Alright, alright, this is OFFICIALLY my last post. Here is my CCR for Z:
Thank you for everything!
Chey :)
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Creative Critical Reflection
Mood: Reflective
Alright, alright, this is OFFICIALLY my last post. Here is my CCR for Z:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53-pY3zYtEM
Thank you for everything!
Chey :)
Alright, alright, this is OFFICIALLY my last post. Here is my CCR for Z:
Thank you for everything!
Chey :)
All the Goods
Mood: Ecstatic
Well, you've waited long enough, and here it is: our 5-minute documentary extract, poster, and website! Hope you enjoy!
Documentary Extract:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMtJD18GhN4&feature=youtu.be
Final Poster:
Final Website:
wearegenzproject.weebly.com
Sincerely, a less amateur filmmaker,
Chey :)
Well, you've waited long enough, and here it is: our 5-minute documentary extract, poster, and website! Hope you enjoy!
Documentary Extract:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMtJD18GhN4&feature=youtu.be
Final Poster:
Final Website:
wearegenzproject.weebly.com
Sincerely, a less amateur filmmaker,
Chey :)
Final Farewell
Mood:
Hey there... the editing is finally done, and this is my final blog posting before y'all get the chance to feast your eyes on our amazing project. There have been many challenges in the creation of my final portfolio: iMovie being psycho, Kass and I being out of town on opposite weekends, having no storage space on my laptop, having no storage space on iMovie, having no storage space on my USB, BASICALLY HAVING NO STORAGE SPACE ANYWHERE AT ALL, etc.
However, completing my portfolio project was one of the most educational and rewarding experiences that I've ever had in my life. I've learned so much information this school year throughout the course, and much through this project. I challenged myself to be creative and risky, starting with the documentary idea. I have never created such an abstract project, much more one that focused on me. It was extremely challenging for Kass and I to plan it out but now that we've got this experience under our belt, we'll be much better next time.
Originally, I thought it would be difficult to work with my best friend on this type of project, and it was... JUST KIDDING!! It was actually super interesting to work with her because we think and learn in different ways. She thinks out loud while I think in writing, so she says a bunch of stuff and I write down a bunch of stuff related to her stuff, and it just works!
Overall, I can't wait to show off our project because we've put so much work into it, and we really think that it is a cool piece for us to have created. No matter what grade I receive, it cannot compare to the learning value that came with it. I hope you can see at least of portion of how much I've gained from research, production, and post-production through my blog, and I thank you for joining me during this great experience. I'm sad that it's over, but I'm ready to take on larger and even more weird projects in the future.
Gen Z rocks!
Chey :D
Hey there... the editing is finally done, and this is my final blog posting before y'all get the chance to feast your eyes on our amazing project. There have been many challenges in the creation of my final portfolio: iMovie being psycho, Kass and I being out of town on opposite weekends, having no storage space on my laptop, having no storage space on iMovie, having no storage space on my USB, BASICALLY HAVING NO STORAGE SPACE ANYWHERE AT ALL, etc.
However, completing my portfolio project was one of the most educational and rewarding experiences that I've ever had in my life. I've learned so much information this school year throughout the course, and much through this project. I challenged myself to be creative and risky, starting with the documentary idea. I have never created such an abstract project, much more one that focused on me. It was extremely challenging for Kass and I to plan it out but now that we've got this experience under our belt, we'll be much better next time.
Originally, I thought it would be difficult to work with my best friend on this type of project, and it was... JUST KIDDING!! It was actually super interesting to work with her because we think and learn in different ways. She thinks out loud while I think in writing, so she says a bunch of stuff and I write down a bunch of stuff related to her stuff, and it just works!
Overall, I can't wait to show off our project because we've put so much work into it, and we really think that it is a cool piece for us to have created. No matter what grade I receive, it cannot compare to the learning value that came with it. I hope you can see at least of portion of how much I've gained from research, production, and post-production through my blog, and I thank you for joining me during this great experience. I'm sad that it's over, but I'm ready to take on larger and even more weird projects in the future.
Gen Z rocks!
Chey :D
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
The Best Day EVER
Mood: Jocular
Editing:
Ha ha.. so guess what happened to me today? As I was editing, iMovie thought it would be the best idea ever to unexpectedly quit and delete all of my media and movies. My entire edited project? *Poof* I immediately googled how to remedy this issue and went digging through the deepest folders of my computer that I didn't know existed to fix it. I found this lifesaving help thread that suggested duplicating the file I had previously (that showed as inactive when I clicked "file info"), and creating a new library on iMovie. The only issue was that my startup disk was out of space, so I couldn't duplicate the enormous file! I spent 2 hours transferring pictures, videos, and documents to Google Photos, Google Drive, and several USBs until I could finally copy the file, and the doc came back! However, none of my other projects did, but oh well. That's a later problem.
Anyhow, after that rough point, I got back to editing. Kass helped add some of the new shots we had taken a few days prior for B-roll, going through to find what was useable. She also found some good music called "North" that fit for the end of the doc, as the new music I found, "Always Hopeful," did not fit well through the entire second segment. Again, we used Youtube's Audio Library (my go-to) for this copyright free music. The music works really well together to switch tones with the narration, and I'm layering the end and beginning of each song on top of each other while fading them in/out, respectively, to allow for a smooth transition.
Editing has been extremely hard for me with this project because the shots are abstract, and it's hard for me to figure out what matches different parts of the narrative. I have all of the useable shots (every useable piece extracted from larger clips with random shaking/blip trimmed out) in my editing doc, but ordering them to line up with the narration has been messy. I've had to split parts of the narration to link them to different visuals, which I learned the hard way, otherwise the narration would be disjointed and out of order every time I delete or move a shot. Anyhow, I've gotten the hang of it and go through it second by second; I've familiarized myself with all of the shots I have to work with, so now I put a shot or black background where I feel necessary, the background there to hold a space for a possible shot. As of now, the doc is projected to end at around 5 minutes and 4ish seconds.
Website:
As for our progress with the website, Kass has been doing tons of research and writing for it. She told me about this cool thing called the "Street Team" that Fueled By Ramen uses to promote their bands, and she suggested we create our own to promote our doc, as well as encourage Gen Zers to be themselves and get involved in their communities. We took turns editing each other's stuff for the website, but Kass worked more with the site and had a better grasp over how Weebly worked, so she did a lot of formatting for the images and text. By the way, we changed our link to wearegenzproject.weebly.com and changed this on our movie poster as well. We felt that it was better than the previous link because before it sounded like We Are Gen Z was our doc title. This way, it shows that we have a cause and our doc is just one part of it all.
See ya soon with our final products!!
Chey :)
Editing:
Ha ha.. so guess what happened to me today? As I was editing, iMovie thought it would be the best idea ever to unexpectedly quit and delete all of my media and movies. My entire edited project? *Poof* I immediately googled how to remedy this issue and went digging through the deepest folders of my computer that I didn't know existed to fix it. I found this lifesaving help thread that suggested duplicating the file I had previously (that showed as inactive when I clicked "file info"), and creating a new library on iMovie. The only issue was that my startup disk was out of space, so I couldn't duplicate the enormous file! I spent 2 hours transferring pictures, videos, and documents to Google Photos, Google Drive, and several USBs until I could finally copy the file, and the doc came back! However, none of my other projects did, but oh well. That's a later problem.
Anyhow, after that rough point, I got back to editing. Kass helped add some of the new shots we had taken a few days prior for B-roll, going through to find what was useable. She also found some good music called "North" that fit for the end of the doc, as the new music I found, "Always Hopeful," did not fit well through the entire second segment. Again, we used Youtube's Audio Library (my go-to) for this copyright free music. The music works really well together to switch tones with the narration, and I'm layering the end and beginning of each song on top of each other while fading them in/out, respectively, to allow for a smooth transition.
Editing has been extremely hard for me with this project because the shots are abstract, and it's hard for me to figure out what matches different parts of the narrative. I have all of the useable shots (every useable piece extracted from larger clips with random shaking/blip trimmed out) in my editing doc, but ordering them to line up with the narration has been messy. I've had to split parts of the narration to link them to different visuals, which I learned the hard way, otherwise the narration would be disjointed and out of order every time I delete or move a shot. Anyhow, I've gotten the hang of it and go through it second by second; I've familiarized myself with all of the shots I have to work with, so now I put a shot or black background where I feel necessary, the background there to hold a space for a possible shot. As of now, the doc is projected to end at around 5 minutes and 4ish seconds.Website:
As for our progress with the website, Kass has been doing tons of research and writing for it. She told me about this cool thing called the "Street Team" that Fueled By Ramen uses to promote their bands, and she suggested we create our own to promote our doc, as well as encourage Gen Zers to be themselves and get involved in their communities. We took turns editing each other's stuff for the website, but Kass worked more with the site and had a better grasp over how Weebly worked, so she did a lot of formatting for the images and text. By the way, we changed our link to wearegenzproject.weebly.com and changed this on our movie poster as well. We felt that it was better than the previous link because before it sounded like We Are Gen Z was our doc title. This way, it shows that we have a cause and our doc is just one part of it all.
See ya soon with our final products!!
Chey :)
AGHHHHHH
Mood: IRRITATED... ha ha ha
Okay, so, there's this girl named Cheyenne who is just not that great at graphic design, and she attempts to create a film poster for her documentary. Also, she has this super great and fun idea that would look totally great if she could get it going, yet life isn't feeeeling that right now. Let's just say this girl searched tirelessly, for hours, how to use a basic program like Microsoft Word to put text inside of a large letter made from WordArt.
She's got this letter:
And this text:
AND NO WAY TO PUT THEM TOGETHER. This is what the fantastic Microsoft Office gave me instead:
Honestly, not seeing how this would be useful to me in any way, but oh well. It would be problematic because the text would distract and take away from the title and the other information we would add (such as director, release date, etc). I tried this link, and this one, and this one, and oh yeah, this one... plus, I tried to use A TON of word cloud sites, but it wouldn't let me change the shape for a lot of them, so it didn't help.
Finally, by some miracle, I decided to use Pages for my endeavor. To my pleasure, I had the chance to draw my own shape (the beautiful "Z" seen below), and I was able to fill it with a screenshot I had taken of the text. What a great discovery and I didn't even need a tutorial!! #proud Usually Pages isn't helpful when I do these sorts of projects because it has a lot less features than other programs, but Pages is redeemed in my heart. Here is what I was able to create:
Isn't it beautiful :'). Originally, I had screenshotted the "Z" to use an online template for creating the movie poster, but that didn't work out because the background was white for the "Z", and I couldn't remove it without some sort of Photoshop tool. So, I decided to play around with canva because it was easier to use overall, and it gave me more options. I decided to send the "Z" to Kass's laptop so that she could use mine to edit while I designed the poster, and I transferred it directly from Pages (and the background became transparent)!!! It was great because now I know how to do that if I need to. Also, I was able to use backgrounds for the poster.
One our inspirations for movie posters was That Awkward Moment because we found it to be fun, colorful, and similar to our idea for our own. Since we changed the title of our film from We Are Not Who You Think We Are to Z, we wanted to use our original idea as a slogan, which That Awkward Moment also has. When I discussed the poster ideas with Kass, we both agreed that we wanted a color in the background that would pop with the white Z, and as a huge fan of the color blue, I immediately went for it. We found kind of a gradient background that darkens as it goes down, and it definitely makes the title stand out.
Okay, so, there's this girl named Cheyenne who is just not that great at graphic design, and she attempts to create a film poster for her documentary. Also, she has this super great and fun idea that would look totally great if she could get it going, yet life isn't feeeeling that right now. Let's just say this girl searched tirelessly, for hours, how to use a basic program like Microsoft Word to put text inside of a large letter made from WordArt.
She's got this letter:
And this text:
AND NO WAY TO PUT THEM TOGETHER. This is what the fantastic Microsoft Office gave me instead:
Finally, by some miracle, I decided to use Pages for my endeavor. To my pleasure, I had the chance to draw my own shape (the beautiful "Z" seen below), and I was able to fill it with a screenshot I had taken of the text. What a great discovery and I didn't even need a tutorial!! #proud Usually Pages isn't helpful when I do these sorts of projects because it has a lot less features than other programs, but Pages is redeemed in my heart. Here is what I was able to create:Isn't it beautiful :'). Originally, I had screenshotted the "Z" to use an online template for creating the movie poster, but that didn't work out because the background was white for the "Z", and I couldn't remove it without some sort of Photoshop tool. So, I decided to play around with canva because it was easier to use overall, and it gave me more options. I decided to send the "Z" to Kass's laptop so that she could use mine to edit while I designed the poster, and I transferred it directly from Pages (and the background became transparent)!!! It was great because now I know how to do that if I need to. Also, I was able to use backgrounds for the poster.
One our inspirations for movie posters was That Awkward Moment because we found it to be fun, colorful, and similar to our idea for our own. Since we changed the title of our film from We Are Not Who You Think We Are to Z, we wanted to use our original idea as a slogan, which That Awkward Moment also has. When I discussed the poster ideas with Kass, we both agreed that we wanted a color in the background that would pop with the white Z, and as a huge fan of the color blue, I immediately went for it. We found kind of a gradient background that darkens as it goes down, and it definitely makes the title stand out.
That's all for now,
Chey :)
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