Transitioning Into the Portfolio Project 

Hi Blog!

Starting this week and from now on, we will be working on the long-awaited Portfolio Project. We are supposed to create a 2-minute film opening, edit it, and submit it. From now on, all of my blog posts will be based on the progress of this film and will help me develop the final, perfect film opening. To be honest, officially starting the final project is pretty scary, but not because I'm not capable of doing it, but because it is actually happening. What does this mean? You may ask, this means that the year is coming to an end, and when the time is right, Cambridge will be looking at all this and my progress throughout the year. Everything I've learned so far, like the lessons, the projects, and all the research, as well as all the knowledge accumulated, is being used for this big project.

For this film, we want to put in our all. My group and I are going to do our best because we want this opening to be amazing. Although we don't exactly know what story our film is going to be based on, we do know that it won't be common or basic, so doing a genre like horror is not an option. 

The first approach we took was looking at some inspiration. We wanted to see how it looks all together and what kinds of techniques past students did, so we went onto our teacher's website and clicked on many student's projects from last year. Not only did we see a variety of genres, themes, and stories, but we also gained a lot of knowledge. Personally, these examples helped me a lot when deciding how I want our film to start and to end. Here's a look of our teacher's website links.

I also looked at some film openings from actual movies and saw how professional directors developed their openings. 

Another approach we're taking is developing context. We are thinking of what we want our film to communicate to the audience, if suspense, intrigue, sadness, happiness, etc. We are also developing our story's background as to what the story is going to be about. We don't want any mistakes or accidents, so we are thinking of the smallest detail too. However, we also don't want the film to be forced or too worked on to the point where it doesn't look right. I feel like this approach puts us in a good spot because we are building the base, which is so important if we want our film to be organized and enjoyable.