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 The other day our teacher reminded us that on top of the production of our movie we must create 4 CCRs which each reflect certain questions we must answer about our movie. For example, the first question to answer for our CCRs is "How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?" There is a lot of depth that we must go into in order to explain our 4 CCRs, all while being creative for each one. To get some inspiration for our CCRs our teacher showed us past examples of CCRs which received high marks. I was able to get lots of inspiration for what I wish to do for each question. One of the main ideas I was inspired by was a podcast. It was around 8-10 minutes, but I figured through this I can be creative with sound effects and even do auto toned voices of me to sound like different people. Another CCR I was inspired by to do is a presentation. I figured I can create a nice laid out presentation with a face cam in the bottom ...

For my movie I will be playing the main role in editing everything. Because of this, I want to make sure I am doing a good job so the quality of the movie is at its best once I have to submit it to Cambridge. One way I can enhance my editing skills and improve my movie is by earning a high understanding of using color grading. To learn about color grading and be able to apply it to my movie I am watching a YouTube video which is a color grading tutorial for adobe premiere pro (the editing software I am using for the movie). First, I must mention one of the things that was mentioned immediately in the tutorial: LUTs or Look-Up Tables. These are actually a mathematical formula in video editing which enhances colors and tones in footage. It is a preset color profile for editors to better the color profile in their footage. The reason this stood out to me is that the person who posted this YouTube video had mentioned LUTs being in the description but coming with a price. Considering the fa...

I completed this case study back before I had recorded my midterm movie. Learning what mise en scene is and how to analyze it was very important. This is because it really helped me see how it gets used in movies in general, and then be able to apply it to my own movie. For example, learning that costume design was very important meant the main character in the movie -Eric the birdwatcher- would have to have good costume design to help portray ideas about him and the movie in general. We were told that this case study didn't have to be within our genre alone, but we could widen out to maybe one watched recently or a favorite. Since I had stuck to the thriller genre so much I decided to go back to an old classic: The Truman Show. This case study is very vital to this class not only because I can now apply mise en scene to my own movie, but I can also analyze the 2 minute film at the end of the year better, allowing me to write a better essay. Mise  en  scene case study   L...