Mariah Soto's AICE Media Studies Blog

      Blog #4:        Throughout this experience of filming my first project, I learned a lot about filming, editing, and developing mise-en-scene. What I learned about filming is that you should have a concrete plan of what each shot is going to look like and always have back up shots, just in case if some shots don't work together. Since, I was co-director I didn't do much editing but when the editor would ask me some questions to see if I could help, I learned that we should have made sure the app we were using was able to handle all the footage we were downloading because the first app we were using shut down out of no where and we lost all of our progress, but didn't lose the footage. So we had to start all over with the editing. What I learned about developing mise-en-scene was that we also had to plan that before hand so we made sure that everything was looking in place of what we were trying to capture. We made sure we got all of our scenes tha...

 Blog #3    So far, my group and I have met up a few times. We recorded our opening scene already and established what we were going to be recording with. There are four people in my group; one of them is in charge of recording everything, one of them is in charge of editing, one of them is the leading girl, and I am in charge of the Mise-en-Scene. The costumes that everybody will wear are clothes that teenagers would usually wear to a party. There won't be any of our voices heard, the song will be over the video which will match occasionally with the leading girls' lips. Most of the editing will be done with clean cuts but a couple of them will have transitions. 

                    Blog #2:                        My group chose the song Telephone by Lady Gaga (feat. Beyonce). When we chose this song we had multiple ideas on how to interpret it but we finally decided to interpret the song about a toxic romantic relationship. So when we decided to interpret the song that way we asked our teacher to print out the lyrics for us and we decided to write on those sheets of paper on how we would arrange each shot and what they would look like. We as a group also decided when we would all be available to record and what the location is where we would record the video.