Maelee Scaglione's Final Project Blog

          In the past few months, my increased knowledge of the media has resulted in a change in my relationship with it. With the implementation of the final project, I would say the greatest  cause of a  change in my relationship with the media  is my experience with filmmaking.  In making the film opening sequence, I was given insight into the challenges of filmmaking, somethi n g I have never experienced firsthand before.  Knowing just how difficult it is to create realistic lighting, audio recording, and manipulate sets and props, even on such a small scale, has made me appreciate the art  of filmmaking so much more.  Additionally, storing footage, exporting it into an editing software, and then editing it in a way that pleases you also present extreme obstacles.  As somebody who has  had   amateur  experience with editing, the project was definitely a reality check of just  how difficult the...

 A secondary approach I can take to make my Creative Critical Reflection is recording an interview. To achieve this, I would need video footage of somebody asking me the four required questions. The interviewer could also ask a few filler questions in between. This would make the interview feel a bit more natural and realistic. I would need to record this interview in a suitable setting, which may be challenging to put together. However, the main focus would be on what is being said, so the setting would just need to be simple. The director I showed for my podcast example did various interviews on her film rendition of Wuthering Heights as well. She did one with the company Picturehouse, in which the interviewer asks various questions about specific aspects of the film. Recreating something like this seems very doable and effective. 

One approach I would take to making my Creative Critical Reflection would be to record a podcast. This method would allow for me to answer the four required questions in an efficient way. The greatest challenge in creating the podcast would be recording crisp, good quality audio. I will also need to decide if I want a video element of the podcast, or if I want to only utilize audio recording. The former approach may be more time consuming, but also more entertaining. The podcast The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast speaks with directors of upcoming films, analyzing their production and creative processes. In a recent episode, Emerald Fennell discussing many aspects of her film rendition of Wuthering Heights.  Recording something like this, where I answer the questions regarding my film’s production would be a fun, effective way to reflect on my experience.

 As our production phase comes to a close, my group and I are pretty pleased with the advances made on our project. There is still a lot to be done, however, putting together a rough cut made it very clear that our imagined concepts can be made into a cohesive film opening sequence. We were able to record all of our footage in one evening, which was a lot larger of an undertaking than we expected. Having to work  against unwanted audio, bad lighting, and shaky camera movement all at once is very difficult. A lot of our scenes were outside, with our only source of light being the sun. This made it challenging to get the lighting to appear as we wanted. However, the brightness adds to the youthful, warm, coming-of-age feel, so it all worked out! Being outside also made wind apparent in our audio, which was unwanted, but tolerable. As we move into post-production, we will need to record a voiceover for the very beginning of the sequence. This may present a few obstacles. However,...