Originally, we wanted to incorporate the romance genre into our film. But after collaborating, we decided that we no longer wanted to use that genre as it may be tricky. So we decided to do a drama musical.We haven't came up with our complete outline yet, but we do have some main ideas that we want to incorporate.
As of right now we named our film, "Little Town." This musical would be about a dancer, who I would play the lead role as, that is trying to make it the big industry of performing arts. She is brought up in a small town with not many people that live there. It is extremely hard to make it into the performing arts industry, especially in this generation. And she knows that. Certain traits such as your height, hair color, or race can affect if you get the job or not. With her being apart of the LGBTQ+ community, she is afraid she wont be accepted. She always feels as she is an outcast, but dance is always there to save her. Her family is strict, she was raised as a christian and always had to follow her parents orders. Her family is not accepting of her being part of the gay community along with wanting to have a future career in dance. She doesn't let that get to her and if anything it gives her more of a push as to why she wants to continue this career. There is going to be a few bumps in the road to make to the real world, but she is going to find a way how.
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Brainstorming!
The brainstorming process for us was a little tricky. Throughout the class period, we were trying to come up with different ideas that we wanted to do for our 2 minute film opening. We were hemming and hawing trying to come up with an idea that would stand out. We came up with many ideas regarding the plot, main characters, and something that we really wanted to incorporate was representation. We are still kind of stuck on what we really want to do with our film. We feel that doing a musical is really challenging, but we want to stand out from the others and step out of our comfort zone.
We brainstormed on a bunch of different ideas. We wanted to have a "small town" setting with the main character who has an identity crisis. Taking place in contemporary time she is going to have a 90s astheitc along with being apart of the LGBTQ+ community. This makes her an outcast and stand out from the others.
For the production aspect, we wanted to have a casting call for dancers who could potentially take part in flash mobs or be extras in out film. We also came up with ideas to use a drone for footage for something different.
For the music aspect, our fellow group member Andrea is going to compose orginal content. We thought it would be a good idea for us to use our own talents and incorporate it into something more. We want to use diagetic and non-diagetic sounds to introduce the main character. The theme song created will have an impact on the main character expressing her itch to make it far into the industry.
Below is our brainstorming sheet we worked on in class:
We brainstormed on a bunch of different ideas. We wanted to have a "small town" setting with the main character who has an identity crisis. Taking place in contemporary time she is going to have a 90s astheitc along with being apart of the LGBTQ+ community. This makes her an outcast and stand out from the others.
For the production aspect, we wanted to have a casting call for dancers who could potentially take part in flash mobs or be extras in out film. We also came up with ideas to use a drone for footage for something different.
For the music aspect, our fellow group member Andrea is going to compose orginal content. We thought it would be a good idea for us to use our own talents and incorporate it into something more. We want to use diagetic and non-diagetic sounds to introduce the main character. The theme song created will have an impact on the main character expressing her itch to make it far into the industry.
Below is our brainstorming sheet we worked on in class:
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Portfolio Project Research -Romance
Along with my reaserch of the mucial genre, I decided to research the romance genre as that usually plays a big role in the plot of musical films. While the tone of the romance genre can vary we feel it is a good fit with the musical. Romance film can be defined as a genre wherein the plot revolves around the love between two protagonists. The story usually can have themes with love at first sight or sacrifical love. We are not sure of what our plot will be exactly, but this research can definately help us with our creation.
Some examples of musical romance films are:
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| Mama Mia (2008): A musical romantic comedy film directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson. Based on the 1999 musical "Mama Mia!" This film involves a romantic plot that follows a young bride-to-be who invites three men to her upcoming wedding, each one with the possibility of being her father. |
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| Moulin Rouge (2001): This film is a story of a young English poet/writer, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and courtesan Satine. In this movies they would show their romance through their music, if a feeling was intense, then they sing it. |
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| Grease (1978): Is a film where you can experience the realtionships of teenagers in highschool through the time era of the 1950s. This is the singing, romantic, dance world of Grease. The film depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko and Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson who develop an attraction for each other. |
Portfolio Project Research
My group and I decided to reaserch the genre of musicals for our film opening.
While researching, the filmm genre for musicals are an internationally popular film genre that futures music, dancing, and songs in different combinations. The songs in the films usually advance the plot or help create and develop the characters involved. My group and I really wanted to do this genre due to the fact that one of us is passionate about singing while I am passionate about dance. The combination of the two make a great reason why we wanted to do a musical! We get to incoprorate something we love into a film! Nothing sounds better than that!
I have researched some films that are musicals. Some examples are:
While researching, the filmm genre for musicals are an internationally popular film genre that futures music, dancing, and songs in different combinations. The songs in the films usually advance the plot or help create and develop the characters involved. My group and I really wanted to do this genre due to the fact that one of us is passionate about singing while I am passionate about dance. The combination of the two make a great reason why we wanted to do a musical! We get to incoprorate something we love into a film! Nothing sounds better than that!
I have researched some films that are musicals. Some examples are:
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| The Greatest Showman (2017): is a beautiful, engaging, original musical about the early life of Phineas T. Barnum, the extraordinary American showman. This film has fun upbeat music with people trying to aspire their dreams. |
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| The Sound of Music (1965): The musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children, and eventually their widowed father, Captain von Trapp. |
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| La La Land (2016): A film that stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as an aspiring actress, who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. This film opening stood out to me. It has a happy tone and a good choice of music. |
Music Marketing Campaign
For our music marketing project, we chose the genre of Alternative with the name Beautiful Entropy. For our band, we got inspiration from bands within the genre such as Cage The Elephant and Half Alive. While researching these bands, we noticed that they have websites that are asthetically pleasing with links to all social media of theirs. This helps market the band and it seems as if it is common throught the genre, so we decided to use these ideas for our own website. We decided to color brand as many bands of this genre do. Color branding is a great marketing technique that makes the band easily recogniazble and follows through the color theory. One of the bands we researched, Half Alive does a great job of color branding so we decided to do the same.
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| Beautiful Entropy Website |
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| Half Alive |
Entropy: physical property of the state of a system, measure of disorder. We call ourselves Beautiful Entropy to make a beauty of the chaos we have in our lives. No matter if it's your love life or mental health we diecided this fits in with our target audience teenagers and adults. We demonsrate this throughout of symbol of the red rose dripping. In research we found that a rose symbolizes beauty and love. We decided to choose one dripping to show that all things in life aren't perfect and beautiful. We followed through with the colors of red,black, and white. We use these colors as our asthetic on our merchanidse, webiste, social media, and even in our music videos.
For our music video, we decided to do a storyline like music video. While going through the creation process, I leanred that the more shots you take the better. This makes it easier for the editing process. I learned that you can have the perfect picture set in mind, but sometimes there are either technical diffivulties or you are unable to shoot at the spot you wanted but you have to improvise. While creating, I wish we spent more time on planning the shots so it would've made it eaiser to edit. All in all, our band did a great job of creating something in a short time span and will learn from our mistakes in the future.
Monday, November 25, 2019
Representation Analysis
In the 2006 advertisement for the Axe Body spray commercial, there is a lot of representation shown. The advertisement contains multiple women around the age of 20 years old, who are all in bikinis. They are all separated by hair color such as blonde and brunette. These women are represented from their body type and their race. All of the girls running toward the single man had bodies that were extremely in shape and appealing to men. Men would have a good effect upon viewing this commercial. The women shape mens expectations for having a killer body or blonde hair and blue eyes, automatically attracting men. Although this advertisement is beneficial for men, it is not a good representation for women. This can label women for only being pretty or attractive to men if they are skinny and tan. This can make women fill insecure and does not represent them well.
The advertisement for H&M represents many different races, ethnicities, and ages. It ranges in different ethnicities such as people who are Asian, African American, White, etc. The ages range from someone who is a young child all the way to someone who is elderly. It shows all the imperfections people have and that everyone is different and that it's okay to be different. There are a variety of people shown to ones who are overweight and ones who are part of the LGBTQ community. Overall, this advertisement is captivating to all viewers and makes each one feel welcomed and good about themselves in general.
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Genre Research- Horror
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Genre conventions – content: In the horror genre, there aspects of content that make the film adhere to the horror genre. Specific aspects can be death, ghosts, and murder. The antagonist is usually hidden in plain sight while the protagonist usually known for being a victim that often have to face the horror that is in the plot. The movie "Get Out" directed by Jordan Peele is a good example of this. The antagonist Rose, is seen as a genuine girl throughout the movie as she starts to date the protagonist Chris. The couple meets each others parents and the family has certain behaviors towards this biracial relationship all wanted to kill him. As the movie progresses and more time spent with each other horrific discoveries led Chris to realize that Rose wasn't who she came out to be in ways that he could never imagine. This is an example of how the antagonist is hidden in plain sight because Rose ended up wanting to kill Chris throughout the entire movie even thought to him she seemed like a authentic girl.
Ex. Rose and Chris in Get Out
Genre conventions - production techniques : There are specific production techniques that the horror genre uses to make the audience want to jump out of their seats. The setting of a horror film tends to take place in dark and isolated places such as an abandoned house in the woods. This makes the viewers themselves feel as if they are isoloated themselves.The genre usually uses dark colors such as black, gray, and red to symbolize death, blood, evil, and danger. Low-key lighting is usually used in horror films to create dark shadows on screen. Horror films are usually shot with extreme close ups and mid shots to show a sense of emotion and how that character may be feeling. This helps create the mood of the film and make it seem as if you are actually present in the actors life. Sound plays a big role in this genre. Based on the background music in the film you can determine whats to come next. The tone of the music helps us understand the atmosphere on screen. There are also certain sounds that are repetitve and signify when something is about to happen. For example in the movie "Jaws" directed by Steven Spielburg, there is a certain sound effect that lets the audience know that there is a shark nearby and something is about to happen. Techniques such as the setting, lighting, sound, and camera angles lead to make a good horror film.
Ex. Sound in the movie Jaws
Institutional conventions – how is genre marketed: The target audience for horror films are usually the ages from 16-24. Mystery is a tatic that helps market this genre. Advertisement of the trailers of horror films leave the audenice thinking "what will happen next" or wanting to know the final solution of the movie. This leads in more viewers to the movie hooking in the audience. The genre also tends to make movies about our generation today which reels in teenagers to watch movies like this. To be specific, the new movie "Countdown" directed by Justin Dec is a movie about a app that predicts when you are going to die. In our generation today the cellphone usage and technology has increased so much this attracts viewers, especially teenagers social media and apps are realatable.
Ex. Countdown
The movie "Us" directed by Jordan Peele is a film that follows Adelaide and Gabe Wilson who take their two children to their childhood beach home. Adelaine is haunted by a traumatic experience in a mirror maze where she meets her twin Red. This experience is unexplainable to her realtives and feels trauma as something may happen to her family when returning to their beach house. A few days later they notice a family of four sitting outside their porch that end up being replicates of their exact family. The replicate family dressed in all red signifies danger and evil which is exactly what this other family is. Jordan Peele is successful in making the audience uncomfortable throughout this film. He tends to not use any music and uses non-diegetic sounds. There is a lot of symmetry throughout this film. The bible verse Jeremiah 11:11 would be a good and clear example of a horror convention. This film makes the viewers think they know the final outcome that Red and Adelaine switched places. But, the films twist serves an entirely different purpose that leave the audience in shock. Us is a horror film that wants the audience to look deeper into the purpose and message it is trying to give off. The movie is a good representation of the horror genre.
The 2018 movie, "A Quiet Place" directed by John Krasinski is about a family that must live in silence to survive from creatures that will come to hunt them if any sound is made. Not one movement or footstep could be heard, or their life is on the line. Evenlyn and Lee are the parents of Regan and Marcus. They are finding a way to protect their children and a way to survive this bizarre world and lifestyle. This film contains low-key lighting and no rarely any sound which adds suspense to the screen. There is a monster that comes about when any sound is heard of that will take your life if you are found. This relates to the horror genre as the suspense of the film arises as the lifestyle of this family becomes more and more difficult.
Ex. Orphan
Ex. Paranormal Activity
Ex. The Conjuring
Ex. Halloween
Ex. It
Ex. Rose and Chris in Get Out
Genre conventions - production techniques : There are specific production techniques that the horror genre uses to make the audience want to jump out of their seats. The setting of a horror film tends to take place in dark and isolated places such as an abandoned house in the woods. This makes the viewers themselves feel as if they are isoloated themselves.The genre usually uses dark colors such as black, gray, and red to symbolize death, blood, evil, and danger. Low-key lighting is usually used in horror films to create dark shadows on screen. Horror films are usually shot with extreme close ups and mid shots to show a sense of emotion and how that character may be feeling. This helps create the mood of the film and make it seem as if you are actually present in the actors life. Sound plays a big role in this genre. Based on the background music in the film you can determine whats to come next. The tone of the music helps us understand the atmosphere on screen. There are also certain sounds that are repetitve and signify when something is about to happen. For example in the movie "Jaws" directed by Steven Spielburg, there is a certain sound effect that lets the audience know that there is a shark nearby and something is about to happen. Techniques such as the setting, lighting, sound, and camera angles lead to make a good horror film.
Ex. Sound in the movie Jaws
Institutional conventions – how is genre marketed: The target audience for horror films are usually the ages from 16-24. Mystery is a tatic that helps market this genre. Advertisement of the trailers of horror films leave the audenice thinking "what will happen next" or wanting to know the final solution of the movie. This leads in more viewers to the movie hooking in the audience. The genre also tends to make movies about our generation today which reels in teenagers to watch movies like this. To be specific, the new movie "Countdown" directed by Justin Dec is a movie about a app that predicts when you are going to die. In our generation today the cellphone usage and technology has increased so much this attracts viewers, especially teenagers social media and apps are realatable.
Ex. Countdown
The movie "Us" directed by Jordan Peele is a film that follows Adelaide and Gabe Wilson who take their two children to their childhood beach home. Adelaine is haunted by a traumatic experience in a mirror maze where she meets her twin Red. This experience is unexplainable to her realtives and feels trauma as something may happen to her family when returning to their beach house. A few days later they notice a family of four sitting outside their porch that end up being replicates of their exact family. The replicate family dressed in all red signifies danger and evil which is exactly what this other family is. Jordan Peele is successful in making the audience uncomfortable throughout this film. He tends to not use any music and uses non-diegetic sounds. There is a lot of symmetry throughout this film. The bible verse Jeremiah 11:11 would be a good and clear example of a horror convention. This film makes the viewers think they know the final outcome that Red and Adelaine switched places. But, the films twist serves an entirely different purpose that leave the audience in shock. Us is a horror film that wants the audience to look deeper into the purpose and message it is trying to give off. The movie is a good representation of the horror genre.
The 2018 movie, "A Quiet Place" directed by John Krasinski is about a family that must live in silence to survive from creatures that will come to hunt them if any sound is made. Not one movement or footstep could be heard, or their life is on the line. Evenlyn and Lee are the parents of Regan and Marcus. They are finding a way to protect their children and a way to survive this bizarre world and lifestyle. This film contains low-key lighting and no rarely any sound which adds suspense to the screen. There is a monster that comes about when any sound is heard of that will take your life if you are found. This relates to the horror genre as the suspense of the film arises as the lifestyle of this family becomes more and more difficult.
Ex. Orphan
Ex. Paranormal Activity
Ex. It
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