AICE Media Studies

  I am in a group of four for this project. My group members are Naiara, Withly, Jeni, and myself. We have been working on planning our project and ideas to film together for a while now. We already have several ideas planned out. Another thing we planned out was our types of camera shots. I'm glad I chose a group as we have made great progress. I have known about Naiara since middle school in 7th grade. I met Withly in sunrise middle school and I met Jeni this year through a friend. I have a lot of hope as I believe my group works very efficiently. I would like to be the camera man in the group and assign roles to different group members. I'd want be fine with any one to storyboard and draw as I am not good at drawing. My group doesn't have much experience filming with professional cameras. I am creative and I already have an idea about how I want the project to look like. We also came up with many backup plans in case something happens while filming. Another thing I like ...

  Hello! My name is Melvin Amaya. I am 16 years old. This is my first year of Media Studies. I am excited to be in the media studies class this year. I went to Sunrise Middle School for all of my 6-8th grade. When I was in sunrise I did not take any sort of media class meaning this is my first experience. Also I am a sophomore this year. I am a very energetic and active person. I find this class interesting because I enjoy filming and other types of media. I have a lot of ideas about filming ideas to share with people. I think I know different types of medias and angles. I previously didn't know much about filming and different types of camera angles. I know about movies, shows, and so much more. I would love to be the one filming the videos for projects as it seems like something I’d be interested in. Another thing about me is that I’m determined. I would like to commit to all of my media projects and get them done. I didn’t see myself getting involved in filming at first but now ...

 

 This was my second time working on a project like this. I had a great experience working with my friends. We had a great time and did the job. We created a wonderful Music video. I did notice some areas where we could have made improvements in the final result. This will only leave room for future initiatives to improve. I'm proud of my team and I, as well as the music video we all created. I believe we effectively used our expertise to convey what we know. I'm looking forward to working on my next project and seeing how far I've progressed. Hopefully we all get to work together again in future projects. 

 The second part of editing was mainly just to touch up on mistakes and finish polishing the video. The biggest part of the video was including the music we wanted. The song we put for our project was Birthday by Katy Perry. What this meant was that my group had to include the song by downloading it and adding it in production. This was just done by searching it up on YouTube and getting it that way. Once again iMovie was used for the adding process. Without the music the video wouldn’t be the same so it was crucial to get this part right during editing. Since the music was added there needed to be no background sounds or other people talking. This is so people could listen to the music and understand it without interruptions. This meant that other people talking needed to be replaced over with the music which was simple to do. For example when my group was at the park we were singing happy birthday while filming but it had to later be cut out and replaced for the real song. With t...

The editing of the video was extremely important as there were multiple locations that needed to be stitched together. The first part was to cut out all the failed shots. This would include moments where the actors would laugh or do the wrong actions. Some parts had to be cropped as there was something we didn’t want shown in the scenes like background people. Next up some scenes had to be put in the right order so it matches the story. This was important to match the storyline in editing by cutting and pasting the scenes where they needed to be. Since my group filmed back to back the editing was easier as it was naturally in the right order for the most part. The editing was done on a computer. The program the editing was done on was iMovie since it was easy and free. Additionally, iMovie allows editing to be done from computer or phone. This allowed easy access to switch platforms and make editing a much simpler task. Another important part was to make sure the video was the exact ti...

The second part of filming was on Wednesday December 1st. This was the day after my group and I filmed part one in target. I decided to do the filming on consecutive days so we could get it out of the way quickly. Immediately after school I met up with one of my group mates so that we could walk together to our location. The first place I had to go to was my grandmas house to pick up the cake I bought the day before. After picking up the cake my group mate and I walked to the park where we would begin filming. After we waited and looked over everything my other group member arrived and we were ready to set up. We had many different ideas however most didn’t work given our location, but my group decided to go to a nearby store and buy more things to improve our situation. I put decorations on the table and also plates and napkins. One problem we had was that we had purchased balloons but had nothing to tie it to. One of my group mates went and tried to buy someone to tie the balloons to...