AICE Media Studies

After a full year of creative planning, filming, and editing, I have come to the end of my journey. I finally finished my film “Victim Nine” along with my group members! After many days of work and planning, I have finished my movie and cannot be happier of the outcome. Throughout this journey I have learned so much about the film making process and how challenging it is to create. After planning, filming, and editing my commercial, music video, and film, I have learned how to work with a group of people to create amazing pieces of media. I have always idolized actors and directors, and it was great to experience both worlds at once! I cannot be happier that I joined this class. This is not the beginning of my adventure, and I will continue to create and produce many films for fun and hopefully work. I hope to use this knowledge and work in media production later on in my life. I now present my final film, Victim Nine.

 Today is my final day working on my film! So far, I've cut the length of my shots, organized them in the correct order, and added music to my production. I completed this part of the editing process after I received feedback from my film review. Now, the last thing to complete is composing the score for the film, since I never fully finished working on my music.  In order to compose the score, my partner Kaite and I opted to combine two independent audios. Katie and I both wanted royalty-free music from the 1950s or 1960s to transition into eerie, menacing music in the opening section of my audio. I gave Katie this job to complete in the beginning, but she was struggling so I decided to help. At first, this was a tough step to grasp, so I had to go back to another YouTube tutorial. The video instructed me to download it as an Mp4 file and upload it to my production. After that, I had to add all of my titles to my show. It was just a matter of timing them and fixing their location

 Following my film review, I realized there were some aspects of my production that I needed to improve. The first issue I wanted to address was the horror aspect of my film. I had planned a day to reshoot certain scenes with my fellow actors. Quickly, I reshot the shot of the main character, Ashley, laying on the ground. What I changed this time, was the excessive amount of fake blood poured on her, to make my audience scared. I also shot a low angle of the villain in the film holding the murder weapon. Lighting was another major issue that was necessary to fix. I took the time to research ways to increase the brightness of videos. After watching a few tutorials on YouTube, the task was not difficult. I simply went into my photos app on my iPhone and on the top right of my screen, I clicked "edit" to start brightening my shots. There was an option for me to increase or decrease my brightness on a scale of one to one hundred. I increased the brightness by twenty, so I could s

 After filming was completed, it was finally time to edit. Connor, one of my group members, chose to edit the video since he had a lot of experience. My partner was enrolled in many coding and media classes throughout his middle school career.  He edited on his laptop, which he volunteered to bring to school, so my group members and I could help assist. I found time during my sixth period study hall time to help participate in the editing process. When it came to editing, I had a few issues right off the bat. It was very difficult to edit during the school day, since the internet connection was slow. This made it impossible to open and run the editing software. By this time, I had tried to restart the device and try a new device completely. It had then occurred to me to use my partner's phone hotspot to connect to the PC. This succeeded, and I was able to begin editing immediately. I messaged my partner the videos I had taken on my phone and then transferred the files to his comput

 Since the deadline is approaching quickly, all editing was thrown together for peer review. Using iMovie, I assembled all of the shots into a single film. When others saw the video, they had a variety of reactions. The plot was simply grasped, which was the most crucial reaction I received. The major message of the film was understood by both of the people who watched it. I had my history teacher and my classmate review my film since they would give honest opinions and advice. The female main character's attitude toward the scenario, as well as the tension created by the female main character and the major male character who portrayed the villain, were all comprehended. While my goal for the film was horror, I was told there wasn't much of a horror aspect to my film. This was due to the actors and props not displaying any blood or harm. I intend to reshoot a few scenes later with some of my group members present. My classmate had also told me that the movie was a tad too fast-

Filming is now completed for my film! My next step in this journey is to edit all of the different shots into one movie. However, I am forgetting about one of the most important parts of the film... the music! As soon as my group and I decided on a genre and plot for my film, I emailed a music production company named, Warner Chappel. The Warner Chappel company messaged me back a few weeks ago, asking for a price to own the rights to the song. This price was outrageous, as they were asking for $1000-$2000. This is when I had to come up with a Plan B. I collected my group to discuss the news and everyone was devastated, since everyone was hoping to use Born Too Late, by the Poni-tails for the entire film. Everyone had shared their ideas for a new plan. Some of these plans included, emailing a new music company  and messaging the Warner Chappel  company again to compromise for a new price. However, it was too late into the film to wait for another music production company's response.