Editing blog

AICE Media Studies

Today I woke up really excited to edit my group and I's commercial. Editing the commercial was supposed to be fun to do, because I could've added anything, I wanted to it, with the approval of my group members. I was really looking forward to editing this but pinnacle studios was not working. Pinnacle studios is the editing software that we were supposed to use to edit all our footage. Because it was not working, we now have to wait until next class to start editing our footage. Before we found out that pinnacle studios would not be working. I was already having issues on finding the footage for the commercial. The process of getting all our footage took about 20 minutes. This is because the computers take so long to load up and we had to login to the same computer that we had dumped our footage on last Thursday. Also, there are a lot of students in this class, and most computers were not already working. We had to wait on another group that dumped their commercial footage on that same computer. About 10 minutes have passed and my group and I finally get the computer that we had our footage. When one of my group members logged in the computer crashed and the screen was black. At this point I was already frustrated because I wanted everything to go by fast, so that we could have time to edit. This is before I found out that pinnacle studios would not be working. When the computer finally logged in, we saw that the footage was there and that's when I got less upset. So, I stuck my flash drive into the USB port so I can access it. I dragged the footage to my flash drive, and it started to copy onto the drive. Since there were 38 items on the footage, the copying process took a good 5-6 minutes. When it was all finished copying, I heard that the teacher had suggested to put the footage on our google drive. So, we did what she suggested. So, my group member logged in to his Google account first and did a folder upload from my flash drive. After he logged out of his google account, I logged in my account to do the same thing. At this point we had access to all our footage and were ready to edit. Since the area of computers, we were sitting at did not have pinnacle studios, we had to relocate ourselves and move to the other side of the room where the computers had pinnacle studios. One of my group members logged in to the computer and after about 6-7 minutes of waiting because once again the computers are slow, we saw that pinnacle studios was not there. We told the teacher and she said, "its fine, just start your blog". All I can hope for now is that next class which will be in 2 days, pinnacle studios will start working. This is so that the due date does not get pushed back, because we have other things to do in class. For that 90 minutes of class my mood was up and down. I went from being excited to worried, frustrated and hopeful.

Filming blog

Yesterday was an interesting filming day for me. This is because my partner and I had already talked about what we were going to do in terms of the filming, and we already did our storyboard. We had everything set, it was until last night everything went wrong. My partner had informed me that night, that he would not be able to film our commercial together because he had to go to a field trip. He and I tried to get some of our friends to help me, but they were all busy. So, on the day of filming I was by myself and had to think of a commercial to film solo. Once I did that, I went off to the track field, and started setting up to do the commercial. My solo commercial idea was to show me doing different physical activities from different angles of the Nike shoes I was wearing. As I got ready to start, I saw that one of my classmates (jack) was working alone. So, I asked him did he want to work together. He said “sure”.

 We agreed to work together but there were two big problems. He was prepared to do a Gatorade commercial and I was Nike. Also, we didn’t have an idea of what exactly we would do. We were limited on time so we had to come up with an idea fast so we can have time to film. So, our solution was to combine the two commercials. The idea was that he would be running up and down the bleachers, get tired and drink his Gatorade. Then after that he would throw the Gatorade bottle to me, who would already be on the track field prepared to start sprinting. I catch the Gatorade bottle, but before I start sprinting, he tells me to wear a pair of Nike shoes as well. So, I put the shoes on, get back on the track field, and take a sip of the Gatorade and start sprinting. Not only was this a short and simple commercial, it was also the only thing we could come up with on combining the two.

Filming: So, when we started filming, my job was to do a pan shot of him running up and down the bleachers. I did like two more takes of him running for extra footage. Next, was for me to do a medium close up angle of him drinking the Gatorade after being tired. I also did two takes of that just because. Then, the last of me filming him happened when I record him throwing the Gatorade bottle towards the track field for me to catch. Now was the time for me to be filmed. So, I would be on the track field and he would the Gatorade bottle to me. I dropped the Gatorade bottle several times so there are quite a few takes of me dropping the bottle. Next, I was to put on the Nike shoes to start sprinting. I get back on the track field, took a sip off the Gatorade and started sprinting. The commercial was to end there. We had more time, so I went back and did more takes of his parts he did the same. At the end we dumped all our footage.

Storyboard blog

Today in class we went to the lecture hall. We worked on our storyboards. We found it a bit challenging to come up with different scenes and camera shots/angles. My partner and I are doing the commercial about Nike shoes. The plot of it is going to be about how the shoes make a person run faster. First shot is establishing/ wide shot with the two characters in frame. Then the next angle is going to be over the shoulder and character two challenging character one to a race. It will cut to a two shot of them walking,it will then quickly go to a close up on an arm on character ones shoulder. Next it will switch to a medium shot of character three telling character one to put these on. Character 3's hands a Nike box to character one, there will be a extreme close up in the box.Next shot is a high angle of character one tying his shoes. Then it will go to them at the starting line which will be two shot and starting tracking shot. It will track them till a certain point then will go two a pan of them running. When they are running character two will slow down like he is losing the race badly.Last shot will be character one winning with a shot (not sure of the name) with character one up close and character two blurred in the background.

Editing lesson blog

Today in class we learned about the procedures to check out a camera and when to sign in or out for one. We learned what to do when we get the camera, SD card, SD card reader and tripod, and how to use them. At the end of learning about the procedures of the 4 materials, we learned about the editing process. The editing process consisted of us needing to use pinnacle studios to import and export all our footage. The lesson as a whole took a long while, but that was because it was a lot to know and every bit of information was important. We would not want to mess up on one thing then our footage becomes missing or lost.

Camera, SD card, tripod lesson: For the camera part of the lesson we learned that before we can get a camera, we must sign an agreement sheet every time we want to check out one. We must sign in and out for both a camera and an SD card. If we do not sign it, we will not get a camera. We cannot start filming if we don’t have an ID on. The camera, camera bag and tripod will have a number on them we must put what number we used. Media passes will be given to us it will be used to know if one of our partners are not here. We also learned how to use the tripod, we were taught how to adjust the it to make it taller or shorter and how properly place the camera on top of it.

Editing lesson:  In the editing part of the lesson everything that we were taught is very important. If we didn’t listen and take notes to everything that we were told, we could mess up somewhere and potentially lose our footage. I learned that every bit of editing that I do to the footage will be done on pinnacle studios. To dump our footage to our computer, we must place our SD card into our SD card reader, then insert in into the USB. When we do that, we make a folder where all our footage will be. After doing that, we get to the good stuff. We are free to put transitions, music, sound, text etc. When we are finished editing, we must export the finished product.

Planning blog for nike commercial

Our commercial project is going to be about Nike running shoes. I am working with Nathan Lipscomb, and today for class we have to plan out our commercial by listing props, costumes, schedule, location, an a back up plan. Since it is going to be only Nathan and I, this will be a little challenging trying to find people to be in our commercial. We are still deciding on whether we are going to make a commercial showing off the Nike running shoe or have the commercial be about a scenario where Nike shoes can be beneficial to certain problems.  Since there are only two of us and 1 day to film our commercial, if we agree on doing the Nike scenario commercial, that can change on the day that were filming just in case something comes up, and we cannot do it anymore. In case that happens we will have to switch up and do the commercial on showing off the Nike shoes.

Props: what we will need for this commercial is Nike box, cool Nike running shoes or Nike shoes (depending on what commercial we do).

Costumes: running or athletic wear (make sure it’s not supporting any other brands such as Adidas or under armor) and the Nike shoes.

Schedule: today (10/10) we are planning for our commercial. (10/14) we will officially start our story board one for showing off the shoes and another for the scenario. (10/21) we are going to start filming. (10/24) we will finish up and start editing the commercial.

Location: Track field, (back up plans are: bus loop, stairs, hallway and a different place on the track field.

Back up plan: This will be in case we cannot find people to be in our video, one of us is not here, or if the weather conditions are bad. We will have the back up plan story board along with the original idea, the back up is on the showing off the Nike shoe.

Research and commercial convention

For our 25-30 second commercial, we are going to be making a Nike shoes Commercial. We already have an idea of what the commercial will be about, but we are also still thinking of other ideas just in case our original idea appears to be a little too long. We are also still trying to figure out what and who we will need for this commercial.

The research that we are doing for our commercial is to help us know what exactly is needed in making a good Nike commercial. We looked at a few Nike commercials on YouTube for a bit of inspiration. We also looked at some terrible commercials on YouTube, to know exactly what we should not add to our commercial.

The commercial convention of a Nike commercial is usually done anywhere where there are athletes or at a place where people get physical with their body. For example, gym, basketball court, football field, baseball field, fitness center etc. The things that are usually in a Nike commercial can vary depending on what the advertised Nike product is, whether it’s a shoe, sports gear, shirts, shorts etc.                     

Introductory

 My name is Kendrid Joseph and i am 15 years old. I am a sophomore at Fort lauderdale high school. I have 4 siblings and i am the youngest one. I like to watch and play basketball. I am in Mr. katz's aice media studies class this school year, and one of my goals is to pass this class.

In the beginning of last class, when i was about to start the second part of the Mr. robot excerpt i was really nervous about it because  i knew enough about the sounds and mis en scene, but i didn't think i would know what sounds or mis en scene where being shown.

After the practice aice test on the Mr. robot excerpt, i felt like i knew the sound and mis en scene portion of the test,better than the movement and camera angles portion. Therefore, i felt pretty good about my answers on the sound and mis en scene portion. i still need to work on knowing the camera angles and movement better.