Final Farewell

WHATS UP GOMERS! Its crazy to think this is my last blog post until...next year ;) This has been an amazing journey and I am so glad I could take you guys along it with me. 

I Gianna Gomez am proud to say I have finally finished by Creative Critical Reflection. To the right there are some screen shots of my CCR script. In order to be more organized I decided to write a script of every specific word I was going to say, I followed my outline that I posted in my blog called CCR ing. After I wrote the script which was at 2 in the morning... The next day I had a rehearsal to go to so I decided to film when I got home at 4 that evening. 

Once I filmed my CCR I went through each video and "hearted" the ones I liked then proceeded to airdrop them to my computer. 

The editing part of this project has been crazy but very successful. I used iMovie for most of this project and DeVinchi for some of the shots. I learned how I could apply the things I learned in class with shots and  angles, as well as how the text effects the whole vibe of the film. 

And now to finally conclude the Gom Blog of 2022, below is my lovely Creative Critical Reflection

ENJOY :)

https://youtu.be/An_M6I7izkE

TORN

And with that Gomer's we have made it to our first - final destination.

Below is my Aice Media Film Opening 

"TORN"

I hope you enjoy <3

 https://youtu.be/kabB9HQ9rBQ

CCR ing

Hi Gomer's I wrote this as I was working at Lucilles American Cafe, it wasnt that busy so in my spare time I wrote my CCR script layout. Basically what im going to talk about and when..now! I can move on and write each...specific...word....I have to say.....

CCR starts:

Videos and pictures too show a little about myself ?

ME : From the sleepless nights of me trying to think of what my project should be about to the many times i changed my idea of this project I Gianna 

Gomez can finally say I have finished my aice media portfolio project. 

so gomers

WELCOME TO MY CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION 

Intro. music 

My film is a coming of age thriller that follows the story of a teen boy who is torn between both his musical side and sports side. As you can see the word TORN is used in that sentence which is the title of my film 

The conflict he has with withstanding his popularity keeping up with the norm and being good at lacrosse however is conflicted with his own love for music which helps him escape from everything he has going on. 

*insert pictures and videos of film*

With the help of my brother 

*insert picture*

i was able to get each shot i needed with just saying so (because he’s also my brother and i can boss him around😝)

I also got a little bit of help from Nicolas Mattis and Jaxson Hines for one of the school shots to make it seem more lively. so thank you to all of those people

So now 

let’s talk

about GENREEEE 

*title music some shit like that*

⁃ research 

⁃ typical thriller movie 

⁃ high school musical 

⁃ any movie where the guy strays away from a sport 

moving on …FIRST QUESTION

-typical conventions of a coming of age thriller 

SECOND QUESTION 

REPRESENTATION (gender,age)

-talk about how it challenges/represents social groups or issues 

TARGET AUDIENCE 

⁃ what is intended and what u intend 

-include how u will distribute. tik tok,youtube, websites, spotify soundtrack etc 

-youtube ads 

THIRD QUESTION 

PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT 

_personal question

FOURTH QUESTION

- I USED MORE software then hardware 

*imovie

*blogger 

*canva

*google docs 

*etc

And thats the layout... now to write each specific...word...I..am...gonna...say....

7 Hours Later..

HEY GOMERS 7 hours later, in my moms car going to chorus states!! yayy i’m blogging and planning out the next few days because they are gonna be…..tough…. The basic part is done it’s now finishing everything up and filming + editing my Creative Critical Reflection on top…of…all..that…

ALRIGHT WELL

Gom’s To do List for this weekend - 

• Get one more shot of Alexander in the classroom 
• Finish editing 
• CCR 
• Submit 

Friday: Mostly Finish editing…start writing CCR

Saturday: Finish CCR, Finish editing.. record. 

Sunday: Rehearsal all day / edit CCR at night (try to)

Monday: Finish up everything and submit  Project due at Midnight. 

As well as studying for a history test and doing homework for other classes.  I’ll see you Gomer’s on our next two blogs that will sadly be our last :( Wish me luck!

The Long editing process..

WHATS UP GOMERS

GOM HERE to update you on my editing process<3

Below are some screenshots of my film opening to give you a small sneak peak of the vibe being given..but sh🤫don’t tell anyone I showed you. 

Hello lovely Gomer’s I am pleased to say this process has been going swimmingly. We have gone through some bumps in the road however, are getting through them with ease! Currently I am..still…editing my film opening. Pretty much picking at absolutely everything I see wrong fixing cutting mistakes as well as lining the sound up with the shots. Above is a picture of my editing process! I decided to use iMovie for this project. That’s a bug contradiction with this project (Is iMovie better?!) the conversation I had with multiple friends. While others are using devinchi or premier I decided to stick with the basic iMovie and similar basic editing apps for color because I have used it all my life and am most familiar. 

 

LaMusica

The music option is the only part I am struggling with in my film opening. As of right now I have a royalty free song called Up! by Zenith Productions, its not upbeat very relaxing introducing more of a meaningful story. The pros of this pick is that it matches the song my actor is playing on the piano and as he is playing if I incorporate the music faintly in the back it lines up. However, the only thing is.. will the people watching think its boring.. will my audience like the said "meaningful" or "sentimental" vibe it gives in its film opening or stray away from it

In addition, when I showed my parents the very beginning they of my film opening that I already edited they said the music might be mistaken for what you think the boy is suppose to be playing on the piano. So! I think i’m going to lower the sound as I put the piano sound over it 

Filming And Its Recap part II

HOLAAAAA GOMERS 

The shots I shot today with my wonderful actor (brother) were exactly what I wanted. I shot every piano scene today and tomorrow I will be shooting the sport area of my film opening. The main character is playing lacrosse and my brother has practice tomorrow night and before I leave after dropping him off I will use him as well as a couple of his friends to shoot the small shots at the Tequesta Trace Field.

Just to the right is a little peak of my wonderful editing skills with the credits in the second shot of my film opening. 

Once school starts again I will be finishing the last shots in Ms. Wolfs room. I want to film a school scene where the main character is taking notes in class and then proceeds to fall asleep giving us an easy transition to him dreaming about playing the piano as it brings him joy and color, the boy will then wake up from his daydream to the sound of the belle ringing. After I get those shots (preferably Tuesday) I will edit every detail out of this film opening <3 

Here are some lovely pictures my sister took as we filmed today, enjoy!

<Me standing above Alexander for that perfect shot

 

^In the back of the shots is Alexanders room (obviously). We cleaned it up a bit because it was...messy...however, as you can see we have his desk and to the right a little metaphor that will be seen as the film opening goes on. The lacrosse stick next to the guitar gives us a little chance to see how our character is interested in both sports and music.

Thats it for this blog post, there will be more specific doings happening next time so stay tuned on this wonderful journey.

BYE GOMERS 

Costuming!

HI GOMERS! it’s time to talk about the costuming of my project because I really haven’t discussed the idea behind that :)

As you can see from the picture above my actors costume was a mix of a teenage boys everyday outfit combined with a hat that I wanted the character to wear to show a sense of hiddenness to the characters face.. In some cases that could be looked at as a negative thing however, the way I look at it is this is a film opening so if you want to see the character more you have to keep watching!!

The black shirt and jeans don't really symbolize anything except a basic teenage boy fit. In the other shots my character is wearing a lacrosse uniform with his team number on it as well as a school outfit that is similar to what he is wearing in the shot above just without the hat and a different shirt.

Bro.

Hi Gomer's hope everyones having an awesome day I have been through so much with this project we really do have a love hate relationship. I filmed my film opening last week like I said before I went on my trip to Disney. In Disney! I then started editing and trying to pull together some parts of the project however, I started noticing how long it was.. and how some shots were just simply not needed. 

I then had a whole confrontation with myself and started to think more about how I wanted this film opening to look overall because with the shots I had achieved there were some lighting issues, it looked too grainy for my liking, as well as some shots as stated being unnecessary. 

SO, Instead of deleted or editing some of my blogs I am really taking you guys along this journey. I have decided to pluck out some of the story line and shorten it to my liking.. I have now taken out the whole idea of color blindness because I find it creating to much of a film not a film opening and the editing would have taken me so long, including additional stress I do not need. I drew up a slightly new storyboard and decided to re-film some shots but still include some of the ones I liked from before. My main actor is my brother of course and I do live with him so its pretty easy to just say lets go film again!

Below is the slightly altered storyboard and here's a summery of what's going on :

- A coming of age film opening about a teenage boy in love with music who longs to be playing his lovely piano. He yearns to always be playing instead of whatever else he is doing.. 

Something I am still deciding on 

- The shots in color are the shots of him playing piano representing how the music brings him life and the shots that are in a more black and white represent how much he longs for the color and how nothing else brings him that.

Some of me really wants Ms. Stoklosa not to read this because I feel like she will be angry that I decided to flip my project a tiny bit.... HOWEVER I have gone through so much with this project that I am finally not rethinking or second guessing my thoughts on this and have full faith that this will be done editing by Friday night.

This has been a whole essay but thank you for following the Gom Blog and her crazy decisions she decides to make, I'll see you guys tomorrow after I start filming again with my brother <3

Filming and its Recap

HI GOMERS WE ARE BACK!

Its Sunday March 20th and we have finished filming every shot needed for my film opening. I finished filming on Friday and fixed a couple shots on Saturday morning. Everything went smoothly and I cant wait to start editing, which will be done mostly on my long car ride to Disney tomorrow morning

LETS GOO MARIO MIC DROP.

Recapping :

Friday I started filming around 2:30 in the afternoon I was struggling with the lighting at some points as well because the way my kitchen is set the light kept going in and out....so i kept waiting for the lighting to come back and thats the ONLY set back I had which was kind of fun. The pictures shown on the right and below are a little sneak peak of the vibe shown in my film opening...The music book with music sheets creates a sort of chaotic look as the character is just living his life making an egg :)

Right to the left is my filming set up🤩 Isn’t it beautiful my ring light broke so I had to level it out with my dogs food bin it was great. It ended up working really well however it was getting annoying moving the bin everywhere I went so I then just used a stabilizers for the rest of the filming day.

The next thing I wanted to talk about to all of you was the lighting effects I am having once I finish editing. I have been editing here and there on my trip however haven’t gotten to the part where the lighting will come on the screen then disappear. Below is the difference between those colors, in the first high angled shot that will be the full color seen when my character plays music and the second high angled shot will be his basic everyday life vision. He is color blind so I tried to edit and research how abs what color blind people really see, there is still a little bit of seen color but to other people it’s not the full thing obviously and I really wanted to portray that well.

That’s it for this blog guys! however, the next ones will be more of my editing process and ideas that come to me along the way

Thanks for tuning in with Gom! 

Finalizing

HI GOMERS

Below is my final story board. From the last time I spoke to you all we just had a group discussion about our projects in class and my fellow classmates told me I was missing some parts of my story..It seemed sort of plain to them and it did to me as well however, I didn't know how to fix it. Last night I stayed up laying in bed imagining different scenarios and outcomes and I concluded I was missing a chunk of "why is the color changing in my film opening", which I then came up with the idea of what if the main character was color blind.

Its a big step from what I was going from however, the main character now is color blind and that is why everything is black and white, when the character plays music he then can see color and figures that out towards the end of the film opening leaving viewers with the urge to find out what will happen next and how the small musician playing any type of music lets him see. The idea that he is color blind is shown more through his emotion as he looks at a flower in the first couple of shots and  later in the film opening as he's walking outside. I finally am set on this story and will be filming in about an hour. so YAY PROGRESS 

Now talking about my main actor. My friend Cristian who I wanted to use is currently in Tampa for a drama competition and I was going to film when he got back however, with everything i'm going through with the changes I really just want to film so I can have more time later to fix any boo boo's I don't like. In conclusion there will be another actor I am bringing in who was the runner up to Cristian WHO I know would love to help me and star in my Aice media portfolio project <3 and that one person is Alexander Gomez my brother yayyyyyyyyy. He said he would love to help and with my mind finally being made up with the story line and my brother also being able to play piano really helps solidify my perspective on my idea.

THE MUSIC

The music aspect is a big part of this project and making it look as real as possible. My brother can play the piano as I said so I think Im going to have him play something and record it and edit it back into the project to make the sound better however, my brother cannot play the guitar so! I will be putting a sound I found on bensound.com for royalty free music! The composer is Evert Zeevalkink and I love how it sounds especially with the aspect that the main character will figure out he can see when he plays music so it gives that emotional side to it.

After I film I will update you Gomer's on how it went as well as what still needs to be done! 

Thank you all for following along ill see you in a bit :)