Audience and Institution Essay

    Marketing for films are very important, but they also have their downfalls. Marketing is important in the sense that this is how the movie gets to everyone. It’s also how the companies get their money, via toys and merchandise, for more marketing. 

     There are many movies that have had major successes with marketing such as Spider-man: Homecoming. This movie was marketed through cross-media methods. Columbia Pictures partnered with Target and Kellogg’s cereal as their marketing. They also pre-released the movie’s merchandise so people got hyped for the movie. This movie is also on xfinity stream and is still getting profit off of It. The game proved to be popular too, also creating hype and proved to be another great marketing tactic. All though this is a lot of marketing, the Spider-man franchise is popular as a whole. This also has a play in how popular this movie was. Prequels to the movies and how popular might make the future movies more popular and have higher expectations by the public. The Fast and Furious franchise is also quite popular. These are a series of movies, 14 to be more specifically, that have been going since 2001. The first fast and furious movie was featured in a film festival which started its whole franchise. The movies even have a ride in Disney World along with cross promotion from a phone company which came with new posters and promotional chances. Fast and Furious Is one of the most popular movie franchises because of how many movies and clout they got. Since these movies are so popular the automatic response to being told they are making a new movie is to be excited. This is just one of the many examples of popular media due to marketing. There are so many movies that have benefited from marketing. Only a few haven’t benefited from marketing or even didn’t need it for success. 

    Sometimes, marketing means nothing in a movie’s popularity. Well, the movie The Babadook, an Australian psychological horror movie, was barely marketed. This movie was very popular and many people I know really love the movie for its horror aspect. Though the budget isn’t important, it was 1 million dollars which is pretty low compared to every other film. The movie started off as just an Indi film which premiered in a film festival. It soon got popular and was released in theaters in 2014. This is an example of marketing. All though this movie was a great success because of its marketing, this does not mean every film with low marketing or even high marketing makes it big. Despite its large marketing display, movies such as Ugly Dolls weren’t exactly popular. Even though the marketing was huge for it, the hype didn’t match up to the actual quality of the movie. They had tons of commercials during and before it had been released but automatically had stopped after it was taken from the TV as it left the theaters. According to Deadline, it was a “disastrous start” for this movie. The director thought that if he had enough marketing and exposure that his movie would be popular, he proved that to be wrong. This movie just proves that marketing doesn’t automatically make a movie popular. Yes, some people watched the movie due to marketing, but overall, this was a huge flop. So no, marketing doesn’t exactly make or break a movie.

    In conclusion, marketing is both important and not important at the same time. Some marketing can be beneficial or can damage the popularity.

Essay practice

      From the scene of 24 that I watched, I believe the theme is justice. Since, from what I gathered, the characters are trying to stop a bomb from going off. The director is trying to create a tense atmosphere with everything they use. From the lighting to the camera angles, everything is planned to make the feeling tense. The whole premise of the movie even suggests the director is trying to make a tense atmosphere. 

      The scene starts off with a fade in, because this is just the opening edit, it really has nothing to do with the theme. Then, a close up, showing how the main character is slightly upset by her plan being stopped. This sets up the intensity of the scene. It then goes to an over the shoulder shot, showing who will be interrogating her for information, which, this person looks pretty upset. Showing how upset this person is already, makes you feel tense, hence making this show feel intense. next, there is a zoom-in, which makes you really focused on the main character’s face which shows her looking seriously. As I will keep mentioning throughout this essay, the lighting really effects the scene by only having one source, giving a good unsettling atmosphere. Because it is only one light source, it creates shadows that are good for horror movies. It goes to a shot reverse shot, showing that they are being filmed in there, this makes you know that they are being watched and sets up for a good impact later on. Then it goes back to an over the shoulder, followed by a close up of the woman looking a bit annoyed, going to a closeup of the man’s face as he’s looking at the woman. After that, it goes to a shot pan and tilt over to the women’s face. This paper doesn’t get explained right away, leading the audience in suspense and thinking “whats on that paper?”. Finally, more close ups of the character, giving off a suspenseful vibe. 

       Moving onto the next seen, which starts off as two shot of two people holding a camera. These are the people who are watching the two in the private room. The shot is crowded as people walk in and out of shot. This scene is done with a handheld camera as it is a bit shaky. This scene is intense because it shows that the people are watching and will make sure nothing happens to any of the people in there.

        The scene after this, were back in the interrogation room with another close up and eye line match. Once again, these  Its time I talk about the music. The music helps you feel unsettled and gives you a sense of tension because of how suspenseful this is. It makes you feel like you’re in the room with the characters and feeling the same way they do. Then its back  to another close up of the main character followed by yet again, another over the shoulder. Using the over the shoulder shot is effective because it shows how the character is seeing the other person without it being point of view. They keep alternating between close ups and the over the shoulder, even changing it up follow the man who is pacing back and forth. This creates tension by having the man pacing and looking right at the woman and into the camera as they talk about reasons why the main character should be transported somewhere for the bomb. Finally, after a few back and forth of over the shoulder and close up. We get a close up of the man and the shot moves into a over the shoulder shot as he moves into the screen shot. Then it pans from the man to the women as he sounds pretty upset, this makes it intense because of how angry he sounds. Then it automatically goes back to a closeup of the man talking directly to the woman. This makes it intense because of the lighting, since its only one light,  the shadows are harsher. It then cuts to a two shot of the man slamming his hands on the table. 

It then cuts to the next scene is a close up of the woman who was watching the cameras looking frightened. Same thing with the man watching the cameras. They nervously watch this scene go on which makes what just happened more intense. In the next scene, its on the woman in the room as the man is inches apart from her face. The next scene is a zoom in on the mans face as he stares intently into the camera which is unsettling on itself with the lighting and how intent he is on doing what he’s going to do. The same shot then moves to an over the shoulder as he moves to sit back down and look at the woman.

The scene then moves to a shot of the cameras footage as they zoom out to show the two people watching them. This isn’t exactly an intense shot but it helps build up the momentum of it. The next scene is of the women as she’s sitting in the chair and it pans to the man looking at her. She seems nervous and the man still seems intent, which pared together makes a tense scene. And then another close up of both the man and the women as they stare at each other. The intensity comes from how many times it switches. Finally, the man bursts out of his chair from a two shot and slams her into the wall with an action match. This scene is intense because of the surprise of what just happened. There’s also that sudden hint of fear. The sound of the chair being pushed and slammed into the wall is also pretty tensing for me personally.

    In the last scene, the first shot is a split screen which show the man choking the woman and the security guard running towards the room. The use of a handheld shot makes it more tense because you can see the security running and something about the handheld shot just makes something very tense.  As the man bursts into the room, it breaks the split and turns into a two shot. This scene is intense because of the sounds. They stopped the intense music and just let the characters breath heavily as the man storms out of the room. Then it goes to another closeup and fades away.

     I think the director was trying to give the audience a sense of tension through his work. He manages to do this, even in relation to just the scene I watched, I felt tense the entire time. Knowing the whole movie would make the viewer even more tense, too. I think the director was trying to give off a theme of justice because the characters are trying to stop a bomb. 

final CCR

These are my CCR questions for my final video, or the post before this. This is actually for one of my classes. For this assignment, we had to answer a few questions. The questions included use of technology, progress, and public interaction. I had my mom ask questions, like in an interview. I had set up my
phone so then it looked like an interview. I did each question separately  at first but then decided to place them together. I had told my mom what she had to say right before so all she had to do was say what I told her to. I had to do a few over but thats all apart of the editing process. After I finished the filming, I sent the files to my computer, I started the editing process. This didn't take too long, to my surprise. I had to edit the first parts and last out so they didn't show me walking back and forth to stop the recording. I also added in some titles to show the question that I was answering. finally, I added in some video clips into it. I wanted to show what i was talking about instead of just explaining it with words. I had to go through the entire video to make sure everything was in order and matched up. I thought about putting the music in but decided against it. All though it would be a good idea to add it in, I had no clue where to put it in. The hardest part was typing all of what I wanted to say out. That took a while to write out but it was worth it in the long term. Anyways, I'm happy about how this project turned out, I hope to keep doing this someday.

final video

The video below is of what I have been working on for the past month and a half. This was a very fun experience all getting together and filming. This is an opening to a horror film for an AICE class project. It's about a girl whos being cyber stalked by someone who got her information from her social media. This was originally an idea about just a girl who wants to be famous on social media. Since that didn't exactly go anywhere, we changed it up a bit since I wanted to do a horror film. We also had a different actor planed for the stalker but due to him not being able to show up when we needed him to film, so I changed it. Due to the pandemic, we couldn't film about a quarter of it. So, to make up for this, I decided to edit the storyboards original plan and so that the main girl didn't show up. This was just something we had to do to finish the movie. This entire thing was so satisfying to see come together. The entire process was exciting, from initial planning to an actual film being started. It was really exciting to see a plan being turned into an actual thing. I asked my teammates to make sure everything was ok with them too. After such a long time of planning and filming, I finally have a finished project. Im honestly really proud of what I've done so far. I hope to continue filming and producing in the future.

first video

This is the first video I made in this class. This was an assignment. We had almost two weeks to complete this project. All from the planning to the editing and the emailing. This is a gatorade commercial that we had to film. My group mates and I had a ton of fun while making this. I was in charge of filming some things and editing. I had drawn the story board out and helped plan the shots. Though this is not the best film, I still think its great for our first time filming. Unfortunately, I dont have the second video we film but I think this shows tons of improvement. If I could change one thing about this would be the use of a voice over for the steps. I would have just left the original audio but maybe the voice over was a requirement. I wish I could have re-done that pan and tilt because it looks out of place. But other than those critiques, I liked the video a lot for out first try.

Re-edit blog 2

This time, I took the things I had filmed from last night and placed them into the video. This editing process didn't take too long. I didn't have that many clips to edit so that was nice. I sifted through the video clips and pulled out the few I was going to add in. I actually ended up keeping only three or four of the raw footage. I then replaced the clips I had in there as place holders with the ones I was going to do. The place holders were just so I could finish doing the titles. I then had to go in and delete said holders. When I had finished placing all the scenes, I went through and trimmed some clips. The film went over 2 minutes so I had to trim some stuff down.  I watched the video over a few times, had my family watch it and made some more changes. I had to switch some scenes around so they made sense. After that, I fixed all the titles once again one last time. That just meant going through and checking they all had the right times and even spacing. I wanted the music to end right when the car trunk slammed shut which was fairly easy to do. All I did was trim the music so that it matched up to right before the trunk sound. Adding that part wasn't exactly important but I still wanted to add it in. Once I was finished, I saved the video to my computer. When it came to the whole editing process, this project was pretty fun. Im sad its over now but I'm going to keep making videos.

re-shoot blog

This weekend I needed to film in a last minute time-crunch. Due to not being able to meet up with my groupmates, I had to take some stuff out. These were clips such as the scene where the girl asks where her friends are and add some scenes in. I filmed some scenes I thought would fit in the movie such as the stalker pulling out a weapon from the back of the car and some scenes of the car driving off. This was just so I could actually finish the film in time for the due date. I placed my phone into the trunk and had the actor pick up a hammer. This was to show the weapon he will use to knock the girl out. This is where the opening ends; with the slam of the trunk. I had to position the camera so it looked like an actual trunk shot. This was more difficult than I thought because I wanted a specific angle. Im happy with the result I got so far, though. This filming process didn't take too long

Re-editing blog 1

This week, I started to do re-editing. Since nobody in my team took the whole film home, I had to work from scratch. Luckily, we had uploaded the raw footage to one of our google drives. Since I already have editing software on my laptop, I decided to take re-editing what we had into my own hands. I started with downloading all the videos that I wanted to include. I also downloaded some I thought I might want to use. Then, I uploaded them into the software to edit. I got out my storyboard so I could follow it. When going through the footage, I noticed some of the videos were a bit too dark. I'm going to re-shoot those but for the meantime, I just put them in as placeholders. Starting with trimming the footage, I got the time down to 1:40 seconds. Which is good and bad. This mean I might have to take some scenes out or cut them if we want all of the clips in. I had to look up the audio again. Luckily, I remembered the studio and song name so it was fairly easy to find. I downloaded and placed it in the software. I had to adjust a few things for the audio to fit but other than that, it all went well. I put some place-holders in and started on the titles. I went through a lot of colors, transitions and fonts until I settled on one I liked. Since the software I was using before and the one I was using are different, they had different fonts. It was fun to play around with the colors too. I settled on a red color and a fade in transition. I plan on replacing the footage I didn't like soon.

filming blog 3

As you, hopefully know, there is a pandemic going on at the moment. Due to this, I am unable to film. Everyone in my group's parents are paranoid about them getting the virus. They have also closed school for a month at the time of writing. This has affected our filming schedule majorly. We will try to meet up, even if its only for a half hour. Since I didn't check out a camera, Ive decided to film on my phone. I also have editing software on my computer that I can edit with over this break. Tons of movies productions have been stopped or postponed due to the coronavirus. Movies such as Black Widow, A Quiet place 2, Mulan, F9, and many more.  Some of the actors in those films already have the virus, luckily, none of our actors have it. But, we all relate to production of our movies being stopped. A quiet place 2 was supposed to come out tomorrow, at the date of writing, but will not be, due to movie theaters being shut down. Luckily, the movie had already been made and was coming out the following day when it got its premiere cancelled. All though this virus is limiting our movement, we will do everything in our power to keep filming. Though the movie production may have been completed, the release has been postponed. I can relate to that because me sending my movie to cambridge is like the release of the movie. When we get the chance to film, we will take it, though that would probably be slim. None of our, my group and I's, parents are really letting us meet up. Even the actor's parents are. And, as stated before, this will put our production behind schedule. We wont let this virus slow us down though, we will keep trying to work as hard as we can.

Editing blog 4

Today in media, we edited. Since the titles started working again, I decided to add the
 In. Though the titles were working, adding pictures to them, wasnt. That meant that I couldn’t do the plan I originally wanted to do. I just decided to pick a different way of showing the titles. I chose the font and helped pick out the color. I didn’t want something that looked off when it was on the video. I was originally going with red but that couldn’t be seen. Though all of this hard work was for nothing. About half way through the process, the computer I was using died. I had loss all the progress I had for that day. That meant I had to add all the titles I added in that day. I also had to move the computer to the laptop cart to charge it. It was a huge pain because none of the chargers reach to a comfortable place and we had to press ourselves to the cart. But, luckily, we got all of the work back before the bell rang. I was going to move my work to a flash drive so I could work at home but I couldn’t because I didn’t have one. My plan was to bring one for next class. Unfortunately, school was canceled the next week so I couldn’t even do that. This was a huge set back because we don’t know when we can go back. Since we can’t edit, I hope that we can at least meet to film some.

editing blog 3

This week, we didn’t get anything done. On Friday, I took the camera home. We had originally planned to film but the main actor couldn’t film so I had to move it to Monday. I charged the camera when I got home so we could film over the weekend. In class, I got a lot of editing done. I managed to add in some titles. Since one of my group mates wasn’t there, I couldn’t put any of the video she filmed into the software. There was barely any progress in the video filming too. I had gone through the video a few times to make sure everything was in the right position and timing. Last time we went to edit, everything  was out of place. This means I had to go back and check that everything was out of place. Luckly, this time, everything was in good shape.  I added in the stalker clips and organized them. Though, they need to be re-shot because they are too dark. Though I edited with shots I didn't like so hopefully those get done. While editing, I tried to add some titles in. Though the entire thing isnt fully filmed, I wanted to start writing the titles. I drew a few text boxes for the titles to go in and imported them. Though the text box wasn’t working when I tried to put it in. I decided to type the text directly into the box.

Peer review blog

On Monday, we did peer reviews. Since our reviewers were not here, we didn't have to worry about that. The people who we were peer reviewing didn’t have anything to review. I have no criticism to give them. I circled no for everything on the front and back page. There isn’t much I can talk about. Since they didn’t have anything to give us, we couldn’t answer any of the questions properly. The front part basically talked about all the components we were supposed to have. Since the group we got didn't have anything, I didn't circle any of the yes boxes. There were a few spots we had to write an answer in and for those, I didn't write anything. In the sections where we had to put our opinion of the film and I didn’t put anything. There was also a section where I had to explain the subject of the movie. Once again, I didn’t put anything for that spot. On the back, there were a few more questions that still couldn't be answered. Nothing can be improved in my opinion. Nothing could be done to make the film better either. There also happened to be a few yes or no questions to circle. The questions on the back are in the photo attached. I still couldn't answer those which was annoying because I like giving people helpful critique. The only critique I have is plan better for your deadlines, even if you think you can make it.

Editing blog 2

This week, we actually got to edit. Though it wasn’t that much, we managed to get some stuff done. I got the computer we used and logged in. I opened the editing software, everything was uploaded already so all we had to do was place it in. I had also looked for some music to put in. I had to look on royalty free music websites. I picked a few I thought were good and showed them to my teammates. I uploaded the sound to the computer and placed it in the software. I had brought the camera equipment to give it to another teammate. I had organized the scenes in order of our storyboards. I had also matched up the audio with the video so the most intense parts match up with the video. I was in charge of clipping the film so far. I had originally planned to film more over the weekend. This hadn’t worked out because I decided it would be better to just work with what we have already. I had to upload the videos of the stalker scenes because I hadn’t done that before. I had also reviewed over what we had filmed and made sure those were the scenes we wanted. When I uploaded them, I spent my time looking up a song to use. This wasn’t as easy as thought, even though I had to look through a few websites. I also had to place the music a bit further ahead of where the video started. I did this because it made more sense. The music starts intense and the tension rises quickly so I had to place it in a part that had started to build intensity. This was around the second or third shot.

Editing blog 1

For this blog, I will be talking about the editing process. In the first week, we didn’t get much done. I sorted through the videos that were filmed from filming blog 1. That meant I had to check for lighting errors, how well the film flowed and more. I cut out about half of the films and only chose the best videos. The second week, I got a lot done. I sorted through some more film that I did that weekend. As far as today, I didn’t do anything because I wasn’t in school. I did, though, guy my team mate the log in information for my computer. Since that information that we had from the past few days isn't on any other computer. I also told them which SD card and computer we did all that work on. I listened to the audio of the videos, making sure nothing that we didn’t want to be heard could be heard. That also meant I had to check that the actors were talking loud enough for the mic to pick up. If it didn’t, I checked down the scenes we needed to reshoot when it came time. I also watched the video to make sure it was a good quality. That meant checking for visibility since I filmed a lot in a dimly lit room. This meant I had to delete a lot of film because of that. Though we have only had a few days to film, there hasn’t been much headway. I was going to start editing last class but since I still had to go through the videos, I didn’t get to it. Though, I did get the videos uploaded to the editing software and that took the longest amount of time.

Filming blog 2

This weekend, we decided to film the stalker parts. Though, my other teammates couldn’t film. I decided to do this weekends filming myself. The actor for the stalker couldn’t make it either, he had some stuff to do that was really important. I decided to use my sister as the stalker. She looks like a boy from behind so that works out since the stalker is supposed to be a boy. I checked out a camera on Friday, not knowing we couldn’t film, and changed the camera for use. When the day came to film, I got a message saying nobody could film. When I got home, I took out the camera and asked my sister if she could be the stalker. She agreed and we got started filming. I managed to film every solo part with the stalker in it. I filmed everything, including the close ups, split screen parts and the long shots. I directed my sister and told her what to do for every scene. In some, I told her to do what she wanted or imagined a stalker would do and those turned out the best. I filmed in my sisters bedroom. I planned to film when it was dark out to give the effect of the scenes being more unsettling. I had my sister lay down on her bed with her computer up to match the storyboard. I tried my best to match up the angles of the previous scene to make the transition between characters more seamless. Though I’m not as tall as the camera person before, I think it turned out ok. Then I moved onto the close ups of the screen, which I made sure to not have the camera focused on the messages for privacy. I had my sister pull up an Instagram so the stalker could be looking through the girls Instagram. I also filmed the long shot. I stood the back of her room and filmed her looking through the Instagram and sending messages to people. Then, I did the over the shoulder shot, which I shot from over her shoulder and showed the screen. Finally, I moved onto the close up of the stalker smiling, which I just had my sister smile into the camera.

Filming blog: 1

In this weeks filming secession, we got a lot done. Over the weekend, however, we couldn’t film. This was because of complications with the filming time. We also couldn’t take a camera out which was an inconvenience on itself. When we filmed, we actually got a lot done. We took out a camera the last class and checked out a camera. I had to take it home and make sure it was charged. I found out it wasn’t so I charged it over night so we could film the next day. After school, my group mates and I went to my house so we could film. I was in charge of camera set up and directing the actor, our other group mate, where to go. I got to film some stuff too. Specifically the closeups, some of the pans and a few extra shots I wanted to film extras of. I was also in charge of the props. I placed them in the places we needed and gathered them all when we cleaned up. I even called the actor to give her an actual conversation to follow. I got the background ready for filming too. That meant moving anything in the way of our shot, like a pet or the storyboard papers. I gave the actor her lines and helped direct the shots. When it came to packing up, I put everything away. I put the camera and tripod away. I do plan to take the camera back to school too. I’m very excited to film more over the weekend and edit what film we have too.

Planning Blog: Storyboard

In this blog there is an embedded PowerPoint. Just like the others, this google slide has my plans for the video. Though, this is the storyboard for it. An almost set in stone plan for it. Some things will change but mostly will stay the same. The plan for the movie is a girl is stalked online by a mysterious guy. He’s hacked through her computer and is stalking her social media. She made plans with her friends one night and he had heard. She gave away the location and unluckily for her, it was close. The figure drove to where she was and successfully kidnapped her. We had planned out the actors too but not where we could put the titles. We do, however, have an idea of where to put them.




 

Planning Blog: Location, Participants, Health, Schedule

In this blog, there is a google slides. This slideshow has all the details to our film. Including the location, participants, health and the schedule. For the locations, we decided on two places. My house and a nearby park. There won't be too many locations so that's all I put. For the participants, we just stated the actors. Since there are only two characters, we just put two official characters in the slideshow and then an un-offical character. We also put the name of the production crew, aka us. For health, we just put our safety precautions like buckling in. And finally for our schedule, we made a rough outline for when everything will be done.


 

Planning Blog: Title and Design Details

This blog has a google slide embed into it. The slides contain information about the titles. This will help make editing them in easier to do because we have them planned out already. The plans for the appearance for the titles are white font with a blue outline. This will make it seem like a text message. We have also decided on using the closest thing we can find to message fonts. They will come in like a text message with the title name on the right and the name of the actor on the left. This will make it seem like it is being sent. It ties into our theme of the movie which is social media. The more important titles will be in a bigger font to catch the viewers eyes.



 

Planning Blog: Shooting Script

This blog has a google slides link for my shooting script. This post includes a link to said google docs. This includes angles, movements and shots. Some of the shots we have to include are low angles, over the shoulder shots, match shots and more. This was a bit hard to implement into our plan, considering we had already mapped it out quite a bit. The angles definitely won't change from the original if all goes as planned. When we started planning this movie out, it was only an idea but now it seems like it's going good. We had originally wanted to do something different with our angles, but considering our guidelines, we couldn't. The most fun part to shoot will be the trunk shot, even though itll be the last part to film. This will most likely be out final product for angles and movements unless something is messed up on filming day.

planning: dialogue and sound script

This is my slide show of all the dialogue and scripts in film. In this google doc, there is not that much non diegetic and diegetic sounds. The only dialogue is the main girl chatting on the phone. The main non diegetic sound is the music. The only diegetic sounds are the pinging of the phone and the car trunk slamming. Theres also the closing of the car door and room door. There will be some changes to this, but not that much. Maybe some changes to the words that the characters say and or do. Hopefully they won't be that harsh of a change. There isn't exactly much to say about this except that its a google side of my dialogue and sound plans.

Title Research: The Reaping

The final  film we're going to be discussing the opening sequence to is The Reaping a film introduced in the year 2007. I've watched the opening sequence of this film at ArtOfTheTitle.com. I studied it based on our horror genre. I examined it due to the following questions.


How many titles are displayed during the opening sequence? The amount of titles in the opening sequence are 20 titles total. It starts off with series of main actors and producers and closes out with company presented by which in this case is the Warner Brothers. The titles come in on a black background with a red text. They come in as a jumble of words but as soon rearrange into words. They stay like that for a little and then leave in the same way they entered.

 What images are prioritized? The images prioritize are very vague they do not show clear imaging of what exactly is taking place. They scenes are a close of up a lady’s face, then it goes into the titles where there are red washed photos of things such as leaves very close ups of those said leaves. There are also some unintelligible pictures but they mostly flash onto the screen and then leave.

 What connotations do the images carry? The images has you feeling very intense, anxious and anticipated as to what's occurring and what's happening. The music that goes along with the opening makes it even more unsettling. Since they are extreme closeups, they are unsettling because we have no clue what they are. The feeling of not being able to understand what something is is a common fear in humans so they use this to their advantage.

 How is the genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset? I would definitely say the genre is enforced through the score the opening sequence. The bumps along the music takes you on a roller coaster through emotions. The pictures changing goes along with the music in perfectly timed switches to other close ups.

 How did the film establish an enigma from the outset? The enigma in the film established is very intense and dramatic the way that was established was through the use of different elements of filming as well, such as sound: the extremely suspenseful instrumental. There are flashes with the use of editing, and lighting as well contributing to the mood and theme of the genre.

 What strategies does the film used to ensure that the film is appealing to it's target audience? The film uses a certain aesthetic throughout the film, and the color design is very dark themed. The font used was a red font. These are inherently creepy due to the previous mindset of horror. Which is, as I said before, unsettling images and creepy fonts.

 How was the technology used effectively? There are no camera angles of any sort used in the opening sequence more so graphics and mainly editing. With editing there were a couple of fade ins- and different sorts of transitions to move the titles along. The titles also had a floating effect making a dramatic entrance each time through the sequence. There was also the ability to change the colors of the images to make them all one color.

Title Research: The Exorcist

I chose to do The Exorcist as my third movie. This movie is from ArtOfTheTitle.com. The Exorcist has 5 titles, including the title of the movie. It ranges from the studio who made the film to name of the film. This movie has very few titles and the opening scenes are very short. 

The images that are prioritized are a dark house, with a single street lamp. Two people are seen walking down the street that the lamp is on. then it fades to a close up of a statute and then to a sunset. The final scenes are in the desert of northern Iraq where some men are digging through the sand. 

The connotations are creepy. The scenes are dark up until it show the desert in which it is bright, The dark street is creepy due to the worn down house and the lack of people walking down it. The desert is where it becomes brightly lit and illuminated. This isn't creepy because it is just a bunch of men working in the desert and digging through the sand with pickaxes. 

The genre is reinforced by the first few scenes. They make you uncomfortable by keeping it a darker lighting. And like stated before, it shows few people walking on the street making it creepy and unsettling. Mostly considering how late it seems to be at night.

The film establishes an enigma by showing the men in the deserts of iraq. This would make no sense being where a horror movie starts, considering its bright lighting. There is also no music, just the sounds of pickaxes and men grunting, This is where the scene stops, leaving us to watch the rest of the movie. 

The target audiences is horror movie fans. This movie appeals to them by dragging them in with dark opening and then switching to a brighter setting. This leaves us wanting to know the significance of the areas. We soon learn that this is where everything takes places, including the events of the movie. 

The technology is used effectively by using fades to show transition of areas. They also use dark lighting to their advantage and make it creepier. The men in the last few scenes show this was in an earlier time, judging by what they are using to dig up the sand. 

Title Research: Get Out

For this title research, I decided to look at Get Out. The title scene came from ArtOfTheTitle.com. This move has 26 title cards, once again, ranging from producer to co producer and the actors. The titles fade in and out. They are a light blue color and never really change. This title scene has a lot to talk about.

The scenes that were prioritized were pretty normal. Two different people getting ready in the morning, one getting dressed and the other grabbing breakfast. There was a scene of trees passing by, perhaps the woods or just a patch of trees. There were some scenes of the man looking at black and white pictures, presumably that he took. It then cuts to the woman knocking on a door, though her hands are full so she knocks with her head. When the door opens, its revealed to be the man on the other side and he lets her inside.

These scenes don't give away this is a horror movie. They seem like mundane, every day tasks people would do, not like someone who was in danger would do. Unlike in Split, they don't seem to be in any danger at the moment. They were both completely different stands on horror. Split was horror at the beginning, an obvious horror too, but this one is subtle. It shows the horror in other ways than just being straight up scary

As stated in the previous paragraph, this movie doesn't define it's genre in the first minutes. It instead, makes this movie seem like a normal comedy or drama movie. They use everyday activities to open this movie with, such as getting coffee, shaving, driving or looking through photos. There was no music in this opening so nothing suggested horror.

The target audience is horror fans, though it doesn't seem to be like that. The activities displayed in this part almost seem too mundane, though. Since you expect this to be horror, you expect something scary to happen. Though nothing too scary happens in the first few minutes, they make it seem like something scary would happen, and maybe thats the effect they are going for. Sometimes horror uses these types of techniques to give the watcher a sense of relief, even before anything scary has happened.

The technology that they use in the movie makes it seem a bit scary. Since this doesnt seem like a horror at first, they use some filming techniques that make it seem like a horror, such as the hand held motion and pans. They also jump back and forth from character to character, showing one doing one thing and another doing something else. This might just be a something ive seen in horror but I have always associated horror with hand held cameras. They use warm and black and white colors while filming. They use tons of close ups and a few two shots in the first few scenes.

Title Research: Split

For the first movie title I looked at as Split. The title scene came from WatchTheTitles.com Split had 22 title cards, ranging from the name of the studio who made it all the way to the director. This includes the title card along with every other title card, producer, co-producer, assistant director and everything in between.

The first few scenes are of the main girl being captured by our story's main antagonist. It shows a little of a hallway for two scenes and then goes to our main character. She is being pulled down a hallway while strapped to a medical bed of some sort. These are prioritized by showing how urgent this situation is. the scenes are short clips giving it an anxious vibe too.

The connotations for this are supposed to be urgency. Between the quick cutoffs of the scenes and the dark lighting. It makes the watcher feel nervous. The music also helps with the feeling, it's a sorta intense music choice. But this goes with the whole theme of the movie, urgency.

The genre is defined in the first scene by not really letting you know whats happening fully so you dont get the whole picture. They do this by giving you a sense of dread and splitting up the scenes in a way that gets you nervous about whats happening. The music really helps with defining the genre because its intense. Music in horror films typically are intense type of music to help make you feel nervous or anxious about the situation.

The target audience is fans of horror. This movie does all it can to make sure you know this is a horror movie. They use lots of dark and moody lighting, a cool color palette in almost all the scenes we see. The actors also help express this is a horror movie. The actor we see as a terrified facial expression on as she is strapped to the medical bed and carried away.

The use of technology effects the movie properly by cutting away at the perfect time. They cut away to the title card which is just a plain black background with bold white text. The titles appear first in a repetitive manner but then switches to a single, enlarged title. This is the same for all the titles for all of the movies producers, actors and others. The tittle is presented when it just appears on the black screen along with the signature, bolded white text. The movie typically used close ups and pans just to give it more of a scary vibe. The edits were just cut aways, nothing very special.

Title Research: Art Of The Title

While researching my genre and how to make a title, I visited a website called Art of the Title. The website shows the opening sequences of a variety of films and shows. The films and shows are from a range of genres, including comedy, horror, romance, fantasy, and mystery. They showcase openings of films and shows that are both from long ago and more recent. On top of that, the website included detailed articles about the events of movies. It includes very detailed descriptions of certain scenes and describes the opening credits in an easy to understand way. It also assesses the costumes and setting of the movies. These articles included movies that also ranged widely in genre. The site was also very easy to navigate and use. I chose to visit this website to get an idea of what is common in horror opening sequences. The range of movies meant there was ample choices of horror movies to collect information from. This meant I could record how films in the horror genre represen!
 t and establish their genre in the opening credits. I also was able to record the amount of titles used in the openings and what imagery was used in different films. This information would then help me when I make my own opening for a movie. All in all, the website was very beneficial when planning and getting ideas for the opening sequence of our own film for our project.

Title Research: Watch The Titles

As I was researching different topics, I found a website called Watch the Titles. I encountered it while researching titles of horror movies. The website has multiple features that were extremely helpful when trying to come up with a title sequence for my project. The website has opening sequences from a wide variety of movies and shows. These cover all genres and styles of film. The site also has the opening sequences of video games which was interesting but not particularly needed for my specific project. Finally, it included interviews of title designers for popular franchises, such as Spiderman. Within the interview they talk about how they came up with the titles that they have made and discuss typography. Typography is the art or procedure of arranging type or processing data and printing from it. This information was nice to look at as it showed the process and ideas the title designers encountered while making the opening of the films. While the interviews were helpf!
 ul, I focused on the horror movie opening sequences as they were the most beneficial to my research. From the sequences, I could record common elements among the films. I also could take note of how the openings were able to portray the genre of the film with imagery. This information that I was able to collect would then come in handy for making my movie opening. Especially when deciding on what the opening sequence will look like.

Genre research: It

While researching the horror genre, I decided to watch IT to get an idea of common techniques that are used in popular horror movies. IT came out in 2017 and was widely successful when released. Therefore, I thought it would be a good representation of horror films and the techniques applied in them. While watching the movie, I took note of common camera angles and sound that was used in the film. I also paid attention for specific editing techniques and elements included in the film.

Camera Angles
Common camera angles used in IT include eye level shots, low angle shots and hug angle shots. It also includes long shots, over the shoulder shots, and two/three shots. The variety of shots keeps the person watching interested and the angles help add to the scenes, especially in the more scary scenes.

Movement
There was also an array of common horror movement techniques used in IT. These movements consist of pans, tracking shots, zooms, and tilts. The use of these movements is crucial to the horror aspect, and are used in the majority of scenes with the antagonist on screen.

Costumes
The majority of the characters are wearing normal everyday clothes for the time period that the film takes place in (The 80’s). There is a character that wears a cast that says “loser” on it but the “s” in the word is scratched out and replaced with an “l”. One of the characters where’s a yellow rain jacket and matching yellow boots that has now become well known for their character. The antagonist wears a dirty clown costume during the entire movie.

Lighting
The lighting in IT is a mixture between brightly lit scenes that take place outside, and low lit scenes that are inside. The low lit scenes are very suspenseful and often are lit with spot lighting to add to the fear factor.

Actors
The main characters are played by Finn Wolfhard, Jaeden Martell, Sophia Lillis, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Wyatt Oleff, and Jack Dylan Grazer. They all portray their characters very well and fit the characters nicely. The antagonist is played by Bill Skarsgård who is able to make the antagonist as creepy and scary as intended.

Makeup
The makeup is minimal for the characters who are wearing makeup. The antagonist wears the most makeup as they are wearing a full face of clown makeup.

Props
The props used in the film include a lot of small props that aren’t extremely significant and a few important props that drive the entire plot. The less significant props are things such as a lighter and can of hairspray, a knife, and an inhaler. One of the very important props is a small paper boat that begins the conflict in the film. Another important prop is a letter that one of the characters writes to another.m

Setting
The setting is a in a fictional town called Derry, Maine. The town is supposedly haunted and is quite small. Settings inside the town include a library, the school the main characters attend, the characters different houses, and the sewers where the antagonist lives.

Editing
Common editing techniques used in IT include cutaways, jump cuts, and point of view shots. These add to the fear and suspense during the more tense scenes in order to captivate the viewer.

Sound
The sound in the film relies on dialogue and has very little background music. There is quite a lot of ambient sound in the film. Even in more tense scenes, it is still relatively quite to create more suspense.

Elements that I enjoyed
I enjoyed that the main characters were all young teens who are working together to defeat a supernatural entity. The use of kids as the main characters makes it more intense and makes the viewer more fearful for the characters well being as they are still just kids. I also enjoyed the comedic aspect of the movie which was always a nice break from the more scary scenes.

Elements that I disliked
I disliked how predictable the scenes tended to be, an often occurrence with most horror films. It took away the element of surprise at times and therefore made the movie less scary during some scenes.

Genre Research: The Babadook

The Babadook was a film made in 2014.  The movie was released in various film festivals until it was put onto the internet in november of 2014. They also released it limitedly on the same date. The movie was released onto netflix and hulu around the same time too. The movies ratings were overall good, all around a 4 or a high three. This movie was directed and written by Jennifer Kent.

Angles: 
The Babadook did some typical horror movie maneuvers with lots of low angles, point of views, close ups, medium close ups, over the shoulders and tons of two shots. They mostly shot things using a close up or medium close up but sometimes shot it in a two shot, just to get someone else in the shot.

movements
The movements, once again, are the stereotypical tracking shot, zoom in, zoom out, tilt and pan. The most used movement was pan, mostly to reveal what was on the other side of the room or what the mother was looking at.

costumes: 
the babadooks coat and top hat which he wears for the entire movie until he turns into the dad, in which he wears a suit. The mother wears a pink night dress for most of the movie. She then changes into her work uniform,  The boy wears his usual gray shirt with a blue coat. When he goes to school, he wears his school uniform. At the end of the movie, he changes into a striped sweater for his birthday.

Props:
The boy uses a crossbow, a catapult backpack, and various other weapons he claims are to fight monster with and save his mom. The mother doesn't use props, aside from the bowl of bugs she brings for the babadook and the babadook book itself.

lighting:
the lighting in the babadook is poor. They use this lighting to their advantage and make it creepy, though that was the purpose. They also sometimes keep it bright, only in certain scenes such as in the hospital. In the more intense parts, however, they use harsh lighting with bright shadows and dark darks.

scenes:
There wasnt too many different scenes in this movie. They mainly stayed in the house but sometimes they would change scenes. In a few scenes, the mom is in the nursing home, or the son and his mom are at the park. Though they never really left.

editing 
The editing was just as any other horror, jump cuts, fade in and fade out. They rarely used it but they had used a match shot for one of the scenes.

actors: 
The actors are

makeup:
There were no significant make ups aside from some sick looking blush around the eyes and nose. There was however, some black liquid coming out of the moms mouth along with some rope burns along her collarbone area.

sounds: 
The sounds they used were varied. Kids yelling, the rustle of people shuffling about, the sounds of things hitting the floor, the bed banging, and the babadook yelling into the phone or at the mom.

common elements:
The common elements in this movie were that something is coming after the main characters. They also had a basement trope where there is something down in the basement and the characters need to stop it. They also did a possession trope where the characters try to get rid of said spirit, they end up getting rid of it but something goes wrong.

things i didnt like about the movie: 
Some things I disliked about the movie were all the screaming in it. Though that seemed to be a big part in the movie, the loudness of it just bothered me. There were also some points that I didn't like so much such as the boy being dragged up the stairs. So nothing really too bad, just a few pet peeves.

things i liked about the movie: 
The idea of something coming after the main characters but turing out to be their own demon, aka the fathers death, was an intersting concept. The characters seemed to develp nicely in the movie, as we see them grow into the antagonist or the protagonist. The idea of the book coming back all torn up and taped together was intersting too, it was a nice attention grabber in the entire story.

Genre research: Happy Death Day

During my research, I decided to watch multiple horror movies to get a better understanding of what characterizes the horror genre. One of the movies i chose to watch was Happy Death Day. Happy Death Day is a horror movie that was released in 2017 and was quite successful. I decided on this film as it is both recent and popular, which makes it a good representation of current horror films. Throughout the film, I recorded the editing, sound, camera angles, and mis-en-scene that was in the movie.

Camera angles:
Common camera angles used in Happy Death Day include medium closeups, which were often used when showing the antagonist. Other camera angles that were often used over the shoulder shots, two shots, long shots and closeups.

Movements:
Very commonly used movements in Happy Death Day were zoom ins and zoom outs. Pans and tracking shots were alaso used heavily throughout the film to show scenes in which the protagonist is running or being chased.

Costumes:
An over the top mask was used by the antagonist and was paired with a black hoodie. The main character remains in the same outfit for a majority of the film except for the brief amount of time when she was in a hospital gown. The rest of characters wear casual outfits and remain in the same outfits for the entire movie.

Lighting:
The lighting was bright and well lit during the vast majority of the film. Quite a but of the movie is outside during the day where theres a lot of sunlight. The only few exceptions are scenes in which the antagonist is after the main character. These scenes have either no light or very little light on the characters.

Actors:
Jessica Rothe played the main character and protagonist in the film. The character she plays is a college student and she was able to portray the character very well. Other important characters include the love interest, who was played by Israel Broussard. The antagonist is played by Ruby Modine, however, she is in a mask and her character is unknown for most of the film.

Makeup:
The main characters makeup is simple and remains the same throughout the film, only changing by becoming messy and returning to clean through the events of the film. The other characters either wear simple makeup, or no makeup at all. The antagonist wears a mask during almost all the events in the movie, therefore their face cannot be seen, along with whatever make up they may be wearing.

Props:
The most prominent prop seen in Happy Death Day is a simple kitchen knife which the antagonist has in a lot of the scenes they appear in. One very important prop is a "poisoned" cupcake with a single candle. This cupcake is ultimately what helps the protag piece together the events of the movie. Other props include a baseball bat and an axe.

Setting:
The first setting in the film is a collage dorm room. The same setting appears many times throughout the duration of the film and is important to the plot. The other setting in the movie are hospitals, a college campus and a cafe.

Editing:
Commonly used editing techniques in Happy Death Day are jump cuts, cut aways, and cross cutting. These techniques add suspense to the film. There is also a montage towards the middle of the movie.

Sound:
The film does not have a lot of background noise in most of the scenes and focuses on dialogue. However, when the antagonist is on screen and after the protagonist, there is intense music to add fear to the scene.

Elements of the genre I enjoy:
I enjoyed the repeating day concept used in the movie which is not used very often in the horror genre. It added an interesting element to the film and fueled the plot as well. Although misdirects are used in a lot of horror films, I also liked the used of misdirects in the film.

Elements of the genre I disliked:
During the movie, I wasn't very fond of the constantly bright lighting as I felt it made the film less scary. I also felt the past that the antagonist wore took away the fear for me.

Genre research: Us

Us was a film released in march of 2019. The movie was pretty popular, receiving good ratings by many people. The film was directed and produced by Jordan Peele. The movie's budget was around $20 million USD. When producing, actor Lupita Nyong'o had to play two characters. Both characters having an individual script with all different words.

movements
There weren't too many different types of movements, they all repeated. The movements that they used in the film were a tilt, a pan, a tracking shot, a zoom in and a zoom out

angles
The same thing as the movements`, angles didn't really have too many varying angles. They used most of the typical horror movie angles including headshot, closeup, over the shoulder, point of view, two shot, low angle, areal

props 
The props consisted of some stereotypical horror things like bats, golf clubs and fireplace irons and the iconic scissors all the doppelgangers carry on them. There weren't many props in this movie that weren't used as weapons at some point.

lighting 
The lighting was typically dark and had very sharp lights and darks. But in some scenes, it became hard to see with how dark it became and how limited the light was used. In other scenes, they had very high lighting, like in houses and cars.

scenes
Some scenes in the movie were Inside the house, a hall with bunnies, a friend's house, a car, a classroom, sea side carnival, a mirror hall

editing 
The editing was your typical movie edits such as jump cuts, matchshots, fade in, fade out. The most used had to be jump cuts and match shots. Though they didn't use as many match shots as jump cuts, they still used it more than

actors
Some of the actors include but are not limited to Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elizabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Even Alex

costumes
Some costumes used in Us are the sleepwear of the original family and the jumpsuits of the doppelgangers. All the doppelgangers wear the same thing to match, also carrying the same weapon.

makeup
The make up they used is very minimal. They do a few special effects like blood and gore but thats it. Though some of the gore might have been CGI, I still put it under make up.

sounds 
The sound of birds chirping, chatting in the carnival, waves crashing into the shore, the noises in the mirror house, along with the noises of the other doppelgängers copying their originals. There were some splats of blood or bodies falling as noises too but these weren't made too heavily.

common elements
Horror relies on a dark mood and suspense, which Us used to its advantage many times. They also use aspects comedy to lighten the mood when it gets serious or just because the story is meant to be a horror comedy, wich

what did I like about this movie? 
I liked how Us followed the stereotypes of horror movies, but in an original way. Though they went with typical horror tropes and conventions, they made it work. It was an original idea. The fact that they had an actor playing two roles with totally different personalities and characteristics.

what did I dislike about this movie?
There wasn't much I didn't like about this movie. The only thing I didn't like was the whole "every double is against the original" story plot.  Though it was interesting, it would have been more interesting if it was the Red and Adelaide. There were also some confusing parts such as the ending where Red and Adelaide switch places. That wasn't really explained until the ending of the ending and still, even then, it was a bit confusing.

Deciding our pitch genre

The movie genre we decided would be best for our movie is Thriller/Horror. We decided to go with to go with this genre because, it matched best with our pitch idea. In our pitch idea our plot contains some very suspenseful scenes .. In our pitch a young girl is addicted to social media, where the horror and suspense comes in is where later on, in the film she follows a sketchy account leading her into trouble because she later goes missing and is forced into actions leaving her in torture and has her feelings terrorized.  The horror genre leaves you in fright which is the main goal/purpose for the viewers of the audience. It's better defined as "an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust".  We want to leave our viewers, shocked, and anxious. Due to most of the scenes in our film horror is the best genre our film would fit in. Also, we may have come up with a name for the film "Socially Trapped".

Comedy Films, & Musical Films Research and Conventions

So, we diving deeper into different genres of movies. But today we are going to be researching the two specific genres we've selected which are Comedy, and Musicals.



  We'll begin with comedy, one of the most popular genres, because who doesn't love to feel satisfied with a good laugh every now and then. The comedy genre comes with different elements of filming that make up a comedy movies such as the common camera angles present. For example, in comedy films as in Night School that recently came out in 2019, common movie angles include many wide shots, and tracking shots, and several medium close ups. Mis-En-Scene of comedy includes a variety of elements for example costumes in a comedy the prior goal is to get a good laugh out of you sometimes the actors are put into interesting costumes sometimes the'd even go to the extreme level of nudity. Anything out of the ordinary that would make an actor's appearance intriguing which results in which the audience to a level of humor. Such as in the original Netflix film, Naked where the plot is where the man wakes up naked  one morning, running late for his wedding taking event that same day. He repeatedly goes through the day several times stuck in a deja vu.



  The next several factors of a comedy film are lighting, editing, and sound. With multiple other elements such as costumes, makeup, props, and sets. Common lighting in comedy films usually includes: high key lighting, or natural lighting for when filming scenes outdoors. I've also noticed that comedy's contain multiple scenes outdoors rather than indoors, that may fit in the category of common locations in the comedy genre.



  For example, films such as (Peter Rabbit, Night School, & Naked) majority of the may take place in an outdoor setting whether it be outside of a home where a wild goose chase is taking place, in front of a fast food store where there's a fight going on with the store's mascot, or even running a marathon in complete nudity. What they all, have in common is they take place outside. Sound contain a dialogues filled with hilarious jokes, mainly sarcastic humor. There's usually a film score, and several sound effects. There isn't usually a lot of editing taken place in comedy most of the scenes just flow through.



  Moving forward to the next genre musicals. Here's a genre power point we created more overall that is able to describe a more in depth movie musicals. Here's a bit much things in common with movie musicals as mentioned below for example, lighting. Common lighting in film musicals include, high key lighting, low key lighting at times, and three-point lighting. The common camera angles: are high angles, occasionally close-up shots emphasizing character's expressions.



  In, movie musicals characters often express themselves through song and dance, only musical  violating the classic narrative cinema. The sets designs of movie musicals are exaggerated, color design usually are a theme of bright colors of the warmer tones. The scenery often changes because of the variety of different time periods and locations. Resulting in a variety of makeup, costumes, and props.

Horror genre research powerpoint

My power point is about the horror genre. Specifically, its about the lighting, camera angles, movement, mis en scene, elements and sounds. There is also some stuff I didn't like about the films in general. Along When we were looking for information, we looked at tons of different films for examples. Though we didn't watch them, we did look for video clips on the internet. We also had to look up the information from different sources too. Horror typically, in America, uses tons of sound effects to get its point across. It also tends to use darker lighting and often relies on limited sound. They usually have some actor dressed up in scary makeup or a scary costume to be the thing the main characters are scared of.  

pitch blog

 The two pitches we narrowed it down was the short girl story and the story about social media. The one we are leaning towards is the story about social media. It was the first one we came up with and ended up developing the story a lot. That way, when we develop the dialogue, it will be easier to do. Though the short girl story is interesting, I really wanted to do a horror, so we changed up the social media concept and made it into one. It didn't exactly take too much replaning because we just said some guy stalks her and she gets creeped out by it. For the short girl story, we wanted to do something relatable since both me and one of my other group members struggle with being short. It was mostly just a baseline concept for us so we didn't plan as much as the horror. Since my other group mates wanted to do something relatable and i wanted to do horror, we made a compromise. That compromise was doing the cellphone idea.

Pros and cons of the cellphone idea. the cons are it would be easier to film. It would also be more fun to film. It wouldn't have as much of a "coming of age" story as the short girl concept would. Another pro would be that horror is the easiest to film. That would make our work load even less. Cons are it would be a little hard to make it enough of an eerie feel. It might also be a bit hard to find locations to film at. The final con would be that we would have to find a good spot to cut it off. This would be hard because we would need to get the story to a good point where it doesn't seem like a short story. The best spot would probably be before the main climax so you don't get all that tension in the story, only to be left with a clif hanger.

Pros and cons of the short girl idea. Pros would be that it would attract more people to watch it. The story would be relatable so people would be able to sympathize with the main character. It would also be a bit easier to film with all the good angles we'd get. Cons are that it would also be hard to film. What I mean is it would be harder for us to make the main girl seem shorter than she actually is. Another con would be that it would be harder to come up with dialogue and a better story. It would be odd if it wasn't filmed at school or at least have one scene in it with school. Considering we cant film at school, it would be pretty difficult to get the typical "short girl school scenario." Though this idea would be pretty fun to film, its not the idea we were aiming for.

Final Task

Hello! After a break, Im back to blogging again. To all those newcomers, My name is Hailey. Im now 16 years old. Florida is still very hot all though it’s been cooling down. I attend FLHS and I’m currently in 10th grade. I like to spend time with my friends, family and draw. I’m interested in art and film, which is why I’m taking AICE media. I love all things fluffy, soft and cute!
My two group members are Deedi and Emma. I’m so excited to work with them again, all though I’m a bit sad I didn’t get to work with my first projects group.
Some things I have learned during this class are how to edit and film properly. All though I had a base idea or concept of editing, I didn’t know how to edit properly. But after attending this class for a semester, I have gotten better. The same thing with the camera. I had the basic idea on how to film stuff professionally, but not all the way. I did have a previous class for film but I didn’t learn much from it. Though that class is what lead me to have a basic idea of what I was doing, so I owe a thanks for that. This class definitely has broadened my ability to film. I’m still nowhere close to professional but I’m on my way. I’m very excited to put all that I’ve learned into a movie.
What is a pitch? A pitch is a hollywood term used to describe the idea of some sort of production. These are the pitches we came up with
This idea would be a horror film in which the main character is addicted to Social media. They got her info from their Social media account. The other one is the struggles of being short. The main character is a short girl struggling to do every day tasks. The next one would be a horror movie where someone stalks the main character. They end up getting kidnapped.