Arianna's AICE Blog

Lost in Paradise Unfortunately, I couldn't continue editing my video from home. Having done all my editing on a desktop computer from school completely changed how my video came up in Adobe Premiere Pro from home. I had plans to continue shooting on the beach, but due to the Coronavirus, the beaches were closed and a stay-at-home order was imposed. I did think of a way around these inconveniences to add to my opening. However, Adobe Premiere Pro was lagging so much and failing to support certain media that I couldn't continue my editing process on my laptop from home. My project had also been completely wiped away once I opened Adobe and when I tried looking for a copy of it in my files, an uncommenced project would always show up. I was really trying to put my video back together, but it couldn't be completed within the given time frame and circumstances.

What I liked What confused me Suggestions I think the music fit well with the beachy theme. I also really liked the background scream and car driving away. The only thing confusing was that there was so much time before the ending that it didn't seem to match up very well. Maybe because it went from light sunset lighting to really dark out. A better transition would probably help this. I would maybe change the color of the words at the beginning because sometimes the white was hard to read. I would also work on transition from the beach to car scene. I loved the music and the beach/sunset scenery. The long shots and full shots of the girls in slo-mo executed a beautiful aesthetic. The vibe in the scene can truly be felt in the audience. I thought the film title perfectly fit the overall film. No, I was not confused on anything. The film opening was beautiful and aesthetically ple...

This is the link to my first draft: https://youtu.be/60ymVDgxGfE

This time around, I added the name of the production company and who was starred in the film. I used the font Baskerville Cyrillic Std Upright for the names of the actors. Palace ScriptTM Regular was used for the main title. I used a filter on the videos to make it toned and to fit more with the idea of summer. I added fade to black a few times towards the end to signal something more serious and a change in the plot. At the end of the movie, I added a screaming sound effect for when the main character got kidnapped and the sound of the trunk closing and car hastily driving away. The problems I faced while editing was trying to import media from the computer into Adobe Premiere Pro. Some files would show, most wouldn’t. Trying to work out this one issue was very time consuming, but it was resolved by making the most of the shots that were available. I spent about 3 hours total editing the video, mostly trying to get files to open. I was involved in editing my own video ...

The titles I want to put in my movie are the Main Title first, the “production company” second, and the names of the people starred in the movie. The movie title I came up with was “Lost in Paradise”. Because I was going for a certain aesthetic feel for the moving opening, I chose to give the title a white cursive font. I tried to test out different video effects with the main title, but realized I like the title how it was alone. I plan to incorporate more video effects into my movie without overdoing it. I used a dissolve transition to put together two cut videos of a volleyball falling from the sky and someone catching it from its fall. The audio I used for the video is a song by Petit Biscuit named Sunset Lover. In order to find a song i really liked to go with the idea of the film( nostalgic, summer, relaxing, teen), I looked up Summer mixes on youtube. There were a few that kind of stood out but Sunset Lover was the one that stood out the most. The problems that...

After planning to do a group project based on a horror movie opening, my group broke up into individual projects. My individual project is called “Lost in Paradise”. It is an aesthetic intro of a movie based on a girl having a rejuvenating time at the beach with her friends. At the end, the intro takes a turn for the worst and the main character is kidnapped. Filming Post 3 Most of my film was shot from 4:30p.m to 6:30p.m. Here I was taking a video of a beach bag, flip flops, and a phone laying on top of the back. In order to give the shot movement, I backed away and gave the shot a moving high angle view. Filming during golden hour was my goal due to how relaxing and visually pleasing the outcome would be. Golden hour shines a beautiful bronze light on the beach below. Later on, a person in the frame with their back facing the sun shows a nice silhouette figure against the sun. On the way down to the beach, I took videos of the shops off 5th Avenue. I used the moving c...