Candice Fender Films

 

  The animation was by far the most challenging assignment I have ever had to complete. The amount of time, effort, and concentration it takes to complete a 30-second animation; is not for me. However, I do appreciate now having this skill in my repatriation. I can now say that I have animated something that was not a flip cartoon on the bottom of my sticky notes. Instead, I animated my friend Mars, dancing and experimenting with rhythm. My favorite part of the assignment was creating the music. I love music. I was in choir for about 10 years. Singing is one of my passions and when you have been around music, mixing sound becomes easy. Go to my Youtube channel Candice Fender Films for the entire animation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA9_q7OrCd0yAhGJMPXrVTg It will be posted there eventually.

                                    This project was a very difficult one for me because it required me to expose a personal part of myself. This semester has brought on some more challenges with my mental health, specifically in the form of panic attacks. My panic attacks started to become frequent during quarantine, but I was able to limit them. Being without my family as a form of support has been very difficult, especially because they are the ones who are able to calm me down. I chose the bars to represent how trapped I feel during my panic attacks, and the only people who are able to break me out are in Maryland.

This project had a very specific set of challenges. To be honest, the masking was not even that hard. The difficulty came in the planning. Changing clothes and running from behind my camera, while it did not take a long time it was still a lot. The good thing is that I learned more about my own camera’s settings. I have not really experimented much with the settings on my camera because the presets look good. I am thankful for this project pushing me into different directions and roles. It was very helpful to look at placement and is a skill I can now apply to my future filmmaking.   

  The somewhere project was so much fun to produce, and I loved experimenting with different movies and character interactions. The place I chose was the arena in The Hunger Games, and when I saw this picture; I knew I needed to be trying to kill Katniss Everdeen. My goal was to make Santi laugh, and I did. The outfit was not difficult because the clothing in the movie is rain jackets and cargo pants, but what was challenging was the color correction and how my image should interact with the environment. I did not get it right the first time but after my corrections, I agree, it does look a lot better.

  The BW to Color assignment was in my opinion one of the easier ones. Maybe not in the moment but for this assignment I love the skills I learned and how to do photoshop. In the past, Photoshop and I have not gotten along, but I think we’ve buried the hatchet. I also was able to use this assignment to get better acquainted with my drawing tablet, which is something I now love to use and will continue to do so. This assignment taught me a lot of patience. It was not hard, but it was a lot. What I am most proud of with this is the growth I did, from someone who hated photoshop to someone who may be semi-good at it