Music Video - Recap

In the 2nd quarter, we were assigned our second project of the year. This project was a Music Video. The music video had its requirements and it was key to follow them precisely to maximize our grade. Before we even started to shoot we came up with out groups and I choose to work with my friends, Luca, Xavier, and Mario. We discussed and brainstormed ideas which we had for the video and in the end we had came to a compromise saying that we would use the song Rocketeer and then the storyline would follow of an individual reminiscing on his childhood days and the great memories he had in his teenager days. After we had selected the storyline and song we had to work on more detailed work. So we took out the storyboard and drew up the whole video from beginning till the end. After that we had to talk about how we were gonna plan meeting up after and we all had set the schedule. Throughout the whole process I learned many tricks and skills which I knew I was going  to need to use for my final project.

The whole experience of shooting this Music video was a lot of fun. My group and I got to meet up work on it and at the same time hang out and do other stuff. We didn’t stress over the work to much because we planned out a good time ahead and knew exactly what we needed to do. Honestly if we didn’t have good planning skills the whole project would have been a big pain in the back. We managed to work around everyones busy schedule and in the end we were pretty impressed with our work. I was always happy with the group I selected because we always worked good together and had good chemistry. 

Commerical Blog-Recap

Back when I first started AICE Media, we were given a project focusing on making a commercial for a compny. I remember I was nervous as i wanted ti make a good video for my first time doing it, and I knew I could achieve it with all the things I learned from my teachers. This video also was very interesting to me because I had always thought of making a cool soccer video but never really knew how. So right when i got assigned this project I went home and watched countless of soccer commercial which caught my attention and I highlighted what I wanted to see in my commercial. Some of these key features which I added was the music in the back ground to create an urgency for the base drop, which falls perfectly when the individual shoots it into the net. After that, due to my experience in soccer for my whole life. I know that the sound of commentary when the commentators are ecstatic and excited. It give goosebumps to the individual listening. It brings about this feeling of wanting to play. So with that being said I added the commentary when Coutinho a Brazilian super star scores a 25 yard free kick right in the top right post. 

This project was done by the help of my two great friends Mario and Xavi. We worked non-stop around the clock using every vital second to make our video stand out. I took part as the lead director,  with Xavi assisting with all the props needed, and Mario was our actor. When we went outside to the field we encountered our first problem. other people were already using the area which we were planning to use. After this I talked to them and we agreed on splitting the hour and 30 minutes in half. We used the other half to get shots we needed before the shooting scene and then after the other group finished we started the shooting scene. The shooting scene took a bit of time because we had to get the perfect shot of it. After I thought to myself how will I end it off... and thats when it struck me. I used my skills that I had acquired from photography and saw that I could make a reflecting scene with the water and the ball. So I did just that and It came out so awesome. Afterwards, I had to edit it all together and I used iMovie. Honestly, this project was probably my favorite one because of how it came out so much better than I could have ever hoped for. It was my first big step in the right direction and I continued to get better as the year went on.

Re-editing Blog

Today is  March 20th, 2020. As of today we continue to hear more news on the Corona Virus Pandemic, and continue to await the news on what will be occurring with school and when we will get back. This pandemic is something I could have never expected to occur and it has made this project much harder than it needed to be. When putting it into a global perspective though.  our tiny film compared to that of huge movie making companies is so small that we can’t begin to imagine all the difficulties that they are having to face. me and my group have been working very diligently to complete this project, and I would hate for someone like this virus to ruin all of our hard work. We have pretty much completed our film and are ready to submit it with all the work we have done. Communication has been a big problem I have had to face with my group as I haven’t been having much luck with the technology at home or my phone. I was luckily able to borrow my dad’s work computer to work on the last bits of editing and communicate with my group. Truly I hope that this virus is gone very soon as I need time to as well prepare for the second portion of this cambridge exam. If online schooling begins I believe it will not work as great as it would be in person. and furthermore it will leave us all at a disadvantage compared to that of other people in previous years who did not have these obstacles which we face currently. This will be a gruesome next months but I believe we will come out stronger and succeed.

Re-editing Blog

As the coronavirus continues to spread in the United States of America our project is getting harder and harder to complete. On the 13th of march we got the official announcement that all schools in our county were going to be closed until further notice. I thought that the state of Florida was going to quarantine us starting from Monday, and force us to stay home. So my first instinct was to quickly texted my friends that are part of my group, and asked if we could meet up and talk about what we were going to do in order to complete our project. Ryan picked up Luca on Saturday morning and we all went to my house to talk about it. I think that our meeting went pretty well due to the fact that we decided what we were going to do and we each got tasks that we will get done over the quarantine time. After we were done with the meeting, we started rewatching the film to see if we needed to fix anything and honestly after the first time we watched it we all thought that the video was good and ready to be submitted. My group asked me to ask my parents to watch it, so I did. After they watched the video they made us realize that there were a lot of things that weren’t good with the whole film. The titles were not coming up at the right time and also believed that the editing was kind of sloppy. We all agreed that we were going to fix it by the end of the weekend because we all wanted to be done with the project. Honestly this whole Pandemic is causing a lot of stress as Me and my group stress on passing our exam. I hope everything goes okay and this can all be passed by sooner than later.

Re-editing Blog: Fixing titles

Last Sunday, my group and I met up to reshoot some scenes that our peer review group told us we should reshoot. Yesterday, I edited the new parts into the film and erased the parts that were kind of choppy. Luca worked on editing the new parts into the film and he was having trouble, because he was not very familiar with the iMovie app. He also had some trouble erasing the old portions of the film because he would make the mistake to delete more than he was supposed to. One instance of this was when he had to take out a clip that was four seconds long but he didn't know why his computer kept taking out a three extra seconds. In the end of it he asked me for help because he knew I was very good with these kind of things so I helped him out as much as i possibly could. Once Luca was done adding the new clips, I helped him to fix some of the titles that we had. Fixing titles was pretty easy because we just had to fix what was mistyped. I had to fix Luca’s name because when my group member  Ryan wrote it. They misspelled it on accident. I also had to adjust the positioning of some of the titles due to the fact that in some of them, they where positioned on the actors covering their face. Which my group and I thought that if I left it like that it wouldn't look very acceptable. This group has been excellent to work with and I am so proud of each and every single one of them for working so diligently on this whole project. If it wasn’t for a team effort we would have never produced this movie.

Reshooting Blog

Recently, our whole class commenced the peer review assignment in class. My group and I decided that we needed to reshoot some scenes, so that the movie could flow smoother. The group that reviewed our original video told us the parts of the film that we should retake so that our video could come out the best it possibly can. Therefore, from the feedback my group decided that we should go out and film some of the scenes that the peer review group suggested. We all decided that the best day to film was Sunday because much like always we were all on a tight schedule. Friday and Saturday there was too much wind so it would have made the filming process a lot more complicated and also the dialogues would have been covered up by the wind. On Sunday Ryan picked me up first and then we drove to Luca’s and we then went to film the scenes at the park. Unfortunately a problem which we encountered while working was that it started raining very hard so we had to wait for the rain to stop and to kill time we went catch a quick snack. After the rain finally died down, we came back from the restaurant and quickly started working again because we didn't have much time before it got too dark outside. The peer review assignment worked greatly in our favor and we benefited  made our filming a lot easier because they told us the things we were missing in our video and also the things we did wrong so once we knew what we had to fix it was very easy to fix it. I think that now our video looks very good and its running smoothly. It is now ready to be submitted. Throughout this whole process I have had a blast and have enjoyed the whole aspect of filming a vast amount. I look forward to what is come and I’m glad I had such a good group to work with.

Peer Review Blog

I really enjoyed watching this movie. It was a horror based movie and the beginning introduced the genre very well. It was very suspenseful. Most of the scenes were scary and interesting. My favorite part of the movie was when the girl called 911. She called 911 and directly after the man came into her room it ended. This scene was very suspenseful and scary. The group worked very well, considering they only had two people. One thing I would critique about the film is the whole storyline. The story is hard to follow at some points. For example, there is a scene where she unites herself. The next scene was her untying herself again. If she wanted to show that she was captured again and tied again, then she should show this happening. The other thing she could do is just deletr that 2nd tied scene. Along with that there are some title problems that are easy to fix. For example, at the end of the movie they had some titles missing. They had all the labels but some had no names assigned to them. Some of the cuts and scenes were a little choppy, so making it run smoother would be very great in improving the movie. The movie was still very good and well put together. I think this group was very successful in creating their horror movie. I think the group will take the critiques into consideration. They will probably go back and fix the titles and some of the cuts. Overall the film was very good, and can’t wait to see the actual full and final result.