Final Reflection

 Welcome back!

Today, I want to reflect on my film opening project and my feelings toward our product.

I first want to start out by saying that I really enjoyed filming this project. My teammates and I worked really hard for this final product of the film. We really enjoyed working with each other and we had a lot of fun going through this process together. I am super thankful I got to work with Bella and Gustavo.

Alright, let's talk about the brainstorming process.

My teammates and I first started pitching a few ideas to each other. We knew from the beginning the wanted to make something that was exciting and entertaining. We kept pitching ideas about chase scenes but we needed to start the story with more plot. Then we came up with the idea of an exchange scene. The classic spy movie formula. We loved this idea and thought that it was 100% executable. 

We then got started on writing the story, choosing character names, and finalizing a script.

We wanted to name our main character after a city and we thought that Vienna sounded beautiful and so we stuck with it.

We did location scouting early on in the process of creating this story. We knew we wanted to film at a diner and at a place we were free to move a lot.

Before going into production we had just a few setbacks that came in the way.

Our first setback was not hearing from any of the diners that we wanted to film in. We contacted them and never heard back. So we resorted to plan C which was to film at a restaurant in Weston Town Center, the same spot we planned to film the chase scene. We called a really nice burger joint that was kind enough to allow us to film. 

Another setback that we had was choosing a day to film. We all were really busy with other clubs and activities that did not allow us to film at an earlier time. However, we chose one day that we were able to film everything on.

Even with these setbacks, we were able to create a product that we were truly satisfied with.

Finally, post production. Our editor for the film opening, Gustavo, did an amazing job at editing our product. He asked us for some tips and our thoughts on different coloring things, music, and much more. We all contributed as a team and gave ideas for the pacing and overall look of our film opening. Seeing what our editor would come up with was super fun and me and my partner Bella enjoyed it a lot. 

Again, we had lots of fun creating our film opening Agent Vienna and we are super proud of our final product.