AICE Media Studies

 Hello everyone welcome back! I'm very glad to say the filming has been finished for Bedlam. More filming was done throughout the week for last scenes we needed. Now i don't know for sure if the filming is officially finished, because editing hasn't started so i have no idea how everything will look when it's all done. If more filming has to be done then so be it. The last filming that was done was at Fransheca's house. The group wanted a scene at a psych ward and obviously weren't able to go to one and film. So some improvising was done. I had to be very careful when filming in the room because the room had to be bare. A lot of stuff had to be moved around. It worked a lot better than expected and was definitely the best choice out of all our bedrooms. Mine was already used in the production, and i have way too many posters and random things on my wall. Omnia's room is also pretty lively too. Fransheca's room has white and grey walls. Which worked very ...

 Hello everyone and welcome back! i've been very busy lately. More filming was done this week, so we're almost done. One of the places we were going to film was a cafe. It took two tries to find one that would let us film though. The first place we tried was actually my workplace and they didn't let us. Was messed up right? I get it though, my cafe is very busy and people may get in the shots that don't want to be in them. It's all about consent and everything. But, the place we filmed was better than my cafe. A lot quieter and it has different rooms, so we just stuck to one place. We of course asked for permission and got food. I had the best latte ever also. Will definitely be back again for more. The scenes were done pretty smoothly, except that one waiter got in the shot. It was okay though and they apologized profusely. Was a little awkward, but it was pretty funny. After the cafe scenes were done the group went to a mall near by. When filming there the group h...

 Hello and welcome back everyone! i hope you've all been doing well. I've been doing pretty good myself i can't lie. I do have to say though that filming has been very hard. As i've mentioned everyone within the group is very busy. Its definitely been getting in the way of filming. A little bit of filming was done eaalier this week. It was done at my house before anyway went to work. So it was only around 30 seconds that was done. It was mainly because the shots that were filmed were very hard to do. It was text messages from a phone, which meant very little light could be used. You know that glare is crazy. It had to be even darker though, because it was supposed to mimic night-time. Even though it was like 3 P.M. All the blinds and doors had to be closed to have this effect. I'm lucky that i have a bush in front of my room which helps with getting my room dark. My blinds are also almost blackout. So it mimicked pretty well. Only the texting scene was finished thou...

 Hello again everyone! It's nice to see you all again. As the filming process begins there's a few things i must do to track the process. One of them is creating the postcard for our film along with the social media pages. I created the Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter accounts for the film. I know that a Youtube account also has to be created, but that's been giving me some problems not going to lie. But, you can find all the accounts @bedlam_film. The name for the film was carefully decided. Bedlam means a scene of madness, chaos or great confusion. It can also mean an asylum for the mentally ill. This will definitely to the film itself and also the aesthetic of the film itself. To add to the aesthetic of the film, i found pictures on pinterest for the media side of the project. I spent about an hour deciding between what photos i wanted to use for the postcard. I then made it with the ones i chose, then changed it after because i didn't like the way the photos looked...

  Hello and welcome back! I hope you all had an amazing time while i was away. I can’t lie, i didn’t. The plan for filming at my house didn’t go as planned. Pretty ironic right? But anyway- The reason it didn’t go as planned was because one of the group members got sick. The filming couldn’t be done, because it puts the rest of the group members at risk for also being sick. Then the filming would keep being postponed, so the filming wasn’t done. It’s a good thing too, because another member also got sick. I’m the only member that isn’t sick or getting over a sickness at the moment. I’m hoping it stays that way. The plan for filming first at my house is still on the way. It’ll be done this weekend. But there’s some conflicting work schedules. So, due to that i don’t think that all the scenes at my house will be completed at one time. There’s only a short window of time that the group can use that day to film. From my past experience in film, it takes around an hour to film a minute ...

 Hello and welcome back! i hope you all had a nice time while i was away. While i've been away ive been making more media. Within the website, it's said that Bedlam is going to be shown at film festivals. I decided i wanted to create posters for the film festivals. It would give me things to post on the social media accounts. So, i created two different posters. One was for The Shorts film festival. The other poster was for the Millers Fest. Both are film festivals that were made up. I was originally going to create the poster from scratch. That ended up being very hard and i wasn't able to. I found templates instead, those made it a lot easier. I made it on my phone. So, i had to end up downloading a new editing app to use the templates i found. It was free thankfully. The app was Adobe Express. It was very easy to use which i'm very thankful for. The first poster was created quickly, but the second one gave me some trouble. I had to move the text and fix the size of i...

 Hello and welcome back! I hope everyone's been well as i've been away. So the production has finally started, but definitely not without some mishaps. Filming had been pushed back again, because there was scheduling conflicts. The group knew that this was likely going to be a problem as filming went on. The time between filming though will make the film turn out better though. There's days to decide what's the best and what deserves to be in the film. The first part of filming was at my house. Only around 2 minutes were able to be filmed. Not all the scenes that are supposed to be filmed at my house were done. The scenes that are filmed are just the beginning sequence. There's one scene that was filmed that's the longest amount of uncut filming i've ever done. It's about a 45 second scene, which includes a close up, an over-the-shoulder shot and a tracking shot. Its a lot of different types of shots within one. It surprising only took three tries to do....

  Hello and welcome back! So, we plan on filming on this upcoming monday. The plan is to film at my house. The filming is going to be split up into several days. The different days will be for the different locations. The first location will be at my house, and that’s where majority of the film where take place. So, the bulk of the filming will be done. In the next coming week the other locations will be used. There is still the last scene that a location has to be chosen for. There’s 3 locations that are planned. The last location will only be needed for a very small clip, so it’s not that stressful to find. The location just has to fit the setting that’s imagined for the scene. The film won’t be shot in order, about like 70% of the film is at my house, but all the scenes are spread out through the film. The other locations will only be needed for small scenes. The mall is needed for a few scenes. The filming there will be a little tricky because some stores don’t allow you to fil...