Transition into The Portfolio Project.

 The Portfolio Project is a project created by Cambridge that requires individuals to create a two-minute original opening for a film. It has to include professional-style titles, original visuals, sound and full production credits. Each student will need to create around three blogs per week documenting all research, planning and production. Students then finish with a creative critical reflection answering four required questions about conventions, audience, skills, and technology. 

When my class was first introduced to the portfolio project, I felt confused and a bit anxious about what the next few months would look like. Time management has never been my strongest skill, and balancing this assignment with the heavy workload from my other classes made the project feel overwhelming at first. This means I have to adjust my time management better and do my schoolwork earlier. Fortunately, we’re allowed to work with partners for this project, and that immediately helped calm my nerves. I’m working with the same teammates from a previous assignment where we earned an admirable grade, and that experience showed me how well we collaborate. We put in a lot of hard work and were rewarded for it, so I’m hoping we can replicate that success this time as well.

Me and my partners surprisingly picked the same two genre's we wanted to do and that was Action and Drama. This made it easier to brainstorm ideas and feel confident about the direction of our project. We made an outline of our film, organizing key roles such as who the actors, editor, director, writer and even created a draft.

Our draft is to create a tragic drama opening of a possible flashback of 2 friends or siblings who share the same goal, to play professionally in a sport such as soccer (Premier League, Serie A) or basketball (NBA). One of the friends/brothers tragically dies and the other dedicates himself to make it professionally for tribute for his brother. We are planning to make most of the opening a flashback of then playing around, practicing together and some conflicts then in the final seconds a cut to reality of the living brother. In this film opening, our goal is to build suspense, realism and make it seem that the story is actually going to start. 

To conclude, the Portfolio Project seems interesting and entertaining to do. Fortunately, me and my class have projects preparing us for this so I believe will that I will manage.