AICE Media Studies

 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.

 For my choice of music I wanted it to be very ominous. In order to really bring out a feeling of irritation I had to look for music that fit my criteria. I had to use multiple different applications to find what I wanted. I checked through apps like Spotify and YouTube for long periods of time trying to find the right song. I also spent some time looking for old music off of google to see if I had any luck with that. I even asked for recommendations from people I knew from social media. After a long time of searching I finally found one and I thought it would work perfectly. Now the only hard part was trying to get the rights to the song. After trying to get into contact my efforts did not amount to anything as I got no response at all. Instead I searched up royalty free ominous music and found something that worked just as well.