Institution and Audience Essay

Antonio Gatica-Moreno

          There are different types of audience consumption that has changed over time. There have been multiple ways to involve a film with other things with advertisement. Advertisement and propaganda have been an essential when it comes to film marketing. There have been different ways that the audience can partake into a film. Audience consumption has changed in the past couple of years.

            One of the most successful franchises in Universal Pictures is the Fast and Furious. If you don’t know about the Fast and Furious franchise you probably don’t know anything about Universal Pictures. According to Arts & Culture, “the Fast & Furious film franchise has made more than $2.3 billion at the worldwide box office, and Forza Motorsport games are the most-played racing simulations on the current generation of consoles.” This means that two successful companies are coming together to make an experience for people who play these consoles. This would allow an experience of what it would feel to drive one of the movie cars. This is great because people want to associate themselves into films to get the full experience. Now not only can you enjoy the film in theaters but, you can control the cars at home on a console.

            Another famous franchise is Jurassic World also owned by Universal Pictures. Jurassic World original came from Jurassic Park. A way to go gain audience consumption was to have a partnership with Lego and now this can gain the attention of young children. The official Jurassic World website stated, “Fans embraced LEGO Jurassic World with our initial product launch, and we couldn’t wait to come back and give them more of what they love with new ways to play and new opportunities to interact with the brand.” That was a direct quote from the President of Universal Brand Development. This is perfect because since the original 1993 film, people have been wanting to see this. The only thing that helps a company is giving the people what they want.

            Marvel Studios is the owners of the Spiderman franchise and their recent film is Spiderman Homecoming. They had a recent commercial with Audi and Audi Media Center had to say, “Before the official world premiere, the new Audi A8 appears on the silver screen. The flagship of the premium brand makes a guest appearance in the Marvel blockbuster ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming,’ in theaters worldwide in July.” This was great for families because in the commercial they showed Peter Parker having his drivers test. This is a target to families with teens showing how they can drive safely and easily. To add on they added the film to multiple streaming sites.

            Another example of audience consumption is AT&T and their promotion with the film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. According to AT&T themselves, “AT&T*, together with Warner Bros., begins the national rollout of the first joint, large-scale marketing campaign since the merger was approved in June.” AT&T did this by hanging up huge posters of Fantastic Beasts worldwide. This is good for both companies because now the audience will have a place to watch it in the comfort of anywhere they desire. To access the film, anywhere is beneficial to certain people in the audience because some might not be able to go out to the theater and acquire a ticket. They can watch it on the go with AT&T app and services.

            To conclude, the evolution of audience consumption is a great thing to see. How films are giving people the chance to participate in activities similar to the film is wonderful. More companies should focus on this because even if people don’t enjoy the film, they can still find a way to pay and watch the film and money can come in.

Practice Extract Essay

Practice Extract Essay- Antonio Gatica-Moreno

4/24/20

            The director of the film 24 has a theme off as time comes close to an end tensions rise, and decision-making becomes harder. Emotions an adrenaline kick in. It all comes down to this final moment. The director of the film is trying to convey that there isn't enough time and they need to get answers or else the bomb will set off. This message seems to be based off most of the examples throughout the film.

            To begin with, the actors of the film 24 were a male and female. The male was interrogating the female and trying to find out how to stop the bomb and this was seen throughout the whole film. The male actor was trying to intimidate the female to give up information and he did this by being aggressive. This would give the audience a feeling of seriousness. Before anything else you can see that the location is an interrogation room. This room was giving off a dramatic vibe since you must be honest and not get into trouble although, in this scenario the actress doesn't care and want things her way.

            The film starts of with the first camera angle that is clearly shown. The first camera angle is an over the shoulder shot that can be seen throughout the film. This shot shows focus on the conversation and understanding of the situation. Before the conversation begins there is a cutaway edit effect that focuses on the camera watching him. The point of the camera was to control the male actor because he knew he couldn't be aggressive or else he can get into trouble.

To carry on, the camera angle that can be seen is a low angle and it can be found when the female actress looks towards the clock. When she stares at the clock it demonstrates that time is ticking and there needs to be some sort of compromise soon. then comes the dialogue that was being held also throughout the film. The point of the dialogue was to explain that there is a conversation about what seems like an atomic bomb that will set off soon. That also increases the tension knowing millions of lives can be lost.

Towards the end of the film there was an example of non-diagenetic sound. This sound was due to the impact of the woman being slammed against the wall in her chair. This would show us a trait of exaggeration because it shows the audience that his slam was powerful and might’ve hurt the woman in the chair. This transitioned to a split screen of the people who were interviewing the interrogation and can be seen of them running into the room. The split screen shows the reaction of the other actors who know he is not allowed to be physical and needed to stop him.

            All these things combined would indicate that the director is trying to give theme of a rush to give answers in order to save others. The director doesn’t want to give any other feeling because in this part of the story the atomic bomb has a limited amount of time before it blows up the world. With the aggression in the male actor would reveal how eager he is to try to get the answers he needs. It kind of gives the idea of there is stress going on where the actor wants to know but in order to save the reputation of the actress, she wants to do it her way. As she states she wanted it to be “simple.”

Practice Extract Assignment

CCR Game Show

This was my CCR that was supposed to be a talk show format. My dad and dog were the actors that helped me out. My editing was also on point in this film. I think that if I continue editing I will get better and better. This project was a hassle because it was so long. I feel bad for movie editors who have to edit 1 or 2 hour films.

Final Task

This was our final task between my partner and I. I loved the editing improvements of mine. I edited the whole film and I was honestly proud of myself. The point of the film was to create a 2 minute start of a movie. In my opinion my partner and I killed it although we could have improved on certain clips.

Music Video Blog

My music video was my first solo project. I had a couple of friends who helped me, they were actors and camera man. My idea for this video was a guy who went through a lot and gets jumped by a couple of guys who run into him by accident. Then the main character sits by a dock and thinks his life and to give him a wake up call he falls into some water that suppose to kind of look magical. My original idea was better although with the time limitation I could not use it so this was my second idea.

Nike Commercial Blog

    This video was my first project with my group members. In this project I was supposed to create a Nike commercial that was 30 seconds long. This film was fun to make because it was so quick and easy. This film was the first film I got to edit.

Reshooting Blog

     The Coronavirus completely ruined our plans for reshooting. My group and I did schedule to reshoot although we couldn't do anything. We wanted to reshoot because some of the acting could've been better. For example, the one scene where I get hit in the head by a fake gun needed to be redone because it was horrible. As well, we wanted to reshoot due to the lighting and angles. One of the scenes at the end when the car drove off was a bit dark. The film wasn't horrible but in our opinion of my groupmate and I, we concluded that we should reshoot just in case. After the peer reviews, we noticed there was a lack of diversity in camera angles. We thought it would be a good idea to redo some shots and include better angles. Unfortunately, it won't be anytime soon.
     The Coronavirus has cut off our interaction with schools, stores, and certain restaurants. We are in a pandemic. This has taken the lives of people in different countries. Now it is in our state and county. We are not safe and will be taken away from school for almost a month. This is horrible we cannot focus on school issues and tests and Cambridge is expecting us to know it all. This is completely unfair due to the fact that we won't be learning anything and we have to deal with self-isolation from the world. There are other students who are working more now to provide for their families and aren't focused on school. Cambridge is not seeing our side of things and how we live. We can't suffer like this and be expected to know all this without major help. There is a petition for Cambridge that hopefully, they will take into consideration. Just because we're in a new generation of things doesn't mean others are having it just as easy.

Editing Blog

     We finished the video and included our titles and audio. We included a song that was suspenseful to give the film a dramatic vibe. I had to buy it off of iTunes, the song came from a track off of some movie. We didn't use different editing software. There was a situation that hit us. There is a dangerous virus called coronavirus and we are social distancing. This stopped communication with my partner and cancel our reshoots for now. We aren't allowed to leave our homes. My partner and I are suffering because we cannot communicate too much on what we're going to decide. We did recently on a call because I was able to finally get ahold of them.
     I was able to include sound effects as well during certain situations. For example,  a scream when the girl gets kidnapped. The editing process is completed until we can do reshoots. If we can do the reshoots and manage to include some better clips, then there will be improvements. Until then, we have to roll with the program and continue with what we got. This coronavirus has stopped everything and there is nothing we can do all unessential stores will be closed. For any equipment that we will need, we cannot access it. I'm stuck at home and am not allowed to leave due to the social distancing. The beach is closed and there isn't anything available. It sucks and now the classes are being messed up and cambridge won't help us.

Editing Blog

     My group and I finished most of the editing all we have to do is fix minor complications for the video. We managed to add in our title sequences perfectly. The only situation we have is the font and the transitions weren't our original choice. We tried to put it in with our editing software but it didn't allow us. There wasn't a choice for us to add it in so we came up with something that we enjoyed. We also didn't include music. This is because we haven't found a soundtrack that we like yet. We want to get one that's very dramatic to the film, giving off an intensity vibe. My part of the group was to not only edit with my partner but I had to store the project in a file to find later. There might be another editing software to add in other parts to benefit the film.

     My partner's job is to look at the minor complications and help fix them if I missed any. When working hard your eyes get tired and you don't realize it. This isn't a hard task we just get agitated with minor mistakes because we want it to get our full potential on the project. There was a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Overall, this editing process is always going to be slightly complicated although I understand it and so does my partner who is helping me. By next week, everything should finally be completed. If not it would be in the week after. I'm satisfied with our project I believe my group and I did well. We got with our own material and edited it with our own material. I can't wait to see the final product.

Editing Blog

     We already started a bit of the editing process but we haven't gone in-depth. We were able to edit enough to create the video itself. We are missing not that many things and can complete this film within about an hour or two. We are only missing the title sequences and how we will put them. Unfortunately, we won't be able to place them on how we wanted to originally. We don't have the correct equipment and if we did it would cost a lump sum of money. Depending on the reshoot it could be readjusted to our liking but we don't know yet. There are minor edits that don't seem noticeable such as the car pulling up is sped up by 1.25. By speeding up the scene, the film got shorter which was a benefit for us and it looked better as if there was some speeding involved. The film will have another scene that is sped up if we want to insert a specific scene during the reshoots.
     This project is very fun and I believe we are getting more than enough time. There hasn't been a problem that would affect when this would be delivered. We will be considering the peer review of the other group. For example, we agreed that we haven't put a song in the background. That'll be added once we figure out what we are gonna put. My partner didn't agree but I wanted to put some background music from Batman because I felt that it would make our project dramatic. She disagreed because she said there are more songs out there that will create the same effect and are better for our project. We continued to look and so far we haven't found a song yet but that'll come soon. During reshoots, we will need to insert new clips with different camera angles, we slightly lack some diversity with our camera angles. I'm excited to see the final outcome that will come soon.

Peer Review Blog

     Today, we reviewed another group's final project along with a group reviewing ours. They would be given a sheet of paper that would make us answer some questions about the project. It would include the shots used, the length, and etc. It was a fun activity to do seeing that we could compare our projects to other groups. The group we were reviewing had a plot of a dramatic medical reaction that the main character got. It seemed amazing and it caught my eye with the ending. In the ending, the character hears a knock and gets up to answer. Once the girl got to the door and opened it the scene cuts. This was perfect because it leaves the audience on a cliff hanger. A cliff hanger makes the audience want more and get them curious to see it.
     My group's project was pretty good but not all the way finished. We still need to edit and add in the title sequence. We did film it perfectly, we got exactly 2 minutes. Now with different editing software, we will be ready. The group that graded our project seemed fair we had a nice small conversation and we agreed on m st issues with it. Peer reviewing was very fun and essential to have. Group to group conversation agreeing and disagreeing to certain things about the video allows each other for constructive criticism and creative ideas. Inspiration is in the air and both groups can bounce off ideas. Maybe one group will listen maybe they won't, we will never know. The other group was sweet with it nothing harsh so it was nice to feel comforted.

Filming Blog: Final Shooting Day

     The final shooting day of the final task will be on Saturday. Hopefully, after that day it'll all be over with. Although, after editing if the film is too short we will redo some scenes. There might have to be an adjustment in the plot of the film. This all depends on how the film turns out and if everything goes well. This right now will be a rough draft to my partner and I. We believe that once we know what we like we can improve it after the peer reviews. We will still have the same actors and nothing will change other than the days it is being shot. The first scenes of the film will be done in the morning so in the film it'll look strange if someone pays attention to the background. Everything else will work like a charm.
     The way that I will contribute is by provding transportation. I will be picking some of the actors and bringing them to the park to help film. I will also be an actor for the next couple of scenes. I play as the guy who gets knocked out with a gun. Another responsibility I have to maintain is the camera angles. I need to teach whoever will be the camera man what angles to do and how to properly do it. This project is quite fun although a bit stressful. I cannot wait to see the final outcome. It'll look like an actual film and have beautifully edited title sequences. The title sequences might be a little tricky but not impossible.

Filming Blog: Next Few Days

     This Saturday that just passed was a day of filming. I had to pick up all the actors and transport them to our set. I also helped them dress up along with my partner. They had to dress up in all black and luckily some brought masks to hide their face like a real criminal. We added another actor because we needed more help for the scene where the girl gets kidnapped. The weather was rainy and gloomy which was perfect because I wanted the bad guys to bring a bad vibe to them where the mood changes. It all went perfectly well and the actors did an amazing job. I was filming some of the shots and one of the actors that weren't in the shots would film too. It was a diverse setting for the title of the cameraman. It the end we got the shots that we needed and now we got to focus on the future scenes.

     Next weekend, the plan is to finish up the beginning scenes with the couple. We need to get about  8 to 9 scenes. We wanted to knock out the scenes with the bad guy that way we can edit some of the shots within this week. This allows us to see what needs to be redone or left the same. Hopefully, everything was done properly and we don't have to reshoot. My partner and I will take turns editing the scenes. The editing process won't take too long especially since it isn't completely due soon allowing more time for review. Now, the only thing left is to find where we will put the title sequences. My partner and I will still be choosing how exactly they will be put. I'm excited to see the steps to the final task.

Filming Blog: First Days

    My group member and I started filming Tuesday and we also filmed Wednesday. There will be more filming days because the weekdays have limited hours. This is because we both have a curfew and have to be home so we don't have much time. We had my father be with us to take us because he is also there to help us with safety. It was a fun time because it was very challenging and we still have to continue on this weekend and we can almost be finished. I was able to help my partner with certain angles that I wanted to get. She was amazing and I wanted her to film this time because she wanted to learn how to get those angles. She shot the video with her iPhone 11 and later on some other scenes will be shot on my iPhone XR. I was also included in shooting some scenes too. There was one scene I was messing with the angles to see how I can get the low angle properly with the car.

     I believe I still need to reshoot it because I want to improve it and I want to get a Fast and Furious angle of the car where the camera is slightly slanted and low angle. For this scene, there will be a low angle, oblique shot, and a pan. This mixture is used in films to give off a mysterious and cool feeling to certain cars. We couldn't get the other actors so we specifically focused on scenes that don't have or need actors in it. We couldn't get them in because they were busy. Saturday everyone will be free although, I have to get a new boss because the other one can't make it to the shoot. I'm glad we got to start filming sooner to have more time editing. This project has to be better than anything I've ever made. More great things will come our way especially actors who will win the Oscars. I can't wait to see the final result.

Planning: Storyboard

For this portion of our filming project, we were told to make a storyboard. This helps us in the future for many reasons. We will know during the filming process what we will include. A storyboard is generally a script but in picture form. It also gives us details like angles and movements and types of editing show what we should include when actually filming. This was a very complicated storyboard. It was quite confusing managing to fit 60 scenes for a 2-minute video. This is completely unrealistic and impossible. This wasn’t the greatest thing to do and hopefully, this is never done again. Hopefully, the shooting of this project becomes easier.

Planning:Title Design

 Our plan is in place and we have everything prepared such as our location, participants, schedule, etc. Now, all we have to focus on is our title design and how in-depth this needs to undergo because it is going to show the audience a hint of the type of movie. If the audience is interested then the titles were done correctly. The point of our titles is to give off a secret spy mission type of film. The transition should give it the main hint because it is a key of spy mission films. This is actually a fun assignment because it allows the creator to be creative on how they will present their film. We are lucky to include back up plans because if our original concept accidentally blends in then we are able to change it. This won't be a hard task and will be quite simple to make and not a lot of other groups will do this because they will stick to the basics. The font although could be changed depending on what looks best with the typewriter transition. Overall, this film will be the definition of a secret spy mission film.

Planning: Location, Sound, Participants, Health, Schedule

     While still in the planning stages, what we have done next is the information about the location, participants, health, and schedule. We use this to help us when we will begin filming. For example, we know where our scenes will take place, we wanted it to be a place that fits our story. We also have important information on what we need to keep us students safe, which is in the health slides of our planning. We have also included the participants in which will be in our film, friends and even family. Furthermore, is our filming schedule, we need to stay on track to get everything done. This is the most important step because it helps us know when we will do each thing to not confuse us. Me and my group-mate find that this way of planning is much easier rather than the projects we did in the past. These slides will contain all we need for the next step in our planning which will be the storyboard, it helps us have everything set. This helps us feel organized with all the work we have to do so nothing causes confusion. 

Planning: Sound Script

     In our sound script, we are giving off ideas of what we will include. My partner and I broke apart our roles so we could help each other. I am doing the sound script blog which involves dialogues and types of sound in this 2-minute film. We each chose our own script because we have more strengths in the one we chose. We put a lot of time and work into these scripts to help us for when we can finally film our ideas. I contained dialogue of the main couple in the story and the bad guys. We are putting as many ideas as we can to benefit our film. My role was pretty much a dialogue storyboard which is very helpful in the long run. I enjoy doing this blog because planning ahead gives me confidence in how our sequence will turn out. We will continue to plan and blog about further stuff like people in the film, health and safety, and location.

Planning: Shooting Script

     This was supposed to be a script describing what would visually be on our film. We needed to include camera angles, movements, and lighting. We also needed to include the lighting. On our film, there was unfortunately not much lighting change we can do since it'll be in a public park. There will be a lot of movements because it is a film with a lot of action going on. Our pitch was improved while creating this google slides project because we realize certain flaws. Our original pitch was too long and had too much action compared to now. The film will be hard to create since we are only given 2 minutes. In our opinion, we believe more time given would bring out more creativity. This is good to guide us on our final task.

Title Research: Comedy

Are We Done Yet?
1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences of the film?
   -The opening sequence of the film contains 26 title displays.
2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
  -Some images that are prioritized are the scenes with an animated Ice Cube trying to fix things that are broken although the film is not animated.
3. What connotations do the images carry?
  -The images carry a connotation of there's always a new problem after you fix a new one.
4. How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
  -The scenes all include something that has to do with construction such as hammers or blueprints.
5. How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
  -The film is trying to give off the enigma of when is everything going to be fixed and be in place.
6. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
  - The strategies that are used are little bits of fails that seem to be funny because Ice Cube can't catch a break.
7. How has technology been used effectively?
  - The use of animation for only the title sequence is amazing because the editing it uses to transfer from one text to another is hilarious and clever.

Title Research: Action

Green Lantern
1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences of the film?
  - The opening sequence of the film contains 15 title displays.
2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
  -Some images that are prioritized are the scenes with a background of space and space-related stuff like asteroids.
3. What connotations do the images carry?
  -The images carry a connotation of distant areas where regular humans can't find or access.
4. How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
  -There are multiple scenes that continue the famous green lantern logo of the ring.
5. How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
  -The film continues a constant movement going back and forth passing different planets, comets, asteroids.
6. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
  - The strategies that are used are the absurd amount of graphic match used to show different things.
7. How has technology been used effectively?
 -Technology has been used effectively by including cinema 4D and photoshop which are editing tools that are used for blending in the text into certain parts of the film.

Title Research: Science Fiction

Godzilla: Final Wars
1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences of the film?
  - The opening sequence of the film contains 9 title displays.
2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
  -Some images that are prioritized are the scenes with dates and bolts of electricity.
3. What connotations do the images carry?
  -The images carry a connotation of history repeating itself throughout the opening sequence.
4. How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
  -The repeated scenes of the old Godzilla represent science fiction because of a fictional character.
5. How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
  -The film establishes quick short scenes causing confusion in all the chaos that is going on.
6. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
  -Strategies used to ensure the film appeals are explosions to give the audience a feel of adrenalin
7. How has technology been used effectively?
 -Technology has been used effectively by including low camera angles to show Godzilla's true size. Editing makes a fast compilation of cities being destroyed to show the audience what the monster is capable of.

Title Research: Fantasy

X-Men
1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences of the film?
  -There are 17 titles displayed during the opening sequence of the film.
2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
  -Some images that are prioritized are the image of chromosomes and DNA samples on the screen representing strange genetic mutations that will be included in the actors in the film.
3. What connotations do the images carry?
  -The connotation of the images is the same time period as the movie.
4. How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
  -The different types of chromosomes and DNA samples are in the form of an X to symbolize the X- men.
5. How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
  -The titles keep you curious about what will be happening because there are samples but don't give context about what they mean.
6. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
  -Some strategies include 3-D motion tests and their original board art. Their main focus was to make it seem old and grungy.
7. How has technology been used effectively?
 -They used 3-D motion tests to get the type of attraction of the audience. They included smooth transitions to create a modern look.

Title Research: Watch the Titles

We found out about these new helpful websites that mainly has to deal with titles of films. This helps us with our Cambridge project coming up. Researching titles gives us a boost of knowledge of what we are supposed to contain to get our full points for our big final film. This website contains tabs such as, Title Sequence, Designers, and Studios. I learned that this site gives you a lot of information about all sorts of things from tv shows to video games. The purpose of this website is to give us, the students examples of how titles are showed and formed on films. There are a variety of different title sequences. There are over 200 different sequences to choose from! The website's goal is to attract a global audience. Our group will continue to use this website because it is more trustworthy than the art of the tiles website.

Title Research: Art of the Title

  We will also be researching another website which contains information on title style. This website is useful for us because it can teach us more about movie titles and how they are done. We have to use this website to research different genres for future blogs. The website is known for the creative process that each title sequence uses. The aim of the website is to "honor the creators and innovators who contribute to the field." It taught me that certain genres have a certain style to it so when you watch it you automatically understand the type of movie you're watching. It could be anything from the transitions of the title sequence to the font. The color of the lettering could give you an idea of the film you're expecting to watch. The title has to match the connotation of the genre in order to grab the attention of the audience. Understanding the title style is good to analyze the film instantly. The URL is https://www.artofthetitle.com/ we cannot include it into the screenshot because at the moment the website is down and won't allow us to use it. 

Genre Research: The Dark Knight

     The Dark Knight had an interesting Mis-en-Scene. The costumes used in this are suits and masks for the bad guys that Joker has for them and the bat suit for Batman. The location that's used is Gotham because all this is based in this one city. The famous actors that are used are Christian Bale and Heath Ledger both going against each other as bad guy versus good guy. The make-up used is for the ones who are injured in the movie. Some make-up used is the blood for the wounded. The props that are mostly focused on are guns and the armor or gadgets that Batman uses. Some of the settings that are used in the film are the bank in the beginning heist, the spot where Batman uses to know he is needed, and the classic garage parking that he goes against Batman.
     The camera angles that are used are eye-level when the Joker is seen in the jail cell looking at the commissioner. Also, there is neck up shots when the commissioner interrogates Joker. There are multiple over the shoulder shots. There was a tracking shot when Batman slams Joker. When Batman gets also knocked out from a slam against a car and there's a zoom shot into Batman's face. There's a pan when the building explodes there's a pan from the building to the outside. Also, a tilt when the building that Rachel is in explodes.
     The common sounds that are used are the scores and non-diegetic sound for the sound effects. They used this for the gunshots, exploding buildings, and car crashes. The editing effects were actually pretty bland because all this was natural and based on the acting the only frequently used editing effects were cross-cutting and cutaway. The elements that are used in the action genre are the story, characters, and setting. The elements that I enjoyed was the story because it was a personal attachment that Batman had on this one girl but was also balancing the life of crime that he has to go through. I was not appealed to the the setting because they were in dark area that were hard to see but I understood it was to make it more dramatic.

Genre Research: As Above So Below

     The costumes used in this horror film are actually pretty basic. The film just included clothes you would use on a hike. Usually, clothes that wouldn't matter if they were messed up. The location this was mostly filmed was in the catacombs beneath Paris, France. The actors that are used are regular actors that have appeared in famous films but were not appreciated enough. The make-up used were a lot of dirt and sand and dust. This was because this was mostly filmed in the catacombs and this is all underground. The main props were cameras, flashlights, and hints to solve the catacomb mysteries. The setting was different parts of the catacombs such as underground churches and strange gates.
     The camera angles that are used are mostly pov, two-shots, and over the shoulder. The camera movements that are only used are pan and tilt due to readings of symbols that they look at. This film was filmed to look like someone without a high-quality camera. Some movies who do this is 'Earth to Echo.' The sound that was used was the non-diegetic sound. No other sound was used because it was supposed to look like a self-shot documentary. The editing was also pretty bland too, the only effect used was cutaways. This film was based on the plot and how it was to find the treasure and the gates to hell.
     The genre of this film is horror because there are unexpected elements in the catacombs. The elements that I enjoyed are the backstory of the monsters and the atmosphere because the film is dark and eerie. What I did enjoy was the possibility for a sequel because there aren't any possibilities so were stuck with one film and one film only.

Genre Research: Avengers: Infinity War

     The Mise-en-Scene in the film Avengers: Infinity War is created outstandingly with a storyline that the audience are obsessed with. The scenery and the properties that make up the movies are important to give the viewers what they love. I will start with the costumes in this movie. Since this film has to do with super heroes and them saving the world, they obviously wear their super suits that make them powerful and different from ordinary humans. Of course the characters also have normal lives, so their costumes also include ordinary everyday clothing. Another important quality is lighting. There is an array of different types of lighting such as, lowkey light, highkey light, three-point, ambient lighting. All of this is used to feature harsh shafts of light into the scene. Dark light is also used to intensify what the characters are feeling. Other than lighting actors are needed. There are many famous actors in this film like Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Tom Holland, Josh Brogan and way more are important factors for making this movie a hit. Make-up is also used like blood and prosthetics to show gashes on characters face to show them fighting. Props are also very important, in this move there are a lot of weapons and normal human objects, also crazy ships to show this movie does not only take place on earth. For the setting there are multiple locations which makes the film way more interesting. For example, space, different planets, homes, and cities.

    Camera angles are also important in the film, used for fight scenes and normal communication.

Pan is used throughout the film to show scenery or battles happening. Multiple high and low angles representing power. Infinity war also contains cranes and trunk shots to show the characters moving around during fights with the villains. Tracking shot is moved to watch the super hero fly in the sky. The film also contains point of view shots of what the heres are seeing for example when iron man is defeating someone. Eye level shots are used between two people about to fight like any hero in the movie. Zoom is the most used camera movement. Throughout the whole film there is zooms on objects and heres and even villains.

     Infinity war also contains multiple sounds and editing. There is a lot of sound bridge throughout the scenes causing suspense. Of course there is dialogue between all the heroes and villains. Dietetic and Non-Diegetic sounds are used throughout to give the movie character and emotion. Sound motif is also used to identify certain objects. Cut away is used throughout the film because of the importance plot of fighting off Thanos. Jump cut and reaction shot is throughout the whole film to show the emotions of the heroes like if someone dies. Some elements in the movie are heroes, importance of a plot, battles, and powers. I liked the battles and confrontations of the characters the most because it adds more suspense to the movie. An element I didn't really like was the normal stay at home dialogue between characters, or even in the famous office

Genre Research: Kingsman The Golden Circle

     The Mis-en-Scene of Kingsman The Golden Circle has a wide variety of diversity. The costumes used are the suits used for the good guys, a highschool football letter jacket for the bad guys, and for the allies had a cowboy type of outfit. The locations that were mainly included were England, the U.S., and Cambodia. The actors used were mostly men and there were important women such as the main evil character who was a woman named 'Poppy.' A lot of the make-up used was damages to the characters after some gruesome fights such as blood, gunshot wounds, bandaging for this. The props used were mostly weapons and clothing. The setting that was used was a battlefield and different locations used as hero and enemy base.
      The camera angles used were mostly used for communications, fights, escape or accident scenes. There were multiple instances where there were was over the shoulder shot. In one fight you could obviously tell it was a two-shot and in another instance, there's an aerial shot of the Kingsman facility being blown up by a missile. The main character was trying to be a better man so through the beginning of the film and the camera would have a high angle of his face making less superior although throughout the film he gained a high angle and when anything was focused on him he became an honorable man. The camera movements used were a lot of pans and tilt as well as tracking shots. The pans were used for fights, the tilts were used for every time they got something new for example the suits. The tracking shots were for escape scenes.
     The sounds used in this film were clearly dialogue, there was non-diegetic sound when there was any slams or gunshots, and there were sound motifs. The whole film consisted of scores, incidental music, and ambient sound. There wasn't much of a variety of editing. There was cross-cutting, eye-line match, iris in, and reaction shot. The elements I enjoyed were the characters because the antagonist were very committing and the antagonist was a hard-working woman who made over 250 billion dollars. Some of the elements of the genre I was not appealed to was the story because it consisted of multiple subcategories as murder and drug usage.

Choosing our Final Genre

      Finally it was time for my group-mate and I to figure out what genre we will be using in our film.

With many conversations between my group mate and I, we decided to chose to do a Crime film. This film will contain suspense, kidnapping, and sitting at the edge of your seat emotions. We chose this because we both think this is the most interesting genre, many ideas can come out from the crime genre. We are already starting to figure out what else we need to finalize our pitch to get ahead. Suspenseful films fictionalize crimes, their motives, their detection, and criminals. In our film we want to include: unsavory characters, danger and tension, and seemingly unsolvable crimes. 

Other Genre Research

For our next two genres we have to research we are choosing to do it on horror and epic film.

Me and my teammate will now research and give information on each of these genres to help us further for our Cambridge final project. Some things I will include are common camera angles, editing, sound and elements.

Horror

common camera angles

-Bird eye, high angle to make figure of an object to seem vulnerable.

-Close ups, to see the emotion of a character.

-Tracking, Panning shot to make it seem as if a character is being followed for suspense.

-Tilted angle, to create dramatic tension of the monster in film.

-Over the shoulder shot, to build up suspense so the audiences sees before the character.

-Hand held camera shot, to add sense of reality.

common mise-en-scene

Lighting- Spotlighting, underexposure, harsh light, projected shadows are all used in horror films.

Actors- Bela Lugosi (Dracula), Tyler Posey (Truth or Dare), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) are some examples of actors in horror movies.

Makeup/Costumes- Clown costumes, skin prosthetics, dark suits, blood, eye contacts, wigs.

Props- video camera, masks, weapons; knives, chainsaws, bat are all in famous horror films.

Setting- Alleys, abandoned places, houses, hotels

common editing

-Quick cuts, to give audience sense of urgency.

-Extended uncut clips, as tension builds the audience anticipates progression.

-Fade in and out to create eerie emotions towards a scene.

-Action Match, to show both characters monster/villan and the person in danger

elements of genre

There are multiple components needed to create a horror movie for example, a frighting menace, clear rules to live by, proper theme music, backstory of the monster/villans purpose, possibility for a sequal, plenty of characters who could disappear at any moment, atmosphere, trademark murder weapon, and the ending face off.

examples of horror films

Some famous horror movies are Hereditary, The Babadook, A Quiet Place, The Shining, The Conjuring, Jaws, Scream, Poltergeist and many more terrifying films.

common sounds

Horror movies have multiple sounds that are famous to give the films that creepy goosebump type feeling. For instance normal people use everyday items to make horror movie sounds like munching on crackers or stepping on tomatoes, crushing peppers to give an illusion of monsters like zombies eating on humans. Spoon and knife noises are used as well to show an enemy is about to murder.

Epic Film

common camera angles 

-Ariel shots, to show the audience the extent of a journey.

-Long shots, show the extent of nature of the beauty of their environment

-Tracking shots, to show show a conversation through some terrain. 

common mise-en-scene

Lighting- Soft lighting natural lighting and highkey lighting are used in epic films to give off the nature look and create beautiful scenery, although most epic films these days contain inside lighting because most movies are now used with green screens.

Actors- Rodrigo Santoro (300), Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Morgan Freeman (Ben-Hur) are some actor examples in Epic films.

Makeup/Costumes- Blood, armor, suits, helmets, rusty pieces of clothing are all used in Epic films.

Props- Armor, sheilds, swords, animals like horses are all in Epic films.

Settings- Most Epic films take place in the outdoors, old homes, farms, mountains, deserts, and oceans.

common editing

-Cross cutting, can show two people or teams doing something against each other.

-Dissolve, dissolving scene to scene can cause either uplifting emotions or the opposite.

-Jumpcuts, in movies this can cause suspense from one thing happening to another.

-Fade in and out, shows an important scene in Epics to another.

elements of genre

There are many elements of genre in an Epic. For example, A hero and a journey, mythical creature (fantasy or mythical), Ambitious nature shots, a large battle (usually a war but can also be mythical), Symphonic music scores, and unusual costumes.

examples of epic films

Some examples of Epic films are The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit, 300 Apocalypse 

Ben-Hur, Titanic, and Troy all fit in this category.

common sounds

Some common sounds that take place in Epics are mystical/magical movies to bring joy and spirit or even loud suspenseful sounds. Others can include diegetic sound, any said during a scene. Non-diegetic sound, any sound added after the film to create emotion. Or even no sound to bring an ominous tone.

Genre Research

 This is a project we worked on with our group that informs the research we did on the genre: Crime. This would include Mis en Scene, the elements, and certain films in this genre. This is a summary of what is included in the crime genre. We created this to help us on future assignments. Now this will be beneficial to the final task in this AICE class. Isolating various elements from a film and categorizing allows to determine the genre to have comparisons and outstanding judgement. This was not too hard of an assignment and was quite interesting. 

Beginning the Final Task

     Hello, my name is Antonio and I attend Fort Lauderdale High School. I'm in the Cambridge Program and so far I have two out of my seven credits acquired. I have a goal to gain pass my AICE classes for this year. Next year I will only have to gain two more credits and I will be completed to gain my Bright Futures Scholarships. I am a sophomore who will be completing high school in 2022. Some after school activities I enjoy doing are skating, playing with my dog, and making music. In my school there are piano and guitar classes that I want to take. I’m glad I had the opportunity to join the cambridge program because it’s giving me the chance to open new doors to success. I’m working with one other member and so far it has been great working with her. We have great communication and we are able to negotiate on what we think is best for the final task.
     I’ve been able to carry on many skills while being in this class. My idea of the film process has become way simpler and easier. Editing has been smooth as butter, I’ve never thought I would be able to learn editing. Since I was younger I loved the idea of filming content although, I was scared to even come near any editing tool. I was so confused by it. This year changed that and now I can edit any film with most softwares. I’m excited to be able to utilize all my skills that I’ve learned to combine something big. This will be bigger and better than any other project I’ve done. The plot of the project itself will be amazing. My filming angles will be out of this world.
     A pitch is a Hollywood term to describe any idea where a film is enscapulated in 25 words or less. Usually with one sentence.  Our first pitch was an idea of my group member being a secret spy and I being his friend that didn't know, I was taken and he was determined to find me. Our next pitch is my group mate and I are spy's and we go on secret missions and in the end we are forced to take each other out because our boss assigned us to kill one another. We most likely wanted to create a film which contained more adventure and suspense than any other genre. Our final pitch was a more of emotional idea. We decided for our last one to be, two best friends who are having great lives and suddenly one of them pick up a terrible illness/disease, once they find out they decide to live life to the fullest not knowing when will be the last day. We are now going over which two pitches are the best. In our next assignment we will chose two of the best ones. Here is my teammate working on pitches.

  

 

Choosing the Pitch

     This next blog will be me and my group mates decision on choosing our pitches. I will be explaining the positive and negatives about each of our pitches. Since we have two pitches that contain suspense and adventure we decided for our last one to have dramatic emotion to it. The pitch we will most likely choose is one of the suspense ones because we had more creative ideas on that choice. We have discussed and we are mainly considering the first two, similar but hard to decide.
     For our first choice on out pitch we decided to tweak the idea into instead of the girl not knowing the boy is a spy, they are both spy's. The main pitch is there are two spys, and one of them gets kidnapped, the other partner decides to do whatever they can to save them. The antagonist has a gun to the hostage and the spy has a gun to the antagonist, in the last scene there is shot gun and the audience will never know who was shot. A reason why this pitch is good is because we have a lot of creative ideas, more than we have for the others. My groupmate and I are more confident in this topic. We will be sure to have more important features and new ideas. We like this pitch because we both agree suspenseful films are more interesting. A reason why this pitch wouldn't be good would probably be because we might not have everything we need to fulfill our ideas. We will try and go to all the locations needed to record this type of film. A lot goes into action films like props, locations, costume, actors, and lighting. Since its only two people in a group we are going to have to face some issues but hopefully we over come it.
    Our second choice we would like to think about is another pitch that deals with suspense. Our pitch would be: my group mate and I are spy's and we go on secret missions and in the end we are forced to take each other out because our boss assigned us to kill one another. Just like the other they involve action and adventure. A lot will be required to finish this film in a fascinating way. We like this pitch because of our interest in crime and suspense. A reason this might not be the best pitch would most likely be because it might not sound as interesting as our first choice. We want our pitch to get the audience's attention. Our goal is to have the viewers engage and enjoy what they are watching. We hope our finishing product turns out how we plan it to. We will have some difficulties but in the end we will work it out and do the best we can.
     In the end my teammate and I decided that our first pitch is going to be the one we are going to make. We find it more interesting and entertaining. We are glad this was a smooth and simple process. Learning about pitches before doing story board is a good way to be prepared. I am excited for this project and the end result.