AICE Media Studies

I have to keep it pushing. Exams are right around the corner so I have to speed up my process. I decided to use iMovie again. It has not failed me in the past so I do not see a reason to change it. I wanted to be cool and edit on my laptop but I cannot. I have yet to find a software or program that has all the editing features that I need. The ones I have found are not really my forte. I do not have a Macbook but I do have an iphone so that will be the device that I use. I am giving myself a week to edit. I think the editing part will not take too long. I am confident that this will all be over soon. This final task has been long but enjoyable. I have made nearly half a dozen life-long friends that I work really well with. I am forever grateful of the time and energy they spent helping me complete this once and for all.  Back to editing, I added in my sound today and I have started to add transitions. Because of the changes in scenery and angles I have had to add a lot of transitio...

  Howdie! Some time has passed since I have caught the blog up on what I have been up to. It is definitely that time again, hence the title. TODAY I FILMED THE SECOND HALF OF MY FILM. I gave myself two days to complete filming in total and I met my personal goal. It feels so good to know that I am done with this portion of my project. My head is spinning. I know I have a little over a month to get myself together before walking into that exam room. Back to today though, I spent the first half of my day finishing up my hair. School resumes tomorrow and I cannot attend my classes looking crazy. I am entitled to look decent while in high school especially if I have the power to make it so. I had my mom move her car out of the frame so no personal information was shown. I backed up a good distance from the house so the audience could get a good picture of my message and for me to be able to properly place my titles. I dislike issues with contrast. To be fairly  honest I don't know...

Today is the day before spring break. I am tired. I am ready to go home and be in my bed, where I belong. I plan on recording the second half somewhere in my break. I have finished recording in the cemetery now I need to record at my house. On the bus ride home I noticed there were dark clouds out. This worried me at the time because I wanted to get filming over and done with already. I took a deep breath and realized that this was not the worst turn of events. For instance the house has different angles which I am able to use. They do not all portray the same mood. Since my first scene is of a girl writing in her diary, it is inferred that the setting is night-time. There lies another issue, hard describes the least of it. The right time to get the right angle and lighting would be sunset-ish time. Sometimes I get really busy in the evenings but I am really excited to see where this project takes me so I will work around the clock to get this done. What exactly do I have left to film?...

Yesterday, I double checked with my cousin to make sure that she had not forget about me. She told me to sleep over at her dad's house because the cemetery was closest to my uncle (my cousin's dad). Today I woke up excited and nervous, I felt all the emotions at once. I sat down, anxiously on the couch and waited for my cousin to pick me up. After not seeing her for a while I gave her a call. She picked up and said she did not realize that our appointment was a set time. I asked my younger cousin, Jakara to help me out with the acting. People have been cancelling back to back which makes sense to me because I would be filming in a place that dead people are buried. I arrived at the cemetery at 11:30 on the dot and everyone else (minus one person) arrived prior to my arrival. My older cousin had to go to CVS for an appointment so we had to do without her. My older cousin was my designated camera-man. We made do without her and started immediately. My other actor then came and we...

Welcome back my beautiful blogsters. Come with me on my journey as I find out what to do and what not to do. It will be an extremely rough journey with hard patches, and I am okay with that. I understand that being a cambridge student means making sacrifices for an end goal. Later on today I will reach out to the people who are supposed to help me so I am able to be organized. Between me and you guys, I am one of the most unorganized people I know. That does not stop me from completing projects though. I am persistent, to say the least. I will not stop until I create a masterpiece I am completely proud of. Nothing will make me happier than looking at my final project. Okay so back to business! My cousin mentioned that she is taking a trip. I am pretty sure that this trip out of the country is as soon as within this month. I want to get my filming out of the way so I am able to edit. Again with me being unorganized, I don't think my plan will go accordingly and that is okay. We have...

The panic is setting in. I am running out of time with so much to do. I am working around the clock to make sure that my project is above and beyond everyone's expectation. Prior to my research on "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinead O'Connor, I believed utilizing a well known sound would be the best option. Going with a popular song that the audience would have loved seemed like a good idea. Then I looked into the process of getting the rights to the song and I was not too keen on the idea. I am a very impatient person. I do not like dragging one thing on forever. I would not be able to use the song without the rights. That would involve waiting weeks and delay my production process. I ran a little experiment and reached out to several artists that produce songs similar to "Nothing Compares 2 U". Not a single one of them got back to me. I understand that it takes time for them to reply and they have complicated schedules. However, it has been a couple of days a...

 Hey, welcome back! It has been quite a long time since I have sat at this corner of my room and caught the blog up. Of course I have been active on here, being that my final task things have been getting arrange. As I am writing this now my knees buckle. I am afraid the stress of making my final task perfect will put me in a coma. The deadlines are back to back. If I do not have a readily reminder, the date will go by as if it meant nothing to me. Where am I exactly in my process? Well, I am not sure what the proper name of what I am currently doing is called. At the moment I am between work on the final task. I am gathering the final details of my filming time. The blog before this one is of my storyboard which depicts the small details in my scenes that I will be acting out. I am afraid that the setting is not solid. My designated setting is a cemetery. My ride there is my cousin and she is not afraid of letting me know when something does not sit right with her. She told me sh...

  Page One: This page displays the establishing shot and dissolve within the first two scenes. Page Two: This pages starts with an over the shoulder shot with a character writing in her diary. The scene then transforms into the first main setting.  Page Three: At last we are on cemetery grounds. It is seen that people are getting impatient and ready to leave. Page Four: The audience sees more human interactions and once again the characters start chatting it up. Emotions can be picked up from any of the images drawn Page Five: The suspense has sparked very much. The genre can be detected here. The mystery within this setting is the right amount.