AICE Media Studies

Hello everybody, welcome back to the blog! Today I am looking back over my completed com mercial and going over how everything went. This commercial was an amazing project to work on, it brought so many new skills to my attention. Specifically , how to work with the techn ology required to make a good commercial. Throughout this project I started my journey on how to use Adobe Premiere. This is software that really allows me to squeeze every bit of creativity out of my brain to put it into my work. It was a struggle to learn at first, but it was useful for the editing I needed for my commercial. It is just overly complicated; it has hundreds of functions and that is a little overwhelming in the beginning. But it got better, all it took was a few YouTube searches and I was a lready making timely progress on learning the software. I was also given the opportunity to learn more about my iPhone and i ts camera through this commercial. I had the chance to learn how to custom...

 Hey everyone, this is the final product! Please watch and enjoy the commercial below. 

 Hello everyone, welcome back to the blog! Todays blog will be all about the last few tweaks I added to my commercial. So, to start us off with some good new, I finally got the establishing shot I was waiting so long for! It took me a good two weeks for the weather to be favorable and sunny but I finally managed to get a good shoot for a 30 second clip. On this weeks sunny day I drove to the state park and parked nearby a empty field of grass and small hills. With me I had brought my tripod and phone so I could record along with my costume choice. For the costume I decided on a hiker type of outfit, bringing cargo pants and a rugged shirt. I decided that I didn't want to wear a hat and I also decided I would be wearing a back pack. The final clip was around 30 seconds in length but I trimmed it down to around 7 seconds for the commercial as to not make it so long. After returning home I quickly downloaded the footage down onto my computer and added it to my editing software. I adde...

 Hey everyone, welcome back to the blog! Today's blog is going to be all about how the past weekend went on production. So, I'm going to start off with the "bad" news and then the good, this past week has brought me nothing but rain and fog. No progress has been able to be made in the filming of the first clip in the storyboard due to the weather. That's a little unfortunate however, other progress has been made. I filmed the clip I wanted of myself climbing and it went very  well, it only took me a few attempts with a tripod to capture the jump I was doing on the climbing wall. For this clip though I had a wardrobe change, I went with a white tank-top and grey shorts instead of the previous plan due to how hot it was in the gym and I didn't want to take the risk of overheating while filming. I also tweaked the theme for the commercial a tiny bit. The commercial will now be both an outdoorsy vibe along with a vintage film look. I chose this because these two t...

 Hey everyone, welcome back to another blog! Today I'll be letting you all know how the past two days went while on production. So, I ran into some problems once I started to put the videos together into a functioning commercial. My videos were in different compositions. Half of my pictures and videos were in landscape. And another good half of my pictures and videos were in a portrait composition. So in order to solve this I had two options, I could either scrap everything in portrait mode and keep searching for more clips that where landscape. Or I could make the commercial still flow nice with transitions from landscape and portrait that flow well and are pleasing to the eyes. I settled on a compromise between the two ideas, a hybrid so that I would get the most out of the content I had at my hands. I decided to film a additional new video on top of what I was already going to film. This new video is going to be me climbing a route inside a indoor climbing gym. For the costume I...

 Hello everyone, welcome back to the blog! This blog is going to be focused entirely on the process of making the actual commercial. Starting with the first scene of the story board I drove to a state park here in Florida in order to get the woodsy vibe and scenery that I am trying to achieve in my establishing shot. But as Floridian weather does whatever it wants, it started to pour before I even reached the park. I wasn't going to further test my luck by waiting out the wet weather as it could easily go on for days here. So I instead decided that I would start compiling my already captured pictures and videos and have them ready. I started downloading all the pre recorded clips and pictures from my camera on to my computer so I could start editing when ready. I then imported all the ready to go pictures an videos onto Adobe premiere pro. I also got started on getting the music I wanted to use in the commercial. I had already bought both songs I want to used so it was just a matte...

 Hey folks, welcome back to the blog! Today's blog is gonna be all about the prep for the upcoming "Me" commercial, this commercial is going to be all about the information I talked about in the pervious blog. To start off my commercial I'm thinking about sketching a rough storyboard for how I think the commercial is going to flow. And my choice of editing software I have decided on is going to be premiere pro. Honestly it's my favorite software to work with since it allows me access to all the cool gimmicks and tricks I'll need to make this mini commercial  flow well. And premiere is also so good at making my clips pretty and appealing to the eyes. I'm to start my story board off with an establishing shot of me walking in the woods or some sort of grassy area. This is to portray to the audience that I am an outdoor person from the very beginning without having to bring it up later. It will also display the favoritism and fondness I have for the color gree...

 Hey folks welcome to the new blog! Let me start by letting you guys get to know me first. My name is Anton, I was born in Malmö Sweden and I currently live in the United States. I moved to Florida when I was 4 and I still make an effort to see my family overseas as often as possible. I love being outdoors and in nature as much as possible as I was practically raised in the woods and mountains. I prefer the northern rocky woodsy terrain but I really don’t mind where I am as long as I can get the chance to be outside. I have a few hobbies that I really enjoy. I rock climb, mostly indoors in the climbing gyms due to the fact that I live in the flatness that is Florida. But I highly prefer climbing outdoors on real rock as it just hits in such a better way that I can’t really describe. My favorite color is green, but not just any green specifically dark greens like pine. I cant stand lime green or yellow greens. I love adventuring, and although that may sound like an exaggeration, whe...