AICE Media Studies

  How do your products represent social groups or issues? Due to the coronavirus pandemic, pretty much everyone globally has come to know what it feels like for life to be shut down unexpectedly. Masks, testing, talk about vaccines, and the ever-present looming of a disease has become a social norm and something everyone has become accustomed to. Our movie centers around  a group of friends going on their winter break vacation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Fort Lauderdale is definitely one of the most visited places for young adults during the spring break season, so we figured that a virus hitting right at that peak of excitement and joy would be something our viewers could possibly relate to since the coronavirus surfaced in March 2020. While this health issue doesn’t highlight a specific or small “social group”, it is still definitely an issue that lingers in society today. The sudden two week lockdown also mirrored the events of the real world with the shut-downs of multiple areas t

Hi everyone! We filmed again today! After this we should really only have one scene left to shoot. Today we got the guardhouse scene completely filmed. Herb, our security guard, was supposed to be played by Spencer Regli. Unfortunately, Spencer has just as difficult a schedule as we do. With work at 4 and school ending at 3, Spencer just wasn’t able to make it. This last minute change lead to improvisation. Hillery’s older brother, Mikey Brinkworth, was able to help us our and take on the role of Herb. However, Mikey is also a busy guy and had a work meeting at 4:30. We had only 45 minutes to film this entire scene and for Mikey to learn his part. We all met up near the guardhouse that is at the entrance to Chloe’s neighborhood. I quickly read over Mikey’s lines with him while Blake drove Hillery’s car to the right position to being filming. Chloe and Hillery worked together to find the right camera shots and angles for the scene. With only 30 minutes left we started doing take after t

Hey everybody! Another day of filming all done. Today, my group and I met up around 10 AM at GFS. GFS is a grocery store that is nearby where all of us live. We decided against Publix because they are usually fairly crowded and we were afraid of not getting the shots we wanted. When we got to the store we filmed a shot of Hillery’s car pulling into a parking space with Blake driving. Afterwards, we walked in and grabbed a card to use as a prop. We used the script as a guide and made our way through the aisles of food and supplies. Using Hillery’s iPhone 11, we took turns and filmed almost everything twice: once with all of us and once with just Blake. We have a plot twist planned for the ending of our film that requires shots to be done twice. There was only one small problem with the filming at the grocery store, they had copyrighted music playing quietly for the shoppers to enjoy. We did, however, figure out how to manipulate this music in editing so we should be good to go. We only

 Hello one more time for 2020!! It's New Years Eve today! 2021 will hopefully be a better year than 2020 was for most people. In this first semester of A-Level Media Studies I have reflected on what I learned in AS-Level and learned many new things as well. I'm really excited for every aspect of this project. From the social media, to the postcard, to the blogs, and of course the final film; I think everything is going to come together really nicely. So far we have filmed a majority of our movie. Every scene at the vacation home is done and the ones of the news reporter have also been recorded. We only have three more sites we need to film at in order to wrap everything up. There is the testing site, the grocery store, and the guard house. Everyone has been super flexible and cooperative as well as collaborative throughout this whole process. We have a few obstacles that we face as a group when it comes to scheduling and such, but so far we have overcome every single one. My pr

Yesterday was our second day of filming. We all met up at Hillery's house from 2-4 PM and wrapped up the scenes that needed to be shot there. We had a lot of fun together and got a lot more done than we even expected to. Every scene that takes place in the vacation home is done, so now we just have to film at the grocery store, guard house, and testing site. We used iPhones to film everything last time and we will most likely use them to wrap the rest of our filming. It's only a day later and we are already talking in our group chat about when we will be available next to film. School starts again for us on Monday, January 4, 2021. Once school is back in the mix scheduling will become even harder than it has been during the break unfortunately. I have hope however, that we will conclude all of our filming within the next two weeks or so. For the grocery store scene we are thinking of going to a grocery store that isn't normally very crowded as opposed to the more popular on

Today is Wednesday, December 30! We had our second day of filming today. The scheduling conflicts occurred per usual, so instead of filming on Tuesday, December 29, we filmed today. We set aside two hours today to get some filming done. We planned to meet at Hillery's house from 2-4 PM. Chloe, Blake, and I arrived on time and we began filming right away. We started with the scenes that surround the news segments and we filmed them a few different times from different angles and such so that we have plenty of footage to choose from when editing. I say this all the time, but I really am grateful for the way my group and I get along. We always end up having a lot of fun with each other when we get together so there were a lot of laughs between takes. After we filmed those clips that surround Reporter Phil, we moved on. We then recorded the scene that occurs in the beginning of the movie, right as the friends are arriving to the vacation home. We used Hillery's iPhone 11 to film a