Final Film Opening

Here is my groups AICE Media Studies Final Project Video. Hope you enjoy it!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwwXXzWCOGczOGJBd05JOHBrcDQ/view?ts=570af8cd

Creative Critical Reflection

Below is the link to my Creative Critical Reflection. It shows how we went "Into the Woods."

http://prezi.com/qqsgbcfk1dwm/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Permission for the Song

In order to use the song we found from the free music archive, we had to follow certain steps based on the copyright of the music. Here are screenshots showing the directions we had to follow. All we had to do was give credit to the creator in our video, which we did.

Finishing Touches

After a long and complicated process our film opening project is coming to an end. Today we completed the whole film opening with all the credits and sound elements. As expected Warner Brothers never got back to us on the Frank Sinatra copyright so we found a free song with no copyright online. It was much faster and easier. We also added all the credits and added the title "Into the Woods." Throughout this project we had some complications with our setting and filming process, but my group members and I got through it. It really wasn't as difficult overall as I was expecting in the beginning. When you are just thrown a huge project like this, it can be pretty intimidating. Since we broke it down step by step, in the end it wasn't that bad. We all survived.

Now since the film is complete, my group and I will start to work on the Creative Critical Reflection. We aren't completely sure how we want to individually present our information, but we are going to meet up to collaborate and answer the four questions provided as a group. This will make it easier and we can give each other ideas on who to present the information and help create them. After this we are finally done with the project after 6 long weeks. It was fun while it lasted.

Sound Element

Last night my group and I finished editing the film opening and just have some small touch ups left to make it more clear. The only parts left are to add the sound elements, which would be the song "Strangers in the night" by Frank Sinatra, and create and insert all the titles that will pop up on the sides throughout the film opening. Today our focus is to add the sound elements so we can be finished with the entire film opening by tonight.

In order to be able to use the song we want in our film legally, we have to get permission from the owner of it. Frank Sinatra created his own record label, Reprise Records in 1960. This label was then bought by Warner Brothers. Yesterday during class my groupmate Dylan and I sent an email to Warner Brothers asking for permission to use the song in our school project.






Just in case we don't get permission to use this song in time, we are searching for other possibilities on a free music archive website. This will allow us to use a song without getting permission, so if worst comes to worst and we can't get the Frank Sinatra song we can quickly input the other option with no legal problems.

 "Reprise Records Story." Reprise Records Story. Web. 05 Apr. 2016. 

 "Welcome to the Free Music Archive." Free Music Archive. Web. 05 Apr. 2016. 

Strangers in the Night

Last night my group and I got all of the filming done for the film opening and have began editing on Imovie. The filming went very well and we got all of the shots that we planned out and some different ones that were interesting and stood out. I also think we found the name of our film, which would be strangers in the night. This title comes from the song "Strangers in the night" by Frank Sinatra which we will be playing in the background of the opening.

We are down to the final week of the project and everything seems to be on schedule. For the film opening all me and my group have left is the editing, creating the subtitles and title and finding where to insert them, and to make the song flow well with the film opening. We plan on getting all of this done mid-week so we have time to look everything over and finish up the entire project with the Creative Critical Reflection.

Lights, Camera, Action

We have solidified our plan to go shoot all of the filming we need tomorrow. We are back on track with our schedule from my first post. I am pretty excited to get this done and see what the full film opening will look like. We have decided from previous experience to film on my Iphone with the Imovie app. It is simple and easy to use and makes the editing at the end less difficult.

Location, Location, Location

So yesterday my group and I traveled to our new location in a county park called Markham park. We somewhat knew of where we wanted it to be because we are pretty familiar with this park. In the back of the park there are mountain bike trails in the woods that were made naturally. In the back of the woods there is the perfect setting for our film opening. Since we no longer have an abandoned building as our setting were going to have to work with what we have and change the plot a little bit. We were thinking of instead of having the mysterious woman keeping people captive in jail cells, we can have people tied up to a tree or in a cage that we found in the woods. Besides that everything else will remain the same with the plot. 

Before we visited we also did a very rough storyboard to make sure that everything was planned out and ready to be filmed. We are planning on filming sometime this weekend to finish up this project ahead of time so we can review it before it's due.

Here are some pictures from our trip to our new location: