CCR

The following video is my CCR. 

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Ta-Da!

This is the final cut of our film opening COPYCAT.

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Written Reflection

The link below will take you to my written reflection essay on Google Docs. Enjoy!
Written Reflection Essay

And The Rest

For scene two, I filmed the spilling of nail polish and the opening credit “Produced

by Sara Briones.” This proved to be the most difficult scene for me to film because

of its complexity and the acting skills that were required.

The scene was supposed to be a high angle shot of me as Paola who plays Margo,

painting my nails on a normal napkin. Suddenly, my alarm clock goes off, and I stop

painting my nails to grab the clock and see that it is almost time for first period to start.

Then, I grab all my essentials for school that are nearby (phone, wallet, scrunchies).

While I am rushing to grab everything, I accidentally knock over the white nail polish

and the napkin now has the words “Produced by Sara Briones” written on it. I wanted

to make it seem as if the words magically appeared.

One major issue was trying to act with only my hands. We didn’t want to show Margo’s

face until later, so it was important to act with only my hands. I had to somehow show

the audience that I was shocked at the time and was late for school. Some methods

I tried were shaking the clock or zooming into the clock.

Also, for the napkin part, I had an issue with changing the normal napkin with the one

that had the opening credit. While Margo was rushing to grab her things, I had to

simultaneously switch the napkins. This was difficult because there wasn’t enough

time to do both. Therefore, to solve this issue, I decided to zoom into the clock, cut

the recording, switch the napkins, start recording again from where we left off with

the clock, and then pan towards the napkin. I left camera fixed on the opening credit

for a couple seconds so that the audience could have enough time to read the

opening credit.

Scene three was the easiest to film. My brother helped me film this scene by

laying on the floor and film me grabbing my bag full of clothes to reveal the lit up

sign that says, “Edited by Isabella Rivera.” It only required two takes.

I was scared to film scene four because it required a mirror. I have heard that it is

difficult to film with a mirror due to the camera’s reflection. However, I surprisingly

had no issue with my mirror since it was angled in a way that it only showed the

reflection of a wall. I wrote the opening credit with the lipstick at an angle. This is

how it looked.

I only had to remove one picture that was blocking the clarity of the words

“Directed by Daniela Kim.” To clean my mirror, I used Windex to remove the lipstick.

So, overall scene four was no burden.

I will let you know how these scenes turn out when editing. Bye for now!

Scene One

The first scene is going to be with the shirt. Just a quick recap, this will be a point-of-

view shot of Margo lifting up a plain white t-shirt, but once in full view, the audience will

see that an opening credit will be on the shirt. I decided to write “Starring Paola Toro” in

the front in big letters and then “and Tomas Quilaqueo” in the back. This way each actor

gets their own screen time.

For color, I was originally going to use the back fabric marker to write the names, but I

thought this would be too boring on a plain white t-shirt. So, I thought of a system of

using the blue fabric marker for the title of job and the purple fabric marker for the actual

name of the individual. Here is a picture to clarify.

The reason is chose these colors is that I thought it mimicked the teenage moods

of sadness, which is blue, and purple for the teenage thinking that they are higher

than everyone else (since purple equates royalty.)

For the bag that Margo puts this shirt in, I was thinking to use my black swim bag and

use the side that does not show any logos.

I have yet to film this scene because I totally forgot that the nail polish scene is after

this scene and I, by accident, already painted my nails white when I needed my nails

to be bare for this scene.

I’ll let you know how this goes next time! Bye for now!

Supplies...Check!

Before I started filming, I needed some supplies first, so I went to Walgreens

and AC Moore. For the first scene I needed two white t-shirts (one as the normal

shirt and the other with the opening credit on it). I also needed fabric markers to

write on the opening credit shirt. After a couple minutes, I was able to find both.

Then, for the nail polish scene, I was originally going to use fake nails, but I forgot

that the fake nails I already had were dark blue. I tried painting white nail polish over

it, but you could still see the blue through it. Therefore, I decided just to paint my own

nails white. So, I went to Walgreens to pick up some white nail polish. These are the

ones I ended up finding.

For the third scene, I already had the light up sign, so I didn’t have to purchase anything

for this scene.

But for the fourth scene, I also picked up some cheap red lipstick to write on the

mirror in my room. This is the one I bought.

After I got all the materials, I just prepared each scene and got ready to film. I’ll let

you know how it turned out! Bye for now!

Let's Get Creative!

Now that we have decided our artistic scenes, it was time to film them. I was

excited because I had a lot of ideas that I thought would look really intriguing on

screen, so I couldn’t wait to implement them.

Since most of my group members were away on spring break, I decided to experiment

with the scenes and try filming them myself. There were four different opening credits

that we wanted to include in the beginning of our film opening; therefore we needed

four different artistic approaches. (We thought this was the perfect amount because

we didn’t want to have too many or too little.) Our first scene includes folding a shirt

into a bag; the next scene is spilling nail polish; and the third will be a cool sign that

lights up. It was interesting because I was actually missing one artistic approach, but

as I was trying to think of another cool way to implement the opening scene, I came

across this light up sign that I got for my birthday a couple years ago.

I figured I could rearrange the letters and write an opening credit on it. But anyways,

back to the scenes, the fourth one will have lipstick written on my mirror that is in my

room.

However, I still had to decide the order of the opening credits. I wasn’t sure which

goes first; does “Edited by” go before “Produced by” or vice versa? I don’t know. So,

I clicked on one of my favorite shows The Umbrella Academy and I studied the order

of their credits. I learned that it goes “Starring,” “Produced by,” “Edited by,” and then

“Directed by.” For our opening film, we had decided before break that it would be

“Starring Paola Toro and Tomas Quilaqueo,” “Produced by Sara Briones,” “Edited

by Isabella Rivera,” and then “Directed by Daniela Kim.”

I’ll let you know how everything turns out! Bye for now!

Works Cited:

IMDb. “The Umbrella Academy.” IMDb.com. 2019.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1312171/