AICE Media Studies

Media representations are not often neutrally constituted; they either reinforce or disrupt existing power dynamics. As such, youth representation was integral to the overall creation of Finding You. Mainstream media usually represents youths in a subtractive manner, which portrays them as reckless and impulsive or still growing emotionally until adulthood. This type of representation aligns with Cohen's moral panic narrative ("folk devil" theory), often disregarding youth's ability to make autonomous decisions and act with independent ability. Therefore, I attempted to represent the "youth" category via the prism of emotional intellectuality, thereby overturning the conception of adolescence as purely a biologically unstable period. An example of this can be seen in the pivotal moment when Brad goes after Laura despite having his own internal conflict. The over-the-shoulder shot gives both characters a sense of target usually denied to this group. The camer...

 Short Film:  Short film website: Movie Website Postcard:

  When researching film websites and postcards, I found a website and a postcard for the movie Love, Rosie. The website is pretty simple. It includes the postcard with all the information about the movie, including: Genre: Comedy, Romance; Director: Christian Ditter;  and  Producers:  Robert Kulzer and Simon Brooks. It also included a short description of the movie and a trailer. I liked the addition of the description of the movie, so those who haven't watched it can read it and get intrigued to watch it. Although I think the website itself should've included more information.  The postcard for Love, Rosie included the main actors in an embrace, the title design up front, the actors' names, and a short sentence on the movie topic. I especially liked the short, singular sentence because it can attract people to the movie by making them wonder what it could mean. There wasn't anything I didn't particularly enjoy. For my group mates and my webs...

 After a couple of days of filming, rescheduling, and planning, my group and I finally got all of our scenes filmed. As always, after filming the last portions of the movie, I transferred them from my camera to my laptop. This time it took a lot longer than usual due to the clips being over 3 minutes long. However, I managed to collect them all without problems, and then I added them to the rest of the clips in After Effects. Once I had the rest of the clips together, I shortened them and clipped them to make the movie run more smoothly and look natural. Once all the clips were at the desired length, I started on the transitions from Laura's point of view to Brad's point of view. Once the transition was in place, I started on lighting. For Laura's scenes, I placed a grey cast over her scenes to make it look like it was drained of energy, like she was. For Brad's scenes, I put an overly vibrant lighting cast over them. When the scenes where they look at each other came i...

I finished filming all of Rowan Starks' scenes as Brad in my film today. It has been a long day for Rowan and I; however, we finished shooting every leftover page of the script! Rowan's initial scenes included only him alone on the beach, which allowed us to shoot each of these scenes quickly because we completed each of the blocking very quickly. However, there were a few times in that morning's takes where Rowan and I did mess up; however, it's a good thing that we did mess up because we were able to create some great comedic blooper outtakes for the end of the film. After finishing the solo beach scenes, we moved onto Rowan's scenes with Laura. The two significant scenes included Rowan running after Laura with a camera and then Rowan just standing next to the car. Each of those sequences were also shot in a very short period of time as filming them was very easy, although the setup for those sequences took longer than I originally planned. During the last few day...

After completing the shoot at Brad's house, I took on the technical responsibilities of obtaining the new footage. Similar to how I had handled Laura's scenes, I moved the footage from the camera to my computer and logged all of the raw footage. Because we were only filming inside the bedroom, the number of clips we captured was smaller than what we had in the first shoot. Even though the total was less, there was still a lot of extra footage that we will not use. I sorted through every single file that was recorded; eventually creating one collection for all of the footage to be reviewed entirely. I spent a fair amount of time watching through all of the takes in order to find the best performances. My objective was to locate the ideal clips for each particular scene, which would tell the story. After I was confident in which clips I wanted to use, I deleted all of the extra clips that weren't needed. Once I had completed selection and deletion, I imported them into After ...

The actor playing Brad and I met today to continue our schedule of filming; however, since one of the key members of our group was unable to make it, we had to change our plans somewhat by now only filming Brad's bedroom scenes. We proceeded to the filming location (Rowan's house) directly from school and began filming, but just like every other day, we had our share of bloopers and needed several takes per scene, particularly when it came to adjusting the camera angle for a specific shot. We had to get the camera in perfect alignment for Brad's reflection in the mirror, while ensuring the filming equipment wouldn't show up in the reflection, and after figuring out the camera angle, we went through about three takes to get a good one-shot. The most challenging camera angle of the day was a transition of Brad walking from his bedroom to the bathroom, which took a surprisingly long time (15 minutes) for us to capture a good five-second transition shot of Brad. We encounte...