AICE Media Studies

  Camera Angles and Movements: Close ups/Extreme Close ups on characters faces. This is done to show what they are feeling while everything else is happening around them.  Extreme Long Shot- this is typically used to show the sides of a war colliding.  Wide shot- this is used to show the subject and the scene of which the subject is in. Mis-En-Scene: Costumes usually include camouflage clothing and helmets. Lighting can vary from full brightness in the middle of the day to pitch black to create a scene in the night. Makeup usually includes camouflage face paint and blood. Props are typically guns, medical kits, ammunition, and grenades. Sound:  Sound Motifs are often used. The sound is usually gunfire or explosions. Diegetic sound often features explosions, gunfire, and screaming. Narration might also occur describing why a war is occuring Editing:  A jump cut can be used to show a battlefield during a war comparing it with after the war. Crosscutting can be use...

  Camera Angles and Movements: Close ups/Extreme Close Ups on technological elements. This is done to highlight the dependence on technology in the time period the film takes place in. Establishing shots on large or small sections of the cityscape, again done to showcase the widespread use of technology. Low Angle shots, most often used to empower certain characters in positions of authority. Mis-En-Scene: Costumes often exhibit urban and technological influences, and could potentially feature high-tech modifications to an actor's body. The lighting is generally reduced to convey a general sense of disrepair or gloominess, or just a general impression of dark situations. Makeup is used in conjunction with costuming to create technological modifications, or to show scars and grime on a character to convey an impression of hard living. Props and setting are both highly technological or scientific, often a combination of the two, and the setting may have influences to show a state of ...

I am not doing this project with only my brother. I am doing it with two other kids as well. We figured it would be better to work in a bigger group for this project instead of just two people. The two other people I am working with are Jack and Jake. I was not friends with them nor did I talk with them prior to this project. 

 Doing this commercial was kind of fun. It was fun going out and filming. It was also fun laughing at how stupid I looked during my commercial. It was mostly a new experience because I had never done anything like this before. It weird at first to be filmed by a camera. I got used to it after a little while. Overall, it was a fun and interesting entirely new experience.

Going into trying to edit I discovered some problems. I realized that since we didn't have any editing experience. As a result, I needed to familiarize myself with editing. This didn't take long. Once I did that, it was relatively easy to navigate and understand Clipchamp. Editing took about an hour altogether. It took longer the first day editing because I didn't really know what I wanted to do. Once I found out what I wanted, it took less time. After all the edits were done, I went back and reviewed our commercial. I found out that the transitions needed to be smoother. So I went back and made it so there was less of a gap between clips of video. Also, the Gatorade logo needed to be added in. This process was especially hard because nothing else in my commercial was like it. The Gatorade logo needed to slowly fade in over the subject running up the stairs. Since the editing was done, I had nothing else to do. As a result, I relaxed for the rest of the class. I also gamed ...

After I was done filming all of my commercial the previous class, it was time to edit. Since my commercial wasn't a single continuous shot, some editing was required. Also, since my commercial has the subject running up stairs, it can't be taken in a single shot. As the subject ascends the first flight of stairs, there is no editing required. It is the same thing for the second flight of stairs. This is because the cameraman is positioned specifically so that he can get the subject running up the 1st and 2nd flight of stairs without any editing. Then, we had the subject drink Gatorade in a close up shot. Edited in right after the subject runs up the two flights of stairs. Then, it transitions into a tracking shot right after. This doesn't need any editing in between it because it is a continual shot. We had also filmed a different shot where the tracking shot was on our first day of filming. It would be the same thing as the first shot. Where the cameraman is positioned so ...