Ashley's AICE media blog

  For this assignment, we had to create 5 different videos that demonstrated contrast, parallelism, symbolism, simultaneity, leitmotif. We first started by filming all of our scenes. We created them in class by brainstorming different ideas to demonstrate each editing style. We dod contrast and how the scenes go from happy to very stressed and intense in seconds. With parallelism, we faded the phone call from going from one perspective to another one in the same scene. With symbolism, we used a ring to symbolize a like occurrence that had happened. It emphasized the joy and happiness of the scene. The light-hearted music in the back also provides it with more emotion and joy. With simultaneity, we used someone working hard and someone being lazy to demonstrate this. Two different/opposite thing’s happening in the same scene. Lastly, with leitmotif, we used the suspense of the countdown to show the rush and determination to get the surprise completed in time. We then edited all the ...

   For this assignment, I worked with my friends Bella and Ryleigh. We did the prompt "Theres something out there" because it seemed like an interesting prompt and easier than the other to complete. We were thinking to interpret this in the way of walking through the forest. We decided to put walking, running, and use outdoor objects to create sounds to create this thought into life. We first shot the walking and running videos as sounds and this was difficult because we wanted to get the perfect step sounds. After multiple tries we got it. We then used the leaves to get sounds and at the perfect timing the birds started chirping and then it was time to edit all the clips together. We first imported all of them into Imovie and none of us really knew how to edit so it was hard at first to make sure everything was perfect. Once we put all of them together we then downloaded different sound effects and layered them on top on the videos and that created the video. We added a thum...