CREATIVE CRITICAL REFLECTION

FINAL PROJECT

I'm so excited to finally say we have completed our project! Hacked is about a girl named Isabella that got "stabbed in the back" when her boyfriend cheats on her with her best friend. Now it's time to stab him in the back, literally. Oh and her best friend will be the one doing so since Isabella hacks her brain. It brings a whole new twist to the betrayal of best friends and I can't wait to share it with you guys! I hope you enjoy the first 2 minutes!
                                                                 -Carolina

 

WRAPPING UP

Ok so as this project is coming to an end, my group and I are wrapping everything up. We have filmed the screen cast and the voice over. We are going to insert it at the beginning of the film to help the viewers truly understand the purpose of our film. Tomorrow we will get together during class and finish the last few things and if we need more time we will meet up after school to finish. So far it looks as if we will have enough to finish during class. For the CCR, since it is individual I have begun to take notes of what I will speak of and I will film it on Saturday. Until next time!
                                                 - Carolina

DEAD LINE APPROACHING

So the dead line is approaching and we're a little stressed out. Today we downloaded the program to make a screen cast and we are going to film it today (hopefully, maybe, I'll let you guys know). We are trying to establish that Isa is the hacker without actually showing it (like the video my teacher showed us said: give the audience 2+2 but never 4).  We are thinking of making the background of the computer a picture of Isa and Caroline so they can connect the dots and realize that Isa is indeed the hacker. This will draw the attention of viewers (especially teens aka our targeted audience) since they will realize that this is a best friend betraying another best friend. We also establish that the whole thing revolves around Isa controlling Caroline's brain as a plot for revenge since she will speak saying "she will see. She will get just what she deserves." while showing the screen cast of her coding. Once again looking somewhat like the image below.

I'll either post later today or tomorrow to let you know how the screen cast filming went. Talk to you soon!
                                                                     - Carolina Moreno

EDITING, PLAYING WITH SOUND, SCREEN CASTS

Ok so I know I came up with the intro but.... I'm not a fan of how it's turning out so far. We still need to edit but I think that the film is kind of.. simple not very thriller like or sci-fi like. I got some suggestions from friends and I do think we can work with what we have but tweak it a little bit and make it truly amazing. Isa's currently playing around with the clips to see if there's a way to include some extra film I took on the side of Caroline freaking out when she put the contact in her eye. It was a real reaction aka the best acting that would be included (since it's not really acting).  Also it was uncomfortably quiet and that's not the sound we are going for so we are also playing with sound effects on garage band. All in all, I personally like the filming stage more since it's very funny when we mess up 6234 times! The editing is a little stressful since this is when we catch certain mistakes that throw us a little off and make us freak out a little but were working on the editing and sound so hopefully we can pull it together and make this opening amazing. Another thing that's been kind of hard is there's four of us and one computer to edit on. It's a little rough but we are all trying to contribute our opinions to make this project amazing. Oh and another thing is we still need to do the screen cast of the computer coding. This all needs to be done before Friday so we can reflect upon our project. So you can just imagine the pressure and stress were all under *screams internally*. Talk to you guys later!
                                                           - Carolina

PSA: COLOR CONTACTS HURT

Hey guys! So like I told you earlier we filmed today and what I learned today was..... COLORED CONTACTS HURTTT! So Caroline had to use the colored contacts to show her brain was hacked and it was so hard to use! She cried because of how much they hurt. We won't be using those contacts ever again! Poor Caroline had such a struggle putting them on and then keeping them in! Plus we couldn't get the shot right so we re-filmed a few times and she just wanted to get them out already! I took some videos of the struggle. Enjoy!!!

Here's some video I edited so you guys can watch our struggle without having to watch all the slow parts. Also I'm going to edit some bloopers and I'll be posting them soon !

                                                                  - Carolina

GOOD NEWSSS

Hey guys! I'm so happy to inform you that my group decided to go with my idea and do the night time scene instead. We discussed it and realized it would be a lot easier since filming in school brought on a lot of obstacles such as people walking in and out of the scenes, lots of noise, and limited time. Today we are filming and everyone will come over my house to film. I cleaned up my room and left books in visible places so we can show that she is a good girl who likes to read and is very studious. I also cleaned my bathroom since one scene will be of her washing her face. So here's step by step what we kind of want to do:
The typical good girl (name undecided) will get a FaceTime call from her "Best friend" right before going to bed. She will answer and continue getting ready for bed (we're gonna show this by her brushing her hair, bringing down the blinds, closing the closet, and things like that ). While talking to her "friend" she will feel a shock through her headphone but she will take it off to examine it but see that nothing is wrong with the headphone. She will then begin to feel very dizzy and not herself so she will say goodbye to her "friend" and rush to the bathroom to splash water in her face. When she looks up into the mirror she will have bright blue creepy eyes. Then we will zoom into her face and show her close her eyes and maybe edit it to fade to black but as a blink kind of motion. Then on the black screen code will appear and using that code we will establish who's starring in the film and the name of the film.

The whole idea of this movie is that her so called "best friend" is the one behind the hacking of her brain. She will unintentionally kill her boyfriend (who happens to be her friend's ex) and when every thing spirals out of control and she finds out her brain was hacked which caused for her to do those horrible things she will cry out to her "best friend" asking why she would do something to her like that. That's when the friend would explain her plan for revenge since she stole her boyfriend. Since our target audience is teens to early twenties, we decided to go the best friend back stabbing route since teens enjoy the typical high school drama. So here we are presenting to you our teen film with a twist. I hope you like our film idea because I would actually love to see this movie! I'll probably blog later today and let you know how our filming day went and any obstacles or concerns we may have.
                                                                          - Carolina