So I was not clearly paying attention to what our teacher was saying when explaining the CCR. We only have to cover two topics in each. So I revised the first script and transferred some of it over to the second.
To add up to the new open time, I elaborated on what the film exactly is, to give the viewer a better understanding of the film before I answer all these questions. Here is the finalized script for question 1 and 2 of the CCR:
What is up everyone I am Zain Vidal and I recently made a film opening titled “circles”. This film follows two merged pseudoscience concepts. Before I get into that, pseudoscience is the study of topics that cannot be proven true. Two popular practices that follow into pseudoscience are astrology and conversion therapy.
To continue on, Biorhythm and the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory and the two theories merged into my film opening. The Biorhythm concept is about peoples' daily lives being significantly affected by rhythmic cycles with periods of exactly 23, 28 and 33 days, typically a 23-day physical cycle, a 28-day emotional cycle, and a 33-day intellectual cycle. Founded in the late 19th century by Wilhelm Fliess.
The Strauss-Howe Generational theory is theorized recurring generation cycle in American history and Western history. Founded by William Strauss and Neil Howe in the late 1900’s.
We merged these two to make a film about a society where pseudoscience is real, and a women named Tina makes a book about it, with one little twist.
This film brings out representation of young women working under men in the industry. Tina is a 22 year old girl who is expected to do a difficult job without any guidance. Tina works day and night to finish writing this book. Showing this represents how women are just as good as men, even though they don’t get the same credit. According to linkedin, Globally, it is estimated that less than a third of leadership positions are held by women. In the United States and Canada, the situation is not much better, with only 37% and 35% of leadership positions being held by women, respectively, despite women comprising 47% and 46% of the workforce. This film shows that a women can be just as good as a man, despite the less opportunities they have.
This production is part of the mystery genre, having a target audience of 18-24. This target audience was chosen based off a couple factors.
1. The young representation. Tina is a young women who is struggling to keep up with all her work. She tries her best to stay organized but it is hard. According to the National Library of medicine, The prevalence of disorganized/controlling patterns was 15% among 20 young adults with no current psychiatric diagnosis. This gives the audience something to relate too.
2. To add onto this youth representation, is the seeing youth in power. Our film has both a young boss, and young women doing an extremely important task. This sort of representation influences the youth’s motives. It makes them think “I can do that too” According to the National Library of Medicine, The studies reveal the influence of films on people’s beliefs and opinions, stereotypes and attitudes. Movies can have a significant impact on gender and ethnic stereotypes, change attitudes towards certain groups of people and cause newly formed opinions on various issues. With this being said, Circles shows that anyone can do anything, and it surely influences people to believe so.
I went around to see how our target audience feels about this project.
(target audience hypes up wowwww)
Circles is available on Youtube, Instagram, and Tik Tok .Circles will soon be submitted to local student film festivals and award ceremonies. So, check it out.
For the second CCR, I deleted the first two sections because I no longer needed to answer those two questions. I added more to the other two sections, and transferred the answers from the unneeded part of the first CCR. The filled in bulletins is what the interviewer is asking me and the unfilled one is what I am saying back, here is the final script:
· What
exactly is this film about
o
This film is about Tina, a 22 year old
girl who is expected to do a difficult job without any guidance. Tina works day
and night to finish writing this mysterious book. Once it is just about over,
something horrible happens.
·
How did your production skills develop throughout the
project?
o What was
the process of creating the idea and conflict for the project?
§ It
took my team and I awhile to come up with an idea. We wanted to do a mystery,
just simply because we thought it was an interesting genre. After many failed
ideas, I decided to look up the exact definition of “mystery”. While researching this I found myself on britannica.com
definition of the genre. While reading this I stumbled across a word called
“pseudoscience” and I didn’t know what it meant. I did my research about it and
the rest is history.
o So what
exactly is pseudoscience?
§ According
to Oxford Languages, Pseudoscience is a collection of beliefs or
practices mistakenly regarded
as being based on scientific method. To put into simpler words, it is a
scientific practice that cannot possibly be proven true. A common example of
this is conversion therapy, or astrology.
o What
did you use with the knowledge of pseudoscience?
§ We
merged two popular practices that follow into pseudoscience, Biorhythm and the
Strauss-Howe Generational Theory. The Biorhythm concept is about peoples' daily
lives being significantly affected by rhythmic cycles with periods of exactly
23, 28 and 33 days, typically a 23-day physical cycle, a 28-day emotional
cycle, and a 33-day intellectual cycle. Founded in the late 19th
century by Wilhelm Fliess.
§ The
Strauss-Howe Generational theory is theorized recurring generation cycle in American history and Western history. Founded by William Strauss and Neil Howe in the
late 1900’s.
§ We merged these two to
make a film about a society where pseudoscience is real, and a women named Tina
makes a book about it, with one little twist.
o What
hardships did you face during the project?
§ We
had lots of hardships. Such as corrupted footage from one day. With this
footage the opening would’ve surpassed 2 minutes, so we probably wouldn’t have
been able to use it. We were able to leave our film opening off at her leaving
the house, instead of arriving at her location. We also had a lack of setting.
We were supposed to film in a real office building but we did not have those
resources available. We were overall able to get past that and get a film
opening that we are all proud of done.
o How did
your group work around your busy schedules?
§ We
were all extremely busy. I personally had a TV Production competition right in
the middle of the project, in the beginning one of my groupmates had a DECA
competition, and all of my group was gone for spring break. We had to film
pretty early on because of this. We also did not have all members at all the
filming days. This all wound up being fine, because we had good communication
with each other.
o What is
something new that you learned during the project
§ I
learned a lot about color grading, something I have never really experimented
with before.
·
How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware and
online-in this project?
o What did
you use to film the project?
§ The film is show
on a Sony A7III one of my favorite Sony cameras. With the two lenses used being a standard 50 mil and a
18-35 mil lense. The camera was placed on my personal tripod. The dialogue
audio was recorded with these super cool wireless GVM Mics. These mics
automatically sync into the camera.
o What was
the film edited on?
§ The film
opening was edited in adobe premiere, with our free school subscription. Here
we added many effects, color graded, and most importantly, put the clips all
together.
o Where
did you get the sounds?
§ We used
lots of artificial sound, found on Youtube and Pixabay. Some of the sounds
found included cars driving by, room tone, chair rolling, and footsteps.
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