Film Opening

Here is the link to our final product... Enjoy!

CCR

Here is my CCR

Reflection

As the final week of our project came to end, we finished our last minute editing stuff and little things we wanted to finish. We came up with the opening credits and how we wanted to display them. Arianna made all these things to match the feeling that we wanted to transmit. We also worked on our CCRs individually and edited them individually. Below is a copy of what I used as my script and sort of a list of talking points that I made sure to touch. I wrote an intro, but I find my voice to be very boring when I read, so I wrote down talking points to try and be more interactive and seem more into it. I also edited my own CCR on iMovie as I don't have any fancy editing software that I can use to edit very well. I am overall super proud of how this project turned out, and how we worked as a group to get the project exactly how we wanted it. There were a couple of struggles and a lot of bumps in the road, but we managed to work it through and we are all proud of how it turned out. Here is the script that I used for my CCR.

Hi, my name is Rafael Sanchez and I will be talking about my film opening Champion. I worked on this opening along with my classmates Tomas, Arianna, and Jonathan. In our film, we tell the story of a boxer, Vincent Montoya that gets knocked out into a coma by his rival Booker Cannon. The story then continues by telling vincent’s recovery story, and his road back to an attempt to the top. Our first two minutes work as a way of establishing the storyline and beginning the development of the plot for the rest of the story.
We begin the film with some credits of both the actors and Tomas’, Arianna's and Jonathan’s role in the production. The graphics were made by Arianna and are meant as a way to sort of resemble the characters and their roles. My name has blue accents in the back to show that im the good guy in the fight. Manuel’s credit is in red to show that he is the bad guy that ends up harming the good guy.  Just a little detail to add a little more effect on the overall theme of the movie. It also reminds me slightly of the boxing tabletop game in which each player has a little toy boxer, either blue or red. In which when each player clicks a button, their boxer throws a punch. A punch to the head wins. This is like an easter egg many won't notice but we included anyway.

Crowd cheering- builds hype
Punching sounds-shows that match isn't starting right there, but has already gone for a while
Rain/location- problem
Camera bag/umbrella/light
Hospital-back up location
light
Sound-beeping, newscast

We tried to make sort of an underdog story- divert from the traditional boxing movies- a bit inspirational almost
Vincent is knocked out and it's him trying to come back
Social groups, fighting is seen as bad-ended up in the hospital
The fight is in a street with cars
Ta-teens to adults, more leeway in what we could put and how violent it can get
Edited-premiere
Tomas-camera, stabilizer

I had never filmed anything before so everything was new
Writing the story
Tomas is good
I tried to involve myself as much as possible in shots and stuff

This Upcoming Week

For this new week, there is a lot that we still have to do. For starters, we still have to come up with a name. I already gave my own opinion on the name, but we still have to decide what we want our final name to be. We also have to get all of our foley done as well as getting the music and the news commentators that we want. I sent the script to see newscasters but have still gotten no response. I think that we will be using a friend of Tomas called Marcus that does a lot of reporting for the school news program. Personally, I still have to begin writing my CCR script as that is something I have to do on my own. I also need to do this with time as I am not as experienced with editing, so anything that I need to do or any questions that I need to ask, I can direct them to Tomas who is very knowledgeable with editing. I will be posting about all this next week in my blog posting long with my final project and my CCR. It has been a long road since the beginning, and a lot of ideas have changed, but I think that we will have a great final product, and that what we have done and all the bumps in the road have been worth it, and that our product is going to be great.

What We Have Been Up To

We have not been up to much lately. Not much at all actually. Tomas and Arianna were at their trip in Seattle, and are now on their way back. We spoke about all the foley that we have left, and that we have to do it as soon as possible to be able to finish the video to submit and do the CCR too. We are cutting it a bit close, but we had a very heavy weekend of filming a couple of weeks ago, and have used these past two weeks as more of a chill period. We will be done in time and Ariana and Tomas are pretty good at editing and can do a very good job in little time. Plus, we already have two drafts that are pretty much almost complete, all we need to add is the sound, and come up with a title. After this, we should be done for our CCR and done for the project overall. At one point, I was a little nervous that I wasn't going to have time to do the CCR video and Tomas decided to mess with me that we weren't going to have the video done in time, so I began to panic a little bit more, and I kept on assuring him that we would be fine and he would keep on saying no and that he couldn't find time to edit, and that Arianna outdent either. It was a pretty panicky moment not going to lie. I did begin to doubt at on point that we wouldn't finish until Tomas finally said he was kidding. That gave me a sigh of relief and confirmed that we would get it done. Next week will be a tough week with a lot of last minute things to finish. I will be talking about all the stuff we have left to do in my next post as it is a lot to go over.

Roles as of now

As we are almost done with the video and only have a few things to do, and our roles have been pretty balanced as of now. We all had pretty equal roles in the production of the film opening. For the creative aspects of the film, we all had pretty equal input, all imputing our own opinions into what we believed would be the best version of the movie. For the actual filming of the movie, we all also had pretty equal input on how we wanted the shots to look like, and how we wanted the camera to move. While the camera was moving though, I didn't have much input since I was the one in the shot. But that is whatever, if I didn't like the shot, we could reshoot it until i liked it. This actually happened a lot for example when I would laugh if something funny happened in the shot. Post production, we all also have separate roles that we are each responsible for. Tomas and Arianna are both in charge of editing as they are the ones that are most familiar with the the editing software. Tomas and I are also going to be the ones trying to gather all the sounds so they can use it in the editing. This is because Tomas is the one that is most familiar with the footage and is the one that filmed it. He is also fairly familiar with foley as he has done it before. Im super excited to get this done and see the final product. I know it's going to turn out great, and that as a group, we have found a way to balance all of our skills to get the video exactly how we envisioned it. We are all really creative people with our own skills that allow us to do our best work and making it super creative as we assemble our final product. The past blog posts have been super short, but we haven't been up to much the past days as we just did a couple of weeks of a lot of hard work.

Complications

We have one very big problem that has no solution. That is that Tomas and Arianna are going on a scholastic's trip this week for spring break. It would be fine if it was there own trip with their family, but they are competing in a production competition in Seattle, so they most likely will have no time to do any work on our project while they are competing. At their competition, they are competing in events in which they have 8 hours to come up with a video, film, and edit it. Of course, they won't have any time to work on our project. that basically leads me and Jonathan here alone to do any work that has to be done. The problem is that Arianna really wanted to edit, so we want to leave that to her. Moreover, Jonathan has to work during spring break and has a very tough schedule to balance. I also can't work too much as I am volunteering here at the Miami Open, so I won't have that much time to do anything anyway. This has been on ongoing problem throughout the project. We all have different schedules that don't coincide at all. Jonathan works almost everyday, I have practice everyday, and Tomas and Arianna are always busy with their school work and family stuff. Moreover, It has been a struggle for all of us to be in class as Arianna was involved in a car accident the other day, and Jonathans grandma passed away. This has prevented them from coming to class the past two classes, not allowing us to plan for the upcoming weeks and to complete what is left. We do have a group chat in which we talk in, but it is hard to get a consensus on what we are each going to do and what we have left to do.