Creative Critical Reflection

CCR

Greetings and Welcome to the last blog ! We have made it to the end of our production process. I hope you guys saw our film opener, Forsaken, and enjoyed it!!! Today for our last blog post, we will be doing a Creative Critical Reflection of the entirety of our filming journies from day 1 to now and I am so excited to share with you guys my progress and growth as a Co-Director on set of Forsaken. 

Here is my CCR for my film opener, Forsaken!!!

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FORSAKEN FINAL PROJECT POST

     NOW SHOWING: FORSAKEN

    Today is the day Bloggers! Our team has finally finalized everything for Forsaken and we will be releasing it in this blog! Thank you guys so much for reading in on our day-to-day progress, this has been such an amazing journey with both you guys and my team. Your encouragement has made this filming dream come to life and as a team with me, Marcus, and Alexander, we are so proud to have finally made it to this finishing point. The long days of filming on set of Forsaken and long nights of editing were so worth it to be where we are today! 

    I hope you all enjoy it as much as me and my whole team did, this was absolutely a dream come true! Since Day 1 of brainstorming Forsaken I could see this day coming and it indeed came really quick, I am just so glad that everything worked out well and that you guys were a part of our journey! This was such a monumental film to all of us and we are so happy to show you guys today the awaited absolutely epic film opener. Enjoy watching bloggers and for the last time, thank you guys so much for reading our updates today and I will catch you guys next time!

UPDATES ON THE RELEASING OF FORSAKEN

    Hello bloggers and welcome back to my blog! I just wanted to touch base with you guys and also make an EXTREMELY EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!!! I am proud to announce that we are just about to conclude our entire production process of Forsaken! As we finally have wrapped up the different obstacles we encountered with editing, we are seeing a smooth path from here as pretty much most of the film is edited. With that being said be on the lookout for our FINAL FORSAKEN MOVIE OPENER PROJECT. This is so exciting for all of us to hear on our production team and even though we are still wrapping up the editing, Me, Alexander, and Marcus are already celebrating on the inside. 

    This opener has created such a great opportunity for us to advance our skills in filming, editing, story mood board creation, etc. We are so happy to have got done through such a huge chunk of this project and we are even more excited to show you guys! Every single day we have grown in so many different ways with our film production skills and with concurring many obstacles, it has helped us to become better with directing, co=directing, and acting. I am so appreciative and proud of my team and all of their support in making our dreams come true in this opener and helping to devote so much time along with me, into it! They made this such a fun and thrilling experience, everyday all of their enthusiasm has helped us get through the day and I would not be here without them! I am so happy to tell you guys this HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT. 

    Stay tuned for the next post as the Forsaken opener will be debuting!!! I will catch you guys next time!

Forsaken's OFFICIAL Soundtrack

     Greetings bloggers and welcome back! The debut of Forsaken is getting SUPER close and I am so excited to finally release our anticipated soundtrack for our opener! As I discussed in one of our previous posts, we did have to make changes with switching to copyright-free music due to new concerns with the access of our opener towards all of our viewers. With that being said, join me today as I release our finalized copyright-free soundtrack that you will see when watching Forsaken!!!

    This switch to copyright-free music was difficult with navigating at first but now we are so excited that we did. This doesn't only help all of our viewers have access, but it also helps add to the atmosphere and culture of Forsaken. My whole team with me and my friends Marcus and Alexander, have collaboratively selected the best copy-right free music that we felt would just be monumental and authentic for our entire narrative. Through exploring all of the selections, our team has decided and voted on having these two tracks for the final product of Forsaken and as we anticipated, when we started editing it came together perfectly with all of the events that were going on! We are so excited to share another milestone with you guys on the Forsaken Production. KEEP ON THE LOOKOUT!!! We are anticipating the debut of Forsaken to be right after our next blog! 

Thank you so much bloggers for reading today and we will catch you guys next time!!!

Editing Inspiration behind Forsaken

     Greetings bloggers and welcome back! We are so close to the releasing of our film opener, Forsaken! With that being said, today I am going to go over my own inspirations behind the editing contribution I had along with my partners, Alexander and Marcus, and the crucial aspects that we used. To be a little bit more clear with you guys, I just want to clarify that we all added in our own little aspects of editing into each part of the opener and it came together wonderfully! Taking this task into our different perspectives and then having our team collaborate together on the editing and make changes as needed has made this process so much better! Join us today as we analyze the entire inspiration behind the editing of Forsaken!

    When beginning this project and our group decided that all of us were coming together for the editing, I started actually looking at different YouTube videos to understand more of the basics of editing and looking specifically on the use of it in different Movies as well to see how I can perfect it for our opener. One of the movies that most influenced me was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. I love the way this movie had all the scenes come together so well done and smoothly to give off such a radiant and colorful atmosphere throughout the whole movie! Even before taking a closer look at the transitions and all of the video editing and effects that were used, I still loved it so much just off the back with all of the vibrant and attention-driven animations. This movie has given me so much inspiration especially when it came to portraying the arcade scene since it was one of the most energetic and thrilling scenes throughout the whole opener as well as the vibrancy and colorfulness. This was just so impactful to me throughout my editing experience!

    Thank you guys so much for reading my inspiration on the editing techniques utilized within Forsaken! Stay tuned as the arrival of Forsaken is nearing! I will see you guys in the next post!

 

Forsaken Bloopers/Behind the Scenes

 

    Welcome Back Bloggers! Today, as we are progressing closer to that day, we have a fun little blog for you guys of our bloopers while we were working on the Forsaken Production! This opener was both fun and tedious, especially behind the camera with me and my partner Marcus. With Marcus being our main director, he was going through a whole lot of emotions, especially when we were trying to make a smooth transition in the front and it took us multiple tries to perfect it. I was super frustrated at times as well since most of the time, both of our ideas that we made up were unfortunately unable to make it in the final product since we did not have enough time to fully do the scenes. But throughout all of the obstacles, our filming journey was a really cool and fun opportunity with our friends and the whole plot of Forsaken made it even better. It was difficult at times, but we are so thrilled with the product. Anyways, join us today as we show you guys bloopers/behind-the-scenes of Forsaken!

    So in the clips above, we have our first behind-the-scenes look of Forsaken! This is one of our very first scenes that we took on set and as you can see it was exceptionally eventful. As I was describing, this was the scene that our team was trying to make a fade transition and it was taking a whole toll on us as a whole team. To break it down further, we were trying to have Alexander, who was playing Wyatt, walk towards the camera as they were walking into the mall to create an epic fade transition. Sadly, we were facing many obstacles with Alexander hitting the camera too hard or just in a way that was making the transition wacky. After many takes we did get the transition perfected and we cannot wait for you all to see that in our final project! 

That is a wrap for today, bloggers! Thank you for reading in on this fun post with our Forsaken Bloopers and Behind-the-Scenes shots. I hope you guys enjoyed this and I will see you all in the next blog!

Forsaken Project Update

    Hello Bloggers and welcome back to my blog! Today, we will be giving a general update on the development of Forsaken! As many of you know, we have concluded our filming of Forsaken, it was a very fun and at points challenging journey but we are so happy with how all of the scenes turned out and we cannot wait for you guys to see it very soon! Seeing everything come to life with this filming idea has been amazing and everything came out just how we projected it to be despite some challenges that occurred. Join us today as we provide a current update on what we are exactly working on now with this project!

    Now, that we have finished the filming, we are focusing on the editing of this film as it is just a crucial aspect to portraying everything with the proper transitioning between scenes as well as the lighting, we will be emphasizing these aspects even better for our viewers. Trust me with the specific filming strategies we used along with the editing, you guys are in for an absolute treat. As a team, we were just discussing how amazed we were that we got through so many obstacles and that we are finally in this phase of our project. Previously, we were discussing a change with our sound editing as we are now using free copyrighted music. This was a big change for us and we were not expecting it at all, but I am so happy to announce that with looking over the different music, we have found all that we need for our film and we are progressing into incorporating it into the opener as we speak! We are so thrilled that everything ended up working out and even worked better towards our narrative. That is what we are in the process of as of right now, we just are focusing on the last phase of Forsaken!

Stay tuned as Forsaken is coming out very soon! I will catch you guys in the next post for more updates!