Agustin's AICE Media Studies Blog

    This is the link for my Creative Critical Reflection of this whole project for the film opening 'John: The Movie' : https://youtu.be/WPcYl9fkgAc This CCR video was edited using Clipchamp -

     This is the link for our groups finished film opening sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKZhsYhflb4&list=PL-o9lSw9faThVJJxMcfET01nRPWQeYg1W      By- Agustin Del Rio, John Arricivita, Rahul Barua, and Justin Hoyt

    This week on Wednesday we were given time to work on our portfolios and start tidying up and finishing everything with the due date coming up. I took this time to work on the editing of the CCR my group and I recently finished filming. I also reviewed some of my previous blogs to add some more pictures and refine the overall look. We also got more evaluation of our portfolios from our teacher, and overall, it all seemed to be looking good and on time to finish by the required date. I plan to finish my portfolio by Monday, and possibly take one last look on seeing if I could refine and style my blog even more.

      With some of the extra time we had we decided to make this feel all the bit more real by creating a poster of what we envision the movie poster for this incredible film would be. One of our group members, Rahul, took the responsibility of editing and creating a masterpiece which engulfs all of the deep emotions that 'John' felt within the film opening. Although the poster may not be up to a professional viewpoint, it sure does fit with our comedic & satirical film style. Another reason of why we created this poster is because it also correlates with one of the four questions asked by Cambridge in the CCR, having to do with engagement and distribution of the media. Below is the poster:

      After reviewing the footage for my CCR, I came to the conclusion that it just was not good enough. I felt that it felt short of what I could really do. It felt rushed, improvised, and just overall not up to my expectations. On the day of the filming of it, we didn't take it too seriously, we were getting frustrated on things and the explanations and overall reflection part of the CCR didn't seem sit right after reviewing it. I felt as if none of us were prepared on the day and we just wanted to get it over with. So on second thought I will keep the interview style of the CCR but I will scrap everything but the interviewer and pretend it is an over the phone on TV interview. In which I will just voiceover over things like clips, images, bloopers, and more to really and deeply answer the questions correctly and formally.

      Today we filmed our CCR. The creative part of this Creative Critical Reflection was in the way in which we filmed it and the way it's going to be edited. It is meant to seem like an interview styled video with a comedic but serious effect. In the edit we will also be including voice-overs, clips, bloopers, and more to further develop and elaborate on our points presented during the interview. Below are some pictures taken on the day of the filming process:

     For our CCR, we are thinking about meeting up together as a group again this weekend so we could get them all filmed in one day and edited after. As for the scheduling it will either be this Friday in the afternoon or Sunday morning because of other activities and plans everyone has going on. What we are almost sure on is that the creative part of the CCR will be an interview styled reflection. As a group we will all answer some questions and reflect on our work and what we have learned. On our own we will also do one on one interviews answering the 4 required questions from Cambridge and reflecting on what we learned as an individual instead of a group this time. In the editing process of our CCR’s we will also include bloopers, screenshots, and more to show what we were talking about and analyze specific clips and photos to show what we learned.