AICE Media Studies

 Hey bloggers and welcome back to my blog, today's blog is going to be a bit different from what's recently been uploaded. The last few blogs have been about editing and improving my opening sequence to get ready for submission. This blog however, is more about what I forgot to mention over the past few months like how we got the props for our set and how as a group we worked together. To begin with how we gathered the props necessary to make our scenes look the best possible. We first picked up a gorilla suit from party city and made sure it was breathable so the person using it wouldn't overheat. Since we also couldn't use a real dead animal, we had to improvise using rags and making an animal like shape. We also had made our own fake blood using a cheap recipe with ingredients we already had. The blood turned out too sticky and far too bright and cartoony, so I scrapped it. We then just went and brought an entire gallon of dark fake blood in order to have the most pr

 Hey bloggers and welcome back to the creation of my opening sequence. Much similar to the theme of our past few blogs. We're going to be looking back at my film sequence and continuing to make even more changes as I still do not feel satisfied. Today I was really analyzing the pacing and order of the scenes in our opening sequence. Every time I rewatched I felt something was off, but I could never quite put my finger on it, this bothered me throughout the whole week. I felt that there was something wrong with how the plot was structured and how the movie transitioned and how long each portion of the plot was. I tried moving around the scenes entirely shifting them out of place. Trying new structures of the plot but it strayed too far from the original pitch and was confusing at times. Throughout this process I was getting increasingly frustrated which was obstructing my creative thinking. I took a break for a few days and rewatched the sequence again. I realized that I had been ov

 Hey bloggers and welcome back to the continuation of my opening sequence. Today I will be tinkering throughout my sequence attempting to make it as improved as possible. Very similarly to what I did with my last blog. Considering how much I tweaked during the film review and the critique I used. It was relatively hard for me to see what was still wrong with the opening sequence. This meant I had to thoroughly watch and rewatch our current sequence in order to find thing I could improve upon. This took me roughly about 35-50 minutes before finding pieces of the opening sequence that were not up to standard. The first thing I changed was the positioning of the titles as I wasn't very fond of where they previously were. At times the titles blocked out some important backgrounds or scenes due to their position and size. After noticing this I shifted almost all of the titles so that they would occupy different corners in places without importance to the sequence. I made sure however, t

 Hey bloggers and welcome back to the process of creating an opening sequence for a film. Today I will be editing my opening sequence in order to create the best sequence possible. I will be mostly using the feedback I received from my peer review in order to adjust my sequence. The main thing I will be working on is adjusting the volume of various scenes. This is in order to create smooth transitions between scenes and to make it seem more professional. One of the scenes with an extremely high volume was the scene shot in the car with loud music. A scene which contrasts wit this due to its 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 the dialogue between the cast. I had to put the scenes into cap cut and manually adjust the volume of certain scenes in order for them to match. After I did this the sequence seemed much more harmonious and cohesive. The next step in my editing process was darkening m

 Hey bloggers and welcome back, today I have had one of my friends review all of the scenes we had shot for our opening sequence. My friend Tomas reviewed every single scene we shot at least 3 times. He seemed relatively engaged and entertained by the short film which was a very good sign but he did have some important critique I will use to improve our opening sequence. He criticized the lighting used and some of the various and distinct shots we used. He told me that some of the earlier scenes in my sequence could have been improved upon if I used some more close ups. He also mentioned that the acting was a bit awkward and seemed very cliche at times. The audio in the sequence also varies in volume with some scenes blatantly louder than others. This particular complaint seemed the one he thought was the most detrimental to our opening sequence. He also had some positive comments on the opening sequence as well. He really enjoyed the scene in the car and packing the bags. He said the

 Hey bloggers and welcome back today we have various things to discuss and look forward to. Just recently we completed the filming for our opening sequence and as of right now I think it looks of high quality. This second filming session was far more challenging 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 challenging as we had to wait for the weather to be right. Its also very hard to film during these conditions without it looking weird and distorted. As a group we also had to change settings various times and even had to film on the road. I worked towards making sure all of the filming was as safe as possible but also as smooth as possible. Working at night in the woods, we all had a safe word to make sure we were comfortable with the filming. We also made sure to stay within at least 100 meters away from each other in order to not get lost. The camera man would also wear a bright orange traff

 Hey bloggers, todays the day we finally begin filming for our opening sequence. Once again it took quite a bit of time for all of us to schedule a meeting together. We finally came together yesterday afternoon and we filmed the first storyboard of our opening sequence. Speaking about storyboards I had actually updated it a few days prior in order to add more length to our opening sequence and add more personality to our opening sequence. But back to the filming, 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 heavily based on who was the most comfortable and natural when the camera was placed on them. We also had faced some climate troubles as it was incredibly windy and cold in Florida during this period. This made it very challenging to leave the house to film as some of our group had also fallen ill during this time. Despite all these challeng

Hey bloggers welcome back and today I will be choosing the music for our thriller opening sequence. This is particularly challenging for me because there's 2 different kinds of music that will be in our opening sequence. In our opening sequence we would have to effectively bridge together these two different types of music. This transition also has to be smooth in order to avoid distraction from the scenes themselves. The two types of music are the happy upbeat familiar music played in a car, teenage music. The other type of music used will be creepy, foreboding, and suspenseful in order to evoke as much emotion in the audience as possible. Due to these types of music being so diverse and different it makes it even more challenging to effectively transition these songs. I've been relooking at the Final Destination opening sequence to see what they did with their music but their music stays relatively similar the entire time. They have strong background noise and sharp beats in