AICE Media Studies

Here is the final project for the opening sequence. Hope you enjoy it! My group and I are looking forward to making more during our free time if possible. It was a worthwhile experience to learn the proper process behind filming throughout the year. Compared to past projects, this took a very long time to get right. Since it had to be two minutes long, it took weeks to finish editing. Even after all the setbacks that were thrown our way, we managed to complete it on time and with everything we needed. Both group members were very cooperative as always. I am glad that I got to work with such responsible and fun people, it made the experience all the better. This is probably my favorite project yet!  

I thought my group and I were almost done before, but after further discussion, we had more left to do. Looking through the film, I noticed that it was missing most of the titles. So, to change that I decided to group together with my group and edit together. At first, Kennedy couldn't access the project. So I helped her out by forwarding the email with the project on it to her. After a few minutes and accessing the wrong email, she was able to successfully find the project to resume editing.  Firstly, I started listing off all the required title designs and checked off the ones our film already had. So far, I checked off the titles. This included the name of the studio, name of the production company, actor names, film titles, music by, edited by, and directed by. The only ones left were: produced by, story by, and written by. That is what I will be doing today, adding in all the missing titles. After my groupmates add in any additional and necessary scenes, I will be able to prop

My group and I are nearly done with our filming. Now, I have to make some changes based on the film review that I did with a college student I associate with. We were missing several camera angles and shots. This caused the film to look duller than it could have been. So, Kennedy and Madelyn refilmed some scenes to incorporate the missed angles and shots. I also needed to add more voiceover dialogue. I communicated with Madelyn and Kennedy to check up on their progress. And through their responses, I found out that Madelyn went to the library to refilm some scenes. Looking over the first scene she refilmed, I noticed how it was a panning shot that also worked as an establishing shot. It was of the outdoor area with the trees where she had to run. Looking through the majority of the reshoots, most of the scenes included shots of her running through the setting of the area. There were several panning shots and establishing shots. With this new material, I edited a few of them in between

The editing for this project is nearly done in full completion. All that is left is adding in the rest of the voiceover dialogue and refilming a few scenes. I will be editing today whereas my groupmates will refilm. The reason being is that our film needed more camera angles. So in order to fix that setback, Kennedy and Madelyn will refilm some scenes to incorporate the missed angles and shots.  It was slightly difficult to start recording though. Usually, my house is full of noise coming from every direction. So, I closed my room door and plugged in my headphones that had a built-in microphone. This allowed for only my voice to be heard so that it didn't sound odd when put together with the actual scenes. Most of the voiceovers will be huffing due to running scenes. But, there are some that require dialogue. For example, when finding the mysterious objects, the characters are meant to let out surprised gasps and/or express bemusement. According to the script, it is planned for my

Everything has been put together for the most part at last. Now for critiques from an outside person. I reached out to a college student that I am familiar with. She had an eye for detail so I believed that she would give good constructive criticism. So, to reach out, I sent her a message to see if she was free to check it out. Once she responded and said yes, I sent her the video and waited for her response. She watched it over twice for a better understanding of the concept. The second time she watched it, she paused and pointed out minor flaws that could be fixed. For example, some of the clips had a very slight glitch where the scene would start to replay for a split second but then continue on with the video. She suggested that I should trim it to have a more smooth transition. Then she pointed out how some of the title design fonts were slightly different as well. She stated that I should make it more similar and have the major ones be more distinct. Overall, the scenes were most

 My group and I were able to communicate about how the editing will be done. Turned out, that all three of us were able to work on it. There were some difficulties with the editing, but that was mainly due to using new editing software. After getting past the initial hindrance, I was able to access my email and open up the project that saved our previous edits. I looked through some of the clips on my phone and uploaded them to the site.  I trimmed some more scenes to better fit the timing. There was this one scene where one of my groupmates ran into a wall. So, I cut the last few seconds for a normal running scene and adjusted the running sound effects. After that, however, I ran into some issues. Some of the edits didn't save which I found out when my groupmates asked if anyone deleted some of the scenes. Turned out, that no one deleted them, there was some sort of glitch in the site. But, after putting the scenes back in, the sit was able to save the changes.  Finally, I researc