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Critical Reflection: Short Film Package

How do your products represent social groups or issues?   The easiest task for me and my group to complete when creating my group’s products was the representation of a social group. The social group represented in our media was the stereotypical American teenage friend group. This is easily represented through the short film’s props /setting , costumes and the characters behavior. In the short film, the first setting appears as a room belonging to a juvenile due to stereotypical props/decorations. Props in the room include neon lights, speakers, and instruments as well as other décor that is stereotypically in a teenager's room. Another stereotypical teenage attribute associated with the characters is their clothing/costumes. Two characters are wearing sweatpants and sweatshirts, these are typically associated with teenagers. The third character is wearing a beany hat which is also associated with youth. Next, the character's behavior clearly resembles that of

Short Film Package : Luke Hamill

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https://luke342711.wixsite.com/cantbethathardmovie Home Page https://www.canva.com/design/DAFeOy9KHsk/AcOgLOk3BnOu8FvTyZhG_A/edit?utm_content=DAFeOy9KHsk&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton Front Back https://youtu.be/jK-DBuZrNFg

Production Blog: Finishing Touches

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Today was the final day of production for my short film. Finally it was done! I was super excited to see my final short film in all its glory. All I needed was a few tweaks. Considering this, todays production wouldn’t take much time. After the peer review, I knew exactly what I needed to do today. Just a few touches that could be fixed through editing. I was lucky this was it so I didn’t have to get my group mates together and re-shoot everything. I started up my computer and opened up CapCut for the last time. I opened my movie and got to work. What I first started was improving the audio for some scenes. Some scenes audio was too quiet and you couldn’t hear dialogue. I fixed this by turning the volume up for this specific clip. I did this for around 3 clips. The next thing I did was fix brightness. It was the same concept as the audio but for brightness. All I needed to do was move the slider. Next, I changed the font for text. Before the font was a little corny but now it looked mo

Production Blog: Peer Review

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 After yesterday, my short film was all finished. I thought it was good and I was very satisfied. However, I needed to make sure it was as good as I thought. I started thinking how I could make sure it was good. I came up with the idea to ask a peer for review. I knew this peer had to be unbiased and truthful. So I asked an acquaintance who would have no reason to lie. I asked the peer and they ended up saying yes. I sent them over the film and asked them what they thought. It took them a couple days but they ended up responding. The information they responded with ended up being very valuable. They sent over some criticism and things they liked about the film. I looked through the message and carefully examined what they criticized. Luckily, all the criticism ended up being things I could fix through editing and I didn’t have to re-shoot. They had a lot of positive things to say about the film as well. This means the film was as good as I thought. I decided to fix all negative things

Production Blog: Editing Again

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 Yesterday, I didn’t complete editing my entire short film. So today, I resumed editing. I got on my computer and started up my editing software. The editing software I use is on CapCut. I went over all the editing I did yesterday. This way I could see where I left off and what needed to be done. I made a mental list of what needed to be done at the end of the day. Today was pretty much the last day of editing so I had to make sure everything was done. After all of that I began editing. I pretty much just did what I did yesterday but on different clips. I started with adjusting the clips to the correct length. This made sure there was no background noise or talking. This also made sure there was no awkward silences. I then added music. This really brought the short film together. After that, I added some text to the clips. I watched it all together to make sure it was correct. After that, I put on some finishing touches. This all took only about an hour. Overall today was another succe

Production Blog: Editing

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Today, I began editing my short film. I had plans for yesterday to edit but those plans were canceled. This means I had a larger work load today. I had more to edit today since I didn't edit yesterday. This wasn't a problem though because I was excited to finish editing. I was so excited to finish because I wanted to see what the final product of the short film looked like. I didn't have much to do and I was sure I would be able to fit it into two days. Today, I edited around half of the short film. I did all of Act I and about half of Act II. I began by putting the clips in order from beginning to end. I did this by dragging the one that came directly after a clip exactly to the right of that clip. I watched it through to make sure it was in the correct order. Next, I trimmed the clips to my liking. I made sure there wasn't any excess footage where someone was talking or there was background noise. Also, I had to make sure there was no awkward silences. I did the trimm

Production Blog: Cancelled Plans

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Today, our plans for production got canceled. We already had plans for multiple days to undergo production of our movie. Today was one of those day me and my group was supposed to under go production.  But, something ended up going wrong. This caused our plans for production to be canceled. Today I planned to begin editing my short film. I planned to edit on a free software called CapCut. I chose this software because it is super easy and simple to use. This was really important when choosing a software because I am not too familiar with this skill and wanted it to be easy for me. I also have used CapCut before in previous projects so I was familiar with how to use it. The main reason I chose this software is because it is free of cost to use. This is important because I am in high school and I would rather send my little money on other things. However, this doesn't matter for today because my planes ended up being canceled. They ended up being canceled for reasons that I wasn'