AICE Media Studies

Working Title: The film name is likely to be "Bad Habits". It will be in edgy writing,  SOMETHING LIKE THIS.  The writing will most likely be capitalization. It could also be some capital letters and some lowercase. For example something like this. (Just showing the style and size of letters) I want to make the title come up and look  staticky almost. I want to use a light background with dark words or vise versa. When the main title comes up it should be bold and make a statement because the film is very deep. I think the main ideal color for the title card font should be black. All the of the title scenes will be inputted in like slamming into the screen. The main title will stay for 5 seconds. However the other titles in the the title sequence will be 2-3 seconds. The credits or the other titles will be smaller than the main title.The background of the opening credits will be just a video going through a low-income town. The credits will appear in the corner. Also...

Box1-    Father shouting at his child(6 year old girl), too drunk, cursing. Dark lighting, heavy clothes/dirty, harsh dialogue, wide shot Setting: Kitchen Box2- Little girl is crying, holding her stuffed animals Dark lightening, fade in, zoom shots(slow),  Setting; Young girls' room' Box3- Dark silhouettes of both characters(showing growth) More dark lighting, heavy clothes, adding dramatic effect Time is passing Setting; Unknown dark room Box4- Father is very drunk, throws beer at daughter School clothes, dad in dirty clothes, beer bottles Setting: Kitchen Box5- Dad watching TV, nearly blacked out, ignoring daughter Daughter is calling for dad, dark lighting, somber music, school clothes Setting: Living room/Kitchen Box6- Continued from 5, father storms out, leaving daughter alone, screaming Jump cuts, fast editing style, bright lighting(contrast from scenes before) Setting: Outside, front door  

schedule 3/19 - we will begin filming all the shots that require the dad, scenes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. 3/20 - we will film the scene where the main character begins to fall into her drug addiction, scenes 6, 7, 8, 9. 3/20 - In the same day we will wrap up by filming the running through the alley in scene 10. 3/25 - we will record the voiceovers for each clip 3/26-4/10 - we will immediately begin editing and work through the film day by day together. location The location of our video will take place in my house, primarily my bedroom. There will also be a shot in the alley behind it. participants Actors     Zeke Morales - Father     Lily Ferner - drug addict daughter Filming     Riana Morales     Wren Ruby Editing     Riana Morales     Wren Ruby Directing     Wren Ruby health&safety To ensure the safety of everyone we will make sure there is a first aid kit at hand, at any given moment. there will always be people wat...

*Voice over of girl narrating plays through scenes 1-4*  Scene 1: Dark lighting, only black silhouette of characters, long shot Father: *incoherent shouting* Girl: *Muffled cries* holds stuffed animals and covers her cried in room behind door Voice over:  Scene 2: Dark lighting, only black silhouette of characters, long shot Few years later (around 10years old) In drunk fit, father throws beer bottle at child Voice over:  Scene 3: Dark lighting, only black silhouette of characters, long shot Father:  Scene 4: Father: *screaming at girl Girl: *screaming back* Scene 5: Father: *passed out on chair, pills and alcohol surrounding him* Girl: taking pills, drinking smoking Scene 6: Medium shot, girl looking in mirror, holding pill, thinking to herself... Girl: "We always say we're going to be the ones to break the cycle, to change, to be better" Girl:"...but what if it's too late now? What if I don't want to? What if I just... gave in?" Scene 7: Music intensif...

  1.  How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?  Which ones? Twister only had 4 title cards. These included two being the production company (Warner Bros) and the specific production. The last title was the main film name, Twister. The last title card, the main name, appeared with each letter, not all at once. This is a cool editing style that went along with the background.  2.  What connotations do the images carry?  ( how  do you they make you feel) The images make me feel a little scared. The also give the film a lot of suspense. The images weren't extremely descriptive towards the eye. It was wind/sand blowing around like a tornado. The words were put in place in front of the blowing winds. They overall make the movie more scarier and seem like it will have a good plot. 3.  How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?  (Can you tell what genre the film is) You can tell the fi...

  1.  How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?  Which ones?    Many titles over 40 were shown. This title sequence started with the cast and ended on the directors and other leads of creation, unlike the Queens Gambit. The last title scenes were the directors and producers. Ending with the big name of the film. 2.  What connotations do the images carry?  ( how  do you they make you feel)     The images are extremely eerie. They are dark and in places like prisons, scary fields, or weird objects. They make me feel a little nervous and scared. Having the images all be at night, and in random areas make it scarier. The film is definitely going to have good visuals based on this intro. The images also being random and having no extreme correlation with each other leaves me a bit of suspense of where the film will take place and who will be there.  3.  How is genre reinforced through symbolic and techn...

1.  How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?  Which ones?     There was a total of 18 title scenes, 20 including the two quotes at the very beginning. It started with the quotes then went to the main production company(Columbia), the production, who the film was by, finally the cast. They showed two cast members then the main title, Gattaca, then the rest of the cast. It is assumed that the two first cast members listed are the main actors. Then finally, the other important people that added to the film at the end. 2.  What connotations do the images carry?  ( how  do you they make you feel) The imaging at the start is most just blue screen. It shows something falling and bouncing around in the background. Then at the end you can see a main shaving his beard. The movie is starting at the end of the title sequence. The imaging at the beginning make me feel wonder as to what's going to happen and leave me sus...

What titles are displayed during the opening sequences? American Zoetropes presents, a muse production, and in association with eternity pictures is showed first. The title of the movie was presented more in the middle. What images are prioritized in the opening sequences? The first prioritized images are those of the neighborhood that the story takes place, views of neighbors walking their dogs and watering their lawns. They are all very serene images in a basic sunny setting. Then it goes into the bathroom where Cecilia had an attempt, and the ambulance come to save her.  What connotations do these images carry? The images carry an unsuspecting connotation. They show the dark or hidden side of a seemingly normal, happy neighborhood and family. Many people may think nothing goes on in their normal suburban town, but there are always dark sides and hidden truths. It is a rather mundane connotation to it at first, but turns more interesting. How does the film establish a feeling of ...

Art of the Titles We are researching this website because of its excellent movie title presentation. The site seems simple, and easy to navigate. The cover page shows exactly what we can find on the site. The 2021 Emmy nominations for main title design gives me good examples for title sequences. By having well appreciated shows in the homepage, the site looks like it contains helpful information. Without even having to search for movies, there are some recommended. You can hit the "Title Sequences" tab and and there are "recommended" titles as well as "classic" ones shown. The main reason for researching this site because of its priority in film titles. It shows mainly film tiles, with stories about them. There is also a search menu for movie titles, broadening our line of sight. Forget the film, Watch the Titles Forget the film, Watch the Titles is an even more eye catching website. Immediately upon visiting the site, there is a slideshow filtering throug...

Thirteen is a popular teenage drama in the film world. It is filmed to present a very real story with a dramatic movie flare. One of the main aspects of this film is that there is a twilight blue hue cast over the entirety of it. This dark sort of overcast is an element we would love to incorporate in our piece. The movie consists of tracking shots. It also has a lot of zoom ins which create w really cool affect. The different angles that are used to shoot bring the drama element to this show. The music sound track was also very fitting, and the same elements of song will likely be incorporated. Some aspects will probably not be used in out film. For example, there were numerous over the shoulder shots used throughout the film, but I don't see us using that in our movie intro. Majority of props used were drugs and alcohol, which will play a big part for our film. There are lots of eye level shots and close ups in this film used to make the characters seem even further gone and tw...

 We chose a drama movie. We are going for a bit more dark of dramas. This movie appeals to our type of drama. It is more serious and deep. This movie has dark lightening, substance abuse, serious scripts, and more. Dramas are supposed to make you feel something. This movie definitely does by using real life scenarios and intensifying them with the editing and filming style. The movie used a lot of slow editing and chose an editing style to go along with the music and along with the action in the movie. The movies uses a lot of flash backs and fade in and fade out editing from one scene to the other. The costumes were everyday clothes to make the movie seem more real, they also used everyday props(high school setting). A good similarity we have between our upcoming film and this one is the age gap. We are all young high-schoolers going through life, and we want our film to represent some form of normality for someone. This film uses voiceovers to explain situations and explain feeli...

One great part about the Joker is its emphasis on the drama. An easy alert of the Joker character is his distinctive makeup. The movie uses his makeup, along with special effects makeup on many other characters. Makeup will definitely be a big element of our movie intro. Along with makeup, the characters costumes will also be taken into account. The characters in the joker are dressed rather normally for the day and age. In our piece, i see us also bringing looks out with makeup, but maybe creating more emphasis on costumes. Many scenes of this movie took place in a home, neighborhood or dark alley. This is a popular setting for drama movies. We are most likely going to have scenes filmed in these places. Throughout the film, point-of-view and close-ups were used. The use of these film techniques "encouraged the audience to identify with a character". This is exactly what we want in out film. We will definitely be using these film techniques in order to get pulled in and atta...

 After thorough research and thought, we've decided on the Drama genre. Horror, drama, and comedy are three entirely different genres, and are rather difficult to compare. Our pitch has a rather dark and serious aspect to it. With this, concluded that the lightheartedness of a comedy was definitely not the way to go. Aspects of a comedy include things bright and joyous lighting, fun props and light makeup. It is clear that a film capturing battles with substance abuse and addiction would not be portrayed in a breezy light hearted way. Further, popular movies under the comedy genre, like Step Brothers and Mean Girls, have none of the vision that wee see in our movie. This left us to decide between horror and drama. While these can both have chilling, surreal aspects, one just fit our theme better than the other. Horror films make use of dark lighting, setting and mood, but horror does it as the scare the watchers, and we don't want to go THAT dark. Horrors use a lot of eerie mus...

  Common angles:  -wide shot -high angle -extreme close up -tracking shot Common mis-en-scene: -sound affects -eerie visuals/music -large/scary props -dark costumes and special effects -dark lighting -dark area or house Common editing: -jump cut -split screen -eyeline match -zoom -graphic match Common sound: -sound bridge -diegetic sound -incidential music -sound motif Example films: - Quiet Place -It -Us -Chainsaw Massacre -Child's Play What elements would you like to use? We would love to use dark lighting, dark settings, and dark/eerie music. However the most important one would be the special effects and big costumes for the "monsters". What elements do not appeal to you and what would you stay away form? We believe all of the elements i have listed are necessary to make a horror film.

   Common camera angles:  -long shot -over the shoulder shot -tracking shot -wide shot Common mis-en-scene: -bright lighting  -light acting -natural makeup or brighter makeup -bright colors/costumes -fun props Common editing:  -jump cut -split screen -eyeline match -montage Common sound: -voiceover -diolouge -ambient sound -sound bridge Example Films: -Mean Girls -21 Jump Street -The Hangover -Despicable Me -Step Brothers What elements would we use? We would love to use good lighting, creative scripts, many interactions, voiceovers. We would love to get plenty of actors for this comedy film as well, to create many different funny characters.  What elements do not appeal to you and why wouldn't you use them? Some comedies use funky costumes and crazy makeup. I would want to steer away from that to build a better quality film.

 teen drama Common Camera Angles close up long shot birds eye/high angle over the shoulder shot medium shot extreme close up     Common Mis-en-Scene dialogue sound effects music voice over incidental music décor high-key lighting low-key lighting dull lighting costume  hoodies trainers tshirts caps props alcohol drugs knives guns body language staging positions full-front quarter-turn profile three-quarter turn back to camera location flats schools ghettos neighborhood streets Common Editing juxtaposition flashbacks cut-away continuity editing montage Common Sound diegetic sound non-diegetic sound ambient sound parallel sound Example films requiem for a dream american beauty thirteen euphoria skins beautiful boy mid-90s perks of being a wallflower What elements do you like and would use? We love the different types of lighting, like dull, low-key, and high-key, and would be using those. Also using a flat for a location or neighborhood streets. Props like drugs, ...

 Pitch 1: A dark childhood can send anyone down the wrong path, but this pain and abuse led to an even stronger addiction than her fathers alcoholism.  Pitch 2: A fun loving summer road trip just before college. Go out with one last hurrah before they all go our separate ways. After careful though we decided to go with pitch one. The dark theme it presents may be challenging, but we think we can capture it best. There is a lot of room for creativity and vision with this storyline. Even if majority of this is filmed indoors, the dark winter feel right now will allow us to get good outdoor clips as well. This pitch is drew our attention more and there are already so many ideas going though our head that we will be able to use in a dark theme. While pitch two seemed like a fun idea, we felt that it wasn't the best choice. A roadtrip idea seems more suitable for the summer, but we are in the winter season right now. This means that all the fun, bright Florida scenery won't be capt...