Creative Critical Reflection

 Here are my creative critical reflections. Enjoy:)

HOT ONES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whLiA-usJeo

ONE DUDE IN WONDERLAND

https://anchor.fm/connor-lirio/episodes/A-reflection-of-Daffodil--by-Juan-Rivera-Connor-Lirio-CCR-Podcast-eqlao2

Film Opening

 Here is a link to my film opening Daffodil. Enjoy :)

https://youtu.be/TGSCdqdktUA

Whats left

  all right so I’m not done, but I’m really close and I just wanted a blog out on my schedule for the week is going to be. Tomorrow I’m going to record a song with my band that’ll be fine for the opening, and record of many Foley sounds. I think with the biggest thing my opening is missing are those sounds elements. There’s so much empty space appoints that make what’s being seen feel awkward. One of these things is right when I’m about to go on stage, I want the music to be heard, I want to hear cheering when the door opens, and hear it get muffled when the door closes. Sound really is a huge part of getting the environment correct. Especially because it would be nice to have a bustling atmosphere, that I wasn’t able to have due to lack of actors, I could put tons of paper shuffling people murmuring all around the soundscape for when lemon is walking around the backstage area.

I also have to do the credits I know exactly where they’ll be and I know what they’ll say and I know what fun I’m gonna use. I’m not gonna make an original font because honestly I just don’t think I have the time, it would be cool but I just can’t do it. There’s a couple rock ones I’ll show you next week when I decide which one are use, but that’s an easy thing I know how to do that in Adobe from here.

The last thing that I’ll have to do is the CCR soon as my project is fully done I’m going to mark that right out of the way. I’m thinking of doing a podcast for one, and a TEDTalk for another. Oh my gosh as I’m typing this I just had a great idea I could do hot ones as my CCR,. I saw Grill do like the 70 questions thing from vogue as her CCR and it’s pretty cool, and I think hot ones would be so good I would get sweaty I would actually hot stuff and answer the questions oh my gosh this answer is genius. To be quite honest I’m really not feeling well, and that’s why I’m scheduling instead of taking action. However, I know that this week I will be done, and I’m not stressed about the due date.

So close I can taste it

  The project is looking great, I finished editing all of the clips together. Here is a look at what I have so far. I think that the edits I chose are very natural and allow the seam to flow, which helps that constant time is real feeling occur when you’re watching the peace. It definitely took me a while actually figuring out which takes I was going to use and getting them to the right to ration, but I’m very proud of how it came out. My favorite part is the scene of me in the dressing room because I feel like the editing is very natural and although the takes are different it really does feel like it’s one cohesive story. 

The video

What I’m most proud of is how I was able to keep the use of drugs an insinuation. it’s definitely important part of the opening, because it puts the plot right in your face and make that promise like Andrew Stanton said. with the use of editing it hides the actual usage of drugs from being seen. My character is seen snorting something but it’s not showing what and then with an edit that goes to my character being shown in the mirror you can see him rubbing white powder off of his nose. Clearly it can be insinuated what the performer is doing, and yes it could be shown but 1. this is a school project and 2. it doesn’t have to be shown it’s better for my nose either way I didnt snort baby aspirin, which by the way is what they actually use in the movies. I read it in an article on the film Babylon with Margot Robbie. 

Proggers, editing begins

  hey blog. I finally started to edit, and I decided that I would start with editing the outside portions. One of the biggest issues that I found was that there is a huge fan or AC unit that is going off in the background that is literally ear plowing . The people who had helped me film ren and Virginia did not bring microphones so we kind of just worked with the camera… Also I’m not good at this stuff this is my first time really being behind the camera just me. I knew that there would be a way to fix this in adobe premiere. I found this YouTube video that really helped me see what I could do to remove background noise. The video told me how to access the audio workstation, and showed me tricks to highlight the dialogue of my characters like turning up with the denoise and the dehum. 

still though the audio became very underwater-ish, and I wasn’t satisfied with the quality of it. As I was looking around the workstation I saw a preset option, and then this preset option I had clicked balanced mail just to try it, and though it didn’t do much to do a little. I toyed with the D noise and Dion moving them up and down again and it did lower the underwater feeling of the audio. I went back to look at the preset and what I found that was great was there was an option called dialogue with noisy background. I applied this and immediately the sound became much better, the thing is it just got a little quiet because I think when I was trying to take away the background noise it also lessened the speakers volume. I decided that I would finish this export it, and put it in my final draft or another draft where I would be able to treat it like an individual clip like one that I had filmed. To get the volume up I turn the decibels almost all the way up for the entire beginning except for the wide shot that is strictly no dialogue and just a hum. Nobody needs to hear a hum absolutely raging in their ears, and there was really no point since I was only adjusting audio so that dialogue could be better understood. here are the final settings that I left at. Although challenging and frustrating at the beginning, I definitely found my way around the issue and learned valuable audio skills.

Editing planning

  all right so I am on a trip right now and I don’t really want to focus on the editing process just yet, because I’m gonna have all of spring break and that’s where I’m really going to edit everything and finalize my opening. I’m giving myself a due date of March 28, but I’m hoping to be done by the 26th. One of the things that I am interested in is learning how to make my own font and I am going to do so with a website called the font generator.

with this website I want to see if I can make a fight with jagged bubble letters on loose leaf paper with pencil outlines. I think that this is a very rock ‘n’ roll type feeling, without being too bold. Also the theme of the full movie will be dealing with the artists, and the fact that the font would be looseleaf paper would reinforce the creative aspect. I would like to sketch the font on genuine looseleaf paper, and then assign the letters to the character that it falls under in the English alphabet. if not I will take existing fonts and put them together to create a rock font that is not too distracting.

for my actual editing I’m going to use adobe premiere. I have edited on this platform before, but editing is not my strong suit. There are many YouTube videos that help show color greeting and audio fixing that I am sure I am going to use as I got it. As I get it I will be providing updates as to what I am going to be editing any problems that I face and the choices that I make as I edit. hopefully again, both of these tasks will be completed before the 26.

Set design

  so at school for our shows I am the head set coordinator. I love when cassette can be made believable with extreme detail, a set can be one of the best ways to help develop a character even more. Yes we filmed in a place that’s already built and established, but in one location I had such an opportunity to take creative set design and incorporate mis en scene elements through set-dressing props. The shot is of me in the mirror where it’s insinuated that I am doing drugs. 

    In this image there’s a lot to break down. Some of the biggest most noticeable things are the water bottles, box of tissues, and yarn flowers. because my character is the lead singer I wanted to make sure that there were a couple of water bottles in my dressing room space, there is one that’s already empty and there are two still filled. There is a box of tissues, which would be provided by almost any kind of dressing room ever but my more selfish character would definitely take the whole box especially because he’s seen as vain and cares about himself. there are many scattered tissues around, because honestly as someone who’s been in stage make up and prepared for a show tissues are very helpful and useful to get any kind of Schmeer off to help blot sweating, they help prevent any kind of impurity before you go on stage. Also for somebody who is doing the kind of drug that is insinuated in the video you would probably have a runny nose, so tissues also help him force that. My favorite touch in this shot is the yarn flowers. Though not spoken about, the flowers represent a character that will be shown later after the opening. They are from Kurt’s girlfriend for his big show. I thought that this would be pretty accurate because those flowers are from my girlfriend that she gave to me for our show Legally Blonde. it shows care, and specificity because it is a very intricate creation of something that is usually temporary… Most flowers die after a little but this is the trope of the flowers that never die, but it’s not cringy it’s crocheted and cute. There are more minute details that also help fill the space and provide a realistic mirror. To show Kurt as creative, there is a notebook and a marker that has tons of doodles and an expo marker. what are social roles as creativity and choices is the white tank top that is off on the dresser, I know it was a performer that there is the back-and-forth between certain costume pieces and the do I do this do I do that geez I don’t know kind of feeling, so the white tank top there helps emphasize that. To help enforce Kurtz drug use, there is a roll of dollar and eyedrops. To show that this is an every day type thing and just put things that are definitely used by you know everybody that show that this dressing room is kind of his living space before the show there is deodorant a gum wrapper and a box of mints. These mis-en-scene elements truly represent Kurt, but also the atmosphere he is in before getting pulled by lemmy.