Extract Practice Essay- “24”

In the extract, “24”, the scene took place in an interrogation room. The director creates a suspenseful yet dramatic space between the two actors. The author is trying to conduct a tense tone between each character within the film. Therefore, displaying the true feeling and tone of an interrogation room. 

In the first scene, it opens up with a close-up of a woman in an interrogation room. the lighting in the room is very low which creates suspense. Eventually, the director uses the eye-line match to show the woman looking at the man walking in the room. While this is all happening, the director includes incidental music to intensify the scene. The director includes props as well. For example, when the man comes into the room, he drops a folder filled with papers on the table.  It leaves the audience questioning what is about to go on during the interrogation.   

In the next scene, the dialogue starts between characters. The topic at hand is a dangerous bomb that the woman knows about. The interrogator attempts to take control of the conversation to receive information about the bomb. As the interrogation continues, the director uses a shot-reverse-shot. The author's editing choice for this part helps the audience capture the passive mood coming from the actors.  

The directors use of camera movements, sound, editing, and misenscne was to create a sense of severity in the interrogation. The topic at hand was about a bomb, which the is a serious topic at hand. The characters dialogue about the bomb followed with the scenery and sound displayed shows that the director wanted to create an intense atmosphere appealing to the topic at hand. 

My Creative Critical Reflection Interview!

In this Creative Critical Reflection, I reflected on the start to finish of the movie. I created my CCR to be like an interview to make it more engaging. I also included inserts to make it more interesting. The CCR was interesting to make because I was able to show my editing skills as an individual.  

The Final Task!

From the beginning to the end of this movie, it brought my creative side out of all of the projects. I always wondered what it was like to create a movie and I'm happy that I was able to create one. Our storyboard was ten pages long of really good ideas. My group members and I collaborated on the movie really well. Luckily, we were all on the same page and we planned accordingly for things to go smooth. As a group, we were very impressed with the outcome.

A Very Fun Music Video!

The music video is one of my memorable moments in this class! Music is one of the things that I enjoy the most and to be able to create a music video to one of my favorite songs was really fun. It was a cool experience to plan out the storyline for the movie and actually filming it in the real world. It was my second project that we were assigned so far in the class and I was getting more comfortable with the editing software. As a group, we had a lot of fun creating the video.

My First Production: Nestle Commercial

 

  At the beginning of the year, I was assigned my first project. This project was the first time I was exposed to the editing software and learning how to edit. It was also my first time using a storyboard and creatively coming up with a story. Looking back, I learned a lot from the beginning of this class to right now. The commercial is a reminder of the progress that I made throughout the course.

Continuing the Editing Process

As the editing process continues, we worked on adding transitions to the first 58 seconds in the movie . So far, we had music, titles, and a movie title. We utilized transitions that were already on iMovie. For example, for the transition after the movie title we chose to do a dissolve. We also included a split screen. For the split screen we used a swipe for the transition. iMovie also had sound effects. They had a variety of sound effects to choose from. However, most of them were not needed for the movie. However, they did have a sound effect that we could use. We used the sound effect “Door Close”.

  For more insight, we looked on Youtube, for examples on how to use transitions on the software. We were interested on a few transitions. Some of these transitions were shattered glass, dissolve, black horizontal, and clock wipe. She also looked onto the sound effects that the software had to offer. After listening to a few, we were not intrigued by what they had. The sound effects were either exagerated or did not sound realistic. However, we came across one that we may consider which was the "Door close' sound effect. Due to the Coronavirus,  it’s been difficult to edit. We had to work together from home  because of social distancing. Luckily, we found a way to get all the footage from our own computers so that everyone will be able to edit.

Editing Day!

Today, we continued to edit our film. We transitioned to iMovie because of the unexpected closing of schools across broward county. Due to schools closing, we had no access to the computers that we previously edited our film on. This was a major setback because we had the editing process all over. We planned to split the editing so that everyone in the group can edit. So far, we were able to complete the first couple of scenes in the movie. We were very impressed with it but felt like it was kissing something. I searched on youtube for suspense background music. I found a perfect sound that would go great with the film.

Once I found the music, Kaliyah downloaded it so that we can import it to iMovie. After adding the music, it made the opening scene way more suspenseful. We were very impressed with the way the background music sound. Later, we added the titles. The titles that we added was the production company, title of the movie. and the characters names. Normally, movies would include these at the beginning. Luckily. iMovie was way more faster then pinnacle studios. We easily were able to add them into the movie and make any other changes. As a group, we watched what we had so far before we continued. Everything was looking good and we were able to move forward.

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