AICE Media Studies

Hello, Kayla here. So today my groupmates and I planned to film most of our shots. This was really due to a mistake I made. My groupmate Hervis and I are the main actors in this film. Seeing as I am the one with the gorpo that is being used to film I always need to be there when we are going to film. We spoke about this the night prior. Where we were going to meet. I made sure that the address was given our just in case the directions given were not clear. I did that because I wasn't sure if I was going to be present when they were ready to leave school grounds Today. One of my school clubs has meeting every Thursday and seeing as today is Thursday I probably wasn't going to make it to either on time. I say this because I had to go and inform the president that I would be about 20 or so minutes late to the meeting;  maybe even 30. So, this morning I made a mistake by forgetting the gopro. Normally I would have asked my mom if we could turn back around so I can go grab it reappl...

Hello, Kayla here. This blog post will be pertaining to the progress we have made with filming. Over the break my groupmate Ariel and I met up to start filming. What we will be using to film is the gopro at the moment. We had a little trouble with trying to figure our how to attach the gopro to the tripod. I'm working on that and hopefully can have it figured out before we film again in the upcoming days. We met at a park that's close to our school. My other groupmates unfortunately couldn't make it due to them either being out of state or not being able to make it. So, due to that Ariel and I spoke about what shots we will film prior to meeting up. There were concerns about whether or not we would be able to meet that day at all. That was due to the weather. There were thunderstorms the night before that went on well into the early morning hours. I then checked the forecast and it was predicted to rain. The time that we were trying to establishended up being pushed back to...

Hello, Kayla here. This blog will be about the final props that my group and I will be using to shoot this film. In the previous blog I mentioned the first few props that I gathered. Those being the fake blood I had purchased along with the fake BB gun. Those are still apart of the props that we will be using. I spoke to my groupmate Hervis about bring along some additional white shirts. I said white shirts specifically because I think that I would work best with the fake blood. I'm not exactly sure if the color of the item would change how the blood would appear. This is my first time e using fake blood first-hand myself. I just think that a white shirt would be our safest option. I also have a gopro 9 for filming. Although I am in the midst of getting an actual camera. That camera being a Canon EOS 90D. That process is almost complete. I also have a tripod. I do believe that tripod will be am additional due to the fact that the camera I am are ordering appears to come with everyt...

Hey, Kayla here. This blog will about my group and I'm filming process and how that has been going. My group mate Ariel and I were going to start filming today. We didn't end up filming today due to the weather. It was raining so that was no longer an option. I ended up having to rush home due to the rain that was on the verge of pouring heavily. We did speak about the props that I have gathered for the film so far along with the emails we sent out. Over the weekend I have gathered some of the props that are needed for the film. I ordered the fake blood that we will be using on Hervis. It's a 16oz bottle of cake blood. It is still in its wrapper due to me not wanting it to spill or leak anywhere. I did do some research and in some cases it leaves back very noticeable stains. I'm trying to avoid that which is why I have not opened it yet and will no do so until we are ready to shoot the scene/ scenes it will be required in. I was originally going to use red food coloring...

Hey, Kayla here. This blog will be my second music blog. My group mate Ariel and I decided on tye first four songs. Those songs will be Alright by Kendrick, I can't breath by H.E.R., and The Hate You Give by Bobby Sessions and This Is American by Childish Gambino. I have contacted the first three artist through social media. I have message Kendrick, H.E.R., and Bobby Sessions through Instagram. I also went ahead and found their labels. Ariel and I emailed everyone who we found. Thr artist, record label, producer...just as much people as we could. It took us a while to find those contacts. I attempted to message the artist through another social media platform such as Twitter. When I attempted to do so I realized that I couldn't. I thought it was because I forgot how to message but that wasn't the case. I went ahead and updated the app to the latest version hoping it would fix the issue I was having. It did not, I didn't have the messaging option for H.E.R. nor Bobby Ses...

Hello, Kayla here, this is my first production blog for this project. This blog will be about which songs my group and I have selected to use for our film and how we went about doing so. The music choices go back to/ correlates with the pitch that my group and I selected. Our final Pitch is a young Black girl witnesses the brutal murder of her best friend and goes on the path of getting justice. When I started lookibg for songs, I wanted a song that really went with our pitch and storyline. When I had came up with the pitch, I immediately came up with the storyline and started thinking about music choices. The songs that were selected for the film tell a story of what we as Black and Brown people has faced in America. Detaling our struggles in society and the issues that we struggle with on a day to day basis. I really wanted to find music that would tell a story...tell our story. Something that was detailed and allowing you the viewers to not only be able to se but hear as well. The s...

Slide 1: An establishing shot of the first character’s house is shown Slide 2: An establishing shot of the second character’s home.  Slide 3: A medium shot of character 1, texting someone.  Slide 4: A close up shot of the character’s phone so we can see who he is texting, it is shown that he is texting his friend, asking if she wants to go out. She says yes.  Slide 5: A medium-wide shot of the character getting ready.  Slide 6: An insert of the character’s personal items.(Studio Title shown: Free Floating)  Slide 7: A  fade to black screen with the production company title.  Slide 8: A long shot of a park, where both characters will be playing.  Slide 9: An over the shoulder shot of a character playing catch with the other.  Slide 10: A medium shot of character two shouting, “You throw horribly.”  Slide 11: A medium shot of character one responding, “Not as badly as you kick.”  Slide 12: A long shot of character playing, and kicking...