Practice essay for 24 extract

  In this extract there are many camera angles, shots, movements along with, editing skills, and  sounds, and the interesting mis en scene, these all come together to make a mysterious and confutative story that show that there is no trust and one must decide if trust is more important than power and it shows the tense investigation that they have to go through and it creates this cliff hanger to see if he trusted her or if they wouldn’t trust her because they wanted to keep their pride and power. 

   As we know there are many aspects that make up this extract and I am going to be talking a little more about them individually. So, the first one is lighting the lighting is one of the main parts of setting the mood for the extract. The lighting in movies usually set the mood for the scene and from this extract the lighting was more on the dark to dim side because of the tension of the scene. In the scene the detective and the lady were arguing about the bomb and stopping it. This showed a lot of trust issues and the lighting really helped the viewers get that tension feeling with this lighting. The next thing is the close up this happened a lot throughout the extract most of the camera shots were closeup and this really helped the scene to be the best it could be because it showed how intense the conversation was and it happened a lot on the detective because he was the one who was getting very angry and frustrated with the girl. It went on the girl a little to show that she was no bothered by his anger and that made him even more frustrated and the fact that she wouldn’t stop the bomb really got to him. Another thing is the split screen this was a good one because this happened when  the detective chocked the girl because he was getting so frustrated and angry at her, and it showed the reaction of the girl getting chocked and it showed the reaction the people watching the interview and it shows them freaking out and running in there to try and stop him from doing that. I really liked the idea of the split screen because I liked how it showed the reaction of the people watching it and right beside that was the reaction of the girl. 

  The next thing is the shot reverse shot this happened a lot throughout the extract and it happened when the detective and the girl were arguing about whether or not he could trust her or is he could just stay in power and get it out of her.  Another thing that really helped was the dialogue that they had in the extract. I really like the dialogue because it shows and tells the audience a story and tells us a theme of the extract. This is the main part of the whole extract without the dialogue we probably wouldn’t get the story or the theme of the extract. This also due to the actors which really sold the whole thing thanks to the dialogue the extract really came out to be really good. The dialogue really expressed the whole mood of the story and theme. The next thing is diegetic  sound this helped the story and the intensity of the story because on example of the diegetic sounds is when the detective flipped the table over and it made a really loud noise and it made the whole room go silent, and it really made the story a very intense moment in the extract.  

   Another thing is the zoom this happened to mostly the girl because at the beginning it showed a zoom of her when the guy walked in and she had an uneasy look on her face and it shows that she was guilty of something but she wouldn’t tell anyone so she was very nervous that they might get the information from her and she didn’t want that to happen but you can tell whenever there was a zoom on her face it would show that she had an uneasy look on her face. The last thing is the props this helped the set to look real and make it look like they were actually in a detective room getting interview. The way the desk and chairs and the handcuffs all looked like the real deal it was very beneficial for the scene.  

    Overall all of these things were important in their own way. All of these things come together to make the theme and the story. Without these there wouldn’t be a theme and wouldn’t be a story. Its good to look at these thing and really understand how they come together and make an amazing theme. 

   

CCR For Final project

In this CCR we talked about some questions about our movie. We talked about what social groups we represented and who are audience is. We also talked about conventions and how we incorporated them in our movie. We used a lot of conventions in our movie with the makeup and the the sounds that we chose to have. We also talked about the technology we used and how we used them and we said how much technology goes into stuff like this.

Music video project

 For this project we did a music video and it was so much fun. The filming process was really good now that we already did a commercial we kinda knew what we were doing. This was a lot of fun because we got to dance and lip sync and just have fun. The editing process was good we put it together easily. It was so much fun and it was a great experience.

Commercial project

 

For our commercial we decided to do McDonald’s this was the first project we ever did for media and it was so fun. We learned a lot about media and what we were going to do for the rest of the year. My group and I were so excited to do this project and start to learn more about filming and editing. We enjoyed writing this script and making our vision come true. I’m happy with the outcome and it was a great experience.

 

Filming blog

    So in this blog I will be talking about how we were supposed to film. In these last months there has been a deadly virus going around that has killed a lot of people. Due to this the whole world is in quarantine. This has really set back our filming process that we needed to get done. Mostly everything is closed to go into the store or restaurant. The only stores that are open are the grocery stores like target or Publix. Since we are in quarantine my group mates can’t come over to my house and I can’t got over to there’s because it’s not safe. So we were planning on filming the rest of our movie during spring break but spring break was us at home in quarantine. It has been a couple weeks since this virus has become really bad and it’s scary. It’s crazy that this is actually happening and I hope it gets better soon. It’s really sad that this happened because businesses are going out of business and everyone is at home all the time. It feels so surreal that this is actually happening and I feel so bad for the families that have lost a loved one due to this. We are really sad that we were not able to finish filming. We are glad that we were able to finish but it was difficult to edit together. We had to FaceTime every time we had to edit. I’m glad all of my friends and family are healthy and I hope everyone is doing well. And I hope this ends because it is awful.