AICE Media Studies

Film: Hunters Website: Art of the title What titles are displayed during the opening sequences? In the opening film credential titles are displayed. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? images of little chess characters fighting are prioritized.  What connotations do these images carry? They carry out what could be going on within the film. How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the outset? It establishes a feeling of action because the little chess characters symbolizes violence going on. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? Strategies such as doing close up on the characters to show that they are fighting is used to ensure the film appeals to its audience.  How has technology been used effectively? You want to consider camera angles, transitions and editing techniques Technology such as pan camera movement, close up shots and zoom have been used effectively. 

Film: Da 5 Bloods Website: Art of the title   What titles are displayed during the opening sequences? An introduction title along with crediting titles is displayed in the opening sequence.  What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? Images of the main characters and the setting are prioritized. What connotations do these images carry? They carry a feel of what to expect in the movie. How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the outset? It establishes a feel of action by showing us the jungle setting. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? Strategies such as including a singing clip and a clip of a MLK speech in the beginning are used to ensure the film targets its audience. How has technology been used effectively? You want to consider camera angles, transitions and editing techniques Not much technology has been used effectively but slight technology has been used by showing editing techniques....

Film; Mad Money Website: Watch the titles    What titles are displayed during the opening sequences? In the opening sequence credit titles are displayed. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? In the opening sequence images of different parts of money are prioritized. What connotations do these images carry? These images carry out part of the movies meaning. How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the outset? The film establishes a feel of action by the music and the choice to only prioritize money in the images. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? The strategies of using effects to show different parts of money and again the song choice are used to ensure it targets the audience.  How has technology been used effectively? You want to consider camera angles, transitions and editing techniques I wouldn't say technology has been used very effectively in this one but I can say that there are...

Film-Hostage Website- Watch the title   What titles are displayed during the opening sequences? During the opening sequence subtitles are displayed. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? During the opening sequence stop motion images are presented. The camera is panning around the scene but nothings moving. What connotations do these images carry? These images represent the present film and scene we just can't see it yet till the end. How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the outset? The film establish a feeling of action by making the stop motion pictures come to life at the end of the titles. By the camera panning across the scene it builds tension. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? Strategies such as suspenseful music and tension building is used to ensure the film targets the audience.  How has technology been used effectively? You want to consider camera angles, transitions and editing techniq...

 On this website I also saw many different articles that went into depth about titles. But these articles were different they only focused on one movie or film at a time and they explained to who the whole concept of the movie. These articles weren't wholly focused on sequence or why the creator chose to got with a title as such, it was more focused on the creativity side. This article went into depth about the creativity of the article and why it was created that way. They not only focused on titles for film but also for festivals, conferences, workshops and other creative shindigs. What I've learned from this website is its all about the creativity. I've found out that writers often find this challenging as well. This whole time I thought coming up with titles was easy but this website proved me totally wrong. To create a good title it has to be very creative to the point where it matches the creators liking plus the liking of many more, the audience. Everything has to be...

 On this website I seen many articles going into depth about how and why titles are formed or created. These articles weren't written by any expert but they have taught me a lot. These articles really analyze each title and connect it with the movie, that's something an ordinary person would skip over. I've learned that a title is not just put there. A title is always connected to a movie some way some how. Titles are created to create sequence. For instance, love film titles often include color with poputouri effects, shapes, layering mystical imagery, archival photographs and cutout headlines. I've never noticed it before but without that sequence the movie would have never gotten recognized. Most people believe that trailers draw attention to a film although that may be somewhat true, that's not all. This website has taught me that the attention comes from the title, everything starts with the title. You never see a boring title and if you have its more than like...

   What elements of the genre that you chose to base your final task on does this movie have ? The elements of action that this movie has is mainly violence. Since they fight crime they often finds themselves in a violent situation.  2. What elements of the genre did the movie have that you like ? The elements of action that this movie has that I like the most is the fighting, chases and shooting. All of these put together just makes the movie make sense and makes it way more interesting to the audience.  3. What elements of the genre did the movie have that did not appeal to you ? The elements of action that this movie has that did not appeal to me was the comedic part. As I said in other blogs I personally do not care for comedy in action films.

   What elements of the genre that you chose to base your final task on does this movie have ? The elements of action that this movie has is mainly violence. Since Spiderman is a super hero he often finds himself in a violent situation.  2. What elements of the genre did the movie have that you like ? The elements of action that this movie has that I like the most is the fighting. The fighting is what kept the idea of Spiderman being a hero alive while at the same time keeping the audience engaged.  3. What elements of the genre did the movie have that did not appeal to you ? The elements of action that this movie has that did not appeal to me was the comedic part. As I said in other blogs I personally do not care for comedy in action films.

 What elements of the genre that you chose to base your final task on does this movie have ? This movie has elements that relate to violence when it comes to action such as shooting, fighting and explosions.  2. What elements of the genre did the movie have that you like ? The elements of action that this movie has that I personally like is the shooting. Every time that they start shooting you just feel a huge amount of suspense because you never know what's happening next. To me that's all an action movie needs is violence .  3.What elements of the genre did the movie have that did not appeal to you ? The elements of action that this movie has that did not appeal to me was the comedic part. The actors will often make remarks that are meant to be funny but in my opinion it wasn't. It doesn't fit the theme or feel of the movie.

 For my opening sequence I have decide to go with the Action genre. As stated in my pitch blog I'm doing a teenage girl that suffered brain damage from a tragic accident tries to trace her steps from that morning to find the suspect. I wanted this to start off as what happened, which is the part the teenage girl cannot remember sort of like a timeline. Obviously since she suffers from brain damage someone had to do something bad to her and that's where the action part comes in. Since we are only doing the first two minutes I figured action would be the best genre to make all that come to play. Action movies are all about the suspense. Being that I personally love the violence part of it like fighting, chases, explosions, etc. I thought that for this final task I should in-cooperate that in there so that way I would find it a bit easier because I'm doing something that I would have liked to do in the first place. In the beginning of some popular action movies they do sort of...

 Action:   Common CAMS: Common camera shots in action include establishing shot, master shot, close-up, wide shot, two shot, ariel shot and point of view shot.  Common camera angles include canted angle, and low angle shots. Common Camera Movement include Steadicam, handheld and zoom. Common composition include focus pulls, shallow focus and framing.  Common CLAMPS: Common costumes for action movies often just resemble regular clothing in the modern day world. Some films like superhero films have their own custom clothing such as batman, in this typical film he always has on a black suit with his black cape and bat ears. Common lighting includes high key lighting and lowkey lighting.  Common acting for this film is often very serious or dramatic. This is so the viewer feels the sense of suspense happening. It could also include very scared or frightening acting to get a suspense feeling.  Common setting for a act...

 Pitch 1: A teenage girl with memory loss try's to trace time to remember what happened the morning her parents were killed. Pitch 2: A teenage girl that suffered brain damage from a tragic accident tries to trace her steps from that morning to find the suspect.  I'm interested in both of these pitches because as you can see they both are literally the same idea. I wanted to go with something eye catching and dramatic. I want to dispute everything I learned this year with this task. With that being said I needed something challenging but yet again on my level. I've always seen movies start off with little clips in the beginning of what lead up to the events in the movie, kind of like a timeline and that's what I'm hoping to achieve. I know this may come with a risk. It may end up looking like a trailer or a short film. This could be avoided if I execute my idea right. The pitch I decided to go with is a teenage girl that suffered brain damage from a tragic accident ...

 Hey, as you guys know from previous blogs my name is Anya Lucas .  I run track I've been running for 4 going on 5 years, I love track its my way out . I also enjoy, doing hair and I have my own business, my main goal is to become a nurse by the age of 22.  I am a 10th grader and I decide to take this class because I thought it would be a nice way to bring out my creative side and a bonus is that I also get an AICE credit. I decided to work alone on the final task as I did with all my others. I find working alone more efficient for me because I tend to get overly creative. I'm not saying that this is a bad thing but kids in my grade often rely on the easy way out and when I'm doing anything with filming or editing I LOVE to show off my skills. I feel as if working alone on such a big task won't only give me that chance to show off my skills but show my work ethic and creativity. Throughout this whole process I only had one goal which was to get better at filming and edi...