AICE Media Studies

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 Hey bloggers! It’s an about that time. My short film was a journey. I really wanted the story to be cohesive, understanding, and a fun watch. I hope I was able to convey that through my work.  There were a bit of up’s and downs, but I got through it. I just want to film to be understood. I’ve showed it to my family and they’ve liked it. Also, to some peers and they really enjoyed. Although it was really hard to not discourage myself by looking at other classmates films. I felt as though that mine didn’t come out as “professional” looking because majority of people used professional cameras. I wanted to also, but it was difficult trying to arrange that.  Anyway, Infatuated isn’t just about some crazy ex, but about someone genuinely in love in an insane way. I truly liked the idea of this film. It’s also was a lot if people in my demographic enjoy viewing so I thought why not feed them what they’ll eat. Publishing the video on YouTube made me a bit nervous. I know I had to...

 Hey Bloggers! Something misfortunate happened to my footage. In the process of sending the stuff I’ve filmed and already editing, I’ve lost some of it. This seems impossible with all the precautions software’s use right now, but it unfortunately happened to me. I first noticed I was missing footage when I was editing, but I figured that my friend would still have it on her phone. I thought wrong, because we legit couldn’t find this footage anywhere. It was kind of, well really, important to my film. It helped build the plot. I panicked at first, and honestly that made me so lazy and unmotivated. But I thought to myself I could just film more by myself to overcompensate for what I've lost. Filming myself was a struggle, I couldn’t find my tripod and I had to be innovative, with what I used to film myself. Luckily I found a phone stand, which helped. It was difficult trying to get different angles as I didn’t have much to stand my phone on and the phone stand was short, so it looked...

Hey Bloggers! So I need to re-edit some stuff, sadly. When using CapCut a lot of stuff got mixed around, bad. This was really my first time editing a project myself. Previously I had a group, but this helped me learn some things on my own. When it came to editing, the video itself, it was really choppy. I filmed on an iPhone 12 as well as an iPhone 11 and the quality difference was apparent. I had to mesh the videos together as there were a lot of scenes I filed out of order or just on different days. A lot of the time the audio wouldn’t make up with the visuals. I tried fixing that for over 35 minutes before I had to scrap the whole thing and restart. I was really trying to save it , but I just had to let it go. That truly hurt my motivation and soul, lol. I fought past it though and the second go around was soo much easier. I wanted to add the little sounds, such as powering off a phone, because I thought it added to the film. When I added most audios I did it through recording it fr...

  Hey bloggers! As I mentioned many times, I worked on this project in a group of just one. Let me open up on my thoughts and experience with doing that. I can say I’m glad I worked alone. It allowed me to get a better understanding of this course. Also, with technology as it was very important to complete this. Although I procrastinated, it showed me that nowadays the softwares provided are very efficient. CapCut was a great editing software to use as it allowed me to quickly and efficiently create a film.  There were a lot of downsides to it as well. Since it was a group of one, I had to find people that fit my storyline. I originally planned for a boy to play my love interest, but the people I depended on weren’t able to. This really affected my project as that was the main plot. But in the end I decided to make my girl friend play the role, and I'm going to make her a representation of trans inclusion. It was too late to switch because I previously filmed scenes where I us...

  Hey, Bloggers! I'm not fully satisfied and finished with a little bit of filming. But to help me know what to work on I showed my friend, Olivia, and 2 of my sisters.  Olivia liked it, so she said. She did say she could tell we were trying not the laugh, but we're not actors so lowkey expected. She liked the storyline, she thought it was really interesting. I'm glad she commented on the plot because I thought it was a little too cheesy. My sisters had a bit too much to say. They don't really know wat they were talking about though. Like my oldest sister said "some of the shots are too far". That's expected though because we need shots like a long shot or medium long shot. My older sister, knows a little bit about the class so I could trust what she said. She commented on the lighting in some shots, said it was too dim. It kind of was when filming at Alyssa's house. Also it scenes with me and Alyssa, my head would be cut off, and she pointed that out....