AICE Media Studies

 Here is our final project, I hope you enjoy. I had a lot of fun making this and I’m glad I got to have this experience. no

Today we finished editing our editing for the project, this mean we’re done!! It was a very fun project even though it was a little challenging. I personally think it turned out really well. It may not be exactly as good as I imagined but it’s the best I could with what I have at my disposal. The last bit of editing was pretty easy to get done as well it only took about half an hour. It was mostly just adding the text to really make it seem like a true opening scene. I’m very thankful for my group mate and our actor because they definitely made so much easier and made everything go much smoother. I really liked working on this project, I had an idea and I made it come to life which is a pretty cool thing to me. It was also interesting to me to realize that so much of the film was really editing, that’s what really helped my vision come together. While obviously we wouldn’t have a project without the filming, the editing is really where the project was made. This project helped me see h...

 I’ve had some of my friends and family take a look at our project. We were basically done besides maybe a few transitions and some missing text. So I had my mother and friend watch it. The feedback was pretty decent actually and I’m pretty proud of what we made. I’m glad we got to reshoot the scene with the actor on Tuesday it definitely worked out and the scene looks much better. We didn’t really receive any negative feedback besides the fact we need to finish the editing. They said they liked what we did with the case file so I’m happy we put as much effort into that as we did because it made a difference. Besides that they also said they liked the camera work so props to my group mate for that because she had a lot of good ideas for working the angles. The only sort of negative feedback was that our music sounded tacky but there’s not really much we can do about that since we needed royalty free music. So now all that we have left to do is finish the editing and we’ll be done.

Today me and my group mate started the editing process. We really didn’t do much besides put everything in order. It was a little confusing getting all the scenes in order but we figured it out. We still are going to have to add all the effects and text and transitions. However it looks pretty good so far. I’m going to show a few of my friends and mother to try to get some feedback and see if they think it looks good. I think it’ll be good to get an outside perspective on our project and see if they have good advice for making it better. I’ll be asking some other AICE Media students as well so hopefully they have some tips I don’t know about. Besides that the editing is going good and we don’t have much left besides the transitions and text and other effects we may or may not add. 

Me and my group have moved our film session up to today. We were talking about it and we were both free today so we decided to move up one of our session to today instead of this weekend. We still don’t have our actor for this session but we can at least get the refilling of some of our other scenes done. As I said before re-filming these scenes aren’t really that important but I’d still like to do it since we have the time and I’d like to make it as close to how I want it as possible. For today’s filming session we plan to reshoot a couple of the later scenes. I mostly just want to reshoot these scenes so that we have more variety of footage for them. That way I can see which ones I like best during the editing process. Even though I think having more film might make sorting it more confusing I also think it will be a good thing when editing in case I dont like the way one scene turned out or if I don’t think it fits the right way, I can have another scene that maybe fits in better....

Me and my group mate have been discussing the music choice we will use for our final project. We’ve been talking about doing a suspenseful song to go in the background. However i have in mind something that isn’t very heart racing and more just lightly suspenseful. I know that is a weird way of describing it but I don’t know any other way too. It’s kind of just an idea I’ve had in my head for how i want the music to go but I dont know how I can put it into words any better. Anyway we’ve been looking for good royalty free music on youtube and we found a video with a bunch of different styles of suspenseful music. There was only two however that fit what I had in mind and I’m not sure which one we will use or if maybe we will use both. That will end up being decided during the editing process because I am going to need to try out both over the final film to see which one I think fits best.

I have been looking through a lot of our filming today and I’ve been making notes on what i think needs to be added or redone. Sadly I think we need to re-film one of the scenes done with our actor. This is a little bit of a set back because it is kinda difficult scheduling with someone who isn’t really affiliated with our project, because obviously they are not going to care as much as me and my group do. However I am not too worried about this set back. I considered just keeping it the way it is and calling it a wrap for filming, but since we still have a bit of time left for our project I think it’s safe to re-film it and try making it as close to how I picture it in my head as possible. So for that reason we will be trying to get a filming session scheduled with the actor sometime next weekend. There is a few other things i’d like to fix up but they aren’t really as important. I’m hoping everything works out well with our actor because that’s the only thing that I am kind of worrie...