Today is almost the final day of my project. It's the final day of filming at least. So, today, I finally finished filming everything including my 2nd CCR.
Prep:
I knew beforehand that this CCR would take a long time to prepare, so I woke up early to prepare. Yesterday, Saturday, I began to write the script for my second CCR, and this morning I finished it. It didn't take me too long to finish though, because I already had what I wanted to do in mind and the questions weren't too hard to answer.
I thought maybe I could write it in sharpie on the cardboard, but that idea was scratched off fast after I thought of how stupid that would look.
After a while of thinking, I decided to just print a piece of paper with the questions and everything on it, tape it to the cardboard, then use small strips of the sticky part of post-its as the paper covering half of the questions.
Prop Making:
Before that though, I had to make the actual piece of paper and make sure the questions were relevant enough and were asking exactly what I needed to answer.
I started by getting a template off google of a google search bar. I then went into the photo editor and whited out all of the previous text. After that, I added my own questions and messed around with the fonts and sizes of the words. This took me a while because it kept on glitching and I wanted it to look as close as possible to a realistic Google search.
Once I had finished making the pictures, I printed them on blank paper in color. Thankfully, I had some extra cardboard from a project I did at the very beginning of the year, and I thought that it would work perfectly for exactly what I was imagining.
I went into the garage and cut it carefully with a knife since my scissors weren't sharp enough to cut straight through smoothly. I then carefully used a small amount of tape around all of the corners of the poster and stuck the paper on perfectly. Lastly, I got some yellow post-its I had in my supply closet and I cut them into thin slices so they could fit perfectly over each line and every set of words.
Filming:
By this point, I had finally finished the actual poster, and all I had to do was record. it. The main problem was that both of my parents were extremely busy, so I had to film everything myself. I didn't want the camera to face me, because it lowers the quality by a lot. So, instead, I decided to wing it and record it facing backward.
After recording for around 10 minutes, I decided to check the footage before moving on to the rest of my filming. I'm glad I checked, because the whole time, half of my head wasn't even on screen, so all that hard work went to waste. Thankfully though, I caught myself on the earlier side and I didn't have to redo the WHOLE thing.
So before starting to record again, I asked my parents quickly if they could check to see if my whole upper body was in the frame and centered, and it was. So, my second attempt went well.
Editing:
Once I was done and took a short break, I thought it would be best to hop right on to begin editing my second CCR. I hadn't fully finished editing my first CCR yet, but I thought if I started the second one it would be easier to continue it later on rather than starting it later. So, after editing for a while, currently, I have almost finished editing my 1st and 2nd CCR and I will finish them both tomorrow right after I get home from school so as to not make my last-minute touches too late.
-Dana
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