CCR Script

I have done a couple practice rounds and boy oh boy have I gone over 10 minutes. Here is my final script so I don't bore you to death

Hello Cambridge. My name is Danielle Velez and I created the film opening drive. My main actor was my sister, Samantha, and I decided to work alone to challenge myself and my creativity.

Leaving college is something that I am facing right now, and when I thought about it I realized that I personally had not seen any films that address this.

 My opening uses drama conventions as drama  films tend to follow the emotional development of a character that is usually related to some type of conflict.  Dramas show humans from their highpoints to their low points. It can be argued that dramas have the most subgenres: crime films, courtroom dramas, melodramas, epics (historical dramas), biopics (biographical), or romantic genres.The target audiences for Drama usually appeal to males and females in both young and older audiences. I believe that my opening will be one of a "teen drama", so my target audience will most likely consist of 12-18 years old females. Some of the best-known drama film producers are: Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List,  James Cameron for Avatar, Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk, Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver.

The Protagonist usually is the main character in the film. The audience usually can relate to this character and root for them throughout the film. The protagonist is usually played by a male character however having a female protagonist has recently increased.

My film represents the latinx community. More specifically the challenges that first generation americans face.Here is an article about how first gen kids aren't represented.  It's different when your parents grew up in a completely different country, with different customs. You take some of those customs but you grow up here and you adopt those as well.  Then comes the day where you cannot really identify with one group. You are either too "gringa" or not "American" enough. You can relate to and identify with both (or all) cultures, but you're not completely accepted by either.

In these articles ,the New York Times and the University of Southern California (my old dream school:(! ) find that Latinxs are grossly underrepresented in Hollywood. Representation is how the media portrays a group of people.  There are enough stereotypes about all minorities. Portraying this family in an accurately normal-ish manner would be beneficial. 

Some famous hispanic/ latinx actors are Penople cruz pedro pascal selma hayek antonio bandera 

I would like for my audience to be within the ages of preteen too early thirties. Because of this, I would like to have my film first be promoted on social media. online platforms are going to be my major source of engagement. Not only with ads of trailers on twitter, instagram, youtube, FACEBOOK and snapchat, I believe that tik tok will be even more important. TIKTOK HAS 800 million monthly active users. Explain the ads. By putting my adon the for you page, a common feed most users view  Through ads i will be able to reach a large audience. 

I would like to say My production skills improved throughout this project

I am still not where I want to be but i realized how much work really goes into this. So many little things, make the end result beautiful and coherent, so i definitely learned how important it is to plan.

For software, I started to use wevideo but I really was not that comfortable. I know that imovie isn't necessarily the best but it was what I was most comfortable with. If i had ventured out and used some other online software perhaps I would have been able to manipulate some things more to my liking.

For hardware, I used my dads noce camera, the Nikon D3200. I also used a tripod. However during the pandemic….. So i never got the tripod back soi had to use a ladder for some shots…...

Next time I want to have a really clear idea. For this, I kinda knew what i was aiming for me at it wasn't advantageous if anything it harmed me more. Being able to finish my project early would have let me have extra time to film more and or cadd things to make it better. Thank you cambridge for giving me an opportunity to complete this project, I hope that you are safe and well, bye