AICE Media Studies

Finally after 2 months of work The video is finished and I am happy with it. This was an experience that I actually enjoyed making because it felt like I was a director. Telling my friends what to do and where to go really encouraged me to try my absolute best. The audio dubbing was the hardest part because we didn't anticipate it at the beach but the 3 days we went to shoot, it was always windy. But my favorite part was making the opening sequence because finding the clips and making sure it looks like a real production company made it felt nice. The way I had to sync the music to the opening sequence was also a bit challenging because the drops in the music were too early to the parts shown on the screen so we had to find parts of the song to extend the drop. And that took the most work other than the dubbing. We tried to put the beach background with the dialogue but it ended up sounding really bad so we just had to mute nut in the end I am happy with how it came out. 

 I started out today at 12:00 Pm on a Sunday morning and brought my friends with me to help record the scene. It was nice and sunny outside and the beached was pretty crowded. The phones started to overheat because of the temperature but I was able to cool it down by putting it in the shad for 5 mins. After we started by taking a walking shot from the far back of the beach and slowly walking with 10 second clips fading in and coming back until we reached the water. It was a little hard to keep the camera steady while walking in the water so it took multiple tries to get it perfect. Then I had to dip my phone in the water for a second and which was really hard because either it was dipped in too fast or i stopped recording before I put it in the water. It took about 15 minutes for me to get the shot right. But I finally got a clean shot that looked pretty nice. After that I started to run into problems; first the go pro wasn't turning on and that was a big problem because we needed

 The first day of filming was alright I got a few clips. It was hard to find a empty spot on the beach so I just had to settle with one that wasn't so cluttered. I had to do so many takes 

Me and my friends were going to film today but the weather wasn't nice. It started to rain hard and it wasn't stopping so I chose to go back to my place with my friends. I started to watch shots at the beach and what angles looked the best. And I made a plan to what I were going to do the next day. So I planned that we'll get to the beach around 12:00 when the sun is out and make sure there were have proper lighting so I can see. I'm probably going to dub the audio because of the background noise and it was said to be windy the next day. After I was going to prepare the go pro for the underwater shots. Then I'm going to see if the footage was the best it can be otherwise we'll reshoot the bad parts.

 I wanted to use the jaws theme because it fit the underwater part of it but I thought that it would make my intro less about the main creature but more about jaws. So, I chose to do royalty free music instead to get all into the theme of the movie. I wanted to get the Michael Myers theme also but I wasn't able and it didn't fit the movie theme because it was more for Halloween. I wanted the movie to be filmed at a location with not many people at the beach to give that scary vibe to the music. I will walk in slowly fading and getting closer to the water each time. Until finally the camera goes underwater and it cuts to the go pro scene.

The first page starts with the opening scene with lots of fading outs and in's while the camera moves closer to the ocean. After the second page there is a background of creepy water with pictures of the monster while showing all the title credits. Thne the scene starts with 2 teenagers talking to each other. They play tag and end up in the ocean. After talking to each other they start play fighting but what ends up happening is that one of them gets dragged down and teen 2 swims away. End scene