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.