AICE Media Studies AS- Ballard, S

 https://prezi.com/view/R0gQcs7ryhCqyihOzKW1/

      Our initial goal was to create a dramatic film that captured the drastic changes in today's lifestyle among the introduction of the Covid-19 virus. I'm really pleased with how our film turned out as it was better than I initially thought it would be. Through some filming struggles and reshoots, I am happy to see how far our film has come. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx7Os-c_DIE

      The only final edits we made was a reselection of the clips used. Grace and I switched out a clip because we had a slightly better clip that we wanted in. Other than the clip substitution, there were no other changes made to our film opening.

      After getting all of our desired clips in premiere pro. I used the trimming tool to make each clip the correct length. I wanted to make each clip around 8-10 seconds so that there was a smooth flow of content appearing and disappearing on screen. When overlapping audio clips, we had an issue that the music clips and the news clips were way too loud when played together. It was quickly solved by just turning down the audio a lot since we wanted the music to be in the background.      The inputting of clips wasn't necessarily hard, but time consuming. We spent a lot of time just trying to fit each clip in, while also having it be the right length. Some scenes were recorded the wrong way, so we had to use the rotating tool in order to flip the camera so it could be viewed the correct way. This also gave the illusion that the audience was looking through the objects at us, similar to a POV camera shot effect.

          Grace and I received a good amount of feedback on our project this week. A lot of it supportive, and a lot of critiques. One of the critiques received was to change our genre from a documentary to just a movie, since it had the feel of an actual movie. Grace and I decided to change our title to fit the movie and change the genre to a dramatic tragedy. Also, during the car driving scene, if we could get some aerial shots that would look a lot better. That idea was suggested by Leah and we are going to get some more car shots. The only other critiques we received were all related to clips just being slightly different or maybe from a different angle. Also coming from Mrs. Gartland, we need to get copyright approval from the News Stations from where the clips were taken from. We are going to get permission to use the clips and maybe add a few more. This will ensure that when we submit it to Cambridge, our film is the best it can possibly be.   ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx7Os-c_DIE