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CCR Question 6: Navier

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How did you integrate technologies in this project? Technology is very important in the filming process. Every aspect of recording and completing the process is immersed in it. More than filming, editing, or research, the most challenging aspect of this project was blogging. Putting my thoughts into words, trying to describe the process isn’t easy for me and sometimes my brain just can’t find the words. Trying to type out the events that took place was a challenge even though I knew exactly what happened. It was not the longest part of the project, but I had the most difficultly with it. The part of this project that took the most time was the editing. My final task included the most comprehensive editing I had ever done. How I was going to order the footage was my first task, and this changed several times. My scenes were often long and contained footage that I didn’t want to include. Cutting these pieces and ordering the ones I wanted to keep was the biggest task of the editing p...
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CCR Question 5: Navier

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How did your production skills develop throughout this project? I think the biggest change I’ve made as a film maker is focusing on the perspective of the audience. Visual impact has become important to me in the production process. Focusing on perception and implication has forced me to reconsider how angles, lighting, location, and costumes play a role in bringing a character to life. The personality of a character can really shine through the details in a scene. This project has made me very aware of the fact that any role in acting or editing is not suitable to my skill set or character. The nature of these roles requires intense patience and emotional inference and expression. Memorization and repetition are key for success. These are not my strengths. I did, however, enjoy the directing process. Creating and building an image outside of my own mind is something I wasn’t aware I would enjoy, but very much did. Taking a story and being able to share it with people, the same way...
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CCR Question 4: Navier

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How would your final task be distributed as a real media text? I believe the most influential marketing tool is social media. As action movies are typically focused on a younger audience, I believe popular social platforms will be the most effective advertisements. Of course, other methods of marketing would be used; however social media would be the priority as its influence has risen in recent years. Sharing the trailer of my film on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok could be influential in terms of viewer turn out. Its important to focus the marketing to the right people, otherwise its simply money wasted. And social media is filled with an accurate target audience. Short clips with intense visual impact are most effective in drawing in viewers. The attention span of modern society is dropping so the first few seconds of a clip should be high impact. Another aspect of social media marketing is the cost, or lack of therefore. In essence, it’s free way to raise awarenes...
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CCR Question 3: Navier

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How does your final task engage with audiences? For my final task, I really wanted to focus on angles. It was important to me to get more dynamic perspective than I did in any previous projects. Because of this I tried to get as much detail through angles as possible. This means showing the same scene several times from different angles. This is reflected in one example where multiple angles are used when recording a scene in which Navier is falling from a cliff. *show scene* I believe this kind of ranged filming gives a more in-depth and professional feeling. I also think that the plot line was fairly interesting. The idea of a female heroine is something I hope will get the attention of the audience, particularly one with a larger female percentage. Action films tend to be pretty popular because they are faced paced and don’t get boring. I believe my final task successfully maintains that constant progression people enjoy in this genre. Some of my scenes allowed viewers to make in...
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CCR Question 2: Navier

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How does your final task represent social groups or issues)? My final tasks feature a female heroine. In doing this, I hope not only to represent a gender, but also to break several preconceived notions. For example, Navier, my protagonist, is a skilled fighter and talented combatant with a silver tongue; however, I also hope to establish that she is also someone who also enjoys things that fit into a typically feminine stereotype; something that has recently become something for girls to be shamed for liking. Navier can kick a bad guy’s butt in a ball gown and prefers if her knives have pink handles. By implementing aspects of femininity into a role that would be usually masculine, I hope to encourage little girls to be whatever and whoever they want, without having to worry about roles or stereotypes. As a result of Navier’s powers and past, I also hope to establish that her humor and personality was born after enduring intense trauma and suffering severely from PTSD and depressio...
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CCR Question 1: Navier

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How does your final task use or challenge conventions? My final task is an action film. The genre of action usually contains violence, romance, weaponry, defined character roles, dominant gender representation, faced-paced editing and a fairly predictable chain of events. Many of Hollywood’s most beloved productions are action films. For example, Deadpool, James Bond, Mission Impossible, the Avengers, Ocean’s 8 and John Wick. Action movies are typically high budget productions due to the costs of mimicking action scenes realistically along with the high-tech nature of these films. However, as a result of the high costs associated with filming, there are also high profits. Avengers: Endgame was one of the highest grossing action films in history with a $890 million in profit, but the budget of this major picture, Hollywood production was a whopping $356 million. It is the nature of action films for there to be conflict and to accomplish this there are several key roles in every actio...
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Final Task: Navier

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I have linked my final project above. This project has been something that I have both sincerely enjoyed and genuinely struggled with. Because of COVID and other circumstances, filming the later scenes was impossible and resulted in a change in plan. This is something that caused a lot of stress for me as I did this project alone. However, I do belive that the resulting video turned out better than I planned, and I loved the filming process. Even the editing, which I had a lot of issues with was something that I appreciated by the end of the project.
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