AICE Media Studies Blog

 Things are going to be a little different this time at least for myself. I'm finally going to join a group to work with on this final task. I'm going to be working with Melvin, Naiara, and Withly who are all in a different period as me but we have made the effort to work together regardless of the separation. I'm actually a bit nervous to work with others cause I have always been independent but in regards to this project, I believe that some changes should be made for myself because I know this isn't a project I can do on my own. And for that exact reason is why I am working with them. I believe that the members in my group will be responsible and do their parts as team members, they are also my friends, and although we aren't close we can surely grow a bond as time progresses with this project. I want to do my part as a team member to do some of the heavy lifting that not many people have the skill to do so, and or just struggle to keep in a time crunch. I think ...

 Hello, It's Jennifer again. I am a Sophomore at Fort Lauderdale Highschool. I am currently 16, I was born here in Florida but my parents are from El Salvador, most of my family members were born there too and have recently moved to the U.S including my two older brothers. I have a cat named Don Gato who was originally a stray but we took him in as a part of our family, he is a really sweet and loving cat and I love having him around for comfort. In my free time, I usually enjoy playing rhythm games or playing random games my brother recommends to me from time to time. I also like napping through most of my days it's a good way to clear my head and to get productive with things after I've awoken. For hobbies, I enjoy editing and drawing, I've always liked drawing since I was really young and I got the inspiration for editing from people on youtube who made cool edits or amvs of random stuff I used to like in the 4th grade. I'm actually very excited about this final ...

 This is my CCR for my Music Video

This is my second time filming and editing for AICE Media Studies and I can proudly say that this is alot better than what I had made for the Commercial, still alot more room from improvement but the improvement is shown just from then to now. I hope it is enjoyed and that the final product is up to the standards of what it needs to be.

  On the second day of editing I began where I left off which was when I finished adding in some mini transitions. Now I'm putting clips together to create illusions and cool creativity. One of my ideas, which is the whole point of the music video, was to have me play both characters, but in the same shots and so on. For some clips that feature both characters Apart from aligning the background so it doesn't look wonky, it was fairly simple to edit both in. However, in other situations, such as editing the mirror scene in my panels, it proved to be far more difficult than I had anticipated. I wanted to give the impression that the mirror moves independently of the person and does not reflect the actual person outside the person in real time. I had to cut out the clips and perform some complex masking. That is to say, I removed much of the background in the original clip has been removed, leaving only the person in the edited version. After I finished masking, I put everything t...

  I started gathering all of my clips for the first day of editing. I went through them one by one to see which one would work best for the music video. After I sorted them all out, I went to YouTube and downloaded the song I needed for my music video, then cut up the audio to make it no longer than 2 minutes. Then I opened Videostar and imported the audio, and the editing process began. I began to section out the audio and leave some markers so I know where each and every individual clip I filmed goes. It makes things a lot easier for me, but it has its drawbacks, such as having to time it correctly and resorting some clips to see which one would fit the amount of time available. Because some of the clips are shorter than others, they must be shown on screen. But after a half-hour, I figured it out and started putting all the clips together normally. When I finished, I began to think about what I could do for the video's intro, but nothing really came to mind, so I'm going to ...

On the second day of filming, I finished filming all of the storyboard panels for my music video. I have to say that it was not an easy task. I had a lot of time to myself, so I decided to use that time to actually finish everything, but it wasn't easy because it felt like a time crunch even though I was free to do whatever I wanted. There were still a lot of scenes to finish from where I had left off, and I had to refilm some of them because the clips were too blurry for the final product. I also recorded scenes that I would edit into the music video to give it more personality and easter eggs, which sort of fits the theme of my music video anyway. It was also difficult to change costumes because I play both characters and edit myself into it. It's a difficult task, but it's not impossible. But what I did was work on all of the scenes for the first subject and then change into costume to fit into the second subject; the only difficult part was that I might have had to swit...