AICE Media Studies Blog

 Today was one of two days of production filming for our commercial, it went very well to say at least. As expected this was new to all of us and we had a lot of getting use to filming clips and doing retakes. The retakes were especially hard and annoying to keep doing as it took 10 takes to finish and capture a good running scene. But it wasn't nothing we cant overcome as a team that's in it to win it. Unfortunately, one of our teammates was absent today and due to this wasn't able to film with us. So there was a lot of moving around scenes to be able to get things done that didn't required her in. We hope that she will be back on Monday which is our last day filming and if she isn't present w have to move on without her and hope for the best for her. We really do hope she makes it for this we really don't want her to fail and especially not after all the work she did preparing for this. Anyway we are getting off tracked with this, Filming went surprisingly smo...

  First Scene- During this scene we will be filming a kid running into a classroom. The shot will be a closeup-medium shot and a tracking shot. The first location will be a classroom. We wanted to include a classroom since Crayola products are mostly used in schools. The dress code is going to be school wear just so the audience knows that these are students. Second Scene- The next scene we wanted to include for our commercial is the kid going to a desk and grabbing the Crayola products. There will be a pan shot for the products right before the kid grabs it. This shot is going to be a closeup shot. Third Scene- The third scene we wanted to include in our commercial was the kid running to other kids. The location for the scene is on the bridge to Fort Lauderdale’s main office building. This will be a medium shot.  Fourth Scene-  The fourth scene will be a kid drawing. Then it will tilt to show more kids drawing. This scene emphasizes how likable Crayola is. It also emphas...

  Props: Our commercial is going to be about Crayola. So, our group will be using Crayola products like Crayola markers and Crayola crayons. There will be other props. These other props include: paper and sticky notes. These props will really help tie together our commercial. Costumes: In our commercial, everyone will have a turn to be on camera. The outfits will be school appropriate outfits. This will help emphasize that we’re school students.  Schedule:  On 9/23/21, our group researched conventions and codes of Crayola commercials. On 9/23/21, our group planned out the props, costumes, schedule, location list, and backup plan.   On 9/28/21, our group will complete our storyboard.  On 9/30/21 and 10/4/21, our group will record the necessary footage we need for our commercial.  On 10/6/21 and 10/8/21, our group will edit the footage.  On 10/8/21, our group will submit the final product.  Location:  Our main location is Ms. Marchion...

  The start of our research     Today me and my group have  decided  to start our research  about our commercial topic.  We have been discussing for a few days and finally  produced  a topic.  That topic being Crayola crayons.  We will use this commercial to “promote” them, but we need our research to do it properly.  With this research we looked at different Crayola commercials and  saw  what happens in them portray it accurately as well as doing other things.  Since we all have a deep  connection with Crayola since it played a big part  of our lives, we wanted to make our research as  accurate  as possible.   This is also our reasoning for choosing Crayola as our topic  in the first place.  We also  decided  to  have our  original  concept for  the commercial while also  keeping the originality .     What was in the commercial? ...

 Hello, its me again, I'm here again to give a report back after officially meeting my teammates and believe me when I say they were very interesting. They weren't what I was expecting but I'm not complaining. I was able to make so much conversation with them and were able to create a good bond with them and maybe enough to call them friends. We talked on and on about similar interest we had in common and also talked about what we are going to do with our Commercial. I'm really loving the ides we came up with and still have a few mix feelings about things that we want to pursue and I'll work with on what I can get.  Shannon McCauley is one of my group members and an old friend of mines I met in middle school of 7th year. Well I officially met her in 7th grade but I knew of her in 6th as she had a backpack of one of my favorite Musicians at the time, Melanie Martinez. She was a great friend back then and is still a good one now, and I'm glad to have her in my gro...

Hello, My name is Rose Altes, I'm currently a student at Fort Lauderdale Highschool and taking my first year of AICE Media Studies. I'm very excited for this and for what's to come, as in projects, group work, the planning and filming process of the video's, commercials or music videos. For me, this is going a new experience from what I'm normally used to back at middle school or even the last year Highschool. Current goals are to able to do the best I can for my assignment for my teacher, partners and of course myself. Very much excited for my first assignment which I believe is a commercial, still thinking on what I can do for it and to begin the storyboarding stage as quick as possible. Still building my team for this assignment, picking the best people I can to help me succeed. When thinking about ideas on what I want I to be about, my mind often switch to shoes or food commercials like Subway or Footlocker. I want to be able to do one of these but cant really t...