AICE Media Studies

Hey Michi nation, welcome back to your favorite blog! Today my group and I are starting to edit our clips together. Owen is the one in charge of the editing as he is the one best at editing. Along the way Owen has taught Rose and I a few editing skills for our future projects. It started off by us double checking making sure we had all our scenes in order to create our music video. Proceeding to organize the clips to make sure they were in order to tell our story. We were unsure what program we would be using, CapCut is a great option because its reliable and easy to use. So, as a group we decided we should just stick with what we know and use CapCut. Owen then began cutting all the scenes creating cohesive storyline, producing a successful visual flow. He continued playing around with the the clips and the timing multiple times to see what looked the best and made a unified music video. This helped me learn more on how to edit different clips on CapCut and using the different features...

 Hey Michi nation, welcome back to your favorite blog! Great news, my group and I finished producing our scenes. Thats one important thing off our checklist, which eliminates some stress of our shoulders. We went back to the beach and filmed our remaining 6 scenes. Owen and I remained the actors and Rose continued to film. During our music video I ended up wearing a black dress instead of a white beach dress. Owen wore a white shirt and some light green beach shorts. For our shoes he wore crocs while I wore tan sandals. Even though Rose was behind the camera she also wore a black dress and tan sandals. It took us about 2 hours to film the rest of our scenes, similar to last time. This time around we were better at filming in my opinion. Which is showing our improvement as the project comes along. I personally liked how our scenes came out and there wasn't one I would change. There was one scene that was honestly embarrassing for me to act out. It was me "crying" as Owen w...

Hey Michi nation, welcome back to your favorite blog! Great news we began our filming process on Monday as we planned. We had an early release day and I drove my group to the beach. Our location changed from Las Olas to Lauderdale by The Sea. Our reasoning was it was more convenient and closer to all of us. We filmed about half of our music video, which was about 6 scenes. We got to the beach at about 3 o'clock, we estimated filming till 5:30 pm. We started off in order by doing our first scene, which was me sleeping at the beach. This was our first time filming so it took my group a couple of times to get it right. Rose was recording on Owen's iPhone 15 in cinematic mode through all the scenes we filmed that day. Owen and I were the ones acting out the scenes in the video. After finally getting our first scene done we decided to do most of the scenes that involved the beach and then we would move locations. While filming in a public place we had to often times wait for others ...

 Hey Michi nation, welcome back to your favorite blog! My group and I are still trying to figure out our exact recording schedule for the upcoming week. Monday after school we will mostly likely be filming, however we are still unsure about Tuesday. Rose and Owen can film Tuesday but I might have plans that day so i'm unsure if I will be to attend. For one of the scenes in our music video there will be an insert of two kids playing around. This goes with the lyrics "we'll never be those kids again", meaning we will need a boy and a girl to be playing around at the beach in order to obtain this scene. Rose found two kids we can use for this scene. Being her step sister and her best friends brother. Due to certain circumstances we would only be able to film this scene on Tuesday since both the kids wouldn't have school just like us. So, my group decided that if I couldn't attend for certain reasons they would still go film that scene. This is because I wouldn...

 Hey Michi nation, welcome back to your favorite blog! My group and I have not started our filming process yet. This weekend our schedules didn't align as we all had different plans. Owen was in Texas, while Rose and I had plans with our friends that were planed months ago. I have come to the realization that filming during the weekend isn't going to work for my group. Being so that all of us are so busy during those two days. So, as a group we have collectively decided to film after school. I hope to start our filming process next week after school, preferably on Monday. We can try to film at most 3 days out of the week and see how much we can get done. But of course we will have to see if we are able to film that many days out of the week because something could potentially come up interfering with these plans. As for the music video itself I am very excited to see how it turns out. Mainly because I love our song choice which is "Ivy" By Frank Ocean. This song is ve...

Hey Michi nation, welcome back to your favorite blog! Today I will be sharing my storyboard for my upcoming music video.  First scene: Michelle waking up from a nap at the beach, flashback of Owen   texting “i love you” (zero- five secs)  Second scene: Owen and Michelle meet by bumping into each other at the streets (five -ten secs)  Third scene: Michelle sees the Owen again at a restaurant (ten-fifteen secs) Fourth scene: Owen and Michelle argue at the restaurant (fifteen- twenty one secs) Fifth scene: split-scene one side is michi crying the other is owen walking away (21-26secs) Sixth scene: Michelle “stalks” social media (26-34 secs) Seventh scene: Owen and Michelle are lip singing in different sides of the wall (34-42secs)   Eight scene: Owen and Michelle are in a bumpy road in the backseat (42-48secs) Ninth scene: scene with the two little kids walking on the boardwalk(48-55secs)   Tenth scene: Michelle and Owen hold hands in the front seat of the car...

Song : Ivy by Frank Ocean Props : Phone, Blanket, Snacks, Tissues  Location : Downtown Las Olas Schedule : Friday after school ( October 27th and November 3) Back up plan :  Owen’s House  Costumes : Girls (unicolor dress, sandals, accessories) Guys (White shirt, Unicolor Shorts, ‘nice’ sneakers)

Hey Michi nation, welcome back to your favorite blog! Today i'm presenting my research helping me conduct the best music video possible.  Best Part, Daniel Caesar & H.E.R (R&B) CAMS-  Establishing shot Tracking shot  Zoom Wide shot  Long shot Pan shot  Medium close shot Editing-  Split screen Sound- Non-diegetic sound  Sound Motif Mis-en-scene-  Costume - (Guy: sweater, sweat pants) (Girl: beach dress) Lighting - (Left side - daytime, light) (Right side- sunset, dark) Sober by Childish Gambino (Hip-Hop/Rap) CAMS-  High angle  Long shot Medium close up shot Two person shot  Over the shoulder shot  Pan shot Medium shot Wide shot zoom in  Editing-  Insert shot Shot/reverse shot  Cuteaway  Sound- Non-diegetic sound  Sound motif  Mis-en-scene-  Costume: (Guy: pants, white shirt, cardigan & sneakers) (Girl: varsity jacket, leggings, shirt, sneakers, & accessories)  Props: S...

 Hey Michi nation, welcome back to your favorite blog! In todays blog I am going to be introducing my group for my music video project! My group consists of three people, Rose, Owen, and myself. Rose and Owen are my two dearest friends in my AICE media studies class. I've known Owen for a while now, I met him last year in our Algebra two class. Ever since then we have been inseparable and have created a great friendship. I'm super glad I was able to be in a class with Owen once again this year. I've also known Rose for quite a while. I met her in 2021 through a mutual friend named Camila. Rose and I instantly clicked and remained good friends since. I decided to be in a group with both Owen and Rose because I know they are scholars and will complete their parts on time. Knowing Rose and Owen personally I know we will achieve a organized and great-looking project. To be honest I personally think those two are one of the few people in my class willing to do their work and tak...

Hey Michi nation, Welcome back to your favorite blog! Let me re-introduce myself real quick, my names Michelle Martinez but to many I go by Michi. I go to Fort Lauderdale high school and i'm in 11th grade. I've gone there since freshman year so i'm very familiar with the school. Im enrolled in the Cambridge program this is my last year taking it. This year i'm taking 4 AICE classes which consist of Media Studies, Spanish, Thinking skills, and US history. I take a lot of pride in my academics and try my best to maintain a high GPA. Doing good in school is something very important to me. When it comes to personality mines very outgoing but I like to stick to the couple friends that I have. I personally think that a smaller friend group is better than a large one. My best friends are very dear to me and I care about them a lot. I've been best friends with Nancy and John since 6th grade, they're my family. Now me and Jenny on the other hand have always been friends ...