My Film Opening Project - Genre & Group Members

Horror
Nicole and Reese

Film Opening Research #1 - The Irishman

How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
There are only three titles displayed in the opening sequence of the film.
What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
Images of the nursing home or residential community are emphasized as the audience is going through its long dark hallway. This leading up to the main character sitting in his wheelchair. Also, the image of the gun at the wedding is a very prevent image.
What connotations do the images carry?
The images presented in the beginning give a negative connotation from seeing the man get shot and behind him has the wedding invitation. But the way the narrator is speaking gives us a normal connotation like it was any story he was telling.
How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The genre of drama is reinforced through the build-up of the plot from the time jumps. It jumps from the nursing home to the main character killing a man after the wedding. While they are driving to Detroit they take a stop and it ends up to be where Russ and the main character first meet. This trigger jumps the film back in time to when Russ and Frank first met.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
As the main character Russ, and their wives go to Detroit on their way the film cuts out into just a black screen with YOU PAINT HOUSES. This gives an enigma to the film while with the outside narrating it enforces it even more.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
It keeps the audience on their toes as it is about a crime family and a hitman. The drama is escalated through Frank growing into this power and status through dangerous and violent jobs. Frank is a character that you can hate and love because of the terrible things he does but, in the end, he isn't a bad guy he is just misguided and a family man.
How has technology been used effectively? You might want to consider camera angles, transitions, and editing techniques
Mostly through transitions when the time periods switch there is a shift using editing.

Genre Research #2 - PowerPoint

My Favorite Genre - Video

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My Favorite Genre - PowerPoint

Film Viewing Practice Essay "Agent Carter"

In the Agent Carter short clip, it begins off with a voice-over that is quicky given into a conversation between a man and a woman. In the conversation you can hear that they are in trouble their voices are shakey and nervous like something bad is going to happen. The next thing that happens it's so quick it pans to a close up of a man in a plane, then it changes to a woman in a room where she is panicking because this might be the last time she sees the men. The scene builds up even more after that to introduce the main characters Agent Carter and Steve. The next scene after the control room fades and tells the audience there will be a new scene.

The next scene that gets introduces after the fade is placed in a business room. The audience can hear and see alarms going off. The area where people are supposed to work is scrambled with papers and folders. This lets the audience wonder what happened here. After this scene, there is a jump cut to a man talking on a telephone where the disorder is going on. In the scene, there is a mix of nondiegetic and diegetic sound because you can hear the song playing in the background lightly to change the mood but the audience can also hear the chaos going on the alarm, and the people talking. These different sounds help change the mood for the audience and led them to think about why all this commotion is going on in the first place and what had happened there. All these things make a good film when the film is leading the audience to question.

To add on to more Mis En Scene in the clip, the clothing the characters wore showed a lot of their time period. Many of the characters were wearing garments and uniforms from World War ll. This helped the audience set that the time period was from about the 1940-1950s. Specifically, behind the glass/plastic wall in Agent Carter's office, there was an emblem of a hawk with SSR. The SSR during World War ll was a branch of a top-secret war office.   

Film Elements Graphic Organizer

Mise-En-Scene

Downtown Abby

When I was thinking about tv shows or movies that had vivid attributes. Downtown Abby has notable characteristics that help establish class and the time. I attempted to take note of the majority of the mise-en-scene components inside the concentrate. Downtown Abby being a historical drama has many Mise-en-scene and while watching it you can pick up many aspects like a costume, setting, staging, and acting.

The first and potentially most recognizable impacts that help set up the class and the time in which the show is set is the outfits. The workers all either wear covers and hats with a dress or suit pants, a white shirt, and vest - they all wear a uniform. These brighter costumes worn by the main characters and the daughters show that they are higher up in the hierarchy. Additionally, the maids all wear dull or dim colors. While they are cooking enormous and flavorsome-looking dinners, they hirelings themselves are just eating porridge - it is possible that they don't have the opportunity to cook for themselves or they aren't permitted. It is characteristically the feast that a great many people would connect with hirelings. Out of sight we can hear and see chimes ringing, which would have been rung by the privileged, flagging the hirelings. There were numerous chimes ringing without a moment's delay, empowering us to see exactly how bustling the laborer's lives would be.

We can tell who the most elevated individual from the gathering is from the setting. Nearly all servants live and work in a separate area of the house away from the family. Although one character specifically is shown frequently around the family and their guests and it is visible that he knows and understands high society ques. This man has all the earmarks of being the oldest, so we could expect that he has been working for this family for quite a while. This might be the explanation he is very articulate - he is accustomed to being around the upper class. We can likewise tell that he has a more significant activity than the others as he wears a tie and chains on his vest, not at all like the other people who don't have this. The setting helps the viewers separate the servants that are more valuable and the newer ones. The ones allowed to serve the family in the dining hall or parlor have been with the family for a while or have a higher position. We can likewise tell that he has a more significant activity than the others as he wears a tie and chains on his vest, not at all like the other people who don't have this.

The majority of the mise-en-scene referenced demonstrates the workers to be the lower class regarding taking orders, despite everything they do they have a major role in the film and are a key component. This is depicted by the acting when one worker takes the paper from the paper kid and hollers at him for being late. This shows he obviously has the control over the kid to reprimand him for accomplishing something incorrectly, and that - as it were - the paper kid is utilized or requested around by hirelings. Along these lines, in spite of the fact that the laborers are a low class, they are not the most reduced in the social circle. The workers in the house are a lower class but overall society is higher than most common people. This is shown by the worker’s eloquent speech and overall knowledge of societal cues.

5 Master Edits with Sound

The types of sounds I used were Diegetic sound, Non-Diegetic sound, Synchronous Sound, and Film Music. The Film Music help set a mood for the video. The mood I wanted to give off was light-hearted and upbeat and the music helps reinforce that. The Non-Diegetic sound helped elevate the clips to get what was trying to be filmed across. The Diegetic sounds in the classroom help the viewers understand the contrast even though it is loud and busy in the classroom it is nothing compared to the volleyball game. The loud Non-Diegetic music over the volleyball game helped show the chaos it was without having the sound on so that was another part of the contrast I wanted to keep; one part with background noise the other complete music. Synchronous Sound is over my little sister jumping and the water bottle shaking because I wanted to give it a complete different feel then the video was going with and upbeat calm mood. This gives a sort of clanging the the ice in my water bottle with a sort of future vibe. It also is very energetic like my sister when she is jumping up, the music fits the energy she gives off. Leit motif was the most difficult clip to find because I wanted it symbolize what was going on in there head. Then I listened to a punk song and it was a head banging song and there heads pounding from all the school work. So that's how I bridged the sound and the film of leit motif. Over all, all the sounds help develop the video into a more wholesome video. It also helps give the video a fun and upbeat mood rather than a documentary and boring mood before there was sound.

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Wreck it Ralph

The first video posted Is Wreck-It Ralph with a bunch of other villains sitting in a circle with a bunch of other villains. They are at a support group for villains who want to be better people. it is similar to an. alcoholics anonymous group, this clip shows parallelism. This is because of all the people sitting in a circle and discussing their problems is supposed to look like AA but for villains. People are supposed to pick up on this Easter Egg.
The second clip posted shows leitmotif because it is exactly the same as Mario kart when you’re choosing your car and building and building your drivers. I cannot find any other lead motive but this is the closest I could find because it is very close to the words are the same font as the ones in Mario Kart.

The second clip posted show simultaneity because. it shows what’s happening at both times one inside the game and the other outside where the girl is playing it. as the girl plays you can see that the girl is playing with Ralph and the commander she is just doesn’t see them because it is happening from within the game. These to different actions going on at the same time show simultaneity.

The next clip and then the pink one show contrast between Ralphs two The first game he plays in it is a very non-violent, the second game he travels to is a violent game that Ralph has to kill the insect aliens. They are complete opposites roles in which Ralph goes in.
The clip between the two contrast ones shows symbolism because Ralph is theorizing the metal that is found in the alien game because it looks like the metal that is in his game which he wants to get but he’s the villain and cannot get. he just wants to be a good guy but he can’t and so by getting this metal within the alien game, he’s trying to prove that to he is a good guy.

The last clip is just a saying, the villains say that stuck with me because it is similar to the AA speech when everyone leaves. So it could be leitmotif and many other edits also because it is so similar.

Five Master Edits

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Contrast was the first master edit, I used studying in class and playing volleyball as my shots. The shots were very easy to film and I thought about two completely different things I do everyday. The editing part I just put my videos on the film and chunked them up. I did not use the complete video only a snippet of the entire video.
Parallelism was my second shot and I used Tessa and Enrique jumping because it was the similar. Both of them jumping were similar actions are parallel. They were fun to film because I shot it wrong a couple of times so they had to jump a lot of times. 
Symbolism was my third shot, I used the American flag and the Alabama flag in my room. They both symbolize unity one by a nation one by a college. Both are important to me personally, one flag represents my rights one represents my goals and future.
Simultaneity was my fourth shot, at the same time people and studying the same people are playing volleyball. That shot was created because i was thinking at the volleyball game what I would be doing if I wasn't there.
Leitmotif was my last shot. In McKinley and Enrique minds  are jumping around all the time because they have AP and AICE classes.They are thinking constantly about homework, studying, and their minds are always jumping around from one topic to another. My sister always is thinking about complete different things when she is doing a completely different activity.

Camera Angles in Toy Story

A Review of Camera Angles from the Movies



Toy Story 1 & 2

Producers: Ralph Guggenheim,Bonnie Arnold Helene Plotkin and Karen Robert Jackson

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I choose to comment on shots from the first two Toy Story movies because as a child I always love how we got to see the point of view from the toys and not only the human characters. It emphasized the fact that the characters were alive and tapped into the emotions of the toys. As I CGI film it is easier to morph the characters and the scenery to the get the viewers engaged. Much of these films are povs of different characters which helps string along with the character and theme arcs. The first movie began a franchise that would span across decades and generations. Children from today and millennials can both remember when they first watch Toy Story as a child.







The directors and filmmakers of Toy Story were all geniuses when it came to evoking emotion from different angles. Either it when we get to see the toys from Woody’s point of view or the toys looking up to Buzz when he's giving an announcement. As viewers, we get to experience the lives of different characters in the movie and how things affect them through basic camera shifts.





In the first movie, we really get to see Woody’s point of view when he goes with Andy to his birthday party. And when Andy gets a new shiny toy (Buzz) and throws Woody to the side. Woody’s blank reaction when he’s tossed aside shows us how he’s feeling lonely and left out. It’s like he is detaching himself from the situation.






When it comes to obtaining emotions from the viewers it can’t only be the camera angles but the facial expressions from the characters. In Toy Story 2 when Woody has the nightmare of being thrown out you can see the pain and fear on his face. That makes the watchers sympathize with the character and follow his arc. You feel as if you are looking over the bucket as he’s being pulled down.




The POV of Geri who fixes Woody after he gets taken from the garage sale. We see Woody’s eyes glasses over not lively and happy and alive. From this view we see Woody as just a toy not as an alive character. We get to see the toys as characters that are just used as property and thrown to the side.






This low angle shot makes Andy seem a lot larger and shows him as big prominent character. It makes him seem as a god like character. This shot shows Woody and Andy together when they were best friends at the beginning of the first Toy Story. This was before Buzz came in and as Woody thought broke up their relationship.


All these angles and different points of view all contribute to the overall story and engaging the audience. The way the filmmakers connect the character and the audience with emotion is why the film has become a major franchise that has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars.

Student Blogs

I commented on Reese's and Nicole's blogs. Reese's shots were all very lighthearted and funny. The pan shot and the close up shot on her blogs were both staged very funny. While the over the shoulder shot and the flash shot were both very basic. Nicole's shot were all very staged and shot very slowly.

Film Assignment

This high angle shot was hard to film stably because I was standing on a couch trying to hold the phone above her head.

This eye level shot was the easiest to film because there wasn't much moving involved.

This full shot was hard to film because I had to make sure I was far enough away to get her entire body in the shot.

The low angle shot was hard because my sister isn't that tall so I had to get on the floor to film this video.

This cameo shot was not that difficult to film because I could zoom in with my camera and I personally didn't have to get that close to her and all she had to do was be in a neutral background.

This extreme close up was hard to film because I was shaking a lot trying to hold the camera that close to her face.

This choker shot was not hard to film because it was a lot like the cameo shot just zoomed in at a lower angle.

This establishing shot wasn't difficult to film it was just hot outside and I had to walk a couple houses over to get the full shot.

This close shot was easy to film as all I had to do was zoom in above her knees.

This close up shot was isolated to the person and an object it is different then the normal close up because it isn't the whole person.

Why I am taking AICE Media Studies

I want to take AICE Media studies to take a class that’s not all about studying for tests and lecturing. This class is structured as more of an independent class where students do it their self, which is a more desirable class.