Final CCR and Film Opening Link

 Hello!!! It's Sebas the Barca fan here again for the last time!!! To end off with good news! Spain beat Netherlands 4-3 on penalties after a 5-5 aggregate score. Unfortunately, I am so sad that we have to end these blog posts. At least, the weight and stress of the projects is finally done, and I am truly proud of the final product.



The film opening: 

Erebus Film Opening



CCR #1 (Questions 1 and 2):

CCR #1



CCR #2 (Questions 3 and 4):

CCR #2



Sadly, this is the last goodbye, I am sad to say that there is no more Barca news!! :(((


This is our last goodbye... forever, and like always Visca Barca!!!!!


- Sebastian

Final Reflection

 Hello!!! It's Sebas the Barca fan here!!! I am very sad that this is almost coming to an end that I will have to say goodbye tomorrow and there will be no more Barca updates, at least we can end it off well if we can get a win tomorrow with Spain vs. the Netherlands. Anyways, today will be my final reflection on my blogs, opening film, and CCR's.

Blogs:

My blogs were definitely one of the highlights of this project, I spent most of this project doing them, this is also my way of expressing myself as a person like with the Barca news. I really liked talking about Barca and these blogs actually helped me decide that I might want to start posting on social media about Barca every game as it's something I genuinely like talking about, so that's something great I got out of these blogs. Not only did I get that, but I also learned many valuable things while doing research for my blogs such as cool things about what is implemented in an opening film. Blogs were really fun to do in class too as I was also able to see what my group mates did on their blogs too. Reading what they wrote and comparing everything was very fun as I got to have an idea of how I did within my blogs. Unfortunately, after this blog post, I will only have one more blog post and that will be the blog post with my project. I had tons of fun making these blogs, although sometimes it was a large workload, looking back, it was truly fun doing them and I am sad that my last one comes tomorrow.


Opening film: 

I am truly proud of what we had created for the final project, we worked so hard on this project and the script and pre-planning took us a very long time, as for the actual filming, it was really fun and really cool being able to be the actor and main character for our film as I can be the face of our opening film. I am really happy with the outcome as we had been working very hard on it and when we were filming, it was really fun as I was able to not only be with friends but also do work at the same time. The filming experience was really fun since I laughed a lot at everything and although it could get boring making multiple takes for one part, it was worth it as we then got more options for our editing which can then make life easier for the future. The editing part was fun too as we got to see what we did and then seeing the final product for our project was also really cool as we got to say "Wow, we really did that!" I was really proud of our project, and I was very proud of myself and of our group too.


CCR's:

My CCR's are the last part of my project till I was at the point of doing my last blogs, I was really excited to do my CCR's as it was really cool to be able to talk about film as if I was a real director or actor of the film, it made me feel a sense of joy as it made me be like, wow I am truly finishing this project and it's turning out great. After everything, the CCR's was like the conclusion of the project, it was really nice to be able to work on it as the process of planning, doing, and editing was all fun and made me feel very destressed once I finished as now, I have all this weight of doing the project off my shoulders. I am also very proud of how my CCR's turned out.




That's it for this blog, can't believe the next will be the last, I am sad about that fact. Either way, Visca Barca!!!! and see you next time for the last!!!

CCR Post-Production

 Hello!!! It's Sebas the Barca fan! No new news today as we still don't know how Cubarsi is doing, and no new games have happened.


Today we will we talking about the production of my CCR's:
I divided the first two questions into 2 parts and then each part had its own 3 sub questions, this would make answering the question easier and also covered more on the topic rather than answering the questions directly, for questions 3 and 4 I didn't divide it into two parts each, instead I just went straight to making the 3 sub questions as they are smaller and shorter questions.


CCR #1:

This CCR was an interview/talk show, where I was being interviewed and cuts back to the question being asked and the interviewee (me) answering, this one is the longer CCR as it was also the one containing question 1 and 2 and those in my opinion were the longer questions. The planning took the longest as I had to remember what to say and stuff like that, overall, I was able to do well though and achieve my goal, the editing part didn't take too long as I just had to put the videos in the correct order and see if there were any mistakes. Overall, this part took a few hours. 

CCR #2:

This CCR was a podcast, here I was being interviewed by the "Movie Podcast" it was more simple and ended up being longer than I had first thought but that's ok as I still didn't pass over the time, here the planning was still the longest part as I had to put in the visuals and that took a while as I did it before filming and editing. The script I followed also was quite long. The recording part was easy though as I just followed the script. After that, the editing was somewhat long as I had to implement the visuals I had made for the movie Erebus. Down below is an example of one I made. 

Thanks for reading my blog today!!! Visca Barca!! and let's hope Spain wins on Sunday.

Productions of CCR's

 Hello!!! It's Sebas the Barca fan here!!! Spain played today, my home country!!! unfortunately, we tied to the Netherlands 2-2 which isn't a bad outcome. More sad news is that Cubarsi got injured and it is unknown if he will be available for the game against Osasuna on the 27th.  Anyways, today I am talking about my production of my CCR's, I want to make my CCR's be clean and good looking.


My CCR's were filmed in my kitchen as no extra crazy background was entirely needed, this, in my opinion, is very good as it can give me more options to refilm if anything does not work or come out the way I want it to come out.


CCR #1: 


I have already set up my kitchen to make my CCR and for that I can film from this moment till Sunday, I asked my family not to touch that area of the kitchen unless needed as it is not an area, we used 24/7 and the set up doesn't take too long. I also have my script printed out to read and learn, I have already been practicing it and learning what to say and it has turned out quite good. I also have many different angles in which I can film from in case the background or lighting isn't amazing in that spot. I think it can turn out amazing though once the final product is in,




CCR #2:


For CCR #2 I already have all the visuals set up for it as it is a podcast, I even made an advertisement which goes in place at the end, because of this, I can make it even more like a podcast rather than just an interview. I also am thinking about making my voice different for both people that are talking, so all I have to do is just memorize my lines and be able to do them in a different voice such as a deeper voice if needed so it gives the feel as if I was a different person yet I'm the only one talking.


This is one of the visuals I have in place for this CCR

I am especially proud of this visual as I feel like it represents the reason of the story as it marks Leos roadblocks with the red squares.



Thanks for reading my blog tonight!!!! Visca Barca and Viva Espana, let's hope for a win on the aggregate game.

Class Group Meetings

 HELLO!!1 SEBAS THE BARCA FAN HERE RIGHT AFTER THE GAME TODAY!!!! WE BEAT ATLETICO MADRID 4-2 AFTER LOSING 2-0 BY THE 71st MINUTE, WE WON WITH A FERRAN TORRES SUPER SUB AND SCORING A BRACE, LAMINE YAMAL SCORING THE WINNER, AND LEWANDOWSKI SCORING THE FIRST GOAL OF THE COMEBACK TO GET OUR MOMENTUM UP. THIS AMAZING MOMENT KEEPS US IN FIRST PLACE ABOVE BOTH MADRIDS AND AS WELL AS HAVING A GAME AT HAND. I TRULY HOPE WE CAN WIN THE QUADRUPLE THIS SEASON AS IT IS LOOKING VERY POSSIBLE TO DO THIS SEASON, VISCA BARCA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Besides that, amazing news, this week, Tuesday, the Benfica vs Barca champions league game day, we had group meetings in class. in this group meeting, we discussed multiple things such as our CCR's and our final projects. Most of the people in my group are in their late filming stages or editing their film, I think besides me, only one other person had also finished their filming and editing. So, we each discussed how we did our films, the elements that had been included and got advice in what each can do better and if we might need to refilm. I got positive feedback towards my opening as it was good in my opinion too, the only thing was our font was really hard to read so we had to change it, I believe Nico did the change already.

Now on the CCR side, everyone had amazing ideas, we all give each other tips on how to better our ideas and what can be done to make it better, everyone had mixed thoughts on my ideas as they will be hard to implement but besides that, it should be good to go along with if I just make it somewhat simpler to execute.

This is a picture of us in our group meeting!!! (I'm in the middle with the Barca shirt!!)



That's it for my blog today, thanks for reading it today, VISCA BARCA I VISCA CATALUNYAAAA!!!!

This Weeks Barca Chant of the Week:


I SI TOTS ANIMEN 
I SI TOTS ANIMEN
I SI TOTS ANIMEN 
GUANYAREM!!!

LO LO LO LO LO LO
LO LO LO LO LO LO LO LO LO


Translation:

And if everyone encourages
And if everyone encourages
And if everyone encourages
We will win!!!

Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo
Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo Lo

CCR Script #4

 Hello!!!! Sebas the Barca fan here today!!! Unfortunately, Real Madrid won their game scraping by, now I am just waiting for the Barca game tomorrow hoping we can win, I predict 4-3 in favor of Barca so let's see how it goes, besides that, today we will be talking about my final CCR question and how I will be answering it.

SCRIPT 

For my final CCR, I want to create a song or something of that sense, I have years of experience playing piano and I want to implement something like that to my CCR's this way I can have all my CCR's and having something I like within each one. This makes making the CCR's fun as each one is something I genuinely enjoy. By making my own song, I am being creative and also doing something I love and am passionate about. 

I will probably use my music video creation skills I got from making the music video in class, this way I can make the video, I might also just have the song I made in the background while it shows representative pictures of what I am talking about.



The lyrics will also be talking about the topic in hand, so the lyrics will be about what the question is, and just like the previous CCR's it will have also smaller questions that are in relation to the main CCR question being asked.



 Thanks for reading my blog today!!! VISCA BARCA AND LUCK TOMORROW!!!

CCR Script #3

 Today was an uneventful day for soccer, nothing really new or exciting so nothing new to write about, just had soccer practice yesterday and I felt like prime Iniesta, besides that, nothing really new soccer wise.

Today we will be talking about our THIRD CCR question!!! So exciting am I right?? all this time working on our project has come to this, I hope I can possibly succeed with my CCR and do great and score as high as possibly human.


SCRIPT

For this question I want to follow the soccer player theme as last time, so I am still a famous soccer player who is getting interviewed but instead I want to do it as if it was an talk show with Jimmy Fallon or something in that sense, I always seen it very cool getting interviewed and talking about yourself and being asked things, so this interview aspect in my opinion seems really fun to do and I hope I can achieve it well and make it look amazing,

I will first of start with the interviewer introducing himself, the interviewee and everything a talk show host would do at the beginning of their show, I want to make it seem like the real thing so I will most likely just film in my house as I have a good place to do that at home, the interviewer will probably have the generic interviewer outfit (a suit) and the soccer player will probably be wearing a jersey of the team he plays for. 

This is where the question of the CCR comes in, the interviewer will ask the question and then the interviewee will answer the question, just like last time. Then, also like last time, it will also have the smaller questions relating to the topic.

Thanks for reading my blog today!! VISCA BARCA I VISCA CATALUNYAAAAAAAA!!!!

CCR Script #2

 Hello, it's Sebas the Barca fan here today!!! WE WON OUR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE RO16 GAMES, on Tuesday. We now go into the quarter finals against Dortmund, we beat Benfica 4-1 on aggregate with amazing plays from Lamine Yamal and Raphinha, I was in class for the first half, so I missed every goal as they all happened in the first half, and I was in my AICE media class since the game started at 1:45. I got to see most of the second half as well. The quarter finals will consist of PSG vs. Club Brugge, Real Madrid vs. Arsenal, Bayern Munich vs. Inter Milan, and lastly Dortmund vs. Barcelona. We now play Atletico Madrid this weekend and I hope we can win. 

Starting out, today my topic is my Creative Critical Reflection's scripts, these creative reflections will ultimately end up being at the end of my blog posts, the final result alongside my completed film opening.

SCRIPT:

For my script, I want to do something like either make a song or do like a sports interview out of a soccer game. I believe if I do that, it will turn out really well, especially the sports interview as if I was a Barca player. 

I want to start out my interview by being asked the main question within my interview, I will probably have the type of background that one has after a background game with all the sponsors. 

I will then answer the question like the way a typical footballer will, I will show photos as if it was my highlights within that "game." 

After that, I want to add a few small questions relating the topic in question, this way I can have more than just the main question, so for example, I will follow the main question up by adding smaller more simpler questions, I will then answer them in a shorter manner and show pictures of how it could help, it would be like as if my interview got posted on my teams social media's just like Barcelona does sometimes with its players, or ESPN does for LaLiga games, or even CBS Sports does with the champions league games.

I will probably film it in a soccer field after having had played for a while as it will have the ambience, and my sweat will make the video seem good in quality and realistic.

This whole idea will probably follow through the whole film and might have different small changes within every question asked.



Thanks for reading my blog today!!! VISCA BARCA Y VISCA CATALUNYA!!!!!

Editing Blog #2

 Hello!!! Sebas the Barca fan here!!! Today is a weird day, as a Barca fan Atletico Madrid lost their game 2-1 and Madrid won theirs 2-1 leaving Barca still in first even though we have a game at hand. We also have our home game against Benfica on Tuesday at 1:45 pm I hope we can prevail and push through to the quarter finals. Anyways, today our topic is also about our editing process, this time it's about us actually editing our video, yet not complete, we have made a ton of progress with our editing. The part I am most proud of as well is the ending.


Editing is hard and easy at the same time, there are many aspects in which you can most likely find a YouTube tutorial to help you with a part of the editing. Then, there were somethings we wanted to implement yet we didn't know how and scoured through the whole internet and were yet able to find what we wanted. Besides all this, we still came on top and were able to make a ton of progress in editing today. We just have to do some tweaks during the week and hopefully be done by the weekend.

This is a video of how our title card turned out, we are really proud of it, we got it to look good and celebrated with spamming our group chat. We are really proud of this since it looks amazing and turned out better than we had envisioned. This overall makes us really proud and happy of how our film is turning out. We hope that we can end up finishing and that our final product is at the level to win an Oscar hahaha.

This is a photo of our current timeline as well; it is not fully complete so it doesn't look too filled up but I'm sure when we finish editing it would look completely filled.

Besides that, thanks for reading my blog today!! Visca Barca!!! Let's hope for a win on Tuesday.


Barca chant of the week: 

Name: Del Barca som I serem

Del Barça som i serem
I avui també guanyarem
Pel Barça, pel Barça i per Catalunya
Fins a la mort lluitarem
Lolololo, lolololo, lolololo

Translation:

We are and will always be for Barça
And today we will also win
For Barça, for Barça and for Catalonia
Until the death we will fight
Lolololo, lolololo, lolololo

Editing Blog #1

 Hello! Sebas the Barca fan here with sad news, the Barca game today had gotten cancelled due to the death of the medical staff first team doctor Carles Miñarro Garcia, this sad news unfortunately came across 30 minutes before the game. RIP. Besides that, today's topic is talking about our editing about our film!!


Today we planned our editing more than doing the actual editing, for example we thought of what sounds we would use, the fonts for the title card, etc. 

This photo represents the types of fonts that we have thought to use, we already know the color is going to be red, yet we don't know which font would look best. This is currently on premiere pro to edit and the implementation of each of these fonts looks great, yet we don't know which we want to use. We are leaning more towards using the American slasher font for the big title text and euprocin for the introduction of the producers, developers, actors, etc.










We also had to plan to see if the footage we had was enough before editing, we did the math of all the scenes and actually ended up going a little bit over but most of our videos start and pause a little bit before and after the actual acting and filming is done.


That's it for my blog today!!!! Thanks for reading my blog today!!! Descansa en pau Carles.

CCR prep question #1

 Hello!!!! Sebas the Barca fan here!!! Today is finally Friday after a long brutal week, tomorrow is also the day Barca plays which I am plenty excited about, as we can possibly gain a higher point lead against the other teams in the league!!! Besides that, today I will be doing my CCR practice questions!!!

My practice question of today is:
How did your production skills develop throughout the project?

Well, my production skills got better after many things, the first thing being problem solving. We overcame many problems throughout our production process. For example, when we found out we weren't able to use the drone, we had to overcome that problem by climbing a tree to film the scenes which we needed to film. I personally had to problem solve when I found out that I left the black hoodie which I was going to use at school, I had contacted Nico to lend me his black hoodie since I knew he had one on him.

(Photo of the drone that we weren't able to use)

My production skills also developed in the aspect of acting, now, I am no actor, and wow. I have to give props to professional actors as acting in front of people is not easy all while making it seem real. One can just laugh so easily as it can get awkward. I feel like my acting improved as towards the end I didn't smile as much or laugh as much either.

My production skills also developed in the aspect of filming, implementing the type of shots and strategies that we learned in class to make a film feel more realistic or convey a certain message is not easy, yet we were still able to do it, it was a long process of failures and success but in the end we were able to make do of what we had to make the film look as good as possible. I certainly hope that my ideas came out good. Implementing some shot types to make it look perfect and stable is not as easy as it looks or sounds, so once again, I have to give my props to anyone who works in filming things just like that as it is not easy to be able to produce something like this. I believe anyone who works in this is underappreciated by many viewers as well as it is not only the actors who make a move good.


Thanks for reading my blog!!!! VISCA BARCA I VISCA CATALUNYA!!!!!!!!!

Shooting Process

Hello!!! Sebas the Barca fan!!! It is the day after Wednesday, which means, BARCA PLAYED YESTERDAY. Barca having had played yesterday was amazing, we had a tough game against Benfica though. We got an early red by pau Cubarsi giving Benfica the advantage yet somehow, by a Szczesny masterclass and Pedri as well, plus Raphinha's goal, we were able to be the bigger team and win 1-0 even though we were in a 10v11. Now we have to wait for the second leg at home next Tuesday. Besides that, Wednesday was also a special day since it was the day we recorded! A lot of things happened this day, it was quite a long day to say the least. But today's topic is the Shooting Process of our opening film and the events that took place this day!!!

Here are some photos of use filming last night:

This is Nico getting into his costume right before filming the scene he was in!!!

This is when things got hard, after we finished filming, it was around 10 pm and Nicos car was not starting so we had to get my car to try to fix it. We tried everything and nothing worked so we had to leave his car overnight, thankfully he went back later at night with his dad who used to be a mechanic and were able to get his car working.

This is a photo of us trying to set up the drone, we tried putting a phone on the bottom to fly it like that since the camera quality wasn't working but the weight was too much for the drone causing us to have to find another solution to the problem. In the end, we just had to get Nico climb a tree and had to do the shot a different way than we'd like to, it still turned out great.

This is the setup of the dining table we had for the dining table scene we had; it turned out amazing, it was filmed at night just for info. This is where the climax happens.

This is a video of us filming the title scene!! Where the title will be shown, this was filmed from a tree as our drone was not working as previously stated. It turned out amazing on video and we are excited to edit it as well.

This is a setup of one of the props, the kinfe!!! this is the weapon Nico will be using for his character!!!

Thank you for reading my blog today!! SOM-HI BARCA!!!!

Obstacle/Issues We've Gone Through

 HELLO AGAIN!!!!!!!! BARCA WON 4-0 AGAINST REAL SOCIEDAD!!! This leaves the table with 1. Barca - 57 points, 2. Atletico Madrid - 56 points, 3. Real Madrid - 54 points!!!! Although it is a great step to winning the league, we still can't get too confident as anything can still happen with still around 10 more games being left. We also have to focus on our champions league game against Benfica this Wednesday which we need to win as it will be an away game, if we win, this will give us the upper hand at our home game. Anyways, Today's topic is about the obstacles or issues that we've faced during the production and planning of our film. Our film has had tons a preparation behind it, despite this, we are all quite busy people with other classes as well so dedicating tons of time on this project is ideal yet hard to manage as we also have multiple tests, especially next week for me at least. 

Planning: 
Planning when to meet to be able to film has already begun to be a problem with our group, not everyone can film at the same time, so we'd have to meet up separately sometimes as we also don't have indefinite time with the drone. We also weren't able to film this weekend as most of us had important things we already had planned way before, for example, Saturday I had a training for a job I will be taking during summer, this went on almost all day, and I didn't get back home until 9 pm and finish up my blog for yesterday. To solve this problem, we have already planned out times to meet during the week in which everyone can, for example, Wednesday this week. 

Resources: 

We've had many problems obtaining the equipment we need, for example, the drone took a lot of convincing to receive and it wasn't easy to use either. The camera we will be using will also be lent to us which also brought up a similar problem as to the drone.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Thanks for reading my blog today!!!!!! SOM-HI BARCA, we will be starting a new thing! Barca chant of the week!!!

Today's Barca chant of the week is!!!!

Jo Soc Supporter:

Jo soc supporter
T'animo al Gold Nord
Cada cop mes fort
Mai et deixarem
Van passant els anys
I tu, Barca, has de saber
Que sempre t'animare
Que mai sol caminaras

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh     

Translation: 

I'm a supporter
I encourage you to score (basically hints at that)
Getting stronger and stronger
We will never leave you
The years go by
And you, Barça, must know
That I will always cheer you up
That you will never walk alone
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh