AICE Media Studies

  website: carleightripp.wixsite.com   We used Wix.xom to make our website  https://carleightripp.wixsite.com/shatteredbondsthemov Postcard:  https://www.canva.com/design/DAF9h_ZtDW0/QOwn16UnE4a4AZZubdnoFQ/view?utm_content=DAF9h_ZtDW0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@shatteredbondsthefilm Link to Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6T2SxUz89E Now that media has come to an end, I am heartbroken. Media Studies is one of my favorite classes as I enjoy the concept behind it. I thought it was super neat to fully understand how movies are made and how much attention to detail there needs to be. Before this class I never paid attention to the different angles and shots used. Now that I've taken Media Studies I realized that emotions aren't just portrayed through acting but also through the camera shots, angles and sounds. I've been taking media for two year now, I was in AS level my sophomore year and A

Welcome back to my blog! Now that Shattered Bonds is completely filmed and edited, my group and I wanted opinions from people in our class. The first person we asked was Jack Lynch. Jack is very blunt and straight to the point, so I knew that his critiques we're going to be good but harsh. However his reaction to Shattered Bonds was the complete opposite. He told us that our movie was well put together. My group and I's main concern was whether the plot twist was clear or not, and he told us it was so that was a huge relief. During his peer review though he could not stop laughing, this was concerning because Shattered Bonds is a Murder Mystery not a comedy. I asked him why he was laughing so much and he said it was because of the acting. I will say there are some scenes where the acting isn't the best. I'm mainly talking about the scene where I screamed when I found out Olivia went missing. That scene was super funny to film and it took many tries. He ended up rating o

 Welcome back to my blog! In a previous blog I talked about the editing process of our video. However, while watching the final project back I noticed slight mistakes. The first mistake I noticed is that while filming a phone call scene, Natalia used Jenna's real name instead of her character name. I'm thankful I found this because no one in my group did, as the scene was super quick. The first way my group and I attempted to solve this issue was by adding a voice over. Unfortunately, the voice over was very mumbled and you could tell we tried to hide an error. The not effect the voice over brought to the movie was making it feel rushed and messy. My group and I decided that we would just re-film that scene another day. This was a good plan until we checked our schedules. All of us were completely booked for the rest of the week and our movie is due the 14th. Everyone went into a panic as we had absolutely no time to re-film. Once everyone composed themselves, it was decided th

 Welcome back to my blog! Today my group and I created the postcard and social media account. For the social media account, we used Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube. Sofia offered to create the account since she remembered, her password into her main account and because she had an extra emails she could use. It only took about 15 minutes for her to create the all the accounts. The first thing we did was add our username and bio. We created a username based on our movie title, Shattered Bonds. For our bio we wrote:  AICE Media Studies A level, 2024 Here we will post updates on our movie!  Producers are Natalia Sorbo, Carleigh Tripp, Sofia Di Campli, and Jenna Olson  Once that was complete we added a profile photo and it was the PDF version of our postcard.  we did this for every social media account except YouTube. Since youtube is more about posting videos, we just added a profile photo and a username. To make it easy on ourselves and the graders we used the same profile picture and use

 Welcome back! Last weekend we finished the filming of our movie, now it's time to edit. To edit our film we used iMovie and CapCut. Unfortunately Jenna got the Flu and has been out of school for the past couple days, so we haven't been able to work on it in class. Thanks to technology, we were able to collaborate on the editing through FaceTime. My group knew that I was such a bad editor, so Jenna and Sofia rook the lead on this one. However, I didn't want them to feel overwhelmed with the editing process, since it's super important, so I decided to offer my help. I offered my help by relying ideas, which they could use in the editing of our movie. The most important part of the editing process is making sure all the clips are in the correct order and that each clip used wad the clip each group member liked. If any of these steps are messed up our video would be completely ruined. So it's critical for each group member to really help with these two steps. If you we

 Welcome Back! Today I was super excited to attend class because I had just finished my website. The website took me a whole week to create so naturally I was super excited to show it off. I showed all my friends who sit around me at my table with the biggest smile on my face. I made some final touches like centering photos and swapping the background color. Now that my website looked absolutely perfect, it was ready to be launched. Once I clicked publish my world came crashing down. I had to pay 17 dollars a month to keep my website up and running. How could this have happened. Before using SquareSpace, I researched to make sure it was 100% free, how could I have been so naive. Before deleting all my work, I tried to find a solution. I could publish the website however it would be private and only people with the password could access it. I asked my teacher if this would be okay and she said no because it would be impossible to send the code over to Cambridge. I was so disappointed be