AICE mediastudies blog

Finally, this is the music blog. Instead of reaching out to one of the artists for the background music, we decided to go on royalty free music on YouTube. What was researched on youtube was "horror background music". The Kevin MacLeod playlist was found. It has all the types of what we want and what we think will fit best. Each one is named by a feeling like as horror and anxiety and some are named by a situation. I'm sure my group mates are going to try to email some of the artist of the background sounds we are thinking of. So we can get them approved. Withly suggested Of upside down and inside out by OK go. For a song suggestion. However, we would have to get copyrights to that song. There's a sound on YouTube. It's called apprehension by the same artist. it has a suspenseful sound. It also leads into like an anticipation. This would really emphasize the film. I'm going to ask my group mates what song they suggest. And I will also tell them the songs I sug...

My group couldn't film and still most likely won't be able to film this week, unfortunately. We are planning on filming on Saturday or Sunday. Jen says that we can try on the weekend instead of weekdays as it will be available. By filming on the weekend instead, we allow all our groupmates to not have any plans with school or other restrictions. Another positive of filming during the weekend is that our parents most likely will be free to for transportation. During the time we have had of not filming my group has been discussing ideas again. One thing we are still figuring is which doll we want to use. Jeni has several dolls and withly, natara and I will check them out and pick the one we all agree on. We are aiming for a mysterious and creepy doll to fit our story as a prop. Another thing we are figuring is the music in the video. We are unsure what will fit the videos theme and vibe

Our next day of filming is pretty soon. However, the second day of filming probably won't go as we all planned. We are supposed to film on friday so we can speed up the process. Jeni which is our main character couldn't make it because of her situation. Transportation has been tricky with some of our group mates and the weather is also a main problem as well. Instead we discussed on how we need to makes changes to our schedule. This is obviously not really working so we'll have to change up the dates a bit. Maybe we can pick out days where everyone is required and available to film or edit. Also, we can let each other know beforehand. As previously mentioned, we also talked about some of the title designs. We were maybe thinking making the colors red or some sort of a dark color. We think this'll be a good idea because it will match the theme of everything. We are doing horror as our genre so it only makes sense. Jeni is good at editing so I think she'll be creative...

 I can't believe we are already on the production side of this project. This is a filming part. This past Saturday we all went to film. Withly couldn’t make it to filming because she needed a ride. Withly suggested we filmed after school but some of my group members had things going on afterschool. We let withly know how filming was like and the whole concept of what we did. Also Jeni is going to do the editing for this project since i'm not really good at editing and im not sure if melvin or withly are either. As she is also the main character. Melvin and I are the friends of the main character.Withly is also one of the friends too but she could also be the mom yelling but she doesn’t have to be in the scene. We’re all still a bit fresh to this so we we're kind of struggling. We didn't really completed that much today. We might need to reschedule the next filming date to another day because of transportation for some people. I didn’t think it was going to get this comp...

 

For the opening credits of the film most of the text will be handwritten font and will appear on screen as some one is writing in real time, some of the other credits that don’t need to be the main focal point will fade into the screen or will be embedded into the background. Our working title of our film will most likely be "Dollie" It will either be in anyilla, sunkiss or beabella font and it will be in lowercase, it will look something like this The title will appear on screen as if it was handwritten and it will come off screen as if it is being erased or it will fade off the screen.  The title will disappear after 6 or 7 seconds of it being on screen.  Depending on the background lighting and color, I will use bright and easy colors like pink and hot pink so it wont blend in with the background scene.  The people who worked on a specific role will have their names significantly larger than the title and it will look something like this: Music By: Vera Lynn

Schedule 3/7-3/8 - We are going to start filming on these days at her house. We're mostly going to focus on the beginning scenes. 3/9-3/10- We will finalize our filming and add our finishing touches and refilm some things we need to re film. We have seven scenes in total, so we can do half. On one day and half for another. 3/28-3/31- We are going to start the editing process and hopefully finish it by the from the title designs to the subheadings. And more. Location: We are filming at my apartment. Participants Actors: Naiara- playing Ashley Melvin- playing Marvin Jeni- the girl Withly-Brittany Filming : Melvin  withly Editing : Naiara Jeni  Directing Withly and Melvin Health and safety To make sure that we’re safe we will have all of our locations turned on while arriving to the apartment and have an adult in the building while filming. It’s not really any Stunts involved with the filming but just to make sure we will keep a first aid kit on deck. Well also have access to a p...