Senior Final Reflection

 5 Guarantees

I have improved drastically in all of these skills. I improved in technical skills by mastering the Adobe suite, and Collaboration because I am much better at getting along with other students. I improved my leaderships through my feature film role. I still need to work on all guarantees especially technical skills.  I am going to use all guarantees to take to my college career and greater future. E-comm has prepared me for many aspects of my future

 Technical skills

  The first guarantee is technical skills.  During the program we had hands on experience with camera's lighting, and other equipment. The hands on experience helped me gain knowledge on how to use them and even the technical vocabulary. We also used the adobe suite, I am now confident with my premiere, illustrator and photoshop skills. Technical skills are important because this information helps us advance in our career especially if we want to major in anything e-communication related.  I faced the most challenges with this guarantee, using equipment and the adobe suite definitely takes trial and error to succeed.

Communication

 

The next guarantee is communication. We learn this skill through learning how to communicate with clients and our teams. This skill is crucial in any future career. It is important to learn how to communicate with clients or communicate to get connections. Some challenges I faced was miscommunication with some groups when scheduling filming.

Collaboration

We learn collaboration through group work and the feature film. This is important for our futures so we can work efficiently with others within our career. I faced challenges in freshmen year during our final, when group members didn't talk

Leadership

We showcase Leadership when we represent e-comm at open house events. I learned leadership making our feature film , because I had a leadership role.  Leadership skills are important to achieve higher roles in your career.

Project management

We learn project management by achieving deadlines. I have struggled with this throughout the important. This skill is great for college to learn how to reach deadlines.

Top 3 Projects 

Film reel 

 My Film Reel expressed me as a creator. The reel showcased how I like to film happiness and emotion and I concisely tied it to a dream theme. I feel like I did a good job only picking my best shots only. My film reel was diverse, it showcased many projects from sophomore year and onward. I Branded myself with the dream theme and added my contact info at the end. I showcased this reel as a filmmaker branding reel, because I wanted to showcase a variety of things and professionally brand myself with a theme.

  Next time I would work more on exporting my videos properly and next time I would like to stick to a theme like I did for this. From this project I learned more editing skills that I can bring to the table for the next project. In conclusion: I am extremely proud how my reel turned out and hope to showcase it to many.

Feature film

cursed

My Biggest Project as a entertainment student is working on a feature film. Our film this year is "cursed" . This is a horror/ suspense film about a generational cursed. This film has scenes in the 60s, 80s and current time period so, art direction is crucial. I provided some costumes for the characters and helped styled them. Art direction was restricted due to Covid, but I still made it work. One of the hardest scene to art direct was a bedroom scene in the 80s . We had to transform two modern bedrooms to 80s teen bedrooms. I gathered some props from the thrift stores, my dads old stuff and many other crew members brought some stuff too. The rooms were greatly transformed. I got great feedback from this project, and hope to pursue art-directing in the future.

Maruchan commercial

In This project we had to make a commercial for the product of our choosing . My group ended up doing a ramen noodle commercial for maruchan. This only took 2 hours of filming, and a week of class period for pre production and post production. We faced challenges in scheduling a date to film so not everyone showed up to the filming. From this project I learned a lot about advertising technique. We got very good feedback from this project infarct we placed 3rd in the voting. We often got critiques about getting rid of the logos. I am very proud of this project.

Overall Reflection

I often worked on projects outside of school, I have practiced editing at home to enhance my skills. I found my strength in Art- Direction and creativity, I always put my creative and artistic view within a project. I need to improve on technical skills, such as operating the camera. More practice in this will help me enhance my skills. My classmates was my favorite thing about this year, we bonded so much when creating the feature. One take away is to not take anything for granite. I would like thank Smith for caring so much for us, she puts so much effort for us to have great experiences. E-comm will be something I'll look back to for many years. I had so many wonderful times and experiences throughout the program.

 

Film Reel 21

 My Film Reel expressed me as a creator. The reel showcased how I like to film happiness and emotion and I concisely tied it to a dream theme. I feel like I did a good job only picking my best shots only. My film reel was diverse, it showcased many projects from sophomore year and onward. I Branded myself with the dream theme and added my contact info at the end. I showcased this reel as a filmmaker branding reel, because I wanted to showcase a variety of things and professionally brand myself with a theme.

  Next time I would work more on exporting my videos properly and next time I would like to stick to a theme like I did for this. From this project I learned more editing skills that I can bring to the table for the next project. In conclusion: I am extremely proud how my reel turned out and hope to showcase it to many.

Commercial 2020

 The process of this video started with pre production, where we discussed and decided on a product and ideas. Our concept was a grunge/ punk rock themed lipstick commercial Then once we got our concept we wrote a script and made a story board, then we had to make a call sheet and planned when and where we were going to film. On our film date we just got our props, went to our location and went straight to filming. After we filmed everything I went straight to editing. I worked with others and i went great. First of all we always came to agreement and each one of us had a different role and job. My responsibilities for the project was getting the equipment and editing. During this project I learned some new editing effects like making a 90s grain effect. One thing I would do differently is to be more precise and take more time on my editing. One thing I would do the same is including more art direction in future projects .If I revise the video I will fix my audio and the graphic at the end. I will take these editing techniques to future projects.

Film reel 2020

                                      Butterfly-LOONA

                                                  MV Project Analysis 

Summary

Background

This is my favorite music video and it is for my one of my favorite groups, "Loona". Loona's music videos always are compelling to me because they use a lot of symbolism throughout all of their MVs like the apple and running. This all ties together to the loonaverse , and this is definitely showed in butterfly.

Plot/story

This Music Video showcases Woman around

the world. The plot is kind of hard to understand, as it's more symbolic. I think it symbolizes self love, and breaking out of self hatred.  This was told by woman dancing in various locations, symbols and cinematography.

Contribution in my work

This music video was a huge production and was filmed in 5 different countries. This being in different countries meant having multiple different teams on different locations. This means that communication and collaboration was really important for this. These are actually 2 of are 5 guarantees for ecomm. Collaboration is super important for ecomm, especially the feature film. With all of our roles we both have to communicate with one another and collaborate. These are both skills we have already learned, but we will keep continuing on improving these skills.

What was done well?!

This music video was extremely aesthetically pleasing. The locations that were chosen were beautiful. This Music video was edited really well. I love how they told this story symbolically. Overall this music video is pretty much perfect and I don't think there is anything that could've been better.

Process.

In this project we got to make a short film on a chosen treatment. I choose "Cowardly Reflections". This was a unique script about death. For this film we started with pre- production. We finished the script then started story boards. We then scouted for actors and locations. During this , as art director, I made mood boards and listed props we needed. We pretty much failed at finding actors. Many alternatives were suggested but , I feel like my group just gave up. because of this we didn't end up with a short film. To solve this problem, I ended up making my own shortfilm. This was pretty hard because I did this myself, I even acted. To film it I had to work a lot with the tripod. I got a lot of equipment such as a canon rebel . While working on this i learned how to use this equipment. When I edited I experimented with sound. I tried making some folly to include in my film , I also mastered sequencing.  

5 Guarantees

Technical skills- 

I filmed this video, worked with new equipment and spent a long time editing.

Communication/Leadership

I tried to get the group to film, and come up with alternatives , but it failed.

Project Managment-

I took my own time to do my own film to turn in.

Reflection

Differently, I would probably choose a different group because they didn't work well. I also would add more to my final film because it was quite short  . I would solve problems like I did for this one the same. From this experience developed problem solving and leadership skills that will help me in the future. I am proud of myself for my work and I hope for better in future project

Entertainment semester 1

Projects

This semester included a lot of projects including a camera assignment, a treatment and a shortfilm.

Camera Assignment.

In this project we got to do any video we wanted as long if it included all the shots needed in the project. We ended up doing a short film titled 'The Watcher". This was a about a man trapped in an alternate reality unaware that its fake. This project took 2 long filming days and about 2 class periods to edit. We faced challenges in scheduling film days, when people couldn't show up. Because of this not everybody showed up to the filming days. Along the way I learned some lighting tricks and got to really know some of the upperclassmen in this class. I was also the editor so I bettered my editing skills on premiere after this project. At the end of this it came out with a lot of errors. Many said they could not follow the story line. There is nothing we changed from the original idea. Overall I'm not the biggest fan of this video although it had some very visually apealing shots and I hAd the most fun on this project this year.

The Watcher

Commercial

In This project we had to make a commercial for the product of our choosing . My group ended up doing a ramen noodle commercial for maruchan. This only took 2 hours of filming, and a week of class period for pre production and post production. We faced challenges in scheduling a date to film so not everyone showed up to the filming. From this project I learned a lot about advertising technique. We got very good feedback from this project infarct we placed 3rd in the voting. We often got critiques about getting rid of the logos. I am very proud of this project; this is my favorite of the semester.

Maruchan Commercial

Treatment 

In this project we were required to make a treatment for people to vote for dor the feature film. My story was "Ruby" . This was about a girl who becomes a magical girl during a traumatic experience to fight against sexism. She then befriends other magical girls like her. This took about a week of class to write as I faced some challenges; I struggled finding a good idea but once I found it the writing went smoothly. I learned a lot about story telling and script writing from this project. Many thought it was too hard to make so I got zero votes. I was really proud of this storyline and I hope to use it in the future.

Short film

In this project we get to make a short film on one of those treatments. I choose "Cowardly Reflections". This is taking a lot of time and we still haven't filmed anything because we lost actors. I'm gonna be real honest; I feel like some of my group members have given up and that they don't care about this project. I feel like they are not gonna put any effort to film over break , so ill make a surprise short film myself and with whoever wants to join. This project is teaching me a lot about the importance of pre- production

Strengths and Weaknesess.

During this semester I have learned the most in video that i ever have. At the beggining  I had a lot of struggles , but I have improved quite a bit since then. I mainly struggled with the technical aspect , such as using the microphone and the camera. To improve my skills I plan on playing and messing withe camera more often.

I also felt that the creative aspect was a strength because i feel like I always have ideas running through my head. Next semester I plan to Improve in my strengths by putting my best forward.

Guest speakers

Ryan- Ryan taught us a lot us about storytelling with editing. I can use these tios a lot more in the future.

Gordan- Gordan showed us some really cool equipment that we could use professionally. Ill take his tips and connections in the future

Leah- Leah taught us  some great camera tips. Every time I use a camera i look back to her tips about ISO.

Darby- Darby taught us a lot about pre production. She talked about the importance of social media which goes directly to me because i’m the social media content creator. I will use these tips while working on the feature.

Morgan Cooper- It was a honor to meet morgan cooper. He just casually talked about his life and the film world. He said he could be a connection and gave us a lot of inspiration. Feature role
I have skills with the usage of social media. I am
good at choosing proper hashtags and updating my story. I will also make visually appealing
graphics for the feed. I will put in my full effort to make videos and post to promote our movie.

Summary

This semester i enjoyed the small projects like the commercial the most. To make it better I would like the story telling unit to be smaller with less watching powerpoints and ted talks. I learned a lot about teamwork this semester. Next semester my goal is to try to step into the director role and become a leader.