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Critical Reflection

                                                                               Critical Reflection How do your products represent social groups or issues? 1-     My products where based and researched behind the topic of horror specifically about two incidents, kidnapping and murder. Both of these topics are real world issues that affect multiple people worldwide and are a cause for many people to end up depressed or even kill themselves. Well within the world of film certain movies will have topics based upon real world events, as my short film represents two of the most known horrific incidents caused around the world. My products of my social media accounts/website and 5-minute film portray these actions with pictures and dialogue. A picture can be seen on my website of a man tied up with duct tape fearing for his life, not only was this the premise to my story of one man trapped within a house with no way to escape, but it just brings effect to the sad and scary idea that something
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My Short Film Package

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Trapped https://youtu.be/zImE9XpCrcA Post Card (Front of the Post Card) (Back of the Post Card) Website link https://dylanravid101.wixsite.com/website Website Homepage
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Website/Social media updates + short film package

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Today was about finishing a process behind my website and social media accounts, specifically certain pictures. For these pictures they were made for the profile picture and also my main account picture for the website which is still in the works at the moment. I started by finding a painting within my house and taking a picture of it, as within my film the main item is a painting of a woman with no face. I tried to keep ties into my film with my social media accounts without going too far in depth of my actual film, and the process in creating the logo began within an editing phone app. The phone app I had used made it so that the formation and coloring of this picture could be edited to look as if the lady had no face. The painting itself wasn't changed so much, however as the size wasn't a great deal big the editing was able to be much different compared to my film. As far as my film goes, the painting used in the final scene was not only darkened with a flashlight to illumi
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Props revise

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           Today's blog will be about my steps to regather certain props for my film. Now this film is still in works from given spectator comments as well as my own personal opinion, so changing the props was necessary in the final film. The certain mistakes which played through the first take of the film came as not getting the correct clocks for the hallway scene, using the wrong version of blood, and getting a new mask/costume and painting. Now some of these weren't mistakes, however it was and will be improvements with the final week I have to work on this project. Getting straight into it I came across parts in my film where I knew it could have been better, both in filming and features. The hallway scene came to a surprise for me as I thought my work was perfect, but as I took a look back the clocks just weren't doing it. So as I mark down on my phone certain items to find while school ended I began the search for the perfect medium sized wall clocks. I checked multi
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Voice over/special effects

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                     To begin the process of my voice overs/audio inserts, I needed to have certain equipment and materials. My close friend provided me with a mic, and also was a great help with the music and special sounds. The mic's quality of sound performance was on key, however the audio for the monster was just my own voice but inserted onto a computer app and distorted. Luckily I had a friend who was an expert at technology and was able to adapt my voice in a voice simulator and change the frequency and accent. Step one of my progress was complete, of course it was all saved on separate files. Next I needed to record my own lines for each part of internal dialogue in my script which didn't take long. Each recording was saved in a separate file and then worked upon by myself and my good friend Eric to check for any mistakes in sound. There were a few bumps in the road when testing out the audio changer for the monster, certain recordings were becoming too loud and cracke
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Editing process on Laptop pt 3

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   This blog is going to elaborate on the finishing touches of both my edits on the scenes with props and without. In the past few days I have completed a majority of editing for both sections of my film and saved them on a drive. Today I worked upon completing and putting both sections together to create my final film within Imovie. FilmoraGo wasn't very useful in the end run and I decided not to go ahead and finish my film on that app. On Imovie I dragged all the footage I had edited and first looked at the length, which turned out to be around 5 minutes which is where we need it to be. Not over 6 and not under 5 so my length was at a reasonable size, then came time to rewatch for any errors. As I put each scene in the corresponding order in which my story board was created, I found that some transitions weren't going as smooth as I hoped it to be. Now this issue may come from the app itself, but as seen that I've used it before it meant that I needed to fix something. Th
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Editing process on Laptop pt 2

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                The next set of scenes which I needed to edit was my scenes which included props. Those scenes were shot after the scenes without and were given more time due to the immense amounts of retakes. There were about 10 duplicate shots taken for each scene which filled up my drive quite a bit and forced me to take action on looking through and deleting many. In the next few hours I decided to take a chance to look at all my scenes. I went ahead and deleted all of the unusable footage and kept all the ones worth editing. Each scene of course was put into the app, however I used a couple to see which one would come out the best. For the app itself I decided to use both Imovie and filmoraGo, in order to capture detail and see what effects are different between them. I started off by clipping the unused footage and taking out sound for the scenes which included voice overs. That process alone took quite a while since each scene that I used not only had one or two duplicated, but
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