AICE Media Studies intro blog

I could talk forever about music. Music always makes me feel certain ways depending on what music I am listening to. Getting into good music changed my life for the better. If I listen to sad music, I will be sad. When I am in a good mood I love listening to upbeat songs by The Cure and The Smiths. When I am sad and need comfort I listen to Frank Ocean. He is my go-to for every emotion and always will be I could never get sick of him. I am very versitile and I love all kinds of music. I listen to all different genres from every decade. Whenever my friends play different songs I always know them. I am the one in the friend group who knows any and every song. This is a blessing and a curse, as I am also really indesicive. The music aspect of this project had lots of setbacks that took a while to fix. The music I was trying to use would not download and I was experiencing issues with my phone. I learned to use iMovie on my phone because when I first started this class, I did not own a com

 I had to delete a bunch of apps and photos for my clips to be able to download. Finally, after so much time trying to get my stuff to download, it finally did. I could finally start editing for real. I started cutting all of my videos and trying to add effects, whether it was lighting effects or cool eye catching transitions. I learned how to do this in between the music video and this project. The two themes of the girls paired really well together. I tried to keep everything with the same color scheme. The skater girl's theme was red so I tried to keep all of her clips with the consistent red theme and Jenna's with the pink theme. This way, it would clearly give off different vibes I was trying to achieve. The music I selected was also aimed to fit with each vibe. For example, I picked American Idiot by Green Day for Jade's character because when I look at Jade, I just feel like that is what she would listen to. I was going to pick that or Rockstar Made by Playboi Carti

 For this task, I knew editing was going to be fun. Since I know more about editing now than I did before, I think my editing has progressed since I have edited more now and it only gets better with practice. For this task I had planned to do more special effect editing, not too crazy, but since it was Freaky Friday I was gonna try and edit cool lightning and things like that. Editing took a lot longer than expected because I had to cut several clips and sometimes I cut them a bit short so we even had to refilm some clips. The music aspect also took a while as well. The music I was trying to use would not download and I was experiencing issues with my phone. I learned to use iMovie on my phone because when I first started this class, I did not own a computer to edit it on. Since that is what I learned on, it just makes things less difficult to edit on my phone because my computer also experiences difficulties as well. I am familiar with my phone, so I edit on there. After a couple days

Another thing I realized is I did not want to film at school, I already am nervous at school so there is no way I would have allowed myself to film. There also is not that much time to film at school and I just like to remain unnoticed there so I had a backup plan. The movie starts with me and jenna each waking up for school, to show that we are teenagers. Usually that is how coming of age teenager movies go, I feel like they are always showing one girl who is put together and ready for school and another girl who just wakes up and rolls out of bed and picks the first pair of a shirt and shorts that she spots. I had planned to show me late for school, skateboarding there, skipping class, eating pizza. To show contrast I had Jenna be at school ten minutes early, in her outfit she planned the night before, getting ready slowly because she wakes up early enough, and eating a balanced breakfast. The Freaky Friday switch was to happen at lunch in the cafeteria, and I was going to blank out

 When filming begun, I was already pressed for time. We had to improvise a lot from the original plan because we had less time now. I realized I made this really good and detailed plan that was going to be hard to film in so little time, so I had to adjust a few things from the original plan. First of all, my final pitch is not anything remotely close to what it was originally, because I realized doing my original plan would have been good, yet very time consuming. I explained this in previous blogs but obviously, it affects my filming as well. This impacted our time management and caused many positive benefits creativity wise. I had to think about what would be realistic to film and at the same time what would show our best effort. I like a challenge, so I did not want it to be easy, because that is boring. I also am into music, outfits, and just like having a theme and matching aesthetics. I like when there is a theme to things, it is satisfying. So after all the planning, we finally

          this is my storyboard!! The captions are below the pictures!!!