Genre Research : Genre Decision

My Final Decision on the Genre

     I have decided that my movie is going to be an Action movie. Following the conventions of a normal action movie. The reason for this is because I have some movies that inspired my movie plot. For example, I want to make my movie similar to The Godfather and the same type of action as Scarface. These movies can be classified as Action movies because they follow typical Action Movie Conventions. I have watched action movies for a long time, ever since I was a little kid. So now, making an action movie would be my best decision. If I want to be successful in my project, i have to make a movie that reflects the type of movies that i like to watch. This is why my movie is going to be an action movie. My movie on the Russian hit man is going to be an action movie and that's my final decision.

Genre Research : Different Genres

      Genres

Dance

Cams in Dance Movies
Camera Angles : Wide shots to see the entire stage
Camera Movements : Pan, Tilt, Zoom
Camera Shots : Wide shots to display the entire stage
Costumes : Common costumes in dance depends on the movie. For example, Tights, Feathers, Dresses
Lighting : Any form of lighting to display the dancers
Actors : John Travolta, Natalie Portman, Chris Brown are all actors in dance movies
Make Up : Make up in dance movies is very flamboyant to express the movie's message
Props : Some props in dance movies could be used to express the movies message
Setting : Usually a stage to present the audience the dancing.
Editing : Not much crazy editing in editing, mainly just cuts to stick all the shots together
Element : Body, Action, Space, Energy, Time are all elements of dance
Preference : I don't really care for dance movies because are boring

Action

Cams in Action Movies

Camera Angles : High and Low angle shots to dramatize situations

Camera Movements : Tracking, Pan, Tilt, and Zoom

Camera Shots : Long Shots, Close Up Shots, Medium Shots

Costumes : Suits, Tactical Gear, and Tattered Clothes. Mainly depending on the movie.

Lighting : Usually has bright lights to show everything that's going on. More Suspenseful parts have dimmer lighting

Actors : Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, and Robert DeNiro are all examples of action actors

Make Up : Fake Blood and Fake Injuries to Dramatize situation

Props : Guns, Knives, Money, Bombs, and Gear to complete mission

Setting : Cities and Crowded Places to have cool settings

Editing : Dramatic Cuts, Dissolves, Montages, Flashbacks, and Jump Cuts

Sound : Music, Gunshots, Dramatic Score

Element : Guy goes on a mission

Preference : I like action movies because they appeal to me more due to their dramatic plots

Horror

Cams in Horror Movies

Camera Angles : Dutch/Canted High and Low Camera Angles to create suspense

Camera Movements : Veritgo Effect, Track for Scary Parts, Zoom

Camera Shots : Close Up, Dutch, Long Shots

Costumes : Scary Costumes Such as Ghost, Zombies, and Killers

Lighting : Usually horror movies have dim lighting to create suspense

Actors : Joey King, Patrick King, Jack Nicholson

Make Up : Fake Injuries and Creep Monster Make up

Props : Knives, Crosses, and Old Books.

Setting : Old Houses, Deserted Locations, Forests

Editing : Suspenseful Cuts, Jump Scares, Filters to distort visibility

Sound : Scary Ambient Sounds, Scary Dialogue, Dramatic Score

Element : To make your audience freaked out and scared

Preference : In my opinion, a well directed, good plot horror movie is amazing.

Genre Research : Powerpoint

     Powerpoint
 Back in September, in our AICE Media Studies we did a powerpoint from a randomly selected genre. Back then I was working with my old partner, now for our final task I am working by myself. We got the genre Dance and we weren’t exactly happy. Dance isn’t my favorite movie genre because Dancing is just not something im interested in. Dance is decent as an a activity but I don’t like it as a movie genre. I prefer more like action and horror movies. We finished out powerpoint together. Down below i am going to post the link to the powerpoint.

https://browardcountyschools-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/0611022785_my_browardschools_com/Ec8fi3PasqtEjQXIhGUhZ0cBhaSgskMzFoQIPmpB73yWiw?e=3wbIbv

Final Task : Pitch

Pitches for potential movies

     As I stated in my previous blog, I have 3 movie pitches which are potentially my future project. In all honesty, my second pitch about the race car driver was made up because i couldn’t think of anything else. If i had to pick, 2 out of my 3 movie pitches, I would choose my 3rd and 1st movie ideas.My second one would be hard to pull off due to the fact that I’m not going to spain anytime soon and I don’t drive so It’ll be a challenge filming a movie about racing in Spain. When or if I ever become a future movie director, that’ll be one of my movies. Until then, i’ll keep this idea in the drafts. So now im going to talk about my 2 other movie pitches.
      My first potential movie will be about a hitman who works for the Italian mafia. He gets a call from a client and during the phone call, future scenes of the actual murder will appear. It’ll later be figured out that the murder that was portrayed during the phone call was with the client and not the person he was payed to kill. This is influenced from Quentin Tarantino because he has always seemed to have scenes out of orders and big plot twist. The first 2 minutes will be of our protagonist waking up and actually receiving the actual phone call.
      My second potential movie will be about a schizophrenic man who deals with his demons throughout the course of the movie and it’ll end him killing his own son, the person he swore to protect through out the entire movie. If i were to do this film, it’d be in the style of Donnie Darko. In that movie the protagonist has schizophrenia and deals with his inner demons. If i were to do this, i’d want it to be similar to that movie. The only problem is our production budget and equipment. We don’t have the same amount of expensive gear that they used to produce the movie so acquiring the same shots will be a bit of a struggle.
      To wrap this off, i have decided to go through with my first movie pitch. The reason is because I think the end result will look much better than my other 2 pitches. While it was a hard decision i believe its the best option to get the best looking movie out if all the 3.

Final Task : Starting

Starting the Final Task

      Hello my name is Lucas Illanes and I’ve been asked to reintroduce myself. Im a freshman in Fort Lauderdale High. Im halfway through my first year in high school. High school so far has been pretty good because all the complaints i had through my previous years have gone away and school is pretty chill now. I live with my sister and parents and we are from Chile. We moved back in 2010 and while adapting to the language was a bit a curve I eventually got over it. Everything in my life is going pretty good so right now im just chilling.

      We’ve also been asked to describe what we have learned so far in this class. Overall, my production skills have definitely improved since the commercial. I started off with little experience on filming and editing now i can say my skills have definitely improved. My filming skills have improved from actual experience and just watching movies and lastly learning terms. When watching movies, I now know what type of shots, angles, and sounds im experiencing which is not something i’ve been able to do before. This gives me more ideas when it comes to my filming and portraying my ideas when it comes to a video. When it comes to editing, I now know how to do different cuts and different cuts which help me portray my ideas. Overall knowledge of terms and the understanding of different shots and angles have been something i’ve learned in this class.

    For our final task, we have to create the first 2 minutes of a movie. For my first idea i have an idea of a Hitman who gets a call from a mysterious client but later realized the client tries to screw hum over. The first two minutes will be of the phone call taking place with scenes of later events will happen simultaneously as the phone call progresses. My second movie idea is a Fast and Furious type movie. A new guy moves to Spain and tries to adapt to racing there and meets a rival which he laters races against. My last movie idea is of a horror movie in which of a schizophrenic man who kills his own son because his demons are haunting him. The first two minutes would be of the man dealing with the demons living inside of his brain. Those are my 3 movie ideas for my AICE Media Studies class.

Music Video : Editing

        Editing
     Both me and my partner have now entered the editing stage of our project. This process is not as efficient as we’d like it to be because we don’t have all of our scenes filmed yet but we are trying to get as much done. During our commercial, the editing process was a lot smoother. Due to the fact that  editing isn’t coming along as well as we’d like it to be, we have decided to film and edit over the weekend. This way we can finish up our music video before its due. This is important because having a good grade in this class is was is really important to me. After we finish editing, we have to save and submit our final video in.
      During editing we will like to use different type of cuts. Jump cuts is a main type of cut we are going to use. Jump cuts are useful when transitions from scene to scene in a dramatic way. These will be helpful when editing our music video because they will produce a better version of the music video. This editing will have to be top notch in order to get our stuff done. We probably won’t even be using the school computers to edit but rather our mobile devices because they are more reliable. Editing is expected to take that long because we have nothing too crazy planned so our music video will most likely be turned in on time.
      I really hope that we can get our editing done. While we wont do anything too flashy, we wil have our video done soon i hope. The sooner i finish shooting my scenes, that sooner i can put editing in full effect and finish this music video soon. Finishing this music video is now my top priority because this class really means a lot to me. In order to keep my good grades in this class, I have to turn in my music video on time which I am determined to do. Anyways its getting late, im going to go to sleep. I’ll talk to you bloggers tmrw.
Peace ✌️

Music Video : Filming Part 2

     Filming
     We managed to actually film over the long weekend. This last week was thanksgiving break so we had 5 days to film over the break. Of those days we only managed to film on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, my partner and I went to Fort Lauderdale beach for my birthday party. We managed to film some scenes on the beach and some nice shots of the sky as the night was approaching. Overall, while Saturday wasn’t the most productive day for filming, we still managed to get some good shots on the beach.
     And on Sunday, wasn’t the most productive day either. My partner and I didn’t get together on Sunday because of complications with her mother. She did manage to film some stuff at home because she had took the camera home. I was disappointed at the fact that we couldn’t film together on Sunday because it felt like a waste of a day. But, our music video is due on Monday. We have time to film our final scenes to get it done by Monday. Even though our music video is yet to be finished, both my partner and I are willing to get this project done by Monday.
     While this blog is most likely not 30 sentences, I hope this is enough. Its kind of a challenge to write about nothing and doing nothing for the entire break. I am really motivated to get my project done because this class is very important to me. I’ve been wanting to be in a film class since middle school and now having the opportunity to be in one is really cool. We celebrated my birthday party in Fort Lauderdale, we had a really good time. My partner filmed some cool shots of the skyline and it will really fit in well with the theme of the music video. All we need to do now is film the rest of the scenes and that should be a wrap to our music video. Our song is Day n Nite by Kid Cudi so we decided to shoot some day shots at my party and now all we need to do now is film the night shots and we should be good. Ok I think im going to go to sleep now.