AICE Media Studies

       Today I was able to continue the filming of my final task. Me and my group congregated after school today at our filming location. The place we filmed today is the library as it offers the perfect setting for the scene we are trying to film. 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 Ben were acting on set. We picked off where we left off and started filming the 2nd scene. We use long shots to show the whole area that we are in and tracking shots to track each person. We change the lighting depending on where each person is 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 small amount of time. We spent a while filming the scene multiple...

  Unfortunately, me and my groups plans got canceled today due to a mandatory meeting for football that was required for a school trip that we would all be attending. Today, the plan was to continue filming for my movie when under very short notice, a meeting had popped up. The location was set up to film as well as props and costumes as me and my group were ready to proceed with the filming process. Very suddenly though, it all came crashing down as we were called up on to a meeting by our football coach. Although filming was all set up and I was ready to continue the process of filming, me and my group decided that we would have to reschedule. I would never let a day go to waste though and used this little time I had to discuss with my group on a different day. We already have scheduled a different day which we will continue our filming and are excited to continue making progress with our project. In the meantime, I will keep reviewing the film I already have and look at dif...

 Today, for my short film, me and my group decided that we would dedicate a day to pick out the different songs and music we will be using for our film. Music is important in any good film and therefore we wanted to ensure that we would have music on our film that will enhance the film that much more and fit to our needs. Most of the day was spent browsing through different genres of music and going back to our genre research to see which music typically is used in an action film like ours. Fast paced, high energy songs were typically paired with a film like ours so we took this route when deciding which music would fit best. After finding the kind of music we wanted to stick with, we started picking a couple songs that we liked best and kind of sampled them over what we had envisioned for the rest of our film. After finding a couple possible options, it was then put up to me to reach out to a couple publishing companies to ensure we had the rights to their music for our film. This...

 This is it! Filming of my short film has commenced. After all of the hard work that me and my group have put into preparing this short film over the past couple of weeks, it is finally time to begin. Me and my group start by going to our film location to begin setting up and start getting used to all of our equipment. At first, it took at little while as I, as well as my group mates, was not accustomed to all the moving parts of a film set, but as things progressed I started to get the hang of things. Once we had finished setting up, me and my group changed into our costumes and prepared to film. We took a little time to discuss how we believed every shot should be taken and from what angles, but this did not take long. The filming of the first scene was then underway. As an actor, I got into my position and ran through my lines quickly in my head once more, and my groupmates did the same. Our cameraman got into position and did a countdown to let us know exactly when the film wou...

      Me and my group have decided that we would dedicate a day to set up the times we should film our movie so that we do not make plans for those dates and times. My film has several different scenes as well as several different locations that these scenes take place. Scheduling for when we will film is very important especially with how busy all of our lives are and how things tend to pop up on our schedules spontaneously. The three locations that we will be filming at are Hamill Tire, the library, and my group mate Luke's house. Because these places are all relatively distant from each other, it just would not be possible to film all of the scenes in one day. So, me and my group discussed when we should film and what time we should do it at on each day. After discussion, we came up with first filming  Scene 1 at the library on February 18 at 2pm, Scene 2 on February 19 at 12pm at Hamill Tire, and Scene 3 at Lukes house on February 12th at 5pm.  I feel a lot ...

      After a relatively unproductive day of shopping the other day, me and my group are ready to get back into finishing what we started. I started the day by looking over the list of props and costumes that I had made in order to see exactly what I needed for the film. For my costume, I needed dark and shady clothing to match that a robber would wear and typical clothing of a trashy teenage boy. After looking this list over, I began to browse online for whatever I could not find in store. This was pretty much everything on the list as none of the stores had what I was looking for. As I began to browse, I began finding what I needed very easily and quickly compiled almost all of the things that I need for the film into one cart within an hour. I am really happy with the costumes I found as well as they were exactly what I was looking for. I now just have to wait for them to arrive! Overall, I am pleased with what I found and found this day to be much more produ...

  This is it! Today marks the start of my production process and me and my group could not be more excited. After all of the weeks of planning and research it is finally time to begin the production of my film. Me and my group plan to spend the day buying props and costumes for our film as well as any other equipment we may need for filming.  Props help give a film a realistic image and are used to replace expensive or unrealistic items in a film.  Costumes are what actors wear in a film and are used to adapt to situations in the film to make it seem more realistic.   I started off by making a list of what we needed such as glasses for our costumes and fake money as one of our props. After this, I decided which stores I would hit up that would have most of what I needed all in one place. I started my adventure at party city which is well known for having lots of costumes and props that I would need. As I looked around, I realized a lot of what we needed was very spe...