AICE Media Studies

We finally finished filming all of the clips necessary for our film. The last couple of things we had to do included getting Nicole to record a couple more missing scenes at home with her tripod. After this was done, we were finally completely done with filming for this project. We were able to start on the editing immediately. One of the first things I did was record myself screaming. This was so I could add it in as a voice-over over one of the scenes. Before I could do this though, I had to make sure of some things. I made sure that I did it around the middle of the day when most people were awake. This is because I live in an apartment complex, so I didn't want to upset my neighbors. I also didn't want to upset my own family by yelling too early or late in the day. I also told my family to not be alarmed by my scream because I had to record it for a project and I told them to stay quiet during it so their voices wouldn't be heard in the background. I actually ended up...

We were finally able to shoot our short film with everyone present. Nicole, Maria, Hannah, and I were finally all free the same day so we took advantage of it. We all got to Nicole's house at around 6pm in order to make sure it didn't look like it was daytime in our scenes. Once we got there we immediately began getting everything ready for filming. We started setting things up and getting costumes and makeup ready. Since Nicole is a competition dancer, she had a lot of makeup, so we were able to use some in order to make Hannah and Brianna look scary. While Nicole was doing their makeup in her room, Maria and I decided to be proactive and film some of our scenes where it's just the two of us. We set up a tripod and started filming two scenes. We realized that if we said what we had in our script originally, it wouldn't fit in the 5-second time frame we had for each scene. Therefore, we decided to tweak some things and slightly change the wording. Once we were done with...

While we were talking the other day, we realized Hannah and Brianna don't have the right costumes for our film. Since they're acting as twins in their scenes, they need to have the perfect outfits that correlate to each other. The first thing we did was decide exactly what we needed them to wear. We all collectively decided that Hannah would have a white "worn-out" outfit. We wanted Brianna to wear the opposite clothing, so we agreed she would have a black "worn-out" outfit. However, Hannah soon came to realize didn't have any white pants. Brianna then went and checked her closet, just to realize that she was missing her black top. After we decided this, we researched stores that had the type of clothes we were looking for. We found that H&M had both the pants and shirt that we were looking for online, so that's where we decided to go. My mom drove to Galleria Mall because it was safest to have a parent behind the wheel. When we went into Galleri...

Yesterday we had planned to have a second filming day. We expected this to be the end of filming or at least bring us close to finishing. Unfortunately, that was not the outcome at all. That morning, Hannah texted the group chat something that no one saw coming. She told us that she was super sick and wouldn't be able to make it to filming that day. Even though she wasn't able to make it, we thought Nicole, Maria, and I should still go to Nicole's house to film that day. We planned to film as many scenes as possible that didn't involve Hannah/Hannah's character. Therefore, we went about our days as usual expecting to go to Nicole's house at around 4:30 and do what we can. I went to dance practice at 2:30, thinking I was going to be done by 3:30 and make it to Nicole's at 4:30. However, at 3:30 my instructor said that we still have much more to improve on, especially since we have a performance coming up soon. She said we should stay an additional 2 hours in ...

From the very beginning of the project, my group and I had a general idea of what kind of music we wanted for our film. We all agreed on both creepy, dark music as well as even some songs written by pop singers whose lyrics matched up to what was happening in our scenes. In fact, we started taking steps towards the music even way back in January. While we still weren't sure what songs exactly we wanted to use, we came up with an idea of a singer whose song we may end up using and DMed her.   When a couple weeks passed by with no response, we took additional steps. First, we DMed that same singer off another group member's account. We then went on to DM yet another singer in hopes that maybe she might reach out to us unlike the previous one. By doing this fairly early, we thought it would give us an advantage and they would get back to us pretty quickly.              Unfortunately, this has not been the case at all. Upon recent checking in, both si...

Today was the first day my group and I got together to start recording for our film. It was difficult to find a day that suit everyone at first since everyone has such a busy schedule. However, through Nicole and I's dance practices, Maria's soccer practices, and Hannah's martial arts practices, we managed to all come together this past weekend and start filming at least some of our final project. Hannah and I decided to meet at around three at Nicole's house. I woke up pretty early that day, at 8:30 am because I knew I had to be prepared to be on camera. Before I went to Nicole's house I made sure to wash my hair, do my makeup, and pick out a good outfit that would be comfortable for filming and of course appropriate for our film. I also gathered some snacks and drinks to bring so that we could all be fueled and more productive. Maria could only come at six that same day, but we still managed to get some things done before she came. For example, we figured out wher...

  This sheet introduces and establishes some of the characters who will have a role in this story. It begins when the girls are exiting their car and entering the main character's (Grace) house. Then the setting is moved to Grace's bedroom and continues there for the rest of the scenes. We do not use props in the first scene, but they will be used in subsequent scenes. The characters would be wearing ordinary day casual attire. Some camera angles and movements present in these six scenes are wide shots, medium closeup, full shot, eye-level, and tracking shots. We will also be using editing techniques like zooming in and out to enhance details. There are a total of two title names within these six boxes.  These are the names of the actors, the name of the studio, and the name of the production company. This sheet will introduce the twins, who are the characters that bring the thriller aspect. The scenes portrayed on the sheet (scenes 2, 3, 4) take place in many locations inside...