Movie Opening

 Falling Through the Rose Bush:

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CCRs

 CCR #1

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CCR #2:

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CCR Credits:

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Final Goodbyes

 Wow. 8 weeks. Across 3 months. One project. 

    This project has taught me so much more than just making up the concept of a movie opening. While I might not have loved it at first, my opening is now my pride and joy (even though I would DEFINITELY change things if I could). All jokes aside, this was such an immense challenge for me in terms of working individually. I thought working individually was better because your idea could be totally your own, but it is so much more than that. I completely underestimated how much time this would really take and how long 8 weeks really was. My entire project would've been different if I had a partner because not only would I have somebody to keep me on track, but I would have someone to share the workload with. Even though I didn't have a partner, so many people helped me and were there for me when I was stressed out or had to cancel plans to meet a deadline. Speaking of deadlines and underestimating, I had no clue how bad my procrastination really was until I had to do weekly blogs. For some strange reason, I always thought I had so much more time. Enough of the complaints, though; I truly did enjoy the process of making Falling Through the Rose Bush, and I hope all of you at Cambridge will like it too. 

Me going through every emotion known to man in this reflection.

Lady Watching Sad Movie In Cinema - Stock Video | Motion Array. (2025). Motionarray.com. https://motionarray.com/stock-video/lady-watching-sad-movie-in-cinema-2467827/

Editing CCRs!!

     I am SO close to being done with this project. It's bittersweet, but it's worth it. All that is left is editing and publishing my CCRs. Post-production wasn't too elaborate. For the first CCR, I did have to actually edit a 7-minute long video, so that wasn't the greatest. On the other hand, though, the second CCR only had to be published, so that was easy peasy.

    For the enhanced podcast/talk show, though it was lengthy, editing only required cutting clips and adding music and subtitles on top. Not too difficult, as the same music repeated through the entire episode except the intro and the outro. I used two jazzy royalty-free songs from the same reliable Mixkit and made the ad by customizing a template on Canva.

Editing the episode

Arrivederchi! I will see ya'll at submission.

Producing the CCRs

     One CCR was much, much harder and took longer than the other, so I'll touch base on both, but one will have more meat to mention. Despite this, the CCR content flowed nicely and wasn't extremely difficult to piece together. I'd like to say that this is because I did a good job planning, but the truth is that my teacher, Mrs. Stoklosa, set the whole class up really well with the instructions. Because of all this, I produced one enhanced podcast/talk show and one voiced-over presentation.

Ori's Podcast

The original plan was to record Ori growling and barking to make it seem like he was talking and just put subtitles over that. However, my sweet pup decided to be quiet today, so there was no growling. Also, he wouldn't sit down for long enough to get shots together, resulting in only shots and countershots. The most he cooperated with was receiving a treat to sit down on the host's couch. The first thing I did was set my camera up on the tripod and test the angle. I then bribed Ori to sit on said couch with a treat, though it took about 5 tries. Finally, I figured that I'd just shoot as long as possible as I can get of him on the couch and cut everything in post-production. Here's evidence for ya'll.

For me, I just set the tripod up in a way where I was seen but not the coffee table where my computer rested with my lines on it.

Presentation

    For questions #3 and #4, I felt as though they were beautifully answered on my blog, so I used those answers as a script for my presentation. I used Canva and stuck to the 1800s theme on a notebook texture with doodles of flowers on it, making it seem like Lily's notebook. For the voiceover part, I simply screen-recorded the presentation and spoke the answers aloud as I was going through it. It was smooth and straight to the point.

Group Meeting! (Part 2)

     The group meetings are when every student in class is assigned to 4-6 people groups to talk about what they have so far and give or receive advice. This time around, though, I didn't get much advice in the group meetings in class, but instead, I gave advice out. I'll be discussing the notes I took from the meeting and the advice I gave or didn't give.

Bella Montanari:

She's working in a group with two other people called Victoria and Juan. Their movie is about a woman who matches with men on online dating apps and goes on dates with them. If she finds flaws in them during the date, she kills them because she's a psychopath. Obviously, their genre is horror, and their title is Manslaughter. I LOVED the title; I thought it was so clever. She showed me clips of their opening, which consisted of one of the said dates where she kills a man. It looked great and I had no notes about that except that maybe it would be helpful to define her motive a little more clearly. Where did this psychopathic behaviour stem from?

Santiago Racca:

Santiago is working by himself, like me, and he made a suspense/thriller movie opening. His plot is about a man who is kidnapped and tries to escape but can never. He gets kidnapped over and over again, no matter how cleverly he finds his way out of that basement. I didn't get much else about the plot, but the opening was phenomenal. His mom did outstandingly realistic bloody makeup on his face, and the lighting perfectly set the tone. The whole thing was just really well done. Respect!

Benjamin Marchan:

This one was different from the past two. Not in a bad way, but not in a great way either. He hadn't filmed anything at all and didn't have much of an idea when it came to plot, so he got a lot of help there. His movie is a sports drama titled Offseason. He had an idea of what the opening was going to look like. Two best friends getting ready for a football meeting in the offseason to practice would be shown in a series of cutaways. I suggested that maybe the conflict in the movie could be that one of the best friends is logical and the other is immature, and they grow to have disagreements. The movie would be about friendship and commitment through the big fights. I thought this would add a nice meaning behind the football theme because football players have to get through the pain and keep playing no matter the condition. For his credits, I suggested he use lots of physical anchors. This meant having the credits written on objects on screen because it gave a more physical feel to the sports aspect.

CCR: Question #4

 Since questions #3 and #4 will be answered in the presentation together, you all already know how it's going to be set up. This blog post will simply be answering the fourth question, and I'll be breaking it down in the presentation.

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

     I used an array of technologies throughout the multiple stages of this project to enhance my production practice and get the best and most accurate outcome for my project. The hardware I used for this project consisted of a professional camera for recording the opening, a laptop for editing the opening, and a USB with an attachment for transferring files. The camera is a NIKON 5000 that my dad has owned since he and my mom met. He used to love photographing nature with it, but hasn't used it in a couple of years and lends it to me to photograph events like birthday parties and dinners. I didn't film with it myself, but my cameraman for the opening often helps me photograph these events and is familiar with its functions. My laptop is a simple Apple MacBook Air that I used to download software and look online for editing assistance. The USB was some random one I had lying around in my house waiting to be used, but it needed an attachment because my laptop doesn't have a USB port. I used these collectively to carry the videos from my camera to downloading them on my dad's laptop to downloading them on my laptop. The software I used was strictly Adobe Premiere Pro 2025. That application gave me such a good experience while editing when it came to everything except saving my files. Nonetheless, I'll most likely be using it for future projects. The main online technologies I used were for script writing, citation formatting, text making, and sound finding. I used StudioBinder for the script, MyBiB for citations, Canva for text, and Mixkit for SFX.