AICE Media Studies

Welcome back bloggers! Today's blog is going to be different from my other blogs.  The previous blogs have focused on refining and enhancing my opening sequence. This blog, focuses more on the things I neglected to write about during the previous three months, such as how our group collaborated and where we purchased the props for our set. First, let's talk about how we assembled the objects required to create the finest potential sceneries for our situations. To prevent one of us from getting really hot, we initially picked up a gorilla suit from Party City and made sure it was breathable. We had to improvise by forming an animal shape out of rags. We couldn't use an actual dead animal. We had also prepared our own artificial blood with inexpensive components that we had on hand. I decided to scrap the blood since it was too gooey, colorful, and cartoony. For the most polished and realistic impact on the opening segment, we simply went and brought a whole gallon of dark fa

Hey bloggers! Welcome back. Today, I am going to be looking back at my film and continuing to make more changes. Today I was analyzing the pacing and order of the scenes. Every time I rewatched it, something didn't seem right. I could never put my finger on it. I have been thinking about this all week, trying to figure it out. I tried moving the scenes around. Trying new structures of the plot but it strayed too far from the pitch, which made it confusing. I was getting increasingly frustrated while I was doing this. It was putting my creative thinking into work and it was stressful. I decided to rest for a few days and clear my head, and rewatched the sequence again. I realized that I overthought this too much. All the sequence needed was a few seconds cut off of it for the pacing and transitioning to look better. After I figured this out, I started looking for fluff in the sequence that could be cut off and it wouldn't matter, it wouldn't hurt the sequence. I also kept in

Hey bloggers, welcome back. Today I will be working on my sequence and attempting to make it better. Considering how much I fixed during the film review and the critique I used. It was very hard for me to see what was still wrong with the opening sequence. This meant I had to watch and rewatch our current sequence so I could realize what I had to improve. The first thing I fixed was the position of the titles. At times the titles blocked out some important backgrounds. After I noticed this, I moved almost all the titles so that they wouldn't cover anything important in the scene. I also had to make sure that titles were still seen and not ignored because of were they were positioned. I did this by contrasting them with dark red so it would be noticed. I even tried adding a glow to make them more noticeable. I ended up removing the glow because I thought it looked weird and didn't match the vibe of the theme. It was also very hard to blend in with the brighter and darker scenes.

Welcome back bloggers! Today I will be editing my opening sequence to create the best sequence. I will use the feedback I got from my peer review to fix my sequence. The main thing I will be working on is fixing the volume. I am going to do this to create smooth transitions between scenes. One of the scenes with an extremely high volume was the scene shot in the car with loud music. A scene with extremely low volume were all of the scenes shot in the woods. The woods scenes were so quiet that it was hard to hear and understand what was being said. We had to put the scenes into cap cut and adjust the volume in order for the scenes to match. After, the sequence flowed so much better. The next step was darkening the font. Ave said she liked the titles in my peer review but one thing I forgot to mention was the color of the titles. She liked the idea of the color red and she thought it was fit the theme really good. What she didn't like was how bright the red was, it didn't make th

Welcome back Bloggers. Today I had one of my friends review all the scenes we shot for our opening sequence. My friend Ava reviewed every scene a couple times. She looked interested and entertained by the short film which was a good sign but she did have some critique which helped so I can improve it. She criticized the lighting, and some shots we used. She said that some of the earlier scenes could have been improved if we used some more close ups. She also mentioned that the acting was a little awkward at times. The volume in the sequence also varies. Some scenes were louder than others. This complaint looked like it was the one she thought was the most important. She also had some positive comments. She really liked the scene in the car and packing the bags. She said the scene helped create a connection with the cast. She also enjoyed the scene with the blood trail. She said it created a sense of suspense that kept her interested during the final part. She also said the titles and f

  Hey bloggers welcome back! Today we have a lot to look forward to. We recently completed the filming for our opening sequence. This second filming session was harder compared to the first as we had to make use of weather and time throughout our filming process. Making use of storm clouds and wind was hard as we had to wait for the weather to be right. It's also very hard to film with this weather without it looking weird and messy. We also had to change settings multiple times and even had to film on the road. We made sure all of the filming was as safe but also as smooth as possible. Working at night in the woods, we came up with a safe word to make sure everyone was comfortable  We also made sure to stay within at least 100 meters away from each other to not get lost. The camera man would also wear a bright orange traffic control vest so if we did get lost we could easily find the camera and group back there. We also bough a flashlight for the entire group to use so that in bet

Hey bloggers, today we will begin filming for our opening sequence. It took quite a bit of time for all of us to find a day were we were all available. We finally came together yesterday afternoon and we filmed the first storyboard of our opening sequence. I had actually updated our storyboard a few days ago in order to add more length to our opening sequence. We all decided to wear stereotypical pajamas with sleepy caps and eye covers. We also had to come up with who would eventually be the main character of our sequence. This decision was also mostly based on who was the most comfortable when the camera and attention was on them. We also faced some climate troubles as it was really windy and cold in Florida during this time. This made it very hard to leave the house to film as some of us got sick during this time. One day, we all finally met together at my house and got to work with our filming. The first few scenes were straight forward and simple to film. Where we ran into issues w

Welcome back Bloggers. Today I will be choosing the music for our thriller opening sequence. This is a really hard decision because there's 2 different kinds of music that will be in our opening sequence. We would have to blend together these two different types of music. It also has to be a smooth transition in order to avoid any distraction from the scenes themselves. The two types of music are the happy upbeat familiar music played in a car. The other one will be creepy and suspenseful to evoke as much emotion as possible. These are so different so it makes it even more difficult to transition them. I've been looking over the Final Destination opening sequence to see what they did with their music but I realized their music is pretty similar the whole time. The background noise is strong which puts the audience on edge. Our first idea for this is incorporating the happy music in the background while they are packing up and setting up. Then the creepy music would then slowly