AICE Media Studies

 Hey, Sappies, it's Char. I hope you've gotten some rest, this is going to be a long one. Buckle up. This is just a heads up, warning in advance, caution sign. (Im exaggerating.) Okay, you ready? Let's go. This is the last editing blog I will be doing. officially. Forever. So this is rather emotional for me. I actually love the satisfaction after editing and being super proud of and content with your piece. But anyway, let's get into the actual important part if this. For this piece I got to do some voice over and sound editing. Of course, since i edited the last audio for our music video, this wasn't too hard. But as for the voice overing...that's a different story. I sort of felt awkward doing it and finding the right tone of voice and attitude for my character, Katrina. I also have only really played with "voice over" when trying to get a crisp sound or layer for clips. Such as shutting a door or a toaster popping, etc. So since this was different,

Hey, Sappies! What's up? Today we'll be focusing on the editing process of this beautiful beginning of a film. In order to not stress you out on the actual length of editing though, i'll be splitting this up into two blogs on two separate days. I'm not trying to stress you out more than I've already done so. So now, we'll be getting into the basics of editing. I'm saving any sound stuff like voice over and music for the next blog since that's a bit more lengthy. In this blog we'll be talking about the editing of clips. So similar to the music video, I went over to Valentina's house since we're using her software to put this all together. We first started by exporting all the clips onto her computer and then opened Movavi to get started. We started by arranging all the clips where they were supposed to go and deciding what we wanted to keep and what we wanted to get rid of. Sabrina, Valentina, and I like to think three steps ahead and so along

Welcome back, Sappies. We're finally at the editing stage in which we have to pick some music for our opening sequence.  Since the beginning, the plan was to get some super chill, almost oldish music and then make it eery. Our inspiration came from movies such as Don't Worry Darling and The Killer. They used songs with beats like The Smiths or simply songs from the 90's. With time, the editors edited the music to make it sound eery and give off an uneasy feeling. We have the same goal for this audio. So, we've come to the conclusion that in order to do that, this indie sound works best. It has a slight hint of eeriness that you could definitely manipulate to make suspenseful. It's like a slight hum that with editing can be singled out. For this we want to use one audio rather than multiple in order to create a transition from calm and normal to scary and suspenseful. Of course this beat would smoothly transition throughout the scene and not be harsh and all at once.

Hey, Sappies, it's me. Here to let you know that it is done. We are finally finished with filming! It's taken a long time to get here, but we're super proud of our work, we've done a lot to get to this point and we hope that it is up to your guys' expectations. (Hopefully surpasses them.)  The last of our filming was done at the Bulegreen Yard Cafe. We last finished off with filming Madeline driving away on her way to work at Valentina's house. Today, we filmed Madeline's second car scene outside of the cafe. Then we filmed some scenes of her walking in, wiping tables, and of course handing me my coffee. We did run into some issues though, as we weren't allowed behind the counter due to health risks and violations. Still, in order to look the part, Sabrina wore an apron with a name tag and was able to at least look and act the part according to the manager. It was actually super fun to film the scenes and the coffee was super good. Sabrina is super unser

Hey, Sappies. Welcome back. I hope you've been well since the last blog. I bet you're still tired of me nagging you. But here I am. Back at it again! Who do you know better than me to keep you updated day after day after I randomly disappear for a few weeks? I bet your answer's "no one". Do not worry though, alas I am here. Sappies, do you remember my dog scenes blog? Well, here's part two! We got to re-filming the scenes, and this time around they look much much better. Abaco definitely got more comfortable with Sabrina this time, so when we filmed the scenes inside it was really natural. Of course that's the look we want since in this case, Abaco is supposed to be Jax who is very comfortable with Madeline since Madeline is Jax's owner. We walked to the park again and re-filmed some scenes on the sidewalk. We did some scenes at the park of Abaco running and brought a tripod on wheels in order to mimmic the work of a steady cam. We also got to film a s

 Hey, Sappies. It's Char. Welcome to yet another blog. Are you tired of me yet? Well, your answer doesn't matter because I'm going to keep writing anyway. Last blog i gave you guys a little sneak peak for this blog. And of course, the title of the blog gives it away. Today we will be discussing cafe complications. Let's get started. So, turns out that there's a slight problem. Since the beginning we had the idea to have Madeline work in a cafe. So of course the cafe is essential to the story line. We had originally planned to record at Press and Grind Cafe. So after filming we decided to head on over. Except when we got there they already had an attitude and were being plain rude. So you guessed it, they wouldn't let us record there. It's fine though, they were overrated anyway (I got a muffin and water when I was there so trust me, I know). But no worries, over course we always plan a step ahead. We have a second option, the Bulegreen Cafe Yard. They're

Hey, Sappies. Have you missed me? It's Char, back again with more info about our filming process. Turns out, that I forgot to mention that yesterday, along with the dog scenes we filmed, we also got some scenes done on our way to the park by Valentina's house. (Fun fact: I didn't forget, It was just too long for me to include it in the other blog.) Anyway, without further ado, let's get into it. Incase you're wondering where we found a random dog, Valentina's neighbor has a dog named Abaco which is a female, and we used her as Jax. We first filmed some scenes in the house as Madeline played with Jax before they left to go on a walk. We decided it would be nice to kill two birds at once (I'm not sure if that's the right saying, I'm currently thinking in Spanish), and thought it would be productive if we took our walk all the way to the park so that we could film even more scenes and find a family to film there like we had initially planned. Valentina

Hey, Sappies. Welcome back. You've been gone a while, haven't you? Well, it's about time you catch up. My group and I have done a lot since you've been gone. We've gotten done the first part of our opening scene. If you've read the script, you know that the opening scene starts off with Madeline going through her morning routine as Katrina voice overs. The voice over is more editing, so we won't get into that today, but we did get 1/3 of everything done. Im saying too much -you must be confused.  So, we've picked actresses for the characters, lets get that out of the way. Sabrina will be playing Madeline and I will be playing Katrina. Valentina is in charge of filming and figuring out which angles might look best for the scene.  Before we started filming of course, since it was pretty early, we went to get some breakfast. Valentina picked me and Sabrina up and then we went to Einstein Bagels. I didn't really like the bagel I got but the orange juice