Shivanie Rambaran's Media Studies Blog

 Welcome. This is my final production for my opening scene. I am so excited. And I feel so accomplished for what we achieved as a team. My group members and I were also so happy to click "Publish" on our course's YouTube channel. Hope you enjoy it! Here is the Final Production: Sources: YouTube Here is the link to the video, if needed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCgZQTB_r4o

 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