The extra point is good!

PG. 1

THE PAPER COMPONENT IS ALMOST DONE, AND I AM STILL OK!










 I believe I have said a few times about how scared I was about the print component. WHY? I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA. I believe I was just terrified. But honestly, now that it is mostly done. I can finally say it did not end me, and I am so thankful for it.

PG. 2

O-LINE

 THE PRINT COMPONENT WILL DRIVE ME CRAZY😫😫😫

REPORTING FROM BRAZILLLLLLLLL💚💛

Just like last year, during one of the 9 weeks of the portfolio project, we have spring break. Just like last year, when I travelled to Europe to visit some family, this year I will be writing from Brazil, my home country. I arrived last Friday, and honestly, I have been having the time of my life.

Punting

 team meeting...

But what team? Aren't you working by yourself?

YESSS. But in my Aice Media class, Mrs. Stoklosa plans days throughout the nine weeks when we meet in class with people from other groups who are working on different projects so we can:

• hear feed bacl
• hear more ideas
• see how far other groups are(so we know if we are ahead, late or on time)
• and just interact a bit

I love how we have these days, so it breaks the silence in the classroom. Specially for me, who is working alone, it can be a bit tedious sometimes.

two-point conversion

 MORE INTERVIEWSSSSSS.....

Thruoghout this week I took on the production  process. I filmed another interview with one of the girls. This interview was not an easy one. As halfway through, the voice memo app stoped recording it. LUCKILY, I saw it after 5 mins and was able to fix this BUBU. 

Since the extract from the episode i will actually produce is focused on the girls... I decided to do something different. Something I have never done before.

Since I am also one of the girls who work for the team and I have an actual connection to them... the interviews go naturaly and sometimes some natural smiles and conversations can happen. Moments that would origibaly be cut out, and the audience would never see. 

BUT instead I decided to alos put a camera ON ME.  This way those canded moments can be aired in the episode.

Tackling

As we approach the end of this week and move to the next week! I am thirlded to announce prodection will go FULL OUT THIS WEEK! This week I look foward to get most of my interviews done! I have already schefuled 3 intervies for minday and thurday! I was sadly not able to get more interviews do this week, because I came up to orlando halfway through the week to see my fiture college and future housing!!

More plays

NOTES I 
TOOK IN CLASS

 THE ONE THAT WAS LEFT… PRINT COMPONENT 

This week we had another lecture by Mrs. Stoklosa!  We had a lecture on the writing component. Which to be 100% honest..  it was VERY MUCH NEEDED! I was so confused my the magazine article. Ofc i took some notes! but i also went and did a little research on a project from a previous year! 

As you can see, i had a little artistic moment, and i drew a little lay out with how it should look and i also labeled it with important things i CANT forget like: page number, magazine title, a “by line”…

 For my research I went and took a look at this magazine I got from BLUM’S BLOG and CHIAPPINI’S BLOG. They were from my school’s Tv program, which i am also a part of. Mrs Stoklosa said they did a really nice job with their project but also mentioned a few things  they could have done better. 

#18 has been tackled

 FIRST INTERVIEW ID OFFICIALLY DONE

The production process has started... my favorite part 😁😁 I absolutely LOVE interviews. And yesterday I started the interviews. And I am sooooooooooooooo glad  it all went went AMAZING. I was able to give great answers, the shoot looks REALY NICE, and although I had to improve with lighting... it also ended up looking very nice...

 

I decided to start by interviewing one of the football players. WHY? Because since this is an EPISODIC documentary, each of my episodes will be focused on a different part of the team (the players; the managers/athletic helpers; coaches). For my social media, I want to post some sneak peaks from previous and soon to come episodes

Studying plays … pt.3

QUESTIONS… Questions… and more questions 

LASTLY the girls ( managers, water girls, athletic aids). to end most of planning season… I have finished the girls questions…

QUESTIONS:

Q1- What is you name and your position?

Q2- How long have you been working for the football team?

Q3- What does this team mean to you?

Q4- What are your responsibilities in the team? 

Q5- What is your favorite memory of the team? 

Q6- what is your first memory of the team?

Studying play... pt2

More and more questions...

As I took this week to plan... I decided to also take on the questions for the players... I also intend to film these next week. 

ME DOING AN INTERVIEW FOR 
A PREVIOUS PROJECT

QUESTIONS:

Q1- What is your name, and what position do you play?

Q2- How long have you been playing for this team? What grade are you in?

Q3- What is your favorite memory in the team?

Q4- What does this team mean to you?

Q5- What is your first memory of the team?

Q6- When did you decide to become a football player and why?

Q7- What is the relationship of the coaches with the players and the

girls (who work for the team) like?

Studying plays

questions... questions... questions...

As we approach filming time... I decided to start preparing for my interviews... I have been scheduling my interviews for next week... next week after school I will be recording my first interviews, so I decided to share with you some of the questions I have prepared for the coaches interviews.

ME DOING AN INTERVIEW
 FOR PREVIOUS PROJECTS

Q1- What is your name and position?

Q2- What does the Cypress Bay football team mean to you?

Q3- How long have you been working with this team?

Q4-  When did footbal enter your life?

Q5- What are the positions of the girls that work on your team?

Q6- If you had to send a thank you message to the girls, what would you say?

Game plan pt.2

WHEN AND HOW AM I CREATING SO MUCH CONTENT?

As I have been working, creating photography and media content for this team for the past 3 years of my life. I have TONS and TONS of content I can use to my advantage and create more content for this project. I used the word "advantage" because this way I can focus more on my interviews and editing. I have found myself with audio problems SO MANY TIMES, and I dont want this to happen again. So the fact that I already have some content I can use for my social media enables me to spend much more time focusing and fixing past mistakes from previous projects. So here is a little schedule on how I expect to spend my time with the creation of my content. 

SCHEDULE:

week 4- first in interviews Coach hood and coach wise + players interviews

week 5- managers and athletic aid (water girls) in terviws 

week 6 & 7-  gap weeks if extra time is needed or anything happens

week 8- start and finish line edit

week 9- touch ups

Game Plan...

Sharing is carrying...

Last week Mrs. Stoklosa gave us a lesson on social media, and within the lesson she explained the importance of constant posting. Whith that, I figured it would be helpful to create a posting schedule😉😉 and just like everything in the progress of this project... I will share it with you.

DUDA'S POSTING SCHEDULE

Game Plan

 HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO FIND SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS NOW A DAYS?

Before actually developing my social media account, I thought
It would be clever of me to take a look at some professional accounts. But I actually had the hardest time trying to find social media accounts.But then I finally found it.

ABSTRACT
 ISNTAGRAM 
PAGE

This Instagram feed is very colorful and creative, representing the concept of this documentary. The same colors are shown throughout the whole feed: blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, and red. Which I know is something very important because Mrs. Stoklosa always mentions. The feed consists of posts of all different types of art that are shown in all the different episodes. The fee also contains content on most of the artists shown in all the episodes. The posts also include thumbnails and posters from the piece. This is a very smart way of digital distribution, as it reaches varied audiences. Which is definitely a strategy I look forward to including within my social media posts. One thing i did not really like about this instagram page was the lack of interaction with the audience, lack

of stories, and  behind tghe scenes posts. Which are types of content I want to create within my social media. Mrs. Stoklosa mentioned these types of post in her last lesson. She mentioned their importance and how audiece interaction is always important. It makes the audiece feel like a part of it.

 

Watching Film...

How to get better? by learning from previous experiences...

This week I decided to go on and watch some documentaries... With the purpose of understanding what I liked, what I wanted to add to my project, and what I would definitely not add to mine. SOOO....... Here we go...

My documentary focuses on sports. The first documentary I decided to watch was "Simone Biles RISING" The first thing I noticed about this documentary was the amount of episodes. This documentary counts with 4 episodes, a plausible number of episodes my documentary could have. This stood out to me because this documentary takes on a very long story that was told in 4 episodes. The episodes were divided as steps of her story, like stair steps. Another thing I really enjoyed about this documentary is how the interviews happen in different places... different locations for the same person in the same episode. It engaging. Still in the interview topic... The producers also went to another level as they got a varied amount of interviewees! Biles story was told from multiple points of view, which, in my opinion (from an audience POV), creates a less biased impression on the audience. WHY? Simply because as many people tell a story, the closer to reality it is.

Next up, I decided to watch a documentary that did not talk about sports, nor was it in an episodic format. You may ask me, "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?" The answer is... I like to create contents that relate characters to the human side. I want to HUMANIZE SPORTS. So I decided to watch a documentary that talks about a topic that touches humans like no other: the m*rd*r of a child. I watched "A Life Too Short: The Isabella Nardoni Case". The documentary tells the story of a five-year-old girl that falls from the sixth floor of her father's apartment building; her mother embarks on a quest for justice and lands in the national spotlight. I decided to watch it mainly to see what editing techniques are used when sensitive topics are mentioned. Like the use of shallow focus during interview shots... The use of edited shound bites... Like cloock sound and people screaming. Especially rapid interview clips where the interviewees say something impactful and then it cuts to a silance. Altho those techniques are used with a sad topic... They can also emphisise topics that altho are happy, they are important to my topic.

3rd down

 I CREATED MY SOCIAL MEDIA📸

Like Mrs. Stoklosa mentined in class in the beginning of the week: "it is important to create your social media pages soon." So here is the link to my documentaries' instagram page.

   As you can see the page is still empty. No colors nor posts yet. But next week I will decide my brands color, logo, font and final name.

   I chose Instagram as I believe it is the most used social media for marketing and also most usefull. As any type of contect can be posted from pictures, videos, stories, live streams... It basically allows me to be creative.

Cant wait to see all the post😁

End zone

Because a portion of the project includes media distribution and wanting or not, this is a form of media where I will be somehow distributing and sharing about my documentary. I decided to follow the techniques and tips mentioned in my last post and adapted this blog page to my documentary. OFC because it has only been a week and a half and I still don't have a logo, nor much visual editing. BUT since I have worked as media manager for this football team, I have thousands of pictures I HAVE TAKEN AND EDITED. So I chose to use it as the background image.

CHOSEN BRACKROUND IMAGE I TOOK THIS FOOTBALL SEASON

POST FROM LAST YEAR
EXPLANING MY POST TITLE
 IDEA.

Another thing I decided to do, like a redo from last year, was that I decided to name my posts with football terms to keep it in them since my documentary is on the football team. Last year I decided to do something similar, where I named my posts with parts of the song that inspired me.

KICK OFF🏈🏈🏈

 Welcome to weeek 2!✌

This week we started off with a lecture from Mrs. Stoklosa on the digital distribution part of this project. Where sho focused on social media. We were given tips on how to create constant posting, consistent visuals...  we saw examples of actual films/brands social media, like the FREE GUY INSTAGRAM.

PROFILE PICTURE

INSTAGRAM FEED

 

 

In the profile picture, for example, it exemplifies the consistency of the brand's colors (light blue and a bright blue). The collors are also maintained through the feed. The font used in the logo is also used throughout all the posts. The posts also vary between different categories from the film, pictures, videos, teasers, call to action, and posters.

Even though Free Guy is a film example and my project is a documentary. Free Guy does a good job at developing a brand through social media, and the techniques I mentioned above are great examples of what I should follow when developing my brand.

PICTURE OF NOTES I TOOK IN CLASS

RESEARCH 🧐

 As this week was the first one, i didn’t do much extra research on my veneer, documentary. However, i have been working with small docs for quite some time now. But I made sure i reviewed my notes from past lectures before talking on much research.

I decided to do it this way mainly because it took me sometime to actually decide 100% on what i was actually doing for this project. I wanted to get things more organized this time around; las years, in AS, I had many problems because i lacked organization and getting my ideas straight that I ended up having to change a lot of the thing I had visualized last

notes from previous lessons 

PLAY BOOK 📖📖📖

📖here is a week planner I made so i can keep track of all i have to do and not pracastinate 

here it it

🥁🥁🥁

notes i took on the project
options 

 Oieeeeeee

Today we begun my A level prortfolio project 🙀

In preparation… this week we had lessons on each of our project choices, where Stoklosa showed us samples from past years and then after we had meetings with her discussing more private questions and our ideas.

For this years: i decided to do the documentary project, where i will dive into different aspects a football team on different episodes!

I decided to to this project on them because since this is a project that will take A LONG TIME i wanted to do something that was meaningful to me and in something a felt comfortable around. I have been a media maneger( PR) for my schools football team for 3 years now, so it fits perfectly🥹

REFLACTION TIME 💭💬

I am starting this disclaiming that this project had costed me many hours of sleep and tears!

    I had always set in my mind that I wanted to work by myself on this project as I did not intend to share the creation of something so meaningful to me with anyone. I always knew It would be A TON of work and responsibility. During the production of my project, I regretted my decision so many times. Now, I look back and I don’t regret this decision, not even a little bit. Even though my project did not turn out exactly how I wanted… I am so proud to look back and see that I challenged myself outside of my comfort zone, I am so proud I did not take the easy way around this 450 points project!

   This Documentary has always had the purpose of sharing the human, intimate connections the Cypress Bay Football Team constructs and cherishes.   I always wanted to keep this as CLOSE as possible to reality. I never wanted to introduce fancy staged b-rolls, like I have mentioned in my past posts after our research done in class with the documentaries we watched. I knew I would incorporate a great amount of archived footage and “natural” conversations along the interview. “The Sweat that Runs Thru Our Veins”

, through visual aspects, does a successful job at representing the aspect of family in a non-blood related relationship. The documentary starts with a montage of pictures on a wall, those pictures visually represent the cherished “family” the team has created. I chose the montage of pictures to start the documentary as it is a more sophisticated way to present archived b-roll and also illustrate the close bonds outside of the documentary; a way to show reality.

    Touching the human side. I always wanted this project to touch people’s hearts and feelings. My main audience breaks down to young adults (15-23),female and male who are interested on sports culture. I wanted it to break that SPORT aspect of football (i know this sounds crazy, as football is a sports). I wanted it to be viewed as I SEE IT! Talking about this team naked me emotional and noone has ever been able to fell it or understand it; I WANTED TO MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE! I am completely aware that my disgusting audio quality made this major factor almost improbable to happen(as people could barely hear it) But after listening to the critiques in class and reading out discussion assignments on canvas, I was positively surprised to find out I was somewhat successful at this mission. People were able to feel and understand the message I tried to deliver! *happy face*. It made me so happy to see my documentary achieve my goal of interaction with my audience.

      As I had mentioned In my previous posts… I always new… since before we started the preparation of this project that I would have VERY VERY VERY limited time with this project. And I knew I wanted to spend A LOT of time in pre production (80% in pre-production). So I took our research in class as a literal preparation for my project (instead of only viewing it as a way of understating documentaries, I actually took notes on what I wanted for MY PROJECT). We watched American Purpose, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Abstract and Op-Docs from the NY Times. As research on the genre I used my notes I took in class. But I spend LOTS of hours researching ways to fix messed audio. I used thousands of different AI programs, watched YouTube videos on how to fix it on Premier Pro… and the only thing I learned was to NEVER EVER record my audio in the camera without a back up. WHY?? Because nothing fixes the messed up audio! As I look forward to refilming my documentary… I took on paying attention to the critiques from my classmates so I can fix my errors!

the DOWN FALL

MY FAVORITE PART IS FILMING INTERVIEWS

(talking to interviwee before filming)

I LOVE filming the interviews... It is always my favorite part of the project. 

(setting up equipment)

Ever since the beginning of this project I had one thing set into my mind; My interviews would look NICE and PROFESSIONAL! I checked out a better camera than I usually do, more light than I usually do, and I would use a different audio technique!

(interviewing)

Instead of recording the audio on a mic connected to my  phone... SO I have the camera audio as a back up. I decided   to use a mic connected to the camera (I had heard some   people say it worked better and that I would not have the   problem of the audio not being synced correctly).

hora H

"hora h"-  a decisive, crucial, exact or opportune moment 

Nov 6th was when I officially started my production process! 💥 YAY☺

80% pre-production

 "80% pre-production" is something a learned last year from Jim Guarasci from BECON TV.  Jim said that if we spend 80% of our time in planning and preparing... when it's time for production and post-production we will face LESS problems.

OFC that is not 100% accurate as life happens and we can always face problems (🚨🚨🚨SPOILERR 🚨🚨🚨)

After  running into numerous problems with last year's portfolio... I decided to take on planning!!! I met with Mrs. Stoklosa in the first day( I new I had to start filming SOON as the last game was in 2 days and that would be my last chance to capture b-roll).

During our meeting I presented my desire to do a doc on my school's  football team, as I have been a part of the team for a couple of years, I wanted to show the family side of the team! Initially I was not 100% sure of how to tell this story... But Mrs. Stoklosa 👸👸 had the AMAING idea of telling the story through the GIRLS ( the other managers/water girls)

Because I knew I had very limited time... I chose my interviwees and started writing my questions. I scheduled a meeting with Coach Hood (Head Coach) as I wanted to see if he would be all in for this project. I also talked to the girls who I had chosen. 

👩‍💻👩‍🏫🕵️‍♀️📹🎞️📽️

Over the last couple of weeks we have been studying documentaries in class... along with Mrs. Stoklosa's lessons (powerpoints and notes) she also introduced documentaries to our class. 

We watched American Promise, Exit Through the Gift Shop and Abstract in class and we also watched a few Op-Docs from the NY TIMES. 

As I watched the docs I took notes from examples that related to terms/techniques/ideas I would like to incorporate into my own doc! Watching the documentaries after as a research method helped SO MUCH when planning my documentaries. 👀

American Promise
 and Roaches' Lullaby had many shots of b-roll/interview (moments where the subjects were answering questions or explaining something but not in an interview setting). I loved those moments when I was watching the docs. I found it NATURAL AND TRUTHFUL. As I learned in class, docs are used to illustrate a "slice of life" and they are NON-FICTION. 

Even though I am aware the editor/director can still chose/edit to only show what they want in the final project, I loved how those "natural interviews" felt more honest and more truthful.  I believe this is because of the setting the subjects were less stressed, more talkative, more COMFORTABLE.

From Exit Through the Gift Shop I was inspired💭 by the archived footage ( specially the beginning montage). That not only inspired me because it shows moments of naturally where ofc they have a camera but, many times, they were filmed by friends instead of a camera person. That technique also inspired me alot, because I was always aware that I wanted to do something withe the football team and that by the time where the actual project arrived I would Only have maybe one or even none games left!

VOLTEIIIIIIII

 Oieee...

As I had mentioned on my last couple of posts from last year... I am back and finally in A level (so fancy and culta💅🧠)  culta: well-educated (in Portuguese)

I have missed the ORANGENESS of this website of course talking to you guys😜

I really wish I could've talked to all of you over summer! BUTTTT here is a bit of what I have done over summer and up till now:

• I travelled to Brazill 
• I did a 2 week internship at GLOBO (this HUGE  Brazilian media conglomerate that includes a television network, news channel, movie production company, publishing house, and more.) biggest dream of MY LIFE! I worked with the people who develop this website and this cool people who work in the BIGGUEST broadcast in South America👀😱😍😆💥
• Visited some family
• got my wisdom teeth removed
• Did a QUICK workshop to improve my photography skills
• Finished my last season as the Football media/team manager (favorite people/ still have trouble spelling the the word manager)😭😭
• Applied to colleges ( CULTA pt.2)🧠
• GOT A NEW CAMERAAAAAAAAAAA (FANCYYYYYYYYY)
• etc...

here are some flics....

   

(pictures from my intership)

Creative Critical Reflection

SOMOS A FORÇA E O PODER

 HERE ARE MY 2 CCRs

#1

ccr #1

ccr #2

ATÉ ANO QUE VEM 💋

FILM OPENING

HERE IT IS... 

BATE A POEIRA

Já sofri, já ganhei, aprendi, ensinei (isso não eh um adeus)

Hello everyone, I can't believe I am saying this, but I HAVE FINISHED ALL MY CCRs AND MY FILM OPENING. 

I AM OFFICIALLY DONE WITH THIS PROJECT!!!!!!!!!

I have grown so much within the past weeks, I learned so much especially with my errors.

I learned how to write a script, so to develop characters, how to manage better my time, how to blog, how to plan accordingly...

I honestly think this project thought me more than how to do a film opening. When I started this project I had no idea what I was doing hahahaha I thought I would hate blogging hahahaha and actually realized i like it A LOT, i just don't post more because I have other things to do (school). This project also taught me a good lesson, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE YOUR PLANS.

Last week I realized I had to change somethings in my story, and it was not the end of the world like I thought it would be.

I want to thank you guys for being here with me through this AMAZING journey, I would have not done it without you guys!

DON"T WORRY I'LL BE BACK NEXT YEAR IN A LEVEL☺ 

BATE A POEIRA

 I AM FLYING HOMEEEEEEEEEE...

currently on a 🛬🛬 from CPH to MIA!!!

As much as i LOVED my trip, finally beeing in Germany, reuniting with my family, and eating like crazy...  there is noting better than being back home☺☺

HOWEVER I HAVE GREATER  NEWS TO TELL YOU GUYS

DRUM ROLL🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 

I HAVE FINISHED EDITING THE FILM OPENING  YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

O preconceito velado

 HEYYYYYYYY!HOW ARE YOU GUYS? I AM ON MY WAY BACK TO MIAMI !!!!! Today I am flying from Berlin, Germany to Copenhagen, Denmark.🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫

As I flew I took on  editing my film opening. And with that I made some changes:

Because of how my actors look like the film opening is more about UNDERSTANDING EVERYONE HAS PROBLEMS NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE AND LEARNING HOW TO RESPECT THOSE DIFFERENCES AND PROBLEMS. 

With that change in mind I also changed the structure/order of the footage. There is a lot of footage I got tight I chose to  no longer use, for example the fight scene I chose not to show, simply because I fought Like it would feel like I was telling most of the story (like a short film) and that’s completely the opposite of what we are asked to do hahahaha SO I FIXED THAT.

                                                                      ( screenshot of premiere pro) 

Krishna, Buda, Jesus, Allah

 HEYYYYY, guysss I AM ON MY WAY TO BERLINNNNNNNNNN 🇩🇪!!!!!!!

So glad to announce I have filmed my first CCR😁

 As  I was filming it, I decided to change it a little bit: I had the idea of making it a “livestream” so I answer questions my followers are asking about my production. I had this idea because I wanted it to feel natural, as a conversation. I have always shared about life here as well, so I wanted to do something where you guys could see my personality and how I am, like I have always done with my posts here. I have never been formal here, so why would I be on my CCRS?

OFC ill add some media elements as B-roll to my “livestream” so its not a talking head 100% of time, as a media student I understand a single “image” for a “long” period of time is very boring.

Palavras soltas que aborrecem

 Heyyyyy. I have finalized the scripts for both my CCR’s!

After I got home last night I felted inspired and i think they came out very good! 

I want to use my family members on my CCR’s as hosts for my pod cast.( I got this idea from a sample our teacher showed in class from one of her past student, I don’t remember who’s it was so unfortunately I won’t be able to link them here)

Below is my script :

Tentaram me sufocar, mas eu respirei

Dobré ukotvení, writing from Czech Republic. My family and I drove from Wolfsburg Germany, where my godparents live, to Prague to spend the weekend. 

Here is a montage of our first day here. The city is BEAUTIFUL, and the food is so delicious. 

CCR’s

I woke up very early this morning so I could have time to plan for my CCR’s. I planned them out this morning. And I will be filing the next week when we drive back to my godparents’ house in Germany. The idea is to make a podcast

like the one on the image.

For the second one I want to do an “INFO SEGMENT” where ill have a stand up and I’ll be adding B-roll to visually show what I am saying.

More similar to the firs one i found in REN’S BLOG.

                     (CCR INSPO)