AICE Media Studies

  Characters:  Santana (Andres Santana) Maria (Isabel Reyes) Ellie (Lauren Reitman) Joel (Joseph Paez)  Scene 1:  (non-diegetic mysterious music starts playing) Santana: Talk to me Maria: Joel Cartwright, 27 male, accused of grand theft. Prosecution says Joel stole 20k from his company Quackers Inc.  Santana: (non-diegetic music pauses) Quakers Inc? Maria: Don’t question it. (non-diegetic music continues) Point is our buddy Joel claims he got this gambling, and it really is our word against his Santana : Well then let's go fix his word. (non-diegetic music lowers) Scene 2:  Cuts to him in the interrogation room.: Santana: So 20 thousand huh? How’d you come about that? Joel: Gambling, guess it was my night. Santana: Is that so, huh? Joel: Yeah. That’s so. Santana: What was your hand Joel? Joel: My hand? Santana: Well yeah, You never forget a winning hand, much less a 20 thousand dollar one.  Joel: (hesitates and kinda thinks)  5 queens, had a stroke of luck i guess. Santana:

A key component of the final project has been the title sequence for our film's introduction. We have considered many different fonts and found one that gave off a mysterious and professional vibe. All of the titles will blend in and out of the sequence and be typed into the screen. Each one will be placed differently in the sequence depending on each shot.  The titles will last 3 to 4 seconds depending on the shot. Depending on each shot, the color of the title may differ. For some, they will be red and others will be black. The title of our film is likely to be "I'm Sorry" where the "Sorry" is a reddish maroon color and the "I'm" is black. The "Sorry" will be subjectively bigger than the "I'm". This is a common convention we saw in many mystery movie title sequences. The rest of the titles will be black.  The font we chose to use for each title is "Modern No. 20". This font has a very professional look to it

 The participants in this project are... Isabel reyes Lauren Reitman  Andres Sanatana Locations: We all live very far from each other so we had to choose simple locations we could all get to, those locations are... One of our houses- for simple shot we need to take, where we show the secret behind the mystery Wilton drive- this will be used for a flashback that we are planning to do Courtroom- we will only use this location for the first scene of our movie to give some background information Schedule: 3/4 Saturday - we will begin filming either in one of our houses or Wilton drive 3/6 Monday - we will film in the courtroom 3/8- 8/12 - We will finish any filming that we have left Between the weeks of 3/13-3/25 - we will do editing Between 3/26- 4/1 - we will begin to plan and possibly film the CCR Between 4/2-4/8 - Editing for CCR will begin Between 4/-4/13 - everything will be finalized Health: Our locations over all are pretty safe the only location that maybe need extra precaution wo

For the next title research blog, we watched the opening sequence to the movie "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". There was a total of 30 titles shown in the two minutes and thirty five seconds of the opening scene. Each title had the same silver font and moved slightly, swiftly horizontally before disappearing. The first title is the film production industries, which is Columbia Pictures and Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. Then, a "Scott Rudin and Yellow Bird Production". Then it moves on to the director, "A David Fincher Film". Afterwards, names of the main actors that are featured in the film are listed. The titles then move on to other production related features, like who the music is by, costume designer, sound designer, editors, etc. Finally, the sequence ends with, "Directed by: David Fincher". I did find it strange that the director was featured twice, once in the beginning and the end.  Some of the sequences follow a linear development th

 For the next title research blog, we researched the opening sequence of the movie "Get Out". In this movie, the first scene is a guy getting into a car and driving away. Then there's a clip of a bunch of trees going by like someone is in a car and driving on a long straight road with a bunch of trees next to it. The next clips are old random pictures that are black and white. The black and white shows that the pictures are old. The sequence moves on to a clip of a guy in an apartment drying himself off which shows he just got out of the shower. Then the clip jumpcuts to a girl at a bakery looking at a bunch of treats. It jumpcuts between the guy and the girl and then the girl ends up at his apartment. The guy is looking at pictures on his camera which infers he took the pictures we saw earlier in the sequence. There is a total of 35 titles shown in the 3-minute opening sequence. Each title was in a green-blue font and in the middle of the screen. Each scene shown makes u

 In the opening sequence of "Gone Girl," there is a quick dialogue of a man talking about what he thinks about his wife. Then shortly after that, there is a bunch of clips of different scenery that last about 2 seconds each. In each of those small clips, the titles are displayed. They pop in fast and fade out. Including the enterprises, there are 25 titles displayed in all. The last title displayed is the date and text saying "the morning of". The images displayed give off a very somber and melancholy vibe. It makes me feel like the scene is right before sunrise and it's a quiet morning wherever the setting is. The images also give off an abandoned vibe. The music behind the clips is sort of creepy but calm. It gives the clips a more mysterious vibe. The genre is reinforced well through the music because it adds a more creepy effect to the clips.  It makes the audience curious about why it is so quiet. The lighting is a big convention of the opening sequence. Th

The viewer was given a time indication in the initial title opening scene with the text "day 1". The name of the movie "A Quiet Place" is displayed in big, bold red letters against a dark background in the second title. The first image informs the viewer of the time, and the second title introduces a title in large, bold red letters, creating a frightening atmosphere. As the story develops, this establishes the scary theme. Because of the dramatic lighting and scenario, you can identify what genre the movie is. They were also pursued by a bus that was moving backwards. This intensified the tension in the movie's first few  opening moments. The opening sequences of A Quiet Place 2 attempted to elicit a sense of anticipation and tension. They employed a bus pursuit scene as the victim's car reversed. This encourages viewers to stay for more of the show. A dramatic scenario in the introduction will keep the viewer interested.

 Website #1: Art of the Titles Before we began figuring out the titles we would use for our movie, we researched different websites that would help. One of the websites that really caught our eye was "Art of The Titles." The home page has its main titles and two drop down menus, one named "title sequence" and the other named "designers+ studios." The first drop down had different titles, when you click on one it provided an article with some key points in the process of creating each title, the video of the title sequence, a written interview with the creator, and the credits. The second drop down had a big list of different designers and studios to choose from. When you clicked on a designer it provided a little background information on the designer themself; what they specialize in, where they studied this, their preferred styles. The page also includes a few article options of the titles they have created followed by a video of it. When you clicked on

 To research more about our genre we watched a few films based on mystery. One of the first films we watched was "What Happened to Monday," which we found on Netflix. The overall idea of it is a dystopian society with over population. To solve this issue in this world, they created a "one child" policy. The main characters, septuplets each named after a name of the week, go out into society on their corresponding day pretending to be each other so that they would all be able to live.     The first few scenes are one of the siblings walking out and doing their own stuff, once she got home there was a flashback which basically explained how they got to this point. Many mysteries have flashbacks, it's there go to, it just gives an idea without having to spend the whole movie explaining it. That's just one of the elements that match with the genre there was conflict, an issue in the system that caused a mystery, and or a secret. Same forms of editing like cross-

 Continuing our research on the mystery genre, we watched the movie "Knives Out".  The movie focuses on famous detective Benoit Blanc as he investigates further into the death of a patriarch of a rich but dysfunctional household. Everyone in the houshold becomes a suspect after the death. Now Blanc has to sift through the web of lies to uncover the truth of who commited the murder.      The movie conveyed many conventions throughout the film. One, for example, is in the first couple of scenes when a housekeeper is preparing breakfast and goes upstairs to find her boss. After shes checks for him in his bedroom, he suspiciously isnt there. She goes up to the attic to find it very quiet. Then she finds his body laying down with his back against the wall. Finding someone dead is a classic mystery conventions. Suprisingly the housekeeper doesn't seem disturbed by this which gives the viewers the suspision that the housekeeper might have something to do with this. This is the m

To investigate the genre of mystery even further, we watched a couple of mystery films. We specifically looked into the film, "Murder Mystery." The movies follows a New York police officer and his wife as they travel together to Europe to rekindle their romance. However, on what was supposed to be a relaxing getaway, they are accused of killing a billionaire after a casual encounter. It is up to them to figure out who actually killed the billionaire in order to save themselves.  This movie displayed many of the general conventions of a typical mystery film. For example, in the scene of the murder, there is a total of ten people in the room as the billionaire signs his will, disinheriting his family. There is tense music as the family hears this betrayal, which makes the environment uneasy. Then all of a sudden, the lights abruptly go off and the screen turns black. The music completely stops, catching the audience's attention and giving them thoughts like, "what just

 Welcome back to our journey into this project! As you could see from our previous 3 blogs we’ve been thoroughly researching what possible genres we feel could best align with our pitch “A successful attorney encounters a woman in distress whom he later regrets rejecting.” After talking it out we had decided to investigate 3 main genres: Mystery, Thriller, and Romance. We thought of Mystery because we felt as though the concept of the unknown would make it easy to attract the viewers attention. Similarly we thought of Thriller because it’s similar to Mystery in terms of using the unknown to its advantage. Finally we also thought of Romance as we felt that perhaps a part of this unknown aspect we liked could include a lover. After selecting our 3 to choose from we began to research. The first thing we had to learn was the difference between Thriller and Mystery, so that we'd be able to accurately depict what we were going for. And after researching we learned that while similar as t

This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office . Attached is our Mystery Genre Research Powerpoint, presenting what we learned of the mystery conventions. 

This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office . Attached is our Romance Genre Research Powerpoint, presenting what we learned of the romance conventions. 

This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office . Attached is our Thriller Genre Research Powerpoint, presenting what we learned of the thriller conventions. 

 Welcome back to our progression in furthering this project! Before beginning researching as to how to approach our project, we first had to create an idea for where we wanted this movie to go. After some deliberation, we narrowed our options down to 2 pitches…  1. A girl walks into a cabin and what she finds will forever shock her. 2. A successful attorney encounters a woman in distress whom he later regrets rejecting. For our first pitch, we were originally fond of the idea of a possible horror, specifically through the use of a forest. We believed that as a group through the use of different lighting, angles, and audio selection that the illusion of suspense could successfully be created. However, upon considering the logistics of actually recording these scenes, we realized that such a setting would be very difficult to obtain. Given that we live in a more urban setting, locating, coordinating, and actually recording in a forest and cabin area would be very difficult. And even if w

  I decided to change groups for this project. I have nothing to complain about the group I was in for my last two projects. We worked well together and had great team chemistry. However, I was in the different class period than my other team members. This proved to be challenging since I could not be there for any class discussions amongst my team. I would have to be filled in through messages or after the fact. The group chats were helpful since I could quickly be filled in. But, I also felt as though I was not contributing as much as I could. Working with a team in my class period will make it easier in this aspect. For reference, I am now working with Lauren, Andres, and Franchesca. Whereas before, I was working with Hailey, Kyra, and Alessandra. It was nothing personal and we are all still friends. I think it will be interesting to work with a new group and see how our chemistry is. Lauren and Andres are both on the debate team with me. Therefore, I am pretty much familiar with th

  My name is Isabel Reyes and I am so excited to begin filming this project. To introduce myself, I am half Ecuadorian and half Dominican, but I have lived in the United States all of my life. I am a sophomore at Fort Lauderdale High School. I’m in the Pre-Law Magnet and hope to become a lawyer in the future. At school, I am on the debate team and Spanish Honor Society. Outside of academics, I am a competitive salsa dancer. In fact, last week our team placed first place in our category in a world competition. I love dancing because it helps me relieve stress from all the rigorous classes I take at school. With all my AICE. classes and soon AP, dancing helps take my mind off of everything and have focus on something to personally challenge myself. Besides being a lawyer, I have an aspiration of being a professional salsa dancer. I have some experience in media studies and I think this will all help me on the upcoming project. In my first media project, I filmed a commercial advertising