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 Hello everyone,  Here is the link to the Creative Critical Reflection to my film opening "Bounce Back" CCR https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fkbnbHaYVim4ewFTEweTrRNYAM5arzvO/view?usp=sharing Thank you all for tuning in, I will be posting my film opening tomorrow.

    As weird as it might sound I would like to announce that my Cambridge Portfolio Project is coming to an end. It has been eight long weeks filled with many emotions but now that it is all done I have never felt so satisfied and proud of the dedication and hard work I put into it.      The past several weeks have really worked my brain overtime and though it was fun, I am glad to present everything I have put together. My next and final two postings will be the film opening and a critical creative reflection I have created to summarize and go deep within the thought process and production process of the film opening. I ran into many problems over these 8 weeks but gladly I was able to overcome them with the help of my classmates and my teacher. Please stay tuned and check back the next two days to finally see what you have been waiting for, my final film opening "Bounce Back".

      Unfortunately, I have ran into a major problem, as I mentioned before in one of my previous vlogs I had planned to film the beginning  of my opening at the basketball courts at Weston Regional Park. I had decided that I wanted to film the basketball part at night with the lights shining on the court, so it would give a "Friday Night Lights" type of vibe which I thought would be the best for that scene.      I have been going to those courts for a long time and they have always shut off at 10pm and I have just found out as I went to film that due to COVID-19 they are turning the lights off at 8pm, the problem comes with the fact that in the city where the court is located, the sunset is at 7:30pm so it is almost impossible to film anything with the full night out in the sky and the lights shining on the court.     So now I either have to go around the city of Weston and find a court with lights that turn off after the sun goes down so I can film at night or readjust my p

  Before filming I wanted to make sure I was prepared for what I believe is one of the most challenging, editing. I do not really have much experience with editing video and the types of software, so I reached out to some people that do have experience with these softwares and they all told me that for someone with my experience Adobe Premiere Pro will be the best app for the editing part of my film opening. So today I decided to play around with it and get a good feeling of how it works and after that it feels like the program is not very hard to use but I do not want to jinx anything before I get into the actual process. I will be filming and editing this week so stay tuned as I take you all through the process.

  I will be recording the film from my phone since I was not able to find a more professional camera but I have tried it out and from past experience I know that the phone will get the job done.           I will be using a tripod that I bought that I believe will help me not have any shaky shots which are very noticeable in a film and kind of make the viewers feel as if they are watching something unprofessional. Other than these two things there is nothing I need on the filming part of the film opening but there are things I do need to put in the film like the costumes, the props, etc...

  I have now received full permission from the artist, Yorghaki, he has told me that everything is fine with me using his music for my film opening. All I have to do now is to just choose which songs are the ones I want to use, I will choose these songs based on how I feel they match the energy of film opening the best. I feel like music is key to setting the mood in a movie, so I am very thankful Yorghaki is allowing me to use his work for my film opening so I just wanted to give a huge thanks to Yorghaki and I will try my best to using his music in the best way I can.