AICE Media Studies

 Hello again bloggers. Now that we have started our website, we also decided that we will start on postcards. As postcards is also part of our final project. We did end up hanging out for the website. However we were not quite done yet. It is taking us much longer than usual but it is okay as there is no rush. We need to make sure that we take our time so everything looks good. Anyway following on with postcards, we thought this would take a shorter amount of time. So while we hung out when we did the website, we started postcards right away. However we were right, the postcard is way shorter. This shorter time period that it would take us was more convenient to actually get the project done faster. The 2 in charge of the postcard mainly was Nico and Evan. While me and Sebastian worked on the website, they did postcards. With our new working title, "USER NOT FOUND" the designs were great. We had more variety with this title than the previous one. And so we started researching...

As the end of our filming and editing came about, we realized a couple changes needed to be done. Now this did not really regard major changes in editing or re-filming in general. The biggest change made I would say was our working title. We decided to change it from the original "SECRET WIPEOUT" to "USER NOT FOUND". We did this because it honestly just sounded better, and made a bit more sense regarding the film itself. As well, when we did fonts and added designs to it for the film, the new title looked so much better than before. It felt more suspenseful and mysterious. Further leaving our audience puzzled on who this anonymous killer could be. Also, we decided to change some of the fonts for the other titles in the opening sequence. We all kind of agreed that the font originally was not the best, and we could find better. Yet again, we did quick run overs of the film to see what could be enhanced more in order for the film to look better. Me and Sebastian played...

 With the first day of editing going successful, we met up the following day. We quickly decided that this day has to be quick but efficient as we had a short time schedule. The goal was to very obviously conclude editing today so we can finalize our film portion of this task. In doing so, we quickly got to work. Since the sound and clip-condensing was done the day prior, we moved along with the opening sequence. Now just doing the opening sequence did take up most of our time. We had to come up with multiple ideas towards where we are going to integrate each title. This did spark multiple debates as we all had different ideas. As well, it did take a bit to come up with agreements. However in the process of editing we encountered a slight obstacle. We were missing an establishing shot... Thankfully it was only an establishing shot which is honestly the quickest fix ever. Just a simple 2 second shot of outside the house most of filming was once night hit. This was vital for the titl...

 This was our first day editing. As we agreed previously, this was going to be a 2-day process. We wanted to make sure everything was done to perfection, or at least close to that. We started with just cleaning up the clips in general, so me and Sebastian got to work. Sebastian and I were the better editors in the group, so we did most of the editing, however Sebastian knowing more, he achieved more. Nico and Evan overall just gave us really good ideas on how we all wanted it to look. After cleaning up the clips, we decided to start adding fades, cuts, and so forth. We did this in order to transition the clips cleanly in between different scenes, or conversations. Still, we made sure to not add many transitions however. We made sure not to in order to make the film still logically make sense, and not have unnecessary pauses in between clips. Then since Sebastian was the best at fixing up sounds, he was in charge of that portion. We all recommended that he added suspenseful sounds b...

After the mishaps of last time out filming we decided to go again. We all decided to hangout right  afterschool but not get straight to filming. We realized that we needed to film at night for the other scenes we had planned out. So in the meantime, we just kept editing the parts we had and see where we were going to integrate certain scenes. As well, we did end up going to my place to hangout and pickup some props like my sword, and then we went to the gym. After all that we all went back to the house where we were filming the remaining scenes. We said to ourselves we are going to be efficient to finish quick because we were on a pretty short time schedule. To be fair, this part of filming went amazing to our surprise. We got some of the best scenes that were used in the entire film. We were overly impressed and finally satisfied. However, remembering what happened last time, we were tentative and waited to celebrate because we were unsure if it would all add up to 5 minutes. Once...

Originally, we had planned to edit the day after we finished filming. So basically that did not happen by any means. When we heard the news at first, we were genuinely just shocked. We really thought there was no way this happened when we heard the news. Our groupmate who had all the clips on his phone, transferred them onto his computer in order to edit. He put all the clips together to start, and during that he texted the group chat immediately. He said there was a major major issue. Such issue being that all the clips did not reach the 5 minute requirement. We though okay, maybe we were close to it so we could just add clips. But no, that was nowhere near the case. I asked how much we had in total, he said 2 minutes and 37 seconds. I was beyond shocked, we split up filming into 2 days because we had to and even then it was not enough scenes somehow. It felt like we filmed forever, and that it was for sure going to reach the 5 minute requirement. We were absolutely wrong and we reall...