AICE MediaStudies

All of our production is finished and the final product is ready. We spent countless hours on this project, it was a lot of work to get all the logistics sorted out. Many of my group members had plans already set before we decided filming and editing dates. So, there was limited time but we persevered and got it all done on a time crunch. I definitely have improved my time management skills through this task. Also, I enhanced my acting skills because I had the help of my groupmate Yousev who used to act. Plus, this time during filming we experimented heavily with new types of shots out of our comfort zone. Everybody in the group grew exponentially because of this project. I am excited that we finally finished the project and that it turned out better than we thought. Unfortunately, there are no more projects this year but maybe in future years or free time I can continue to practice short film projects with my group.

  I continued to edit my film today. There was not as much left to edit as I originally thought. One thing I had to do was edit in the non-diegetic sound we had gotten from YouTube. Both of the sound tracks I chose were hours long with many different tempos within the track. The first thing I did was evaluate which scenes were going to need suspenseful music. Then, I went to the suspenseful track and listened to the whole thing. I did this to decide which portion of the music would fit certain scenes of the film. Once I figured that out I actually cut out the portion of music and saved it as a file. Then, added it on to the scene in the editing software. At first, there were difficulties regarding the audio file size. It said the file was too large, so I reduced the audio quality to make the file slightly smaller. Then it worked just fine and I didn't encounter any more issues like that. Now that I had done what I needed for the suspenseful scenes I had to finish the action scenes.

 In the film review, I was told that the audio quality was poor in the elevator scene. I attempted to open volume mixers on the editing software. However, there was nothing there and I tried to mute the audio overall and see if it we could add a voice over. That ended up sounding off and it didn't fit the mouth movements in the original scene. So, I went as far as to trying new sound editing software. I could not get anything to work so I am going to have to just leave it as it is. Another issue was that the camera wasn't held steadily in some scenes. I ended up getting the group back to reshoot the scenes that were messed up. The new footage wasn't as good as the original so I decided to let the problem stay as it was only a minor issue anyways. The next issue was that I overused certain edits and it was repetitive. So, I removed a few of the edits that appeared multiple times. Since I wanted the edits to fit the mystery genre, I had to replace the original edits with simi

I was able to start editing the film as all my exams have passed. I made sure the establishing shot faded into the screen. Then, I added the title of the film to the establishing shot. Next, I started putting the actors names on different scenes. Now that the easy part was done I started looking through the variations of edits. I found that a split screen edit would work well since we had a couple scenes where someone was being chased. So, I put a split screen on the staircase scene in order to make the positions of the protagonist and antagonist clear. I also wanted to input some jump cuts to connect scenes that were fast paced. Therefore, the momentum and speed of the film would feel more realistic. There was a scene where I jumped off the building. I ended up in the water in the next scene and I put a dissolving edit there because of the bubbles that were in the water. It fits the actual scene therefore the transition would look cleaner. Also, I added a slide transition for when the

  My film was reviewed by one of my friends. I told them to give an honest review with no bias because I needed to know where I should improve. Once they finished watching, they said that it was better than they thought. It obviously has a lot of errors but they said it was decent for a first film. They named the negatives first and the positives second. To start, they said that the sound quality was bad and that it was hard to understand the dialogue. So, when I go back and make changes I'm going to see if I can lower the background noise. The next thing they said was that during some of our tracking shots the camera wasn't held steadily. There isn't really a way to fix that so in my future projects I am going to have to work on my camerawork skills. Also, they said the editing wasn't bad, but there were instances where we overused edits and should use a variety. This was good constructive criticism because I can easily change that when I go back and make changes. Last