Creative Critical Reflection

Thank you guys so much for sticking around during my process, here is a video reflecting on it all and giving some additional insights.

That's a wrap, it's bitter sweet!!

Enjoy my CCR:

https://youtu.be/WWgGVfunXIA

Links: 

https://www.raindance.org/16-big-marketing-ideas-for-filmmakers-on-a-small-budget/

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/12/sundance-2019-wounds-paddleton-corporate-animals-1202029871/

https://www.moviescreenpro.com/dramafest

https://prezi.com/rb5k_semwcvg/drama-as-a-genre-codes-and-conventions/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/for-high-school-seniors-coronavirus-brings-a-sad-ending-and-unexpected-lessons/2020/03/30/1cf3f114-71eb-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html

http://blog.kodielement.com/streaming-service-subscriptions-are-they-really-saving-you-money/

https://www.archdaily.com/872754/how-architecture-speaks-through-cinema

https://awplife.com/how-to-get-youtube-video-id/

https://www.mindmeister.com/236696589/conventions-of-a-film-trailer

https://aleteia.org/2019/02/11/the-truth-about-teenage-girls/

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-ocd-2510663

https://ellensocdblog.com/tag/ocd-stereotypes/

https://www.slideshare.net/elenaMiddlicott/target-audience-64096636

Love,
Lina

My Film Promotional Package

Here are the results...

LAST DANCE MOVIE POSTER:

LAST DANCE WEBSITE: FOR THE BEST QUALITY OF THE TRAILERS VIEW THEM ON THE WEBSITE:

https://lina3711.wixsite.com/lastdance

LAST DANCE MOVIE TRAILERS (which can also be found on the website):

MOVIE TRAILER #1: 

https://youtu.be/3S_fM43yLTw

MOVIE TRAILER #2: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fax7VsYP02A

Be looking forward to my CCR coming soon!
Lina

Final Update:(

It is final, reflective, comments time everybody.

This is pretty emotional for me because of a lot of different things.

First, this project is the last major project that I will ever complete in high school. Additionally, I just found out today that I will never step foot in my high school as a student ever again in my life. That information is very crazy to me to take in. I am going to miss a ton of things about high school. Aice media has always been once of my absolute favorite classes with one of my favorite teachers. It's hard for me to accept that I will never be back in that classroom as a student. :(

Reflecting on this project I definitely can think of a lot of things because I learned a lot about a lot of things. I had to make so many adjustments that I am glad that I wasn't procrastinating at all because I needed all of the time I had to make everything just the way I wanted it. To start off, I chose to do the film promotional package because I believed that I was most interested in creating trailers so this would be the best option for me. It was rocky at some points, but I still believe I made the right decision. I struggled developing a plot, I began my project with many different ideas but never was truly happy with any of them until recently. At first, I wanted to create a production as an ode to the experiences that I go through related to ocd and misconceptions about it. After bringing this up to a lot of people, however, I realized that it was over my head. This is when I thought I could do a teen drama piece while still incorporating a love story. After the Corona Virus decided to occur and ruin my plans, I was at a total lose. I had no idea what to do at this point. This is when I started to get nervous. To fix this issue, I just began filming. This probably did end up wasting a lot of time but it ended up leading me to my idea which was to work with what I have and what I know. I made my film package about a girl who had her last year of competitive dance taken from her and she decided to take matters into her own hands and make her last dance be on her basketball court for her family to have closure on her dance season being robbed from her. 


What took me the longest and was the most difficult, aside from coming up with the idea, was honestly creating a clear brand across my trailers, website, and poster. Not all of the platforms I was working with had the same fonts and things so it was difficult matching everything but after lots of dedication I was able to do so. It was pretty difficult to learn how to successfully create a website and make it functioning and look realistic. That took me a lot of time. It also took me a lot of time to keep going back and tinkering with my poster because I wanted it to be just right. I am proud of myself for figuring everything out eventually and creating a piece that is special to me! I really hope you guys enjoy what I put together because it took a lot from me and it means a lot to me! 

Can't wait for you guys to see the final results!
Lina

Finishing Touches

Hi guys! Today I am putting the final touches on Trailer #1 and my poster!

I am going to share a little look at my screen during the editing process.

 I have been modifying all of the shots by manipulating some simple adjustments usually in the following fashion: higher brightness, more contrast, more saturation, cooler temperature.

For the shots of myself during her final dance moment I decided to add the dream effect which makes it very bright to make the moment feel surreal.

I want to try and establish consistency within my trailers so I will of course be using the same editing process within both. Some exciting news is that I have decided to edit both of my trailers using a cool pink grainy filter. This filter can be found on Prequel! I decided pink as a theme throughout my trailers and entire campaign because pink, to me, represents ballet which represents dance!

Katalina

Poster Preparation

For starters, I wanna say I am so happy we are finally here at this point to be considering the movie poster!

For fonts, I decided to match them as close or exactly to the fonts that are present in the movie trailer. This helps create a brand consistency.

(AMATIC SC and SACRAMENTO)

For the photo, I used a shot from the most meaningful moment within the film. This is an extremely significant moment for the main character which is why I thought it would be a good marker for the film to be remembered by.

For editing, I did the same type of editing that I used throughout the trailers which is higher contrast and higher brightness. I want everything to be casual and calm. This is the brand so it would be important to stay consistent within the trailer.

For the tagline, here are some options that I am going back and forth between:
She took her fate into her own hands.
Where some would give us she preserved.
For the love of dance.

I can't wait to disclose with you guys my final poster!

Looking forward to it,
Lina

Set design!

Hi so I know I mentioned a while ago I would be going off of what the set looked like in the show Euphoria. I have luckily been able to watch it with my new Hulu prescription to get a better feel for what is going on. For fonts, filters, and editing, I want everything to be simple and casual.

I am also gonna show you guys tonight a sneak peek of some raw footage!
Enjoy...

It may not make sense now but it will when you see the final product.

Thanks!
Lina

Website Creation

Hi so I created my website today!
Of course as I have mentioned in the past I would be using wix.

So it did take me a couple hours to figure out the whole website especially the font situation along with the colors because they had to match the poster and the trailer.

My website will have a lay out where I will use the picture from the movie poster but without any words on it, then when you scroll down you will be able to view the two trailers. The last component to the website is a little blurb of information about the production of the film including a link to this blog! Below I will include a couple of sneak peaks regarding the website in addition to the small blurb that I included about the production! It will look as follows:

Last Dance Behind the Scenes Blog

lina3711.blogspot.com

Last Dance is a beautiful and meaningful production. It was shot to depict a young senior in high school who has been devastatingly effected by the Corona Virus pandemic. Explore our site to get some behind the scenes look and view both trailers before this film comes to theaters on May 7th, 2020. For more inside looks, check out the link posted above for a blog created during production of Last Dance.


Thank you for tuning in!
Lina

Editing

I am luckily beginning to remember what gives me the most motivation, that is actually spending time in the editing process hearing the music and editing! So that is exactly what I have been doing. Here are some little sneak peeks of my work within the editor. :)

Hopefully this gives you guys a better idea of where I am at:) 

Also music update!!! I have finally solidified music for my project. The name of the music that I will be using for my first trailer is, "Run Until Your Wings Grow." I found this tune on youtube audio library with free royalty free music. (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1)

Doin' better!

Lina

Desperate times call for...

As we all know, being quarantined has thrown a knife into all of our backs and made it very difficult to continue the creative process. Today I am sharing with you guys a picture of me during filming where I had to set up my camera on top of some items to film myself in the mirror since I am the actor and my tripod was too high up for what I wanted in this shot. This was pretty much my only option, I do like the final product of this shot but it is unfortunate that I can't be with my cousin right now who was supposed to be the main character of my trailers.

Today's struggle that I am trying to come to terms with is that within my trailer, I am going to have to be acting. I hate my voice and I certainly hate acting so this should be fun.

Stay tuned,
Lina

Filming Frenzy!

I was able to begin my filming process!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next blog post, once I have cleared the storage on my computer so that I can upload my footage, I will be sharing some raw takes with you guys!

In the mean time, I am going to share my concept for the second trailer that I have come up with and my concept for the movie poster that I would like to share.

Side note: I would like to carry through my trailer a Euphoria inspired vibe because it really appeals to my age group. (Luckily I just bought a Hulu account so now I can actually watch Euphoria and gain inspiration from the series!)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8772296/?ref_=vp_back

SO for my cover I want it to be a picture of me sitting against a wall holding my phone. I will photoshop it to look like you can see the texts I am getting from my love interest River. I also want to be able to include a warning label to stay inside or not go outside somewhere on the poster but I may add that to my tagline. Additionally, I want to look pretty casual and not dressed up at all and with makeup all over my face a little bit.

Next for the second trailer I was thinking that instead of having the audio being my voice over and my love interest River's voice I would but the same visuals with a heavier reliance on title slides and music instead of voice overs.

Keeping ya up to date,
Lina

Title Time

Since we have cleared the air with our plot situation, finally I can buckle down and create a title and a tagline that will be put onto the poster! This may change as my plot develops.

Standing Title: Last Dance


Standing Tagline: Unclear as of now... Somewhere along the lines of "taking control of your fate."

Also I wanted to include a quick update:
I will also be utilizing short excerpts from the time that I had been able to spend within rehearsal with my team. These videos will be very short and also very blurry because in the way I will be using them they should be representing the characters dream.

I also have good news because as we know, we are on strict lockdown orders, I am unable to leave the house most of the time. Unfortunately, my camera has been at my brothers house since this whole thing started (since he has been staying with us during quarantine at my parents house).  Thankfully today we were able to take a drive over to his home about 30 minutes away and retrieve the camera so I am able to commence filming!

The timing is working out and I feel confident.

Keeping you updated,
Lina

Finally a breakthrough

I finally got a load of inspiration today to fix my plot.

So as I recently described my situation of not having access to literally any actors, I was forced to recreate a new plot for my film and reorganize the whole thing in my head. Of course, it pretty much had to be related to the current situation related to COVID-19 and quarantine. I did want to avoid relating it to this but I really did not have much of an option. Anyway, let us get right into the explanation to my new plot. I tried really hard to avoid the whole cliche love interest situation so enjoy.

I am going to be the main actress because I don't really have a choice here since I am very adamant about the target audience being my age group.

Therefore I see it fitting to introduce you guys to a picture of me!

Here is my senior picture!

So moving on,
My plot is relating to a girl (me) who has been a dancer her whole life.
She is a senior in high school so this is her last year of eligibility to be a dancer at her studio. She sees on the news that we are on lockdown and she realizes that her whole rest of her last year is canceled and therefore her last show is now going to be canceled. She is not sure what to do but she decides that she has to create her own last dance in order to get the closure that she needs to part ways with the art that she loves so much.

Stay tuned,
Lina