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.
Sunday, January 26, 2020
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.
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.
Friday, January 24, 2020
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. 
Friday, January 17, 2020
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Editing Blog
12/5 Now that I finished filming I'm moving onto the editing process. Today we are supposed to edit in class and already have our footage dumped. I finished my editing on iMovie so the process was quicker and smoother. I luckily already finished my editing although I want to edit more with special effects and etc. I think its good that I get experimental and try to put effects because not only does it make the video more diverse but it shows authenticity of the creator. If anything gets in my way and I'm unable to edit any special effect I will be okay with it because I got the basics down. I do need to add special transitions because I didn't add any. What I'm interested in adding is different effects such as, fade in and fade out, jump cuts, and dissolve. I have improved with my editing since the last film my group and I. Doing my music video alone has helped me because I can put my own editing ideas in my video without hassle. I'm interested in the filming process and I can't wait for more projects to come.
We will have more time in other classes as well. Today is the first day for editing and luckily I don't have to use the school's editing software. The one I use was faster and easier because I was able to access my footage from any other device as long as I signed in. I'm glad my editing process was quick and simple. I don't think I could ever handle using the school's editing software. It's a good software although it is too slow and we aren't given enough time. The school should at least change our devices for this class in specific. This class needs speed for these programs and should be given computers like the ones in photography class or comm tech. I shouldn't complain though because I have my own and it works clean. My video came out clean and easy.
Somethings I look forward to in this editing software is editing colors. I don't know what my next project will be although I would love to make a film that is very colorful. I want to edit it and see if there are any coloring options that will make the colors in my next film stick out. Hopefully, the next project we get is something where we can be creative like this music video. Something that is less forced like our commercial project although something creative like this one because then we can be able to put our mind to it. I'm nervous to see what it will be but I want my editing to improve. I want it to be a major improvement. I will definitely need to manage my time for this next project because I want to get a good grade in the mid-term. This next editing process needs to be quick but the best it can possibly be. Nothing is going to mess this up for me.
We will have more time in other classes as well. Today is the first day for editing and luckily I don't have to use the school's editing software. The one I use was faster and easier because I was able to access my footage from any other device as long as I signed in. I'm glad my editing process was quick and simple. I don't think I could ever handle using the school's editing software. It's a good software although it is too slow and we aren't given enough time. The school should at least change our devices for this class in specific. This class needs speed for these programs and should be given computers like the ones in photography class or comm tech. I shouldn't complain though because I have my own and it works clean. My video came out clean and easy.
Somethings I look forward to in this editing software is editing colors. I don't know what my next project will be although I would love to make a film that is very colorful. I want to edit it and see if there are any coloring options that will make the colors in my next film stick out. Hopefully, the next project we get is something where we can be creative like this music video. Something that is less forced like our commercial project although something creative like this one because then we can be able to put our mind to it. I'm nervous to see what it will be but I want my editing to improve. I want it to be a major improvement. I will definitely need to manage my time for this next project because I want to get a good grade in the mid-term. This next editing process needs to be quick but the best it can possibly be. Nothing is going to mess this up for me.
Monday, December 2, 2019
Film Blog
12/2 My music video was finally completed over the Thanksgiving break. I took a day and filmed with all my actors. The theme was changed while shooting the video. My original theme was that I would be beaten up by life and I would seem to find happiness. Although the new theme is that I've been hurt but at the end, I would basically do something crazy that would kind of represent the rebirth of a new mindset. I didn't do a storyboard, but it came out better than I expected. I changed the setting of my phone camera that gave it a more smoother shot. If I were given more time I feel that I would have kept my original theme. One minute and fifteen seconds didn't seem like enough time. I understand that it would take longer for the teachers to grade it.
I'm proud I got to finish it filming and editing the whole video within one day. The editing wasn't hard although now that I'm done I want to experiment with other editing apps. All my actors were in place and did amazing acting. We had to do our little stunt with them multiple times although my stunt at the end was a one-time thing. My cameraman was great I told him how to do the camera movements and angle and he listened and did it amazing. The time that it was shot was amazing too but my lighting could've improved. On the contrary, it did give my film a more dark vibe to it. My plan was to make it seem dark at first because I would hear others' ideas and everyone had the same sort of vibe and I wanted mine to stand out. Everyone enjoyed filming with me and enjoyed my idea, but they thought it was a bit strange. I'm just excited it came out better than I expected.
I put a lot of commitment to this project and I was a bit annoying to my actors because I would constantly contact them to get a response to confirm if they were coming. I also would like to say that this film does not reflect on how I'm feeling I just enjoyed the song and I wanted some inspiration from the artist. The artist who created the song has a very slow and mellow vibe to most of their songs and music video. My video was mostly filmed at George English Park. I took care of my actor's ride so they were able to get there. I've wanted to film some sort of project like this so I was excited I was given the opportunity to do this. Also, I forgot to include that the project was filmed on Friday the 29th of November. I felt like the date should've been included. I want to do more projects like this with other people and do more extreme films. Some more films could be like mini-movies or more music videos.
I'm proud I got to finish it filming and editing the whole video within one day. The editing wasn't hard although now that I'm done I want to experiment with other editing apps. All my actors were in place and did amazing acting. We had to do our little stunt with them multiple times although my stunt at the end was a one-time thing. My cameraman was great I told him how to do the camera movements and angle and he listened and did it amazing. The time that it was shot was amazing too but my lighting could've improved. On the contrary, it did give my film a more dark vibe to it. My plan was to make it seem dark at first because I would hear others' ideas and everyone had the same sort of vibe and I wanted mine to stand out. Everyone enjoyed filming with me and enjoyed my idea, but they thought it was a bit strange. I'm just excited it came out better than I expected.
I put a lot of commitment to this project and I was a bit annoying to my actors because I would constantly contact them to get a response to confirm if they were coming. I also would like to say that this film does not reflect on how I'm feeling I just enjoyed the song and I wanted some inspiration from the artist. The artist who created the song has a very slow and mellow vibe to most of their songs and music video. My video was mostly filmed at George English Park. I took care of my actor's ride so they were able to get there. I've wanted to film some sort of project like this so I was excited I was given the opportunity to do this. Also, I forgot to include that the project was filmed on Friday the 29th of November. I felt like the date should've been included. I want to do more projects like this with other people and do more extreme films. Some more films could be like mini-movies or more music videos.
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