Editing the Music Video

When editing the commercial, we encountered many problems. Thus, we never had the chance to use Pinnical studios. For this music video, we decided to use our own editing software, thankfully we don't have to rely on IMovie for this project. We are using Final Cut Pro, to edit our music video. So far, it seems to be going smoothly. The only problem I have encountered isn't technical. It is the fact that the program is on a teammate's desktop, so it can not be brought to school. To work around this fact, we have decided to work in class, and that teammate can then change the video as we have talked about. On the first day of editing in class, the weekend after we filmed, a draft version of the footage had been compiled! That day we watch the video over and over to compile as many notes about the draft as we could. 10

Some things we would comment on was the timing of the transitions from shot to shot. We needed to find the perfect balance between keeping it on beat, and having the right section of the shot selected. This proved one of the most difficult things to fix, in my opinion, due to the fact that once you change something at the beginning of the video, things may shift around, becoming unaligned. Another problem I found was with the footage. Some shots turned out shaky or slightly blury, and there wasn't enough retakes to make up for it. This we have had to work with, a solution we came up with was to take different part of already used footage and put a filter on it. This reuse of footage was fine, as we were making a parallel between the shots. Luckily, Final Cut Pro had a solution to the shakiness, it had a stabilizer that kept the footage relativity still while still keeping the quality of the shots. Unfortunately, like all things, the stabilization has problems. In our last class, a method of counteracting the distortion of the stabilization was brought to light. The teammate used this method to fix the stabilization problem. 10

Other problems were also discovered or continued to persist. The persisting problem seemed to be what part of each shot was chosen for the music video. Sometimes the part was too still, making it look drained of life and uninteresting. Other times the action in the shot didn't quite line up with the beat or lyrics. In the last class, the main note was to try as many things as possible for the music video. This includes filters, cropping, and everything in between. We plan on getting together over the weekend and work on the project together. This will be easier than making notes for one person to use. Over all, I'm expecting a better product than the commercial was. Partly because of the new editing software, but also because of our experience. I don't think it will be perfect, as some of our shots are messed up, but it would have been at least a good experience!

Filming The Music Video

My group and I filmed over last weekend. This was the only time we could film, as the group member who had the equipment wasn't free the next weekend. We decided that Saturday we would film at FAT Village and the C&I cafe. I managed to get to the right place just fine, just a little later than planned, but we quickly ran into problems. The C&I cafe wouldn't let us film! This was because it wasn't for personal use, but rather for a project. I didn't let this deter me, though, so I came to the decision that we should keep filming. While wandering FAT Village, we got some shots of me, the main actress, "wandering," with some graffiti in the background. Some B-roll was taken, some of it graffiti, some of plants and the like. While walking around, we got some unplanned shots, most of me walking. Overall, even though our plans for the cafe were ruined, we make up for it in extra shots. 11

Later that day, we decided to deviate from our original plans and go to Wynwood on Saturday instead of Sunday. As suspected, the drive was long but very worth it. Wynwood was full of graffiti, so much in fact that we didn't even need to go to FAT Village in the first place! We found an outdoor cafe to film at and we got the shots we needed. While traversing the art district, we came across some graffiti artists doing some installations! Wynwood wasn't only a filming experience, it was like a vacation, as it is so different from my city. Sunday, we went to the beach to get some footage of the sunrise. We set up a tripod, opposed to the mono pod we had used for the footage on Saturday, to get a time-lapse of the sunrise with my phone. Using the other camera, we got footage of a palm tree lit with the sun from behind as well as my silhouette with the sun over my shoulder. After taking a break and getting some breakfast, we returned and took the same footage again, the tree, me and the time-lapse, except during the day! These parallel shots were the last shots we needed and concluded the filming part of our project.11

Some other problems I encountered during the filming process include these. The heat, despite it finally being winter, was close to unbearable. The fact that I was wearing a dark red turtle neck and jeans didn't help, so next time I'm the actress I'll have to keep that in mind. With our previous project, the time it took to do each take was surprisingly long, which was the opposite for this project! Each take was done in about 30 seconds, while traveling between each location could take up to 10 minutes while walking. Another unexpected problem was the surroundings. Cars lined the side of the street in FAT Village, making it hard to get close to the graffiti on the walls. At Wynwood and the beach we didn't have this problem, as the sidewalks were wide and provided parking in a different area. All in all, I think this project went kinda similarly to the commercial, although we did improve in some areas

Music Video Storyboard

For our story board, it is more of a guideline then strictly what we are going to do. But, we do have an idea of what we want. We have thought about the aesthetic we are going for, and we are all happily and smoothly moving forward with the project. We plan to get all of the filming done on the weekend, hopefully that is all we will need.

The storyboard starts out with a shot of the sunrise, preferably still on the monopod. We will need to remember where we are when we take this shot, as we plan to make a parallel shot during the daytime for later in the video. There is the same line for both of these shots: “so slowly a sunlit dream pulls me out of sleep.”

The second shot is of blinds, from the inside during the morning. The light breaking through, maybe we can catch some dust particles. The same place for the parallel shot later in the video, only during the day. The reason we are focusing on the blinds is because of the lyric: “feel the morning through the blinds.”

The third shot will be of a flower. We don’t have a specific flower in mind, but we will find a flower in the morning, do some takes and shoot the same flower during the day for later in the video. The lyric for these shots are: “I turn my head to meet/I get to thinking ‘bout your sun-kissed face.” None of us really wanted to finalize what the face the artist is singing about, as we wanted a more abstract feel. We had the idea of a sunflower, and settled on just finding a flower to shoot.

The lyric for the fourth and the last shot is “In this/And a quite place where I can give you all my time.” There was some debating what we should use as symbolism, and we decided that a palm tree would fit, from the beach. We would shoot it twice, in the morning and daytime.

Then we switch it up a little, we want to get graffiti into this video, and this would be when we would put the first one in. For the fifth shot the lyric is “You know I want to be your rock, my love.” If we don’t find a graffiti we like for this we will probably take some takes of a boulder. These shots don’t need to have a parallel later in the song, so this will be during the day.

The sixth shot will be something of a cliche, but we like it for this lyric: “You know I want to be your light.” The shot will be a sort of tilt, where the sun hides behind a persons shoulder for a second, but ultimately silhouettes the person as the sun ends up above their shoulder. We don’t want to have any focus on the face of the person, so it will be of their back. We aren’t sure where we are going to shoot this, but the background won’t matter so much as it being during the morning. This makes the previous shot almost out of place, so we might need to tweak the plan a little, but we will make it work.

The seventh shots lyric is: “In darkness how you find me just in time.” We want to have a cloud pass by, where the shot starts shadowed and ends up in the light, so everything brightening. We know we will probably not have the perfect cloud pass at the perfect time, so we are prepared to edit and add effects. Maybe just changing the brightness? We will work it out when we get there. The thing we will be filming will be a wall, with graffiti. Or it will be the door to the C&I cafe, one of our locations.

The next few boxes on the storyboard(the eighth, ninth and tenth), are all of the same shot. The camera will tilt up, focusing on the foreground first(a coffee cup), then the middle ground(a book) and finally end up focusing on the background(train tracks). This will be done in the C&I cafe. We wanted to have some sort of focal shot in the video and this will be it. The lyrics for this is, “To tell me what I needed to hear, So if you don’t know what you need, You can leave it all to me.”

The next takes will take place outside(daytime) in FatVillage(another location). The actress in this shot(who is carrying a coffee cup) will be calmly walking down the graffitied street. The shot after this will be a shot directed at one of the graffitis from the street. The lyrics for these shots are “Don’t want you worried about a thing, I know you’d do the same for me.” Maybe in the shot directed at the graffiti the actress will be walking through or off screen.

Now, here comes the chorus. The first two lines in the chorus will be of two different graffiti(“‘Cause you’re so lovely, you’re so lovely.”). The next part will be of the coffee cup the actress is carrying. It will be open and we will request the barista to create a heart of froth on top of the drink. There will be two shots of this, one from the side and one from the top(“I can’t help but fall for you my love/when you love me.”)

The next lyric(“It’s so lovely loving you.”) will be of the actress spinning carelessly far away, down the street. We will change the shot to be slow motion to make it seem for weightless.

The next lyric is a simple “uh-oh” that the artist sings. Each part of this will be a different shot of the same graffiti. For example a little closer or from a different angle.

The next line, “So lovely loving you,” will be of the actress spinning again, only the camera will be close enough to be a medium shot. Again, slow motion.

There is another “uh-oh,” and it will be almost the same as the “uh-oh” before it. It will be two different shots of the same plant, like from a different angle, etc.

The chorus ends there. The next lyrics are the same as the first. These will be the parallel shots that are during the day, instead of during sunrise(as explained earlier).

We are super excited to execute our plan and hope we can find everything we need.

Music Video Planning

For our music video, we have chosen several locations: the beach, FAT Village, The Alchemist, The Top Hat Deli and Wynwood. Most of these locations are public, we won't have to ask permission before filming there. However, some places within these public spaces, such as the C&I cafe in FAT Village, will require us to ask permission. I am not worried about this, as the cafe is very art friendly. We will have to film at the beach twice, to get shots in the morning and daytime. This might be a problem as there will be more people at the beach during the day, making it harder to get the shot we need. Similarly, timing the shots of the sunrise on the beach might be difficult, as if we end up taking a time lapse we would only get one chance. Moreover, going to Wynwood might not be necessary, as we can get plenty of graffiti shots from other places like The Alchemist. This would simplify our schedule, as the drive to Wynwood is quite long.

Safety is an important aspect of our music video, as there is a lot of traveling involved. Seat belts, as always, are a must. Sunscreen and hats for sun protection are to be used as we will be filming outside for the majority of the music video. This is especially necessary for filming at the beach later in the day, as nobody wants to get a sunburn. Winter is approaching, and even here it is starting to get cold. Packing a jacket to keep warm is a good precaution in case the temperature drops. Of course, throughout the entire filming process, we will have adult supervision. They will drive us to each location, and stay with us until we need to leave.

The chosen costumes and props are relatively simple, thankfully. To keep with our established aesthetic, sweaters and jackets will be used. Preferably, they should be autumn themed, in colors of orange and red. A sweater that fits this description has been obtained, so no panic over costumes is necessary. Props might be a different story, however. In the storyboard, there are books and a cup of hot chocolate that are used in some shots. While they are not hard to come by, it's the aesthetic that might be harder to match. Fortunately, the hot chocolate can be easily purchased from one of the locations we’re filming at, so it’s aesthetic will match. A wide variety of books could be used for the shot, so this is really the only problem we could face while filming.

Our teachers offered each group to check out the provided equipment, but we chose not to. This is because we will use our own! We will use our own tripod, camera and SD card. This might be a slight problem as any technical difficulties with the camera’s won't be excused by the teachers. The choice to use our own equipment is a good one, though, as the last time we lost some footage when dumping it on the provided SD card. Lastly, we might get the chance to use a professional editing program that’s not Pinnacle studios, which would be a very interesting experience. One last concern is that our story board might be a bit vague. Most of our shots could easily change, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but this would complicate the editing process. If we end up taking a lot of unplanned shots, we could spend a great deal of time sorting through them when we could be editing.

Music video Conventions

Our first project, a Converse Commercial, is over! I really enjoyed the filming process and editing as a group! I loved filming the most because it was the most collaborative part of the project, while when editing only two people could crowd around the phone to edit together. I hope that with this new project we can get the chance to edit using Pinnical Studios, as I feel it will give us less problems than IMovie did. One part of the filming process I think we can fix, is using a tripod more often. When filming the commercial, we only used the tripod when reshooting and it really messed with the overall quality of the commercial. When planning, I made sure our storyboard was very in-depth, and generally we stuck to it. I want to make sure our storyboard for our next project is just as good as it was for our last project!

My group, thankfully, decided on a song with little argument. In order to come to this easy conclusion, we started off with a theme. We wanted a soft, chill song with only a bit of beat. This lead to a few song suggestions, almost all of them by the artist Khai Dreams. The suggestions included Ultimately, Time to Time and Sunkissed; additionally there’s was one other song called Grow by The Oh Hellos that was more lively than any of the other three songs. In order to decide, I thought everyone in the group should come up with their favorite, and then a second favorite. Eventually, we each had our list prepared, and it turned out there wasn’t much need for discussion. Everyone chose Sunkissed as their favorite! Sunkissed is an indie pop song, although it doesn’t seem like one from listening to it. We all decided on this song because it was optimistic while still being chill. It’s lyrics were easy to put to any visual, and we already had a possible filming place. For the setting, we chose Winwood in Miami, and Fat Village. They are both artsy places with some graffiti, to capture the planned aesthetic. 

In class, my group had to research the usual conventions used in indie pop song music videos. We came across many, and most didn’t suit our visions of the music video. I was beginning to think that we may need to step out side of the conventions to achieve the aesthetic set forth by the song’s lyrics and tone! Until I came across one music video that caught my eye. The video in question was awkward in a sense, it was edited to be funny and approachable in a sense. It wasn’t overly professional, and it didn’t focus overly on the band. A little later, I found another video with the perfect aesthetic. It was simple, with clean cuts from one still shot to another. There wasn’t a lot of movement in the shots, but their use of lighting was exactly what I was looking for. Their shots had a color scheme, so when the shot changed to the musicians the color change was hating and added an extra element to the production. Other things I noticed in the music videos was their general use of lighting and color in tandem. Color schemes went with specific places, as so when the shot changed from one to another it would be easy to tell them apart. Lighting was also used to highlight specific parts of each shot, which is something which I hope to use in our commercial a lot. The colthign died in the music videos was causal, their jeans were cuffed and jackets were a must. This is something   we might not need in our video, as we don’t intend on having many people in any shots. For sound, I heard that little to no dive tic sound was used, the main thing was the actual music. Although, for our project we could use some dive tic doing for the into and ending. Our project has a time limit of 1:05-1:10, and our song is about 2 minutes long. We had to cut down the song, so we decided to stop at the chorus. 

Editing Process Part 2

After that fiasco, a few classes later I finally got a chance to edit. My teachers got Pinnical Studio’s on some laptops, since the desktop computers weren’t working. Unfortunately, only 13 of the laptops had Pinnical downloaded. This wasn’t a problem for us, however, because I grabbed us a computer! The teachers said we only had 45 minutes to work on them, because other groups needed to work on them. While I was worried that the editing process would take to long, but my concerns didn’t matter. As soon as the laptop turned on, I opened the Pinnical Studio’s application. Only, it didn’t open correctly. It just stoped at the loading screen, and when we clicked it again, it refused to load. I went up to the teachers to ask for help, and they told me to keep trying. Eventually, we decided to give our computer up to another group.

Fortunately, we had a back up plan. I had the nessesary files downloaded on my phone, as well as IMovie. Unfortunately, IMovie is less than reliable when it comes to using it. It often crashes, or just stops working. I often find myself loosing most of of my saved work when working with it. Sadly, it was our only option, so using it was unavoidable. I inserted our chosen shots into IMovie and helped edit them down to be around 30 seconds. Next, I worked on the transitions, making them all the same and timing each shot to coralate to eachother. Continuity was a big issue, as I the actor was walking at different speeds in each shot. Once that was done, it came time for audio. There was a lot of background noise, so I had to adjust the volume of the audio to be lower. Next, I inserted the voice overs over the dialogue that couldn’t be heard over the ambient noise in the background. This turned out to be a really good call, because almost none of the original audio was very clear.

Finaly, it came time to choose the music. This was a rather hard decision, because everyone in the group had a different idea. In the end, the chosen music track was from a video game’s background music. It was casual with no build up, just simple guitar. Sadly, all of the debate turned out to be meaningless. IMovie, as corporative as always, didn’t allow me to upload the track. Back to the drawing board, I suggested that we use one of IMovie’s provided tracks. No one, including me, liked this idea, because most of IMovie’s tracks were predictable and boring. Surprisingly, as I looked through some of IMovie’s tracks, there were some I hadn’t heard before. In the end, we decided on a song called Sun Room. It was labeled as, “chill,” and generally matched the mood we were trying to present with the commercial. It was electronic, but not overly so. It wasn’t perfect, but it was the best I could find in the provided tracks. All in all, I think our project turned out good, despite the many problems we encountered. I hope the next project I do will include getting to use Pinnical studios!

Editing process

Today in class, I tried to edit the footage. Unfortunately, I ran into many difficulties. First, when I came into class, I noticed that our computer was weird. It had a message on the screen, and I couldn’t make it go away. I tried turning the computer on and off, but that didn’t work. Eventually I went up to the teacher to ask for help. She said to check if the computer was plugged in. Once I relayed this information to the rest of the group, I found the unplugged cord and fixed it. Then I turned the computer off and on again. Finally, it turned on and I could login. However, this wasn’t the end to our trouble. 

The next big difficulty came with the files from the filming process. I had my suspicions that not every shot taken made it onto the computer, and I was sadly proven correct. The first two scenes taken of me walking were missing. This would have crippled the whole commercial, if there wasn’t a reshoot! Last class, it was decided last minute to reshoot the whole commercial. So, the missing scenes were made up for! Additionally, reshooting created even more shots to use for the other scenes. Overall, I’m expecting to use the reshot scenes in the final product. This is because I felt more confident when acting those scenes out, and had already practiced what to do. 

The last problem was with Pinnical Studios. When I tried to open it, a message apeared that said it needed a login. I didn’t not have a login to use, so I decided to approach the teacher about it. Before I could ask, the teacher made an announcement. She said that no one would get in trouble if the school computers weren’t working, and to focus on saving the footage somewhere else besides the computer. I decided to email the footage to myself. Again, more technical difficulties, I found that I couldn’t email large files together. To try to find a way around this, I said that we should email each file independently, choosing the best shot to use out of each scene. This would make it easyer when it came to edit, as sorting thought to find the best shot wouldn’t be a problem. Watching the shots, I thought taking more shots total would have been better. Over all, the process of editing is proving to be more difficult that I had imagined. 

Filming process

Filming our commercial started with us checking out equipment. I filled out the agreement form, while one teammate signed us out to leave. We got to our plan A filming site, and luckily no one else was there, except for some people filming on the baseball court a little ways away. We started filming  inside the second floor of the building. There we did several takes of me, the actor, walking out the door. Before we shot, I had to take off my purse and put on my teammates backpack because it had no branding. I also put in my ear buds, as we had decided that I would be wearing them to then offer to the second actor in the final scene. All of this, our camera woman did hand held. This was because we decided to make this shot a tracking shot. We did do a version that wasn’t tracking, but it was less dynamic.

Next, we shot outside on the stairs. This part was easy, as it was just a wide shot. The hardest part was when it was time for both me and the other actor to work together. The timing was hard to get because we both had to be walking. That shot ended up taking a long time. Next, the camera woman had us do my topic shots of just waking from point A to point B, which is something different than our storyboard was. This wasn’t hard to do, but again our timing was the hardest to get right. Then, we had to do a long shot, ending on my shoes, which were converse. We did this many times in two different places. At first we tried a closeup, but then we decided to tilt down and move the camera in. 

Once we had everything filmed, we decided that we had enough time to reshoot some scenes, just in case. We decided to quickly run through all of them with the camera in the tripod. I think all of those shots were better than the previous ones. This is dude to us knowing what to do, and the other people filing in the background had left. Over all, the dumping process of the commercial was very stressful. It took forever to turn on the computer and get the information to load. In the end, we stayed after class to finish. I’m slightly worried that some of our dm footage didn’t save, but I’m sure it will be ok. Over all, this was a great experience. I wish to do it again!

Storyboard

Today in class we were supposed to create our storyboard, but, our group had already finished the storyboard in previous classes. The storyboard we worked on is for Building 17, but if we need to, we can film in lots of separate locations.

The first shot is of actor M walking down a hallway(maybe a tracking shot?), eventually leaving the building through the double doors at the end. We have planned to have music in the background, where it is actually what actor M is listening to, so actor M will need to wear headphones. The next shot will be actor M beginning to walk down the stairs after leaving the hallway(maybe a wide shot, showing the surroundings?). In the third shot(probably wide) actor M reaches the bottom of the steps as actor J walks across the screen. Actor M gets actor J's attention with a "Hey, wait up." Then the fourth shot shows actor M catching up to actor J, and the fifth is of their shoes(specifically actor M's Converse), actor M asking "Want to listen?" to actor J. Continuing the fifth shot, the camera is still as the two actors walk out of the shot, with text appearing and a voice-over reading the words, "Converse, keep it simple."

 We have been struggling a little with the sound, though we are still working to find a song. Also, we think that each shot will vary in length, each one might not be exactly 5 seconds. Here is a picture of the storyboard:

Research Conventions

My group started to work on our commercial project today. We will be creating a commercial about converse. We had to choose from a list of topics, including Starbucks/Dunkin Donuts, Wendy’s/McDonalds, and Nike/Converse. We decided against doing a chain restaurant because we couldn’t think of any strong ideas on the spot. Once we thought more about converse, we saw that it would work the best.

We started to research more about converse. Like their past slogans like, “Made by you,” and the like. We saw that most of their recent commercials were all about the diversity in daily life. This is great since our school is very diverse and we can only shoot on campus. All in all, Converse is looking to be a great choice for us to choose for this commercial project.

In class we started working on ideas for various shots that are commonly used in their commercials. We noticed that they used a lot of closeups on their actual shoes, and generally revealed their brand towards the end. We plan to storyboard our shots like theirs. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough class time to discuss this all in class, so we decided to plan via group chat!

Editing Lesson Blog

Today in class, we were introduced to our editing software called Pinnical studios.  The first thing we learned was how to Dump our footage from our SD card to the computer. Our teacher was very clear when she told us that we needed to create a folder for each individual project. She also gave us tips on how to find out footage on the SD card, and how to tell when footage was ours or someone else’s. Next, we learned how to import our footage onto Pinnical Studios so our teacher visually walked us through the steps. She then continued to teach us the editing process. She told us we can’t click over and over, and she showed us how we have to wait for Pinnical to save each piece of footage before we can change any more of it. Our teacher showed us where to place our video footage, which is in track two, and explained how layers work. Then, we learned how to cut, arrange and delete footage. All of this, I was already familiar with as I had used IMovie which had similar features.  

She then got into the challenging stuff. She showed us how to give footage effects. The example she used was changing the brightness of the raw footage to make it appear like it was shot at night. She showed us how to crop the video and add transitions. Next, we were shown how to add titles. We learned how to create them, how to edit their font size, placement on the screen and color! Once that was done, our teacher showed us how to add transitions to the titles. She then moved on to explain sound, like how to add voiceovers and remove sound from specific footage. She did this by detaching the audio from the video file and either deleting the video to create a voiceover, or by deleting the sound. This was very helpful, as I wasn’t familiar with how to do any of this from my past experience with IMovie. 

On a slightly unrelated note, our teacher went over the class procedures for checking out supplies. Earlier, she had us student fill out a user agreement form that would allow us to use the school provided equipment. In our three person group, two of us have turned in our forms, and unfortunately the only person who hasn’t turned in their form might have to film. This makes me a little worried, but she say’s she’ll turn it in next class, and I’m inclined to believe her. Our teacher explained the small nuances of checking out equipment. Such as signing out a camera, and where to put your check paper. She also mentioned how there are only so many SD card readers and how that might affect the speed of the editing process. She then warned us how if we don’t dump our footage off the SD card, she can’t guarantee it won’t be deleted accidentally. Additionally, there might not be enough computers for each group to work on their project. Luckily I have a loptop, but it doesn’t have the editing software. 

Planning Blog for Converse Commercial

Today we are planning our commercial. Figuring out the props, costumes, schedule, locations and our backup plan for if anything goes wrong. We want our commercial to be simple. Just following a normal student, and eventually revealing they’re wearing converse. The slogan we are going for is “keep it simple,” and “made by you.”

Props: definitely a backpack(not branded or too distracting). Maybe a binder/folder/notebook or book, to show more context of the actor being a student, but it’s not completely necessary. We want the actors to look natural.

Costumes: keeping with the “natural” and “simple” theme, we want the actors to wear their own non-branded clothing, enough to give them personality but not enough for them to distract. In the event we cannot use the clothing worn, a jacket will be used to cover it up.

Schedule: today we are planning and we might draft the storyboard. Next class we will complete the storyboard with definite shots. Then the next we will film. Having planned so thoroughly, filming shouldn’t be a problem and won’t take more than 30 minutes to accomplish. We don’t quite know what editing program we are using so we aren’t sure if it will be difficult, but we will make sure to have plenty of shots to choose from.

Location list: for what we have in mind, all we need is a hallway, stairs and a somewhat open place. It could be the balcony hallway of building 5, the media center stairs and the patio in front of it; It could by the second floor of building 21, the stairs and the walkway next to it; Or it could even be the second floor hallway of building 17, the stairs and the stone path by it. Any of these locations can be used, and there are plenty of others we have planned for if some don’t work out.

We have talked about each backup plan within each subject, and can’t wait to execute our plan!

Introductory

Hello, my name is Madelene and I am very excited to be taking AICE media studies. I enjoy reading in my spare time, my favorite book series is The Raven Cycle. I also cook or bake on occasion and my favorite thing to make are dark chocolate cookies, they are simply delicious!

This school year, I am taking 7 classes: French, Chemistry, Algebra II, AICE English, AICE Media Studies, Fashion and AICE European History. Luckily, all of my teachers and great, they don't assign to much homework or lecture, which is always a plus. By far, the most exciting class I am taking this year is European history. I've never been so interested in history as I am learning about the bloody French Revolution! My favorite Core subject is science, and so far I am really enjoying Chemistry.

I expect this blog to be difficult, as I am not used to writing about my self. Hopefully, I will improve and become accustomed to this writing style over this year. The reason why I chose AICE media, is that I love almost any kind of art. I've tried painting, pottery, photography, acting and dance, but never film. Media studies is my introduction into the world of film, and I can't wait to start filming!