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 1.  How do your products represent social groups or issues?

The movie relieve means a lot to us. The movie talks about something that is definitely an issue in today’s days, Bullying. In the movie our main character Mason is faced with many difficulties not only at home but in school too. He is mistreated by his Dad, peers and even principal despite his disability. Mason is autistic and that can be very hard because without someone to constantly advise you and keep an eye on your things can go very wrong. That happens in the short film and also happens in real life too. Many kids get tired of their everyday living and simply can’t take it anymore, they either take their anger on other people or themselves. That is something that happens every year more than you can think, and we tried in our short film to show how terrible the outcomes of these acts can be. We want to raise awareness and help reduce the amount of people that hurt themselves or hurt the others because of bullying. You might think that it can never happen to you or a close friend of your but this is more common than you can think. 

2. How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of ‘branding’?

Our short film has a very common topic that many people can find interesting. This type of Bullying happens more often than you may think and so by producing a movie like this it attracts attention from a lot of people that want to raise awareness to the issue as well. Teachers specially are our main target because most of them are there, in school where everything happens, and we want them to know how to react to a situation like that. Because our topic is very popular, I believe that It will attract the attention of many schools create some sort of brand for it. Schools are going to be interested on showing their students our movie so they can prevent something similar to ever happening at their school.

3. How do your products engage with the audience?

This short film is all about audience and who is watching it. The objective of our short film is to mainly raise awareness on this big issue that we have that is bullying specially with kids with disabilities like autism. We are hoping that after the audience watches our film, they can realize how wrong it is to do something like that to a kid or even an adult. We hope that after watching our film people will start helping each other instead making fun of each other due to their differences. We want to connect with the audience in a way that after watching the film they want to do better and be better people. We want them to realize that there are many people around them that are suffering at home or at school and that a simple gesture like a compliment can change their whole day or decisions that they would take that could be harmful for anyone. We want to catch the attention of the audience from the first minute to the last so they don’t any little information that they can get. We want to have them at the edge of their seats and for them to feel upset because the film is already over.

4. How did your research inform your products and the way they use or challenge conventions?

4. How did your research inform your products and the way they use or challenge conventions?

We made a lot of research about tis topic since it is a very delicate topic to talk about and we didn’t want to do something wrong and be disrespectful in any way shape or form. We made sure we had made as much research as possible, so we didn’t challenge any conventions. In past work we did challenge conventions for a couple of reasons but this year we felt that this topic was special and by challenging conventions we could mess up and be able convey the message we want to convey in the first place. We didn’t want to add anything that was too out of context because that would take away the whole focus of our movie. We want to focus on the kid and the struggles he has been going through. We didn’t have much dialogue specially from the main character because we don’t want to take the attention from the audience of what is currently happening. Because of the research we made we were able to not challenge conventions and the movie turned out exactly the way we wanted it to be.

 

 

Short Film Package

 

My Short Film Package 

Relieve

Link to short film:

https://youtu.be/LLHFGregesk

Embeded film:

 

 Website Link:

https://relievethefilm.wixsite.com/movie

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Post cards front and back:

Music Rights

 Today my partner and I got a response from the studio that owns the rights of the background song that we want to use for our short film.  Unfortunately we weren't allowed to use that song. We are very upset. Luckily for us we had backup songs to use. The studio that owns the best song we had as a backup was one of the first ones that emailed us back giving us permission to use their song. All we need now is to fill out a form explaining with more detail our project and we should be fine. I am really glad we were prepared be cause that could've been a really big problem. The final due date for our project is January 12. If we didn't email the studio responsible for the rights of the movie before, we probably wouldn't have gotten a response before our project is due. Now we have to move on. I'm glad we were able to fix this issues but there are a couple more things to be done before the deadline. We are re-filming a couple of scenes this weekend to see if we can get them to look better. I already like how they look but since me and my partner are getting together this week to work on our movie poster we will also use that time to film. As I mentioned before this weekend we will also start working on our posters. We already have some kind of idea of what they will look like but many things can change when we actually start working. This shouldn't take long but it is something really fun to do. Our deadline is approaching very fast. I believe that we are on track and should finish everything completely a couple of days before it. I can't wait to finally submit everything and hear feedback from our teachers. Hopefully everyone will like our short film and share it with even more people.

Re-filming some scenes.

 Last week me and my partner finished our movie and got feedback from it. The person that reviewed our movie really liked it and pointed out some shooting mistakes we made. After receiving the feedback  me and my partner decided to reshoot some scenes that needed fixing. We decided to film last weekend. Everything was going well until I had a game scheduled on that day and my partner couldn’t film on the day before. We ended up deciding not film that day and postpone it to this weekend since we will both be free. When we film this weekend  we will be reshooting 3 scenes that happened on the inside of the house. This is really good since we won’t depend on weather to finish our project. For the first scene we had some problems with the audio. When watching the scene we weren’t able to hear part of the scenes’ dialogue and that needs to be fixed as soon as possible. On the second scene we were able to see one of our friend’s foot when the letters fall on the ground. We weren’t able to crop his foot of the shot so we will have to reshoot that scene. That won’t be that hard of a fix since the scene is really short. The third and last scene that needs to be fixed is the scene where the main character is drinking. We tried to show that using a high angle. When we rewatched the scene in the movie the angle didn’t look too high so we will try to reshoot that scene and lift the camera more when we do it. If we have time we will also review some other scenes with more depth and see how we can improve on them if we can. Hopefully everything will go well this weekend and we will be able to film. I am really excited to finish our movie and see what the final product will turn out to be.

Filming blog - Finishing up

 Happy new year! 2020 was a hard year. We as students had to adapt to a lot of new things this year. Not only the students but the teachers specially had a really hard task. Teachers had to create a whole new method of teaching and make it effective so students could learn. I’m so thankful for all my teachers for helping me through these difficult times. Today me and my partner got together to finish off the last details of our movie. We went over the movie a couple of times and got feedback from friends and family. After the feedback we made some small changes but nothing too significant. We also decided to film a couple of scenes differently just to see how they would look. We filmed the scenes and added them to the movie just to see what they looked like. We liked a couple of them but not enough to add them or substitute for one of the scenes we already have. I think it was a good idea to film those scenes. It’s always good to have something as backup. It is also good to be open for changes even when the product is almost done. We want to deliver the best movie we can and to try new things is part of that. I believe that what we currently have is the best we could have done. I’m really happy with what we accomplished. This year was tough but I believe what we’ve done is amazing given the conditions we had. Hopefully 2021 will be much better than 2020 and we can do even better things. 

More Research

 Our short film is partially done. The filming and editing are done and the movie looks great. All we need now is the green light from the studio that we want to use music from. I think we should be getting that answer shortly and we will be fine. I am very happy with the “final” product. Even though we are technically done there is still more research to be done. I want to make sure my short film is the best that it can be. Therefore I am doing some extra research to learn new things that can change my movie for the better. I want to learn new editing techniques. I feel like the editing is good as of right now. I believe that it is still not at its full potential yet. I also want to find some new other songs to have as backup in case the ones we are using don’t work. I don’t believe they will, but it is always best to be safe than sorry. I also want to research more about the theme we chose. I want to make sure our short film reaches all the characteristics a movie with the same theme does. Since our movie is a short film we have to get straight to the point in an effective way. I’m going to keep researching and trying to learn new things. Knowledge is never a bad thing. I hope to not have to make any changes in our project. If don’t that’s going to mean that we did an amazing job. 

Adding Music

 Today was a very special day. Today we finished the last step of editing our movie. After adding all the titles I added music to our short film. Music is a very important aspect of a film. Music is what dictates the emotions that want to be transmitted to the audience through a scene. I love music and for me a movie is not a movie without movie. Many movies in fact are well know specially for their good music during specific scenes. There are even awards that are given to the best movie playlists. I didn’t want to go wrong with the music in our video so I really did some research for it. I wanted to find the perfect song that fit with the scene it was being played on. It is not that simple though. Because it is a movie being made we need most of the time we will need permission from the singer or studio that made the specific song. Sometimes it is really hard to get a response from them. I’ve emailed a couple of artists that I want to use their songs and I’m waiting for them to reach back to me. Hopefully it will be a positive note and we’ll be able to use their songs. While I wait I am still going to add their songs to the movie. Since it is not yet finished and I am not posting it anywhere yet it is fine if I just have it there. While I wait I’m also going to look up other songs to have as back up if they don’t reach back or the response is negative. I don’t believe the response is going to be negative but it is better to be safe than sorry. As of right now the short film looks amazing and I can’t wait for what is next to come.