AICE Media Studies

           Last time we focused on edited and adding effects into our video. Today we focused on the audio aspect of our film. There are several different qualities to the audio part of films. The first one is the background music. We will most likely have to use royalty free music for this. The people we contacted asking for rights to their songs have yet to answer. Another aspect is sound effects. We wanted to use sound effects in our film to add intensity and tension. Another aspect is how you use or edit the audio. For example diegetic and nondiegetic sound. Today I was tasked with helping with the sound effects. While I was doing this, other members in my group were focusing on our background music and ways to edit certain sounds. Looking for the right sound effects was difficult yet fun at the same time. I enjoyed going through each sound effect on my editing software and trying to figure out ways i could implement it into the film. After I finis...

 Now that our filming was finished, it is time to start the editing portion of the project. I was tasked with assisting in the editing of the project. I got the right editing software that i wanted to use and i was ready to go. The first thing that was done was all the clips we wanted to use were put all together in the correct order. Before putting these clips in we discussed which ones we wanted to use as a group. Then, after that, the real editing started. One of the things that was done was editing of the transitions. Certain different transitions were implemented like jump cuts to transition from one clip to another efficiently. Another thing that was done was adding filters to some clips to make them look different then they actually did originally. My main focus was working on the filters. For many of the clips, I looked through all the filters the editing software had to offer. In most clips I wanted to use a filter that made the picture a little darker to add tension and m...

Last time we wanted to film, we weren't able to due to our plans being cancelled by a sports meeting being cancelled. This time, we planned to meet at Lukes house to finish our filming portion of the project. We got to Luke's. We set up the filming set so it would be ready to go. My group changed into their costumes for the film and we were almost ready to go. We talked about where we left off and what shots we needed to film now. We then spent a couple minutes discussing the types of angles and shots we were to use during the film. I am the groups cameraman so this was very important for me. Now we were ready to go. I got everyone into the right spot for the first shot. Then I got into my position and we started. We worked fluently and finished our remaining shows. We also looked over the shots and redid the ones we thought we could have improved on. Overall, I believe I did very well today with filming the angles correctly. I think our film came out good I can't wait to s...

 Our plan today was to film our final scenes and finish out the filming part of the project. We were to go to Luke's house once again. Sadly at the last minute, our plans had to be cancelled. We realized that a couple of us had a meeting for sports to attend at the same time we were supposed to film. So we weren't able to film today. We still tried to make progress today so we discussed some things involving our project. One thing we talked about was the filming schedule. We agreed on a better date and time that we would all be able to film and we talked about the progress of our film too. Another thing we talked about was our situation involving music. We checked to see if the production company answered our email involving asking for permission to use their music. We still haven't gotten a response yet so it's looking more likely that we use royalty free music for our project.

 Today my group was on the mission to find music to go with our film. Last time we filmed the first scene of our film so we have an idea of the type of music we want to use. I thought our film would go best with some background music that sounded mysterious to help express the idea of the movie. There are two different routes to obtaining the music for our film. One way is just using Royalty Free Music from YouTube. This is the easier and more simple way to go as we wouldn't need to ask for the rights of the music. The other way is if we aren't using Royalty Free Music, we would have to ask the licensing organization of the song for the permission to use it in our film. In this case,  we found a song we wanted to use in our film and we emailed the licensing organization asking for permission to use the song and explaining that our purpose for using the song was for a school filming project. Just in case the licensing organization does not respond nor give us permission to use ...

 This weekend we followed are schedule which showed that we would be filming this weekend. Our group all met at the film site. We set up the filming set so it would be ready to go. My group changed into their costumes for the film and we were almost ready to go. We then spent a couple minutes discussing the types of angles and shots we were to use during the film. I am the groups cameraman so this was very important for me. Now we were ready to go. I got everyone into the right spot for the first shot. Then I got into my position and we started. We worked well together even though we made some mistakes. Sometimes I would accidentally shake the camera a little or I wouldn't really like the angle i was filming at. Other times the actors would make mistakes like stuttering over a line or going out a character. Because of this we had to retry some of the shots several times. We also looked over the shots and redid the ones we thought we could have improved on. When we were done filming...

  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 cou...