AICE Media Studies

 Today we decided that we should try and finish up on the editing that we had not completed in our last session together. This included integrating the music and trimming clips to make sure that we can fit the opening scene within our 2 minute time constraint. This was a difficult task as we have not completely finished filming and had to estimate some of the parts in order to fit what we will be filming later. We planned out the scenes that were to be filmed later first to have an estimate of how short we needed to cut the clips we already have. Once we did this we got to editing and were able to do enough editing to have plenty of space for the future clips and also saved copies of the clips we edited just incase we needed to fill in extra time. Next we sampled the music over our film to see if it fit what we were trying to achieve. It worked and we made adjustments as needed. There was little more we could do with the film we have now and just re-watched and made small adjustments w

 Today, me and my group began the editing process for our final task opening sequence. After coming back from a nice long spring break, we thought it would be a good idea to get back to work and start the editing process early for our project. In total, we have filmed 3 scenes of our opening scene so far and the goal today was to piece these together to make them transition properly and maybe begin to integrate sound effects and maybe start to add our music as well. We are using iMovie initially to edit our project but we are thinking of moving over to a more advanced software or editing technology later in the editing process. We started by adding all 3 scenes in order and trying to create a smooth transition between them that would not cause confusion. We achieved this simply by just making sure there was no delay between the scenes and ensuring that it was as seamless as a transition as possible. Next, we went over parts of scenes that we thought sound effects would help with the sc

Today we were able to continue the filming of our final task. Me and my group congregated after school today at our filming location. The place we filmed today is Cayden's house as the backyard offered a setting that we most wanted to utilize. Next, we set up our set outside and prepared to film. We made sure that all of our camera angles and lighting was set up properly before beginning the filming process. Then, we took our places and began to film. Cayden was behind the camera while me, Luke, and Ely were acting on set. We picked off where we left off and started filming the 3rd scene where we begin playing the game of hide and seek. We use long shots to show the whole area that we are in and tracking shots to track each person and where they are hiding. We change the lighting depending on where each person is hiding and use close shots to show expressions and feelings. This scene took a while to film as there was a lot going on at once and a lot to make sure got fit in in a sma

 Unfortunately, today our plans got canceled due to a mandatory football meeting that was required for our school trip. Today we had planned on continuing the filming for our opening sequence when under short notice a meeting for football had gotten in the way. We had a location set up to film as well as our props and film setup and we were ready to proceed with the filming process. Suddenly though, a mandatory meeting was called by our football coach to discuss the college campus tour that we would be going on next week. Although we were ready to film and were all set up, we had to reschedule as this meeting was mandatory. We have already scheduled a different day which we will continue our filming and are excited to continue making progress with our project. In the mean time, we will keep researching about the project and look at different ways we can improve upon .what we have already done. Things like looking over our first few scenes and preparing music has kept us busy. We also h

 Today for our final task, we worked on making progress in music choice in order to advance with our project. Music is very important in our project and we want to make sure that we have the right music that will both fit with our project and engage the audience. We spent most of the day researching different genres of music and looking through different artists and albums that we believed would fit with our project. After finding a kind of music that we liked best, we began picking a few songs that would be the best for our project. After settling on a few songs, we then made sure that we would have the proper rights to use the music for our project. This involved reaching out with publishing companies to ask about their policies and talking with artists assistants to ask for rights. Right now we're waiting for them to respond. In the meantime, we looked at some royalty free music that could act as a substitute to our music choices in case things did not go as planned. We yet agai

Last weekend was the first day we began filming our final task. The production process of our project had finally began. Me and my group all went to our filming location to begin the process. Upon arrival, we changed into our costumes and prepared to film. We set up our film set and took a few minutes to set the camera angles and discuss how each shot would be taken. We then started to film our first scene. Each actor got into positions and our camera man got into his place as well. Once we were all set up, the camera did a countdown and the filming began. A few mistakes were made on the first couple of shots such as a missed line or laughing where it was supposed to be serious. We also switched the positions of the actors and cameras based on how we thought they could be adjusted to look better. It was a process of trial and error but eventually things started rolling and we began filming smoothly. There were many times where shots had to be redone as actors or the camera man had mess

  Scene 1: Luke, Ely, and Zane are all bored and sitting around Scene 2: Zane asks, “Is there anything to do?” Scene 3: Ely responds, “This sounds dumb, but you guys want to play hide and seek?” Scene 4: Luke and Zane both say, “are you serious?” Scene 5: Ely says, “You got any better ideas?” Scene 6: Zane and Luke reluctantly agree, but force Ely to be the seeker. Scene 7: Ely starts to count in his head. Scene 8: Luke and Zane start to panic Scene 9: They start sprinting to find a hiding spot. Scene 10: Shots of their legs at they run to a spot. Scene 11: Zane looks for a spot Scene 12: Zane cannot find any good spots and continues to search. Scene 13: Camera cuts to Luke looking for a hiding spot. Scene 14: Look finds a decent looking spot. Scene 15: Luke goes up to realize Zane is already there. Scene 16: Zane tells Luke to find a different spot. Scene 17: Luke gets frustrated and leaves. Scene 18: Luke runs off to quickly find another spot. Scene 19: Camera shows Ely still countin