AICE Media Studies

 It’s Thursday right now and in two days, filming will start. I’m having second thoughts about being in the movie myself. I’ve always been a camera shy person and I’m not confident having my voice recorded since I hate the way it sounds. My self confidence is low especially when it comes to being perceived by other people because well, they almost always perceive me the wrong way. Alright, more sad rants now. Thinking about filming day is stressing me out, I think tomorrow I’m definitely going to talk to my group mate and ask if he’s willing to step in for me in filming. I think it’d be a lot more convenient that way. And to make up for it, I’ll do the website along with the postcard and editing. I don’t know, something else because I feel pretty bad. But I genuinely don’t want to be on camera. It’s giving me a lot of anxiety thinking about it, and it’s going to be awkward when my mom brings me to the location to film. I’d much rather not do this at all. If my group mate steps in f...

 Thankfully, the internet outage in my area has been fixed. Well, this morning when I went on Instagram, the signal was working normally. It was really bad last night, like nothing would work at all. Like I said in the previous blog, it took me almost an hour to submit two assignments because of how HORRID the signal was. I can't live without the internet, what else am I supposed to do? I'm not going to study or do chores, that's lame. Since the wifi is back, it's time for me to start planning the postcard. I think I mentioned in the last blog that Gabe would do the website and I'd do the postcard. This is because I'm the one editing the actual movie, and it's a big role. I already have an idea thankfully. So, I'm probably going to use Canva as suggested, and maybe other apps. I'm going to use the internet to find transparent PNGs of certain things I want. Basically, the postcard is going to represent a broken computer. This is because the whole prem...

 Great news everybody! We made immediate plans to begin our filming! It's going to take place on Saturday, March 1st. This is perfect, since it gives us around 6 days to edit and refine the film. This is more than enough time. I need to start hyping myself up for it and making sure that I don't slack whatsoever. I feel like a weight is lifted off my shoulders now. It's so relieving knowing that the plans are officially being set into motion, and all is well. We also have all the props we need to film, so we're pretty much very prepared. We have an established meeting location, which is great! All we need to do now is meet up and begin filming. Pretty much everything else is taken care of. We have a prototype for the postcard and movie. Gabe is making the social media pages.  I’m in charge of doing the postcard thing, but unfortunately, something has gone wrong. There’s a wifi outage in my area. I’m not surprised, this literally happens all the time. My house always has ...

 Today, I'm going to talk about poster design. Apparently, it's part of the website for the short film. Man, we haven't even started on the website at all. I'm starting to think that we really are cooked, like we don't have any time left for this project. I feel like March 7th is kind of an early day to turn it in. Why not like March 20th instead right before spring break? Time really does pass by way too quickly. This especially applies when you have a big project or something serious. I like to call myself the king of procrastination. I almost always wait until last minute for things. However, this isn't good at all. It causes so much unnecessary stress and it's just not a good habit. This is something I need to overcome, especially before college. I also need to work on being more on top of my work and organizing. Using the reminders widget on my phone has helped quite a bit. It keeps me kind of grounded and having an idea of things I need to get done. An...

 A significant part of a good film is the soundtrack. I just realized we haven’t gotten any music for the final task. I’m sure the same rules from last year apply to now. It has to be royalty or copyright free to avoid any legal issues. That’s pretty annoying, but I guess it makes sense. The good thing is we have an idea of the type of music we want to use. That’s because it’s in the script, which makes finding music easier since we have a description of it. I always thought that finding things on the internet is always super easy, but I thought wrong. Last year, when I needed to find music for my first final task, it proved to be more difficult than what I expected. A lot of videos on YouTube claim to be copyright free, but it’ll end up not actually being that. This is so frustrating, especially when I’ve found a good sound. I really don’t want to have to jump through hoops and email an artist for permission. Most of the time they never even respond or see it at all. One thing I d...

 There’s only 12 days left until the final task is due. I’m really stressed, because not only do we have to organize a filming date, we have to sit down and edit things. We haven’t even planned how we’re gonna do the titles or whatever. I mean, I’m supposed to take care of that either way. I’ll just figure it out as I go along. The thing is though, I don’t like doing things with little time to do them. Maybe it’s my fault though, because we could’ve started filming way earlier. However, this just wasn’t possible. Both of us have extremely busy schedules that don’t match up most of the time. Saturdays, I’m busy because I volunteer at the animal shelter from 12-3. Although, I am free after that. The problem is that I just have a lot of work to do from my classes. I’ll spend hours a day doing homework. That’s how demanding these classes are. It really sucks because it just adds on so much unnecessary stress. All these deadlines really do get to me, and I can’t stand it. Junior year ma...

 While I’m typing this, I’m listening to the theme of Shadow the Hedgehog because he’s literally me and it also just goes hard. It’s such a cool song and it’s making me motivated. Before I get more off topic, I must talk about costume design. That’s always an important part of film, isn’t it? It can make or break a character. A lot of characters are remembered for their iconic outfits/costumes. There’s a lot of examples I can think of. My favorite is probably Regina George, just because I think she’s a funny character. Well, how can you not love the outfits they did in Mean Girls? Movies from the 2000s are my favorite. I wish I’d be reincarnated as a skater boy in 2006. Not like I can’t be a skater boy, but the times 20 years ago seen so fun. I’m pretty much nostalgic for an era I was only alive for 2 years in. Wow, this is super off topic again, sorry!! Anyway, the character design for Customer Service (that’s what we’re calling it I think?) hasn’t been thought out that much. I th...

 Hi again. Today I’m going to ponder about what editing software I should use for the film. I know I did this last year, but I really want this result to be better than the last one. I feel like just using iMovie isn’t going to cut it, the mobile version kind of sucks. On laptop it’s better, but it’s not nearly as professional or anything. I still am plotting on buying Lumafusion but it’s like $35 and I don’t know if I’d ever use it again. There is one other app I do wanna use though: Capcut. The only problem is that I think it’s banned. Ever since TikTok got banned, Capcut is gone too. I know TikTok was restored, but last time I checked, Capcut wasn’t. That really sucks because it’s a good app from what I heard. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have any watermarks, which ish very important. I remember back in the day around 2016-2019 kids on YouTube would use Kinemaster for their edits. There would always be a huge watermark in the corner. It was just so out there if that makes sense. L...

 It’s about time that we need to begin working on our website. I think we can use Wix, so that’s what we’re gonna do. I’ve never used it before, but it can’t be that hard. I don’t really know what design we’ll go with or how we’ll even market the film. Do we make the website first or the film?? Probably the film. If that’s the case, we need to get to recording NOW! February will almost be over before we know it, and the deadline is approaching. My stomach hurts thinking of deadlines. Maybe I’m not built for school or work life in general because I don’t do deadlines. They’re not for me, but I gotta follow them anyway. I feel incredibly stressed because of my other classes. I also have the SAT coming up soon which doesn’t help. My hair is gonna end up falling out completely from the stress. Anyway, back to what I was originally talking about. So for the website, I think we should look at comedy posters and advertisements and get inspiration from there. If we do that, the website sho...

 I don’t have many updates today, unfortunately. All we did in class was just go over the script again and discuss project related things. We’re pretty much ready to go, we just need to get filming. I just remembered that we still have to make the website. Great, as if I’m not already overwhelmed with all of my other classes. I stayed home one day today and suddenly I have a zero for an assignment I turned in ages ago?? Dr. B I swear if you don’t fix my grade, you’re going to become my opp! Whatever, but now I have to wait until Friday to get it fixed. I hope he didn’t lose my essay or I’m gonna lose my mind. On top of that, I have a chem test tomorrow, and I still need to finish the review for it. I have two APUSH homework, one that was due this morning and another due tomorrow. I have to make up AP Human Geography work that was supposed to be in class today but I was absent. It feels like so much. I was supposed to do it in the time frame that would be school, but my mom ended dr...