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Critical Reflection of My film Making Process

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    Link to Document  My film represents the life of teenage girls and how awkward it can be to exist in our society. Making friends and putting yourself out there is often difficult. It can be seen as cringy or weird to do so, and the film displays that perfectly. The girls start as complete strangers, and by chance, they meet in an elevator. They go on a treasure hunt throughout the city and form a friendship as they discover clues. The movie is awkward and not the best I’ve made taking this class, but I believe it shows the cringy, awkward vibes all teenagers face when meeting new people. This also shows how the chance to meet a new person can become good, even if there is an awkward start. The film represents the uncomfortable feelings we face in the teenage years and how they are only a moment in time. The sentiment is often rooted in teenagers’ social anxiety because of the intense hormones flowing through our bodies during those years. It’s usually not talked about, even though
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Short Film Package - Chance Encounter

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Website Link:  The Website Screenshot: Post Card Link: The Postcard   Front: Back: Film  Link:       The Film Video: 
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The Last Touches

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  Now is the time for the last  few touches on the film. I still needed to address the lighting issues from the film review. There was some glare on a few clips and a few dull sections. So, we turned down the brightness in the clips and adjusted the exposure. This took care of the glare. Then we did the opposite. We turned up the brightness and adjusted the exposure and contrast with gave the brightness needed. This took care of the last aesthetics of the film. But it was time to move on to the last aspect… the titles. We started by going onto CapCut and picking out different fonts we liked. Then narrowed down that list to 1 that we all agreed on. We ended up going with the Font called Mokgech. It’s a traditional medieval-looking font that sparked a feeling of adventure. We are going to use black as the font color. And they’re all going to come in and exit the same way at the bottom right corner. There is a fade effect applied to help with the subtle look. It’s our preferred style beca
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Changes in the Mix

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   Now, it was time to apply the feedback to the film. Today, I wanted to focus on editing the audio and transitions. The audio comments were still frustrating because of how much effort I had put in. But I knew it was my responsibility to fix the mistakes.   So, I went back to my process of slicing the audio and attempting to separate the wind from the dialogue. It turned out as good as I could get it. I had put in so many hours and could not give any more. There was only so much we could do. For one scene, we were able to use a voiceover. But fighting the wind did not work because we couldn’t get the audio matched up to the conversations.  We cut some more time for the transitions so they would line up better. This got us to our perfect time, which made us excited. Also used a filter in our editing software to help blend scenes well.  It’s called mix. It’s very subtle and blends the scenes nicely. The other thing that assisted with transitions was the changing of audio. Once it s
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The Short Film Review

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   We had just recently completed our audio, and before we moved on to add titles, we needed our film to be reviewed. It’s important to have a new set of eyes review your project after you’ve been staring at it for so long. They can pick up mistakes you cannot because you’re rolling over them. So, we left it up to our friends, who can be very brutally honest with us.   The biggest changes our friends decided we needed to work on was the lighting, audio, and transitions. This was especially frustrating after the work I had just put in to try to make the audio less terrible. But I couldn’t help but agree. You could still hear the wind pretty badly over the dialect in many scenes. They also made the comment it felt jumpy. We took that as if the transitions were not as smooth as they could be. That is another completely valid argument. We did not work to blend the scenes as best as we could. They also mentioned that there was some glare in a few scenes. This was a struggle we experienced
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My Time to Shine

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   The time has come for my favorite section, the audio. It’s my strongest skill in the group, so naturally, it’s my favorite. The first step to audio editing is extracting and analyzing the sound from each clip. I have to go segment by segment to ensure we have clean and crisp-sounding audio. As previously mentioned, we had terrible luck with audio during filming.  This was very difficult for me, but I succeeded to the best of my abilities.   So, when you extract the audio, you can slice the clips to remove pieces that won't work for you. It was a tedious process that took me at least 8 hours. I have to listen with both headphones in so I can pick up the background noises if there are any. Once I’ve cleaned them up to the best of my ability, I have to make sure the audio matches what’s on the screen. This is very difficult with dialect. You can only tweak it so much before the words are out of sync with the mouth movements. Once that tedious process is done, I must layer in soun
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Clips and Time Crunching

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   Now that we’ve finished filming, it’s time to head to our tried-and-true editing app, CapCut. We’ve used this for every project, and I’d like to think we were successful. The first step is adding the clips into the software in order. Despite how simple this may seem, searching through all the videos is difficult. We have to make sure it’s the right clip and place it in the right spot regarding the order. Then it’s time to eliminate time. That’s the most heartbreaking part. You spend hours acting, getting lines, and making sure your costume is correct. Only to have to cut scenes because they take us over time.   When we put the original clips together, we had 7 minutes and 42 seconds. A lot of time is extra. We start filming slightly before and slightly after to make we catch everything. So that cuts down a good chunk of time. Then we must speed up certain clips for the movie, which eliminates a lot more time. Then, we start to determine which scenes are unnecessary after the movie
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