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  How do your products represent social groups or issues?   My product is a demonstration and representation of many broad social dilemmas. These broad dilemmas can be narrowed down into smaller, more specific topics. My short film, “Wrongdoings” broadly represents those who believe in upper powers , karma, and good Samaritans . I will get into more detail about each of these as I continue to express how my product applies to each of these categories. Being a good person has always been a morale that everyone believes everyone else should follow. But it is not as easy as it sounds to follow the “golden rule.” My product reinforces the fact that you should treat others how you would want to be treated. While this may sound even childish, it is in fact something that if followed by everyone, would make society a lot more productive. This is a great social issue, especially in my country, the United States. Mass amounts of violent hate crimes have been on the uprising, and my produ
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Short Film Package for Wrongdoings

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Website Link:  https://seannehme.wixsite.com/wrongdoingsshortfilm Postcard Link: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFemZFnP7I/P2VLgjRVxeBXuLLrr5FWxA/view?utm_content=DAFemZFnP7I&utm_campaign=share_your_design&utm_medium=link&utm_source=shareyourdesignpanel Short Film Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvRkLLm968
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Finishing Touches

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 Now that I have gotten feedback on my film, I have more work to do. As I said in my previous blog, my psychology teacher watched my film. She gave me some critiques that I could change. So I thanked her and decided that I would meet with my group today. And that is where I am right now. I am with my group and ready to fix any critiques given to me by my teacher. One of the critiques that I was given was our titles. They came onto the screen in a chunky way, and the design could be improved. In order to fix this, my group tested out some new designs. The designs were already looking much better. They fit in and contrasted with the background very nicely. But the problem is that they were flowing incorrectly. So I looked at my AS-Level final task and took some inspiration from there. It easily allowed my group to see how the titles should flow in. And now it was looking better than ever. There was another critique that my first viewer gave me, and that was the transitions. This is a sim
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My first viewers

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Today was exciting for me. Today is the first time someone else is going to lay eyes on my short film. Honestly, I am more nervous than excited. I asked my psychology teacher to watch my short film. I feel as if I chose the right person to be my first viewer. My psychology teacher is a special person. She is very smart and understanding. But what is most important is that she is honest. I went up to her and inquired about her watching my film. But she warned me that she would be honest. This is exactly what I want from someone giving me advice. I sat down next to her while my film played. I told her to not answer any questions while it played. I also did not say anything. This is because I will not be able to answer everyone's questions when they watch it. The film should make sense without any further explanation. That is the entire point of having someone else watch my film. After she watched it, she did indeed have some questions and areas where we could improve. She said that t
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Hearing it Now

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 Putting audio into the movie. That was my group's goal today. I suggested that I and my groupmates meet up in study hall to work on inserting audio into my film. My group already knows what songs are going to be inserted into the film. I must make sure that these songs fit each scene, based on context. The music needs to make sense essentially. I and my group's previous planning really helped here. Since I already researched multiple songs, it is more than likely that they will make sense in my film. So once I got situated, my group huddled around Sofia's computer. Scene by scene she went and added music. While she was doing this, Beckett and I were giving suggestions and listening along. It was all sounding amazing. Study hall had ended and my group got through about almost half of the process. But this was not to worry. Me, Sofia, and Beckett had the same 4th period that day. And ever so conveniently, in that period there was free time to work on my final task. So my gro
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Titling it Up

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 My group is only a few steps away from finishing. Today, I need to add titles to my film. In order to do this, my group set up a meeting date. It was decided that my group meet Friday after school. So I got home and printed out the order of needed titles. Once I got with my group it was decided that each title had to have a name. So my group went one by one, deciding what to put for each title. After this, my group needed to see which title design will be used. In order to do this, each one of my groupmates created their own design. After every one of my groupmates made their design, each one was compared. My group decided that Sofia made the best design. So Sofia used her design to test it out on my Final Task, and it looked great. But before anything was done, I recommend that my group look at www.watchthetitles.com. This website gave me some insight into what my titles should look like. It helped me know where the titles should be on the screen. I also did something that nobody tho
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Mashing It Together

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Welcome back to another day. This day is more editing. Last class, I cut up all the clips that are needed for my short film. This was a very tedious process. But today I need to insert all these clips into the editing software. This is so that my group can start to edit it all. I can see my film coming together right before my eyes. The first step was to put all of the clips into the editing software. It took about 10 minutes to load them all into the software. Now I am ready. Ready for what you may ask. I am ready to sit down and put them all in the right order. This may not sound like much, but there is another step that I must do. That is to add transitions. I needed to make sure that these clips flowed together correctly. To do this I used the help of technology. Technology being my editing software. It easily gave me so many options to have the clips flow together. I sat and experimented with many of the options and I thought that it turned out great. I had Beckett watch the film
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