AICE Media Studies

  Mystery: A man reading a book seems to be telling the story of his own life, though he doesn’t think he's   ever met the author. When the man reaches the end of the book the page is nearly blank reading "bye"  and the man falls to the ground and passes away.  Horror: After a long day at work a man comes home and starts sleeping only to wake up in the morning  from a nightmare where he was murdered. Not keeping mind of the nightmare he goes to work and  continues his daily life only to realize that he is living the nightmare he dreamt and he must kill the  murderer to stop the concurring torment and go back to his daily life.  Romance: A boy and a girl are shipwrecked after an unexpected storm. They find themselves on an  island where they are forced to spend their first night together under the stars. As time goes by they  help each other out more and more as that is the only way they can survive. They end up falling in love  but ...

 Last year in the as level of Media Studies I was working with my friends Jibril and Andy (see original group blog to learn more). Now, we have new "players" and some og's from last year. Jibril has stayed in the group this year, accompanied with his charismatic wittiness. Andy has sadly left the group, not because he didn't like working with us but because he is not taking A level Media Studies. Instead, we have a friend named Alec joining our group for this year. Let me tell you all about the new group. The first one i'm gonna be talking about is Jibril Alkishawi otherwise known as Jibi which is how I will be referring to him. I've known him since fourth grade and we have been friends ever since. We went to the same elementary school and middle school. It seems lucky that he's in the same high school and same class as me. We've been in the same class for sixth and eighth grade. I've worked on projects with Jibi before so I know that he focuses on...

 Hey guys my name is Max and welcome back to my blog! I'm 16 years old now, in 11th grade, and i'm in the A level of Media Studies. I joined the class thinking it would be an easy A but looking at it now I think im going to have to put a lot of effort in. I've been playing guitar for the past 2 years, sometimes stepping out for little crowds and making some bank. I have a dog named Rocco and I love him very much. My mother is from Russia and my dad is from Romania so I speak 3 languages which has been useful a lot of times. In school I take AICE english A level, pre-calculus, AICE Media Studies A level, Hospitality, AICE U.S. History, Study hall, Chemistry, and AP Computer Science. My favorite class is study hall because well... study hall. My least favorite class is Chemistry because thats the class where I take the most tests and do the most work. My favorite artist is J.Cole. My favorite type of food is sushi but sushi is usually tied with Chinese. On the weekends I usua...

Down below is my CCR, I really hope that you are a Star Wars fan, or at least know who Yoda is.

 Finally... it is done. The final task is right below, just click the play button.

 I realized that I haven't talked about what happened with the music. We got no response from anyone, not even a confirmation. So, we knew we had to use royalty free music. And so the hunt had begun. I scoured multiple websites to find the perfect song. Everywhere I went there were no good songs. Not a single one peaked my interest. Finally, I found the perfect website. It was owned by one man, who made all the songs. I went through all of them and they were gorgeous. The drums, guitar, electronic piano, EVERYTHING was perfect. I downloaded multiple songs and sent them to our google drive. We all took a listen and had to choose our favorite. The one titled "big boss battle" was the best one by far. It fit with all the scenes perfectly and just truly complemented the film. Luckily that's the one than won. Andy said he would see how it sounds with the scenes and contact us later. I felt so proud. I found an amazing piece of music that my friends liked. Anyway that's...

The struggle that Andy is going through with editing is not being appreciated enough. We are on a very tight schedule. With the ccr and the PowerPoint coming up we have a lot of work to do in a short time span. Andy finished editing all the film and we were ready to review it. We have already shown parts of it to others as written in my previous blog. Andy stayed up all night to finish editing and we cant be more grateful. Me and Jibril have ZERO experience with such high quality editing. We thanked Andy when he woke up and we went over the film. We each took notes on what we liked and disliked. In the end, we went over it together. Most of our issues was with how the scenes transitioned. We felt as though there were a lot of unnecessary cuts. Andy said it was an easy fix because we could just fade it to black and then add fade ins. Our next problem was with the coloring. It was a little too bright outside. Andy said he could add some filters to make things more sad and gray. Our bigge...