End Products

 Hello, this has been a beautiful and kind of stressful journey but all of it was worth it to see the final results.

Here they are:

Portfolio Project Folder

Resolution

 With the final due date coming near, I thought I would reflect on the whole procces of the making of "Dear Diary;"

It all started with research. It gave me an idea of what film openings have, how different films introduce the narrative, and how they set the tone. It helped guide me to what I wanted to produce and convey. So I started planning. Drawing out the storyboard, looking and making props, creating the music, making a script, and then, filming began.

This definitely was the hardest part. One our third day of filmig we realised the pacing was off, the shots felt rushed and we had too much for a two minute opening. So we decided to redo our storyboard and keep only the important stuff in. We got my mom's professional camera gave the new footage more of a cinematic feel and this time the film truly felt overall better. 

Yeah sure, we could've kept the old footage and worked with what we had but taking the easy way out would've meant getting a cheaper end product, and it would've been a shame since the actual project ended up being so beautiful.

I'm truly grateful for this project because without it I wouldn't have know I was capable of contributing to making such a beautiful project.

And also a special thank you to my father and sister, Pablo Moreno and Trinidad Moreno Pamio, for collaborating with me and helping me on my CCRs.

Making My CCRs

Making both of my videos were very hard, but the toughest one was Late Night Snacks, since it's me interviewing myself. I had my sister helping me and without her, I don't think I could've done it. She helped me run my lines, and read them to me so I had something to react to when filming. I also had to bake a brownie since I needed a snack, and let me tell you, the brownie didn't last a day in my house. However, the hardest part about this CCR was the editing. 

Carpool Talks with my dad also had it's struggles. For one, my dad doesn't speak that good in english, so we had to do a lot of takes. Then there was the fact that we didn't have anywhere to put my phone, so I ended having two spots, one stuck in the sun blocker for a high angle and under the air conditioning in the middle of the car for a low angle. 

Learning my lines was hard, I stuttered a lot, I got confused, and I would sometimes hestitate a little bit too much, so please beware that I tried my best and chose the best clips to add in.

Here are my logos:

(I have a whole blog post about editing this logo)

Overall, although I ran into a lot of issues, the process was very fun and I had a blast.

Here are my resources for the background songs:

https://pixabay.com/music/upbeat-unlock-me-amapiano-music-149058/

https://pixabay.com/music/upbeat-upbeat-exciting-background-music-306539/

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/cheering-and-clapping-crowd-1-5995/

Editing my first CCR

I decided I wanted to do a little logo or intro for my night show. So I went to Canva and I picked What elements I would add to my intro. 

I decided I would add a moving fridge that would transition into the name of the show, Late Night Snacks With Santina. This was definitely the hardest part. I couldn't figure out how to make the text be revealed in Canva, So I moved to Adobe Premiere Pro.

After one thousand tutorials later, I found out how to cut and key frame my text and finally got the finished product.

However, that was not before I found the perfect font. I wanted my font to give off retro cursive vibes, but still be legible. So I went into Adobe Fonts and chose Dreamboat.

Here's my finished product:

change of plans

 I have decided to change my first video about my first and second CCR. This is because I saw another classmate copy what I had posted in my blogpost, and since I didn't feel like my idea wasn't at its full creative potential, I decided to do a more original idea. 

I was thinking of the Late Night Show with Jimmy Fallon and thought, what if there was a more relatable show that's similar to this one? and the Late Night Snacks with Santina popped up. It might be a bit cringey, but I think the idea is pretty unique.

It's going to consist of me going to my kitchen, late at night, to grab a snack. Suddenly the host is going to appear, most likely also going to be me, and we're going to talk on the kitchen counter, or the couches I have next to my kitchen.

Group Meeting #2

 On Tuesday, I got together with a group of some of my classmates and we helped each other out. We talked about our problems with filming, our progress on editing, and CCR ideas. 

Kalel had a problem with time management. Him and his group had to film in a park at 20 minutes from where we all attend school at. The problem was that they were using natural lighting, and they had gone a little bit before sunset. 

Nicholas talked about how he wanted to do a one-on-one interview inspired by The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. I thought that was very interesting and would be a fun idea to do the creative critical reflection. 

I personally loved Amparo’s plot idea because everyone else was doing horror movies and she was doing a coming-of-age film, like me. She showed us some of her unedited shots and they all looked great so far, I'm excited to see her final result. 

Overall, the group meeting was fun, and it helped everyone see where the other groups were and we also helped each other out in small problems that we had, like ideas for our CCR’s. 

CCR 4

 How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?  

Me and my group used many hardware tools like cameras, lighting, mics, phones, and tripods. We also used software tools like Canva, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Blogger. 

One of our biggest problems were choosing the right camera to film our shots with. At first, we had Fatima’s Canon camera, but the battery had died, and she couldn’t find the charger. Then we switched to Fatima’s iPhone. Although the quality was good, the lamp we were using for the lighting messed up the camera lens and made some of the scenes look unprofessional. Finally, we used my mom’s camera that I had forgotten that took videos and the shots looked a lot better than the other attempts. However, we were using my sister’s tripod that its mainly use is for phones, so although it had the screw to go into the camera, the camera was too heavy, and it had to be held up by someone. That someone was me. I was the one filming and therefore some shots were a bit shaky or a little bit unfocused. 

For software, we mainly used Canva, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Blogger. On Canva, I designed the animated production logo. On Blogger, we documented every step of making the opening, including behind the scenes videos, weekly updates, photos of props and sets, and research on the drama and coming of age genres. We edited the entire opening on Adobe Premiere Pro, which was useful because we had access to it both at school and on our own devices at home.