AICE Media Studies

 Hey guys, for this blog I'll be introducing my group for this years final project. I'm working with someone I have worked with in the past as well as someone I just met this year. Danniella (danni) and Anya are their names. Danni and I have history of working together and now with Anya's help we can definitely make something worth watching. We plan on having Danni be the designated artist for the group who will most likely help out a lot with cinematography and storyboarding. When it comes into the story aspect that's what Anya and I will work on creating. We all have laptops and enjoy the editing process so I'm hoping we can each create the story differently and combine the best parts. We all have a willing amount of people who can work together and help us if needed. We have many means of transportation so traveling distances won't be a problem. We all have equipment for filming. We have laptops, phones capable of filming in great quality, and Danni and I bot...

Hey guys! That's right, I'm back for A Level AICE Media. I can't explain how happy I am to be here again. As a quick refresher, my name is Angel Noriega-Rodriguez. I'm in my junior year of high school at Fort Lauderdale High. I am so excited to be in this class for my second year. I had so much fun doing my final task last year and I truly enjoyed learning about audience and institutions. It provided me with knowledge that not many people will have. On the plus side, it makes for great conversation with those who do know about it. Going into this year, I hope to expand on that knowledge and grow my skills in handling equipment involved in a filming project. This year I'd say I'm much more prepared for this class and the projects coming with it. I have more experience with what's expected, the ability to do it, and now the equipment as well. Enough of what I did in my past, and here's what I hope to do in this coming year. For this year, I hope to work wi...

 Hey guys, so this is the CCR for my final task. I did an interview with the great panda journalist! It didn’t turn out so well. It seems these animals do things a little differently, but they sure have a personality.  I really hope you enjoy the video, I tried my best to answer the questions the best I could and I really hope that I answered them thoroughly for you. Enjoy!

 Hey guys,  so in this blog I just wanted to introduce you into some things that will help toward understanding my movie.  These are two best friends who are used by an international organization and currently being held in a safe-house. Although their attempts worked against normal people it didn't quite do the job when hiding from The Man. The following is what happens when The Man finds them. Hope you enjoy! It's been a crazy experience leading up to this and I've had a lot of fun. -Sincerely, Angel Noriega

 Hey guys, continuing where I last left off. My final steps were to add the music and any special effects I would end up needing. As I was editing I realized that the music could change the story of the movie entirely. The song I chose to play in the beginning was more melancholy than I had hoped, but instead of switching it around I decided to try and follow that story, which I plan to explain in my final blog. I added the music in the beginning and end of the movie and fixed up the audio to make sure background noise was heard. Doing so was harder than I anticipated. While OpenShot is a good editing software, it is not the best for sound and it's really where I had struggled when making sure it matched the scenes and was able to be heard. I managed to figure it out, by playing frame by frame and matching it with the audio I got it done. There probably could've been a better way of doing it, but this worked the best for me. At this point in time I was in my seventh hour class ...

 Hey guys, so in this blog I'll address everything I've done with editing towards my final task. I will repeat somethings, but I'll make sure to be fast. So starting off with the small editing I mentioned in the previous blog. I began by placing all the scenes in chronological order and trimmed down the extra run time I had for each take. I realized that my one dialogue-heavy scene was much longer than I expected. This created the problem of time and making sure it wasn't too long. I ended up cutting many scenes from the final cut. Some including: the man walking into Dave's room, Leo preparing breakfast, and jogging scenes. The only reason these scenes were taken was to fill in time in case I didn't have enough. Luckily for me the dialogue scene did just that. Removing these scenes had no detrimental effect towards the story of the scenes so I'm not concerned. After cutting scenes and trimming time I had to get to work on the shot-reverse shot. I knew after...

 Hey guys, so for this blog I'll be talking about my experiences editing and everything that happened. I'll have a follow up that goes more into depth about my editing. So we last left off where I had a plan to use my friends computer to edit. Fortunately for me I was able to do just that. In less than a hour I had my videos imported and began editing. I didn't have much time in class to edit, but my plan wasn't to edit the whole video in one sitting. I began by reviewing the footage and writing down the videos that I wanted to use in the final cut. I put them down chronologically and it made it easier when importing the video into the software. I placed the videos on the timeline and began to cut. I  made small cuts that took off most of the run time I had while filming. After placing them chronologically on t he timeline the bell was about to ring. I wouldn't have access to the software outside her computer so I exported the video I had. I decided that this would ...