AICE Media Studies Blog

 Previously I spoke about being excited for this Final Task. I lied. This video has me crying, sliding down walls. But I will not give up because this is something that I want to do for the rest of my life. Well, without all the deadlines and all the blogging. Do not get me wrong, I love you guys but not that much. Anyways, editing is a pain in my rear end. Like I said before, we have to redo everything. Am I looking forward to it? No. Anyways, I was trying to use Apple Movie but it was being very demanding. Asking me for things I didn't have yet or that I didn't want to do. It was lowkey pissing me off. I switched back to Capcut, and learned to overlay and work the text part for flashbacks and the titles popping up on the screen. Which brings me to another thing. Splitting the titles between David and I was war. But in the end I just made sure that I got the directing part because I could really care less about everything else when it comes to directing. Which is what I want t

 David and I were finally able to get some real filming done. I got all the domestic clips down and I am very glad that happened. But it still did not work. I have to refilm, re-block, re-cast, re-script. Everything is a mess. Hopefully the editing and the music comes together and saved the project. I got into a lot of problems trying to film and things took a turn for the worse. Eventually we will get the filming done. Hoping into the specifics, our main actor started getting lazy and prioritizing other things in front of our filming. That is completely understandable. So I decided to use Elijah. The problem with Elijah is he has not one athletic bone in his body and the film is about Track and Field. So when we realized that, I decided on using David. That annoyed him because he didn't want to show face in the film, neither did I. Honestly this refilm better go good because it has been too much problems that I have been trying to solve. These blogs are also killing me, do I hope

 Kanye West still hasn’t given me anything, he wont even text me back. That is a pretty rude way to express concerns about something or to even start a blog. I sincerely apologize for that but, it makes no sense how someone can constantly go back and forth with his ex but can't allow me to use his song. Now it make sound weird that I want to use a Kanye song but hear me out... The guy has really good music. That doesn't mean he gets a free pass to blatantly ignore me. I am tired of it. What I decided to do fix the problem was email Sony records because that was the company Kanye was under when the song was released. Hopefully they respond but if not, I am going on YouTube and downloading free music. It may not be as good as Kanye, but it is something. Listen, you may look at me and call me lazy or tell me other things but I am trying here. This website is about to turn into me being depressed because I can't get my life together. David and I talked it over and that is the p

 On Sunday we were supposed to go out and film but we could not because my mother wanted to treat me like Rapunzel and keep me locked in the house. Of course we were pissed but bygones will be bygones. We decided to just reschedule but we do not have that much time to get this filming done and I had to make that clear to my mother. I am kind of scared that I wont understand the editing. I am not sure how David feels about the editing as well so that is another thing that worries me. If we are going to be honest here, I am frustrated. The work is almost barely getting done and that really isn't anyone's fault. It is still annoying. I am determined to figure this out. When I do, I hope you all had faith in me. I may be spiraling right now but that is okay. I do not even know if this is professional or if I am even allowed to do all this when writing my blogs. On a better note, we have agreed to film Sunday. Being in high school is hard because we are always busy. It is not like w

 It baffles me how Kayne West can be on Instagram every other day but can’t respond to my direct message. I need permission for his song “All falls Down” because it really fits the vibe if this film but he isn’t responding. David was telling to email anyone else that has eights to the song but that is too much work. I am going to do it because sometimes it takes awhile to get permission for these things but it doesn’t matter. I was thinking of doing other songs but all the other songs that I am thinking of are Kanye West songs. In my opinion we should boycott Kanye West for no responding to me. Something else is that I was searching around for a new editing software and they were so bad. It was video star and Funimate. People we recommending them but it was so bad. So I am sticking to Imovie and Capcut, They are top tier mobile apps. We also had to change a lot of locations. We were going to film at Spencers house but no we have decided to do our friend Elijah's become it is a lot

 The final task is finally here. I have been waiting for this specific project since I enrolled into this class. All the research stuff was okay, but we are finally getting to the good stuff. I am excited to for David and I to put our editing skills to work and hope that our video doesn’t come out mediocre, or bad…Anyways, finding our actors and our pitch was hard. We wanted out film to be based around a teen but all of our teen friends are super hard to work with and require maintenance that David and I do not feel to provide. Eventually we found someone who is easy enough to work with, and help get the job done but we had to figure out where we would film all these scenes. We wanted our film to have a domestic vibe, but also and outside vibe. We wanted it to feel old school, like 90’s vibes but more on the urban side. We were thinking like “Boyz in the hood” type stuff, or even “Fresh prince of Bel-air”. This shows gave off old school. We weren’t looking for the comedy side though. W

  Box 1-  The scene opens up with the main character tying their shoes (close up) Box 2- The title that says the name of the studio company appears in the background (close up) Box 3- The scene shows the main character packing their bags ( Over the shoulder) Box 4- Then this scene will show the main character eating cereal (Medium Close up) Box 5-  The mother of the main character then begins to question the MC (over the shoulder) Box 6- They start to have a conversation (Two Shot) Box 7- The conversation turns into an argument (close up) Box 8- The main character is forced into their room and is sad (Tracking shot) Box 9- He sneaks out the window (pan) Box 10- Begins to jog on the way to his destination, puts on his headphones (pan) Box 11- The production company title appears on the left center of the screen  Box 12- Goes into a store to get a drink and comes out to keep going (Tracking shot) Box 13- The movie author title pops up on the side walk (pan) (low angle) Box 14- Main chara