Genre research: Action and Dance

The two genres that we are not doing are dance and action. 

Dance

Camera Angles

Over The Shoulder, Long Shot, Over The Head Shot, Wide Shot, Low Angles.

Movement

Pan, Tracking Shot, Flash Pan, Tilt, Dolly.

Lighting 

Key Lighting, Black Lighting, Side Lighting, Fill Lighting.

Mise-en Scene

Location: Anywhere, but typically a club or party.

Color design: Any color.

Costumes:Any costume, depending on the theme of the current theme.

Examples

Black swan, Honey, Breakin', Footloose

Elements Of Dance

Shape:present in all actions of dance throughout the film.

Space:makes the dance more synchronized.

Timing: Movement of dance throughout time.

Dynamics: Add texture, color, interest and variety to the mood.

Sound

Non-dietetic sound.

Dialogue.

Soundtrack.

Incidental sound.

Good Elements

The dance moves.

The coordination.

The music/soundtrack.

The creativity.

The camera angles.

Bad Elements

The story line/plot.

The acting.

The wardrobe

Lack of humor.

Action

Common Lighting

Soft-film lighting.

Hard-film lighting.

Motivative lighting

Natural film lighting.

Camera Angles

Eye level.

Low angle.

High angle.

Tilted angle.

Over the shoulder.

Movement 

Crash-zoom.

Slow-zoom.

Pan/Whip.

Tracking/Dolly.

The one shot.

Mis-En Scene

Location:Typically cities.

Color Design: Lots of colors but mostly black.

Costumes: Typically something fancy like a suit or dress

Elements Of Action Films

Fighting.

Stunts.

Chases or explotions

Sound

Non-Digestive sound

Dialogue

Sound Tracks

Good Elements

Mostly Everything

Bad Elements

Bad CGI

Genre research: final genre

For our movie, we have decided to go with the genre horror. We have decided to do horror because the best movie pitch idea that we had and agreed on, was dealing with horror.  Also doing a horror movie seemed to be the easiest in terms of what we need to do it , such as props, costumes etc. The other two genres that we had in mind, which were dance and adventure; we will not be doing them. This is because the common things needed to make a dance and adventure film, seems to be out of reach for us. For example, for dance we would need dancers and we don't know any. For, adventure we would need certain sounds to make the adventure seem more natural with its background; we may not find a place to do so.

Genre research: Dance presentation

For this assignment, we were given the film genre Dance for a research project. We had to find the common mis-en scene, lighting,camera angles and shots of a dance films. We then had to add the god and bad elements of these films. After we were finished with the research, we added pictures and GIF's into the background of the slides, to make it look nice. Each slide has some kind of dance film or dance influencer. This project has impacted the way we look at the dance genre, as well as the films. It also showed us the common angles, lighting, sounds of dance films.

Deciding a movie pitch

         

           We have finally narrowed it down to 2 pitches. Ones an adventure and ones a horror. The adventure one starts with an old guy talking and rocking in his chair. The camera starts winding up to him, he will still be talking as the camera is winding up to him. Once it gets to him he will say "and the adventure begins." The horror pitch will start with two people walking. They will walk past a wanted sign.  One of them will pick up their phone. As h'es on the phone his friend will get killed. He will then look around then also get killed: it will then zoom into the wanted sign.

The adventure pitch,which is about an old man narrating an adventure; is a good pitch for this assignment but we decided that we will not use it. It is a good pitch because the idea was for the beginning of the movie to start with the old guy, narrating a journey to come. And as he’s talking it would be some boys making their way to where the old guy is the whole time. When they got there he would say “the adventure begins”, and it would end there. This would’ve been great because it would’ve gotten the audience engaged in what the adventure would be, and it wouldn’t be a trailer. But it cannot be used because we wouldn’t be able to find an old man, and we don’t have a set place to where we would film.

The horror pitch, which is about a wanted guy who escapes and kills: is a great pitch for this assignment because it would build suspense. When the idea came to us it was pretty clear that this was most likely going to be it. This pitch is fairly simple and doesn’t require much. We could easily find a place to film, A place like the park or a dark area is perfect. Also,it only requires 3-4 people, that would include the wanted killer, the two friends, and a cameraman. Another great thing about this is that, the end of the 2 minutes will most likely leave the audience wondering. In the movie, when the two friends walk away and the killer shows up, they will be wondering what happens next. Therefore unlike a short film, there is no end; but it's only just the beginning of what's coming. The only thing that can cause any change of plans would be the weather.

We are doing the horror movie. We are doing this because we will be able to do it well. We also have all the features for it. We can make a wanted sign. We also have 2 people to play the civilians. We have someone to do the killer. The plot also leaves you wondering who the killer is and what he is wanted. Since you won’t be able to see his face. You might also wonder why he killed the two people. You will keep watching the movie because you want to know stuff.

Starting the final task

My name is Kendrid, and I am 15 years old. I am a sophomore at Fort Lauderdale Highschool. I have 4 siblings, 2 boys and 2 girls;I am the youngest of the bunch. I like to both play and watch basketball. I have been told by several people that I am smart, and by others that I am funny. For this project, we were assigned to make the first 2 minutes of our own movie. I personally think that we will do a great job in making this movie. For about the next 3 months, I will be working with Nathan and Jack.

Since the beginning of the school year, everything that I have learned up until now has been very helpful. What I learned was the various camera movements, angles and shots. Learning those terms has been helpful to me when my group and I had to make our own commercial and music video. If we didn't know those terms we would've been lost and our previous projects wouldn't have been as good. I also learned how to use the camera ,and how to dump our footage to the computer. This was also very helpful because if we didn't learn how to do those things, we would not be able to edit the footage. And finally, I learned about mise-en-scene and the production phase on filming.I will be taking all the things that I have learned, and apply it to the final task. Everything that I learned is just as important as the other. My group and I can only have a successful beginning of our movie if we apply what we learned.

The first pitch we have is an adventure pitch. It’s about an old man rocking in an old wooden chair narrating/ foreshadowing what is to come in the film. The entire time the old man is talking, the camera is winding its way to him. The camera will stop sometimes and show some kind of item of relevance to what the old man is saying. When the camera gets to him he sits there finishing up his narration then says “the adventure begins.”
The second pitch is a horror pitch.It starts with a woman running away from a creature. She finds her way to the bathroom as she’s running. Hides in a stall with the creature that walks into the bathroom; the creature starts looking in every stall then kills her and she drops an item.
The third pitch we have is two people are walking and see a wanted poster. One of the friends gets taken and killed when the other one is on their phone; the friend looks around for the other but he gets killed.

Editing Blog, Editing my music video

Two days ago my group and I were assigned to start editing our music video. We were a little behind on some footage so we barely got anything done. To start we didn't even have the song downloaded on the computer. So I went on YouTube, copied the link of the song and downloaded it.Next problem was that majority of the footage was filmed by phone. This meant that in order to start editing we have to get that footage from the phone onto the computer. This process took a long time to do, My partners had to download google photos first. Then upload those photos to google photos, after that they go on google photos one computer. Finally, they had to download them onto the computer. This would've took shorter,but all the videos had to be backed up first, which took about 20 minutes at least. After they finished backing up, we ran into another problem. It turns out that a lot of the footage that we had was filmed vertically. This happened because the footage that my partners filmed on their phones vertical instead of horizontal. The only footage that was horizontal was mines, because I was the only one who brought the camera home with me. But thankfully I found a way to make the footage horizontal. All that had to be done was to right click, go on scaling and change it from fit to fill. If there was no way to change that, then that would've been really bad considering how many days we have to edit. And last, which was the biggest problem, pinnacle studios which is the editing software was going really slow. When we first grabbed a laptop and tried to edit the music video with it, it took like 10+ minutes to load up. When it finally loaded up, it lagged really hard; this made it really hard to even edit anything. So to sum Tuesday all up, not much got done because we ran into a lot of problems, which took majority of our time. Today was a better day of editing, we were much more organized and we got more done. The only problem that we ran into today was that pinnacle studios took a long time to load up. This would interfere with our time to edit, but we would get enough done. When it finished loading up, we got right to it. I imported all the footage to pinnacle studios, and the song was added too. The entire time all we were trying to do is get at least 60-70 percent of the music video done. This is because today and Monday is the last classes that we have to edit, and Monday is the day that it is due. The teacher had told us that we wouldn't have the whole class to edit, because to avoid technical issues they want to make sure that every group email their music video on that same day. So with about 40-50 minutes of editing, adding transitions and adding other necessary things, I'd say that we are about halfway finished. We wanted to get a lot more done,due to the fact that we have less time to edit on Monday. Based on what we have edited so far, I really like what see. On Monday, if we want to get this done on time,we have to get right to it; we'll see what happens.

Filming blog, My day at the park

Last week Tuesday, the teacher told us we could check out a camera to film during the thanksgiving break. To avoid what happened last time to my partner, the teacher told us that we could not leave the equipment in the room and get it at the end of the day. Between me and my group members, it was decided that I would take the camera home this time. My group members told me that they'll record more footage on their phones. I thought that was a great idea, because this project is longer than the last one. For the rest of the class all we really did was catch up on any missing assignments. So it was about the last 10 minutes of class, and I grabbed the camera checkout paper to fill it out. After I filled out what was necessary, I turned it in and my teacher gave me a camera. I checked to see if everything was there. It was my responsibility to make sure that none of the equipment gets stolen, broken or lost; if any of that happened I would have to pay a lot of money for them. Class was just about to end, and before we were about to leave the teacher told us we could also not leave the camera in other classes. So throughout the day I had to carry the equipment everywhere I went. Finally, it was the end of the day and I had to take it back home safely, which I did. When I got home I had already told my partners that I would film on Saturday, Sunday and maybe Monday. I made this decision because I wanted to enjoy my Thanksgiving break. They agreed and just told me to make sure I get good shots. On the same day I asked my friend if he could come with me to get footage at the park. He said sure, but it would have to be early in the morning because he had to go somewhere later on in the day. I said that's cool; we then set up a time and place to meet up. The time was at 10:00 AM and the place was at the fitness center by the park. So Wednesday, Thursday and Friday passed and I personally had a great break. It was Saturday, and my alarm was set to 9:00, after doing the basic morning routines, I was ready. I called my friend to make sure everything was good at it was. I packed the camera and the tripod in my backpack, and brought a little cash with me for a mid-walk snack. I was out the house and began to walk, the park was a good 20 minute walk from where I live and 15 where my friend lived. I eventually made it to the park, and after about 5-7 minutes of waiting my friend had arrived, but he brought along another friend of ours. We began immediately, I asked my friend to borrow his phone to hear the lyrics of the song, and I filmed what the lyrics said. After being at the park for about 45-50 minutes, I was done for today. The next day it was the same thing but the I didn't film in the morning because it was Sunday, which meant church for me. This time my friend couldn't come with me because he had to get a Haircut. After I was finished, the plan was to film on Monday, but the camera had low battery and the charger was not in the box. So today is Monday and because the camera has low battery I ended up not filming today. I told my friend the parts of the lyrics that I did not film and he just did it for me on his phone. Tomorrow I have to     return the equipment and it'll be time for dumping the footage.