AICE Media Studies

  This is my CCR for the Music Video Project. It's a slideshow with the song my group chose integrated in the presentation itself (there should be a small button prompt on the menu bar of the slideshow for the music to begin).

Where the first project my group did together was remarkably easy, this project was a slightly more daunting process. Most of this difficulty stemmed from the fact that the filming had to be done outside of school, meaning my group had to coordinate a time to meet. Overall, we could have met earlier before the project was due, which would have afforded us time to fix any mistakes or inconsistencies in our clips- and there were several. We did have to end up changing our vision from our original storyboard so we could accommodate for the times and places we were forced to film in. With the resources we had, though, I'm quite happy with what we turned out. Technically speaking, this project was much more complicated than our last one- our camerawork was a good deal more ambitious and our vision was far more cinematic and involved. What we learned this project was more conceptual than practical- we developed experience in film, but the real lesson was how to properly budget ...

  Today, we were planning on adding the finishing touches to our project- cutting several seconds off our runtime, adding filters, and adjusting various clips: that sort of thing. However, when we pulled up our project to begin working on the aforementioned touches, we discovered that, when we had made our last changes to our project a few days earlier, something must have happened to the system to the point where the changes did not save. As a result of this, our last two scenes- roughly fifteen to twenty seconds of footage- had been deleted, and the soundtrack had never been added and adjusted. As a result of this, we had to get the clips which were involved in the final two scenes, reinsert them into iMovie, and recut them down to roughly where they were cut to before the delete. After this, we put them into the movie itself, and then reinserted the soundtrack and cut it down to the time interval which we were and are planning on using- from about 45 seconds to around two minute...

 Since all of our filming was completed yesterday, we were able to move on to cutting, filtering, and inserting sound today. The entirety of the clips and shots were taken on my phone, but the software we were planning on using to edit (iMovie) was on my partner's phone, so we first had to compile the clips we were going to use and I had to send them to him. As it turns out, the process of compiling the proper clips took much longer than I had anticipated, since they weren't taken in an order which was correlated to the actual order which the clips would be in. We sifted through what we had and eventually narrowed it down to the twenty or so, very, very short clips that would be shown together in quick succession and would be the basis of our video. After satisfactorily combining and ordering the clips, I sent them to my partner, and in the transfer process the order somehow was randomized or jumbled again, so we had to go through another process of identifying each ...

  Today my group did the second part of our filming and reshot some of the scenes which we'd filmed yesterday. Today the bridge reshooting took nearly as long as all of the shots did yesterday, because today the bridge we were using was highly populated with vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and we could barely capture any coherent shots as we kept having to stop and let traffic pass. I was filming again and helped restructure and redo some shots so that it would better fit with previous shots we had taken, and shots we were planning on doing. After about forty-five minutes we had gotten all the bridge shots we needed, so we walked for about ten minutes over to the railroad tracks where we were planning on completing the second part of our film. This went considerably smoother, since there was no traffic to contend with. That being said, we did have to stop twice for trains which passed us by. We captured several different shots, in which I had to film from a di...

We had split our project into two different groups of filming- bridge shot and railroad shots, which can be completed on different days. Today, my group filmed our bridge shots- scenes 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 12. We were using a bridge near one of our group member's houses, in a low-traveled suburban area. I was filming my partner, who is the actor for this project. The plan was just to use a phone camera rather than anything notably fancy. We were planning on going sequentially down the list of scenes to film and getting them done early, since both of us had engagements later today, but when we were planning to film, there was sudden rain and thunder which delayed our plans. We had to wait about 20 minutes, and then half an hour of going to the location we meant to film in. Once we were there, we reviewed our scenes and our options for filming them, then set it up. We went through our first two scenes, 4 and 6. For scene 4 I stood on the road and on a diagonal filmed the nec...