Yaneli Z.

 I'm so excited to finally present the final product. Below is the opening please enjoy!

      I am so excited to say that we're almost finished with our opening. The last touches are getting done and it's basically done. However, in this blog I'm going to talk about any extra updates from the past few days. There are a few things we came across. On the last blog, I talked about the news script and what I wrote. The plan was to do a voiceover on the video with the news script. The television in the background was going to be the source of the news. It was supposed to be blurred and that is when the voice over would come in as background noise. However, due to lack of time, the voice over couldn't be done so we collectively decided to scrap that idea. Basically, the script no longer has any use. This kind of blows because the news would have given some background extra information that helped the audience if they payed attention. Fortunately, the news wasn't essential to the story and the opening is the same without it. It would have been a nice touch th

  Hii! My group and I have the filming completed for our video. Today consisted of reviewing, editing, and coming up with a script for the background news voiceover.  I got my future plans in order as I was getting disordered about my plans. I wrote everything I needed to write down and I made a list of what I needed to do. Here, I also added extra homework and classwork from different classes so I can properly manage when I can get things done. When things are in order I feel much at ease and like I can work on my blogs stress free and I feel like that is the best mindset to work with. So this was something I felt like I had to do before getting started on my work. I worked on the script for the news. Since we have a thing going about the electrical bill being high, I was aiming for news about global warming and how it connects with rising electrical bills. I did some background research on global warming when I remembered something fits perfectly with what the opening is about.  In s

Hello!       Todays blog will be about getting an outside point of view for the opening sequence. The point of the film review is to understand how the audience may feel. Since I'm part of production, I'm not going to look at the opening with the same view as others. I went around the cafeteria on Friday and asked people for their opinions and I went to my sister and asked what she thought as well.       I tried asking people who didn't seem busy as lunch time is also time many do their own work or talk with friends and don't want to be disturbed. I looked for people I was acquainted with or familiar with. One of the many criticisms I got was that the cuts were choppy or the cuts were too noticeable. Someone even said, "It feels like I'm eating something but I'm never full." I'm not sure about the word choice but I can kind of understand what they meant. It was funny to me when I heard that. Another thing that was mentioned was that the staircase s

  Hi there! The last I filmed was on Saturday. When I left I knew that there were scenes that still needed to be filmed but I wasn't sure if they were completed or not. I am  now aware that one of my teammates was able to film what was missing the day after on Sunday. So, it was just them and the actor. I wish I was there to watch the process and participate but I wouldn't have been able to go because of family matters. However, I am relieved that the hardest part is completed and we can move to editing.  Also, I did see the final product minus the titles. It was done so well and much better than I thought. I was worried that we would have to rush on some scenes because time felt so little. Especially when some of us couldn't meet on certain days. But when I saw what we came up with and the scenes my teammate did themselves, I am impressed and happy to turn it in. My team and I celebrated our achievement and we're proud for how it came out. We must add the titles to our

  Hello! This week was spring break where we get a week off school. For the most part I didn't do a lot of schoolwork during the break. However, I did organize the order of the future blogs I need to do.    I was slightly confused because it felt like I had a lot of blogs to write but little to talk about. So, I use the time I had for my break to help myself and sort out what I'm going to be writing about. I am required to have 10 production blogs explaining the process of our filming. So far, including this blog, I have 5 production blogs completed. The production blogs I have so far are: the required music blog, a blog explaining preparations, and two filming blogs, plus this one. For the last five blogs, it gets a little bit different. I have an editing blog planned. It won’t be any different from previous editing blogs. However, we are going to do a film review blog where we show our progress to someone who isn’t doing the AICE Media Opening Sequence Project. This is how we