(infinite.void);

SO the title of my film is (infinite.void); stylized with the punctuation to make it feel more computery.  It is still just pronounced as Infinite Void.

I hope You All Enjoy!!!!!!!

Signing off, Jake Himmel

Thanks for the ride!

My CCR

Well, it's time to wrap everything up, I'm at the end of the journey.  One final reflection-I feel like my CCR could have been a lot better, but due to me being sick the last few days, all of my focus and energy has not been driving into creating the best CCR.  This is not an excuse, just an explanation and reflection upon my final piece of work.  So I hope you all will enjoy the film introduction, and me reflecting upon my work over the last six weeks.  So without further ado, here is my CCR:

The way I filmed my CCR is using a program called Camtasia which allowed me to record my screen, webcam, and mic at the same time, making the editing easy since everything was already synched in real time.

Check out my next posting for my Film Introduction!

Sick

Okay, so I have been sick for the last several days,  my voice has been gone and I've had a fever.  So I have been putting off the CCR until I have been feeling better, and my voice is back to normal.  And, I'm still sick, and my voice isn't much better, but the project is due tonight so...  My voice on the CCR will not sound good. 

Update on music that I will not be using because they took so long to answer me back: 

I couldn't use it anyway, so that's that...

Anyways, everything is basically done, so you'll see it posted within a few hours.

Okay, so my Film Intro is DONE!!!

Okay, so everything is all tidied up, and it's looking and sounding great!  All I have left is my CCR.  I have been looking at the questions I have to answer and well, I need to really think about some of them.

Here are the 4 questions:

-How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
-How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
-How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
-How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

Honestly, I am not sure about how my product challenges conventions, and that is the one I am stuck on.  The last three I can honestly answer quite quickly in my head.  

Anyways, The CCR and the Film introduction need to be turned in by Saturday, April 14th.  I only have about six days left before everything is due, so I need to get my CCR done ASAP so I can wrap everything up.  So far the experience has been great, but I'll tell more in my CCR.  

'Til Next Time!

Update on Music?

Hey, so I received no communication from Wixen, the publishing house for the song I wanted to use... I called over there and they directed me to an online form to fill out.  So far no responses...  Do I am just going to focus On trying to find good royalty free music through this site here.  Killer Tracks has a bunch of really cool songs, all royalty free for me to use in the film introduction.  All I have to do is request my teacher to download them for me since the school board has an account with Killer Tracks for educational purposes.  Hopefully, my project will be killer too...  I'm almost done, coming around the bend with only 9 or so days left!  Next Saturday, April 14th, here we come!

Music - Trying to get licensing maybe...

Hi guys, so while editing the sound portion of my video, a song popped into my head that works perfectly with the sequence I was working on.  "Too Much Time On My Hands" by Styx works perfectly.  So I began to look up how to obtain licensing and it doesn't look easy, or within my timeframe (I started on this WAAAYY to late).

This website here outlines the two separate licenses I need to get things rolling.

The first license I need to obtain is through the copyright holder, usually the publisher.  This is called the Synchronization license.  It allows me to synchronize the song to my film, as it suggests in the name.

The second license is from the record company that handles the song/band.  This is called the Master Use license and it allows me to reproduce the recording of the song in my film.

Now I know time is running out, so I am not 100% totally putting all my eggs in one basket with this song.  If anything, I can write something similar and record it myself or just find a royalty-free song (the hassle-free version of my troubles). 

I will keep updating on the status of this, I have contacted the publisher thus far, let's see if they will let me use this song in my film...  Wish me luck!

'Til Next time!

Sources:
How To Acquire Music For Films. (n.d.). Retrieved April 03, 2018, from https://www.ascap.com/help/career-development/how-to-acquire-music-for-films

AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

So my computer hard drive crashed and it looks like I have lost all my files... with only a few weeks to go I am not sure what to do...  Ugh what a great time for this to happen...  I am just going to take an "L" on this one.  Guess who isn't gonna pass the AICE Media Studies AICE Exam, you called it, this guy!  I did so much on the project, I was almost done practically, just putting on the final
touches!!!!!

Well, goodbye college credit...  No use in even thinking about it...

April Fools!!!!!!!!

I just figure I'd get into the April festivities with a lighthearted April Fools gesture!  

My project is coming along great, just need to do the voice overs, music, and foley sounds.  But the video editing is nearly complete, looking tight.  By the end of this week, I'll 100% be done with the video.  Looking good so far... Wish me luck!  I do wanna share a cool frame from the intro, so here it is:

I think it is cool because it makes Robbie look like he is being spied on with the obscured view; makes him vulnerable.

'Til Next Time!