PROJECT COMPONENTS!!!!!!!

TOUCHDOWNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

 AICE MEDIA A LEVEL PROJECT COMPONENTS  

Social Media account

THANK YOU!

Critical Reflection

Touchdown!!!!!

I can't believe I can finally write this, but this project is finally over! Don't get me wrong, please; as much as I love communications, media, and journalism, this project has felt way longer than nine weeks. I have always loved watching the behind-the-scenes of movies and series more than actually watching the final products. I always thought that was only a matter of taste; I never thought it would lead to what it did. I have now completed four years of studying television production in high school and two years of AICE Media Studies, and I am now committed to college for a journalism major. Working on this project was exhausting, but most of all it was very special!


As I mentioned in my interview for the documentary, I have been working as the media manager and public relations for the Cypress Bay football team since my sophomore year. Ever since the fall, Friday nights have been in the football fields, doing what I love the most: photographing and telling stories. It was with the football team I learned how to photograph. As the years passed by, we would spend more and more time integrating with each other. Creating a true family!


I have been through numerous downs with this project, moments that I have briefly shared in this blog and moments I have decided to keep to myself. As a senior in high school, I am going through many rapid, MAJOR changes in my life, like moving away and choosing where to go; along with the changes, I also had to keep up with the closing of this chapter in my life (focusing in school and studying for my upcoming AICE exams). Causing a problematic situation in my schedule, making it difficult to take on with this project. On the other hand, this project also fulfilled me with major "UPS"; nothing pays the gratitude of seeing emotional reactions from those watching a piece you made. Over the weekend, as I showed my boyfriend (a football player) the final product of the documentary's excerpt, he told me he had goosebumps and that he felt relatable to the piece.


How do your products represent social groups or issues?
"The Sweat that Runs Through Our Veins" represents all the people that are involved with sports teams, from athletes to coaches and any kind of "helpers"/"workers (photographers, filmmakers, athletic trainers...). It represents them and their will to explain why the passion grows on them; it explains that family includes but is not limited to the blood that runs in our veins. Family can be constructed with CULTURE.
The documentary represents this CULTURE, the cherished feeling created between those who participate and work with sports teams.


How do your products engage with the audience?
This documentary engages with the audience by showing the intimacy of the "behind the scenes" of the Cypress Bay Football team and that it is not seen. Like any documentary, its purpose is to show a piece of reality. "The Sweat that Runs Through Our Veins" breaks the fourth wall within the first scene/interview. I chose to do it this way so the audience feels like it is talking to them personally. This happens with a simple change from the other interviews:
framed the director in the center of the shoot instead of the thirdsThis simple change from the other interviews develops a different way of audience engagement. Like the director is telling YOU, the audience, the story.


How do the elements of your production work together to create a sense of ‘branding’?
The social media page for the documentary is what develops the greatest sense of "branding" for this project. Social media develops a personality, culture, physique, self-image, relationship, and reflection for the brand. It does so by constantly repeating colors, fonts, and writing style. The same colors and fonts are used in the documentary to annex both "pieces" together and make it all ONE "brand."
Similar to the "brand project" we did in the beginning of the school year (where we made ourselves into brands using the prism), the consistency creates the 'essence' of the brand. Like a person... The colors and fonts help develop the physique; the culture is developed (family).


How did your research inform your products and the way they use or challenge conventions?
As a TV production student, I am used to having to work on very large projects with very limited and harsh time frames, which trains me to work with barely any pre-production. Which is something Mrs. Stoklosa HATES ABOUT ALL OF US TV KIDS.
With the beginning of this project, I made a promise to myself I would not allow this to happen; I would research and focus a lot of my time on research, and so I did. I used references from documentaries we studied in class and outside of class. I used notes from our class lectures and spent HOURS and HOURS trying to find documentaries that had social media accounts hahahaah. In the end, all the research I did turned out to be very helpful and made my whole process easier. I spent less time filming because I didn't need to overshoot because I knew what I wanted and needed. I spent VERY VERY VERY little time editing.
In terms of challenging conventions, "The Sweat that Runs Through Our Veins" does not challenge conventions. The documentary follows after much research of numerous documentaries, meaning that, like most documentary productions, it follows exactly what is expected from the genre.

4th down!!!!!!!

 EDITING IS FINALYYYYYYYYY DONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

3rd down

INTRO TIMELINE

EDITING...EDITING... EDITING...

PREMIERE PRO SCREEN

 

The editing process has started: honestly, the most peaceful and easiest part for me!  The process is almost ready! I wish I could finish it right now, but as I write this it is very late and I am tired. I have spent all of my sunday here editing and I cant wait to sinish it tomorrow!!!!!!!!

2nd down

 MARKETINGGGGGGGGGG...

Although creating thumbnails or posters are not required for this specific project(documentary) I came to the co nclusuion ythat there is no social media account withou a bit of marketing( since that is the whole poupose of social media for this project) so I decided it would be clever to develop a poster!!!!

They are very simple, but they do theur job.

1st down

 The social media posts take so long haahhahaha

I have been spending the week focusing on those social media posts, and honestly, it has been so worth it.

I love how they have been turning out. SO CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. For the past few days, I have been doing the "meet the cast"/"interviews." Like I had mentioned in the beginning of the research process, like the "abstract" documentary series did on their social media, remember?

3rd quarter

SOCIAL MEDIA MOVES THE WORLD

As time passed, I lost track of time and what I had to do. So many components for one single project. And now I am running after all the time missed.

Well now, let's talk about what actually interests us. I decided to take the afternoon to create some posts on the Instagram page. Like I said in the beginning, with the research posts, I maintained the same font and colors I used for the logo/profile picture within all the posts. To create a brand identity.

This afternoon in particular, i did the Behind the scnes posts.

The extra point is good

 WHY CAN BLOGGER BE SO HARD TO USE SOMETIMES?

Sometimes I feel like i know blogger like the palm of my hand, and 5 seconds later... i cant even change the fount😭😭😭😭

the kicker is going for the extra point.

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.

I am now only missing some final touches on pg !

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