AICE Media Studies

 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....

  Hey Blogger! This has been a new experience, and I'm glad I'm learning a bit more. Since I've been in the group by myself I'm doing everything myself of course. It's an eye opening experience because I'm understanding every perspective of this project. So, I wanna talk about the fun part of filming, well it shouldn't be fun technically but... So recently I filmed the scenes where Ivy is plotting against Amira. I drove my friends car to get some of those shots done. I'm so glad I have good friends, because when I was writing my script I lowkey forgot I didn't have a car, lol. I don't usually drive, so my friends were "pretending" to be scared. I can drive but they were being soo extra, but it was funny though. We had to keep going up and down the street because we kept messing up or a finger would be in the frame. Another thing was I kept forgetting that the music couldn't be playing for copyright issues, so that also made the proc...

Hey, Bloggers! This process is the part that overwhelms me. Editing was different as I was importing footage from a camera. I have completely finished filming, but I have enough that I could edit. More than enough actually. I tried using CapCut as I did last year. That made it much easier. Editing is what really makes the movie so I watched some videos online to know what to do better. Doing this alone as been difficult, and I hate asking for help. So, I just had to learn all of this by myself. I wanted to try out using iMovie as well, because I wanted the best outcome possible. Watching the videos helped a lot. Without it my film would look "boof", lol. Having to do this by self has been a lot. I can't dwell on how hard it is because I did this to myself. I didn't know it would be like this. I'd advice any future Aice media students to work in a group.  I needed to edit the photo montage, and the first like 2:30 of the film, was lowkey easy. I didn't have to ...

Hey Bloggers, I got so much more done! I filmed with Alyssa, Paige, and Mikayla. It wasn't supposed to be Mikayla. I had to switch people's roles because the person I originally chose had practice and never told me about it. Getting Mikayla was also difficult because I didn't know if she would be able to. Finding out last minute that I needed a replacement, was the issue. She had to get permission from her mom. The only thing was she would need a ride home. Good thing Paige drives, and it such a good friend, she said she would be able to drive her home. I decided to make Paige act as my "ex" because I knew it would be easier to be serious. We filmed stuff of us being "cute" and "couplely", for the photo montage. That was really funny to make, we couldn't take our selves seriously. That made it look more genuine though, it looked low-key real. We got some pretty good shots. We then had to film the dialogue from the second section where we sa...

(not actually my room) Hey Bloggers, I'm back and I've made some progress! Since I have some solo scenes, I just decided to film them on my own. Well not completely on my own, I had to ask my sister for help. Luckily she wasn't busy because it gets some of those angles on my own would be difficult. For filming, I asked my teacher if I could borrow one of her cameras, because that quality would be so much better. I have an iPhone 11, I knew that the outcome wouldn't come out the way I wanted it to. It was kind of hard filming some of these scenes because I was sick and not feeling good, but I had to thug it out. I just hope I don't sound sick, #embarrassing.  While filming it was so hard to be serious. With my sister there and the lines I had to say, we just would both end up laughing. This made it longer than it needed to be. I told her we needed to "lock in", but that took some time. I also wasn't trying to waste space on the camera, so we really had ...

Hey, Bloggers! So when it was introduced that our project his year was a short film, many ideas popped into my head. I already knew what type of look and sound I wanted for mine. I also know it's harder to get some music, because of copyright issues. To also help me get an better understanding of the type of music I wanted, I did some research, well more than just some. I watched a lot of horror/ thriller films on YouTube to see how they placed it and to see what it "should" sound like. I found a lot of things that inspired me.  I wanted to use music by artists "Ken Carson" and "Playboi Carti". They in a label "Opium" that fits what I've envisioned for my film, but I have to get around the copy right. I know with those artists it'll be really difficult because their management isn't that good. So I went looking on YouTube, so that I wasn't too dependent on that idea. I found some stuff but it felt like "cliche" horro...

Hey Bloggers, it's Laudjah! I've missed writing these blogs and I'm happy to get into this "groove", lol. I'm so excited to start filming this short film. I've had a couple set backs so I couldn't start filming when I originally planned to. Doing this film by myself as been a challenge that as lowkey been hard to conquer. Finding people that want to be in something they get no type of compensation for is hard. They don't fully the importance of this project/class. They people I originally planned to film with, well 2/3 or 4 have been pretty compliant. Others unfortunately just see this as a fun project. As it will be fun to make, it's also important that it doesn't just look like a "fun" mini film, but something that represents all that I've learned. It keeps getting shut down or being put on the back burner for some. As I'm writing this, I'm coming to the realization that I need to find people that maybe took the clas...