Hey everyone! I've had a pretty busy week as I've been working on the first CCR (the PowerPoint one) the entire time! In this post, I wanted to go over my entire production process for the CCR, and tell you all what's coming next?
The first thing I did this week was slightly alter what the CCR would be. Instead of being like a business meeting, it would be more like a college presentation. This way, I could be more casual in tone (and I always create better speeches when in casual tone) as opposed to a formal look.
Anyways, for a complete tonal shift, let's talk about Instagram. As I was scrolling through my For You page, I came across a page called The PowerPoint guy. I looked through some of this creator's reels, and they were huge. They were animated, fluid, and beautiful, unlike the rigid and stiff PowerPoints that I created in the past. I looked over his page for quite a bit, and soon dived into some tutorials. After an hour or two of learning, I had effectively learned how to animate in PowerPoint! As I created my presentation, I didn't really have a script in mind as I wanted to model what I'd be saying off of the presentation. When I created the PowerPoint, the questions I were trying to answer were
- Who does LifeLine represent?
- How does it differ from standard conventions in media?
- How would LifeLine be distributed as a genuine product?
Surprisingly, this PowerPoint didn't need that much research. In the slideshow, one of the key points is that the media doesn't portray depression effectively, but this didn't require much research. I had already known what depression does to someone through prior research, and I already knew how the media portrays depression due to all the shows and movies I had seen previously. After a bit more research, I was able to prove my point!
As for distribution, that came pretty easily. I knew that we'd need an external distributor, as a new indie filmmaker like myself wouldn't have the funds or popularity to fund a release by ourselves. But first, we would need some notoriety, so we would need to submit our film into some film festivals! (The ones I had in mind after reviewing some were the Woodstock Film Festival and the Cleveland International Film Fest.) After this, I want to contact a distributor in the form of a streaming service, as they have gone to film festivals in the past to pick up films.
After a lot of time and animating, I created this. Enjoy!
(Sorry for not just linking the actual PowerPoint. To do that, you need OneDrive access and my storage is completely full, so I can't upload anything else currently.)
After the PowerPoint's creation, the rest was smooth sailing! I went through each slide and wrote my script for each slide, and then sending it to some friends for further revision! After quite some time, I came up with
this!
As for the last step, I just had to coordinate with a friend to film it! I decided on filming at my prop friend and prop designer's house, Luna as she had access to a projector and a clicker for ease of flicking through PowerPoint slides. We had an issue during production where we couldn't find an HDMI cord, but we eventually found one tucked away in the garage. I can't show you all the recordings just yet as I would like to edit them into the finished product first, but I can't wait until then! For filming, we did several takes, as no specific run of the presentation was perfect, so I want to stitch together audio from several attempts to create a "perfect" final product. I'll see you all then!
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