AICE Media Studies Project Blog

This is my Creative Critical Reflection on Prezi. http://prezi.com/wvi9ev84scuz/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

The only critique I received for my short film was to lower the sound of my incidental music even more. This was an easy fix as I just adjusted the audio gain by -7db. Here is my edited film...

This is my Quarter 3 Submission of my film... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l6RhmxIfRt4

How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware, and online-in this project? For this project I used my iPhone 6s for filming.  I increased the quality of the film in the settings in order to film a clearer picture.  I also was able to use my brother's drone and his GoPro camera to film the aerial shot in the park.  I also used a USB mic to record the voiceovers.  For editing, I used PremierPro on computers provided by my high school.  For my submissions, drafts of my film were posted on my YouTube channel.  I used many different pieces of technologies to complete this film. 

How did your production skills develop throughout this project? I am definitely more confident with my production skills now then I was before this project.  I was faced with a lot of roadblocks during planning, filming, and editing.  Casting was extraordinarily difficult and the my two main actors ended up hating each other.  This posed a problem in filming because they were supposed to be in a loving relationship, but the tension and dislike between the two could be seen on screen.  This resulted in scenes being shot multiple, multiple times.  Editing had several issues.  My incidental music file got corrupted, so when trying to complete edits in PremierPro, I did not have my music. I was able to work through all of these problems.  If I were to complete a project similar to this in the future, I think I would have more confidence and would have an easier time completing it.  Since there were many issues, I am now prepared for the fact that th...

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as real media text? My film engages audiences by starting at the end.  The viewers know that Jake is dead and that Kate is on her way home from his funeral, but the film then expands on this happy love story between the two of them.  While there is the sad aspect to the film, it focuses on all of the happy memories and experiences these teens had while they were together.  The goal of the film is to evoke a range of emotions in the viewers and take them on a rollercoaster of feelings.  This movie would be distributed in a very similar way to other movies in this genre.  It would spend a few weeks in the movie theatres and then distributed to streaming sites and released on DVD.  Since the target audience is mainly teens and young adults, the ability to distribute the movie for online streaming would allow the film to reach more individuals,