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Critical Reflection

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           My short film works to represent certain social issues like the over-sexualization of women in today’s society. During the creation of the film, the thought processes my group and I had were concerning what the child was thinking throughout her duration of playing with the dolls. As can be seen in the film, the actresses were dressed in low-cut crop tops and short skirts. The reasoning behind this was to showcase the fact that a child was choosing to imagine these sexual characters during her seemingly innocent act of playing with dolls. Of course, this is by no fault of the child’s. It is simply to present the outcomes that result from kids of all ages being exposed to today’s media and culture. The norm nowadays is women exploiting themselves, seen especially through their choice of clothing. Throughout the past years, women have been known to dress more modestly and it’s been considered normal to cover up. As of more recently, women have been able to break free from thes
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Short Film Package for Time for Dinner

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 This is our website https://violetroberts8.wixsite.com/my-site-6 This is our postcard This is our short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtKtPT2t6w&t=129s
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Editing and Finalizing

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I started off by just adding the videos together to create them into one. This was easy since I already had experience from last year. The hard part came when I had to add the sounds over top of the video. I thought this would be fairly easy since I had some prior experience with this before. However, it did not go as smoothly as I thought it would go. I had issues because the sound would either be too loud or too quiet. I knew what I had to do was to put the sound of "Honey, dinner's ready" over the video. I thought I could just make the underlying video silent. However, it ended up sounding too fake when everything in the background was silent and there was just the sound of the mom talking. I then thought I could increase the sound of the video a little bit but not too much so there would be some background noise, but so the audience couldn't hear me giving the little girl cues. I couldn't figure out how to do this easily so it sounded regular, it would always
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Finally time to edit

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At last, the filming process was over and the really fun process was about to start, editing. Addison wanted to take a sort of lead in the editing since this was one of her strong suits. Still, she agreed with me to split some of the work. I felt bad to pin it all on her, whether it was something she enjoyed or not. I felt that it was the right thing to do to at least split some of the editing up among the group. This way, not only would one person not have to do everything, the film could have a piece of everyone's creative work. She said she could use some help on a couple of the final scenes, so I got straight to work. I already had the last two shots that incorporated the little girl and the dolls, so it was perfect. There would be no hassle trying to send over the shots, which I have unfortunately experienced before. I decided to edit in iMovie because it was the most accessible for me. It was free on my apple devices and I could access it on both my phone and laptop. Being ab
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Filming the Final Scene

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This was the scene that had been put off the most and I was excited and scared to film it at the same time. I'm aware that getting children to do what you need them to is a difficult task. However, I was hopeful that the little girl I was working with would be compliant since I'd known her for years. She'd never seemed to be a troublemaker and was hoping she would stay this way for the duration of the filming process. At first, everything started off smoothly. When I first got to her house, I settled down and asked her to bring over her Barbie dolls so I could see what I was working with. A large box was brought over full of dolls and toys, and I discovered she had exactly what I was looking for. Two dolls, one blonde, one brunette, and even a table with a plate of sweets and a drink, to replicate what we had in the film. I started explaining what I needed her to do, which is when I was met with her own input on what she thought I should do. It was quite hard to get her to
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Having to Refilm

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The next day came fairly quickly and it was time to refilm. Since Dara and I had decided to not go to Addison's house physically, I sat on my bed and waited for the facetime call. At about 12:15, everyone was on the call and Addison and Violet began getting ready. Once the costumes, hair, and makeup were finished, filming was ready to begin. Addison decided to prop her phone up on a tripod to film the scene. There were no other group members there, so everyone decided it would suffice. However, problems quickly arose. Addison's dog immediately jumped on the bed and it was hard to keep him out of the shots. If he was locked out of the room, his barking would disrupt the scene, so there really was no other option. Besides the dog, my group and I all came to the conclusion that the tripod made the scene lose some of its creepy feels. Everyone agreed it looked way better before when a person's hand was holding the camera. Little things like moving the camera around in the sligh
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Deleted scenes

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  This is what I was most afraid of, footage being deleted. Unfortunately, that became my reality today. I was feeling extremely accomplished and productive after having finished almost all of our filming. However, this all went away when I read Addison's text in the group chat. Addison told everyone that for some odd reason, one of the scenes had been wiped from her phone. Sadly, it was an important scene too, so it would need to be refilmed. It was the scene where Addison was holding the knife up to Violet and was about to stab her. I texted Addison asking if the video was in her recently deleted, but she informed me it wasn't. I was out of ideas on what to do and knew the whole scene would just need to be refilmed. Initially, the idea brought up was to simply have Violet go over to Addison's house in order to shoot the scene again. This seemed to be okay with everyone on the team. Dara and I decided to be on facetime while the production was going on. Despite not being t
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