AICE Media Studies Portfolio

 

Here is our final project! Ella and I hope you enjoy. We spent a very long time working on this and we are very proud!

 Greetings once again! Today was very great with finishing work. Ella and I are functioning admirably together and are exceptionally useful. Over the recent days particularly we have been shooting the last pieces and bits of our film. The cycle as you most likely are aware has been testing, yet we made it happen eventually. There was a few minor issues with sound so we went on and yet again recorded those. This most certainly was disappointing in light of the fact that we figured everything would have been alright. It turns it like we said last time the breeze was truly weighty so hearing our lines was hard. Although this was troublesome we realized we had no other decision. We worked on the scene too by getting better lighting and ensuring we were in a non breezy region. We should simply say it most certainly was anything but a one take process! That is alright however, we had a good time doing this in fact. During recording Ella and I were extremely worried, on the grounds that w...

 We have only about two days left to our production and the pressure is rising. We started off pretty behind filming wise due to weather and our availability to film. However, we pushed through and got it done. We finished our filming, did our editing, added the music, added the subtitles, now all that's left to do is tweak it to be perfect. Ella and I were thinking about reshooting one of our scenes at the beach because we felt like the audio didn't sound well. It was very windy. We ended up reshooting yesterday and we deleted the old clip and added it into our film. The only thing we had to edit was the transitioning between the scenes and we had to readd the captioning. We tweaked very small details in our editing such as sizing with the subtitling captions, placement, and lighting of certain scenes. The lighting in the staircase scene was absolutely horrid so we had to use an app to change the lighting to be somewhat darker to make the scene look more subtle. We were debati...

 It's practically that time! Ella and I are so eager to say that we are nearly finished with our film venture! We ran into certain issues on the way with every last bit of it. Despite the fact that we actually pushed through and finished the altering. We definitely disapproved of adding the music and audio effects. Sadly they were not connecting as expected to the film. We attempted numerous choices to inspire it to work and every one of them fizzled. We then, at that point, started to overreact a smidgen. We looked into certain recordings on youtube to help out us. We at long last observed one that was useful. We continued back to altering and it at last worked! Sadly that wasn't all. Then a few clasps vanished while altering too. We recuperated them thank heavens. We were somewhat worried without a doubt over all that had been going on. After we figured out how to fix everything, we were extremely feeling better. This was only a minor knock that we expected to survive. In the...

 Today was a horrible day. Ella and I met up to finish our editing and all of the work we did had not been saved. Everything deleted, all of our editing and progress deleted so we had to restart the entire process. Luckily, after our mistake of deleted a scene last time, we saved all of our footage in a special file on my computer so it would be easily accessible. However, we had to go through all of our videos again and choose the ones we liked. We also had to reorganize everything and reload it back into order into the iMovie app. After we got all of the downloading done, we got to work on redoing our transitions. This entire beginning process took us almost an hour and a half due to the amount of work we lost from the last day of editing. After we finished, Ella and I began to insert our captioning into the movie. The captioning was the texts with the labels of "Producer", "Writer", "Actors", etc. This process was severely difficult because we didn'...

 Hello! We finally are almost done with our project. It's so relieving. We began our editing today. We began by downloading all of the videos and files onto my computer to sort through them all. There were many scenes we messed up in so we had to delete those and make sure we got the perfect scenes to put into our video. It was a lot of work because we had to reshoot so many scenes continuously because we could not keep it together while filming, we would start laughing or mess up our lines. We finally got all of the files downloaded into the iMovie app. We didn't do much editing like adding the wording and adding music, however we did get all of our clips in order. We cut the clips to be perfect length and added seamless transitioning to make the intro look more professional. As we were going through the clips we realized that we accidentally completely deleted one of our scenes so the next day we had to go reshoot it. The scene was in the stairwell chasing the antagonist of t...

  I'm back, and this time I've got some better news than the last time. I'm ecstatic to report that we might be able to film! Finally, a day without rain and bright sunshine. When we acquired the images we needed for this day, we were overjoyed and felt incredibly successful. We arrived at the beach early, so there were few people around. We didn't want it to be entirely full, so this was a huge consideration. It wasn't a quick shoot at all. It took about an hour to do this task. The lighting was excellent, but it was nearly uncomfortably bright. In the end, we were able to obtain what we required. It appears to be quite professional, and we are really pleased with the results. The airport sequences will most likely be the next thing we shoot. With spring break approaching, Ella and I will be gone. On the plane, we both have the opportunity to film. We'll film separately and then combine them to make it appear as if we're on the plane together. This should b...

So as you can probably tell by the title, it was raining today! We had plans to film at the beach after school today to get some clips but we couldn’t. Although we couldn’t film, we didn’t want the day to go to waste. So we went to a coffee shop and jotted down some more ideas of what we can add to our film, like props, costumes, etc. The beach was also very busy with spring breakers so this also was a reason to not film today. We did make plans to raincheck for our filming at the beach. We both have set aside time out of our weekend to do so. The weather in Florida has been all over the place right now, but I hope we get some good weather this weekend. We have a lot of work to do! We have a schedule for our filming days and what we aim to accomplish. We both hope we can get it done earlier to fix anything that is necessary. Even though this was a little bump in the road it won’t stop us! Ella and I work very well together and are on the same page all the time. We strive to make sure n...

 In the first storyboard we have the entry into the movie, the beginning is Ella and I entering Florida (the vacation) after the scenes on the plane. These scenes begin to show the atmosphere and setting that the story begins.  The second storyboard is Ella and I introducing another setting where the drama begins, the setting is a hotel. Mysterious things begin to start and I become suspicious and Ella is trying to calm me down.  The third storyboard is where the Antagonist is introduced and how he enters the setting and story. The setting is still continuing in the hotel but the tension of the story begins to rise as I leave the room alone.  The fourth storyboard is where I begin to find and follow the antagonist, however the viewers are in suspense because the scenes don't go into much detail besides for me in suspicion. The story introduces a setting which is the staircase and I begin to trail the antagonist.  The last storyboard is where the story wraps up, ...

I'm back! It was a great first day of filming today! Despite not accomplishing much..we did start the process. The first two scenes, three scenes, and the fifth scene were the ones we started with. They took place in an airport, a taxi, and a hotel. Our first scene was filmed in an airport, in which Ella and I were going through security and checking in for our flight. It was particularly challenging to film the scenes in the airport as there were a lot of people around. It was awkward to explain that we were filming for a project to staff and it was even more awkward for normal guests just trying to check in. Because we are waiting for spring break before we shoot the plane scene, we haven't shot it yet. As a result, it requires a lot more work and time, and we were pressed for time. We have a few great ideas for the plane scene, but the one we are most likely to incorporate is us both shooting scenes separately on the plane on our way to spring break. As compared to making a ...

      We finally began our first day of filming! We didn't accomplish much, however we did start on the project. The scenes we began on were scenes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The settings for these first scenes were the airport, in a " taxi", and in a hotel. The first scene was shot in the airport, we had Ella and I going through the airport as well as "checking in" for our flight. The scenes in the airport were particularly difficult to film because I have bad social anxiety that I had to overcome. It was very awkward having to explain to staff that we were filming for a project and it was even worse for normal people trying to simply get their check-in done. The plane scene we haven't shot yet because that requires a lot more work and time and we were limited on time. For the plane scene we have multiple ideas, but one we will most likely go with is both of us separately shooting scenes in the planes ourselves on the way to our vacations for Spring break. This mak...

Font: We chose three different possible fonts to use.  1. Arial 2. Georgia 3.  Times Contrast Color: The contrast color will be either a white or black depending on the colors we choose for the background of our titles. We want to make it colorful and entertaining to match with the theme if our movie.  Working Title: The title of our film will be called "Drug Island" Title Entering and Exit: The titles will pop into the screen when characters show up, we want the background to be videos of the characters in action so it gives an introduction into the movie. The exiting of the titles will either be them swiping out of the screen or them simply fading into the scene.  Title Timing: The titles will be on the screen for about four seconds each, the only title that will be on for further time will be the name of our production studio.  Name of the Studio: Della Production Studios  Actors Names:  Ella Wills Dellana Radzwill Sophia Radzwill Mason Carlini Musi...

Participants:  Actors:  Ella Wills Dellana Radzwill  Mason Carlini  Sophia Radzwill Filming:  Ella Wills Dellana Radzwill Editing: Dellana Radzwill Directing: Ella Wills  Health and Safety:  To ensure the safety of our crew and actors, Ella's parents have volunteered to keep parental guidance over us and act as a safety crew. We will always have an adult figure with us when filming so all goes smoothly and so there is someone responsible at all times.  On our "set" we will include an emergency kit that will be supplied with bandaids, rubbing alcohol, swabs, and cotton incase of any wounding during scenes. For the more dangerous scenes where our actors will be in places like airports with random people, we will have two adults there to keep watch. As for scenes where our actors have to run or fall, we will make sure that we have an emergency kit in case of anyone getting hurt. Location:  We will be filming in multiple different areas, this inc...

 script... scene 1 -Ella: aren’t you so excited to have a vacation! (on the plane) -dellana: are you kidding? obviously! -Ella: (sighs) finally..to have a break from all the trouble that’s been going on here at the department. -Dellana: I wouldn’t be so sure about having no trouble you know there’s always someone or something bad around.  -Ella: I hope not don’t jinx it! (island music plays as they close their eyes)  scene 2 (both Ella and Dellana are standing outside the airport in the Florida keys with big hats on and their suitcases looking around) lighting: sunshine with slight shade [non-diegetic sound- island music continues to play in background while birds are chirping] -Ella: we look like major tourists right now  -Dellana: well, maybe because we are (rolls eyes and laughs) scene 3 (while checking into the hotel dellana notices some mysterious man down the hall. Not wanting to worry Ella,  she lies to check it out)  -Dellana: hey i’ll be right back...

 First Title Card (Della's Studios Presents) :  Della's Studios Second Title Card (Name of Production company): D.E Production Third Title Card: (actors names): Dellana Radzwill  Ella Wills  Simona Consentino Fourth Title Card (Film Name): "Drug Island" Fifth Title Card(Music By): Sound Therapy  Power Music  Nagaty Studio Flavas Of Chill Ross Budgen  (On Youtube) Sixth Title Card (costume designer): Dellana Radzwill Seventh Title Card (Edited by): Ella Wills  Eighth Title Card (Produced by): Ella Wills & Dellana Radzwill Ninth Title Card (Story By): Dellana Radzwill  Tenth title card (Written by): Ella Wills Eleventh Title Card (Directed by): Dellana Radzwill Font: We chose three different possible fonts to use.  1.  Arial 2.  Georgia 3.   Times Contrast Color: The contrast color will be either a white or black depending on the colors we choose for the background of our titles. We want to make it colorful and ente...

 The last movie that we decided to research was the very well known movie Suicide Squad. This movie was a huge movie in 2016 and was loved by everyone all around the world. The closing title sequence contained  how a movie or television show presents its title, key production elements, and cast members using visuals and sound. They included the director, the actors, screenplay maker, screen story maker, the producers, editors, and other important figures in the making of the movie. This is important because it gives acknowledgement to the people who contributed big parts into making the movie. The images produced in the title sequence for this movie were many shots zooming back into different scenes and important places. The title sequence is very colorful and is a zoom out through jail cells, guns, villains, skulls, weapons, etc. The title sequence is relevant to the movie because it has all things that are widely used in the movie. The sound for the ...

The next movie we decided to do research on was the movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. We chose this movie because its a well known action movie that is very high rated and the title sequence for this movie was absolutely astonishing. This movie's title sequence describes how a movie or television show presents its title, key production elements, and cast members using visuals and sound. They included the director, the actors, screenplay maker, screen story maker, the producers, editors, and other important figures in the making of the movie. This is important because it gives acknowledgement to the people who contributed big parts into making the movie. In the opening sequence there are many images shown, but the main images are slowed down warriors fighting, they seem to be made out of crystals or water breaking apart as they are struck through and then the title of who was being acknowledged would come onto the screen. This title sequence carries connotations ...

 The second movie we researched was Venom. This movie was released in 2018. The beginning scenes of Venom start off with an introduction of Columbia Pictures and a mention of association with Marvel Studios. The opening sequence of Venom introduces Venom and how he came to be, they prioritized beginning the scenes with a rocket coming down to Earth, the rocket is catching on fire and burning going at top speeds to crash. The rocket crashed in the forest and the next opening scene was the FBI, cops, and researchers walking around trying to figure out what had happened. The producers of Venom made sure to prioritize this scene to introduce Venom and how he came into the picture in a dramatic way to provide suspense for the viewers. The beginning imagery being shown to viewers provides an unsettling feeling, forcing them to wait for what comes next. This provides a feeling of disturbance within the viewers beginning off the plot of the movie. The scenes develop the genre of action at ...

 The first movie we researched was Eternals. This is an action movie from 2021. It is very recently released and it was one of the best rated action movies in 2021 to be released. We watched the first nine minutes of the movie to watch the opening scenes and we noticed many things. The titles shown during the opening sequence began with the opening of Marvel Studios, then proceeded to have no captioning. In the opening scenes of the movie, the scenes that are prioritized are showing the main characters to introduce you. They also make sure to include the dramatic scenery behind them of what's to come in the movie so that there is suspense provided for the viewer to want to watch more. The connotation these scenes provide is suspense, this is because they want the viewers to lean into their scene to look forward to what's to come in the movie. The feeling of suspense provides an eager want to get deeper into the movie. Due to the dramatic music, the darker lighting, the backgrou...