AICE Media Studies intro blog

 This project was very fun and improved my editing and filming skills greatly. It helped me express creativity through media and film. At times it was very stressful, but it helped me learn to manage time greatly. This was a setback during my project, however I was able to take time out of days to work on this. There was also things happening in my personal life that caused me to miss some deadlines but I still tried to get the work done because it was my biggest stresser. I came across many technical difficuties such as my blogger not saving things and at one point my computer broke and I had to get a new one. It was hard to balance mental health, other AICE exams, work, sports, and family while doing the project but I am happy that I still tried. This project taught me how much work you have to put in to put together  a successful film. It helped me apply the things I have learned this year to actually filming a project. I had to think about key things we had learned such as CAMS AND

 A lot of changes had to be made for this project along the way. Nothing ever goes perfectly as planned. One thing people must consider when filming is not to expect perfection. My intention with everything I do is always to strive for progress, not perfection. I had to adjust and make changes because of poor time planning and other unfortunate events having occurred along the way. Sometimes I have bigger ideas than I can achieve because I expect more than I can do and tend to hold myself to a higher standard than I can achieve. The big plans I make sometimes cannot be achieved to their full extent. When I first started this project, I wanted things very different, in fact, an entirely different genre. The original genre I had planned to do was action with police and other things like that, and yes I could have done that but with all of my other classes and AICE tests coming up, that would have been something bigger to manage than I needed. I started brainstorming other ideas and other

 The film process was very interesting and long. It feels like a weight has been taken off my shoulders.   I had many obstacles to overcome, but always found a solution even if it took a lot of thinking and some help from my friends Jenna and Jade. The whole process of making this final task really caused me to appreciate moviemaking more. It is fun but extremely time consuming and often very stressful, especially as a beginner. I did learn a lot. I learned that no matter how hard it is, you have to persevere and keep trying to find new ways out of tough situations and things like this take hard work and dedication, yet it is worth it in the end. In this project, I perfected my filming and editing skills and also exercised my creativity. I practiced shooting from different angles and trying new things like panning the camera. I learned how to add in music and cut it. I also became more familiar with using imovie just overall. When you have to do it by yourself, a brightside is learning