AICE Media Studies Blog

 After spending several hours researching music that would work well with our film, my group and I finally made a choice. I personally began by looking up royalty free short film music. After searching and listening for a while, nothing immediately stood out to me. I was able to select a few songs that I liked and kept in the back of my head as I worked. Songs like "Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus" were among them. The song's instrumental majority, slow speed tempo, and peaceful atmosphere appealed to me. It was eerie yet different. It seemed like a fantastic subject for the film to me. Additionally, I thought the Backwash song "Black Magic" had a great opening that was nearly the ideal fit for the movie because it was slow pace and eerie. However, I didn't enjoy the song's remaining portions. I would just need to remove the song's opening section in order to use it in the movie. Then I would have to continue and play it repeatedly for the length o...

 The four of us believed that everything would go well this time after the failure happened the first time. We once again tried to make  plans. The next weekend was chosen to shoot. In case we required another day of filming, this would be the weekend of the 25th and maybe the 26th. But then it came up that Dara and Mila had to go to a beach clean-up for their club that weekend. I am usually free to film, so it depended on everyone else in the group. Since both Violet and I act in the film, we wouldn't be able to shoot the sequences individually. It was thus determined that my group and I would get together and determine a specific day for shooting when everyone would be available. My partners and I opted to shoot on the sixth. After school, Violet would drive everyone to my house after picking them up in her car. But I didn't want to wait around till we could all get together and shoot the film. Instead, I made the decision to work effectively on the project's editing co...

I was meant to begin filming with my group this weekend, if not for the entire weekend. My group and I had intended to start our video and complete at least a few of the initial parts. Even if it didn't, it would at least give an idea of how the filming would proceed. Regrettably, it was not possible to perform this properly. My groupmates and I quickly realized that we had weekend plans that couldn't be put off. For instance, one person had a soccer tournament, and another was out of town. I am almost always available, so the day we filmed depended on everyone else's availability. A school night would be too difficult so my house has to be available on the weekends. This is a result of the fact that I live so far from the rest of my group. I wouldn't have enough time to sleep by the time I came home from filming before I had to get up at six the next morning. I had to inform my colleagues that I would be unable to attend that weekend. I did, however, believe that they ...

Storyboard   Scene 1: The first five seconds will show clouds going down with "...Presents" and "...Production Company."  Scene 2: The next scene is a tracking shot of a very vibrant neighborhood with the actors' names.  Scene 3: The camera gets closer to a house and shows the film's name. Scene 4: The camera goes into the house slowly. Scene 5: The camera continues throughout the house that looks very put together. Scene 6: The kitchen is a little messy-looking and says "The Music by..." Scene 7: Two girls are shown talking muted as the "Directed by.." is displayed. They are stiff.   Scene 8: Sara grabs a chair and sits as she says her first line stiffly. Scene 9: This is a close-up shot of Lynn and she says her first line very smiley. She has a lot of makeup on.  Scene 10: The camera turns to Sara as she says her next line wearing a lot of makeup. Scene 11: The camera watches closely as Sara gets out of her chair stiffly and asks Lynn i...