AICE Media Studies

  After months of anticipation, "OVERDON'T" the short film, is done and ready to watch! My group and I want to thank AICE and Cambridge for allowing us to create this project. I learned so much throughout this process, and gained knowledge I will never forget. Thank you and enjoy!! Our Website:  https://overdontfilms.wixsite.com/overdont Our Postcard and Social Media: 

 Hello again! Welcome back to the very last blog I will make pertaining to the production process for this short film. It has been quite the journey! I'm glad you have been with me along this ride. Today, I will be discussing the process of choosing the audio, music, and scoring for the film.  Selecting the score for any film is an integral process. Without a good score, the feel of the movie could be all wrong! This could cause the audience to not receive the full or correct message that the director is trying to get across. So, knowing how important music is to a film, I took this process very seriously.  First, I added specific sound FX to certain scenes. For example, there is a scene when the protagonists are searching for a hidden object. Once they find the object, I added a sound effect of an angelic choir singing. This added a comedic effect. It also makes the film more dramatic, which is even funnier. This all ties in to the genre of comedy that me and my group tr...

 Well, hello there! Once again, welcome back to my blog. As you know, I have been documenting my short film journey from pitch to production. But today is a rather important blog. The topic for today is...drum roll please...editing! In my opinion, editing is the most important part of making films and media like them. Without editing, no movies would make sense. And especially without GOOD editing. So, as the designated editor for my group, I wanted to get everything perfect.  The first step I took to achieve this was putting all the footage in order. There were several times during filming that I had to reshoot a scene or take. This would happen often. Because it happened so often, I eventually stopped deleting every old clip. This resulted in a buildup of many clips that had bloopers/ mistakes in them that I knew would not make the movie. So, as the editor, I deleted all of these clips from the library.  Then, I began trimming and adding transitions to the clips to make...