AICE Media Studies

We finally finished! I had so much fun with all parts of this project. The planning, filming, and editing were all really enjoyable, especially because we got to work together on it. I really enjoyed working with my partner, and that made the actual class more fun. I really enjoyed the filming part, as I knew I would, but surprisingly, I really enjoyed the editing too. I don't know why, but I was sort of relaxing, even though it took quite a bit of time. I'm really proud of this commercial, as we both worked really hard on it. It's nice being able to see my work in video form. And here is our finished project!  I really can't wait for the next assignment!

  Today I finished editing my commercial. I started the day by trying to figure out how to create a split screen of the videos I was editing. I later found out that the program I was using, MiniTools Movie Maker, did not have a feature that would allow me create that split screen. I contemplated what to do for a moment, before I headed to google to find a program that would allow me to do that. After a while of searching, I found another free program, called VSDC Video Editor. This program easily let me create a split screen, amongst other things. I added the 4 shots to VSDC and began to work on it. It  took me quite a bit of time to figure out how to put the videos together and crop them onto one screen. I eventually figured it out and added white lines as borders for each video. The next problem I had to tackle was the speed of the shots. One shot was way shorter that the others, as my partner did that scene faster than the others. The app I used allowed me to slightly speed...

  Today we started editing our commercial. We finished filming last class, so we gathered all of our shots and got ready. My partner and I decided that we would edit the videos separately, and decide who's version we would use at the end. We separated and began to work. I decided to use MiniTools Movie maker, as it is a free video editing program. The only editing program I've used before is WonderShare Filmora X, but I couldn't use it for this project as it has a watermark. Mini Tool was very similar to Wondershare, and didn't have a watermark, so I didn't have any trouble using it. I started by choosing which takes I would use, and adding them into the program. Once I did that, I sped them up to make them flow better and stay in the time limit. I also trimmed a tiny bit off of each shot to make the transition between them a little smoother. At first I was testing out different transitions between the shots, but they all seemed to be very slow and none of them fit ...

 We continued filming the next class, as we still had a lot more shots to do. Once again, my partner brought the jackets and two gatorades, and I brought the other two. We decided that even though I filmed the red and yellow shots, we should bring them as backup in case we needed to reshoot them. That proved to be go choice, because after completing the green and blue shots, I decided that we should redo the red shot. Before that though, we shot the green gatorade. It was fairly easy to shoot, as I got the hang of the the angles and movements from the first day shooting the red and yellow. We didn't have any interruptions for the green shot, so I didn't need to film it twice. I filmed the blue shot next. It went well, so we moved on. I filmed the redo shot of the red gatorade next, and we were set, as that was the final shot where I needed to rotate the camera 360 degrees around my partner.   The next round of shots I had to film, which was my partner drinking the gatorade. Si...

 I started filming our commercial on Tuesday, October 5th. We got our passes and went to our filming location, which was the small grassy area in the middle of our school. I brought 2 of the 4 Gatorade props, and my partner brought the other 2 and the jackets for the costume. My partner was our actress and I filmed everything. We started off with our red colored jacket and Gatorade, and I began filming. Our first shot started with me filming the sky and tilting the camera down towards my partner. It took us a few shots, as we both messed up a couple of times. Sometimes it was me going to fast or slow, other times it was her moving or breaking character, but we eventually got through it. I has to reposition her a few times, as we kept accidentally shifting, but we eventually got the timing and angles right. There were a few people walking around, so I tried to get shots in an area that didn't have many people. It was fun, and we enjoyed filming together, so it didn't really feel...

 My group chose to do a commercial on Gatorade. These ads usually feature people partaking in athletic activities and drinking from Gatorade bottles. The people in these ads are usually wearing athletic wear, such as: leggings, shorts, jackets, etc. These ads usually feature very cinematographic shots containing motion. Some props usually include: Gatorade bottles, towels, and workout equipment. The people in these ads are usually athletic and sweating to push the point of Gatorade being known as a sports drink. The ads usually include high-energy music or sound that attempts to motivate people to excercise and as a result buy their product. The score within the ad is also used to continue the momentum in these ads. The ads also usually switch between multiple people to try to illustrate the idea that Gatorade is for everyone no matter their background or activity/sport. Slogans within the ad range from things such as "greatness starts with G" to "Quench your thirst...

For this project, our commercial will be about Gatorade.  Props-  As we are doing a Gatorade commercial, our only props are Gatorade bottles. We have 4, one red, one yellow, one green, and one blue. Costumes-  There are only two of us in the group, so one of us will record while the other will be the actor. We are doing 4 different gatorade flavours, so we have corresponding jackets for each color. The bottom wear wouldn't matter, as we plan on filming each part on the same day. The rest of the outfit wouldn't matter, as the actor is just playing a regular person.  Filming-  We plan to film most of the commercial on October 1st in the grassy area behind the round benches. It will hopefully only take one day to film. As a backup plan for if it rains, we plan on filming under one of the walkways close to that area. We plan on filming the same person in 4 different scenes, each scene with a different color scheme, and circling the person before cutting to the next ...

 0-2 s) Fade in from black to the sky (2-3 s) Move camera vertically down (3-5 s) Have someone holding Gatorade in front of them (5-10 s) Circle the person, insert loud sound (10 s) Change person's jacket drink and emotion (10-20 s) Repeat 3-5 for each color (20-25 s) Have a split screen where each "different" person drinks (25-28 s) They smile, fade out to black logo and slogan "Gatorade, for when you're feeling down" (28-30 s) Cut to someone falling

Hi. My group for the commercial project just consists of two of us. Me and my friend Naeemah. We've been really good friends since 8th grade, where we had half of our classes together, so I know we can work well together. I met her through a mutual friend who was in one of our classes in 8th grade, and we meshed well so it lasted. We're now both in 11th grade, and have had a few classes together throughout high school. We're both creative people, so I have no doubt that we'll come up with cool ideas. We both like reading, and coming up with story ideas. I really enjoy being around her and I'm glad we have the chance to work on such creative projects together. I know that this project is going to be interesting, and fun, as we are both creative minds that can come up with cool ideas. With it just being the two of us, It may be difficult to come up with out of the box ideas, as more brains means more unique ideas, but it also makes it less likely to have conflicting t...

Hi! My name is Olivia. I'm an 11th grader at Fort Lauderdale High School. I'm in  AICE Media Studies and I'm in the Cambridge program. I'm taking this class  because I've always been interested in the behind the scenes aspect of  turning an  idea into a visual film. The class seems really cool right now, as we've  learned  some filming terms that seem really interesting. I'm not really into being on the  camera as that's just not fun to me. However, I feel like being behind it is so  much  more fun, as you can control  what's happening and how a scene turns out.  I  don't  have much going on besides homework, but I do have a dog at  home  who's really cute.  (His name is Kenny, he's really cute) I like reading, specifically fantasy or adventure books such as Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. Reading just takes you to another place. A place where you can enjoy not having the responsibilities of the re...