AICE Media Studies

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN HERE IS MY MOVIE - NO CLUE  Hi I hope you enjoy my final task. I had a lot of fun making it!

 Hi everyone! I chose music for my film. This is fun. In fact, it is one of my favorite parts! I love music. I started to search songs that were suspenseful. The first thing that came to mind was the music for the movie Jaws! I love the movie Jaws, mostly because of the music.  So scary! I watched it three times!  I decided that it would not be a good fit though. I kept on looking. I found some other music that I liked. I found an online source with a bunch of music that sounded mysterious.  I thought it would be cool to use some tracks from that source. I put the music into a file. I then dragged it to my movie. It said 'could not find.' So I had to go to an audio extractor website. I extracted it and it worked. I dragged it to the movie and it synced.  I played it and it was so cool. When I started playing the music, my family recognized it as Radiohead.  Now I have started listening to more of their music.  They are great!  The song I picked is called 'No Surprises.'

 Hi everyone!  I’m back to tell you how my editing process went! So I had a couple of hiccups.  The first hiccup: the song I used was quiet at some points so I had to split the audio. This was weird because I had to figure out where the music was quiet. Then I had to replace the music with something else.  My other hiccup was the transitions. These were super hard to get just right. I had to figure out the timing of each shot. The easy part was choosing the transitions.  I also had to make sure the shots were not transitioning from one shot to the next shot too quickly. I had to set the duration to about 0.9 seconds. This does take time because I also had to sync it up with the music.  I tried some special effects but in the end those didn’t work out, which was disappointing. I wish there were more options for transitions. There may be options that I don't know about, but I ran out of time as I had to make my deadline.  I will look for more on my next video. The music and shots fin

 Hi everyone! I am excited that the writing is done, the filming, and the song are done.  I am glad I was able to get my actors. I am happy it didn’t rain when we shot the film.  The locations I found were awesome. They worked out great. I have to say that my dog jumping in bed with me made the movie!  I had no idea she would do that, or that she would look out the window with me.  It made the movie for me. Now I have to get the music synchronized with each scene. I have to make sure that it doesn’t drown out the dialogue. It won’t be good if I went to all the trouble writing the script and you can’t hear it.  So it's time to look at all of the  film we shot. I will edit it so that the scenes go together smoothly. I want to make sure that the music creates an atmosphere. I want the story to be suspenseful and mysterious.  If I can get the music and the transitions from scene to scene to do that. I will start by playing around with the edit tools so I get a feel for them. I have to

 Hi everyone! My friend Josh took a look at my movie called “No Clue.” I really appreciate his taking the time to watch it and giving me some constructive criticism. Here is what he said: “I loved this movie! The opening was very suspenseful. I thought that the photos used were really cool. The music in this movie was scary. Radiohead is one of my favorite bands, so I might be a little biased.  I never thought of the song as scary, but when you put it with the scenes, it is. Bond; to see your reaction and wonder what you were looking at was a very cool idea. I don’t know how you were able to get the police to borrow a cruiser. It made the scene very realistic. The lighting made it even more mysterious.  The transitions were seamless. I also thought the acting was top notch. I can tell you worked hard on this movie. I can tell you worked extremely hard on writing this script. I know you worked countless hours. Even the song and shots were lined up perfectly. The only thing I would say i

 Hi everyone!  Today I started prep for my final task. I was excited and nervous at the same time. I started by re-reading my script out loud. I brainstormed ideas on how I was going to film the movie. I wondered how many people I would need as players my video. I also wondered what locations I needed. I started to get stressed due to many ideas on my mind so I started making a 'mind map.' I wrote down all the ideas I had to make this the least stressful since I am doing it by myself. This helped me figure out what I was going to do each day.  I quickly got excited because everything had fit into place once I had done this. I am going to film two scenes per day and edit the rest on off days.  If I had something to do on my editing days then I would just wait until the next filming day.  I texted my friends to see if they were available to help me film. Unfortunately all of them were busy so we decided to wait for the weekend to start filming.  I was bummed out that I couldn'