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CCR #1 - answers questions 3 and 4

CCR #2 - answers questions 1 and 2

idea and script for CCR #2

idea 

non-visual podcast  answering CCR questions #1 and #2

script

ANDREA: hello everybody! welcome back to my podcast Frame By Frame. Now, today we have an exciting new guest, the director from the new film Crimson Envy, Miranda Matos. 

MIRANDA: Hi, thankyou for having me I’m so excited to be here

ANDREA: of course, i’m super excited for you to be here also. now, i just have a couple of questions to ask you about your new film Crimson Envy.

MIRANDA: okay perfect!

ANDREA: okay first question, how does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

MIRANDA: My product challenges conventions since a male is shown cooking alongside a female. Traditionally, cooking was a gendered task predominantly done by women, or at least expected to. It was odd or unusual for a man to cook, especially while living with a woman. This gender norm was set decades ago and is enforced by the patriarchy. In my film opening, the male character is shown cooking breakfast with the female character, his girlfriend. This successfully challenges the gender norm that only women belong in the kitchen by portraying a man completing a task generally done by the opposite gender. 

Another example of this is when the character of Sofia drops and egg right when the doorbell rings. As a result of someone being at the door, Sofia was not able to clean up the cracked egg on the floor. Since Sofia is going to open the door, she asks Luke to clean up the cracked egg instead. He does so without hesitation which depicts how Luke could be characterized as a new man. A new man is a male who rejects traditional gendered roles and takes part in domestic activities, such as cooking or cleaning, which was not done traditionally. I feel like this film successfully represents the new man since it is something that has recently been adapted into modern society and this product takes place in present time.

ANDREA: wow that’s so interesting!

MIRANDA: yeah, we felt that it was important to intrigante a more recent adaptation of society since this film. takes place in present time.

ANDREA: wow that’s great! okay last question of the day, How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

MIRANDA: This film engages with audiences through suspense, social media engagement, and empathy. While building suspense within the film, audiences become more attached and inclined to watch the film all the way to the end. Empathy for the characters causes the audience to become somewhat emotionally connected to the characters, causing them to be more invested in their character development throughout the film and the plot. Social media engagement, like behind the scenes clips or blooper reels, posted on social media websites attract audiences since they feel a personal connection to the film and characters. Seeing the process of filming and raw footage may demonstrates the hard work that was put into creating the film, inclining them to watch it.

Considering my product is a made-at-home film, to realistically distribute it to larger audiences, I would submit it to Miami Film Festival.

I would only do this after posting it on YouTube and promoting it on my personal social media accounts. The film would not be known enough to have its own social media accounts, and if one was made, it would not have many followers and it would not be effective marketing. 

If I promote the film on my personal social media accounts on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebok by posting the link to the YouTube video or short behind the scenes clips of the production process, most likely, my friends and family who already follow my personal accounts will watch it and maybe repost the link to their social media accounts causing it to reach a broader audience and gaining more recognition 

ANDREA: well, that brings us to the end of this episode of Frame By Frame, thank you so much Miranda for coming and joining us today

MIRANDA: of course it was a pleasure, thank you so much for having me.

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CCR question 1

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

My product challenges conventions since a male is shown cooking alongside a female. Traditionally, cooking was a gendered task predominantly done by women, or at least expected to. It was odd or unusual for a man to cook, especially while living with a woman. This gender norm was set decades ago and is enforced by the patriarchy. In my film opening, the male character is shown cooking breakfast with the female character, his girlfriend. This successfully challenges the gender norm that only women belong in the kitchen by portraying a man completing a task generally completed by the opposite gender. 

Another example of this is when the character of Sofia drops and egg right when the doorbell rings. As a result of someone being at the door, Sofia was not able to clean up the cracked egg on the floor. Since Sofia is going to open the door, she asks Luke to clean up the cracked egg instead. He does so without hesitation which depicts how Luke could be characterized as a new man. A new man is a male who rejects traditional gendered roles and takes part in domestic activities, such as cooking or cleaning, which was not done traditionally. I feel like this film successfully represents the new man since it is something that has recently been adapted into modern society and this product takes place in present time.

I used this article as an inspiration or example https://dailycampus.com/2022/02/22/cooking-is-not-a-gendered-task/

editing CCR video #1

Editing this video was fairly easy as compared to all the others. The filming process was extremely quick considering I had the script pre-written and my actors, including myself, had the lines previously learnt. In contrast to most of my other projects, this video was edited through Capcut. Capcut was very user-friendly and definitely perfect for a video like this one. This is because the video did not require any advanced editing techniques or special effects and was somewhat simplistic.

In order to film this video, I had to go to target to purchase the actual board game. After doing so, I took a white piece of printer paper and slid it into the game so the faces of the people were not visible. Instead of faces, we wrote movie titles in the squares. The purpose for this was to attempt to guess the movie instead of the person, adjusted to match the CCR questions I was aiming to answer. Each question that my actors asked, was related to my film opening and whether the answer was yes or no is accurate to my project.

I believe this idea took a creative approach to answering CCR questions 3 and 4. This idea came to me because I was in class, thinking about how much fun I was going to have with my older cousins when they came to visit. While trying to think about different activities we could do together, I was going through some fun board games we could play while watching a movie. The Guess Who came to mind. I don’t quite remember how I connected the dots to filming a video with it but I believe it is a creative way of executing it.

CCR #1 idea + script

Idea: playing the board game 'guess who', while asking questions about the film they are trying to guess, integrate CCR questions.

*video begins with 2 people already playing a game of Guess Who.*

ANDREA: did your film require the use of a cell phone camera and digital camera?

MARIANA: yes it did

ANDREA: (flip down a couple squares)

MARIANA: was your film edited using capcut?

ANDREA: yes it was

MARIANA: (flip down a couple of squares)

ANDREA: was your film edited using adobe premiere pro on a computer?

MARIANA: sure was

ANDREA: (flip down a couple squares)

MARIANA: is your film in black and white?

ANDREA: nope

MARIANA: (flip down a couple of squares)

ANDREA: were simpler resources like house lighting and mini microphones utilized?

MARIANA: yup

ANDREA: (flip down a couple squares)

ANDREA: mhm i think i have an idea of which one your film is

MARIANA: mhmm i don’t know

MIRANDA: is your film in english?

ANDREA: yes it is

MARIANA: (flip down a couple of squares)

ANDREA: was the production process of your film documented through blogger?

MARIANA: sure was!

ANDREA: i got it! is your film Crimson Envy?

MARIANA: yes it is

ANDREA: yes! so who’s the director of this film anyway?

MIRANDA: *jumps out from behind tree*

MIRANDA: its actually me!

MIRANDA: *pushed MARIANA out of chair*

MIRANDA: get out

ANDREA: oh really? that’s so cool! have you always been this good at making films?

MIRANDA: no, previous to this film, i was lacking in editing, filming, sound, and planning skills.

ANDREA: oh! so this film has helped develop your overall production skills?

MIRANDA: definitely! this filmed pushed me to put all pf my acquired skills to work and bettering them at the same time.

ANDREA: oh how so?

MIRANDA: well for example, I struggled a bit with editing on Adobe Premiere Pro. After this film, I now feel confident in my skill and. have discovered new features on the platform.

CCR question 2

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

This film engages with audiences through suspense, social media engagement, and empathy. While building suspense within the film, audiences become more attached and inclined to watch the film all the way to the end. Empathy for the characters causes the audience to become somewhat emotionally connected to the characters, causing them to be more invested in their character development throughout the film and the plot. Social media engagement, like behind the scenes clips or blooper reels, posted on social media websites attract audiences since they feel a personal connection to the film and characters. Seeing the process of filming and raw footage may demonstrates the hard work that was put into creating the film, inclining them to watch it.

Considering my product is a made-at-home film, to realistically distribute it to larger audiences, I would submit it to Miami Film Festival. 

I would only do this after posting it on YouTube and promoting it on my personal social media accounts. The film would not be known enough to have its own social media accounts, and if one was made, it would not have many followers and it would not be effective marketing. If I promote the film on my personal social media accounts on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebok by posting the link to the YouTube video or short behind the scenes clips of the production process, most likely, my friends and family who already follow my personal accounts will watch it and maybe repost the link to their social media accounts.

CCR question 4

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

This question made me reflect back on my entire process. While I was trying to think of all the different technologies, softwares, hardwares, and online platforms that were utilized in the production of this project, I realized there were many of them. While actually doing the project, one does not realize the amount of different resources that are utilized to complete the task. In this project, there were a large variety of technologies, softwares, hardwares, and online platforms that were put to use. 

These are:

- Smart phone camera - film

- Digital camera - take pictures of character

- Computer - blog, script while filming, editing, research

- House light - lighting

- Mini microphones - microphones

- Adobe Premiere Pro - editing

- Microsoft word

- Blogger

- Canvas

- Whatsapp - transferring videos from phone to computer

These are the specific house light, camera, and microphones I used.

  

CCR question 3

How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Throughout this project, my skill has definitely developed a great amount. Compared to my first couple of projects, my filming, sound, editing, and planning skills have greatly improved. Looking back at my previous projects, One Word Film and Sound Project, it is interesting to see and reflect on my progress throughout the year

I feel as though this final project gave us students a final push to truly put all of our acquired skills to work. For instance, my editing skills have greatly improved. This project forced us to work with several aspects of editing that were in need of reinforcement. Adobe premiere pro is a wonderful platform to edit and I am very grateful that it was provided for this course. Although there are many features to Adobe Premiere Pro that I have not yet discovered or experimented with, I feel comfortable with my current knowledge.

Group meeting #2

 Group Meeting #2

This week, our second group meeting took place. Contrasting from the first group meeting, where we talked about our ideas for this project, the second group meeting consisted of discussion about our progress on our projects and ideas for our CCR's.

although I did not find this meeting to be as productive as the first, it was still helpful. I received feedback on what I had so far of my completed film opening. 

Some feedback I received on my project was to not include some of the unnecessary clips I filmed so my project does not go over the maximum time. Another thing they suggested was to re-film some clips where the sound was a little off, or to just exclude them overall.

I feel as though this feedback was helpful because I was still feeling somewhat doubtful as to which clips to include and exclude.

I also gave another member of this group meeting feedback on his credit sequence. They incorporated their credits in a single corner of the screen with the same name. I suggested they either alter the placement of the credits or incorporate a different name. In my opinion, it looked amateur and not realistic and they agreed with my suggestion.

This is a picture of me and my group, taken by our teacher, Mrs. Stoklosa

editing 1

 Editing!

While starting the editing process, one of the most difficult parts, in my opinion, is choosing which clips to and not to use within the project. Many are either very similar or very different clips of the same shot. What I have done so far in editing is upload all potential clips and insert them in order. I have not completely finished this process yet. For instance, nearing the end of our opening, these 3 shots all have 2 potential clips that could be used, and I am having trouble deciding which to incorporate.

production 2

 Production Part 2!

As a part of our filming process, we needed to break an egg. Originally, our idea was for a vase to fall and crack. To execute that successfully, we would have had to clean the glass off the floor. If we had not cleaned it all properly, perhaps my dog could have eaten it or we could have stepped on it. Also, I do not think my mom would have appreciated me breaking one of her vases. As a result, we improvised an used an egg instead.

Since eggs are currently quite expensive, we were only allowed to break one egg. To get our desired shot of this singular egg, we filmed from two differrent angles. One of these angles consisted of the egg literally falling on my phone camera lens. We are not posititve if this shot will be utilized in our final project but it is a cool possibility.

1st shot of egg breaking

2nd shot of egg breaking

cleaning egg off of phonecase

The same effect we were wishing to create with the vase was created with the egg. This effect is that right when the new character, Jess, arrives by ringing the doorbell. something goes wrong and breaks. This would demostrate how the arrival of Jess immediately causes something bad to happen creating an eerie or suspicious tone. 

This connects to the first scene of our film opening since it portrays Sofia and Luke, the main characters, being stalked/watched by someone, setting that same eerie and suspisious tone.

Production

 Production!

Today, we filmed the entire second half of our film opening! This process was honestly very fun and and stress-free. Our actors were very easy to work with and collaborated to their best effort. Throughout this process, I brough my friend Sophia Moreau to help us out with things like lighting and other details, since she has more experience in this field from being in CBTV, Cypress Bay's television class/club.

Here are some behind the scene photos from our filming process: 

  

This process took a total of about 3 and a half hours. This is because of the many times when they would stutter, laugh, or forget their lines. Despite this, we had a succesful filming day and were able to film all of our necessary content!

Production post #2

Production post #2

 Today is filming day 1!! Before Dani and I began to film the opening scene, we searched for different videos of how detective boards are portrayed in films. We searched online to look for some similar scenes but couldn't find any movies where they are setting up the board.

We continued our search and found this video where a person is adding the red string to all the pictures on the board. We noticed that the camera would pan down and track the movements of the hand. This is something we want to incorporate into our film opening, along with separate shots and angles. 

We also took note of the usage of post-it notes with informationwritten on them. We will include this into our board to not only fill up space, but to provide information that will be relevant later on. We  wrote some of the main information on these post-it notes, which will be included.

Sources: https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/86799892-detective-searching-links-between-crimes-board-red-string-co?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F