AICE Media Studies

Here is the final task.

 On March 15th, I went back outside to record. I started with more hope than last time because I didn't think it could be any worse. It turned out a lot better than I expected it to be. I had a way better experience this time. I was surprisingly able to hold the camera still when I needed to. I had to try really hard not to pant loudly at first. However I soon realized that it benefited me to pant as loud as I could. I also had to run as fast as I could which isn't hard on its own but I kept dropping my phone so I had to redo the scene a lot. I had to try to be really emotional with my facial expressions in order to show despair. Overall there were a lot of problems however I had a much better time filming as opposed to my previous times.

I had nothing else but my terrible filming ready. I had planned to film again on March 15. More unforeseen circumstances came up so I could not film that day. Instead I tried to be optimistic and decided that maybe I could turn my failure from my first filming shot into something better through editing. I shortly learned that I was not capable of doing so. Even though I had improved in editing skills especially in comparison to long ago I was still not that great at it. It was almost as disappointing as when I filmed the failure. I did things such as cutting out the parts where the phone fell. I was also able to make the scene darker in lighting to try to distract from how shaky I was during filming. However I still did not like it. It was sad but I had to deal with the fact that it just did not resonate with me.  

 I had tried to do some filming on the 27th of February however I failed miserably. Its as if for some reason on that day my luck was terrible. Nothing would go my way no matter what. I was very shaky when trying to film so it looked terrible. On the scenes where I could lean my phone onto something my phone would fall down. I just couldn't do anything right so I thought to myself that I would try again another day. I then tried again on the first of March. While it was better it was not good enough. I hated the end result. I didn't wanna give up so I kept trying and trying. I eventually realized that I was just tiring myself with this so I left it for a different day. I hated that day as I got nothing accomplished however it taught me not to stress myself out over things.

 On March 16, I decided to edit what I had filmed. First I turned on my phone in order to access my filming. then I sent it to my computer in order to edit it there. What I had not realized was my computer wasn't working properly because I had to replace the battery. I had to change plans after so I used my phone to edit. It turned out to be more convenient since I could just open my editing app and press on the video from my gallery. On my computer I would have had to go to my email and download the video which would be very tedious. I then realized that I had no editing app since I deleted my old one in order to have some more space on my phone. This time however I thought I may as well get a different one because I may find a better one than before. I tried multiple different apps but none of them were for me. Eventually I just gave up on finding a new one and downloaded the one I previously had. It took me aa long time but in the end I'm happy with how it turned out.

I had planned to film on the 27th of February. There have been some unexpected circumstances and events that happened which prevented this. As such I filmed on March 10th. However it had rained on that day so I could not film the scenes that required me to be outside. Instead I decided to film all the scenes that I could do indoors. I had fun recreating the expression of fear, despair, and shock. I had to do about 10 retries to get it right. The major hard part was trying to have a dark  scene and still have my facial expression be visible. I had to keep some lights on in order to get it right. I will continue to film on March 15th.