Media Studies Portfolio

Here it is in full detail! The final film opening journey has come to a close but I am very excited for you to see it. I hope you enjoy. Signing off, AMANDA CORTES:)  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PzNmEYq17KHAMsWWvnFGSDwDoZaQQBH-

So for this post I am going to be reflecting on the entire process that this film opening has brought me through. I am glad I have finished this opening up and am now able to reflect on it. The film opening starts off with just a normal American citizen, whom we decided not to name since she won't have anything to do with the rest of the film, played by Val Tiralongo  who is just spending her night at home. She begins by trying to watch tv but it ends up not working so she gets frustrated and goes to the kitchen to go make herself some more oatmeal. As she leaves the room to go to the kitchen a national emergency plays and since she leave the room, she can not here the emergency that is going on. It is vital that she does not hear this since what happens next depends on that Then as the national emergency is playing over her making oatmeal we can see that she is not even paying attention to the broadcast that is playing. This broadcast is saying how there is hacker going aro

        Welcome to the second post of the week and if you can tell by my last post you can tell that I have been very busy during the break. Since I was at a national competition, I did not have enough time to be able to edit a lot of the film opening. This week I’m going to work hard and try to get most of it done as soon as I can since the deadline is around the corner.           When we were filming, it was night so we had to find method of creating a kind of light that would match the mood of the film and not make it look like something it is not. We did not capture much of the lighting that we used during the shoot, but it turned out looking decent in the shot. We used a series of flashlights, even the phone light which gave the subject a soft light and didn’t make it too harsh. The reason we decided to use light from the phone is because it has different setting and we are able to adjust the light to what we want it to look like.   When we used flashlights for a stinger li

       Hello everyone welcome back the blog. Spring break has been very hectic since I have been out of town the whole break due to a competition for TV. I have not really been editing the film since I had no time during the break. I also have not been talking to my partner since we have had very busy schedules. It is getting closer to the due date and I am hoping to be able to finish editing soon.           I haven’t made many drastic changes to our film since I like the direction it is going in. What I have been planning out is what is going to go on the tv during the film opening. We decided not to finish it before we went out to film because we wanted to make sure that we did not rush to finish it and make it look bad. So what we ended up doing is putting up a green screen on the tv to be able to add what we wanted in post production . It was a struggle in the beginning since the reflection of the color was very bright and was reflecting off of our subjects face. What we end

        For the last post of the week I am going to update you guys in what is going on with our film as a whole. Like I have mentioned a couple of times we have finished filming and i have looked over the clips and they look pretty good. The lighting I can fix while editing cause I want the atmosphere to look a little more dull and creepier. In my last post I talked about the virus that I am working on, which is almost done and I am excited to see how that is going to look all together. Since I am the one who is editing, I have to make sure I work a little more quicker since the deadline is coming up. Editing is a strenuous process, which is at least something that I enjoy doing.          What I am going to do first is put all the clips together, to make sure that we got all the shots we needed- I did get a lot of extra shots to be able to replace any if necessary. After I do all of this then I am going to go in and color correct any shots that I need to fix up. All that is left afte

        In this post I am going to be talking about what I am doing to improve the hack. I know that I have been posting a lot about this virus and hack, but at the moment that is what I am focusing on, since it is Honestly one of the most important parts of our film. I am close to getting the virus to how I want it.         In the beginning, I thought the virus was going to be completely different to what I have now. I thought our character was just going to be drawn in by the static on the tv. Now that we have changed this around we have made the virus a little more complex and visually appealing. Currently I am getting closer to the end of what I want it to look like, all I want to do is make it smoother than what I have at the moment. The transition between the shot of the virus and the eye is a little choppy. A way that I might be able to fix it is by fading the virus with the eye to make is a better transition. I just want to look like the virus is going into her eye. That is t