AICE Media Studies

 Dearest reader, I am so excited to finally reveal the final project! My teammates and I worked so hard and I hope you enjoy it!

 Dearest reader, Today, we got to work on the changes discussed in my last entry. My sister, Hannah, who loves watching my media studies projects agreed to critique us. The input we recieved was extremely insightful.  One main critique we worried about was music. The musical selection has been rough to say the least. At first, I found a YouTube video full of royalty free music I thought might be fruitful. I was not head over heels at the scores, but they were the better of a bunch of evils. My group however, disagreed and after their points, I saw why. The music, while better than the 2014-esque vlogger music I found, was too mideval tavern feeling. While I cannot pretend I do not like a good bard's ballot, it deffinetely was not fit for this project.  After the first YouTube video, I scoured Apple Music for solutions. I found, what I thought was a decent royalty free tropic beat. Once again, the gold I thought I struck turned out to be copper. Half of the group liked it, half did

 Dearest reader, Today, we figured that our final project was far enough along to bring in the critiques. Millie, one of my teammates finished up the editing earlier today. My sister is town for spring break, hence my absence from the blog.  My sister is my biggest supporter in everything I do. Last media studies project, when I posted my music video, she watched it three times. Alone. Then she showed her roommate. Later, her rommate showed their friends. All this to say, she was the perfect critic to watch this latest project.  I sat my sister down and explained to her that this was the final project for my media studies exam. I told her that I had not submitted yet and I would like any last minute critiques before it went in.  After screening the film, my sister had several helpful critiques. For starters, she mentioned that while she found the beginning comprehensive, a little help in the setting department could go a long way. Mainly, she noted that most films begin with a big shot

 Dearest reader, Today, we continued editing our short film. We met via FaceTime once all members were home from school. There was a bit of back and forth between which editing platform to use. I made a case for ClipChamp mentioning the ability to use many tools for free. I found ClipChamp to be a saving grace on my last project.  Ultimately, the group settled on CapCut. I had made it abundantly clear to my group that my editing skills are subpar. While I made sure to enthusiastically emphasize my willingness to edit the footage should they want me to, I can not promise much skill for the group. It was agreed that the editing work would be split fairly evenly amongst members. First, we needed to import the clips off of the drive and onto CapCut.  Finding the cropped clips I had worked on yesterday was easy for my teammates. The clips were moved onto one teammates’ laptop and the editing began. Clips were organized into sequential order on the timeline. Filters were then added to bring

 Dearest reader, Today I began editing our short film. Filming wrapped yesterday. We filmed the scene we needed of everyone getting in the car. After finishing at Alexandra’s house I did have to get ready for a birthday dinner immediately. This meant that there was no discussion of editing yesterday. This morning I woke up and had birthday brunch with my grandparents who live in West Palm Beach. This was about an hour drive up and another hour back plus the time spent there. With all this to say, I got to editing later in the day. First, I reached out to my group. I checked in to see how we wanted to divide up the work amongst the group.  We decided we would meet via FaceTime to discuss what editing platform to use tomorrow. With a call scheduled for after school tomorrow, I checked in to see if there was anything else I could do for the group. The group needed the clips we took Friday and Saturday to undergo some slight pre-editing. We collected the clips from the various phones we fi

 Dearest reader, Today was the second day of filming. Since today was not a  school day, we started filming earlier. Due to the fact that we are meeting at Alexandra's house, l woke up at 8:30. I live out west, about 40 minutes from the school. Alexandra lives out east about 20 minutes from the school.  Last night when I got home from filming and finished all my homework, I went straight to bed. This meant that on top of my usual morning routine, I had to shower. I hopped in the shower as soon as I woke up and got my day going. After eating breakfast, I did my hair and got in my costume. Almost late, I ran out the door to head to Alexandra’s house. When I arrived, we were waiting on one teammate. Something family related came up and there was a delay. Similar to yesterday’s filming, those of us who were there made sure we were looking ready to film and had the cameras set up. Once everyone was present, we got cracking on the scene where we are driving off to start the trip. There w