AICE Media Studies

This is the final product! I had to go in and make some last minute changes. 

 Since the last blog, I managed to put everything together and I don’t know if I’m pleased with the final result. I guess it’s okay, but I needed feedback. I decided to make my mom watch the movie. To be honest, I found it really embarrassing and I didn’t realize how much I disliked my final product. I cringed the entire time I had her watch it. She looked kind of confused with the editing and said it didn’t look really suspenseful. She stated that the music was good and not too much. However, she also said I could use some sound effects. I did feel like those were needed, but I never included them despite searching for something. I’m glad she told me that, because now my opinion is backed up. She also said she thinks the movie is about a criminal breaking into an house. Overall, my mom liked the video and said the cinematography was good. This made me happy, because that was the only element of the final task I enjoyed. Playing with angles was really fun. Anyway, I embarked on another

 New month, and we're already nearly halfway through it. My movie hasn't changed much because I've been so busy with my other classes. I also feel a bit depressed from my breakup, so I've just been putting things off for last minute. I really don't have any motivation to do anything. I also ruined my posture and I'm desperately trying to fix it. Sadly, I'm gonna have to do a lot of work today anyway. I remembered I have to look for non copyright music for my movie intro. YouTube has a lot, so I've been browsing around and I found a song from this channel called Power Music Factory. It perfectly captures the mysterious feel I want to create. If my movie isn't mysterious enough by itself, then music and filters will help it. I want to see if I can find a filter that makes the lighting and corners a little darker. Hopefully, this will be achievable. I'm pretty sure that Videoshop has a filter like that, which would be great if it actually does. Sinc

Today I'm going to talk about the most random things ever, because I've officially run out of stuff to talk about. I'm holding off on finishing editing for blogs due in March. Right now, I can probably talk about costumes and if they were involved. They were not. The closest thing to a costume was just having one of my friends put on a hood to conceal their identity. It hadn't crossed my mind to use any costumes or props. I most likely thought this because I figured that they weren't necessary. Turns out, I was actually right. I don't really see any place for props in my movie, or costumes. I think things worked out pretty fine without props. Well, now that I think about it, would butter count as a prop? A stick of butter was used in the movie, and now I don't know if it counts. I mean, it was real butter, so why would it count? Aren't props supposed to be fake? Oh well, that should just be up for debate. I want to talk about something personal, if that&

So I'm running out of things to talk about. I don't even know what to type here. To make matters even worse, I have more blogs to do in March. I'm tired of typing 20 sentences like nearly every day, so let's get this over with. I'm just gonna talk about techniques I used to film. In the filming process, I made sure to use multiple angles. For example, I did a high angle and a low angle. I believe that angles in film are super important, as they help to create meaning. They can also tell more of a story than the plot itself can. A low angle on a character can show they are powerful or intimidating. This is because the camera would mimic a person looking up at them, with the character looking down. It establishes a type of power dynamic between two characters. I also made sure to pan the camera to show the scenery. Another thing I included was a type of shot where you can only see the upper half of the character. I forgot what this shot was called, though. Over the sh

 Instead of being lazy, I went ahead and put the video clips together in iMovie. It looks kind of plain right now. My favorite part of editing is cleaning things up. I love trimming out the random bits of film that weren't supposed to be there. Personally, I find it really satisfying. Having a clean base to work with is one of the greatest things ever, and I can do whatever I want with the video. I actually ended up just not bothering to pay for any fancy apps. This is because I remembered that I'm broke and just spent my money on clothes. Unless I get a job, I don't think I'm going to buy any editing softwares. I tried to get a job but nobody wants to hire a 15 year old for some reason. So far, I just have clips that are put together without any effects added. I made sure to trim off any excess film that got in there from me starting the recording too early. I also began the search for something super important, music. I know I need to have music that's copyright f