AICE Media Studies

 Here's my CCR!

 The time has finally come. As they say in the opening to their album "Hamburger", "The pain, the pleasure from fine generations of rockin' music: We need THE MUFFS!" This project was a rockin' good time to work on. I enjoyed the extensive creative liberties that the project allowed for us. I picked this song, because, at the time of assignment, I was obsessed with the song and the band. I think they made great music, and figured I'd enjoy this project because I enjoy the music. It was very nice to have the ability to pick not only any genre of my choice, but any song I'd like is really nice. I'm eternally grateful to my friend Eric who you will see in my video. Overall, I think this project turned out considerably better than my commercial did. I'm very excited to move on in this class and very much look forward to my fuller length film.

 Completion is sweet. I'm very happy to say I have completed my editing. I finally patched up my empty spaces. I filled in holes as most do, front to back. I filled in the second scene, where the lyrics were "Outside the cars and the city go rushing by". This was a time lapse of las olas from a corner, so the viewer could see like two hundred and seventy degrees around. the next thing I filled in was yet another time lapse which I captured while standing at the las olas sign, with my phone on a very rickety makeshift tripod. The tripod was comprised of a real tripod and a whole lot of duct tape. This second time lapse fits over the lyrics "Bright lights, the music gets faster", which covered about 20 minutes of traffic. The last major hole I plugged was "Don't check on your watch, boy, not another glance". This one was a bit harder being as I had no actor here. I was unable to get my brother to cooperate so I made do. I put a watch on the floor, an...

 I didn't enjoy the editing process when I made a commercial, and that was only 30 seconds. This project left me feeling the same way, at two and a half times as long as the first one was. This editing process began very very slowly. On school wifi, I had to download everything from my camera roll to my iMovie program. I decided to use iMovie again because it easy to work with. The transfer from gallery to iMovie took an incredibly long time to complete, and I can confidently say it was because of school internet. Once I got everything downloaded, I began editing. The way I filmed was a way that I had "feeder" before the scene started and "feeder" almost like a roll of 35 mm film. This is something I didn't do in the beginning, for the commercial project. I'm very happy I realized I could do this, because it made everything so much easier. It made cropping footage and "dropping to the cutting room floor" a whole lot easier. Although this sped u...

 This is the excellent story of how I got my time lapse shots for my music video. It wasn't anything too special, really. I knew I'd have higher accessibility if the plan wa to go to Las Olas, however I knew I'd be in Miami shortly. You see, I was going to a Miami Heat Game with my family. They were set to play against the Bulls. My issue with Miami, is that I couldn't stay in one place for too long, I'd have to be still to record this. I ended up going to Las Olas because it was easier. I did some simple googling to learn a little about hot times and places to be. It took about 15 minutes of surfing the web to find everything out. I figured out a good time and place to shoot (Friday Night at 7 pm from the window of a coffee shop). I set up my phone against the window, hit record, and enjoyed a cookie. After about 15 minutes, I packed up and went home. Later that night, I recruited my brother, gave him a jacket an a watch, and drove out to the nearest shorter street...

 Filming for this music video went perfectly opposite to the plan. The plan was big city look, and to be in Miami or Las Olas at worst, but this is NOT what happened. I picked up my friend, and my actor Eric and began driving to my planned location. Just up the street from his house, I saw an abandoned lot, with a house in shambles. Turns out, the property belonged to my friend's dad, and we went on there to start filming. We ended up getting a lot of filming done there, housing most of the first verse in that shell of a building. The debris and the destruction fit the vibe of the song and one of the conventions of the punk music video: disarray. After that, we walked to a local part to get a couple quick shots. Then, we embarked on a journey to find elevation. There's this one part of my storyboard where I planned to have my actor walking down the middle of an empty street, but we did an on the spot revision of that; We found an elevated area and actually had my actor walk ove...