Reflection

My film involves an orphan, with super abilities including super hearing.She eventually discovers her background and secrets that leads her into chaos.The main character, Ella, is a female led that tackles the gender conventions within the super power world.Despite the raising rates of feminism in this day, women are still portrayed only as weak and vulnerable within films.There are exceptions such as strong female roles like wonder woman or captain marvel but these types of roles are still rare.I also casted myself as Ella because I thought it would break the stereotype of caucasian female leds.Asian American female leads are even more rare than strong women roles.Only recently had films such as Crazy Rich Asians and To all the Boys I’ve Loved before, released in American cinema. Similarly, the main character in my film is a asian female with super abilities who will be involved with brutal combats and war later on in the plot.Ella represents the traits of a real female, she has both her vulnerable times and her strong side,just like a real women.Furthermore, her age also tackles the stereotype that young people are dependent and lazy.Ella, on the other hand, lives alone and supports herself as she is an orphan.Within the film opening, Ella is awaken by the sensitivity of her hearing.Her heartbeat is heard throughout the opening along with the other disturbances she hears.As the noises around her home agitates her, her heart beat increases, creating the feeling of intensity.The beat of the heart helps the audience maintain their attention within the increasingly fast cuts as the rate of the cuts correspond to the rate of the heart beat.As the heartbeat increased in speed, the cuts became harder to edit since each cut eventually only lasted 0.06 seconds.This factor was actually later added onto the video as I realized that it would increase intention better than background music or any other choice.I used the app provided by my school, Wevideo, to edit this opening as I was already familiar with its tools.However, the process of this video has challenged my skills as I am usually the one who films rather than the one who edits.However, after much research and trail and errors, as my put my finishing touches on the video I realized how much my editing skills had improved.Another challenge was to find a good microphone in which can efficiently capture small sounds like the ticking of a clock.At first I had used the microphone of my iphone 6 which resulted teh audio to be unclear.In the end, I bought an audio-technica microphone to record the sound clearly and without background noise.With the help of the microphone, my job as both the editor and the cameraman was made much easier.In At the end, I finished the creation of this opening, the first time as the actor, cameraman, and the editor.The distributions of this film could be an issue since I had no big named producer or a distribution company who will be willing to distribute this film for me.However, I hope that this film can make it into the film festival and could catch the eye of a distribution company that could distribute this film for me.After the long process of creating this film opening, it has given me an experience I had never had.