Hello, for the next part of our movie project process is to research two more genres that are different from our first project. Our group decided on Action and Horror.
Action just like any other genre has common lightnings, camera angles, mis en scenes, editing, and sound. In action films lots of accent lighting is used to enhance certain scenes and the mood intended for that particular scene. Some common situations for the lighting in the beginning of the movie is low lightning with shadowing. Then as the movie picks up to more action packed shots the lightning becomes brighter in cases of victory or back to gloomy in times of loss. Common camera angles in action movies include high angles to show superiority or low angles to show inferiority. Tilts, aerial shots, over the shoulder shot, establishing, and medium close ups are also common. Action genre films also have tend to have common sounds such as ambient background sounds like explosions or lots of digetic and non-digetic sounds. Sounds from vehicles is present in a lot of action movies and of course dialogue. Common Mis En Scene can be shown through the abbreviation C.L.A.M.P.S. C for costumes has a very wide spectrum that could go from gowns and tuxes in a film like James Bond to superhero costumes in the Avengers. L for lightening is usually correlated with tone so it could be bright or low. A for actors is people from all genders, ethnics, and nationality. Makeup usually isn't too dramatic and a lot of times used to show cuts or a rugged look. P for props in action films could be cars, weapons, or practically anything retaining to the plot. Setting is also very vague, they could be shot anywhere but the location is usually established very quickly and states when it changes. Common editing techniques used in the genre Action consist of jump shots, flashbacks, etc. Action is a very big genre in film. Many of the films in this genre have very similar elements. The elements for an action film include high impacts, continuous high energy, lots of physical stunts and activity, and many times there are extended chase scenes, fights, escapes, and races. Action films also have a lot of non-stop motion and great rhythm and pacing in order to keep the audience entertained. Action films also have great potential to cross-over into other genres of film such as: Science fiction, thriller, crime, and westerns. Many times in action films there is usually some type of love interest between the protagonist and another character. Another character element in action films is that the hero seems to always have some dark and depressing backstory. Action films will always have the main protagonist struggling against some kind of life-threatening situation such as facing an evil super villain, trapped in a deadly scenario, or in a dangerous chase but in the end, the hero always wins. A couple examples of action films that display many of these elements are: John Wick (2014), Spectre (2015), Mission Impossible-Fallout (2018), and Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014). Within these elements I really like the overly dramatic fight scenes as well as the prolonged chase sequences. I find these elements to be very entertaining and fun to watch. However, I don’t really like some of the character and plot elements of actions films like the love interest or the dark backstory. I find these elements to be very cliché and overdone. e elements to be very cliché and overdone.
The next genre we are going to look at is horror. The horror genre like many others have common camera angles, movements and shots, common lighting, mis en scene, editing and sound. The most common camera angles seen in this genre are high angles to show superiority, dutch angle to give the feeling of tension and to show that somethings wrong, and low angles to show inferiority. Some common camera shots and movements are long shots, close up, zooms, point of view shots, tracking and pan shots, over the shoulder, wide shot, establishing shot just to name a few. For lighting, some common scenes are introduced with dark lighting to emphasize the feeling that something is going to happen, usually something that's not good. As the movie progresses there are usually some scenes that are more brightly lit to break up the feeling of suspense and horror. Which are then followed by the darkened scenes which radiate the feeling of horror. Horror genre film also have common sounds such as non diegetic sound, usually the eerie sounds that the viewers hear when somethings about to happen. Also diegetic sound,dialogue, ambient sounds, incidental sounds and internal diegetic. Common Mis en scene can be shown through the abbreviation C.L.A.M.P.S. C for costumes has a very big spectrum. Usually the costumes can consist of normal clothing normally seen in movies like Annabelle and Scary stories. Along with normal clothing some more obscure costumes can be used for the antagonist of the movie like in movies like the Scream trilogy. L for lighting is usually connected to the tone of the movie usually it’s dark lighting to make the feeling of horror. A for actors can be anyone, any gender, ethnicity, nationality. M for makeup can be anything. In some movies like Scary stories they use effects makeup or normal every day makeup. P for props can be anything from a knife to a stick. S the setting can be anywhere any location. Common editing techniques used in this genre are flashbacks, cut always, fade in/out, shot reverse shot, action match, jump cut etc. Horror is a very big genre in film and a lot of the films have very similar elements. The elements in a horror film are designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale. While captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life the forbidden, and strange and alarming events. They deal with our most primal nature and it’s fears:our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsion, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, or loss of identity. Horror films are often combined with science fiction when the menace or monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when earth is threatened by aliens. A couple examples of horror films that show these elements are: It (2017), The ring (2002), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Wolf Man (2010), and Insidious (2010). Within these elements I really like the jump scares they add into these horror films, I also like the monsters they create. However I don’t like it when different horror films have the same story line I think that it’s annoying.
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Genre research; Get Out
Hello in order to get a better understanding of our genre, my group and I watched and evaluated some horror films. One of the movies my group and I researched was the 2017 horror movie Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, Get Out is a Mystery/ Thriller that follows a young man who goes to meets his girlfriend’s family for the first time, but finds out that there something really wrong about her family. We chose this movie because it was one of the best selling movies in 2017. We noticed that there are some camera angles and shots, and movement throughout the film. For angles, there were eye level angles, high and low angles. This movie also used a variety of movement such as tracking shot, tilts, and pans. The shots throughout the movie were three shots, long shots, and medium shots. Throughout the the movie there were also closeup and some two-shots. There were also over the shoulder shots being used throughout the movie.
The movie Get Out has a very unique mis en scene. The costumes in this movie were very casual clothing, the only unusual costumes were on the house keepers who wore what looked like old clothing for decades ago. The lighting in the movie started out light and towards the middle to end of the movie it started to turn darker. The acting was really good in the movie they really did a good job with acting. There was some really impactful moments in the movie that the actors portrayed. The makeup in the movie was pretty plain, the only time the makeup was over the top was when someone got hurt and they had to make a mark to show that someone got hurt. The injuries in this movie were very intense and gruesome. The overall makeup in the film was very good and the injuries looked so real it was amazing. There were many props in this movie but one of the main one was the house which everything went down. The settings were pretty basic, it took place at an old town and at a house. The settings were nothing crazy or out of the ordinary. The main sound in the movie was dialogue, but there were some other sounds too. A couple of non digestive sounds were in the movie too like clicking of the mouth which went on in the movie a lot. In some of the scenes there was occasionally no sound at all and that helped with the tension. This movie followed a lot of the common horror movie elements. The movie followed the element which an evil force is in the family and they make it look like there normal but there not. The movie also had a lot of tension and violence throughout the movie. Get Out did an amazing job at making people feel fear and creating a unsettling tone. An element I really enjoyed was that the movie had a consistent tone throughout the movie. I also liked how scary and original this movie was. The elements that I didn’t really enjoy was the parts that had violence in it. There was a fair amount of violence in this movie but it’s ok because I closed my eyes. Overall this movie was really good and I would recommend this movie.
The movie Get Out has a very unique mis en scene. The costumes in this movie were very casual clothing, the only unusual costumes were on the house keepers who wore what looked like old clothing for decades ago. The lighting in the movie started out light and towards the middle to end of the movie it started to turn darker. The acting was really good in the movie they really did a good job with acting. There was some really impactful moments in the movie that the actors portrayed. The makeup in the movie was pretty plain, the only time the makeup was over the top was when someone got hurt and they had to make a mark to show that someone got hurt. The injuries in this movie were very intense and gruesome. The overall makeup in the film was very good and the injuries looked so real it was amazing. There were many props in this movie but one of the main one was the house which everything went down. The settings were pretty basic, it took place at an old town and at a house. The settings were nothing crazy or out of the ordinary. The main sound in the movie was dialogue, but there were some other sounds too. A couple of non digestive sounds were in the movie too like clicking of the mouth which went on in the movie a lot. In some of the scenes there was occasionally no sound at all and that helped with the tension. This movie followed a lot of the common horror movie elements. The movie followed the element which an evil force is in the family and they make it look like there normal but there not. The movie also had a lot of tension and violence throughout the movie. Get Out did an amazing job at making people feel fear and creating a unsettling tone. An element I really enjoyed was that the movie had a consistent tone throughout the movie. I also liked how scary and original this movie was. The elements that I didn’t really enjoy was the parts that had violence in it. There was a fair amount of violence in this movie but it’s ok because I closed my eyes. Overall this movie was really good and I would recommend this movie.
Genre research PowerPoint
Hello! This is the PowerPoint that me and my group were assigned to do on the genre War. We were not allowed to choose which one we researched however I think I learned a lot about a genre I usually do not watch. We had to research different mis en scenes like common lighting and camera angles, along with common movement. In War movies there is a lot of gloomy lighting and wide shots. Then we researched the different elements of the genre and listed some that we favored and disliked. We also included some example films such as Dunkirk and Pearl Harbor. Friday, January 17, 2020
2nd final task blog
Hello, these past past few days me and my group have generated three different pitch ideas for our final task for our media studies class. Not only did we have to come up with a simple patch but also have a whole plot plan out in our heads for each of them. We knew we wanted to work in the horror genre because we thought it would be the most interesting to create and thought we would have the most creative and original ideas for it. We started off with some basic ideas and each of us chimed in to add in more details to make our pictures better and narrowed it down to two. The first being
about a character who has a dream in a POV perspective of different horrible events and the last shot being of somebody who killed someone and them with blood all over them and then later after the person has woken up someone such as their mom quotes something exactly from the dream. Our second option would have been a murder mystery which would be about a group of friends who were all together and realize that a friend was missing and when they went to go find the friend they were murdered and left with a note that had a clue of how it happened and the group of friends go on a journey to figure out what happened and who killed the friend.
The first pitch is what me and my group decided on. We feel as though this would be the best option and best pitch for this assignment. We think we can incorporate a lot more diverse angle shots through this pitch and also use different editing techniques. We also thought that this idea was more creative and would be a lot more fun to direct and shoot. Another reason why we thought this would be a good idea is that there aren’t that many movies that have a similar plot so ours would be more original. There’s a lot of different ways that we can take this pitch and if we were to create the full thing throw in surprises and thrilling moments. Within just two minutes we feel as though we could accomplish in an intriguing piece of film that would want an audience to go out and watch the full movie.
The second page about the murder mystery we believe definitely has a lot of potential and would make for a good assignment but not for the best assignment. Things like murder mysteries definitely keep the audience is super engaged and feel like they’re apart of the movie which is important of course but we just think if we did this one it would be less original and easier to accidentally copy off of somebody else’s work.
overall my group is very excited to begin planning for our first pitch about’s the dreams that turn into a reality and believe that with all of our ideas coming together it can become something very special and will be easy to create cooperatively . This pitch opens up many doors for us and gives us several opportunities to throw in whatever we want with different lighting and moods and camera shots and editing and whatever else we want to do.
about a character who has a dream in a POV perspective of different horrible events and the last shot being of somebody who killed someone and them with blood all over them and then later after the person has woken up someone such as their mom quotes something exactly from the dream. Our second option would have been a murder mystery which would be about a group of friends who were all together and realize that a friend was missing and when they went to go find the friend they were murdered and left with a note that had a clue of how it happened and the group of friends go on a journey to figure out what happened and who killed the friend.
The first pitch is what me and my group decided on. We feel as though this would be the best option and best pitch for this assignment. We think we can incorporate a lot more diverse angle shots through this pitch and also use different editing techniques. We also thought that this idea was more creative and would be a lot more fun to direct and shoot. Another reason why we thought this would be a good idea is that there aren’t that many movies that have a similar plot so ours would be more original. There’s a lot of different ways that we can take this pitch and if we were to create the full thing throw in surprises and thrilling moments. Within just two minutes we feel as though we could accomplish in an intriguing piece of film that would want an audience to go out and watch the full movie.
The second page about the murder mystery we believe definitely has a lot of potential and would make for a good assignment but not for the best assignment. Things like murder mysteries definitely keep the audience is super engaged and feel like they’re apart of the movie which is important of course but we just think if we did this one it would be less original and easier to accidentally copy off of somebody else’s work.
overall my group is very excited to begin planning for our first pitch about’s the dreams that turn into a reality and believe that with all of our ideas coming together it can become something very special and will be easy to create cooperatively . This pitch opens up many doors for us and gives us several opportunities to throw in whatever we want with different lighting and moods and camera shots and editing and whatever else we want to do.
Start of final task
Today we started working on our final task and I’m so excited. I’m so excited to start this final task because we get to make a movie which is super cool. I’m super thrilled that we get the opportunity to make a creative film. I’m also excited that I get to work with my group. I decided to work with a group for this final project. In my group there is Alex, Jake, Morgan, and I, we chose to be in this group because we have worked together before , and we feel comfortable working with each other. This little group of ours we have done every project together since the beginning of the year. We have learned more about each other and grown as better friends. My group is really excited to learn more and get the chance to show off our creativity. And I’m really happy that I got to work with my original group of people.
I have learned a lot in this class in the these past months, and a lot of the stuff I learn I use in real life. I have learned a lot about editing videos and the proper way to edit and what to edit on to have the best results. I’m really happy we learned so much about editing because today in our world we have to know a lot about technology and how to edit so it’s very important we learn it. I also learned about the filming process, and the terminology for the filming process. We also learned about how to use a camera, we learned how to work it what to do and what not to do with it. We have also learned the history of the film process and how it has changed a lot. I really liked it when we learned about how it has changed so much over time and how now we can just make a movie on our phone if we want to. That’s what we’re doing now making a movie on our phone I think that’s so cool. One thing that I learned that I’m excited to use is my editing skills. I’m so excited to use them because I feel like very professional and like I know what I’m doing. I’m also really excited to use the angles for the camera shot. I’m also really happy that we learned about all the camera shots because they are good to know. And I’m so excited to use them in the movie and also use the transitions that we learned this year.
For this final task, the opening of a movie, my group needs to present a pitch. A pitch is a Hollywood term used to describe an idea where a film is encapsulated in 25 words or less. We came up with three different pitches. Our first pitch is a movie about a women walking out of the mall into the parking garage and walks past a car and sees a girl inside that was kidnapped and gory looking and goes over to see if she’s okay and attempts to call for 911 when the killer comes up behind to take her as well. Our second pitch is about someone who has a horrific dream about bad things happening and wakes up to realize that they will actually begin to start happening. Our third and last pitch is a classic murder mystery about someone who is killed a group of their friends find a clue and begin a journey to figure out who did it. We kept them in same genre of horror because we believed it would be easiest and the most fun.
I have learned a lot in this class in the these past months, and a lot of the stuff I learn I use in real life. I have learned a lot about editing videos and the proper way to edit and what to edit on to have the best results. I’m really happy we learned so much about editing because today in our world we have to know a lot about technology and how to edit so it’s very important we learn it. I also learned about the filming process, and the terminology for the filming process. We also learned about how to use a camera, we learned how to work it what to do and what not to do with it. We have also learned the history of the film process and how it has changed a lot. I really liked it when we learned about how it has changed so much over time and how now we can just make a movie on our phone if we want to. That’s what we’re doing now making a movie on our phone I think that’s so cool. One thing that I learned that I’m excited to use is my editing skills. I’m so excited to use them because I feel like very professional and like I know what I’m doing. I’m also really excited to use the angles for the camera shot. I’m also really happy that we learned about all the camera shots because they are good to know. And I’m so excited to use them in the movie and also use the transitions that we learned this year.
For this final task, the opening of a movie, my group needs to present a pitch. A pitch is a Hollywood term used to describe an idea where a film is encapsulated in 25 words or less. We came up with three different pitches. Our first pitch is a movie about a women walking out of the mall into the parking garage and walks past a car and sees a girl inside that was kidnapped and gory looking and goes over to see if she’s okay and attempts to call for 911 when the killer comes up behind to take her as well. Our second pitch is about someone who has a horrific dream about bad things happening and wakes up to realize that they will actually begin to start happening. Our third and last pitch is a classic murder mystery about someone who is killed a group of their friends find a clue and begin a journey to figure out who did it. We kept them in same genre of horror because we believed it would be easiest and the most fun.
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Editing blog
Hello! My group and I are so excited that we got to work on this music video project. After filming and editing it I don’t think we could’ve been more proud of how it turned out. In the first filming project we did we used our school’s camera and editing program, Pinnacle studios but this time we decided to try out something different. We all agreed that it would be more convenient to shoot all of our footage on our phones. Additionally, we decided to use iMovie on our phone to put together all of our footage and edit. We all have much experience using this tool and thought it would be to our advantage to use this instead. Which in the end we feel was a very smart decision. Not only did we save time by not having to dump or risk losing footage we also were able to edit at any time not only when in class. So after we filmed everything we needed we began to edit.
To begin our editing process I started by opening up the app iMovie and clicking on the import application. My group and I collectively watched through all of our footage and favorited the ones we wanted to use and put it into a separate folder so that they would be easier to find. After that we went to YouTube and searched up the clean version of Hollaback girl by Gwen Stefani. Then I screen recorded and saved the audio so that we could input it into the background of our video. I added in all of our clips and watch them all the way through to see how they looked together. One of the most important parts of us editing was making sure the audio and lyrics from the song was aligned with our actors lip-synching. So we cut , shortened,or stretched all of our clips to make sure it matched up perfectly. Along with that it was important that we kept track of the time of our footage and edited them to make sure it fit our limit and overall aligned. Another aspect that we had to take into consideration what is our transitions. Now, overall I don’t believe that our clips look choppy with how they are put together and we did not want to go over our time limit so we decided to leave it how it was without any special transitions.
Prior to begin editing I thought that this process was going to be more of a hassle and at times stressful than it was, which I was very pleasantly surprised by . I think the fact that we used iMovie was a big part of this. I was comfortable with using it because of all of my past experience which helps for my group and I to bring our editing ideas to life. I did have a good time editing this project I find editing very fun and a great way to make our footage really something special. There wasn’t anything that really went wrong during editing which was good. I’m excited to edit in the future and learn different techniques two edits above and beyond an average video. My whole group worked very well together not only in the editing stage but in planning and filming as well. There wasn’t much editing that need to be done in all honesty. However with what we ended with I feel definitely gets the job done. I cant wait to edit more and get better and better.
To begin our editing process I started by opening up the app iMovie and clicking on the import application. My group and I collectively watched through all of our footage and favorited the ones we wanted to use and put it into a separate folder so that they would be easier to find. After that we went to YouTube and searched up the clean version of Hollaback girl by Gwen Stefani. Then I screen recorded and saved the audio so that we could input it into the background of our video. I added in all of our clips and watch them all the way through to see how they looked together. One of the most important parts of us editing was making sure the audio and lyrics from the song was aligned with our actors lip-synching. So we cut , shortened,or stretched all of our clips to make sure it matched up perfectly. Along with that it was important that we kept track of the time of our footage and edited them to make sure it fit our limit and overall aligned. Another aspect that we had to take into consideration what is our transitions. Now, overall I don’t believe that our clips look choppy with how they are put together and we did not want to go over our time limit so we decided to leave it how it was without any special transitions.
Prior to begin editing I thought that this process was going to be more of a hassle and at times stressful than it was, which I was very pleasantly surprised by . I think the fact that we used iMovie was a big part of this. I was comfortable with using it because of all of my past experience which helps for my group and I to bring our editing ideas to life. I did have a good time editing this project I find editing very fun and a great way to make our footage really something special. There wasn’t anything that really went wrong during editing which was good. I’m excited to edit in the future and learn different techniques two edits above and beyond an average video. My whole group worked very well together not only in the editing stage but in planning and filming as well. There wasn’t much editing that need to be done in all honesty. However with what we ended with I feel definitely gets the job done. I cant wait to edit more and get better and better.
Monday, December 2, 2019
Final filming blog
Hey everyone today I will be talking about how our filming went and what we had to do to finish it up. My group and I started filming last week and it was so much fun. We enjoyed having the opportunity to make a fun a creative music video. We got a lot of the filming done. Last week we stayed after school to film the parts in our music video that were supposed to be at school. It was really fun filming at school, it was a little embarrassing at times but overall it was a lot of fun. It took us two days to get all the school footage for the music video. During the thanksgiving break we decided to go and film at the park. Filming in the park was so fun, it was a beautiful day and we got some good shots. I really liked that we filmed in the park, especially for a music video. There were many filming opportunities in the park which was great! There was also many people there and that was kind of frustrating because they kept getting into the shot. There was also many background sounds of kids yelling, but it’s ok because we are going to insert the music. I’m just happy that it was a nice day out, I’m glad that it wasn’t raining or cloudy. So overall it was a great day to film at the park.
We had three places that we needed to film to finish the whole video. The first place was the school and to film everything we need. That took a couple of days for the school part. The second place was the park it took us one day to film but it took so long. The park was so much fun because we got to hang out after. The final place that we filmed at was the grocery store, we filmed the most at the grocery store. We filmed the parts where alex and I had a conflict and how we connected after dancing. We danced a lot in this store this was really difficult because there were so many people in the store. We had to reshoot a lot because we messed up or someone walked in our shot. We were all a little nervous because we were scared that we would get kicked out of the store. It was really funny because there were so many people staring at us and people coming up to us asking what we were doing. We tried to not get in the way of anyone but it was hard because there was so many people. I really liked the places that we went to for our music video. I’m really happy that we went to the grocery store because I got some food after we were done. So overall this was amazing and fun and I’m so happy we did this.
We had three places that we needed to film to finish the whole video. The first place was the school and to film everything we need. That took a couple of days for the school part. The second place was the park it took us one day to film but it took so long. The park was so much fun because we got to hang out after. The final place that we filmed at was the grocery store, we filmed the most at the grocery store. We filmed the parts where alex and I had a conflict and how we connected after dancing. We danced a lot in this store this was really difficult because there were so many people in the store. We had to reshoot a lot because we messed up or someone walked in our shot. We were all a little nervous because we were scared that we would get kicked out of the store. It was really funny because there were so many people staring at us and people coming up to us asking what we were doing. We tried to not get in the way of anyone but it was hard because there was so many people. I really liked the places that we went to for our music video. I’m really happy that we went to the grocery store because I got some food after we were done. So overall this was amazing and fun and I’m so happy we did this.
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