AICE Media Studies

 Nine in the Afternoon by Panic! at the Disco We finished our project! It was a really fun experience for me, and enjoyed it all. The filming and editing were both really fun, and I enjoyed the time I got to spend working on this project with my friend. My favorite part however, was the editing. It was really cool getting to see my project go from a bunch of little clips, to a full music video! The fact that I could create a smooth video like this, with just a few tools, just blows my mind. This is one of the coolest things I've worked on this year, or ever. I'd really love to do a project like this again, and I hope we do in the near future. The skills I've learned from this project can help me alot with some of my hobbies that involve video editing. I'm excited about were that can take me in my future! Video created by Olivia Sadler and Naeemah Dixon

     Yesterday, I wrapped up filming the last of my music video, so all I needed to do was add it to the already edited video. I left spaces for what I needed to film, so I knew how much I needed to cut, speed up, and slow down each shot to match the time frame. I added the pictures to the video and I lengthened the time the picture were on screen.  I didn't add any transitions between the shots because I wanted this scene to feel like a stop motion video. I did add a transition between this scene and the next scene, to show the difference in times. The last thing I added was the journal scene where the picture falls out. I had to cut it down to fit the time, but it wasn't much work. I cut the video down to 1:15 minutes, and made sure the lyrics and song matched up. After that, I just watched It a couple of times to make sure it made sense, and I was done. 

     After filming and editing a majority of the video already, I only had to shoot a few scenes. I had to print out a few pictures we took on the first day we filmed, and film a stop motion scene of them being added on top of each other. This gave me a lot of trouble, as I could find anywhere to print out the pictures. I went to two different Walgreens, but both of their photo departments were down. We also when to CVS, but had the same results. Eventually, we just had to got to Walmart and get photo paper for our printer, which I didn't know my printer could use. We went home and It worked fine, so I got to work actually filming.       I set up my area on my dining room table, using my parent's phone as a flashlight, and my phone to take the pictures. I set up a stand for my phone to keep the pictures steady, and I took the pictures, adding one photo each time. I sent it to my laptop, added it to the video, and moved on to my other scenes. The last scene I had to shoot, was m

     My partner and I mostly finished filming yesterday, so I decided to mess around and try to begin editing some of our video today. The first thing I did was download the song we are using, and cut it down to the 1:15 minute time limit. I added it into my video editing software, Mini Tools Movie Maker, and started added in my videos. I still had to film the other shots, but I didn't worry about those, as I could do it at a later time.      As I already figured out the timing of the shots in the Storyboard, all I had to do was add the clips where the storyboard showed. I had to cut some clips down, and speed some clips up slightly, but it was a relatively quick process. The first scenes I added in were the scenes where we were walking around and talking. I didn't have to speed anything up, only had to trim the end a little bit to fit the lyrics. Next, I added the scene where my partner is sitting in the sand. After speeding it up 2x, I actually didn't need to cut or edit

    Today we started filming for our music video. My partner and I planned to start filing over Thanksgiving break, but things came up on both of our ends that prevented that. We headed down to a park on the beach in Lauderdale by the Sea, and we got to work. Both of our moms were there and offered to help us film, but we didn't need it at the time. The first scene we filmed was the one scene on the beach, where one person was sitting In the sand staring at the sea. We filmed the shot a couple times, to get a feel of how we wanted it to work before we filmed it seriously. We did many takes of the shot, because of different, small things we didn't like about them. Some of the takes were me filming my partner, and the others were her filming me. We both got some pretty good shots, but I think I'm leaning towards using one of the shots I got of her.      Next, we moved on the the other shots. We decided to film the shots of us walking down the street together, laughing and tal