AICE Media Studies AS- Ballard, S

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      In our final day of clip acquiring, Grace and I went out and grabbed static shots of various objects, signs, and scenes. This is when I had the idea of placing audio clips over the entire introduction. The music itself was fitting, it just felt like we were missing something captivating. In that instant, I was perusing through news clips and online articles on the economic impacts of Covid-19. I wanted people to hear the clips and see how much it has actually affected our lives. This was when the idea of playing the audio of the news clips over the initial video clips and the music. I was unsure of how I was going to edit it in, but we knew that it had to be there.     We plan on experimenting with just inputting the video, the music, and the clip to find the right balance of music to news clip ratio. It was just a matter of trial and error until we find something that sounded good. In adobe premiere, you can adjust the loudness of the audio with...

      Grace and I have sorted through the clips and chose which ones worked the best. It was a lengthy process, but a necessary one as we needed to fit the time limit. We settled on a setting of me working at my job, highlighting the extensive cleaning and safety precautions I'm taking. Since it is only the opening scenes, we wanted to have short, but meaningful clips spliced together so that the eerie music can play over it. The only problem was that some of the clips were shaky or out of focus. While it was a struggle to reshoot clips multiple times, we knew that we had to do it in order to put out a quality film. We learned that from each clip viewed, there is a realization of something that is wrong or that something can be fixed. For instance, one of our clips was me wiping down a counter with some cleaner. We ended up shooting this clip up to seven times just to get me to look natural while performing this task. It helped us learn to have patience whe...