AICE Media Studies

 I really learned a lot about how to utilize my technology for Media. I learned how to edit, which I have never done before. I know how to make transitions and how to really utilize my editing software. I had no idea how to add audio and get music for my commercial. Before this project, I would have been clueless about how to do anything. Now I can express my own creativity. I also now know how to upload YouTube videos to my channel. I'm not really for making my own but it is a really good skill to have. Speaking of skills I also now know hot to embed videos onto my blogs. This is pretty useful because I am going to need it for this class. I learned a lot about how to plan. It takes a lot of time. I need to see if I like ideas by putting them into reality. This is something I learned because I would do clips or have ideas and once I saw them I did not like the complete vision. Also with planning it is important to time things out. I may have struggled with this a bit but I was able...

  I hope you enjoy my commercial!

The journey is complete!   Guess who’s back? Back again. It’s me , not S lim S hady (I apologize). So, this is the final update on my commercial. The time really flew by . I remember I   struggled with w hat my theme was going to be and how I was going to do it. Although all of this was happening internally in my head it all worked out. I now have my theme in my video, and I   know what my product/company line is called for the commercial , and its almost ready to go. Editing wise I was purposefully using edits in the intro of my video. Although , for the early life of me I wanted to make it seem like it was an older piece of film. I try to do this by not really hav ing fancy edit s in the photos transitioning . I wanted to make it seem more raw and real as if I were going through old photos of me. Then later in the commercial , I would use more editing to signal how I have changed I wouldn't al ways edit which correlates to the product of staying tru...

  Well, I’m back everyone! I know you may have some worries and many questions on my progress. Don’t worry, the questions will all be answered. To give some updates we have stuck with the theme of childhood as a product, and I have some present-day clips that help transition to certain images/ videos that describe me. What I mean by this is I frame it as a commercial with my product , which keeps the little kid inside of you. The beginning parts of me which is my early life are all completed now. I am also making sure I have purposeful edits. I need to make sure it make s sense why I cut here or do this and so on. Well, you all would know that because you like media of course. I know, I know. Connor, what about your song? I was getting to it ...eventually. Okay, when you're in a pickle who do you call? No, not Ghostbusters busters ( see what I did there). Well, no you might call a friend or a family member. That’s exactly what I did . I had to ask my mom for some hel...

  I'm back! Did you all miss the blog updates? Anyways I know last time might have left some of you extremely worried with my brain struggling to come up with ideas. Not to worry, I have come a long way from my last post. I have started to gather a lot of images. Believe it or not I did use my swim and environmental loving photos. I have got a theme now the commercial is about childhood! As sort of as a public announcement and how to always remember who the little kid is in everyone. How I am going to show this is by having pictures of when I was younger to the present day. Then relate them to how I have not lost my creativity by showing pictures of my love of Sci-Fi movies never fading away. I have so many pictures of then and now that all describe me. In my last post I mentioned shoes and that is right I got pictures of that but more of how they relate to my enjoyment of basketball. The editing is coming along nicely I have not really edited before. It took some time to lear...

Well, this feels like it came way too quickly!  It is time to start planning and to be honest not exactly filled with ideas. I have to get a bunch of pictures for my You commercial no biggie , right? I do have some ideas. I was going to get some pictures that describe who I am. For example, I mentioned I’m a swimmer, so I got to find some swim photos to put in the commercial. Although if it’s a commercial about me, I can’t leave out my passion for the environment. But there are so many lenses to who I am! It is just too hard to do. Who said planning was easy? Seriously I need to ask them and get some tips and tricks. I must get pictures of my enjoyments like I didn’t even mention in my intro, but I like sneakers and  that’s something about me that is pretty important , I guess? You can make commercials funny. I mean look at the Superbowl, they must be the best of the best in order to grab sales because everyone watches, and they are only going to want the best. Shoul...

As you could have guessed from reading the title, my name is Connor. I am in 11th grade at Fort Lauderdale High and let's just say Junior year is living up to the reputation. Now that I have given you my name and where to find me ( great job Connor) let's get a bit serious and dive into who I am. Speaking of diving, every day after and sometimes before school I swim on my club team. I have been swimming since I was a baby and competitively since middle school. It is the one place where I can just stop and relax my brain from school. Swimming has given me so much it has strengthened my discipline and my health. I genuinely enjoy being in the water and pushing myself every day. When I am not in the water, I’m either studying for school or the SAT or at my second happy place, work. Yes, I said that right. Last year I applied for the Ecoexplorers internship at the Museum of Science and Discovery and boy did I have a blast. I was with many of my classmates, but I also made many...