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Creative Critical Reflection - Final Task

 1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues?  Answer:       This product utilizes conventions in horror and thriller movies. We used camera angles, music, editing, and dialogue that are commonly used in movies like this. For example, this product has scenes that are close-ups which are used in horror films to show fear in characters or to show what may be happening to change the viewer's focus while watching. In this scene right here we used a close-up to show the killer show that the audience can feel how close the killer was to the main character without her knowing. Almost as a dramatic irony. When the characters don't know what may be going on but the audience does. Overall, the product was truly a thriller because of the amount of suspense it had. Each scene kept building up which is usually what horror/thriller films use. But it does challenge conventions because of costumes. In this scene here the two cops didn
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Wake Up - Final Task

Hey y'all! This is my final task. Overall, I am super happy about this and I hope you guys are too. Hope you enjoy!
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Re-Edit: Final Task

 Hey y'all! welcome back to my blog! Today we are re-editing. Maybe I would put an exclamation mark after that sentence but let me tell you... it takes a long time to edit. Am I excited? yes and no. But the only thing that's keeping me going is the fact that after this we are DONE with the final task! Ok, first things first we had to change the audio. I know I'm sad too because I felt like I found the most perfect audio on YouTube. The reason for this change is because I was making sure it was copyright free and I guess it's not? I mean the title on the video says it is but I checked the comments and got so upset. People said when they used this for their videos they got a copyright strike so I went with my gut and chose a different copyright audio. Then after screen recording the new audio I applied it to the film. It actually went way better with the video than the previous audio I used. Another thing I did was that I applied a green screen effect to the news reporter
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Re-Shoot: Final Task

     Hey y'all! We are getting super close to the deadline for the final task! Although I said that the video was ready to go there, I kept re-watching it and noticing the little things that my group and I wanted to change. I talked about it with the group and everyone else agrees. I wanted to change the 8th and 9th scene. This is because in the 8th scene. I'm talking to the cops and you can see my super unserious face originally. Aidan kept messing up his line and it was super funny and the original time we filmed I kept laughing until he got it right. I pointed this scene out and we got right to planning for the next time we will meet to re-shoot it. The next day after school we met up at my house again. We got into our original outfits we had on and got right to re-shooting scene 8. After what felt like MANY tries... we finally got it right. Am I super satisfied with this scene? meh. But I'm glad we pointed out something that bothered us and took effect to change it. You
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Peer-Reviewed Final Task!

       What's up y'all! Now that we have our final task completed it is time to show it to others! I had 3 of my friends fully watch it. My friends Mela, Lindsay, and Emerson. They too just completed their film and also asked me to review there's and lets say that there's was amazing! But now I asked for their opinion on mine.       First I showed my friend Lindsay. The video started and she said that she loved our title and credits font. Her reasoning behind this was because it truly brought the film together. Another thing she said was that she loved my acting. It was funny in most parts but she couldn't imagine someone else doing it.       Second I showed my friend Mela. She was kind of confused about the plot in the beginning but in the end she understood. She said she loved our editing and effort we put into it.       And lastly I showed my friend Emerson, and she LOVED it. She said that she loved our audio because it made it more eerie. She too didn't know
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Music: Choosing Audios

 Hey y'all! Last addition to the editing portion of the final task! I was doing research on the music that was going to apply to the Final Task. I used many websites, but deciding to stick with what I knew would be the best, it needed to be found on YouTube. I searched for royalty free music and boy oh boy there were MANY to choose from. However, I was stuck between two sounds. One being a constant beat like a timer and the other having suspense in the sound as time went on. Although it was a tough decision to make between me and my group, my group members and I came agreed to choose the second one. The reasoning behind this choice, was simple. It fit the plot of our film and plot better. The first choice was a little to fast paced, meaning that it wouldn't have fit the video. It was also very loud, so it would be hard to both insert and hear non-diegetic sounds. On the other hand, the second one was quiet, but added that suspenseful aspect that I was looking for in the film. A
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Editing: Sound Effects

 Hey y'all! Welcome to part 2 of editing for the final task! Today we are doing sound effects. Things are running great and flowing smoothly. Trimming and transitions are done so we have that out of the way. But now it's time for sound effects. Kylie took the job of doing the sound effects but I wasn't familiar with editing sound effects so I applied my current knowledge to help her as well. The plan was to identify the suspenseful or comic relief scenes. This way we can find sounds on YouTube or online to add to the footage. This took a bit of time but about an hour later we found our sound effects. We used iMovie to apply the sound effects to our final task again. Sound effects took time to apply because it required to be on point and specific with timing. After many rewatches and time I basically know my video in and out. This was a very good thing because it helped me understand our power struggle but it helped me a lot with editing! I also had to do more trimming becau
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