Reflection

  Bedtime is a horror movie with slasher elements and stars me and Murphy Rodgers. Now, before I go into the questions I need to answer, I'd like to go over a brief synopsis of the film itself. In Bedtime, a college girl who assumes she is being haunted sets up a camera in order to catch the supposed ghost. However, she gets more than she bargained for when a man appears from under her bed, and smothers her with a pillow, which is all caught on camera.
  Now I would like to go over the conventions that my product uses. As a horror film, it challenges and breaks several conventions. For example, it sticks with the "college girl is murdered in the safety of her own home" that many other horror films follow. However, I like to think that I put a unique spin on that formula, by splicing it with the Paranormal Activity style of found footage. That's because the girl in this movie is genre-savvy: however, it's for the wrong genre. She thinks she's catching a ghost, when, in reality, she's being stalked by something much more real and much more deadly. This brings us to the actual social group that I am semi-satirizing. That is, those who believe whole-heartedly in ghosts. That's because I myself am a big proponent of Occam's Razor, or that the simplest explanation is the most likely one. However, the girl in my video does not, and thinks that all of her trouble, or at least, the scary ones, can be attributed to ghosts, only for her to find out they are much more real.
 

CCR

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CC9BMv8VEimZaIowCzbilVC8lpqFFzFe

Final Video

Writing my CCR

  I've run into a slight roadblock with my CCR. I know what questions to answer, and generally how to phrase them, but I'm finding it difficult to put my exact thoughts to paper. Which is very frustrating, because I'm so close to being done. I think what I have to do is take a step back, and try to reanalyze my finished products. Ask myself why I made each decision, and make sure that my actual reasoning is sound. Because, after all, if I can't convince myself, how am I supposed to convince the grader?
  Currently, I am about 1/3 of the way through my CCR script, but I think I can most likely power through and get it done this weekend, hopefully. I also need to get started on the essay portion of the project, which truthfully, I haven't even looked at yet. Ah well.

Filming Time

So, as on schedule, I finally filmed today. So grateful to have that out of the way. And not only out of the way, but quality as well. Well, as quality as my idea will allow. Granted, it looks like someone's phone recording them from the back camera. That's because it is. But this falls in line with the genre that I had already chosen, and the storyline I went with. So I'm overall happy with the way the footage turned out. Luckily for me, there will be minimal editing involved asides from putting the credits over the footage. This is because it is meant to look like a home video, all in one long shot, so there's overall little for me to put together. So, I'm going to start soon on my CCR, and for that, I've decided to do a podcast, and I will record that once the script is written. Until next time, y'all.

Peer Review 2: The Quickening

So, we had another peer review session a few days ago during 4th period. Mrs. Marchetti took us to the Wave (bougie media center) for a frankly nice change of scenery. We all grouped up, but I made sure to get with a completely different group of people, hoping to glean some exciting insights from fresh new minds. Didn't happen. Frankly, it was sort of a wash. We went around the table, talking about our progress, our ideas, what was working and what wasn't while giving helpful, constructive criticism. Until it got to me. My group members are really nice people, and I'm sure they didn't mean it, but when I presented my idea, everyone just kinda nodded their heads, said it "sounded good", and then moved on. Which I guess I could interpret to mean that it is functionally perfect. And any world where an idea of mine is functionally perfect is one in which I want to live. Sadly though, we don't live in that world, and I know my idea isn't perfect, but I didn't receive many helpful hints anyway. Ah well, guess I have to just keep on trucking.

Delays

So, I've encountered a slight issue. I won't be able to film this weekend as planned. That's because I'm going on a cruise for spring break, which nobody told me about but everyone assumed I knew about. So ah well. No use crying over spilled milk. But that does mean that I need to find a new time for filming. Luckily for me, this is spring break, so I have a wealth of open time slots available. I want the filming to happen sometime at night because, in cheap movies, day-for-night always looks laughable and extremely out of place. Based on my schedule of homework and other obligations, I've decided that the best time to film is Wednesday night. This gives me enough time to edit the film for the rest of the break and also doesn't conflict with anyone else's schedule. So, I'll pick up again then, and really get started on my masterpiece. Which I still need to name.