AICE Media Studies Blog

Hey everyone, this following week back was very chaotic for me. I was going back and forth all over Broward with my mother so I couldn’t film with my group mates again. Even though I wasn’t able to film i had trust in my group to perform some Filming. While my groupmates were filming, they were giving me updates on The WhatsApp. WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging application that allows iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia smartphone users to exchange text, image, video and audio messages for free. With this app is super easy contacting each other regardless the brand of phone and it’s free. My Group mates where informing about the place they went, what time they went, and what they were filming. Also, my group mate Kayla just got a GoPro. With this GoPro we can more clear shots and allows the action shots to be shot more in depth. With school being open this is going to open up a lot more opportunities to actually get the full team to o film so I’...

 Hey guys today I'm going to be talking about what's been going on for this week with our group. This week's weather has been so bad. It's been windy and raining all week. Trying to film has been really rough. Clothes flying, props flying, even us kind of blowing away. Very funny watching everything get ruined. But that only means we have to account for that and work around. To start scheduling is rough. With it being spring break, you would expect everyone would be free right? no everyone's busy doing family stuff, school stuff, everything else that can disable us to film for the first week. Well, I'm the one busy I'm on a college tour trip for student athletes. Me and some teammates with 3.5 gpa's and above. basically, this trip is to get us exposed to the ivy league college athletic wise and academic wise. The colleges we are visiting  are: Dartmouth , Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Penn, Brown, and Cornell are institutions who have confirmed our...

  Filming day number 2 unfortenly  I couldn't be there for filming in person. I was texting and giving advice the whole way though. Firstly, I couldn't be there because I had to turn in my books to be able to go on a trip. Secondly, I wanted to show how I helped behind the scenes. During the whole day i was trying to keep in touch with my mates. Understanding where they were going to film and specifically what scenes. With me being absent for this shoot enabled a problem. The main setback was needing an extra filming day to finish with the absents. Also gave a bit of confusion with me being gone this week. So, we discussed what scenes they were going to film it was only a few. Along the way I was giving advice to help make filming easier. advice like suggested camera angles, suggestion on time of day should be filmed. During their filming I tried being involved because I was going to be gone for a week and that sets our schedule back. I've already notified my group about it...

Today me and my groups mates were planning on  filming. We  tried to plan the day prior to get everyone’s guardian on board with a flexible  time. Transportation  scheduling couldn’t be done.2 days before film day I was under the impression of having practice. With  that information I had to plan how can I film with my group mates and make it to practice on time. One  day before filming day one of our group mates couldn’t make it to. With  that new information we had to plan the specific shots with missing one group mate. With one day remaining we had to think about what props to use for specific scenes. We  had to bring basketball and football to shoot the scene with me and another. Also  had to get permission from adults like 7/11 worker police offer at the school. We  got a yes from the police officer to shoot with us. So,  it’s film day and at  the start of the morning I ask everyone what are we wearing? Kayla said athletic...

  So, with my group we discussed about our music choice. We choose a variety of different songs that correlate to the genre or idea of our film. To start off with the song ''I Can't Breathe" by H.E.R.  she wrote in response to the recent spate of police killings of unarmed black citizens and the swell of protests against police brutality and systemic racism. The meaning of this song really correlates with our movie because we are showing the same thing H.E.R is talking about. As she is highlighting what's going on with the world. With our film we our trying to show that also but fighting the justice. Next is "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar. In this song Kendrick Lamar talks about the current system of black people getting shot, but as Kendrick is rapping, he is still giving black people courage by telling them that during this time as black people we are going to be alright and change the world. Next is" the hat...

  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 charact...