Shivanie Rambaran's Media Studies Blog

 Welcome. Here is my critical reflection video: Sources:  YouTube Here is the link to the video, if needed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwQ1gtFgNdw&t=3s

On January 12, 2022. In class, we started working on our final project. Which was to create a film opening (2 minutes) of any genre. My situation was different than those of my classmates.  The first thing we did in class, was decide on our group members.  January 12, 2022 I am working in a group of three, including myself. My two partners were unfortunately out because of Covid 19. Which only left me to work on the project. The first thing I made sure to do was, get their contacts from another friend. With that, I was able to start communicating with them. I made it an initiative to make them feel included, and kept them updated on what was going on in class. We messaged and came up with our genre. We all agreed on a mystery. We all enjoy solving problems and I have a very high curiosity for things.  After that, it was time to start working on our film ideas.  January 17,2022 We all pitched different ideas, but the one I picked ended up being the winner. We decided to go with "A

 Welcome! Today I will be explaining my group editing process.  Before we started editing our opening, we sorted through and renamed our files. This make it much easier to edit. As we were editing we made sure to stop and discuss if we had any other ideas for the shots and make sure everyone was on board with the changes.  When we started to edit our opening, we noticed as a group that it wasn't how we imagined the video would play out. After looking back and examining our opening from a filmmakers point of view, we realized that the sound and the quality of the video didn't match to our overall meaning we wanted to present. Including our genre conventions into our thinking, we changed the sound from a light eerie sound to a more high pitched sound which added more suspense. I don't know why we didn't think of this sooner, as it was apart of our genre convention. I think we tried to challenge the genre convention, but failed. Another issue we ran into was the quality of

 Welcome! Today I will be telling you about my process in my individual opening. Every person in our group had to construct and edit their own opening, with the same shots and concept. After, we will then review each other's work and give some feedback on what we wanted to include in our final opening, and what we didn't.  Giving feedback to my group members was probably the most challenging part. Hear me out. Although there were some things that I liked that they included. It was hard to take a stand and say what I didn't like. I think we all felt this way. From the way we put in our credits, to the shot sequences, we all had very different ideas of what we thought our opening was going to be.  But luckily we found our rhythm. We were going through each shot and discussing where we should place it in the opening. This really helped. We also had to remember that constructive criticism and judgment to a certain extent is okay. It's okay to state your opinion and learn to

 Welcome back! Today I will be telling you about my production animation process for our opening. Starting off, as a class we were going to use a software called "Blender" to create our animation but because it was too difficult to figure out in the time span that we had, we resulted in using "CapCut". We completed our individual animations and chose which ones we wanted to incorporate in the opening. "CapCut" wasn't as hard to figure out. It only took me about 20 to 30 minutes to create my animation. Here is the result: We ended up choosing my animation to be in the opening. Sources: CapCut

 Welcome! Today I will be telling you about my production process. I was excited to finally start filming the week leading up. My group and I split up the number of supplies we wanted to incorporate in the film. I was in charge of getting the crime scene tape, which I found surprisingly at Home Depot. My other group members brought white chalk and fake blood. We finalized the supplies on a Friday, that way we were able to have time to get the supplies on the weekend.  Week 1:  February 21-25 We decided to start filming the day we came back. But because all of our shots are exterior shots, we had to wait until the next day to get permission to begin filming. On the second day, we did film but we weren't sold on our shots. It didn't look right, it looked rushed. We planned on doing the fake blood scenes first, and that was our first downfall. Starting off, we should have done the non-bloody shots first. We realized this in our second week of filming. But you have to make mistakes