Thursday, December 5, 2019

editing

I was very sad that it was time to edit. That means that all of this is over. this was a very fun project to film. I enjoyed hanging out with friends. Filming this time was definitely easier. As it was just us we worked much faster. We also listened to each other. Also we have never hung out outside of school so that was also exciting.

Editing was a lot easier this time. We haven't fully finished filming. So we are editing as we go along. We have filmed around 3 hours of footage. We cut it down to around 30-45 seconds and still have everything downloaded. We have back up videos for if we don't film a lot more this weekend. We edited together on Melina's laptop by sending the videos to her and sitting with her to do it. We are going to hopefully have Melina with us over weekend. But if not we will finish on Luisa's phone and make Melina send us what she has so far. Then we can add and take out things judging by the length.

We are going to edit on iMovie. We are having a sleepover at Kat's house. We are going to finish filming. And edit while we are doing it. We are also going to add transitions. We want to have at least 4. Because more than that would probably be too much. We are also adding a little bit so that it doesn't look weird. Like we were doing a power point in 5th grade or something. We want it to look like a professional music video. I want it to look like Clairo or Girl in Red because they have really cute music videos. Their videos look like it was just them and a camera having fun and not caring. Which is a very good vibe for a "high school" project.

Monday, December 2, 2019

filming part2

we finally blogged this weekend. We all met at Kats house at 1:30 and stayed until 6. Luisa had to leave earlier. We first went down the street. When we were walking we found a shopping cart. We were not originally going to use it. But then our friend suggested we should use it like in tik tok videos. We all have tik tok so we knew what she was talking about. Our friend Micheka pushed Luisa while I recorded. I am usually the actor so I was happy to record.

We decided we should take pictures and input them too. So we spent 20 minutes trying to get a picture of us jumping. We would always miss the timer by 1 second. Or we would get and one person would forget to jump. I was that one person. I was laughing too hard that I couldn't focus on jumping. We also skateboarded for around 30 minutes. Within those thirty minutes I learned how to skateboard. Kat also fell not once but twice. When she fell I could not stop laughing. But sadly Luisa only recorded one fall.

Our last stop was mcdonalds. We stayed at mcdonalds for about an hour. I got ice cream. Finally their ice cream machine was working. After I got my ice cream I sat down and asked Luisa to get the fries. They called for large fries. So naturally Luisa got up. But to our surprise they gave her ice cream instead. She sat down and we all stared at her confused. She just shrugged and laughed. Luckily we got our fries though. We also are filming more over our sleepover this weekend.

Monday, November 25, 2019

Filming

Sadly we could not film. All of us were busy this weekend. We all had prior arrangements that we had forgotten about. We had all gotten excited about filming. Then we planned out times. But sadly we realised that we were all busy. We all wanted to go to kats house. I was so excited. But i also couldn't find a ride. So we decided to film and have a sleepover another time.

When we film we decided it would be better at a later time. We thought a later time would be better. We decided that because we need money. The things that we want require money. We all realised that us wanting to film on Saturday was very short notice. And we wouldnt be able to get money from our parents. We are going to aim for the weekend after thanksgiving. Because then it wpuld probably be a better time for that.

We want to film at multiple different locations. We also want to buy food. And maybe buy oursleves some things too. I might ask kat if there is a mall close to her house that we can hang out at. Because going to the mall will get us some amazing footage. Also if its at the mall we can invite more people. Because then kats parents wont get mad that theres a lot of kids at their house. But im so excited to film when we do. Also hopefully tge weather is warmer.

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Storyboard

1. Our costumes are just going to be t shirts and shorts. But the weather could be colder so maybe jeans and shirts. And if it rains then well just wear leggings and have umbrellas.
2. The lighting is gonna be dark. We are going for a very chill vibe. The more mellow and dark the better. Also we are using strobe lights maybe.
3. We arent going to be acting per se perhaps just playing up our personalitys to ghe cameras but just being ojrselves whilst hanging out.
4. There is a scene where we will be messing around with makeup. Just messing around. So it wont look good but just for fun.
5. Our proos are not really props. But moreso food and our skateboards.
6. Our secenery will be very aesthetic and we will eb filming at mostly stores and kats house.

Shenica will be mainly doing editing along with some help from us. We are mainly focusing on easy transition because we want it to be like you blink and the BOOM next scene.

We finally decided to keep our song as 'girls just wanna have fun' by Cyndi Lauper. We might have to cut the sound on the real scene because we might want scenes of us laughing but it would overlap the song.

Were most likely going to be using the same like six shots and movements. We are gling be using tracking a lot for our skateboard shots and also pov a lot.

mv planning

For our location we decided to have more than one. We decided to film at around three or four locations. Our locations are most likely going to be Kats house, the skate park, and we might film at the ice cream shops and maybe some other extra places. We are going to most likely to have a sleepover.We are going to ask for permission to film at all the places. We will have a first aid kit on hand and our waterbottles.

Our costumes are going to be normal going out clothes. Were going for a simple girls night theme, so we will keep our outfits very simple such as jeans, simple shirts, jackets, hoodies. For our props we will be using skateboards, bicycles, skates, cameras, face masks, pillows, and pajamas.. We will be using these for our footage. We will be going to the beach, park, Kats house and we will be using these props at these locations. Since our costumes is just normal teenager clothes we will be fine with simple clothes. For our makeup we will also keep it simple, some if they want they can choose to wear makeup or if they do not want they do not have to. At the end its a "girls just want to have fun" music video. All we will be doing is having fun. 

For our schedule, everyone is coming to kats house on a Saturday. We will film some scenes in kats house. Then we will go to the "skate park", it is actually just the back of a mechanic shop. After we will go to McDonalds. We will be also go to an icecream place and overall spend the most time at kats house.


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Thursday, November 14, 2019

intro to new project

So as I said in my last blog. We are finally done with our commercial. And we are starting our music video. I am really excited. My group is sort of the same as last time. But with a few changes because we added a few of our friends.

For our song we chose Girls just wanna have fun by Cyndi Lauper. It was made in 1983. We chose this song because we wanted a really fun and chill theme. And what better song than a song about girls having fun. For our back ups they are Material Girl by Madonna or Marvins Room by Drake. For our backups we will still keep the same theme.

Our songs are both 80s pop besides Marvins room which is r&b. For camera st
1.For our costumes we are just wearing normal clothes because there is no point I  dressing up as it is supposed to look natural. We are going to be wearing band shirts and vans though.
2. Our lighting is going to be either colorful with multicolor lights. Or perhaps dark depending on the song we choose.
3.We thought that instead of having "actors" we should just hang out with our friends. We are going just film ourselves having fun with our friends.
4.For our makeup we are going with a natural theme. So our everyday makeup or just bare faces.
5.For props we are going to be using skateboards and food. We also might go bowling or rollerskating and use those as "props".
6. For our scenery we are going to have multiple different locations. We are going to one of our group members houses and then we are going to skateboard down the street. Maybe we might get some ice cream and film ourselves doing that too.

that's me signing off!

final blog

welcome back! its been a while. Allow me to catch you up. We finished editing and turned in our commercial.  We edited on iMovie. I felt really bad for the other kids. The ones who had to edit on the school computers. I am a little sad that its over. But also happy because it was kind of stressful.

For our commercial we used a voiceover. At first it was my voice. But the voiceover I sent didn't get to Luisa. Until the next day when we were in class. By then it was way too late. So we were just going to record it in class. We went onto the stairs to record. But then security came and we had to go back to class.

After that debacale we changed Kat to the speaker because my voice sounded weird. But modern problems require modern solutions. So because it was really loud in the class. We decided to go to one of the closets. They are inside the classroom. Luckily, the boy who was in there let us go in and record. We kept stopping to laugh. Because Melina would do something funny. Or I would start laughing and kat could not concentrate.

Thanks! for sticking it out through our first project. But there is many more to come.

until next time :)

Monday, October 28, 2019

editing blog (not)

BIG NEWS. we finally finished filming. Now that that is over it is time to edit. We opened up our computers and dumped last class. But big problem our editing software is down. Other students tried. Even teachers tried but to our dismay the computers did not care. We thought perhaps it would be up this class. after we finished filming and came back. Mrs. Kat told us that the editing software was still down.

Today we had a pretty grueling schedule. We had to find new actors. Get our new actors to cooperate. We filmed around six shots on the track. Took a break. Then went onto the bus loop. Filming on the bus loop was by far the funniest scene we've shot. Even though, all we had to do was run towards the camera. Filming with friends is a lot harder than i thought it would be. When you friends with people you're forced to hang out with them but not only film with them. But also get mad at their lazy sides. One thing I have noticed is that when your friends with a person its harder to tell them that they are doing nothing.

Working with these new people was a whole lot easier than i thought. We had the same amount of people as last time. But seeing as we had such a tough time last time. It did feel more uncomplicated. Our filming process was so much fun. I do have a new found love of filming. Hopefully the blogs are back up next week. See you soon.

Friday, October 25, 2019

Filming

Today we finally started filming. All i have to say is i certainly have a new found sense of respect for directors and actors. It was one of the hardest things i have ever done. Especially since people were not listening and getting restless. Filming in the Florida heat wearing a sweater was also extremely hard haha. My group and I did find it very hard to get our actors to listen . Since they felt that they had the freedom of not going to class that the rules did not still apply. They were rude and relentless but we got throught it. We got multiple shots and I am very proud.

As i was one of the actors it was harder for me to control them since i was in it. Working on camera rather than behind the scenes forced me to interact with everyone. There was one boy that kept being annoying and getting aggravated anytime we filmed a new scene. They acted like they were professionals but really they were having a little bit of trouble adapting. We filmed multiple shots. But they thought we would only film one and thought that we were being perfectionists when we kept refilming. The hardest tjing was fighring oht how to break to tgem that they are fired on monday. The stress of having to literally take care of them like a babysitter was very annoying.

Since it was my groups video i wanted it to be perfect . Let's just say i may have turned into directors assistant- zilla. I will definitely apologise because i know that they tried their best. Also we had to work in an extremely busy enviroment. A lot of people wanted to film in the senior patio because it is beautiful. My friends and i went to dunkin the night before to pick up cups. Then when we were filming they were filled with water. And we used them as props as well as our bags. We switched out actors and played around with it. We got at least five takes for each scene. 

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Storyboard



On our storyboard we have our angles, shots, and locations. We mostly have over the shoulder, eye level and high angles. We’re going to use eye level for when people are interacting with each other. We’ll use high angles when shooting any group encounters or when people are in a big group coming from somewhere. We’ll also be using over the shoulder for when people are talking to eachother, in a conversation.Today in class we made our storyboards and decided what we would use. We got actors and discussed hiw filming would be so thar they had an idea. While wprking on our storyboard we took notes of which types of movements and angles we wpuld use. We decided to use most of the shots that we had learned in the beginning. We are going to edit using jump cuts. We are using mostly two and three shots

Monday, October 14, 2019

editing lesson blog

Hey! welcome to my new blog  :)


Today in class we learned how to edit.  We also learned how to use pinnacle studios which is what we use to edit. We saw the cameras we are going to use for the first time. They are so cute and tiny. Ms kat told us that if we take them out we must return them the next day NO EXCUSES. because these cameras are very important and expensive. w all have to fill out a form to be able to use them. But we also have to turn in a form every time we turn in and take out a computer. Ms Kat said to make sure you dump whenever you turn in your camera to make sure nobody accidentally deletes your footage off of the SD card.

We got taught how to use our cameras and tripods. The tripods are so cool because they extend from the legs and underneath the camera. Our teacher told us to make sure that we use the same personnel number every time we log in because otherwise we wont be able to see it on pinnacle studios. I wish I would've sat a tiny bit closer because i could see and hear. But sitting closer would've been a better choice because i got distracted by my pencil running out of lead and only ended up taking three and one third pages of notes. The coolest thing was that when you cut it instead of being basic and having scissors next to cut it is a razor blade.

We learned the do's and don'ts of the pinnacle studios world. Don't press the mute as it mutes all parts instead of just a little clip unless you want to voice over all of them. To add a title press the letter 't'. You can change the colors and font off the title. You can change the colors of your actual project too.You have to put the title above where you want it otherwise it will not work properly. You can also change the location of your title just by clicking on it. Rendering is the way that the video stops being choppy and becomes smooth. Like in a movie when all the scenes flow together and you cant tell where a cut has taken place. That means it was rendered. Rendering was the coolest thing for me because last year my friend said it a lot and i find it so funny.


Thursday, October 10, 2019

Planning blog

Hey guys, welcome to todays blog! 
Today we started planning and heres what we came up with: 
We decided to create a very detailed schedule because we want to have enough time for all locations. We are filming in four different locations. Which are subject to change if the weather permits. We decided to come and film at lunch too. So from 11:35-11:50 we will be on the senior patio to film our "morning" shot. After that we gave ourselves five minutes to get to the track to film our "day" shot from 11:55-12:15. Then from 12:20-12:40 we will be under the media center. Out last and final scene is us at the bus loop from 12:45-12:55 so we can film our shot of us running with a ton of other people. We thought that doing a shot based off a school day woukd be pretty cool so we picked spots around the school that can be used when filming and would represnt different points in a school day.

In case anything goes wrong with the weather we have our backup plan, which is if it rains and we can’t go on the track we would go and film under the media center by the vending machines. We would film in the track people running on the Dunkin boxes but if it’s raining we will have a group of people walking with Dunkin cups. Our other backup plan is the senior patio, we would have a group of kids meeting up to eat their breakfast which would be the donuts and the coffee. If it rains too we would film by the auditorium stairs. Have the group of kids hang out on the stairs with their Dunkin coffee and donuts. We’d also film in the bus loop as if kids were on their way home, our other option would be to film at the point of entry. If things go according to plan we will continue with our track, senior patio, and bus loop films. 

Our group decided it is best is we print out pictures of the logo Dunkin’ donuts because “America Runs on Dunkin.” Throughout the whole comercial the actors will be walking and running on “Dunkin.” We will also have people with cups of coffee and food from the company. They will be waking around as background people or close up for product placement. For the costumes we decided to have people dress in different solid colors. The reason why is because the concept of the commercial is how it feels like to not have your coffee that day. The video will display the variety moods someone can be without having their coffee. 

introducing me!

introductory blog

hi there! welcome to my blog. Im Khiara  and this is my AICE media studies blog. i am 14 and a sophomore in high school. I am in the Cambridge program at my school and its a lot of fun. I go to Fort Lauderdale High School in south Florida. I have lived in florida since i was 10 years old and I moved here from the good old UK. I have a seventeen year old sister and we ahve a good relationship. I am a class officer at my chool and im historian.

I was born in England  and was born 2005. I used to live in a place called Feltham where Freddie Mercury grew up. When i was 7 we had to talk about our community in school and we sang Queen. They also have a plaque for him when i grew up. When I was 10 I did Camp Rock the Musical with my friends and I can still remember half of the songs it feels great. Camp Rock was a lot of fun cause i made a ton of new friends and i did it with my best friend.

Monday, October 7, 2019

Research commercial conventions

For our commercial we decided to do dunkin donuts because we all enjoy it. We started off by searching up dunkin donuts commercials on YouTube. But we soon realised we didnt knkw what conventions meant so we had to search it up. Most of the commercials were either cute or funny.  Since my group decided to do dunkin donuts we strictly watched dunkin commercials. We all brainstormed what we wanted to do and then started typing. We asksed our friend to borrow her laptop so we could watch videos. We decided to stray a little far away from the idea of a conventional dunkin commercial by featuring real people.

The videos that our grouped watch showed that in the commercials it usually demonstrates people being in a better mood once they have coffee. It also shows people enjoying their drink or food that they have. The commercials have music that is very tranquil. It also have some special effects like pop art and exaggerated scenes like a man flying a plane. During the video, it is colorful most of the time. The commercials have people that talk about why they like Dunkin and that they would keep buying that product. At the end of all the commercials they promote the deals that they have which would attract people to buy it. These tactics persuade people to invest in their company.  

Our idea is that since Dunkins motto is "America runs on dunkin" we're going to have people running while eating donuts. Were not going dunking donuts commercial. most dunking commercials only feature the food or drink being advertised. whereas, ours will have real people doing things because we thought the idea was cool. were going to find as many people as we can to run. were gonna ask our friends to help and their friends. were also gonna work at kats house on wednesday to brainstorm more. Were also going to buy donuts and iced coffee to put in our commercial. Well have people running while eating as an example of the motto "America runs on dunkin".