AICE Media Studies

  This is my Final Task which is an opening sequence of a movie. It was a long and stressful time but I am finally done

Since I was done with all the filming and editing I felt like me and my group needed to do something else. The idea that I purposed was that we meet up and review the final product of our opening sequence. My group members agreed since most of them had not seen it and I needed conformation if it was good. I planned the meeting at Monzur's house after school since everyone already knew how to get there. Since the meeting was not happening after school I had time to kill.. I took advantage of all of this time and decided to show my classmates the film. The class I took the most advantage was in Media Studies where I showed fellow As level and A level students. These were great people to ask since the A level students took the class last year and the As level students have been working on the same project. When I asked what they thought about it they thought it seemed fine and if they told me to just change a bit of things around to make it better. After school ended I headed over to ...

 Today is hopefully my last day of editing. I went over to Monzur's house to continue editing together. The very first thing I did when I arrived was to download all the clips to my computer since it was filmed on a separate device. The downloading process did not take long but, finding the right clips took a bit longer since I had some many different takes to look through. After Finding the right clips I deleted the other clips and opened the first part of the opening sequence. After opening the first part I inserted the remaining clips and put them in the correct order. After putting the clips in the right order me and Monzur had to make sure all to turn down the sound for the clips that needed it. The reason for this was because me and my group filmed outside and the wind made it sound very bad. Monzur decided that we should find a different soundtrack for our opening sequence since he did not like the one we previously had. Me and Monzur decided that we should both look for a s...

 Today was what hopefully my last day filming. Once Again my group and I went over to Monzur's house to complete our filming. I wore the same cloths as last time since that was my costume and so did my group members. I brought my younger brother along just in case since there was a possibility Keith could leave early. I was the last to arrive so as soon as I got there the filming commenced. I resumed where I left off which was a scene of Moznur getting attacked by me. Monzur then would be saved by my last group member Alejandro. This scene took a lot of takes since the angles need to be right and the acting on point. When I though we got the perfect shot there was a interruption which was that the police was called on us. The reason being because someone thought that I was fighting and it was being recorded. After explaining to the police that it was a huge misunderstanding they left and my group and I resumed filming. After several attempts later The perfect shot was taken and I w...

  I showed my video to some of my friends at school who had taken Media Studies before and passed it. They watched it over a few times to review it and give me good feedback on what they like and dislike. They said what we have so far is good. What we were missing though is the music to accompany the Opening sequence. They said when we enter the music, to show them again since they feel like it would be much better with the music since it would add that sense of realism and add to the theme of being a thriller. They likes how in the film it is like other post-apocalyptic movies and gives the sense of a thriller. One scene they said is a little messy, is the scene where the main actor gets attacked by a zombie from around the corner. They gave some feedback on how we can make this scene more appealing, They said that we could have a different camera angle of this attack and edit them together so it would capture the scene smoother and from two different perspectives. The camera coul...

Today is April 4th, 2022. Today is the second part of editing the clips we filmed so far. The reason I am still on the second part is because it had to be re-edited this time with Monzur helping a lot more, Being  the a editor is turning out to be really helpful. The insight that goes on in my head, and the vision I have before every scene, makes editing very easy. Basically, while editing I can make the project look exactly how I envisioned it in my head. Today, I had to keyframe the roof scene into the scene of Monzur running away from me, the zombie. The scene of me getting hit had to be sped up, because while filming I didn't swing hard enough to actually hurt him, and so speeding up that scene makes it look like, Merlin (M.C) is actually hurting the zombie, which is me. A problem that was encountered while editing was that I accidentally deleted the music portion, and I didn't have the music file saved. This little misstep did not seem like a big deal in hence sight but it...