CCR Question #2

 CCR Question #2

     How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

   My film engages with the audience by providing psychological elements, such as giving the audience an insight to Dr. Hank's mind, and why he thinks the way he thinks, and why he does the things he does. It would make the audience connect with him, even if it's in a negative way. Another way in which my film could engage with the audience is by making them questions medicine, and question doctors, and their intentions. It would make them wonder how many doctors are just in it for the money. Doctors are seen as heros, and they are, but some of them don't care about their patients or their health, they only care about the money. 

     

     I will distribute my film as a real media text by first trying to get it in a film festival, like the Miami Film Festival https://miamifilmfestival.com/ to enter this festival you submit your film and wait for it to get approved, the festival happens April 3-13, which gives the audience 10 days to watch the movie there. Another way in which we would try to get it distributed is by trying to get it on bigger platforms, such as Netflix and Prime Video, this would be amazing because everyone uses these platforms, so getting our film there would be huge for us. 

CCR Question #1

 CCR Question #1 

     Hi blog! Today I'm starting my posts about CCR, I'm honestly a little scared about it since we have such little time and I'm also not the most creative person... We need two videos and they both answer two CCR questions, and we have to make our videos unique and something that represents us. I'm in mock trial and I want to be a lawyer so I thought I could do my first CCR video as if it is a court trial, where I'll be a witness and my lawyer will ask me questions, and two of them will be the CCR questions. For my second idea I thought I could do something related to football, since I'm the assistant manager for my school's football team, but I don't know how to relate that to being a film producer, I also thought about making a hand-held video where I'm stuck somewhere, and I'm going to be talking to the outside world, as if I'm not going to make it out alive, and talking about my movie. I still don't know which of the two I'm going to choose, but as soon as I do, I'll post about it!

     How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? 

   My film is about a doctor, called Dr Hank Shabata, who keeps his patients sick for his own personal pleasure. The genre is suspense and horror, we portray these genres in our two minute opening by using darker lighting, suspense audio, and by not giving too much information on the actual film, which creates suspense. 

   One social issue that this movie presents is that it critiques the healthcare system. It represents how sometimes doctors or pharmacies prioritize profit over their patient's well-being. It also represents the power and control that some people have over others. Doctors are seen as an authority figure, they are extremely intelligent and of course their patients will do wha they tell them to to get better, but they can use that to their advantage, keeping the patients dependent on them and powerless, making them listen and obey to what they say, even if it's keeping them sick, they won't know. The patients represent vulnerable people, they do what the doctors say because they believe that's what its best for them, obviously, they're doctors, their job is to make their patients feel better, but some doctors don't want that, they just want money. 

     

Post-Production Post #2 Editing

 Post-Production Post #2 Editing 

     Hey blog! This is my second and last post-production post where I'll be talking about our editing process. To be completely honest, me and my group procrastinated editing quite a bit. None of us are good at it nor do we enjoy doing it, so this was really the part we were least excited for, and to be honest, a little scared for. Of course we're not going to let our fear of failure keep us from being successful. Every time I told myself I was scared for how it would turn out, I would tell myself to never be scared of success, for you to get something right, you have to first get it wrong, that's how we learn and grow. All of us we're dreading starting this process, but once we started, we realized that it wasn't as bad as we thought it would be, and we actually did a good job. 

     Since we are editing on my iPad, and there's no way to share the project to edit together, I gave Isa my iPad so she could edit some things. She cut the clips shorter, added the title, added the production company, and added more audios.

     She also added some special effects, one  special effect that she added that I really liked is when we drop food coloring in the beaker, the clip shows the beaker alone, and a drop of blue food coloring falling into it, and Isa made it reverse at the end, which I thought looked really cool. 

     

Post-Production Post #1 Editing

 Post-Production Post #1 Editing 

     Hi everyone! We're now starting our post production posts and I'm going to be talking about our editing process. 

     The first thing me and my group did after recording our two minute film opening, was review the clips and see if they were good enough and if when added together, the time came close to two minutes. We then picked the clips that we decided to use, and cut then to make them shorter if necessary, or muted them if necessary. 

     Me and my group all don't really like or are good at editing, so we decided to divide and conquer! I would be responsible to adding everything together on the app, which we are using Premiere Rush, Gigi is responsible for creating the production company logo, and Isa is responsible to creating the credits. 

     I started by adding all the clips we wanted into the app. I then used music to find an eerie audio for the background of our opening, after picking the audio I wanted, I inserted it into the app. This was how we started our editing process. 

 Pixabay. “Pixabay.” Pixabay.com, 2024, pixabay.com/music/.

Production Post #4

 Production Post #4

     Hey Cambridge! This is my last post about our production process! 

     For this post I'm going to explain step by step what we did and how we did it. First we chose a day to film, we spent about 6 hours working on it. We set everything up, got our props out and set them up at the table, we got the lighting we wanted and set up the ring light. 

     The first scene we filmed was outside, it's actually the last scene in our opening, but we filmed it first because we needed it to be light out to represent Dr. Hank Shabata going to work in the morning. We used a box of baby wipes to serve as a stand for the tripod to stand over, we then recorded. This scene was my dad, who played Dr. Hank Shabata, walking out of his house for work, and he receives a call from the hospital saying that there was an emergency. After that we started filming everything inside of the garage. We recorded multiple shots, they were all close ups. They showed Dr. Hank making the pills, writing on his notebook, mixing substances, setting up powder, and adding a marble to a jar. After that we also recorded clips in which we didn't need Dr. Hank, they were just short clips of the materials he uses and memories he has. We showed the materials layer out, a baby photo of Dr. Hank, his notebook, and the jars, and that's how our production went. 

Production Post #3

 Production Post #3

      Hey everyone! For this post I'm going to talk about lighting. Lighting is super duper important, lighting can actually convey feelings and emotions, so we really tried to pick the right hues and tones for our opening. 

     For our two minute opening we had to think a lot about lighting, since we're doing a mystery/horror film, we needed lots of dark lighting. We decided to record in my garage for it to be super dark, and we used a ring light so the light would be very close to the table and props that we were using. For some shots we turned off every light, and placed the phone flashlight under the prop we wanted to show, for exampled we used this technique to show the marble, Gigi help the phone right under the clear marble to create an effect and to be able to see the light through the marble, we also used this to show the blue and red liquid mixing in a different flask, we placed the phone under the flask, and when the liquids dropped you could see the colors change. We also used a red light to create fear, red is associated with danger and energy, and we thought it would be the perfect color to convey these emotions on the audience. We want them to be scared and wonder what the doctor is doing, but we also want them to be excited for what comes next, so red was the perfect color for this. We used red mainly on the shots that we just show the props, not the shots that the doctor is making the pills, to create a contrast between the two types of lighting. 

Production Post #2

 Production Post #2

     Hey there again blog! For this production post I'm going to talk about how we set everything up. 

     When my group first got here, we opened all the materials and set them up themselves. We put the name tags on the jars, set up the pill making kit, wrote on the notebook, and the flasks with colored water in them. Then we set it all up together on this table that I have in my garage. Wept the marbles in the jars, put flour to make it look like drugs, set up the pill making kit as well as put some pills laying around, we set up the notebook with information on a patient and a photo of the patient glued to the page, we put the two flasks with colored water, one red and one blue, and one we just left it with water, we didn't add any color. 

   

     These are two photos of our set up process and what all the props looked like.