AICE Media Studies

 Here it is! The final product of our four month long project! Thank you all for tuning in, and I hope to see you again for my CCR next week!

Hello everyone! Welcome back to the blog! I am happy to announce, today's blog is the penultimate blog until the video is published! Last blog I spoke on how I peer reviewed with my friend Anton. He told me how he believed the clips could be transitioned more smoothly to match the music, and how I should add another song to the beginning half of the video. I trusted his judgement and it turned out fantastic. Today's blog is me searching for the song, and syncing the video to the music. Since there isn't much time between now and the due date, I didn't think getting copyright permissions for a song would be possible, so I went on youtube with the help of Renato and found a song called "Phoenix" by Scott Buckley. The song is just a basic, low paced, instrumental, that will fit perfectly in a low volume behind the beginning interviews and call scenes to take up any empty space. Now that the song was out of the way, syncing the music to the song is all that is lef

Hello everyone! Welcome back to the blog! We are nearing the end of my final task project, with today being a blog about me peer reviewing with a friend. This video itself is not 100% complete. All of the basic parts, such as video clips and audio clips are put together, but it is missing a certain element which i'm not certain of yet. Which is why todays blog is about me getting an outside perspective on the video. My friend Anton is really good at editing, so I decided to go to him for feedback. I showed him my video during the class period, and it seemed to go well! He felt the emotions our video was trying to convey onto him, with slight humor, but also a sense of determination and courage. He believe the video itself was good, with a couple edits needing to be made for the clips to seamlessly transition together better. The one thing he pointed out, which I didn't think of, was another song for the beginning of the film. The first part of the film up until the training mon

Hello everyone! Welcome back to the blog! Yesterday's blog spoke on the filming of the final scenes of our film. Today I will speak on the editing and color grading of the film! Today I will delve deep into the long process of color grading, marking the final stages of our film's post-production. Color grading played a huge role in conveying the emotional arc of our story. I embarked on this process with a clear vision, to use color to reflect the shifting emotions and dynamics of our protagonist. The initial scenes, characterized by a dominant blue hue, were intentionally graded to evoke a sense of melancholy and struggle. This choice wasn't merely aesthetic; it was symbolic, mirroring the protagonist's initial despair and challenges. As our narrative progressed, particularly through the training sequences, we gradually shifted the color palette. The transition from the cooler, subdued tones to a brighter, more vibrant spectrum was planned to symbolize hope and confide

  Hello everyone! Welcome back to the blog! Yesterday's blog I spoke on the process of getting licensing for music, and how, unfortunately, it did not go our way. Todays blog is a blog im very excited to write. Not including reshoots, we have finished the filming process of our film! As all of you know, the final two scenes we needed to film were extremely difficult to film because they required going to a gym that has a boxing ring. The issue about this is, no one in our group has a membership to said gym. This was a huge issue, and was causing us to rethink how we would film the final scenes, even thinking of finding a new location to film if possible. Fortunately enough, that was not necessary. Our friend Alyssa, is a member of "The Zoo", which is the gym we need to film at, and has enough guest passes for all of us to attend the gym with her. With this being known we just needed to find a time that fit within all of our schedules. We found we were all free on a sunday

  Hello guys! Welcome back to the blog! Today's blog is a bit different from the usual filming adventures. It's all about the journey I went on to include a particular song- "Black Skinhead", by Kanye West" in our video project. Focusing less about the visuals and more about navigating the complex world of music licensing. When we decided on the perfect song for our project, we knew it would fit in our video by matching the tone and emotion we aimed to convey. Excited to progress with our task, I reached out to Universal Music Group, explaining our academic intentions and how we planned to use the song in a class presentation. The initial response was encouraging, but things got complicated once I mentioned the need to post the video on YouTube, even just on a personal channel. The licensing world is tricky, especially when distinguishing between private and public online sharing. Our communication with UMe Film & TV Licensing revealed that despite our educat