Since my last blog post was about my group meeting, I will be mixing this blog up. Instead of talking about question two I will be talking about questions two and three so that I can talk about the other questions throughout this week. Also a little update on my project is that throughout this week? I will be working on making the title a bit more readable and better looking and I will be adding the credits and music. Overall, I will also be trying to make it to two minutes.
Just like I did in the last blog about question one I will be breaking down each question first is question two. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? To break down this question I first have to know what my target audience is. Who is this project meant for? This project is for all types of people, but I want this project to be more targeted towards younger people like teenagers or young adults. I also want this project to be targeted toward Latinos and other races related to Hispanic culture. Even though my film does not seem to be relating to that type of audience, later on if I were to continue the film, I would want to integrate something like that. But obviously, my actors are Hispanic so I feel like that will appeal more to other Hispanic people. Now I must figure out my engagement techniques. How do you emotionally or intellectually connect with the audience? In my project, I feel that I am emotionally connected with the audience by showing a young couple in a rough part of their relationship. The emotions and the actions of the people in the relationship, emotionally connect with people, especially those who have gone through similar experiences or are getting to the point in their life where this could happen. I feel that the characters and the setting are relatable to a few people. The visuals also could get audiences connected to the real feelings of the scenes. Lastly, I must see if my film opening has a message and impact. What do you want the audience to take away from it? Does it inspire, inform, or entertain? I want my audience to understand that life can be hard, but it can be mended back to how it was before. I also know that being in a relationship can be difficult at times and things like this will happen but fixing things like using communication can help. I feel that this film opening could inspire others to take action in their relationship if it is getting to this point but of course, the film opening is to entertain people as well. The story and the script were formed to entertain others. Now the second part of the second question has to do with distribution. How would it be distributed as a real media text? My project would be accessed through Google Drive through the public view setting, but I would also like to put it on YouTube if I deem it good enough or I may unlist and share the link. If it were a real film, I would have imagined it to be shown probably on HBO Max, or shown in a film festival that possibly focuses more on Latino culture like the Latino International Film Festival. If I felt like it was good enough I could’ve also submitted it to go on the lightning film festival at Cypress Bay.
Now it’s time to talk about the third question. How did your production skills develop through the project? I feel that my production skills did improve slightly. I am always producing films/media for CBTV but when I produce things, they are not short films like these they are more like news segments. I miss doing short films like these, but I of course forgot lots of ways to do certain things so I feel that I improved and relearned lots of things that I’ve done in the past. First reproduction, I feel that for my script thing, I got it back to how it was because for CBTV the scripts they make me don’t have to be as professional as the ones that I made for the film opening so I had to relearn how to do a script like that since I have not done it in a while. I did learn more about how to do a more dialogue-focused script because the ones that I’ve done in the past are more focused on scenery and shots. For production, I feel that I improved on shots with lighting because usually I feel that I struggle with that but luckily, I had a light kit and natural lighting that helped make the lighting within my film much better than it would without those things. I also feel that I improved my cinematography because I had to learn to use my phone to film, which is something that I usually don’t do. My directing also improved because usually on CBTV films, I get actors who are in CBTV so they know what they are doing or I am the actor, but this time I had rookie actors who did not know what to do or struggled. I was able to help direct them towards the way I wanted to film the goal and how they should act within it. For post-production, I feel that I did not really improve because I used lots of the skills that I already knew about editing for editing my project. The only thing that I did improve on was that I learned how to do sound muffling. I searched for how to do it on YouTube and I was able to learn how to do it and was able to put it on my first clips of the film. The color grading was also a bit challenging, but it is something I’ve done before, but this time it was a bit more intense. I also feel that I improved my problem-solving skills because there were a lot of difficulties throughout this project and luckily through hard work and determination I was able to pull off what I wanted. This project was a bit more difficult to manage than others that I’ve worked on in the past, but luckily I was able to work through the stuff and I’m currently still working through it.
Breaking down, these questions will help me create my final script for my CCR once I figure out what I will be doing for it. I hope that I come up with an idea soon, but to be honest, I am really not sure what I’m going to do yet. And for my film opening, I am going to improve on it more and add more key details.
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