AICE media studies

 March 29th      Today's focus was on editing the footage I've taken so far since the beginning of this project. Although I am disappointed to say that my filming won't be done before march ends. I did meet up with my filming crew on two different dates throughout spring break. However, those sessions were mostly comprised of brain storming potential scenes, edits, and title ideas. If this experience has taught me anything procrastination isn't worth the future hassle in the end. Now I have to wrap up my film sometime after my upcoming track meets to avoid any distractions. The only topics I've covered today consisted title cards and effects. Rather than use the two fonts I intended to use in my title cards I changed the fonts. Graphik Compact for the main title. Academy Engraved LET for the studio and production company. And comic script for the actors in the opening scene. The more I add title cards, the more my project begins to look like a real life film. This c...

     On March 18th, rather than film more scenes, I decided to start editing my final project just to see what I was working with. Although, I cant agree that it was my intentions to start editing so soon. In my previous blog, I stated that majority of filming was moved to spring break. This unfortunate decision was made since I had to move to Hollywood for a short while. Thus, meeting up with my cast members is no longer an option for the time being. While editing, I only took note of three main areas for my project. This included placement of shots, length of time, and slight cuts. Just to make things easier and a lot more organized, I set all my shots in chronological order already. It didn't take long for me to dump all the footage I had so far in to my preferred editing software, iMovie. Once that was out of the way, I proceeded to go through each slide and make any small cuts needed to make the film concise as possible. Any takes that I didn't like were taken out wh...

     On March 13th, I made some slight adjustments to my storyboard and schedule. In order to make sure my film would meet the 2 minute time limit some shots were scratched so that more time will be available for the middle and end. As of right now, the beginning scene has been filmed and processed with later editing. This means that all the shots that take place while the MC is inside his house are done. The rest of the filming session will take place outside. Rather than this upcoming Thursday, I moved filming to occur during soring break. This way a have all the time in the world to record all my shots needed to start editing. I wont have to worry about school hours or work from other classes during spring break so production will be at a all time high. As I said before some shots had to be scraped to provide time for future scenes. These shots weren't entirely important to the central idea of the film, so, nothing was loss in the process. To give you an idea the shots...

 On March 11th, I filmed the first 15 shots my opening scene for Nunchucks VS. the world. I'm still looking into a better name for the title of my project but until then I don't have anything better. It was a lot of fun filming for he first time on this project since all my other attempts had to be cancelled. Personally, I didn't expect to spend so much on shots that I had already planned out in my storyboard. Most shots required retakes or comparisons for the best optimal take. As I realized this during the filming session, I knew right away all my shots could not be covered in a day. However, I'm okay with that being the case because not only will this make my film more organized, I also get to spend a lot more time with the actors who are better known as my closest friends. During filming the lighting was better than anticipated since we started around 3:00 in the afternoon. The only minor problems that occurred really consisted of time management and outside distrac...

     As of right now, I still haven't confirmed whether or not I want to use "Happy" by Pharrell Williams as my music choice. I want the song I choose to match the genre of my film. I still intend to produce an action-comedy. So the song that I do evidentially choose has to keep that same theme. For example, in the opening scene of guardians of the galaxy 2, baby Groot dances to "Mr. Blue sky" while chaos erupts in the background. The irony is that the song "Mr. Blue sky" is calm and simple unlike the scenario that unfolds in the scene. To continue, I am running into minor problems that hinder filming much. For starters, my brother and his family recently came down to visit this week and have been here since Friday. Because they are staying at my house, my mom won't allow me to go out as much. She prefers I stay around family until they leave. However, they are set to leave this Wednesday. This means I will be able to go out and film on Thursday. i...

     Unfortunately I was unable to start recording today as planned. As you may know, my schedule was set-up for me to began filming either on March 2nd or March 4th. However, in the back of my mind I knew it would be difficult to squeeze in a filming session on these two dates in specific. For example, the reason as to why I was unable to film March 2nd had to do with my planning blogs. On that day, I was putting the finishing touches on my schedule and storyboard. So it would've been near impossible to start filming without these two subject properly organized. Moreover, I am an athlete for the Track and Field team at Fort Lauderdale high school. During this week, we had a home meet scheduled for Wednesday at 3:30 pm. Because of this, practice was mandatory on Tuesday, March 2nd, between 3 to 6 o'clock. At this point the sun was already setting and the lighting for recording would have been completely off for the film.      To continue, March 4th was also...