My Last Post (I think)

     It has been a journey. Here are the links to the film opening and the CCRs.

Our Film Opening "REGRESSION":

CCR 1:

CCR 2:

WE ARE DONE

     We are finally done with the portfolio project. It has genuinely felt like a journey. I remember when this project was first introduced, I was so intimidated. All of the projects that our teacher showed us looked so good and I had no idea how I could match something like that. 

But, I am happy to say that in the end...

The Blog

    I think my least favorite part of this project was the research blog posts, which I mentioned in my CCR. This is because they took SO LONG to do. I would often spend 2-3 hours on each one of them because I had to research, cite, and concisely describe each concept that I was posting about. Now I might just be a slow worker, but it took consistently that long for each blog in the beginning research phase. Add that and the fact that we needed to do four per week, and you get exhaustion.

    Once that part was done and we moved on to actual production, the blogs ended up being more fun to do. I used to be a blog hater, but recently I have learned to love them. They got so much easier during production, and the time it took to do each one was significantly reduced. I think now that I was used to doing them and didn't have to cite anything, I could just say what comes to mind and let the words spill out. This made the overall blogging experience more enjoyable, and it got even better when I realized I could make jokes and let my personality shine in them.

The Opening

    I had a great group. It was the same one from the music marketing project, and we all worked very well together. We worked efficiently, beating each deadline and making constant progress. I guess you could say we had synergy. See? I learn things in this class.

    The pre-production process was generally efficient, once we made up our minds on what we wanted to do. There was some discourse over the way the time loop actually worked, but once we figured that out it was smooth sailing. Scriptwriting and storyboarding went by quickly, and I think we finished those in the timespan of two class periods. Everyone had their own roles in the process which made everyone else's roles easier. I guess you could say we had syner- oh yeah I already made that reference.

    The production for the opening was truly beautiful. We had everything planned out and finished it all in a matter of a few hours. It was fun on set, and I don't really think there is anything else to say that I haven't already said about it in my previous blog posts.

    Post-production was a bit more annoying. I had the role of editing the credits, and me being my ambitious self, made it more difficult than it already needed to be. I really wanted to achieve that credit effect from the opening of GTA IV (2008), because I thought it would be more interesting than normal credits. Wow, that process took so much longer than I expected. You know how in my last post-production post, it was on a hopeful note? Yeah well, that hope turned into dread when I realized I needed to keyframe everything manually. The method that I had studied only worked on still frames, and there were barely any still frames in our project. There is nothing more arduous than manually keyframing a credit to the same spot for nearly every frame of a shot. Then on top of that, I needed to do masking for a couple of them, which meant I needed to manually mask for EVERY FRAME of the scenes I needed to do so in. I think it ended up looking pretty good in the end, so I guess you could say it was worth it.

The CCR

    The CCR. I think I both hated and loved this part of the project the most. It was a rollercoaster of emotions. When originally coming up with the idea for it, I was having so much fun. When I was writing the script for it, I literally started giggling to myself out loud, which now that I type that out I realize is really embarrassing to admit. However, I think with the idea I had, the CCR took more work than the actual opening. The issue with that was that I only had two weeks to do it rather than two months.

    Enter the most stressed out I have ever been in my entire school career. This last week of the third quarter was actually the final boss of school. I had so much work, with this project and my other classes as well. When I got home from each day of school this past week, I would work extra shifts just doing homework. For example, on Tuesday, right after getting home from school, I spent seven and a half hours doing a project for English. This wasn't a result of procrastination, since I utilized every class period we had to work on it, and it STILL took that long. Then on Wednesday, yet again right after school, I spent TEN hours filming the entire CCR. Then I spent pretty much all weekend editing, and here we are now. I didn't really have any free time this week to do anything else than work.

    I already explained the entire process for the CCR in the last few blog postings, so I just kind of wanted to vent about how crazy this past week has been. But now, WE ARE DONE.

How I feel to finally be done with the portfolio project:

CCR Post Production

     Post-production was nice. In the end, it only really took me two days to edit both videos. Let's get right into it.

Premiere Is The Best

    Adobe Premiere is so good. I had almost forgotten, after how arduous the editing for the opening was. It took me 8+ hours just for the credits. This is because I had to keyframe each frame when I wanted to mask them, and also I had to keyframe the credits so they looked like they were part of the environment. But that is post-production for the opening, not the CCR. I really just start yapping about anything, don't I?

    I did not realize just how versatile Premiere was until I edited the CCR. I was especially surprised by how much you can do with audio. I often found myself getting lost in the audio section, and testing out what each thing did until I found what was needed. There is even a whole panel dedicated to audio, where you can edit the scenario an audio plays in. For example, you could make an audio file sound like it is coming from a phone, or like it is coming from outside a building. I never explored the audio side of Premiere before, and it is really cool to understand it a bit more now.

Day 0

    Ok, I kind of lied when I said it took two days. I mean, it took two days of actual editing, but before those days I needed to transfer all of the footage. I had SO MUCH footage. I didn't really know how to transfer files in bulk like this without a thumb drive, so I attempted to transfer them using Google Drive. I simply selected them all and pressed upload. Little did I know, uploading them would take forever. I started uploading them at 3:30pm on Thursday, and let them upload the rest of that day. Checking in on the progress at the end of the day, I saw that it was only about HALFWAY done. I could not believe my eyes and ended up telling myself it would upload overnight.

    The next morning, I immediately checked my phone to see if it was done. It was not, and the files were glitching out and infinitely retrying until they would eventually fail and move on to the next. Realizing I was losing files, I understood that I just wasted a whole day waiting for some files to upload when I could have used another method. This is when my friend told me I could just manually transfer the files using a cord. Originally I had thought you specifically needed a thumb drive to do it, but I guess you can use a charger cable instead. About half of that day was spent filming his CCR, and once I got home I tried the charger method. It worked within minutes. Now all I needed to do was open Premiere and get to editing.

Day 1

    Day one of editing was relatively simple. All I did was really just select the correct clips from my giant pile of files, and put them in order. When making the first CCR video, I realized that it was going to be way too long if we were to include all of the extra jokes we made in it. The first draft length of only the first video was about 9 minutes. That could not fly, since both videos combined had a maximum of 11 minutes and thirty seconds. I ended up cutting a BUNCH of stuff out and shortening it to about 7 minutes. It was a little heartbreaking because so many quality jokes had to be put on the chopping block.

    I then went to open another project in Premiere for the second CCR, but for some reason, it just put the same timeline again there. I was a little confused about this and deleted it. Deleting all of that felt a little wrong to me, so I checked back on the CCR 1 project and I saw that it was all gone. I had somehow deleted EVERYTHING in this project from the new second project. Thank god for control z, because that saved me from a mental breakdown. I have no clue how the timelines work in premiere, because I guess you can have the same timeline across different projects. I did not know how to make a new timeline either, so I ended up just editing the entire project in one timeline.

    Editing the second video was very similar to the first one. I just put the clips in order and shortened them to flow well. It was a similar situation to the first video as well, where I had to cut out some extra jokes to fit it all into that 11-minute and 30-second time frame. Eventually, I edited it all together to be exactly that time. I was proud of myself, and decided to call it a day.

Day 2

    Day two was all about fine-tuning and audio. I went through the entire project and noted what sound effects I needed. Once I had my list, I got to making the Foley. For my first effect, I needed to make the thumps for when we ran over the pedestrian. I did some brainstorming with my dad, and we ended up deciding that kicking a laundry hamper would sound the best. So we did just that and recorded it.

    We then recorded the Foley for when the pedestrian slides down the hood of the car. It was relatively self-explanatory, and we just rubbed our hands on our clean dining table.

    I then recorded a ringtone from my dad's phone for when the officer got the phone call.

    After these effects were done, I needed a sad song some paparazzi sound effects for the emotional montage at the end, and some police siren sound effects for when the interrogation scene is finishing up. I found a copyright-free sad song on YouTube really fast, and all I needed to do to use it was credit who it was made by. For the rest, I just used YouTube's audio library. It has a ton of free sounds for use.

    Once I edited all of these effects, I needed to go through the entire project and mix the audio to an even volume throughout. At this point, some clips were much quieter than other clips, and I simply could not have that. This process took a long time, and once I finally finished it I was wiped. This was the last step needed to finally submit this thing, and with that, finally complete the portfolio project.

Celebration

    I ended up going out to eat in celebration with my family because this project has been insanely taxing on me both physically and mentally. All I need to do now is just the final reflection blog post and then the submission. I already posted the videos on YouTube, and just need to link them to the submission blog. I am so close to having no worries about this project I can taste it.

The CCR Production of Doom and Despair

Wow. That was so cooked.

I will never be the same again.

A Never-Ending Production

    I think it took us about 10 hours straight to film the CCR. We filmed from 4:30pm to 2am. On a school night. I still needed to take them home and take a shower afterwards, so I really ended up falling asleep at around 3:30am - 4am. I am currently writing this on two hours of sleep. I knew it would take a long time when I wrote the script, but I didn't expect it to take THAT long. I was more-so anticipating to wrap things up by 10pm or something. That just ended up not going to plan, for a multitude of reasons. I am just going to explain the overall process from the beginning.

Slight Change of Course

    I wrote the script for the CCR over the weekend in order to adequately prepare myself for this great filming excursion. I had written it with two main characters in mind: Texas Jacobs and the interviewer. I would play Jacobs and my friend Jayden would play the interviewer. I outlined how I wanted it to go on my previous blog post, so check it out if you want a little more context. At school the day we were going to film, one of my other friends, Santiago, asked if he could tag along. He wanted to hang out with us while we filmed, and I said sure. I said he could voice one of the officers that catches Jacobs after the third question. Little did I know, this decision would alter the course of the entire project.

The Car Scene

    To keep things simple, I severely underestimated how hard it would be to remember my long answers and deliver them while driving at the same time. I already have a past of not being able to remember my lines, and the CCR showcased that weakness for everyone to see. We spent like 3 hours driving around my neighborhood aimlessly while I tried to deliver the lines. I cannot stress this enough, it was SO difficult for me. I was really trying my best, too. I must have some sort of short-term memory loss or something, because once I would finally memorize one part, I would immediately forget another. It was like my memory had a maximum storage capacity and it was at its limit, making me replace one line for another because I couldn't fit them all. We decided to break up my answer into many different cuts so I could remember each one and say them individually. This will result in a bunch of jump cutting, but there was literally no other way we could do this, the way my memory is.

    It got so bad that we ended up having Jayden film other parts of the car during some of the longer answers so I didn't have to drive and could read off the script at the same time. After taking this long, we realized the sun was going down and we only got ONE question done. I needed this all filmed in one day, because there were no other days that Jayden could really film. (He is INSANELY overloaded with work at the moment, and even had to skip school one day earlier this week just to do his homework all day.) Also, I forgot to mention that Santiago was sitting in the back of the car the whole time we filmed this part, and it took so long he fell asleep. Let's just say morale was beginning to dwindle and stress was setting in, and we only filmed the first quarter of it.

    Taking our options into account, we decided to change the story so after the first question and hitting  the pedestrian, we would abandon the car and run into a house nearby. This way, I would not have to drive again while answering questions and we wouldn't have to worry about daytime continuity issues inside. This is where the project really began to deviate from the script. These interlude parts took way less time to do, because I was not stressing over delivering my actual CCR answers perfectly. 

Breaking In

    Now that we were in this random house, we had to think of something that would fit the story. I still wanted to have the court scene at the end, and ended up thinking of something really funny that would involve Santiago. We decided that we would walk into a random room to hide, but there was someone in that room already. He (played by Santiago) would be playing guitar to himself, and freak out when he saw us. Then, he would realize that I was Texas Jacobs, his favorite musician, and he had my collector's edition banjo. After Jacobs realizes he is in his biggest fan's house, he seizes this opportunity to ask if they could stay there. Blinded by excitement, the fan lets him stay. This is where we would segway to the next question, where the fan pulls out a clipboard with pre-written questions that he could ask.

    This part of the answer was the worst part of the whole project. Yet again, my memory kept failing me, and I was taking way too long trying to remember the different parts of the answer. It was to the point where I was trying to memorize it so hard, that the words didn't even sound real anymore, and more just a collection of syllables. The stress was really starting to get to me at this point, because my friends' parents were beginning to call and ask them when they were coming home. We weren't even halfway done yet. I stressed out so much that I ended up taking 30 minutes to memorize two sentences. It was that bad. Also on top of EVRYTHING, we had construction going on in our house, since we were renovating one of our bathrooms. There were many times where a take would have to be cut because of construction noises. I felt my friends growing more annoyed with each failed take, and we were all exhausted, so something needed to change. 

    My sister (who played the pedestrian) ended up coming to help out. She acted as moral support and an acting coach, helping me approach my lines in a different way. Instead of trying  to memorize each word individually, I would try to memorize the main idea of each section. After approaching it with this new mindset, we ended up finally being able to film the rest of the answers. We then noticed that it was 9:30pm, and realized we had a choice to make: somehow film the rest of it tonight, or try and schedule the rest of the filming on another day. Jayden simply couldn't do the latter, due to how much work he has, and so we opted for the first option. My mom ordered pizza and we quickly drove to the gas station for some monster energies to stay awake for the rest of this production. This was a much needed break, and I think was what we all needed at this point.

The Court Scene

    Once this much needed break was over, I realized my parents needed to sleep soon. I had my dad casted as the judge, and my mom casted as the attorney. At this pace, we couldn't finish the third question in time for them to sleep well, so we decided to film the court scene next. We needed to figure out what they would wear for this, and my mom luckily had a bunch of stuff in her closet that we could use. We also realized we didn't have a gavel, so made a makeshift one out of a cup, spatula, and aluminum foil. The court scene basically went as scripted, and took around two hours to film, taking everything into account. Also, by this time my friend Santiago realized he had a bunch of assignments due that night. There were only a few minutes until midnight, and he knew he couldn't get them in on time. This further added to the insane guilt I was already feeling.

The "gavel"

My sister as the pedestrian in court:

Interrogation

    The final scene we had to film needed to answer  the third question. We already had an idea on how to shoot this scene, so let me explain it.

    After answering the fan's question, he would get a phone call. The caller is a police officer, telling him that someone just got hit outside his house. With this, Jacobs and the interviewer realize that must mean the fan is also a police officer. While we are all in the room, the suspect description is explained, exactly describing us. The officer connects the dots, and that is where the first video ends.

    The second video begins with us in his garage ready to be interrogated. The officer says something along the lines of being good cop or bad cop, and then asks me the third question. After I answer it, he is satisfied, having fulfilled his fantasy interview of Texas Jacobs. Then, sirens are heard near, and the cop tells us we would see him again in court. He also gives a hint at the judge known as the "one-minute judge". This will be made clearer when you finally see the completed CCR.

    The actual filming of this scene was not nearly as bad as the others. I finally focused up and practiced the technique I learned from my sister earlier. This part didn't take super long to film, and with it being completed, we realized we were finally, at long last, done with production. After celebrating, we took a selfie to commemorate this beautiful moment, and realized it was about 2am. 

    After this, my friends and I were still a little energized from the monster energies we drank, and talked for half an hour before finally driving to their houses dropping them off. Once I got back, I took a shower and went to bed, and that was it. I wouldn't say that was sleep, more of a power nap before school.

Me before filming the CCR vs. after filming the CCR:

    Before I end this post, I would like to thank Jayden, Santiago, my sister, my mom, and my dad for their support and making this possible. I genuinely couldn't have done it without them. Now, I need to edit...

CCR Production Idea

    In this post I will finally share my idea for the CCR. I have been pretty excited to write out this idea, since it has been in my head for the past few days now. Let's just get straight into it.

The First Video

    For my CCR, I want to make it entertaining. When we went through the presentation, it was heavily implied to make it not boring. I want to have a comedic approach to my CCR because in the past I have found myself having the most fun using that approach. I want to have both videos be a continuous narrative, instead of two separate products that happen to continue the same set of questions.

    In this first part, I want to play the character of Texas Jacobs who seems to have forgotten that he had an interview scheduled. The interviewer would catch him about to leave his neighborhood, and in the spontaneity of the situation he has them get in his car and conduct the interview while he drives. He tells them that he is getting the band together again, and answers the first question with no incident. While I answer this question I will most likely include other media into it so it isn't just me talking while driving. I could include some clips from production and other stuff like that to keep it interesting and dynamic.

    After the first question, it happens. Texas Jacobs hits a pedestrian on accident. In raw panic, he decides to drive away and does not know what to do. I don't want this to be super serious, and kind of want it to be filmed similarly to that scene in The Office (2005) where Michael hits Meredith with his car.

The scene I'm talking about, skip to 45 seconds in:

    To cope with the stress, Texas Jacobs tells the interviewer to keep going with the questions. About halfway in to the second question, I want the cops to show up and start pursuing him. For the rest of this question, faint cop sirens and blue/red flashing lights will be present. Once the question is answered, I think this part will be end by Jacobs focusing more on losing them.

The Second Video

    I want the second video to begin with Jacobs in hiding, arguing with the interviewer. The interviewer can say something like "Why am I still here, I didn't even do anything!" Then Jacobs can say "You are an accomplice now, your best bet is to stay with me here! Just finish the interview!" The interviewer, annoyed, asks the question and Jacobs begins to answer it. Halfway through, they can see blue/red lights flash from outside the room, and Jacobs tells the interviewer to be quieter. In the rest of this interview, they speak with their inside voices. After the third question is answered, the cops get really close by, and the interviewer knocks something over. A cop goes "Is anyone in there? Show yourself!" Jacobs slowly turns around at the camera man disappointed, and it cuts to a gavel hitting three times on the table with a voice saying "Order in the court!"

    Jacobs and the interviewer have been arrested and are now in court. Knowing it is over for both of them, their attorney adjourned the hearing to plan what they will say. Jacobs says that they literally have the crime on video, and they might as well just finish the interview before they go to jail. This is when the final questioned is asked and answered. This video will finally end with an emotional montage of them going to jail. 

    I am really excited to make this CCR now that I have a fun idea, and I may actually film this weekend if everything goes to plan.

Sources:

- The Office. (2021, July 20). Michael Runs Over Meredith - The Office US. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omM71dDpyPE

CCR Question 3

     This post will focus on the third question of the CCR. There actually won't be a post for the fourth question, since I uploaded a post on the group meeting we had yesterday in place of it. The fourth question is extremely straightforward and easy to answer anyway, so it won't hurt me that much if I don't prepare for it as much as the others. The third question goes as follows:

How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Planning

    The blogs acted as a guideline for me during this project. They showed me where I needed to be for the planning phase, production, and post-production phase. They also helped me space out my time enough so I consistently made progress on it throughout each week. Although they take a lot of time to complete, they have kept me on track and prevented me from procrastinating. Let's start with the pre-production phase.

    For every production, you have to plan beforehand. Without planning, your production is bound to be low quality. This class has taught me the importance of pre-production. For me, the longest blog posts were the research ones. I really disliked having to do them, but in the end, they were valuable to the production of our project. They allowed me to take inspiration from similar films and see what does/doesn't work for the type of film we wanted to make. 

    After the research phase, scriptwriting and storyboarding were next. The research phase heavily influenced these processes. Our script would definitely have been hindered if it weren't for our research, and important things like loop motifs might not have been present if we did not know about them in the first place. This part of pre-production was a relative breeze once we all were on the same page. The only problem really just came down to how we wanted to structure the loop, but after we solved that we completed the script and storyboard in quick succession. Then came the general pre-production stuff, like how we wanted to incorporate audio, mise-en-scene, and character development. The blog posts leading up to this phase helped us significantly with figuring this out, and once again it was a pretty simple process.

Remember this? I do NOT miss trying to figure that out.

Production

    Our production for this project was extremely quick. We shot the entire thing in one day. Without our intense planning beforehand, this would not have been possible. We had the script act as a checklist for what we did or didn't film. We also didn't film in chronological order, like I usually do for my projects. Since it was a time loop, we filmed all of the shots for the different loops as each event happened. For example, we filmed multiple angles of T. Jacobs when he asked about the files at the same time to compensate for the multiple times it happened in the film. This saved us a lot of time in the end and was a big factor in why production went so fast.

    Another factor was the fact that we only needed to film at two locations. The first was the therapist's office (which we filmed at Grace's house) and the second was the parking lot outside of the therapist's office. We filmed those scenes at a nearby plaza. We filmed everything at each location before moving on to the next, which made the most sense. If we did film in chronological order we would have to drive back and forth between locations, which would be really annoying and time-consuming. All of these factors led to a quick and organized production.

Changes 

    We changed quite a few things during production. The first was the use of a cuckoo clock, which we changed to a digital one since Rachel already had one. The second was the outfit and nametag of T. Jacobs since we changed the overall vibe of my character and realized that he wouldn't wear a nametag at a place where he already worked. We also changed a line very slightly from "How does that make you feel?" to "How does IT make you feel?". This was because we had already filmed the first time Schultz said it, and in that shot, she said 'it' instead of 'that'. We did not feel like reshooting, so we just changed the line for the rest of the time Schultz said it. 

    We also changed the scene with T. Jacobs slightly so he gets waved off instead of setting the files on Dr. Schultz's table. We realized there was no room for me to place the files on the table without it being awkward, so we just altered the scene slightly to that. In the end, I think it helped showcase Schultz's character better, and was a positive change overall.

The clock we ended up using:

Reflection

    I would certainly say the skills that I have improved the most during this project are organization and proper planning.  I have always been really unorganized when it came to actually filming, and I never really made a script or storyboard for any of my other projects in the past before this class. The most I would do was write a brief outline of what I wanted to happen in my notes app to guide me. I used to just get everyone together and essentially wing it as we went. This typically ended up producing less professional and lower-quality products.

    With this project, however, I have finally understood the importance of pre-production. If you are filming a decent-sized production, all of the shots kind of blend together in your head amidst the chaos. Order is super important, and I don't know where we would be if we did not have the script to act as a checklist. In the past, I would commonly realize I missed a shot or two when editing, and it would often be too late to shoot any more footage. Now I am significantly better at understanding how to research, as well as how to plan and stay organized during production.

Group Meeting #2

     Today in class we did another group meeting. This meeting was a little bit different from the last one since we were not completely introducing our projects. This time, we introduced what the project is about in broad terms, and mainly focused on how our productions are going so far. Most of us showed off actual footage of our projects and got some advice from each other. We also talked a little about our CCR ideas and brainstormed together a bit to help hatch some. This post will be structured similarly to the last group meeting post, so let's get into it.

    The first member of our group that I am going to talk about is Aneesa. She was in my last group meeting, and her project was the one where the planet was about to collide with Earth. I saw some changes to her project and also got to see some clips of it in action. The title used to be Rogue, but now it has changed to "Ataraxia", which means a state of serene calmness. This is due to the nonchalant nature of the protagonist in her film while everything around her is chaotic. She showed us the second half of her project and the shot that the planet would be edited in. It looks really good so far! She was still deciding on what her CCR might look like and was debating on possibly doing a hot ones-style video. That is the YouTube series where a celebrity is interviewed while eating hot wings.

    The second group member who spoke was Nikita. The title of his project is still in the works, but he is thinking about calling it "Visionary". It is about Henry Flagler, a historical figure prominent in building the railroads of Florida. The intro would be him imagining a future where Florida's railroads are being built. He showed us a match cut where it goes from a newspaper image into a scene, which I thought was a cool idea. We gave him some ideas on how to make it flow a bit better to achieve the desired effect using keyframes. He is not sure how to do his CCR yet, but we came up with some funny ideas. One of them is him robbing a bank, but inside the vault are the answers to the CCR questions.

    Next up is Dylan. His project is called "Mid Night". It has really heavy The Fast and the Furious (2001) vibes from what he showed us. It seems to start off with a car meet that quickly turns into a police chase. The cool thing with the production of it was that he got around 30 of his friends to coordinate a car meet just to shoot for this project. He also somehow got an actual cop to use his cop car and act in the film. Very cool large-scale production! He is still conceptualizing his CCR as of right now.

These are some pictures of his massive production I found on his blog:

    After him was Ramos. He is still coming up with the title of his project, but I think the premise of it is actually pretty cool. It is about what professional athletes go through when they have an injury and how it impacts their career. The opening would be the protagonist training really hard after his injury, and while training he would have a flashback to when he got the injury in the first place. He was thinking about having his CCR happen while he races his friends.

    The final person in my group other than me was Gonzalo. His project is titled "Insider" and is about someone trying to escape their kidnapper. It would start off with the classic trope where it is in the middle of the film, and the next scene would go back to the beginning of the story. For his project, it would begin with the protagonist being tied up in the bathroom, and trying to escape before being attacked. After this attack, it would flashback to the protagonist on a fishing trip which (if it were an actual film) would then lead up to the events we just saw. In his CCR he is going to bake brownies with a friend while answering the questions. Very cool!

    When I went, I pretty much explained the premise of my project and showed them some transitions we had finished while also telling them what was to come. I also made the point of explaining why when the loop happens, the same scene needed to be shot differently in order to keep it interesting. The reception was pretty good, and they gave some tips on how to fix the lighting in some of the shots. I then explained my CCR idea to them and my teacher, and they thought it was really good. I am so happy because I was not sure what they would think about it. I will do a whole blog post explaining the idea for my CCR later this week, so keep your eyes out for that. 

    That pretty much concludes the second group meeting blog post! It was really fun hearing what other people were making and brainstorming with them on ideas for their CCR. Before I end the post, I do want to mention something. Our teacher said if we were good on our blog posts so far (like if we aren't missing any) then we could just upload the group meeting post in place of one of the CCR questions. I will be uploading this in place of CCR question 4. This is because that is the easiest to answer. I will be using these blog posts to make my script, so I want to blog about only the hardest questions to make that process easier. I will see you tomorrow with my now final CCR question post!