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Creative Critical Reflection Question 4
How did you integrate technologies (software, hardware, and online) in this project? To film, we did not have the most expensive or best equipment. We used what was available to us. To shoot everything, we used my phone’s camera because it was the most advanced phone (iPhone XR) and it made sense for it to…
Creative Critical Reflection Question 3
How did your production skills develop throughout this project? When the year started, I had no clue how to make a storyboard, shot list, script, make a wardrobe or edit anything. For the first storyboard, my parter made it (for The Break-Up). We did not make a shot list for this short film, and although…
Creative Critical Reflection Question 2
How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed/marketed as a real media text? The product is made for a PG-13 Audience. Anyone above this age will understand the difficulties of a relationship in high school, though this does not excuse abuse. Many high school relationships can contain some form of…
Creative Critical Reflection Question 1
How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? The idea that my partner and I had for the film is a basic one: a story about an abusive relationship. However, in movies about this, the man in the relationship is normally the abuser. For our movie…
Finishing Touches
Once we filmed everything, which was in the span of three different days, Corona-virus broke loose and the quarantine started. Because of that, the film did not exactly happen as planned. Some of the shots that ended up in the film were taken spontaneously when we were filming because our director and cameraman, Alexa thought…
Editing for “Trouble In Paradise”
The editing platform I have used for all the film openings is iMovie. The program is quite useful and easy to manage for what I need it for. The process of editing does not take me long to complete because I already have a solid idea of what I want once the shots and music…
Script for “Trouble In Paradise”
For the last second preliminary task, my partner and I did the script together. But for this one, my partner was in charge of writing it. But like almost everything major, for this project, we would work alongside each other and ask for help or just check in every once in a while to refer…
Shot List For “Trouble In Paradise”
Here is the Shot List for “Trouble In Paradise”, I worked on it alongside my partner, but thought up the basis of our film. I also finished the shot list after having done the storyboard so that I knew exactly what shots I would need and how many. In the end, however, many of the…
Music for “Trouble In Paradise”
The Music for this final project was all composed and written by me. For the first song, it is supposed to portray happy, perfectness, with trouble underlying in the last bit of the set. This is because it is being played at the beginning when we see a typical high school relationship, ‘young and in…
Wardrobe
As I am also in charge of wardrobe, I am doing research to see how to portray the characters in the film best. The sites below show two different aspects of films. Both sites talk about the costume designer. http://www.independentfilmadvice.com/wardrobe-department/ https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/teachersguide-costumedesign-2015.pdf The first link below talks of wardrobe when it comes to small independent films.…
Cherry Wine
Hozier’s song “Cherry Wine” is a song about domestic abuse. The lyrics are posted below along with the music video. Her eyes and words are so icyOh but she burnsLike rum on the fireHot and fast and angry as she can beI walk my days on a wire. It looks ugly, but it’s clean,Oh momma,…
Survey on Audience
My partner and I made a survey on audience to keep in mind the people that we are making the film for.
Sound/Music
The link below gives definition for many types of sound which i think are useful to know, since I will be in charge of sound and music. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/teaching-literacy-through-film/0/steps/11363 Soundtrack – all the different layers of sound used within a film, including location sound, dialogue, sound effects (FX), Foley sound, and musical score. Location sound (also…
The Film Opening’s Name
When it came to actually naming out film opening, I was at a loss. I wanted to come up with something creative and not too obvious like our first short film “The Break-Up”. Our second short was “absent” and I was quite satisfied with this title because although it may have been obvious, it was…
Troubles with Names
There were many issues concerning names. With the first idea of the movie where the man gets kidnapped by his girlfriend, we had no name for the film opening. I came up with the character names: Finn: for the boyfriend, it can mean “victim” Alea: for the girlfriend, in Italian it means “risk” or “hazard”…
Starting Issues
For our final film opening, my partner and I had trouble figuring out names for the characters and the actual clip. Originally, we had thought to make a film about a heterosexual couple in which the. girl kidnaps her boyfriend and the boy’s older sister went looking for him. However, we found out that it…
Planning for final film Opening
My partner and I had decided to make a film opening within the genre of crime drama. As, we discussed our options, the idea evolved into more of a Drama. However, before we talked about the plot, we divided the work that goes into a movie. The parts that I will be in charge of…
Story Board (Research)
Before I started this course, I had some idea as to what making a film consisted of. Even though I was somewhat aware, I underestimated everything that went into every process, including the story board. As I have previously stated when making the SB for the Second Preliminary Task, I had seen my brother make…
Shot List (Research)
With the last Shot list I worked on, I happened to get it done very quickly because we had been given a list on how to do it. However, it did not end up being too specific and I was a little confused by what I meant with some shots. Because of this, I did…
Representation in Media
Representation in Media are the ways in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective. The factors that make up representation are gender, race, age, disability, location and events/issues, according to Mediaknowall’s article ‘Representation In The Media’.
Lighting
My partner and I did an analysis of lighting to learn about the different types we could use for our film openings. The powerpoint below hold the information we found.
Pride And Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a film that has amazing wardrobe and music. I want to imitate in a way, the lightness or heaviness that one feels when listening the the music. The costume design is simply amazing, not that it is very similar to what I hope to accomplish in my final project.
Split, Get Out, JOKER, and The Shining
The following are all movies that I want to take inspiration from for my final project. Here are a couple scenes that I thought were the most impactful and intense when it came to the edition, music, and mise en scene. Split Get out JOKER The Shining
‘Woodstock: Three Days That Defined A Generation’ And ‘Hair’
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined A Generation What amazes me about this documentary (this type is also known as a ‘rockumentary’) is the fact that someone thought of filming this festival. The takes are pretty good, considering the conditions. Also, a problem I have with many documentaries is that they show, for extended periods of…
‘Almost Famous’ and Coming of Age Genre
Coming of Age Genre ‘Coming of Age,’ as Lynley from Slap Happy Larry puts it, is “a genre that focuses on psychological and moral growth of a main character who is growing from youth to adulthood. Personal growth is the most important characteristic in this genre. It relies on emotional responses and dialogue rather than action.” Almost…
Mood Board on Movies I Enjoy
The majority of the movies above, I have watched several times. I chose some others based on the genre that my partner and I want to base our final film opening on: thriller/ crime drama.
Second Preliminary Task Reflection on “absent”
Q1: Rate on a scale of 1-10 how did you group work as a team. Support you rating. What could have made it a 10? My team worked at a nine out of ten. We have been good friends for a while now, so I know I can work well with her. Since we are…
Second Preliminary Task: “absent” -A Film Process (Shot List and Script)
Shot List Shot # Type of shot Description Location Cast and Production Notes 1 Extreme long shot Landscape of gray clouds and rain MAST Academy Capture sound of wind 2 Extreme long shot Landscape of gray clouds and rain MAST Academy Capture sound of wind 3 Long shot Classroom with three people missing Ms. Martinez’s…
First Preliminary Task- “The Break-Up” Film Opening
My first preliminary task was to create a short film to experiment and learn different codes and conventions along with camera angles and different types of shots. To begin with, we had to create a story board which, although I had never made one, I had seen my brother make one for a film he…
Introduction
My name is Adriana and I am a senior at Mast Academy. For my Media Studies class, I am going to work with a partner to create an opening for a film and the creative critical reflection. For this task, I will be acting, editing and in charge of the music. I am excited to…
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