AICE Media Studies

It's almost time for my short film to be done. Now that the rough draft is complete I just need to finalize it. This includes crediting the people involved and the music that was used. This also means I needed to look everything over and decide if anything needed any further editing. I made sure to write the names of the people involved. For example, the actor in my short film was my friend Aidan Jones. The starring part of the credit shows Aidan's name. This also applies to the producer, director, and music creators. The audio and voice over got a little unaligned when I was editing in the text. However, this only needed to be fixed back to the way it was. The short film will be available from my groups social medias and website. The main place to stream it will be YouTube. The YouTube account for my short film is attached to my groups website. The website is linked to the social medias as well. This way everything is linked together in a way that lets the audience find what t...

Before my short film is done I need to finish editing. Now that the music choices have been made I can edit them into what has already been edited so far. The first half of the short film goes with the first audio choice. The audio is loud enough to hear but not too loud because there is still a voice over. After I edited in the first audio, I started editing the rest of the second half of the film. The transitions I used the most for this part of the editing are called cross dissolve and smooth cut. The main character is seen searching in these clips. With this in mind, I thought the use of these transitions would make the scenes flow the best. The audio for these scenes is also mysterious and dramatic. This helps set the mood of the scene and prepares for the plot twist. A couple clips had some unwanted signs in the background. To avoid the sign from being seen I cropped the videos and adjusted the frame. This didn't change anything about the video except for the ability to see t...

With the majority of my editing completed and all of my filming done, my short film now needs a soundtrack. Some important things I was looking for when it came to music was royalty free options. Since a lot of my short film will have a voice over playing, the music will mostly be set in the background. Due to this I decided I wanted the soundtrack to not have any lyrics so the viewers wouldn't be bombarded by both dialogue and music. This is important because the music should set the mood without making the viewer unable to hear what is being said. After doing some research into potential websites that could provide audios, I found some options. Most websites allow free downloads if an account is made on their website. This was initially the plan my group was going to use. However, I found that the options from YouTube were better. It is because of this that my group used YouTube for the music. I then decided I would need two audios. One audio for the first half of the film and a ...

My group was able to work on the editing for the short film. I got to work putting in transitions. One of the benefits on the editing software my group is using is that it has built in transitions that can be inserted into the short film. Some examples of the transition options are dissolves, fades, and slides. I also made sure the timing was right for most of the clips. Some clips lead directly into another so I had to make sure to align them well. Due to this, some clips were shortened a few seconds each. However, the time that was removed will be made up for later in the film. There was a lot of voice over work that went into the scenes that were edited. To make sure the audio is completely understandable, the main audio from the clips had to be muted. There are some background noises in the clips that make them completely unusable. For example, there was a dog barking, cars driving by, and people playing at the playground by the park. This isn't what I would have preferred to h...

With my short films clips all arranged in the same place, my group started editing. Since I had already looked through the clips from the first day of filming my partner was able to start editing them. The editing software my group is using is called DaVinci Resolve. My partner uses his laptop to edit the short film. My group is able upload the videos from each others phones to each others laptops. This is how I sorted the videos previously. I had moved the videos on to the laptop, then into folder, and finally into the editing software. While looking through the videos that were filmed on the second filming day, I found a problem. A few videos were affected by the wind in a way that made them unusable. This was because the iPhone cameras seem to auto focus. This had apparently been a problem that was overlooked because the wind was causing the camera to keep trying to focus on something. This gave the videos the effect that there was a slight zooming in and out where the camera became...

Now that my group is finished with filming, the clips have to be compiled. To do this my group will take all of the clips from each filming day and put them together. Since I had already sorted the first day of filming it was relatively easy to work with. What I did was move the clips into the editing software so they are ready to be edited. To do this I moved the files into the software and saved the project. The files were previously sorted into folders for easy access. When moving the files into the software, my main goal was  to get the clips put in order. To make sure this happened I had to keep looking at the videos and the storyboard to get an idea of which clip was which. This made the process a little longer. My group had originally thought I could sort the files in order in the folder but apparently I must have accidently move the clips around. With this out of the way I could start sorting the second days clips. In all, there was slightly more time recorded for the first...