AICE Media Studies

Creating and filming this was such a unique and fun experience. Thank you Cambridge for this opportunity, and I hope you enjoy our video!

Today was our final time meeting up to film! Today, we are fixing our mistakes and creating a more coherent and sound production.       First, we tackled the comment on the busyness of the park scene. I wasn’t familiar with Marissa and Mackena’s neighborhood, as the start of this whole project was my first time being there. Marissa offered a good idea of going to their public community pool just down the street, and since it was cold outside, no one would be there to see Mackena and Riley in their toddler costumes again.        For the pool scene, this was our easiest scene to film yet. We had them sit across the pool on the chairs to make it seem like the viewer was watching them from afar. At first Marissa had them sit on the direct opposite side of the pool, but as I started to film, I saw they were a bit further from the camera than I wanted. Almost to the point where it was difficult to see the two on their chairs. To fix this, I had them sit diagonally across the corner of the

      Now that we had a finished product, it was time to get some constructive criticism! For this, we went to Marissa and Mackena’s dad, since he was in the house for the majority of our filming process and was familiar with our project and its purpose. We handed him my phone and waited in anticipation of what he would have to say about all of our hard work.       In the end, he only had a few minor comments that were easily fixable. We asked him about his comments on the content of our scenes and his first comment was that the toddler scenes at the park were very busy. What he meant by this was that there were a lot of people in the background and it was distracting from the eerie feeling we were aiming for. He suggested that we replace this scene with a different location.      I t was a bit disappointing to hear this, knowing that we would have to delete two scenes of our creative work, but in a way, this was anticipated as we all noticed how busy the park was. However, the show mu

Welcome one, welcome all, to the last session of editing! For this session, I worked on the titles, transitions, filters, and other minute details.  To pick up where I left off, I thought about what best place to start other than the beginning. To prepare for my endeavor, I pulled out a sheet of paper and wrote down the order in which the titles appear in the film industry, and next to it who belonged to what title. This way, I could keep track of who goes with what and stay in the correct order.  I began with the “Studios Presents” title, which I wanted to have floating around in the pool as our first title. For this title, we all agreed on the name R.P.M.M. Studios, which were our initials in no specific order, just the way that sounded best. I tried to make the words float around using keyframes, but I was not a fan of how they were moving. It looked too fake and stiff, which is usually the effect of using keyframes to try to stop motion edit something.  I tried to search for

     Hello hello hello! I am so excited to finally be at this point in our production. The part I have been waiting for since the beginning, the part where I get to let my creativity show, and the part that is most definitely the most enjoyable for me, drum roll............. EDITING!       For my editing, I wanted to split it up into two sessions: Scenes and audio, and titles and miscellaneous- but equally as important- elements. So, because the titles cannot go on without a base, I began promptly putting the scenes together.       I began this process by inserting just the beginning five scenes so as to not overwhelm the timeline just yet. These were the skipping, pool, bedroom, chalk, and picture wall scenes. I clipped the edges off of the back-facing shot of the skipping so that just the middle part with maximum movement and easy continuation into the front-facing shot would remain. I repeated this process with the front-facing clip and played it by to make sure the clips connected

      Hello once again, today we started choosing and exploring our music options! For this process, I started out very confused and, honestly, totally lost. For my first step, I needed to figure out where to begin searching for the music. My group and I were quite unsure even about what kind of music we wanted to include. Our starting idea was that we wanted a playful yet eerie-sounding song to be playing in the background for the majority of the film. My plan was to have whatever song we chose to play when the record player, in the beginning, was shown, and then I would adjust the volume as needed according to dialogue scenes. I was also planning to add a few sound effects, so we would need to look for those as well.      I thought a good start would be to search for 'eerie children's music' on YouTube to just get a baseline of what I wanted to look for. A playlist called "Creepy Old Songs" showed up and I looked at a few songs in there. Some possible contenders