AICE Media Studies

 Hey guys, so for this blog I'll be focusing on the opening sequence of "The Invisible Man" released in 2020. The opening sequence for this film starts with the production companies intro. The intro itself plays a big role in the opening sequence. The intro shows many things happening at once like a floating chair, in a run down room with books moving through the air. This alone sets the film to seem like a horror. It's followed by showing a flickering camera that then shows a girl in a white dress. There is no sound in the intro besides the flickering of the flight. These parts of the opening sequence help set up what's going to happen next. It then shows a big wave hitting against a rock that reveals hidden words on top of it. These words are the names of the companies involved creating the film as well as the name of the film. It shows a still camera looking at the wave come up and down slowly revealing the titles and then dripping until they disappear again. I...

 Hey guys for this blog I'll be focusing on what I learned from, Watch the Titles, a website that focuses on the creation of titles. Right from the beginning the introduction to the films they show is different. They don't give a run down on the focus on the film, but instead they talk about the people involved in creating these titles. The website taught me about the different techniques that go into creating a title sequence and the importance of it despite being short. The website talks about techniques such as carving words into wood, 3D animation, typography, and even using a type writer to create titles. The website taught me on what to look for when watching a title sequence and how to tie it in with events in the film. The titles can act either as an appetizer to a meal or even as dessert after a meal and the film being the main course. Titles focus on having the audience bring light to the people involved in the film, but also represent the film through art and words, ...

 Hey guys so for this blog I'll be telling you about, Art of the Title, a website that focuses on showing opening title sequences for shows and movies. The website introduced me to a lot of movies I didn't know were out there, a lot of them were documentaries. While reading on them and watching their opening sequence I realized that a lot of them represented the theme of the documentary in one way or the other. Some documentaries did not, but instead tried to use the opening sequence as a way to guide the audience and set the tone for what they might see throughout the documentary. For the movies the opening sequence always fit the genre of the film, but also worked a lot with the sound. For many of the films they all had a sort of non-diegetic sound attached to it in order to create a kind of effect that matched the genre. For example thriller genres usually had an ominous ringing with them along with dark titles and very clear writing. Action movies on the other hand had were...

 Hey guys, so for this blog I'll be talking about "The Vanished" a film released in 2020. This film had many aspects of a thriller but the execution wasn't the best. The director did include conventions such as lowkey lighting, close-ups, intense non-diegetic music, and used fast paced editing. Even though they did this the director failed to bring the anxiety and suspense that other thrillers have done. Throughout the film the director didn't tell a very good story either. Many things that didn't make sense were happening and most of them were unrealistic. There were a lot of scenes in the film that didn't add up and overall the movie didn't have a consistent story line. While they did keep the mystery aspect in the film they failed to reveal it correctly and actually keep the audience hooked. I can't say the entire film was bad, they did have good aspects to it. There was one scene where they did manage to bring that thriller feeling to the audie...

Hey guys, so for this blog I'll be talking about the movie "Message From the King" released in 2016. From the beginning the movie starts with a dark room and a man being interviewed on why he is entering the country. The dark room and close-up of his face alone sets the tone for the movie and it brings a sense of mystery. From the beginning not much is told about the main character or where he's from and what he does. He seems eager to find his sister and after discovering news he starts to search around the city asking people she's met for any information. He's eventually set to the morgue and found out that his sister has been killed and tortured. From this point the movie starts to get darker and more mysterious. There is a fight scene that follows this moment not long after and that's when it gets more interesting and starts giving the sensation of a thriller. This fight scene added to the mystery of this character and contributed to the thriller aspec...

 Hey guys, so for this blog I'll be telling you about "Code 8"  a movie released in 2019. It is a sci-fi/thriller film that tells the story of a young man who works for a cartel in order to pay for his mom's medical bills. Overall the movie does its part at hooking the audience and raising your blood pressure like a thriller should. It follows a lot of the conventions a thriller is supposed to have. One main thing that I want to use in my own opening sequence is the low lighting and camera angles that a thriller has and this movie does just that. From the close-ups, dolly's, tracks, tilts/pans, and wide shots this movie does it. It's not only the technology in this film that makes it an exciting thriller. While most people see thrillers to be associated with horror this isn't and it uses the sci-fi aspect of the film to bring its suspense. The idea of super powered individuals pulling of heists puts out everything needed. Especially when the heist is a fai...

 Hey guys, so for this blog I'll be telling you about my decision process for the genre to my opening sequence. I decided to go with thriller for this project. While other genres did appeal to me like drama and action, I realized that thrillers are meant to draw out the audiences feelings and have them on the edge of their seats. My pitch is to show a teenage kid dealing with sightings of paranormal activity and to do that the best I believe that by using the thriller genre I can execute this pitch. Instead of focusing on creating tension between characters like a drama or having an intense fight scene or chasing scene like an action movie, the thriller can be slow in the beginning but have enough mystery to hook my audience. I also want to work within my constraints on filming and editing. Shooting an action opening sequence would create something that may take too long to edit or it may be above my skill level in editing. Shooting a thriller I can take my time and focus more on t...

      Hey guys so for this blog I'll be telling you one of the few genre's I researched to pick for my opening sequence. I decided to start with thriller considering my pitch can work better with a thriller genre. I looked at a lot of examples for thriller and also learned many of its conventions. A thriller movie relies on low-key lighting more than anything else. The small amount of light used on the subject of the camera reels the audience in and has them pay more attention to the screen. It also sets an ominous tone as if something important can happen at any moment. The small amount of light also brings out the feelings that a thriller provides, like anxiety and suspense. In thrillers it's also common for the camera to be at certain angles such as low, high angles and close-ups. These camera angles all go into giving the subject of the camera a kind of power. The low and high angles can give a perspective shot of someone's power compared to a character, like the lo...

 Hey guys, for this blog I'll be telling you about the opening sequence to "Antebellum" a movie released in 2020. The movie starts by introducing the two main productions involved and a quote that resembles penmanship of ink and quill. It begins to name the main cast of the film, production team, music team, executive producers, writers, directors, and costume designers. The film shows a big house with land around it. It seems to take place in the nineteenth century, during the United States of America's civil war. The location seems to be a house where there are black workers, slaves, building a tent and doing laundry. They also show soldiers with guns around the area walking around in groups and keep control of the place. There are horses everywhere used to transport items and some meant for the soldiers to ride. I believe this was shown to explain the setting of where the film will take place and what it may most likely focus on. The movie does provide many aspects...

 Hey guys, so for this blog I'll be focusing on the opening sequence of  "Code 8" a movie released in 2019. The opening sequence starts to name a lot of the credits. They named the cast, producers, editor, special effects, writers, director, production companies, costume designers, music composers, and executive producers. Finally the name of the film is shown in a glitch effect fixing itself. These names were shown while there was a story being told. The story was about "powered people" in this universe and the effect it had on the economy as well as how they introduced them to the world. The opening sequence for this film serves to create a basis of this world and the different people in it. By giving a back story to the world it lets the audience start imagining where the movie will take place and what will most likely occur in the movie. Although they did reveal things about this universe much of it is still kept secret and still leaves the audience wonderin...

 Hey guys so for this video I'll be talking about the opening sequence to "Get Out" released in 2017. There were multiple titles in this opening sequence. It named the main cast, director, production companies, casting director, music supervisor, costume designer, production designer, executive producers, producers and director of photography. They also named the writers and creators of the film and finally the name of the Film. In this opening sequence the director decides to show a man packing a trunk and leaving in what seems to be early morning. It then shows trees passing by that seems to be in woods during dawn. This is where most of the cast is introduced. The scene switches fast into a series of pictures of black people in their lives. The sequence then shows a modern apartment and a man coming out of a steaming shower beginning to shave. As he does it shows a woman picking out sweets at what seems to be a café.  It shows the woman exiting an elevator and walking ...

Hey guys so for this blog I'll be telling you about the genres action and horror.        Action films focus on showing destructive scenes and many high paced shots. This goes towards the fighting in many action movies along with explosions. To create this directors often rely on many high angled shots, close-ups, aerial shots, and medium shots. These angles usually show the most action and is where a fight may take place or where something may blow up. Although action movies are high paced they use lowkey lighting and motivated lights. The lowkey lighting can be used to highlight certain aspects of a scene along with a close-up and motivated lighting works with medium shots to display everything happening in a scene. Action movies like many other movies rely on the sound. Ambient sound is very common in action movies and lets the audience connect themselves with the movie. Make up and props, usually match the scene and adds to the realism found in action movies....

 Hey guys, so for this blog I'll walk you through my decision making process for my pitch. When the task was announced I immediately thought of going for an action genre film but as I thought about I realized it wouldn't work the best for the first two minutes of a film. I wanted a pitch that could compliment every part of a film and decided that going for a horror/ thriller idea would be best, especially for the opening scene of a film. The following are the two pitches I came up with: "A teenager finds themselves experiencing a sequence of paranormal activity." "A schizophrenic teenager comes to realize their sibling isn't real." The first idea is more common in bigger movies where a teenager in high school has some sort of connection to the supernatural. I wanted to go for a common theme but instead of discovering the supernatural, this is their daily life. With this idea I can make an opening with multiple holes in the story which would lead the audi...

      Hey guys, my name is Angel Noriega-Rodriguez and for the next few blogs I'll be telling you my process through the final task. I'm currently enrolled as a tenth grader at Fort Lauderdale Highschool. I have a passion for learning the media industry as well as film and TV. My goal is to one day study at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, and with the Cambridge Diploma I hope to do just that. Taking this class has taught me a lot of the process of filmmaking and I hope to show what I've learned in this video.      For this task I decided to work alone. I believe that working with other people would be harder. With different thoughts on how we want the video to look it wouldn't come out the best. Another reason is as I'm writing this over the weekend I was recently exposed to the Corona virus so for safety measures I won't be working with many people outside of my home. While I don't plan to work with anyone in my class, I am planning on h...