AICE Media Studies

   After creating my commercial, I figure that much reflection is needed. I learned how to upload on both iMovie and YouTube. iMovie was easy at first, that was until I got to the music and transition aspect. The first issue I ran into was with transitions. I learned that in story board, it has set transitions you cannot change. These transitions did not fit in how I liked, but at first I ignored it. This was until yet another problem arised, music. I planned to upload the music as a background audio, because iMovie did not offer my song choice. But, I couldn't. So, I ended up asking a friend and she showed me how to download it onto the typical setting. To then upload it onto blogger, I had to post my commercial on YouTube. I had zero clue how to do that, per usual, but I figured it out with much needed help. The process of putting this project together was very time consuming. In order to complete each assignment, I must set out specific dates to do it. I also realized that ...

After much hard work, my commercial is complete! Enjoy!

   What's up blog ? How are you guys doing? Well you will feel much better after I share some exciting news ! I have finished my commercial ! So, what have I done from the last production blog you may ask? Well, I first cut down on time by shortening my introductory video. I also added music and transitions. I am not going to lie, I struggled a lot on the musical aspect. So, I ended up asking a friend who has worked with iMovie before to help me, and lets just say I was very fortunate. Apple music did not offer the sounds I wanted, so we screen recorded from YouTube and uploaded the video as audio only. We where then able to adjust the time lengths to fit the photos I had chosen for each song. With some tweaking here and there, I feel I achieved a smooth transition between the two songs. Then there was transitions between the photos and videos. This was relatively easy after I had transferred over what I made on Story Board to the basic template. By doing this I was able top ...

    Hey blog, welp it's Monday again. So, after this exciting weekend I figured it was time to face reality and update you guys on this commercial. I am not going to lie, it was very difficult to find the motivation to start the process of putting the commercial together. But, I pushed through and am praying that it was just a one time thing, lol. As I have said previously, I am using iMovie. I have uploaded my photos and videos onto the template. With this, I have also adjusted times and context to fit these parts.  Although it seems to be going smoothly, I am struggling with the transition aspect. I am completely new to iMovie, so for one I am not sure where to find these transitions, and which photo to put transitions after. But, I am going to continue playing around with it and hopefully I will catch on. It is exactly 1 minute long and I don't plan to change that. But, something has changed and that is how many photos and videos I have chosen along with the format. In...

 Hi again, wow it sure does get boring having to say that over and over again. Never thought I would have that issue. But that is besides the point. It is currently week one of producing my commercial, and let's just say learning how to use iMovie is not easy. I have used it in the past, but not to the extent of making a commercial. I have been playing around with it, and uploading the different photos and videos I am using for this assignment. Within all of this I have decided to use the story board setting as it resembles closely to what components an actual commercial or movie would have. There are many different templates, but I thought "About me" would be best fit. I plan the commercial to be around 45 seconds to about a minute long, so that means I would have to cut out parts of the songs. As I mentioned previously, the first part will be about my personal life, which will be the first 25-30 seconds of "Cruel Summer" by Taylor Swift. During the rest of the...

  Hey blog, I'm back. Let's just say Mondays are not for the weak, especially when you have a commercial under production. Lately, I have been going through albums and albums of both photos and videos to choose which ones I feel best represent myself. It hasn't been easy, but it has come along. I recently downloaded both capcut and iMovie in order to produce and develop my commercial. I have chosen to use iMovie specifically for editorial purposes. Although I have yet to construct it, I am in the process of planning my commercial. I plan to call it Keeping up With Kylie. In the beginning I will have a video of my friend and I with the title fading in. After that it will be a photo of me when I was little on the boat. I then hope to find a transition to a picture of me currently on the downtown Nashville bridge with my friends. After that two videos of me surfing with play. Keeping in mind that the during this, the song "Cruel Summer" by Taylor Swift will be playin...

   Hey blog, I'm back again with a commercial in progress. Planning this project has been nostalgic, looking back on pictures and videos from a few years ago brings back core memories. Going from tee-ball, having picnic parties with my stuffed animals, and going out on the boat with my dad to travel softball, parties with friends and surfing at the beach. So, to me it seems that a lot has changed, but it really hasn't. I've just been growing up. But, back to planning this commercial. I have chosen 8 photos that I feel best represent myself. Two of these photos happen to be my younger self, one playing tee-ball and one on the boat. I will then transition the tee-ball one to a few photos of me playing softball. These will consist of me at different colleges and game footage. Then, the photo on the boat will go to a photo taken of me in downtown Nashville. Coincidentally, I happened to be there for a tournament. Can you see how my life practically revolves around the sport? I ...

  I'm gonna be saying this a lot from now on, but I guess we have to start somewhere. Hi blog, I'm Kylie, a tenth grader currently attending Fort Lauderdale High School. Most call me a student athlete, but I like to call myself an athlete student. My life revolves around softball, it is where I get my motivation to keep going, to strive for excellence, and to never give up. This all sounds great in theory, but when you're a perfectionist like me it isn't all rainbows. Ever since I was a little girl I had a ball and a bat in my hand, little did I know. But, I do get free time every now and then and it's an understatement to say that I spend every second of it at the beach. Surfing, playing volleyball, watching sunsets while eating ice cream. I guess that's a pretty good explanation on why my favorite season is summer. Not to mention, it is watermelon season, and I might have a slight addiction. What else do I love? Pickles and sharks. Odd right? Well that's m...