer for the viewer and make them more immersed in the film opening. Once we record and add in the foley sounds, we will export and upload the opening to YouTube, and this blog, and finally show it to the world! White Coat is the next must-see thriller!

The end of a marathon

*Breathes In*

*Breathes Out*

Wow. I have finally reached the end of my project. Throughout this project I have learned a lot of things that I can hopefully apply to the future. I have learned to budget my time, plan out things with enough time, and have improved my production skills , I can now say I have worked on a film and have the experience when I do another one. In my Creative Critical Reflection I will be reflecting more on the process of my project. Speaking of the CCR, I am almost done with the script, and if everything goes as planned, I will film it this weekend.

As far as editing, we are nearly done. My partner, Nico, created a nice beat on GarageBand that really fits the mood of White Coat. When we finish editing we are going to decide if we want to include it or not. Next week we will out the final touches and fixing any little mistakes that we might see. To be honest, the hardest part of the editing process was finding and cutting clips because for some reason, when we imported our clips into Premiere Pro, it imported with all of the clips out of order.

I almost forgot to explain how I am going to market and distribute White Coat! Since we are aiming for a younger audience, we will be aiming to use technology that is familiar with that audience. We plan on creating a strong build up and high anticipation to the film opening on social media with hashtags (#) and posts that promote the opening. We are going to use social media platforms that are common with our target audience such as Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. As far as distribution goes, through further research we have realized that YouTube has a very big fan base and is known for the successes of music videos, films, and artistic videos. The success of many videos has projected many young and budding artists to fame and fortune. For those reasons, we believe that our opening will have success.

A little bump in the road

This is what happened, one of my group members found the song we wanted to use and it said “Royalty Free Music” in the title. With a closer look to the description, it stated that rights needed to be purchased in order to be used. So just to be sure and not get in trouble with any parties involved, we made sure to purchase the rights to the song. The license is at the bottom of this blog.

On a side note, we ended up changing the ending of our film opening. This change was necessary because of our stage set up. To be honest, I think the change to the ending was for the better and will provide for a better final result.

Other than that, we are about half way done editing. Since our story is rather long we are most likely going to be a little under two minutes or hit it two minutes exactly. 

We are fast approaching our deadline, in response, I have started working on my Creative Critical Reflection. Since it is a rather in depth reflection, I took the advice of my teacher and started planning and started writing a script for it. My current intention is for my Creative Critical Reflection to be at least five minutes in length. In my CCR I have to answer four main questions, and depending on how in-depth I answer them, it could go over five minutes. 

In the next blog posting, I will update you on the final steps that need to be done in order to wrap up my film opening, White Coat.

Here is the license certificate to our song:

An update on post production

Post production has gone really well. We found a nice looking font we want to use called “Catenary Stamp” on dafont.com, for the link to the font, click here. We made sure to choose a font that was in the public domain and fit the style and look of our film. We don’t want our opening to be basic and have text that cuts in and out, so we are going to go into Adobe After Effects in order to edit in the font so it moves with the movement in the camera. This effect makes it seem like the font exists in the world of the character.

Similarly, we found Royalty Free music on YouTube that fits the pacing that we are looking for. It is slow paced and suspenseful. White Coat is going to incorporate some parts where the shots are sped up for visual enhancement, in that case we are going to try as best as possible to line up the edit with the pacing of the music. If you want to listen to it yourself, click here.

Here are some clips from our from shoot. I had to compress them because they were nearly 1 GB file sizes, it would've taken too long to upload! In the first clip we played some music during the shoot so the actors would be able to get into the "groove" of playing their role. We are not going to include this music in the opening.

Since we shot on a Sony A7s DSLR camera, the file sizes of our clips are very very big, which can cause the computer to lag and slow down while we edit. All in all, this week we will continue editing our opening and hopefully wrap it up so we can have next week to work on our CCRs.