AICE Media Studies

 Below is my final task. Throughout the process of making this movie, I had to rearrange a lot of things due to relying on people. Although there were setbacks, I still managed to create the film. It was a pleasure planning and editing this film. I had so much fun recording the scenes and editing the final product. Even though some things did not work out as planned, I still managed to record most of what I needed. I have uploaded the film to Youtube, in order to show this film. The editing software I used was Clipchamp, and I used my phone to record. 

         I managed to get the feedback from my other peers and received mostly good news. Everyone said that the film was well edited and was really nice. This was a long process, but I am glad that it is over with. All I have to do now is touch up some errors and turn it in. Throughout this long process I learned how to make a 2 minute opening sequence, embed music, edit and place titles. There were a lot of setbacks that came from making this film, but I managed to get through it. Some of the characters had to be changed because they did not come through in the process, as well as some scenes the characters were in. I was still flexible enough to keep the show going on, and finish the final product. It was hard to get some of the camera angles because of where the scenes took place. For example, the scenes where I was in the mirror took more skill since the camera man cannot be seen in the video. Another scene that was hard to do was the bathroom scene because it was such a small spa

             After work on Saturday, I took a trip to the beach to complete the remaining scenes of the film. While there, it was starting to get dark. I had to make the best of what I had, and continued to film and direct. After I came back from the beach, I went on to my computer and imported the videos into my editing software. I re-aligned all of the videos so that it did not look choppy. Now that all of my films are done, I decided to start editing the same day. I did not get finished with all of the editing, so I had to work on it through Sunday as well. I decided to mute some of the scenes and add the music so that it did not look like there was too much dialogue. The music I chose as the background fit perfectly with the mood and idea of the film. I was having trouble with using the music and the dialogue at the same time, but I adjusted the volume of the music and made it seem like the dialogue was far away sounding. After doing this, I adjusted the lighting on some of the sce

                     This weekend I will be filming the beach scene with one of my other friends. Hopefully on Saturday after work I will complete this process so that I can get started on finishing my editing. For the beach scene I chose to wear a bathing suit cover up so it did not look so revealing. I put the bathing suit and the cover up in the wash so it can be ready for after work. I get off at 4 so hopefully there is still some sunlight left to do this or else I will have to wait another day again. I realized that if I do the beach scene over again, I would have to re-do the car scene. The problem is that I do not have the clothes I used in that car, or the same vehicle. I will have to ask my dad to borrow one of his cars to shoot this scene, and change my outfit into something else since I lost the original. Going to the beach on a Saturday afternoon is horrible because of all of the people and traffic. I am worried that it will be too loud for any dialogue scenes and too many

       This weekend that just passed I was supposed to re-film the kitchen and morning scene. Since Sunday was Easter, I could only film after work on Saturday. This cut my time in more than half. After work on Saturday, I asked my friend to help me film the kitchen scene again. Though, the lighting was not that good and I had to tell my family to go elsewhere for the meantime so there wasn't any background noise. With the kitchen scene, I had to grab the bottle of medicine and leave and come back. I did not have the medicine I thought, but it still worked. I had to grab the costume I used for the majority of the film, but it was in the wash, so I had to wait for it to dry. Saturday I was able to finish the kitchen scene, and now all I have left is the morning and beach scene. Sunday was Easter and I spent that day with my family. This week I am going to finish the beach and morning scenes so that the following week can be all about editing. For the beach scene, I got another frien

                    After my break, I decided to go back to working on my film. Even though I am almost done, it feels like I still have a long way to go. Since I had to redo some of the scenes and fix my script, I need to go back into looking at my editing and see how I can fix the editing to be not so obvious. While opening up the editing software, I lost some of the footage due to an error. I was so upset when I saw this, because I now had to watch every slide to see what scenes were missing. When I watched the film over I found 3 scenes I was missing: Kitchen, Beach, and Morning scene. I am going to try and film the kitchen and morning scene this weekend, while the beach scene is a little harder to work on. My actor for the beach scene is out of town right now and have no idea when they are getting back. Therefore, I might have to change the actor to one of my other friends. It still works because the scene shows how others ignore the signs of bullying and depression by pushing it