AICE Media Studies

 Hi this is my final task please click on the video below

  The creation of this short introduction to a film has been quite a journey for me, since it's been my first film and I had many problems with it. I did enjoy making this film, it was fun, and it was a whole new experience to me. I had shown my CommTech teacher the final draft of the product and he gave his pointers and I got to work. He did tell me that it was really great, and he did like it, but it just needed a few changes that would make it much better. First with the transitions towards the end where the screen went black, he said I should make it fade to black. Also, that all the little titles that popped up, they should have their own fade in and out. He went in depth with the music, how it shouldn't just pop up that it should slowly fade in throughout the whole film and especially towards the end. Another thing I overlooked was how many of the clips at the beginning still had the audio from the clip instead of just the music, so it kind of made it weird. I implem

  Today was my last day of editing and I only need to add a few things to finish the film. I had to formulate both the titles and the title itself. The titles are what the production team is, the actors who edited it, and so on. This wasn't too hard since I had to make up the production team and the studio and the rest were just my name. The title was a little trickier since I wanted to use a certain font, so I had to then go online to find it myself. I opened up a Google Doc, painted the whole background black, and then put the white font last stand. I changed it to a PDF, inserted it into the software and it worked. I had the titles in the title all set with the films name at the end. Things were going quite smoothly for me. It wasn't taking up too much time and the software I was using was easy to learn. When I started uploading it to YouTube, a friend told me that I had to change the location of where the name of my film was towards the middle. I figured out that the name

 Today was the day I finally started to edit my film. I couldn't wait to use what I learned from watching videos and my peers to create the perfect opening scene. Opening up the software, I was using a website called Clipchamp a free watermark free editing software.  Immediately I got to work downloading all the files and video from my phone to the laptop. When I got them on my laptop, I sent them straight to the editing software. I had to make sure the videos lined up where they would be in the film in order so it wouldn't cause any confusion. Once I got them all in, I previewed it and it looks quite nice. I was however missing the music, titles, and the ending. Some bits of the film I had to chop off because it was either the start of the scene and it was a bit janky, or the end where I was speaking out of line. Getting the music on the software was a bit harder since I had to download the music and I wanted to make sure I didn't get a virus from one of those suspicious w

 Today was our final day to film the last bits we missed last time. Unfortunately, the two other people I worked with bailed out on me and I didn't know what to do. At first, I thought of waiting for the next day to film, but they still couldn't show up and I needed it now. Thankfully, I did have one of my actors to help so that made things so much easier. We thought for a while, and I decided to redo the whole project with only myself as an actor and my other friend was the cameraman. Since, I had only myself in the project the plot had to change into a lone wolf story and strayed off from what I had originally planned. It could be done in one day due to it only being me and we could get more creative. I went to go get my outfit and my props and I was ready to go. We got to the location and began filming. Since, we had to start from the beginning I was thinking of a plan for the whole film. I was the director/actor telling my cameraman what to do and where to go.  After, each

After the big filming day to where we got the majority of the opening shot down, I quickly edited it and asked my computer science teacher to review it. He is great with computers and knows how to edit videos and he could give me tips to make the film more refined. It wasn't completely finished, but the important shots were in it and the music too. The video I showed him was a rough draft and definitely needed to be polished and getting an opinion from a third party will help me see the mistakes I would overlook. When I told him about the film and what it was about, he said to me that it was very ambitious especially for a first film. He was impressed with what my plans were and decided to take time out of his day to review and discuss my rough draft. One of the strengths he said was the music and how it fit the time period and how it was accurate on that WW2 soldiers would listen to it. I explained that I chose the song because the soldiers are wondering when they will see their l