AICE Media Studies

For this week's assignment, we had to collect a number of different shots. My friend Mickey and I decided to partner up, so most of the shots below are going to feature him in some capacity. We decided to have some fun with it, so we came up with a (very loose) plot and decided to go from there. This is an example of a CHOKER. It was pretty difficult to get close enough to fill the frame without falling out of focus, just due to technology constraints, but it was definitely fun to shoot! Here is a LOW-ANGLE SHOT, which I most definitely had to scuff my jeans to get. Since we didn't have a tripod or a gimbal or anything like that, it was hard to keep the camera steady for long enough to get a good shot. This is an OVER-THE-SHOULDER, because we wanted to show some dialog and we figured this was the best way to do so. We roped in another one of our friends to guest star, but I wasn't sure how to judge how much of the frame should be filled with his shoulder...

I decided to take AICE Media Studies the week before summer started, because I was bored. I felt stifled in many of my classes, like my teachers and my school system couldn't care less about me or my personal expression. There was nothing creative about my classes, just empty work and endless quizzes and tests on subjects that I felt meant little and mattered less. None of them inspired me, and I didn't feel like I had any choice in my studies. My hope is that AICE Media, while educating me on the more technical aspects of visual media, will allow me to pursue creative projects and personal expression and reward, rather than punish these efforts.