AICE Media Studies

  Today I decided to do a little film review and put some final touches on my film to ensure that it is the best quality possible. After reviewing my film many times, I noticed that there were a few key things I could touch up on. The main things I saw is the need to fix many of the editing aspects in the film including making it simpler and removing unnecessary special effects. I noticed the music was a little off and the fact that it should only be used in scenes that actually need it rather than being forced. I fixed these points of emphasis by going back into the film and fixing some of these little things. Because most of these problems were with editing and not the film itself, they were relatively easy to fix. Going back and reviewing the film again, I had also noticed the special effects were a little forced and decided to get rid of them completely as they did not add to the film as intended. To address the music issue, I had cut down music to scenes that needed them ...

    Today I plan on finishing editing my film. The past two days of editing have been fairly productive, so I do not have a lot to do. I do still plan on piecing some final things together that may have been missed. I start by smoothing out transitions between clips as I do not believe that they were as sharp as they could be. I also noticed parts of the film where our voices were being diminished by other noises and tried to sort that out. I did that by layering the sounds and bringing out our voices over the rest of the noise. This worked well and I saw major improvement. This definitely helps make our voices clearer and makes the film a lot more pleasing from an audio standpoint. I keep looking around for errors that I could have possibly made editing but to be honest I was growing quite tired and had spent quite some time today trying to piece together these edits. I plan on completely finishing my film in the next go and looking at it now, it does not look ...

  Today I decided that I would try and finish up on the editing that I had not completed in my last session with my group. This included integrating the music and trimming clips to make sure that I can fit the film within my 5-minute time constraint. This was a difficult task as I had a lot of clips and had to shorten some to fit within the constraint. I chose the scenes that were most important first to have an estimate of how short I needed to cut the clips that were less important. Once I did this, I got to editing and was able to do enough editing to have plenty of space for the more important clips and also saved copies of the clips I edited just in case we needed to fill in extra time. Next, I sampled the music over my film to see if it fit what I was trying to achieve. It worked and I made adjustments as needed. There was little more I could do with the film I have now and just re-watched and made small adjustments where I thought was necessary. I wrapped up what I had ...

       Today, me and my group began the editing process for my film. We were falling a bit behind schedule so we thought we jump ahead and get to editing early. I have finally finished the three scenes for the film 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. I am using iMovie initially to edit my film but I am thinking of moving over to a more advanced software or editing technology later in the editing process. I started by adding all 3 scenes in order and trying to create a smooth transition between them that would not cause confusion. I 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, I went over parts of scenes that I thought sound effects would help with the scene. I used a running sound effect as if the actors were running very hard to make t...

      Today is my final day of filming and I could not be more excited! I have been waiting to film this scene since it was first drawn up in me and my groups story board. This is the third and final scene of my opening scene and I am excited to get it underway. I start the day by getting to my filming location on time and with my group. We are filming at Hamill Tire, Luke's dad's shop, for this scene as it was the closest, we could get to a bank looking location. We start by setting up all of our equipment and set up our lighting and cameras properly. We put our costumes on and get ready to film. Our costumes are dark and shady looking for this scene as we are robbing a bank. As I get set, I go over my lines once more in my head and get ready to go! We start filming the scene and use many action shots to really show how intense the scene is. The scene is fast paced, and we wanted to encapsulate this within our film by using tracking shots at every opportunity. ...

       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...