AICE Media Studies Blog

 This is my CCR Google Slides presentation. CCR

 This project was extremely fun, start to finish, in planning, production, and editing. Compared to our previous commercial, this was much better, in quality and concept. When I chose to have Sofia as my partner again I had a couple doubts about how this project might turn out. With each rescheduling I had thought that those doubts were becoming reality, but despite everything we pulled through. This is why I stick with Sofia through thick and thin. While rescheduling and complications may happen, she still has tons of great ideas and input. Most of all, she always come through, last minute sometimes, but it is guaranteed. I can count on her to get things done when I'm unavailable or need help. On another note, we still ran into many last minute issues with production. I hope to avoid this in the future by having a stricter schedule and being more insistent about earlier film times.

 I had hoped the rescheduling and complications had ended, but it seems this project is as cursed as the Victim starring in it. After the photograph mix-up, my partner helped me buy new Polaroid film so as to follow the original plan. With the camera restocked, I set out with my friend to take the necessary photos. There were many ideas thrown around, and a budget of 20 pictures, but I quickly found that our environment wasn't ideal for Polaroids. The setting sun and cloudy sky made the photos much too dark, which was only discovered after around the sixth photo was taken. I showed my group to many different locations around my apartment complex but the darkness remained. When most of the pictures were taken, with little success, I pointed out a road miraculously still fairly bright that may provide a proper shooting environment. This hypothesis was proven false after the first photo, but it was slightly better. I also suggested a photo through my kitchen window, but that came out

 Today was originally scheduled to be a filming day, but the filming location, Sofia's house, became too loud and active to properly film without interruption. To remain active today and avoid another push-back, this became an editing day and tomorrow was designated for filming. Since my partner has all of our footage and the editing software I lack, she is doing all the heavy lifting while I provide advice and support. However, before the editing started, I discussed our materials with my partner. The plan was to have multiple Polaroids of the Victim for the final scenes in the Stalker's house, but the Polaroid camera I had planned to use didn't have an film left. I tried to find any existing photos I had, but the ones I had weren't something that would be taken by a stalker. So, I decided to use my recent school ID photo. It was also planned to have a variety of pictures of people in the Stalker's box. This wasn't achievable because of the lack of Polaroids as

 Despite all odds, we had to push back the first filming day once more because of an unexpected rainstorm. However, in spite of the odds stacked against us, filming itself went surprisingly well. I invited my aunt Sarah to assist with filming because she has a lot of filming equipment, such as cameras and tripods, and filming experience since she is in film school herself. Once everyone arrived, we gathered our supplies and went to the first filming location: a collection of picnic tables in from of a lake. Here we filmed our first scenes, in which I did most of the acting. Since we were filming a long shot, I struggled with communication with the camera team, Sarah and Sofia. I found trouble in the scene where the Victim was meant to drop her lipstick because it was difficult to drop it naturally and on command. Although we pushed through with Sarah's suggestion of keeping the lipstick in the fold of my shorts. Following the scenes at the picnic benches, we filmed the Victim enter

 The original plan for filming and editing was to film over Thanksgiving break, specifically on 11/22 and 11/23, and edit over the following week. However, the first set back was a miscommunication between Sofia and her transportation. It was a simple date mix up, but she had to cancel filming for those two days so we rescheduled for that weekend, 11/27 and 11/28. between these times I had talked to my aunt about the project and she wanted to help us with materials. I neglected to tell her the dates we were meeting because I didn't have the times finalized. Although, in hindsight, I should have told her the days we planned and asked for her availability on those days. On the Friday of that week, the day before filming, Sofia called me to outline film times and materials, when I mentioned not having called my aunt again to confirm her attendance. I felt uncomfortable calling her on such short notice and Sofia insisted we use the materials she was offerings, specifically a camera she