Eriberto Mendoza's AICE Media Studies Final Project

 As I've discussed in my last few blog posts, every scene of every films has to have its sound perfectly planned out, a part of this sound is the score, which is the music that plays in the background of a scene/shot. The same goes for the security camera shot, which is a scene inside of my conversation scene, which i did the score for in my Blog Post #57 - Editing: Score for Conversation .  My security camera shot   is supposed to have a more dramatic, worryful feel when the camera shootage is shown, but not too much, in order to not dampen the rest of the scene . This means that t he security camera shot must have score that is darker and more dramatic, meaning slower, and a lower pitch. The security camera shot must have score that is darker and more dramatic, meaning slower, and a lower pitch. To start, I looked again on iMovie to look for a song to use, and I found one that fit my description, called "Pursuit". Here is it down below Here is the song edited into my pr...

 The conversation scene of my project is vital to the narrative, as it shows the motivation of the detecitves, and where they go at the end of the opening. Because of this, the score for it must match the tone of scene, and help to tell the story of the project, while also making it entertaining and fast. The conversation scene is supposed to be playful, and faster than the montage scene. Because of this, the scene must be more upbeat but still calm, envoking a conversational vibe in the audience.  For the start and end of the scene, I had searched for a song in the iMovie catalog, as I did in my previous blog post, here is the song I found that I thought fit the scene. It is named "Sanskrit". The reason I did not end up using this song is that it had a desert-y type vibe. Here is it down below. Since I did not want to use this song for the conversation scene, I thought of songs I have listened to before that I have liked to listen to while performing other tasks, such as wri...

 Score is an important part of any scene in any film, as I researched in my Blog Post #56 - Editing: Score for Montage . Score helps a scene to feel less empty, impacting the feeling of speed in the film, leaving behind an emotion impact, revealing character motivations, or creating excitement. These are just a few examples of the impact of score. In the montage scene of my project, Beneath The Hood, I plan to use score to create a more levelheaded, calm, and slow scene, to display Fern going about his daily activities in the office.   To fuffill the requirements of this scene by using score, I will need a slower, instrumental, quieter, overall calm song. To look for songs, I first looked up songs that fit this description on Google, but I didn't find any song that fit my description. I then followed this up by going through iMovie's sound gallery, and I found a song named "Watercolor Medium" that perfectly fit my description, but it was too short. I then looked furth...

 In my Blog Post #38 - Titling Sequence, I researched title cards and created one for my project Beneath The Hood, which is seen down below. This title card did not add much to the atmosphere or vibe of the film, overall having a low impact on the film. Since this title sequence doesnt leave much of an impact on the audience, leaving the audience with a lower energy and feeling after the slow-paced montage scene, I want to make a higher energy, and exciting title card, to up the energy for the latter half of the project. I also want to put in an aspect that includes the presence of the killer, since that is whom this film revolves around. The symbolism of the black-hooded killer are his black hood, blade, and his victims. I can stem off the topic of his victims, and use blood as an example of the symbolism of this killer, and more broadly killers in general. The easiest way I can think to add blood to the introduction is to overlay blood splatters onto the intro, but I want to do a...

 Inside of my project, there are various shots that need a clearer voice or that need a sound effect to give context to them. My goal in this post is to go over how I'm rectifying that. Key points that I have identified that need treatment for this are when Fern looks up towards the door at the end of the montage, when the Killer kills the child (Ethan), when Fern and Ed look towards the camera, and when the car starts in the driveway. Fern looking at the door can be solved by adding a simple door-knocking sound effect, which my editing app of choice, iMovie, provides for me in its sound catalog. Adding this right before Fern looks at the door will solve this issue. To rectify the lack of speech when the Killer kills the child, I will need to add a voice-over with a speech filter on it, to make it seem lower quality and more distorted, as it would be recorded through a security camera. To achieve this, I imported a voice recording of myself saying "Please Noo" into iMovie...

Opening credits are an important part of any film, as they let the audience know who is in the film. This may give the audience context as to what the rest of the film may be like. In  Blog Post #38 - Titling Sequence , I went over my plan to edit my titling sequence into my film and what shots they will be in.  The opening credits scene in my project will be at the beginning, over my montage . The inclusion of the opening credits will help my opening scene to further grab the audience's attention, by showcasing the names of the actors in the film. Although it may not be in this project, occasionally, credits may grab an audience's attention by stating names that a wide audience may recognize, specifically celebrities. For example, people may recognize Tom Holland, or Zendaya, from the Spider-Man movies from the past decade. This may grab the attention of audiences who are fans of these actors, encouraging them to watch the film.  As I discussed in Blog Post #38 - Titling...

As I researched in my previous blog post, transitions are vital to films. This is because they are essential to storytelling and managing the narrative elements and flow of a film. Transitions are a tool that are important to be used correctly. While editing my project, I used fade transitions, dissolve transitions, and cut transitions in order to fit the tone. In my montage scene, I used cross-dissolve transitions in order to convey that scenes were happening over time, and fade to black transitions to convey a larger passing of time. To end this scene, I used a cross-blur transition to assist the whip pan the camera was performing. I also used a cut transition to show scenes happening one immediately after the other. During the scene of Ed walking in, I used hard cuts to amplify the hard opening and closing of the door, making Ed's presence more impactful.  After the conversation scene, I used a match cut in order to transition from Fern walking in front of the camera to Fern wal...