Creative Critical Reflection

    This is my completed CCR video that I made for my final task. I'll admit, it's not the best. I tried my best and made do filming and editing. In terms of the creative aspect, I thought it would be fun to use some masks laying around, dress up and have my sister interview me. We set the try-pod and took turns in the hot seat. One of the masks unfortunately halfway into filming so we thought that we could film three individual characters. The diction isn't as clear but between myself in the mask and out, are meant to represent two different subjects.

 

 

 

A Short Recap of Our Commercial

Due to the coronavirus, my teachers have instructed my class to blog about the past  in order to show our progress throughout. Unfortunately, my group neglected our commercial and it has been lost. It's not lost entirely but out of reach. We are out of school and our instructors are the only ones with a saved copy, ith is on a hard drive located on campus. lf I had to rank our commercial it would be in the middle because it was the most interactive yet the most basic in terms of ideas. We chose Dunkin' (Donuts) the coffee brand, we dressed in running gear and a barista outfit and used the slogan "American runs on Dunkin'" to advise Dunkin's drink and a bow of a dozen donuts. We ran into a slight mishap with sound when filming and recorded a voice-over to replace the inaudible dialogue. It wasn't perfect but it was the best we could have done, being out time to reshoot. It was overall very fun to film, since, thanks to Emily's mom, we got to have actual donuts on set and happily ate them while editing.

The Complete Music Video

    Due to the coronavirus, the upcoming exams were canceled worldwide and we have been instructed to upload our work to showcase our progress through the year. We were told to blog about the things we have done so far in AICE Media, so I proudly present our music video. I was absent from the filming of our music video but made up for it by being on the editing team. It's fair to say that I directed the direction of how the film looked after the initial storyboarded; curtsey to Emily. The music video was the first time I thought of using black and white, especially because I saw the potential for a vintage finish, having already placed the film in the 1900s and used an old Jazz song. The message was also pretty big and I feel extremely proud as a high school student to have taken such big liberty and shoulder an entire through this project. With the time period, we placed the video, came a lot of prejudice about homosexuality and we just wanted to bring light to that and change the narrative of a typical love story.

Reediting and the Final product

    In terms of the reshoot and re-edit, my group members Emily and Andrea have tried their very best, using their phones to edit and film what we needed. The editing was mostly just incorporating the footage we were able to film in these hard times. With the COVID-19 virus and the lack of human interaction through social distancing, we had to call and text to effectively make a group decision.

    The film is a lot chopper than expected but because of the fact we only had iMovies at our disposal, editing became a lot harder. Being out of school made piecing together our footage that much harder but we tried our absolute best to create something that represented all we have been taught this year.

Crisis Update

     So far,  my group and I haven't done much in the past few days.  As far as we know, school for my entire district has been canceled and has recently extended until the start if May. The coronavirus has basically stopped productivity in its tracks and, many of my peers believe this may be an indefinite situation. We have started online school, but as far as the movie and post-production are concerned, we still lack the resources we have grown accustomed to. We planned to carry on with reshooting and editing but forced separation has made things more difficult. In terms of filming the CCR, we had planned to film together and take turns on camera but now we have to film separately and compile our footage together. Lacking cameras, we'll have to film and edit on our phones. I plan on involving my sister and having her ask me questions like an interview. Quarantine has really uprooted life as we know it. As it now, people are so hysterical and have got to extremes out of fear.  Some are afraid to leave their homes while others leave in reckless abandon. Shopping centers have either closed completely or have very limited hours; with some even setting regulations on the number of people allowed in stores per square foot. The beach has been closed, grocery stores are going empty, and every "non-essential business has basically been laid off. I recently went to Walmart and found that the entire section of toilet paper was gone. In lack of a better term, the coronavirus has practically sparked a miniature apocalypse.