Creative Critical Reflection

And because you guys deserve it, here's a little inside look on the opening of Hacked :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgDy1vfmEPw&nohtml5=False

Final Project

This is it. The opening is done. Thank you so much for your support and feedback through the process of this movie. I would to thank my team: Isa, Carolina and Caroline. Without them this wouldn't have been possible. And a special thanks to my teacher, Mrs.Stoklosa, for making us more than ready to make this project get accomplished. A lot of hard work has gone into the creation of Hacked, it wasn't easy, but it came out amazing. So here's our movie... hope you like it!

Hacked by Isabella Castro, Carolina Moreno, Caroline Johnson and Mariana Guerra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU8jygFMhgE

The Twelfth Thought

Today has been a very progressive day. Finished the video comments/questions which will help me not be so stressed out in the future. (I actually get stressed easily, but instead I kinda shut down and go into a different universe, and then when i wake up I eventually get everything done, so... no stressing out for Mariana in this project. ) And when I wrote the answers I loved how incorporated the genres and the big social norm we are breaking free from. And even I while writing everything down, was so proud of the group and I. Im super happy of the things we have been able to create together. Couldn't have asked for a better team. Another accomplishment is that we finally decided the ending of the opening scene, which will give a small little hint to the audience that Isa is the reason for Caroline going crazy. Tomorrow in school we are also going to take a picture of Isa and Caroline because that will be the background of Isa's computer. Super excited for the next couple of days, final cut people!!!!!!!!!

The Eleventh Thought

Can you believe after all this time we forgot to give the film a title! That's hysterical in my opinion. Well then the four of us brainstorming, I think we are going with the name "The Code". It has a really nice ring to it. And then of course Carolina speaks up and says that its perfect, because at the same time she broke the girl code. Not going to lie, we all laughed a little, but then thinking about it, it actually really does make sense. A little play on words. So imagine going to the movie and going through the allies and then a giant poster catching your eye and it says the The Code with two girls under it. It's kinda ironic if your think about it. Look at this imagines, (of course our movie would star Isa and Caroline.

I started woking on the questions as well! Progress! Trying to get everything thing done as soon as possible! Motivation! We only have 5 more days! No time to waste!

A Quick Pause

So here's the quick video (that I promised the other day) of an obstacle that we had to overcome which was the contact lens. So here's a quick behind the scenes of Caroline trying to wear the neon blue contact lens. Caution: We do not advise to wear these contact lens, nor do we want to scare you of wearing contact lens. It's just not as easy as it seems, especially the first time. Well here you go!

Anyway today we starting to edit today. And hopefully on friday we will be able to finish editing and finish our video comments, WHOOP WHOOP.
Right now me and Isa are looking through sound effects since none of them can be copyrighted. And hahaha literally writing that sentence we found the sound we were looking for (a zap). You guys bring me good luck! All in all the film is looking amazing, and I'm super excited for you guys to see the finishing touches.

The Tenth Thought

Changes Changes Changes Changes. This is literally all that describes the past weekend. In the end we stayed with our original idea, but looked at it at whole different perspective. Realizing that filming at home is much easier than filming school, we decided to base the opening at home. And then also (although it would have been awesome) we dropped opening the credits with the coding perspective because its actually pretty hard to make it as cool and graphic as we actually wanted to make it. Another aspect which was dropped was the boyfriend pitch. The reason for this whole process is because of the opening but will be known later on throughout the movie. What we actually did was that we left the audience with a hook. One that they wont be able to stop watching the film because they need to know the rest of the story unless they will never be able to sleep (at least that's what we're looking for haha)
So now basically the girl will get a Facetime call from her "bestfriend" at night. Gossiping and talking the friend persuades her to put her earphones in. Once she does, she gets an immediate shock (coincidence? I think not!) Logging off, she goes to the bathroom and the viewer is able to view her eyes changing! (Now do you still think its a coincidence?) And that's how far we've gotten. Good right? Well then a mini speak peak, is that during the rest of the movie the best friend is subconsciously controlling her "bestfriend" to kill her boyfriend (since it was her ex) and then that way we still capture the target audience of because of the typical knife to the back teenage drama. In a little ill post some behind the scene clips that consider ever wearing contacts again.

The Ninth Thought

Just got some amazing feedback from the other classes who looked through my blog. The comments were opened my eyes to the some technical issues that I didn't even realize we're there haha. Besides that all I got was great comments and how they lived my voice. Which makes me really happy. At the same time looking through the other blogs I realized that I really need to step up my game a little. So keep a closer eye on my posts and see if you can realize the difference. 

Anywaysss changing topic, me and my group have had a major set back, now we changed the whole beginning. And what we filmed the other day is not even going to be used. Especially since none of it had any flow to it. Then the contact lens, cost too much and won't be come in time so we are managing with one eye contact.This is so stressing because these "minor" setbacks actually have a huge effect on the time and project. Well this Saturday we are refilming everything, so I'll keep you guys updated. With probably a whole new beginning, but in the end this process makes the filing and flow come easier. I'll explain after we film and we actually have everything settled down. Cross your fingers!