AICE Media Studies

     In this project, I had the option to work in a group, or by myself. While working in a group would take a major workload off of me, there are negatives. For example, my vision can be turned down by other group members. Also, if something happens with a group member, such as an accident, it can cause schedule changes. For example, if the designated editor of the group suddenly has to leave town, the project cannot be edited on time and it may change the roles and responsibilities of the group members. On the other side of the equation, filming alone can put a huge workload on myself, and there may be less opportunity for someone to tell me whether my ideas are good or not. However, producing alone ensures that I will be able to film my project, with my ideas, and on my schedule. For this reason, I have decided to film alone for this project. This will be my first project working by myself, so there are some projected problems I can attempt to visualize. For one, filmi...

         My name is Jacob Pineiro, an eleventh grade student attending Fort Lauderdale High School. I have been interested in the film industry for quite some time now, and this is one of the reasons I enrolled in the AICE Media Studies class. While I do not intend to pursue a career in this industry, I have always found the film industry interesting for a few reasons. One of them being that, contrary to popular belief, editing and scene selection takes quite some time, and the "filming" process is not the entire production process. To me, film and media take an important role in everyday life. More important than most people think. To understand this more, I took AICE Media Studies. So far, in the class we have produced two projects, one a commercial, and one a music video. These have been the most academic experiences with film I've had, and I have learned many things about the production process. In this project, I hope to have the same experience. Although t...

 Below is a powerpoint slideshow of my Creative Critical Reflection  

  The music video has been completed! Many hours of filming, planning, and editing were poured into this, and I am proud to say the final product is finally finished. I believe the music video came out rather nicely and the collaboration of all of the team members made it a great project. The filming process was fun, as it involved my team and I going to the fair. This resulted in a mood of the music video being very lighthearted and fun. The music video tells a story of a group of friends having fun at the fair. The song of choice, "Good Days", matches this because, well, the friends are having a good time at the fair. Across the music video, many activities are portrayed, such as the fair games, waiting in line, walking around, etc. These activities emphasize the diversity of the time spent with friends. As the editor of this project and an actor, I can gladly say this music video has come out with as much creative expression as my team and I desired! 

 After the editing session of two days ago, the project's production hit an unexpected level of difficulty. The rest of the film was added to the video, but then it was too long. The predicted solution to this problem was to decide which scenes were key to the music video, and which ones were not needed. This worked at cutting the time down, but not enough. So, some scenes needed to be cut from the video that were in the storyboard. While doing this, I had made sure not to cut any scenes that were crucial to the story. If these scenes were cut, it may affect the story and ruin the chronological sense of the story. So, the tracking shots of the group of friends walking or the friends waiting should take up as little screen time as possible. Towards the end of the production process, it was a decision that had to be frequently made, "should this scene be kept, or thrown away?" This took time and effort, as well as more collaboration with my team. My team had given me input ...

 After filming every part of the music video, all that was left to do was edit the scenes in place. As with the commercial project, the music video will also be edited with iMovie. I find this software to be the most user friendly, as it allows the use to drag clips and drop them in the video wherever the editor sees fit. It is designed for people who have not edited before, and so it is a perfect choice for someone who has very little experience editing like me. I am the designated editor of my group meaning that most of the responsibilities fall on me for the final product. As such, I am making sure to constantly keep in touch with my team, asking for their input. I began my editing today, and the first order of business was the song. I had downloaded the song "Good Days" to my computer, and this file was used for the song in the editing process. After that, all my scenes from the filming process had been transported onto the editing software, and certain additional scenes ...

 From the last update blog, the filming process was discussed. Unfortunately, time ran out on our first day filming. The solution to this problem was to film for another day, although it would mean a change to the plans. So, today we followed through with out second day of filming. The plan was to finish the shots we didn't accomplish yesterday, and the only problem with this was that we would need to convey the illusion of it being the same day, and my team needed to wear the same clothes and be at the fair at the same time as the previous filming session. After establishing this, we were set for the second day of filming. Many ideas were brought to the table by my team, such as capturing a shot with the group of friends waiting in line. In the process of filming this, it had to be kept in mind that the theme of the video is "Good Days", so the emotions displayed by us as actors had to be happy and carefree. This resulted in the shots having a lighter tone to them. As we...