Dakota Henry's Final Project Blog

 After completing our final project, there were a number of things that I reflected on in relation to the process that we went through in creating the film. One of the first things that I reflected on was the different ways that different groups were represented in our project. When we first started planning our film, we didn’t think a lot about the different ways that different groups might be represented in our movie. After reflecting on our completed movie, though, it was clear that our movie does include some different groups. One of these is ethnicity. In our movie, the people that played the parts of Abel, Cheryl, and Abel's son are all Hispanic. They are not shown in a negative or stereotypical way in the movie. This was actually a good thing because the child in our movie does look like he could be the son of the people that played his parents.   Another group that is depicted in our film is those who live with chronic or terminal diseases. This is a sensitive subject ...

Moving Forward - Movie Opening | Final Project AICE Media Studies  

 On March 1st, my group was able to film all the scenes we had left to shoot for our video. This was a very busy day for my group. We started filming our scenes shortly before noon. We worked on our scenes until the sun started to set. However, before all of this started, Angeline came up with a plan to figure out what scenes we would be filming and who would be coming to the scene. The first scene we had to film only needed two people. The actor who would be playing the role of Abel, named Damian, and Angeline met to film our scenes. We went to a local church to film our scene where the eulogy is revealed. Angeline had called the church before we went to ask for permission to film our scene at their church. This scene is important because it is the only scene where we are actually using audio. The other scenes are silent with a voiceover. They had to film this scene multiple times to ensure that we had gotten a good one before moving on to the next scene. After they finished filmi...