AICE Media Studies

    Hello again! For my final task project I will be working with Dellana. We are all really excited to work on this together. We have actually known each other since elementary school. So we really know how each other are. I feel with all of us being very creative, this will be a great and fun project to do. Our goal is to use at least a little of both our opinion and creative sides. We really want to make our movie as professional as possible. We have already began to brainstorm on who we want in the video, what movie to use, etc. We have of course yet to come to a decision, but we have some ideas to say the least. With only two of us in a group, we will have to get help from classmates to be in our movie. We want to make both of us feel comfortable and included of course. So far, we have agreed on most things. I have never actually done something like this before. I have filmed videos on past projects this year but this is the first movie. When I was younger I also use to p...

     Hi there, my name is Ella Wills, I am a junior at Fort Lauderdale High School. This year I am excited to be back in school with my teachers and classmates! I am seventeen years old. I like to think of myself as an outgoing person, but I do enjoy the company of myself more than anything. I consider myself pretty independent. I do really love to spend time with my family as well. I live with my stepdad and mom. My dad lives in Ireland and is still very close to me. I visit him twice a year there and its very fun. My mom is from England and we also visit there a lot too, as all my family is in the UK. I absolutely love it over there. When I'm older I would like to explore more on that side of the world. I definitely have a passion for travel. In school I try and be very focused on my work and put all my attention to getting my Cambridge diploma. All my AICE classes so far have been challenging, but I have been learning a lot and feel as if I have improved in my learning...

Hello! I’m back again with very good news. Our video is complete and we are very proud of it. My group and I had a lot of fun times making this video and put a lot of effort into this. As you know there was some bumps in the road but we worked through them as a team and got the job done. I still hope to improve more as I continue on in this class for the rest of the year. I believe I have improved more since our last video which was the commercial. I hope to keep this work ethic up and get good grades along the way. This was a great learning experience because it was a different type of production than the last. I like to learn all these different ways and types of filming. I can’t wait to learn even more next semester! Thank you for going along with me for this music video journey, and can’t wait for the next! 

   Hello again! So today was actually very productive. My group and I finished up the last parts to be filmed. So we actually are done filming! We are now going to edit the video and look at all our of finished scenes to see if anything needs to be fixed or changed. We finished filming the beginning scene where darrow and allison get in the car, and just them walking around, and also them on the phone with each other. We got a lot of clips so we might need to trim some up for it to fit the time requirement. We actually used different parts of the song so the chorus wouldn’t be too repetitive. So we could have some different lyrics to present in the video itself. Like I said while we were editing the clips were too long so we had to cut some of them down to fit the time. We did this perfectly fine and we trimmed them. We also used a split screen for the phone call scene, this looked so good! After we actually finished editing, we had to once again, cut the clips a bit shorter b...

 Welcome back to my music video journey! I am excited to update you that more progress has been made. My group and I this time around have filmed the stargazing scene of this video. This scene was more difficult than we thought to film because it had to be dark of course. It took a different couple places to find with some street light to get a clip you could actually see allison and darrow in. We found a good place near Allison’s house that worked pretty well. We filmed from different angles to test it out. We found that the high angle of them was looking the best and most professional. It is hard to get good quality of stars on camera, especially with an iPhone. We all agreed we would probably have to edit in the stars on this clip. We do live in Fort Lauderdale where you can’t actually see stars very well because of the street lights. We did the best we could with what we had. Other than a little bit of difficulty, we had a lot of fun filming this as well. We also managed to fil...

 Hello! I am back again with some much better progress than last time. I happy to say that we have started our filming and it had been very exciting and fun. My group and I got together over the weekend and got some good clips for the music video done. We actually had so much fun doing this and it’s not even over yet! So, moving on to what we did, we filmed the scene where Allison and Darrow are in the car singing the chorus. They were in very country style outfits boots, hat, jeans and a flannel. They looked perfect for this video. It took a few times but this clip we got was pretty good. The first couple times we tried to get the clip, there was some difficulty with remembering the words. They kept stumbling and it didn’t look the best on camera at all. They finally got it together and got the words right and we got the clip we needed! There was a lot of footage we took to have options when finalizing that specific scene in our music video. In the end it looked very upbeat and pr...