Starting the CCR

 

    So earlier today me and my friends started working on our CCRs. We all decided to do an interview-style CCR, seeing as how the presentation has to be creative. What I decided to do was record myself being interviewed for a podcast in which I discuss my film, like what professional filmmakers do. The host would pretty much read out the questions from the rubric and I would answer them in a natural way, hence why I had a pretty loose script. 

    I was also inspired by the show Hot-Ones, which is a show in which the guests eat spicy chicken wings, and as the show progresses the wings get spicier. Although I didn't have the premise of having the interview become more difficult as it progresses, I did take the idea of the show's main premise being that the interviewer and interviewee eat something together. In my take, we ate chips and hummus, and the show is very creatively titled: The Hummus Show. 

Post-Production

 

            FINALLY done with the project! I worked hard editing this and tried my best with the limited footage I had. I actually had a lot of fun editing the footage, being able to practically alter the footage in ways I want, and let my creativity shine through is really special to me. Altogether, it took around 2 days to fully edit, which isn't bad in the grander scheme of things but I had a lot to do while editing. 

        One of the most annoying and inconvenient parts of editing this project was that my computer's GPU had a problem with image processing in DaVinci Resolve. Meaning that I couldn't work with regular images and couldn't adjust the scaling of clips. However, the most annoying part of this issue was that every once in a while DaVinci would crash, which both slowed me down tremendously and erased some of the progress I had if I didn't save. 

        However, I finally saw it through and I'm super glad that this project is over and complete. 

Beginning to Edit

 

    I'm starting to begin the process of editing after collecting all the footage I need for the project. I downloaded DaVinci Resolve onto my computer as I have experience using it before and it's free. It's actually a pretty good editing program and has a lot of features. I remember having to use it a lot last school year for my TV Production class because I had to edit projects from home. 

    I'm planning on using the animation feature that DaVinci Resolve has for my project. I have some experience using animation in this program and I think that using it will really give my project a special edge that other projects won't have. 

Recording Session #2

 

    Yesterday, we finished recording all the footage for our project. We did it at our friend's house late at night and it took about an hour to get all the footage. We got a variety of different shots just to have options when I'm editing. We tried out practically every type of shot that's possible with an iPhone and a crappy $12 tripod. 

    But ultimately I think it came out very well. The shots look professional and have a purpose to them. I'll be looking to start editing the project together next week as I'm going to be out on vacation in 2 days and don't return until the end of spring break. 

Title Sequence

 

    I was planning on doing a cool title sequence for my project sometime this week. Now that spring break is coming up I'll have time to record all the footage I want. However, I'm having difficulties figuring out what exactly I want to do for this part. It's only just hit me now that the 2-minute time limit is pretty short, especially for all the different components I want to have within my project. Or I was thinking of just putting the title text on top of the footage rather than creating an entirely separate sequence. 

Audio

 

            I've been experimenting and learning how to use the app Audacity to edit my audio. I have some familiarity with using the app before because I used to have a podcast, which required me to edit audio clips. 

    I'm mainly experimenting with audio effects such as the telephone effect and the radio effect. I'm also trying to mix different audio layers together as I have music and different audio channels within my project. 

Beginning to film

 

        So over the weekend, my group filmed the first portion of our project in Las Olas. We went around 7 at night to get shots during both the day and the night to see how it would come out. We ended up using footage taken mostly from when the sun was out, however. 

    The shoot took around an hour it was very quick and the footage came out really well. The iPhone 13 on cinematic mode could genuinely pass for real studio film quality. The reason we decided to film here was in order to gather B-Roll footage for the first half of the project. We got a lot of different shots so I can have a lot of options to choose from in post.