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final task

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 This project was very fun and improved my editing and filming skills greatly. It helped me express creativity through media and film. At times it was very stressful, but it helped me learn to manage time greatly. This was a setback during my project, however I was able to take time out of days to work on this. There was also things happening in my personal life that caused me to miss some deadlines but I still tried to get the work done because it was my biggest stresser. I came across many technical difficuties such as my blogger not saving things and at one point my computer broke and I had to get a new one. It was hard to balance mental health, other AICE exams, work, sports, and family while doing the project but I am happy that I still tried. This project taught me how much work you have to put in to put together  a successful film. It helped me apply the things I have learned this year to actually filming a project. I had to think about key things we had learned such as CAMS AND
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changes

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 A lot of changes had to be made for this project along the way. Nothing ever goes perfectly as planned. One thing people must consider when filming is not to expect perfection. My intention with everything I do is always to strive for progress, not perfection. I had to adjust and make changes because of poor time planning and other unfortunate events having occurred along the way. Sometimes I have bigger ideas than I can achieve because I expect more than I can do and tend to hold myself to a higher standard than I can achieve. The big plans I make sometimes cannot be achieved to their full extent. When I first started this project, I wanted things very different, in fact, an entirely different genre. The original genre I had planned to do was action with police and other things like that, and yes I could have done that but with all of my other classes and AICE tests coming up, that would have been something bigger to manage than I needed. I started brainstorming other ideas and other
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film review

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 The film process was very interesting and long. It feels like a weight has been taken off my shoulders.   I had many obstacles to overcome, but always found a solution even if it took a lot of thinking and some help from my friends Jenna and Jade. The whole process of making this final task really caused me to appreciate moviemaking more. It is fun but extremely time consuming and often very stressful, especially as a beginner. I did learn a lot. I learned that no matter how hard it is, you have to persevere and keep trying to find new ways out of tough situations and things like this take hard work and dedication, yet it is worth it in the end. In this project, I perfected my filming and editing skills and also exercised my creativity. I practiced shooting from different angles and trying new things like panning the camera. I learned how to add in music and cut it. I also became more familiar with using imovie just overall. When you have to do it by yourself, a brightside is learning
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music!

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I could talk forever about music. Music always makes me feel certain ways depending on what music I am listening to. Getting into good music changed my life for the better. If I listen to sad music, I will be sad. When I am in a good mood I love listening to upbeat songs by The Cure and The Smiths. When I am sad and need comfort I listen to Frank Ocean. He is my go-to for every emotion and always will be I could never get sick of him. I am very versitile and I love all kinds of music. I listen to all different genres from every decade. Whenever my friends play different songs I always know them. I am the one in the friend group who knows any and every song. This is a blessing and a curse, as I am also really indesicive. The music aspect of this project had lots of setbacks that took a while to fix. The music I was trying to use would not download and I was experiencing issues with my phone. I learned to use iMovie on my phone because when I first started this class, I did not own a com
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editing continued

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 I had to delete a bunch of apps and photos for my clips to be able to download. Finally, after so much time trying to get my stuff to download, it finally did. I could finally start editing for real. I started cutting all of my videos and trying to add effects, whether it was lighting effects or cool eye catching transitions. I learned how to do this in between the music video and this project. The two themes of the girls paired really well together. I tried to keep everything with the same color scheme. The skater girl's theme was red so I tried to keep all of her clips with the consistent red theme and Jenna's with the pink theme. This way, it would clearly give off different vibes I was trying to achieve. The music I selected was also aimed to fit with each vibe. For example, I picked American Idiot by Green Day for Jade's character because when I look at Jade, I just feel like that is what she would listen to. I was going to pick that or Rockstar Made by Playboi Carti
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editing

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 For this task, I knew editing was going to be fun. Since I know more about editing now than I did before, I think my editing has progressed since I have edited more now and it only gets better with practice. For this task I had planned to do more special effect editing, not too crazy, but since it was Freaky Friday I was gonna try and edit cool lightning and things like that. Editing took a lot longer than expected because I had to cut several clips and sometimes I cut them a bit short so we even had to refilm some clips. The music aspect also took a while as well. The music I was trying to use would not download and I was experiencing issues with my phone. I learned to use iMovie on my phone because when I first started this class, I did not own a computer to edit it on. Since that is what I learned on, it just makes things less difficult to edit on my phone because my computer also experiences difficulties as well. I am familiar with my phone, so I edit on there. After a couple days
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filming and improvising

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Another thing I realized is I did not want to film at school, I already am nervous at school so there is no way I would have allowed myself to film. There also is not that much time to film at school and I just like to remain unnoticed there so I had a backup plan. The movie starts with me and jenna each waking up for school, to show that we are teenagers. Usually that is how coming of age teenager movies go, I feel like they are always showing one girl who is put together and ready for school and another girl who just wakes up and rolls out of bed and picks the first pair of a shirt and shorts that she spots. I had planned to show me late for school, skateboarding there, skipping class, eating pizza. To show contrast I had Jenna be at school ten minutes early, in her outfit she planned the night before, getting ready slowly because she wakes up early enough, and eating a balanced breakfast. The Freaky Friday switch was to happen at lunch in the cafeteria, and I was going to blank out
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