AICE Media Studies

  I was not able to use things most champion commercials have. That’s completely okay though, it’s normal. Because I am a high school student I could not afford to rent out a gym or a football for this commercial. I worked with what I had and tried to the best of my abilities to make this commercial as perfect as I could.   It represents athletic groups and people who stay fit. The backpack engages with the audiences by giving them something to hold their stuff in. It is distributed as a real media text by video via YouTube and bloggers. Uploading to YouTube was a way of getting it out there and it was the first media form I thought of. My production skills were TERRIBLE before I started this project. Then I had to figure out how to plan what was going to be in my project. Then I had to illustrate what was going to be in it using my storyboard. Then I had to act out what I drew previously. Casting was hard but filming was a breeze. The longest process was the editing process b...

FREE AT LAST.... FREE AT LAST... THANK GOD ALMIGHTY FREE AT LAST. After days of dedication I have finally come up with a piece of work I can enjoy... I LOOOOVVEEEE what I put together. I cannot believe I am capable of this, I have come a very long way from where I have started. I am truly proud, the outcome of this video was worth the hype students gave it. I think I am near mastering on my editing; the crazy thing is despite the results I will never use this website again. The website was too hectic for me to handle. I had to start my editing over three times. That was a huge pain in the neck for me because I had other work to complete. However each time I started over I got better and brighter ideas and in the end everything came out for the best. All in all I am not mad that there were several malfunctions in the editing... it happens... it's life.  

  On the last episode of editing I struggled to find a perfect editing source. I searched on the AppStore and on the web. I was not disappointed in my findings. I found this website called clipchamp. At first I was severely skeptical that they were going to ask me for a fortune for a simple commercial and then I believed this was what I needed to make an unforgettable commercial. I started right away. It took a couple of minutes to get a hang of the website but that’s rather normal. I navigated my way through the ins and out of this newly discovered website. I thought it would be cool to add an effect where it’s as if I’m turning on a TV I found that option so I used it. It looked really cool. Next I moved on to the font. I had to think about what I wanted the text to say and how big I wanted it. I decided champion was the move. It got my idea across and it was short and sweet. I then proceeded to place the first scene. What I did not expect was for the shot to be shaky. It was too...

Today, I started to edit my commercial. My commercial was focused on my champion backpack. After creating the storyboard and acting out I was prepared to revise what was recorded. Editing is required to make media look smoother when transitioning from one scene to another. I took a lot of shots, so I was aware that much editing was required. I spent rougly forty minutes of class time on my phone adding and removing scenes where I believed were necessary. Near the end of the class I realized that something was wrong. It was not the fact that the commercial was not done. The format I was using seemed to be the issue. The video did not look as good as it should have. Imovie was not the right fit for me. Before I could dig myself into a deeper mess, I decided it was time to look for another app to edit with. Sure Imovie created this beautiful scenes and fonts but they were not working with me in the way that I wanted them to. Imovie added credits and extra pieces that I did not need. Those...

 Today was the second day of filming that I was given. I thought of reshooting. Reshooting would have cleaned up certain aspects of my commercial. Problems arised though so I was unable to reshoot. The people that had originally helped me were unavailable. They were either working on their commercial or the project that they were tasked with. I did not want to be a bother so I left the clips as they were. I was going to work with what I had and not get upset. The commercial was not bad, it just was not perfect. I am learning that I do not always get what I want and that is okay. The lighting of the video was great. I did not record with sound. It is going to be a quiet commercial where I will overlap it with a nice sound. I have not decided what the overlapping sound will be yet and that is okay because I think I have enough time. The clothes I wore today were not clothes that I wore the last time I filmed. So even if I had the products to shoot a new scene I would be unable to. In...

I am working alone on this project. However on my storyboard I included more people than there was available. My whole commercial was based on people that were not in my group. When drawing them I tried to be as general as possible to fit as many people's description as I could. I counted on the kindness of others to help me make this commercial come true. I asked my friends if they were able to help me out. Sadly they were not so they recommended some of their friends that were able to. I got even luckier than I orginally anticipated. Kia, Aiden, and Eric helped me out with my filming. Two of the three were experienced students who have taken this class before. Kia, Aiden, and I were actors while Eric was the person behind the cameras. Everyone performed even better than they were supposed to. I was leaping with joy, I had no idea that the outcome would be so pleasant. They even suggested realistic angles for me to record from while keeping it professional. At first I was a bit ho...