Final Submission

Here is the link to our new final product of our film Point of No Return.

Creative Critical Reflection

I created a Prezi.

CCR Draft #4

Question #4- Our film Point of No Return was edited on two mobile editing applications called Splice, and Video Shop. With both of these editing software's, Jaxon was able to utilize effective  editing techniques offered through the two apps. The titles spaced during the beginning with the names of the actors matched up as the characters make their first appearance in the scene. The font size and color was chosen to easily be seen for the audience with bright white color and font design as it was large text for the same reason. The movie had many aspects of found footage added to it through editing making the film seem more dated as it had been laying out in the forest for awhile. Also we added filters to certain scenes so the viewer would notice a camera shift from Oscar Baxter to a camera planted on a tree. The film overall has been edited four times and going through all the processes of film producing multiple times has made me feel like I have some what mastered the craft as our movie has altered greatly through scrapping the entire plot, adding new scenes, new dialogue, new setting, and even more camera angles.

CCR Draft #3

Question #3- Before even being introduced into this project or course Jaxon and I had already had a fascination with the film industry. Thus, we signed up for the class. I believed I had a good idea of how the whole industry and how it worked before I joined the class, but I was wrong. As I went through the course I began to truly realize how rigorous the industry can be to create a well done quality film. My production skills developed greatly throughout the course as Jaxon and I went through all the steps of creating what we thought was a quality film. Starting with the picking what genre, actors, and story we were trying to convey. Picking actors was quite as we only had three actors performing during the first 2 minutes. Then getting to the genre we were going to start with was easy as Jaxon and I are very into scary/thriller movies so we went with that, however deciding how our story would develop was difficult as we changed the plot multiple times while writing the script, planning, filming, and even after done filming the first time. We took our audiences criticisms and reflected on them to try and make a better film that would appease the audience more, so we created an entirely new film with creating a new story line, brainstorming more ideas and writing more scripts.

CCR Draft #2

Question #2- Our films target audience was mainly focused on the millennial's as they had a chance to see The Blair Witch Project as a kid. Point of No Return engages our audience by setting a movie in present time with the idea that something is lurking in the forest. With the opening scene having a distressed manager discussing the two missing filmmakers disappearance it creates a large sense of wonder and suspense on what could've happen and what did happen that night in the Skin Walker Forest. The dialogue between the filmmakers is very casual so the viewer wouldn't be bored and they can relate to the two more. Another way our target audience was engaged into our film or interested was through the use of trailers and media posts, both of which would entice our younger audience as a large majority use social media to discover the posts on platforms such as Instagram and they surely us YouTube to see our trailer within the recommended tab.. Distributing the movie would be quite hard as we would be creating a lower budget film that would only allow us to distribute through some lower level film streaming sites and then hopefully build up to some larger sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime.

CCR Draft #1

Question #1- Jaxon and I's film followed the basic traditions set influential films in the past such as Blair With Project, and Paranormal Activity which were both very successful films. We took their ideas and put them into work in our movie. The biggest idea we took from movies like them are the idea of a found footage film. Found footage film is still relatively new and can still be considered as challenging the normal conventions was  by other more basic films.  Point of No Return was recorded from a point of view shot from the camera man Oscar Baxter. The entirety of the film was shot in a P.O.V. and the camera work was done by no other than me. We used a variety of camera shots to show the forest and the frightened look on the actors faces. The establishing shot with Jaxon aka Nathan Rees in front of the forest I believe was by far the most important as it established the main setting of the film and allowed Jaxon to introduce himself and I while the audience was able to take in the immense dark forest. Another example of how our film followed the basic traditions set was through the use of costumes with all of our actors dressing accordingly with Jackson Mooney dressed very formal as he was set as a depressed friend on the two fellow actors who are missing.

3rd Quarter Submission

YouTube Link- Point of No Return Version 2