Trip

As I mentioned earlier on this blog, this week I finally left for my trip to Long Beach California to compete in the Student Television Network (International) Convention. I went with my TV program and it was great being surrounded by media students and professionals from all around the country, as well as competing to prove the skills that we have been training for the past 6 months. 

I attended a workshop about transmedia storytelling, which expanded upon a topic we briefly mentioned while studying media contexts.

One of the competitions I competed in was Silent Film, and my team and I came up with a silly idea to reveal that the mysterious character was going a date with a monkey, as the plot twist for the ending. However, we needed a couple props to accomplish this that we didn't have, so under the time constraint, I rushed over to the nearest dollar tree to buy utensils, plates, and a bouquet of flowers; the dating essentials. We tried out best to transform the hotel room into a romantic setting, and this sort of effort reminded me heavily of what we had to do for our film opening (where we had to completely destroy and reorganize Faye's living room according to the plot of our opening and the nature of our main character). 

The props I bought at the Dollar Tree.

The living room transformed into a romantic date setting with DJ the Monkey.

I was pretty grateful for my experience in AICE Media this year coming into this competition because I felt more capable of being able to pull off creating what is essentially a one-minute short film in under 6 hours.

Edit: We placed 4th in the nation !!!!