AICE Media Studies

      After spending a considerable amount of time thinking, I came up with an idea. A vagabond makes his ends meet through scams and hustling, and one day he tries to make it big in the casino, but things don't go as planned. I particularly like this pitch. It is simple yet effective. The premise is realistic and easy to execute on. Filming can be done indoors, so I can avoid having my schedule ruined by inopportune weather (or the judging looks of my neighbors). The grounded premise means there is no need for CGI, which is one of the projects requirements. I especially like how the pitch is still vague enough for me to exercise some creative freedom. I had many ideas for what my pitch could have been, but this is the only practical one I have found. The rules I told you about in my last blog narrowed the selection pool quite a bit. I'm working alone so something that requires multiple people to do is out of the question. I wouldn't have done it anyway, but the rest...

    Today begins the day I start working on my final assignment. This is going to be the biggest assignment yet, or at least it feels like it. This one will be longer and more 'cinematic' I guess than the last two projects. With the lessons I learned from the past two projects, I think this will be the best one. It is a little nerve-raking, but it is too early to start to get nervous.     Before anything, I need to figure out what this last  project will be about. I do not know that yet. I will be giving my idea on what it will be in my next blog, but for now I'm still spit-balling. I wonder what it should be about, maybe something funny or melodramatic? There are only a few rules I have to follow. First and the most obvious, it has to be school appropriate. Next, the video has to be realistic. It doesn't need to have a grounded story, I'm creatively unhindered, but everything you see in the video needs to be real. That means no CGI ,or green-screen action ,or a...