AICE Media Studies

         Filming on January 20th was so stressful to me at first. I know waiting last minute did not help even though it was not my fault I still held myself accountable. I haven't filmed anything in so long and that got to me. However, after I filmed a couple scenes and got back the hang of it. It was easier to film with a family member. My mom is a natural actor so it was easy to work with her. When it came to directing I did not have to waste my time repeating myself. This saved us time when it came to filming. The only thing we both struggled with was sticking to the script fully. We ended up adding a couple new words to some scenes. This is because in the moment it just felt more natural to say them which added to the emotion aspect of the film. However, in some scenes curse words slipped out so we had to do another take for those parts. The emotional part was the most important key to the film being successful. Therefore, we had to make sure we did anythin...

       On January 20th, I finally started to officially film. I took a covid test and the results came back negative so now I am able to film. I filmed at my house because it was the easiest option. Plus, my house has all the settings and props needed for these scenes. I filmed the mother and daughter scenes only today. I used myself and a family member to act it out. I had my actual mother act and me play the daughter. I did most of the recording for the scenes. It was easy to act out these scenes since we were actually mother and daughter in real life. We kept on having to record the walking in the house scene because we kept on getting interrupted by my other family members. It took us almost 4 tries to get that scene right without interruptions or breaking character. Then, we took break in between to read the screenplay to make sure we were saying the right stuff. I got the kitchen scene ready and put "dirty" dishes in the sink and food wasting on the floor. This...

            The short film which is called Dear Mother website is finally up and running. The website is complete now. I waited to add the photos last to the website. I did this because I felt like that was the easiest thing to edit on the website. I added pictures that match the words on the tab. For example, the Rewards & Reviews tab where I mention that the short film won the Golden Horse Award and added a picture of the award. Next, I added pictures of the crew to the Cast & Crew tab. The crew is supposed to include the actual people that was apart of the making of Dear Mother. Therefore, I add to get personal pictures of everybody to add to this tab and everybody sent one. Moreover, it was fun seeing everybody send in picture without a mask. I reminisced on the times where mask was not apart of an everyday wear. Now most pictures nowadays include people wearing a mask. Back to the website and adding photos to it. I added a picture of the theatr...

         I decided to edit the website little by little. The tabs I could edit without having to film is what I mainly focused on. The first tab I edited was the home and social media ones. The social media tab was more of a one and done type of editing. All I did was click the edit platform button. Then, I added our social medias and a Facebook QR code. However, the home tab was more of an editing here and there. This is because I did not have pictures from our film to upload to it yet. I only added information about the film and the directors/producers on the home page so far. When I get behind the scene pictures and videos I will add them and finish editing it. Then, I edited the about tab and it's just words. This tab just included information about C & R Productions. The next tab was the rewards and reviews tab. This tab consisted of  reviews of the film Dear Mother and the awards it won. This tab was a little tricky for me because of the reviews p...

         On January 8th, I was going to film the mother and daughter scenes. I got all the props together and notified my actors the day before. The props in the scenes I was going to film were dishes and a phone. The settings for the scenes was going to be the kitchen, living room, and bathroom. I was going to film at my house and use it as the abusive mother house. Moreover, my actual mother was going to play the part of the verbal abusive mother in the film, Dear Mother. I was going to play the daughter in the film. My sister was going to play the friend that calls the mother's phone. Some scenes were going to be filmed by me and some scenes were going to be filmed by my sister. Also, some of the scenes I was going to film would use a tripod. However, things did not go to plan. Filming those scenes never happened because I had to cancel. I cancelled because I found out I tested positive for covid-19. I got a message from CVS the night before saying I tested p...

I decided to create the website out of Ciaya and I. I am a very creative person so I thought it would be the best opportunity for me to create it. I have never created a website before so I was nervous. I used a website called wix.com which creates websites for people for free. This is my first time creating a website and using Wix. As I was making decisions on how to create the website I was learning something new. The beginning was more Wix doing than mines. It helped me pick a theme and tabs for the short film website. Wix asked me a whole bunch of questions and my answers created our website. I went with a more movie like and bright theme. The tabs of the website is so people can directly find what they are looking for without searching for anything. There are seven tabs for our website. The tabs are called home, about, rewards & reviews, contact, cast & crew, social media, and gallery. Any information a person is looking for there is a tab guiding them into the right direc...

                      For Ciaya and I short film I took the initiative to make a postcard for it. I used a website called Canva to create one. This was not my first time using this website, I've used it many times in the past. Therefore, I knew how to maneuver it and find things easily. The only hard part was choosing a theme for our short film. I wanted to go with something that gives a motherly feel and a light tone color. This is because the film is called Dear Mother and about a mother and daughter relationship. My image for the postcard is giving the feel like the daughter made the postcard for the mother. I wanted the potential audience to feel involved in the movie so giving them a postcard like this would do the job. I finally decided on a flower theme with a light pink color. I went with the flower theme because it gives a soft and caring feel like how a mother should be. The light pink color just brought everything togethe...