AICE Media Studies Blog

  Today I finished editing our film. This did not take me too long because there was not much that we needed to crop out or cut. Something that I had a hard time doing was deciding how I wanted to transition each shot to the next. I wanted each scene to be smooth to watch, and not choppy. I made sure to watch each scene multiple times to make sure that I looked nice, and there were not any mess ups. Since I already had the scenes at Courtneys house and Macies house edited, I only had to edit the scenes that we filmed at school. After putting all the scenes together, I made sure to crop out any parts of the video that we didn't need in the film. I also had to make a couple of changes to our film. I realized that we didn't film the part where I come up my plan of sending the embarrassing photo out to the school. I had to think of way that I could film this by myself, but have it still make sense. My best idea was to make it look like I was coming home from school, and that is whe...

 Today, I started editing some of the clips of our short film.  I started off editing the clips of the scene where I am at my house. I wanted to make sure that I cropped everything out of the video where it was either extra time or a part where I messed up on. I also looked through the videos and cropped anything out of the Frame that I didn't need. Luckily, I don't have any super hard effects that I had to edit in, such as a split screen or transitions. I wanted to make sure that I was following the type of camera angle that I included in the storyboard. For editing my videos, I used iMovie. I am familiar with working with iMovie and I have used it before when making videos. I like using iMovie because I find that it's easy to use and also easy to edit. If I decided to add any special sound effects or music, its very easy to use. I also like that it allows be to easily crop any videos, and it adjust the volume of the videos and speed, and it also had cool transitions that ...

 Today we filmed the rest of the school scenes at school. Today I didn't have media, so we did it during study hall. Luckily, since its almost spring break, teachers aren't giving is too much work or tests, so I didn't have to miss doing my work during study hall. We all met up at the bus loop to film the scenes. I had the script and storyboard out to make sure that we followed it. Today I was wearing a coral sweatshirt with jeans. I didn't want to wear pink again because I wanted to contrast with yesterdays outfit, but I still wanted to follow the same aesthetic/look that Courtney has. We started off filming the scene where it starts off at the second day of school. This is where Courtney releases the photo of Macie. I made sure to have my photo ready that Courtney was going to be sending. We then filmed a clip showing that the photo was sent, and that everyone saw it. We then had to film the scene where Jacob gets mad at Courtney. This was a more emotional scene becau...

 Today was the day that we are filming at school. We are going to film durning my eight period class, which is media. This was the best class that will work out with everyone because everyone that is going to be able to film can do it during eight period. I had a difficult time convincing Kameron to film, but I told him that I would give him a Starbucks gift card if he would. I had to make sure that I had everything ready to bring in to film. I was planning on wearing what I am going to be wearing to in the film to school, because it is something that I would actually wear.  I also had to print out the script and have the story board ready. Once we got to our class, we made sure to get to filming right away.  We went by the bus loop, and filmed the first scenes that have Jacob, Emma, Courtney, and Macie in them. I filmed the shots where I wasn't in them, and my friend Mya filmed the shots that I was in. We where able to get through the first couple of scenes. We stopped a...

 Today, I am going to be filming the scenes with only me in them. Julie came over after school to help me film some of the parts. When I got home, I went to go change into my clothes for the scenes. I was wearing a bright pink top with jeans. we started off with me walking through the door of my house. I went outside the door and Julie filmed me walking in. During this scene, it was only me so you I didn't have much dialogue. Julie and I filmed the rest of the shots that I need for the scene by myself. Since I didn't have much dialogue, I had to make sure that my facial expressions where good so that the audience could still have an idea about what was going on in the scene. Filming these scenes weren't too hard. I would say the toughest part of this process was getting the right angle. We also had to figure out how we can make the embarassing photo look like it was found on a website or something similar so it looks realistic. This took a couple ,minutes to figure out, but...

Julie and I filmed the school parts first because we wanted to get those out of the way first. I wanted to make sure we got those done since spring break is coming up. Since we finished the school parts we are going to focus on the solo ones. Therefore, today after school I went to Julie's house. I helped film the parts where Macie is getting ready for school. To start, I used a medium shot to show her waking up for school. Then we started getting Macie ready for school. I did a close up of her doing her make-up and picking her outfit that she would wear to her first day of  school . Our biggest challenge was the breakfast scene. We wanted to do a close-up of my mom cracking an egg into a pan, but we couldn't get it right the first couple times. So we kepted wasting eggs. But it was pretty funny. I also did a close up of Julie on the phone scrolling while her mom and I were having dialogue. This was to show that she was uninterested in having the New Girl talk with my mom. We ...

 This week I had a plan of studying the scenes where I am at my house, putting together my plan on how I can embarrass Macie. I had a free weekend, so I thought it would be a good idea to film. On Friday, I noticed at school that I was feeling a little off. I had to go get a shot after school at the doctors office, and for the rest of the day, I was wasn't feeling 100%. I woke up on Saturday feeling worst then yesterday. I took my temperature and I had a slight fever. I was definitely not up to filming today, nor did I look good to be filmed. I was pretty upset about not being able to film because I really want to get more parts of my film finished, and I do not want to be cramming everything in last minute. March is a busy month for the students at myself school, especially juniors. We have our SAT, and a lot of school work that we have to focus on, and the closer we get to the end of the year, the closer we get to testing time. I was hoping that I would feel better Sunday, but un...

 For the short film, I am working with my friend Julie. I am glad that I am able to work with her because she is a good friend of mine, and I feel that we come up with good ideas. However, it definelty is it bit more difficult to create a film with only two people in the group. When creating the idea of our short film, we should have been more cautious about our ideas because it is only two of us, and we should have thought of ways to make it easier for us to film without needing extra people. Luckily Julie found some friends that were willing to participate in our film. Mya is going to be playing Emma, and she will also help film. Kameron is going to be playing Josh. I felt bad asking them to be  in my film because this part of the year is really stressful and busy, and they also have work that they have to get done, so I was pretty worried that they where not going to able to. But luckily, I was able to convince them to do it. Since some of our film takes part in a school, w...

 In my film, I won't need to be create many props. The only prop that I will really need to work on on I creating the embracing photos that are going to be shown. The first photo that is shown is Macie's embarrassing photo. Since she is the "new girl" I felt like it made sense the photo of her is when she is a little younger, like middle school or early high school. This is because I feel like it will be an embracing, awkward photo this will be goo to include in our film. For this photo I asked my group member to send me a couple of photos of her that she thought where embarrassing. After looking through the options of her photos, I found one that I thought would be best for our film. To get the embarrassing picture of me, I decided to ask some of my friends to send me pictures of me. I felt like they would have more bad pictures of me than I would. They sent me a couple options and I picked the best one. I made sure to pick one that wasn't too embarrassing. When ...