AICE MEDIA STUDIES DS - 1

 One of the things that re surfaced my brain while editing was the effect of clip length. Earlier in the year we learned how clip length can effect the audiences feelings. Longer clips were more prosperous and calm whereas shorter clips created a sense of anxiety.  After remembering this I ensured that the ending where the main character realizes her state of distress would have shorter clips combined into a montage of her trying to escape. I did this by using straight cuts and short clips with changes of perspective. As stated previously the scenes were shot repetitively in different angles for me to choose while editing. But rather than choosing I just incorporated almost all of them to create a state of anxiety within the audience. This was the end product.... Implementing the shot of the "Mother" tapping her fingers on the table and then a dutch angle view of the clock symbolizes that the main character is running out of time. This is shown in the clip right after when sh...

After achieving the green screen look I had to find a way to put the audience in the actual viewpoint of the alternative reality that the film is portraying. This concept was hard to grasp due to the theme and plot of our film opening being complex. With this being said I had to find a way to make a glitch in the matrix to create a fiction in a fiction. Ironically a glitch effect is what I ended up using.  The glitch effect represents a change from reality to fiction and is later used to reverse back to reality. Glitching follows along with the films niche due to the plot taking place in an 80's reality tv show. Finding the right glitch took me several videos of YouTube searching due to the glitch having to have a green screen background for me to apply a keyer too. After a long search I stumbled across a set of glitches in one video and I was able to export it out of YouTube and into our film and trim out the excess glitching and keep ours at around a half of a second. The Glitch ...

 As stated previously in my "Production Day 4 Big Decision" blog, a green screen background was used alongside the diegetic title being written on a paper on a desk. This scene was supposed to represent a director reviewing a film which was on their monitor (The same monitor we had a green screen on). To demonstrate this, I went on Final Cut and placed a keyer on the green screen to make it transparent. After I took a video of the house where the sitcom takes place and framed it into the monitor. After doing that, the outcome came out like this... Editing this specific part only happened due to the failure of the TV while we were filming.The main character was intended to turn on the television in the scene, but the TV was malfunctioning, so we had to shoot it on the monitor. This maintains the setting that we wanted to convey while giving the sequence the appearance that the film is being edited and reviewed on site. This strategy was seen on YouTube by many different conten...

 The first thing that I did during post production was place the clips in order in Final Cut Pro (my editing software). Doing this took a while due to us having hours of footage and having to intercut scenes such as when the main character is looking at the "film crew", exit sign and hidden camera. This particular scene was shot on 2 separate occasions. The way I accomplished this editing technique was by taking the close ups shots of the camera crew, main character, exit sign, and hidden camera and intercutting the contrasting shots to make one composite scene.  This idea was stemmed from an episode in Teen Titans Go where they had an alternative reality of shots showing them looking at their past selves through a TV and breaking the fourth wall. Even though in that clip they used cross fades rather than straight intercutting the concept stemmed from that due to us having the main character break the fourth wall similarly to them.  Inspiration: Our Re-Creation: While rev...

Production Day 4 was by far our longest and most productive day shooting. With all of our characters there it made it easy to and have the script fall in line.  The one thing we noticed while shooting was that the angles put in the story board and shot list weren't the angles we ended up physically shooting.  Story Board: Our Shot Recreation: As this could form a possible problem in editing, it also helped give our film more vibrance, due to the shots on the storyboard being bland compared to the new innovative shots we physically created.  One of the most difficult shots to shoot during this day was the shot panning into our main characters face. Our goal was to hold the tripod extended with the camera on it, and physically glide it in the air towards her. This was difficult because the camera and tripod were not only heavy but there was a table in the way with the monopoly being played from the previous shot. We shot this probably over 5 times but eventually we finally ...

 Today was our last day recording and after all the preparation through the previous shooting days and and planning days it went the smoothest. The original plan given was to shoot for a few hours on Saturday, then come back on Sunday. The main issue with our production was scheduling days for ALL of our actors to arrive and making it productive. So splitting the production into 2 more different days would risk the fact an actor couldn't come and would make the first shoot more lax due to us feeling like we had more time. In addition to that it increased the risk of continuity errors due to our shoot being a house where an actual family lives in. Something as small as a stain or chip in wood could alter the consistency in the setting. Especially with them having a dog staying in their house. The Possible Continuity Error "Major the Menace":     After proposing this argument with the team we decided to shoot the rest of our film in one day. Sunday. March 5th, 202...

 Overall, our 4th day of production was completed through us recording almost all of our scenes in chronological order of how they were presented on the storyboard. We expanded off the pre written ideas and innovated new shots with more meaning. While doing this we implemented the rule of thirds within each shot making sure they were all visually appealing. This was done by recording the shots with an in camera grid. Rule of Thirds in each shot: As we shot I also insisted that we shoot the same scene from different angles. This was so that while I edit I will be able to intercut each shot of the same scene and keep the audience attentive and have the film introduction be eye catching.  Lastly a part I didn't mention is the way we incorporated mise en scéne through the actors attire. I previously spoke on how the background helped give a 80's sitcom aesthetic but the clothes worn did as well. The garments worn were very vibrant in colors which created a high contrast from the e...