AICE Media Studies

We are done! This really has been a long journey. I never expected how much went into making a movie. My favorite part of this whole thing was filming. I was super nervous to be acting but I ended up loving it! I also liked researching about other thriller movies. From starting out with our basic pitch to our final movie, it has been great. My group was perfect to work with and I would work with them again. I am sad to see this project finished but looking forward to the future. These skills I’ve learned will be so helpful in my life. 

      I finished up editing! We added the title sequence as the last part of our video.       The first step of doing this was deciding on a font. On imovie, there are a couple different ones to choose from. Unfortunately there aren't any spooky fonts, but the one we chose was still good. I wanted a font that faded in and out. In each clip, we moved the title around to different parts of the screen for some diversity. I messed around with the sizing until I found one that everyone liked.  I also made the titles all white. One of my group members thought black would be better, but I thought white would stand out more.        Editing was a quick and easy process for the most part. The only trouble I had was sometimes the text wouldn't fade in or out. But it was easy to fix. When adding the title of the movie, I knew I wanted to make it a different color and font. This would help it stand out. The color we chose was red. At first, the red we picked was too dark and it was kind of

Today, we made the changes that was suggested for our film. As I said in my last film changes blog, my soccer coach gave us suggestions to change to our film. Her main tip was to fix the lighting because it was too dark. I thought that the darkness made it eerie, but after re watching it was a little too hard to see what was going on. So we re filmed the inside scenes today. I made sure to keep the blinds on the windows open, so that there was natural lighting. I like natural lighting better than harsh overhead lights. I did have to have some unnatural lighting though, because the window lighting wasn't enough. When we re filmed the blood scene, I realized I ran out of dish soap. The first thing that came to my mind to use was ketchup. Ketchup is red and has a thick texture so I thought it would work well. I really hate the smell of ketchup, so I hated filming this scene. It made my whole kitchen smell like ketchup, and it wasn't pleasant. I wanted to film it twice so we could

 Today Dara and I picked the music for the video. We used a royalty free music website called pixabay. I wanted 2-4 different songs for the video. We first looked up suspense for the genre. A couple good options came up. The first one I knew would be perfect for the cleaning up blood scene was this eerie almost quiet song. It did not have sudden bursts of sound, which I really liked. Dara downloaded it to her phone and we added it to our movie. The next genre we picked was scary. There was some songs that were from the other genre too, but there were enough new ones. The second song we liked was a little calmer and almost spiritual. I wanted this to be our background song for when we are speaking. We also downloaded this and added it to imovie. I have to cut some of the music to quiet it in certain parts, but make it louder in others. To get the final song, we searched up “royalty free suspense music”. A lot of options came up. The one we picked had a violet sounding instrument. It was

     Today we sent our video today my soccer coach. The video isn't done yet, but I thought it would be smart to send what we have to someone so they can critique it. I trust that my coach will give us an honest review of our video. She wouldn't lie just to spare our feelings. Once we sent it to her she said she was impressed. I was really happy about this.       She did say that she had some suggestions. In the beginning of the video, she thought that the lighting was a little weird. I was pretty surprised at this. My coach said that she thought the lighting was too dark. We purposely made the lighting dark because we wanted it to be more eerie. It didn't occur to me that the lighting could be too dark and hard to see. That was her main critique. She complimented the blood and said it looked realistic. I guess the dish soap worked pretty well! I am grateful for her feedback and am looking forward to fixing our mistake.     Tomorrow we are going to get together and re film

 Today we had our second day of filming. Siena, Violet, and I were filming. We were short on time today, so we decided to only film the first scene of me cleaning up the blood and putting away the knives. I suggested we facetime Dara, who wasn't available to film with us. This was she could still offer advice without being there.  The first thing I did was make the blood. I am using dish soap and red food dye. I mixed about a quarter cup of dish soap with the 2 drops of red food dye and it looked pretty good! I poured it on the floor and we started to film. I got on my hands and knees and with a rag started to clean it up. Violet and Siena were filming with an over the shoulder shot, so I tried to not move my head too much to avoid getting it in the screen. Once or twice it did, but we will just cut that out later. After filming this part, I wanted to film the putting away knives scene. I made sure to be very careful when handling the knives as to avoid any possible accidents. This