Drama genre

 

Pitch blog

  The pitch we decided on was in the horror/suspense genre. We were interested in 4 genres; crime, horror, suspense, and mystery. Then we started to brainstorm ideas for each of the categories. We then selected our top three ideas. Our first idea was a guy planning a heist due to a financial fallout. The night before the heist he dreams about it going wrong and decides not to do it. Our second idea was a group of teenagers hears a strange noise coming from under the house when they investigate suddenly they start to go missing one by one. Our third pitch was about a serial killer planning their next kill told form the. murderer's perspective. We decided that the third pitch was not our style for a short film. We narrowed down the decisions by eliminating what we did last year which was a crime. This left us with our second pitch. Which was in the horror suspense genre. A group of teenagers hears a strange noise coming from under the house when they investigate suddenly they start to go missing one by one. I think this topic will be very fun to film and edit. There is a large number of scenes and effects we can do.

Short film group

 For my first project in A level media, we have to film a five minute short film. For partners, I chose Eva and Trent. I chose Eva because of her excellent editing skills. I chose trent because of his excellent acting skills. I have worked with Eva multiple times so I know what kind of quality content we can produce. Although I haven't worked with Trent, I have seen some of the films and videos he has acted and produced. We are also well acquainted outside of AICE media. Eva is not only a skillful editor, she is also great at cinematography and acting. I am unfamiliar with trent's skills outside of acting but knowing him, I am sure those skills are vast. I have seen trent's acting and I can truly say, it is something special. 

Overall, our group seems pretty solid. What we lack in numbers, we certainly make up for in skill.

Opening sequence CCR

The is my CCR for my final project ( my last filming project). In this video, these four questions will be answered:
1. How does your product use or challenge conventions AND how does it represent social groups or issues?
2. How does your product engage with audience AND how would it be distinguished as a real media text?
3. How did your production skill develop through the project?
4. How did you integrate technologies- software, hardware and online- in this project?

This video shares my experiences and thought process behind making this video

Peer review

Second film project

The second film project our class worked on was the music video project. For my group members, I wanted to be able to easily film with them whenever. so I chose group me bers who live in Hollywood. I chose my sister and Lucas. A mistake a made while chosing a group was picking Lucas because he needed a group, not because he had any real filming, acting, or editing abilities. This proved to be a minor setback. To compensate for his unreliability, we reached out to a close friend who is extremely talented under the cinematic production field.

My first Video

For my first video project was a commercial done with Jake Norkin, Timothy Brown and Kyle Wiener. The video we filmed was a 30 second commercial for Gatorade products. For the most part, things went smoothly. As we came to discover, the editing software originally provided was slow and glitchy. From this project I learned many things. One, is better to simply edit at home using Adobe Premire and After Effects. These products are higher in quality and function at a speed that isn't unbearable. Two, learn to improvise.