The Beginning of the End

 HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it's me!! 

My Like Third Reintroduction

     I am so excited to be back for my final Portfolio Project. I am truly SO excited to start this new project, and will be fully enthralled in the creation process of whatever I end up making. This was the project that I have been looking forward to begin since the start of the year, considering last year's was such a fulfilling and informative process.  It also gave me the chance to work with one of my best friends and practice the art (because it can very much so be an art) of collaborating and building off of each someone's ideas, and ultimately, after a WHORLDWIND, creating something we are both still extremely proud of. Every now and then I'll look back on the film intro be really proud of what we made, and excited to get the chance to create something with the same level of dedication and interest. If you want to read more about my AICE Media AS project overall experience, here is the link to my reflective end-of-year blog post. 

     For this year's Portfolio Project, I will be collaborating with my TWIN SISTER and creating a SHORT FILM!!!! I am SO EXCITED to get to do this, as we've created videos before for fun and helped each other out on our own projects, but have never gone out of our way to make something more "professional" that will be taken more seriously together. Considering we've been wanting to do something like this together for a very long time, we knew instantly we were going to work together and began thinking of ideas/ investigating film inspo references over the summer. I resorted to my Notes App and wrote down random ideas, themes, or even quotes that we would maybe end up implementing, but landed on some ideas regarding inspirations from other pieces to guide the energy of the piece we wanna make, from music to specific types of characters. 

   Project Guidelines

     In addition to the notes I made during my sister and I's meetings about ideas for the project (that we can have whenever we want because we are sisters!), I took Portfolio Project notes from an in-class presentation that cover the 4 different options that we can choose from for our Portfolio projects: Music promotion, film promotion, documentary, and short film. On top of that, the presentation went over this year's version of last year's Creative Critical Reflection, which for A level is an individually written 1000 word essay that answers 4 specific questions. Below are focused notes on this part of the project from earlier in the year, as my Midterm assignment answers the same 4 questions but in relation to a documentary project I completed. Here is the link to the essay, being my last blog post before this one.

    For the short film option, here are the specifics that we have to abide by:

• 5-7 minutes

• Animated or unanimated

• Audio has to be copyright free, if not note in blog if got rights to use it (ex: music, sound effects- mainly foley if can...)

• Print Component: Postcard Design of Ad that would given out at film festival 

• Digital Component: Social media page 

• Due date: April 9

    Below are pictures of notes I'll be referring back to for specific instructions on the project, which I'll definitely add on to in the next weeks as we learn about more for the digital and print aspects of the project:

                                                                  Portfolio Project notes

Reflection Notes

Priorities for our Thought Process

    Although nothing is set in stone at all right now, we are pretty set on combining comedy with another genre, although we are playing around on whether we want the comedic aspect to be less heavy and more weaved through/ a less emphasized part of the piece but with noticeable intention. While there's still ALOT to brainstorm and experiment with, here are a list of important thoughts/ questions that I wrote down from our conversations that I want to list as a reminder/ indicator of key priorities:

• Relatively shorter amount of time (5-7 mins): do something really cool with it (abnormal/ experiment with form of storytelling)
• Metaphorical/ impactful (like surfing op doc: short but impactful through production and story; stylistic, ex: Queer)
• What type of story do you wanna tell???
• Consistent theme, all tie back!
• Embrace all elements! Don't let dialogue be only form of communication to audience, speak through production choices.

    This is where my heads at right now, with probably my main goal being to experiment and try cool/ more abstract things in the way we tell the story we choose to tell. I want to have a strong personal connection with not just what we end up choosing for plot, characters, and the SCRIPT (very excited about writing), but also very meticulous choices regarding the way we choose to film and edit. THIS TIME WE ARE TAKING ALL OF SPRING BREAK TO EDIT because last time I had to rush and it was so stressful. With the time we will give ourselves to edit, we both really want to prioritize getting more involved with Adobe Features such as Color grading, focusing on our time management so that we can experiment without paranoia of due dates. 

    With all of that being said, I am really happy to be starting, and without further ado, LETS START THE SHORT FILM CREATIONNNN :)