AICE Media Studies

 Onto the final day of filming! Yay we're reaching the end. The only scenes we had left to film were the house scenes and the hospital scene. We decided to do these both at Lola's house. We all met up at her house after school yesterday to get everything done. The only people in the scenes we were filming were Jack and one of his friends, played by Nate. We started out with the house scenes, for this we used Lola's front room. We also asked Lola's parents to participate in playing Jack's parents in the film. They said yes and we got her house a little bit tidied before starting. We quickly shot the parent scenes and moved upstairs for the room scenes. For this we had to make dizzying effects on the camera to show Jack passing out. We did this by slightly shaking the camera and rotating it in a circle. Once Jack fell over and was passed out we filmed a final shot of his face. I then reviewed the shots we had gotten so far while Jack, Nate, and Lola set up Lola's

 Hey there! Yesterday my group and I got together again to continue filming. After school we all drove to Lola's house to film the car scenes outside of her house. We used my car and Lola's car for the scenes. We started with the crash scene and shots of Jack driving in his car. This was a bit of a challenge to get the right angles as there is limited space in a car. We ended up having the person filming wither in the car with Jack or filming through an open window. After we got a few shots like this we filmed the car crash scene. This was also a challenge to film since we didn't want to actually crash our cars. We talked about it a little bit to get some ideas and we decided that we can just do a black screen with car crash noises to add dramatic effect and achieve the desired dramatic effect. Next we had to film the short scenes with a cop and Jack getting a ticket. We had to make sure this was filmed correctly to really show the annoyance in Jack's day that this cras

 Hey there! I'm happy to report that my group and I have finally started filming. We got together over the weekend and got some filming done. We met up at the Galleria mall to film the mall scenes. This was a good start for us so we could get into the groove of filming. The people who came ended up being me, Lola, Jack, and our friends Nate and Tanner. We all got together at the food court to decide the shops we wanted to film in. The first place we went was Pacsun. We had to talk to the workers at all of the stores to make sure it was okay that we were filming. I was behind the camera while Lola, Nate, Jack, and Tanner acted as a friend group shopping at the store. I gave them directions and made sure we had the right angles to portray our story. Next we went to the Apple store and did a similar process of filming. We repeated this process with two more stores to make sure we had a good amount of takes to use. Only in one store we had some issues with filming and not being allowed

 Hey there! This is the last day we had before we film and I wanted to really get everything done as much as possible that can be done without the film. I wanted to do this because once we film we will have to focus on editing and perfecting the film. This means I just have to complete the last couple of steps to finish on the website. All I had to do was fill in the content on the website, like the reviews and film festivals we have won.  The first section of the website I filled in was a general introduction and information about our film "The Crash". I wrote, "The Crash is a student short film based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Our goal is to promote and showcase The Crash to a wide audience, serving as a platform to generate interest and attract viewers. We believe in entertaining and enticing viewers interested in a dramatic story following our main character Jack. Jack gets into a car accident one morning, and it's no more than a little inconvenience right? Wat

 Hey there! Theres been some delays in our filming plans. We had originally planned to film on Monday the 19th since we had no school. However, Florida weather did not agree with our plans and it was a rainy, dark day. This meant that we couldn't film our outside scenes, since we needed sunshine. We didn't want to give up entirely though so we thought about the indoor scenes we could film. These were the mall scenes and hospital/house scenes. We all got together and went to Galleria Mall, which is close to all of us. When we got there however it was very busy. The rain meant many people thought it was the perfect mall day. We decided we couldn't film with that many people. for a few reasons. Since there was too much background noise and too many people in our shots. We also weren't able to film the hospital scenes because we didn't have a good hospital bed set up. By this time, it was too late in the day to try and film anymore. Instead, we all just agreed that we w

Hey there! Today I had some goals with continuing the development our website. I wanted to get as much done as I could before we film so that only the final touches of adding pictures from the filming process needs to be done. With that being said, my goal for today was to create and link the social media accounts, on a special social media tab of our website.  When I first started working on it I thought that we should have Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter (or X) accounts. I knew that pretty much all I had to do was create a new account on each site and put in all the correct information relating to our short film. This seemed easy enough, however when I started out I came across some issues. The first account I tried to make was Facebook, which proved to be very difficult. I was not allowed to make an independent new business account just for advertising the film, I had to connect it to a pre-existing account. I didn't realize that until I made a "business page"

Hey there! Beginning this week my group and I started the advertising process for our short film. We started working on both the postcard and website. We split up the work, with Lola being the primary editor/creator of the postcard and me being the primary creator/editor of the website. Jack will just help us in anything we need along the process of creating our respective projects. With that being said, I have less to say about the creation of the postcard and it's progress. I can however talk about my experience in creating the website to advertise our short film. The first thing I had to do was find a way to create the website. I ended up using Wix.com, which was super simple and easy to use. I followed the steps outlined for me to create the perfect website for our short film. I know that I want to include a link to our short film, some information about our media group, some of the reviews our film has gotten, and links to our film's social media. With this in mind I chose

 Hey there! We're finally here in my favorite part of this project, the filming! My group and I can't wait to get to filming and editing but there are some things that need to be taken care of first. To start, we have to get the props needed to start filming next week. In my group Jack will get the medical props like a stethoscope and any other medical paraphernalia he can find for the hospital scenes. Lola and I will both bring our cars so we can film a car crash, and Lola will bring anything else that will make an area look like a car crash. I will then also bring any sort of everyday items we will need. This will be things like coffee cups and shopping bags for the mall scenes. I know Lola has prepared her props so now Jack and I just have to be prepared before next week. We are planning to film next Monday on President's day since we have no school. This is different than what we planned on but we didn't realize that we had the Monday off, and that we were all not o