Ella Walkers Media Blog

                                                                         Week 4 Post 2     Welcome back to my blog, we are near the end of week 4 and today in class we decided that we were going to take action about our music. This week we have started filming, and smoothed over the challenges that we have been faced with. Weeks ago when we were first coming up with our music we were quick to brainstorm songs that had a coming of age feel and would fit perfectly to our film. So previously we decided that we wanted to use the song "Alright" by Super grass. It is youthful and up beat.                  Although we quickly realized it wasn't royalty free. So our teacher suggested that we email the company that has copyright rights to the song and try to g...

                                                                          Week 4 Post 3  CHALLENGES     AUDIO: As we started to film this week we came across some of the challenges and learning curves of filming. So the first thing that we mentioned when we filmed was that the sound quality was not quality. So we used the mini mics that were offered by our teacher. We just attached them to our clothing and backpacks and hid them and the sound was clear and loud and eliminated the wind sound that was apparent because we were filming outdoors.     CAMERA: Next thing was that we wanted the best quality we could get, considering our camera which was our phones. So one of the people in my group recently got a new iPhone, we we decided that we were going to use her phone. On her ph...

                                                                     Week 4 Post 1     Hello! Welcome back it is Tuesday Feb. 21st and it is the beggining of the 4th week of this project which marks the halfway mark of this project. We have spent three weeks brainstorming, planning, and formating a 2 minute long intro for a movie. And now on week four our planning is completed and it is time to started the production process.  The first thing that I am going to share is some photos of the on campus clips. That we took this week. And we plan to take off campus clips this coming weekend.              The last screenshots of one of the clips we took was a master shot. A master shot is where all the important things in a scene are in. For example a shot of a dinner tabl...

                                                                      Week 3 Post 3     For this weeks blog post as we make our video start to become a formalized plan we are making things like story boards and scripts my group and I figure that we would share some inspiration shots that helped us and we were invisioning when creating those things.      This first picture is from the famous coming of age movie "Stand by Me", an emotional coming of age, movie that highlights the relationships and journey of middle school aged kids trying to find a dead body. This shot caught my attention because it captures the shot that we are trying to achieve for some of our montage clips. For example the shot from behind the girls doing things, and having a candid feel. Also we liked the faint filter on ...

                                                                       Week 3 Post 3     It is the end of week 3, a week where we have focused on creating not just the idea of our video but the structure of it. This week as we started making our thoughts real such as creating the script and shooting schedule we made some story boards. Story boards are the one of the closed planning task that you can do before actually shooting. It gives the description of your shots in order and explains camera movements. This was the first story board we had made. Our video is a bit harder to make a story board for because there isn't much of a story line, or given order of shots we are making a montage so the clips may easily change order. But all the ideas that we have just mentioned they are all now on paper...

                                                                    Week 3 Post 2      Now, as we are moving into the middle of week 3 we have created a script of what the voice overs are going to be, and organize all the sound add ins. We knew how we wanted the voice overs to be, but needed to put it on paper, and communicate our ideas. Again this might tweak as we actually create and film the voice overs but this is what we are basing off from.  ( Setting in school hallway )   Blaire: Hey Riley.   Riley: Hey Blaire!   Riley: What do you want to do this weekend?   Blaire: I was thinking about the beach, what about you?   Riley: Yes, that sounds fun let's do that!   ( Voiceover starts )   Th i s is Blaire . Blaire has been my best friend since birth , o ur m...