Reflection

    Hey blog! It's been great talking to you guys and keeping you guys updated with my project. I'm going to show you guys everything I talked about in my CCR down below. I just want to say that this has honestly been a learning process that has taught me so much. I am pleased with the way that our project turned out and I hope you guys like it as well! Thanks for everything!

   I played as the actor for our film opening, Footsteps. My partners for the project were Alejandro Carranque and Artur Diniz Santos. The film is a thriller based on a veteran from war suffering from a very severe from of PTSD. Alejandro worked as the director for the project while Artur was filming. The project began 7 weeks ago and started off great as we thought of our idea as soon as the project commenced. However, we hit some bumps on the road as one of our group members left our group. Even though we had hit a rough patch, we decided to go with our initial idea of the war veteran. We drew up a couple of different screenplays with a couple of different scenarios. Even though our general idea was always planned out, we were trying to come up with a way to successfully deliver all our information in the span of two minutes. We originally planned to have the flashback occur in a different setting and way, but decided to go a different route later on. We thought that we could portray the PTSD as much more serious if we went with the therapy scene at the beginning.

  So a typical genre convention generated from thriller is the sense of anxiety. The films try to stress out and cause an act on the viewers. For example, they’ll try to get viewers very attached to the characters while at the same time be interested in the thrill of the film. Our film does so by giving off a negative vibe at the beginning while trying to attract the viewers more to the character throughout the film. Once we reach the last shot, I believe that the viewers have already become attached in a way to the character and sort of feel for him. Another aspect of thriller films is that they tend to contain very dark colors and shades in order to add suspense to the film. In this case, however, we decided to go the other way. We thought that we did not really need dark colors to add meaning to the film. We thought that the film would look much better if we used as much natural lighting as possible and also include lights. While this was challenging the natural conventions of a thriller, we believe that in this case it just worked best to include as much light as possible. The film opening also very much represents issues faced today as PTSD is a very real thing, which thousands of veterans suffer from. Therefore, we believe that our film could raise awareness to the issue and we wanted to show how horrible it really is. We researched as most as we could about the topic so what we filmed could seem as realistic as possible.

  Our film is relatable to hundreds of thousands of families. Since PTSD is such a common thing, we believe that we are engaging with our audience because they can identify themselves with what they’re watching. As they watch the film, they may become attracted to the film because of the reality of the issue or just because they feel for the character. The script of the film is not at all comedic or sarcastic. Therefore, we believe that our film would definitely be looked as a real media text because it’s so real. The issue is so real and so common that people would feel enticed to watch our film. While watching our film, they become attached to Lieutenant Harvey and they then see our film as real and serious. Our film is portrayed as real and therefore would be interpreted as real.

   

 Technology played  a huge role in our film opening. From the camera we used to film to the software we used to edit. Alejandro decided on Wevideo to edit. Since he was the editor, he got to choose what he used. To film we had a camera that Artur borrowed from his dad that really upped the production. Overall I believe that the technology we used helped us improve the overall quality of our film.