The Final Bow - (#45)

      Hello, for the last time. It is time to wrap this up and take my final bow. I greatly appreciate this course, through all of the blood sweat and tears I've gone through. I had great expectations for this course, and it exceeded what I was expecting. I never thought I would make a mini film opening that shows my hard work that I did throughout this class. I've always enjoyed the time I had with my classmates and my teacher Mrs. Ortiz! I wanna thank her for being the best guide for this course. :) When I look back at my final film, it has now became my baby that probably needs a nap like I do, because of everything we went through. But low key, my film cam out greater than I thought it was going to, which makes me really happy. 

    I've had major growth from the beginning of this year, like the 30 second video, to now with editing and filming. I'm super proud of myself and I'm grateful that I had this opportunity to grow and show what I can do. You guys will miss my dad jokes, eventually and sorry it has to come to an end. 😔 But, I have one last one for you viewers and I hope it is my best one yet. Here is to my final bow. ♡

FINAL FILM OPENING

CCR  #1 LINK

Questions one and two

CCR #2 LINK 

Questions three and four

Final Dad Joke of the Day:

    If your house is cold, just stand in the corner.
        It’s always 90 degrees there.

CCR - Final Presentation (#44)

     What is up viewers!!! This is the final presentation with my voice over, for questions three and four. Hope you love it!

CCR #2 Link

Dad Joke of the Day:

    What do you call a potato wearing glasses?

        A spec-tater.

CCR - Planning for the Next (#43)

 Hello Guys!! Today I will be planning for the second CCR for questions three and four, respectfully;

"How did your production skills develop throughout the project?"

"How did you integrate technologies — software, hardware, and online — in this project?"

For question three, I will be showing an updated skills audit, comparing it from when I first did it to now, showing my growth and skills developing. For question four, I will be showing what technologies I used, such as my phone and websites I used for my film and how it helped me greatly. 

    I'm thinking of doing a presentation for these questions while having a voice over to explain a view important details, elaborating more, and giving examples. For this presentation, I'm making it Steamboat Mickey Mouse theme, which is public domain, so I can use it in my presentation no problem. I wanted to use steamboat mickey mouse because he is an iconic character to me since I've always seen him in movies that are nostalgic to me, like Tangled. 

(cullenanddykman, 2025)

        

Soon you guys will be able to see my presentation! I hope you like the theme and how I did the presentation. Here a small sneak peak, hehe:

Dad Joke of the Day:

     How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh?
          Ten-tickles!!

        cullenanddykman. (2025, October 7). Steamboat Willie in the Public Domain: Testing the Boundaries of Copyright and Trademark Law. Cullen and Dykman LLP. https://www.cullenllp.com/blog/steamboat-willie-in-the-public-domain-testing-the-boundaries-of-copyright-and-trademark-law/

CCR - The Final Magazine (#42)

     Hello guys!!! Here is the CCR for questions one and two. As spoken before this is a magazine to answer these two questions. I hope you like it!!

CCR One Link

These are each page of the magazine, incase the link isn't working. 

Dad Joke of the Day: 

    What’s a lazy kangaroo called?

            A pouch potato.

CCR - Making the Magazine (#41)

     Hello guys! Today I will give a sneak peak on the first CCR I am working on for questions one and two. My idea is to make a magazine answering these questions, and I will show the process in a video with a voice over! All of these are made on Canva. 

The Cover

    So the few things I'm going to share is the cover and table of contents, so you guys can see the theme and mood I'm going for here. Additionally, I will be showing the few inspirations I had while creating this magazine. 

These are the few magazines that inspired the design of mine: 

(UI Creative, 2025)

(Modern Fashion Magazine Template | 32+ Unique Layout, 2025)

    These designs are simple, minimalistic which is something I wanted to go for. I personally never do much over board, so I think these fit me as a person the most. As you're going to see, I did a similar design to this as it was simple, but still creative with a little flare. :)

    I added the picture of The Figure at the end as the cover photo because this is one of the most important moments in my film, so I thought it would be a great cover as well. So far, I think this project is coming out great and I hope you guys will like the final project when it's done! 😋

The Table of Contents

    So for the table of contents, I will be including; a background on myself, the answer to question one, answer to question two, and etc. 

    As shown here, I continue the minimalistic design with the small decals here and there. This is the order I will answer the questions and show examples. This will be the second thing you guys will see when opening my magazine for these two questions. I hope you like the design I have going on so far. Many magazines have their table of contents, with the background on the author and the many categories that they will be talking about, so this is why I went this way about it. 

Dad Joke of the Day:

    What cars do sheep drive?
        Lamborghinis!

References

    Modern Fashion Magazine Template | 32+ Unique Layout. (2025, June 2). GraphyPix LLC. https://graphypix.com/downloads/modern-fashion-magazine-template-1430/?srsltid=AfmBOorYQyGwQAahwoT_Q7mE7MXBx0EvHvmGw2wzazWUBRPFGk9GauHk

    UI Creative. (2025, April 3). 10 Best Layouts for Magazines 2025. UI Creative. https://uicreative.net/blog/10-best-layouts-for-magazines-2025.html?srsltid=AfmBOormWnPynjSojZ1LSZplG-LLdnz70HMx5iYUMp5FTOQBIGuR1n_o

CCRs - Planning for the first video (#40)

    Hello guys! Today I will be planning for my first CCR, which are the questions:

"How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues?"

"How does your product engage with audiences, and how would it be distributed as a real media text?"

    So for the first question, I'm talking about how my film use/challenge the horror conventions and represents social issues. My film does both, challenge and use horror conventions and in my video, I will use screenshots to show and compare from my film to real horror films. For the representation of social issues, I'm tapping into the student life, about procrastination. 

    

Some students could feel like this, causing procrasination.

    For the second question, my product would engage with the student audience, both high school and college students, because I feel in the student journey these moments are the hardest and mean the most. Some students would procrastinate because it's  too much on them, but at the end it'll bite them in the butt, like what happened in my film to Alana. I think this would be distributed by being put in small channels that do small horror films, like Crypt TV and ALTER. 

    

    To combine these two questions into one CCR,  I want to do a magazine and decorate it to match the theme of my film. Now to how I would go about it, I'm not 100% sure yet, that'll be soon. Let me cook up an idea twin. 😌

Dad Joke of the Day:

    The dry-erase board is the most remarkable invention.

CCRs - Learning and Planning (#39)

     Helloo Guys! Welcome back! I hoped you guys liked the film opening, and now it is time to move into the CCRs. Today in class, we watched some high scoring CCRs to show us what we are expected to do, and to give us examples/ideas of what to do for our CCRs. To start, here are the four questions we need to answer:

        

1. How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues?

2. How does your product engage with audiences, and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

3. How did your production skills develop throughout the project?

4. How did you integrate technologies — software, hardware, and online — in this project?

    These are the questions that I need to answer in either two, five minute videos or four, two and a half minute videos. I’m not sure what I want to do, especially that this is something new to me. I think I want to do at least three videos. The only problem is, what creative ideas can I do? 

For question one – How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues? – Since I challenge the normal conventions of the horror genre by not using lowkey lighting, but also using the convention of a dark figure following the girl, Alana. This is something I can say for question one in my CCRs. 

For question two – How  does your product engage with audiences, and how would it be distributed as a real media text? – Since my film isn’t top tier, I would leave it on YouTube as a short film, while also advertising it on social media stories and small posts to get it out there. Another way would be to put it on small story channels on YouTube. 

    For question three -- How did your production skills develop throughout the project? -- In this question I would show an updated skills audit and talk about my experiences. Additionally, I would explain how these experiences helped me.

    For question four -- How did you integrate technologies — software, hardware, and online — in this project? -- I would talk about my editing process and what I used to edit, what I used to film, and more. I would explain how this helped me during my filming two minute film opening, The Assignment.

    So I think this would be a great start for what I can for my CCRs. The next thing it is to think about how to make these videos in a creative way while still answering them. Can't wait!

Dad Joke of the Day:

        All fruits go to vacation in Pear-is!