AICE Media Studies Blog

 Back to the musicality of the film. Right now my group and I are trying to find the time to film so in the meanwhile I am trying to find music. There is this song by this independent artist called "rises the moon" by liana flores. The song is soft and gentle and can add some comfort to the death. It would really bring out the emotion of the storyline. Sometimes I get scared and feel like our filming wont match the vision in my head so I have to make sure I have other things that can help, such as music, costuming, editing and all those other things. Anyways I went online to look for Liana's record label which is how I found out she was independent. She is also not from here so a lot of her music is not in english, unlike the one that I want. SO there was no email, no number, no message prompt. ONly thing that I could find was an instagram. It is hard to contact celebrities or people with "clout" through social media but I had to do something. SO I texted her ve...

 We are doing Matilda the musical! It is cutting into a lot of school time, and we knew by the time we finished the musical the quarter would be up. We decided to go do some filming when we weren't called. We went to publix to get the first scene. It was hard I am not going to lie, it was very hard. Eventually we figured it out and got some kind of scene but I had to poop so bad. That wasn't appropriate but It was bothering me the whole day. Another thing I wanted to mention was the fact that I live in florida, my whole group lives in florida. It was hot. Like it was incredibly hot and sticky and I never wanted to experience such nastiness ever again. We sorta got some scenes. To be real we were slacking in filming because of everything that has been going on but we will persevere. Anyways, we got the Publix's lady to give us permission to film us but she was doing to much. She didn't want to listen to squat and I t was making me mad but I couldn't exactly complain ...

 As of right now, it is time to start filming. Although this is correct, my main focus right now has been the music. The storyline of the film concludes with a death, so I wanted the music to symbolize that. There is a song called "Fourth of July" by Sufjan Stevens. The song talks about a boy who lost his mother at a young age and how he believes that human should just live life and not take people for granted because of how someone can just go. I loved the song and how it started and felt it was perfect with the last few scenes so I went online and emailed the label, and about three days I get an email back. It was the stupidest thing ever. I get this email while hiding in the bathroom at work so it's just a lot to take in at once. Mind, this song came out in like 2014 and people only know it because of TikTok. They email me back and say that I need to pay 500 dollars for rights, which is pretty entitled and that doesn't guarantee me rights, then they said they need ...

  Scene 1 Box 1- Rachel at the check out counter with an Mis Box 2- Asks cashier for price Box 3- Cashier takes onion and checks price  Box 4- Rachel says she can’t afford it Box 5- Cashier doesn’t care, go to another place  Box 6- Rachel gets frustrated and leaves Scene 2 Box 1- Rachel goes home and puts stuff down on the counter Box 2- Mom gets off the coach and walks towards her Box 3- Mom ask Rachel where’s she has been showing concern Box 4- Rachel Denys her mothers concerns, and begins to speak  Box 5- Mom cuts Rachel off to ask about the onion Box 6- Rachel says she didn’t get it and gives her mom a dollar Scene 3 Box 1- The mom starts getting pissed off, gets verbally aggressive  Box 2- Rachel starts to walk away Box 3- Mom follows still yelling Box 4- Rachel annoyed ended up yelling back at her mom Box 5- They keep going back and forth until Rachel closes and locks the door Box 6- She starts kicking and screaming in frustration, until she is finally cal...