AICE Media Studies

 Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! Todays topic is about the first few days of the editing process. For the editing of this music video I had quite many options for the software choice for editing. But amongst all of them I decided on using Adobe Premiere Pro for the editing of this music video. This was mostly because I am already familiar with how this software works and functions as well as preferring how it is set up compared to other software's out there. To kickstart my editing process I began by downloading the song we choose for the music video. "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay was the song that was chosen for the video so once it downloaded I gave it a few listens. After listening to the song a few times I picked out the portions that I wanted to cut, shorten, and use for the video. I also made sure to chose the moments for when I wanted each scene to match with the music being played so that the video flows well chronologically. And finally I took all the f...

 Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! Today is about the last few sessions of filming which brings us one step closer to the final polished music video. I spent the second part of my week filming the last remaining scenes. Those scenes were, the intro scene, the patio scene, the car scene, the friends house scene, the drying off scene, the sidewalk scene and the last two garage scenes. I filmed around two scenes per day this week to save time for editing when I had the chance. Starting with intro and patio scene, I needed peak daylight hours for these clips. So I waited until around 1pm before I started filming. I had my partner come over for the filming as they are needed in the first scene. Once they came I set up a tripod and filmed the scene in my room with good natural lighting from the window, and the prop camera I needed to include in the scene. Once that was done with I set up the scene for the patio scene and asked my partner to hold the camera while I was being fi...

 Hello everyone and welcome back to the blog! Todays topic is about the first few sessions of filming for the music video. The Florida weather finally cleared up and was sunny for the first time in a while. I took this opportunity of good weather to start the filming process for a few scenes. The scenes I wanted to get finished up where the, forest  scene, the beach scene and the open field  scene. I planned to film these three scenes throughout the course of two days. For the beach scene I needed to catch the sunrise to make the scene more pleasing to the eyes. So I needed to be up at at the beach at around 7:00 in the morning to film. I spent the first day filming on the beach and got all the clips I needed for the scene. All I brought with me was a tripod and the costume I chose for the film session. I chose a red tank top and a blue pair of bathing trunks so that it would be safe to in the water since they are light clothes. I spent the second day filming the field sc...

 Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog! These past two weeks just haven't been the most fortunate weeks weather -wise. It has continued to pour rain almost everyday here in Florida, and when it hasn't rained it has been foggy like crazy. This weather not only doesn't match the set for the scenes we are filming but it also ruins the quality of the video that our cameras can capture. It makes the footage grainy and unfocused. Because of this I have decided to further push our filling schedule to this coming weekend as the weather is predicted to be sunny and clear. So in the meantime I am going to further work on the prep for this project as it’s all I can do at the moment. Last week I spent my time set scouting and tweaking the storyboard. This week I spent my time finishing up the costume choices for the video, picking the actors for the music video, and deciding on the gear that is going to be used to film. On Monday I sent my time going over the final wardrobe for ...

  Welcome back to the blog, folks! In this entry, we'll be delving into the unpredictable hand that Mother Nature has once again delt me.  This week has been filled with nothing but gloomy and humid fog along with more rain than needed . The goal for the start of this music video was to start filming as soon as possible however that wasn't possible this week. As anyone familiar with Florida weather knows, its like this often unfortunately . Not one to tempt fate, me and my partner Sophie decided to work on other things besides the filming so at least our preparation is done.  Me and my partner decided to work on our preparation separately and focusing on different aspects. They got the job of reorganizing the schedule, while I was put in charge of costume choices, storyboard tweaking and set spotting. Starting with the storyboard tweaking, I spent the entirety of last week making sure that the sketches done for the storyboard were redone as the best they could as to allo...

Scene 1. Main Character (MC) and a friend are doing their homework at their desk at home. They take a polaroid selfie of themselves, when the polaroid is checked friend is missing.   Scene 2. MC walks outside to look for missing friend. Cannot find them anywhere, rushes inside and grabs backpack and drives away.  Scene 3. MC arrives at friends house, knocks on door, nobody answers and in return leaves.  Scene 4. MC arrives at a park and looks around, shouting, doesn't see or find anyone, leaves. Scene 5. MC is in car, seen screaming out of frustration. Scene 6. MC is looking out into the open , sees friend flickering runs to them and falls in water, music cuts.  Scene 7. MC closes cabinet drawer. sees polaroid of both of them, gets motivated again and continues search Scene 8. MC is walking between trees (multiple appear) to give idea they are looking everywhere. Changes scene by walking out. Scene 9. MC is shown putting up missing poster and looks at phone and ...

Props- The props planned to be used are; a car, a instant film Polaroid camera, and some house hold objects like a book and pencil .   Location- The shooting locations that have been decided on for the music video are, the Lauderdale beach, each of our own homes, Birch State Park, and H oliday P a rk. Schedule- Since both me and my partner are busy with sports and schoolwork, we have agreed to meet every Saturday starting this October 14 th until the day the music video is to be submitted . As well as meeting every Thursday starting the 12 th until the due date. This way we maximi ze the time we have available to not only produce a high-quality music video but also tweak and perfect anything we see.   Backup plan- The song of choice was Viva la Vida by Coldplay, if the song is found to not meet the vibe or style, we are trying to achieve with this music video then as a backup the song, Mr. Brightside by the Killers will be used. The story or costumes or anything...

    Viva la Vida (Anton Corbijn Version) , Coldplay   CAMS    Establishing shot   Wide shot   Medium long shot   Close up   Tracking shot   Editing   Shot/Reverse shot   Eyeline match   Sound   Diegetic sound   Non-diegetic sound   Mis en scene   Costumes- wears royal French uniforms, regular people wear street clothes   Lighting/color- The lighting is moody and dim with darker unsaturated coloring, lonely and sad atmosphere    Acting- Chris Martin is acting lost and confused as he walks around outside   Props- Actor carries a painting of the French revolution    Set- The film is shot outside through various parts of England and its churches and streets       Name of song: Pompeii; Bastille   Cams :   Low level shot   Zoom   Establishing shot   Over the shoulder shot   Eye level shot   Tracking   Medium shot   Cl...