Chosen genre

Hey I'm back !! Me and my partner have both agreed to a genre. The genre me and my partner have chosen is comedy. We came to the conclusion of comedy because we're both interested in that particular genre. We think that we could come up with a funny opening sequence that is along the lines of a comedy movie. We are both excited to start our projects. See you in the next blog !

Genre research

Romantic genre

Common camera angles -

• Two-shot
• Wide shot
• Eye level shot
• Over the shoulder shot
• Close shot
• Mid shot

Common Mis-En-Scene -

• A lot of props are used in romantic films. For example, wedding rings.The actors are usually dressed according to their character. A high key type of lighting makes the film feel more real and helps set a happy mood. A low key lighting helps set a more romantic mood.

Common editing -

• Cross cutting
• Cutaway 
• Reverse shot

Elements of the genre -

• Emotional tension
• A sympathetic heroine 
• A believable plot
• A happy ending

Example films -

•  About time
• A star is born
• The fault in our stars

Common sounds -

• Incidental sound
• Internal diegetic 
• Voice over

What elements do you like ?
I like how romantic movies always have a good climax and I like the happy endings.

What elements do you dislike ?
Overall I like romantic movies but sometimes i don't like how corny they are.


Action genre

Common camera angles -

• Dutch
• Wide shot
• Eye level shot

Common Mis-En-Scene -

• Costumes - The costumes depend on the type of movie. For example, some action movies use super hero costumes
• Lighting - Usually low key lighting
• Make-up - Some makeup used is to show the results of an action match. For example, bruises, cuts, etc.
• Props - The main props used in action films are guns, knifes, planes, etc.
• Settings - settings of action movies are very varied 

Common editing - 

• Cross cutting
• Cutaway
• Eye-line match

Elements of the genre -

• Typically includes violence and a lot of action
• Typically involves individual efforts on the part of the hero

Example films of the genre -

• Avengers endgame
• Captain Marvel
• John Wick

What elements do you like ?

I like the plots of action movies and how after every scene it gets more exciting and pulls you in.

What elements do not appeal to you ?
I think some action movies don't make sense and feel as if they're just thrown together with no purpose.

Genre Powerpoint Research

Horror genre

Common lighting - 

• Uplighting - lighting from the floor, pointing up
• Silhoutte - defined as an outline that appears dark against a light background
• Spotlighting - projects a bright beam of light onto a performance space

Camera angles -

• Close up shot is commonly used to scare and make the audience feel uncomfortable by invading the characters privacy
• Establishing shot is typically used to show where the scene is set
• Over the shoulder is used to build horror and suspense during a conversation
• Long shot is used to show the characters figure

Camera movement - 

• Pan shot (Usually paired with music that has a climax)
• Handheld shot is used to create a sense of reality and makes horror films scarier
• Tracking shot is used to follow someone throughout the scene 

Common Mis-En-Scene -

• Settings and props - dark setting, typical rural setting or deserted area. The main props are weapons such as chainsaws and knifes
• Lighting and color - Set in the dark. Black, red, and grey are colors mostly used to represent horror films
• Costumes and makeup - Mostly dressed casually with effort put into the outfit for the  hunt of their roles. Some horror films have characters with full body costumes or makeup to add suspense and fear 

Elements of horror -

• suspense building up to a climax
• Provoking fear or terror to the audience 
• Plot contains frightening and unexpected incidents

Common sound - 

• A waterphone is used to create the creepy sounds used in horror movies
• "Nonlinear" sounds - very high amplitude in comparison with the sounds produced by normal musical instruments (ex. a child's cry)
• Horror films also use a series of diegetic sounds, sound motif dialogue, etc.

What elements do you like ?

I really like the suspense and music elements in horror films because they keep you on your feet  throughout the whole movie and keep you pulled in, ready for the next scene.

What elements do you dislike ?

For the most part, horror films are very interesting to watch but some films can get very confusing easily. Also some scenes can be very stomach churning and explicit

Examples - 

• The exorcist
• Friday the 13th
• The exorcist
• Poltergeist

Pitch Blog

     Hey, it’s me again and this time I’m going to try an narrow down my pitches I stated in my last blog. Out of the three pitches my teammate and I decided on we chose the first and third pitches. These pitches are the the ‘Dangerous Love’ pitch and the ‘Life Gone Wrong’. Dangerous Love is a horror flick while Life Gone Wrong is a more comedic and action packed film. I feel both of which are and can shape up to be great movies if I can film and edit correctly and smoothly. With only being able to film the first two minutes of the movie this proves a challenge. I would have to include a plot, overalls setting, introduce main characters, and give hints and foreshadow into what’s to come. I really love these two ideas because they seem more unique than any other movie out right now. Both of these movies have also seen to spike interests in many countries across the world. Now let’s begin to go a bit deeper into these pitches.

     The pitch of ‘Dangerous Love’ is , “A love crazy girl believes she’s met the guy of her dreams, but it quickly proves to be the guy of her nightmares.” This first pitch shows that no matter what you think may be right you always have to be careful. Sometimes the person you least expect is going to be the person who you have to be expected of. The girl named Scarlet always wanted a relationship like the ones in the movies, the crazy encounter and the true love ending. Instead, she found a guy who became obsessed, possessive, and manipulative. When she tries to leave, he stalks her and swears he will do anything to make her his again. While his ambitions turn deadly she must fight to stay alive and when all else fails she may have to do it herself. With no one to aid her and her “loved one” having all the seeming advantages against her what’s she going to do? How will he prevail or will she fall victim like the others before her? Scarlet will show you all of this in this movie.
     The pitch for ‘Life Gone Wrong’ is , “Lifelong friends gone broke. Their last resort, robbing a bank. They aren’t the sharpest, but this may play in their favor.” This movie has the potential to be both comedic and action packed and all in all a movie for all to enjoy. The story of two lifelong friends and their road to riches comes crashing down when they realize they’re in debt and behind several months on their rent. Their plan,  robbing a bank for all it’s money. It may sound dumb, it’s because they are dumb, but this may play in their favor somehow. Two idiots, dumb police, and even dumber crew members this has disaster written all over it? How will they do it and most importantly will they get away with it? Rodo and Willis the two main characters were never top of their class, but they may have came up with the best, but unthought i’d plan ever. This movie will leave you wanting more and more and at the edge of your seat. So, why wouldn’t you want to watch a movie that can make you laugh and keep your nerves as a factor?
     In the end, my partner and I decided to choose Life Gone Wrong as our pitch to film and make real. Even though we feel this would be a bit of a challenge to work with we feel we’re ready for it. Rodo and Willis seem fit to make a movie out of and the fact that the movie is both action and comedy makes it a double whammy. To begin, I love making people laugh so the script should not be that difficult to write. The difficult part will be storyboarding and editing which I feel very confident and proficient at, on a good day though. I can’t wait to apply my skills in film making to make this pitch reality and making that reality beautiful. I’ve always wanted to make a movie and this will be my first every chance to do so and I plan on doing it in a memorable and fantastic way. I also can not wait for the adventure ahead and see what obstacles are thrown in my way. So again we went the idea of Life Gone Wrong because we feel we have a bit more to use for that movie. Thank you so much for listening and have a nice day!

Start of final task

   Heyy I’m back again!! My name is Sage Hertzbach. I attend Fort Lauderdale High School and I’m currently in the Aice media studies class which is the reason I am doing this blog. For this project, my partner is Jeffery. This is going to be the third time I’ve done a project with him for this class. We’ve recently done a commercial and a music video. I think me and jeffery work good together because we get our tasks finished with and we also get good grades on them. We are also both able to get together and film. I’m excited to start this project because it seems interesting. Hopefully we don’t run into any obstacles.
   I’ve learned a lot of stuff while being in this class. I learned how to edit and film any shots taken. I’ve also learned a lot of new vocabulary to every type of shot or angle. I’ve used pinnacle studios twice for my past tasks, so now I am very familiar with the application. I know how to use all the options available like cutting or cropping. I’m excited to use my editing skills to edit this movie. I’m not completely sure if I’m going to use pinnacle studios or iMovie for this task. I think the last tasks I’ve done were just warm ups leading up to this task. I’ve progressed in this film process during each task we had to do. I think this final task will be a breeze.
    For this task we had to come up with 3 pitches. A pitch is A Hollywood term used to describe an idea where a film is encapsulated in 25 words or less usually with one sentence. For our first pitch, we have “A love crazy girl believes she’s met the guy of her dreams, but it quickly proves to be the guy of her nightmares.” Our second pitch is  “She’s hiding something, something dark. Will she be able to hide it forever or will her luck run out?” The third pitch, “Lifelong friends gone broke. Their last resort, robbing a bank. They aren’t the sharpest, but this may play in their favor.” We’re going towards a horror theme for our movie. See you guys in the next blog !

Editing blog

     Hey I'm back! In my previous blog I talked about the filming process I went through for my music video. Now that i have all the footage edited, I can talk about the process of that. So, before class on Tuesday morning, I went to class to dump my footage onto the computer. I made a folder on the desktop and on my google drive just in case anything were to happen. The dumping process went very smoothly unlike last time because I somewhat knew what I was doing this time. We also had actual laptops that worked to do it on now. I finished dumping and then I had to go to class and I'd continue editing the following day. The following day was the day we were actually able to start editing. This process also went pretty smooth.
      When i got to class, i got the same computer I imported on to make sure all of my footage was there. Now that i scene that the footage was all there, this is when i technically started to edit. I then opened up pinnacle studios and started to import onto there. My group and I then looked through all of the footage that we shot and chose the ones that we though came out the best. Once we chose them, we dragged them into Av track 2 which is for the footage. Like I said, our music video is more like a montage. A montage is basically a series of photos or videos put together. Since we chose to do a montage, our transitions were not that choppy since we would go from one scene to another. Editing our music video was also fun because some of the scenes we shot were somewhat funny.
      After getting everything put together, I added the song to see how it all looked together. Once we heard the song with it, we decided to change a few things up. I didn't like how some of the scenes looked because it just didn't match up. We finally got something we were all happy with. We all watched it over a few times to make sure we liked it and weren't missing anything. We agreed to the final product and then sent it in! We were all pretty proud of ourselves because not only did we finish filming in a reasonable amount of time, editing was a breeze too. I think this was another good learning experience. I'm glad we are finished with our music video. See you guys in the next blog!!

Filming blog

  We finally got to film during the break ! After work on Wednesday, I went to Lauderdale By the Sea beach. When i got to the beach, one of my partners was there but we had to wait for my other partner to get there. Once he got there we started to film. Everyone brought their friends to film so we had more people for the music video. I filmed the whole thing while the other people in my group acted. Not only did we get the filming part done, but we had fun while doing it. We got the filming done in a few hours before it got dark out. It was also nice out, it wasn't to hot but it wasn't very cold. Nothing bad got in the way of our filming process.

    First, when we started to film we started at the bathrooms. We started at the bathrooms so we could use the pink door so we could open it to the beach. I made it look like we opened a door and then straight after that it was everyone walking. After we left the bathroom, I filmed everyone walking towards the beach. Everyone was talking and laughing to make it look like they were having a good time. Once we got to the beach, I filmed everyone just running towards the water. Then I filmed everyone walking down the beach. I tried to get everyone to go into the water but it was too cold. What I filmed looked mostly like a montage of everyone having fun and running around. I filmed like a montage because the song is about a teenagers dream so I made it look like what a teenage does while they are out with their friends.

   When we finished filming what we needed to at the beach, we walked up to all the stores. I chose to film at Lauderdale By the Sea because not only is there the beach, but there's more places to go to get food and other stuff. I filmed everyone laughing and walking up to get ice cream. We went to Sloan's because the scenery is really pretty and it has good ice cream. At this point, i just filmed everyone getting their ice cream and sitting down and enjoying it. After we got ice cream, we went to Diamonds and Doggies. I filmed my partner interacting with the puppies. This music video is basically just everyday life. After this I filmed everyone saying their goodbyes and leaving. Next blog is about editing, so I'll see you there !!