About Romantic-Comedies

 Romantic-Comedies

Romantic comedies have their way of revealing their movies title where it is representable to them and the viewers. They do this by the type of style, size, font, color, décor, edit etc. They include different kind of information's that could tell you about the movie, how it would play out, and what the overall movie would be about and for my genre the titles usually looks like similar with a pattern going on for each different genre.

Titles

The titles are all rom different kind of romantic-comedy movies. Their titles are all different and looks different, by reading the title of the movie you can already tell some things that are going to happen or happens in the movie, it give you a little bit of  detail about what to expect in the movie. Each of the movies have a different style, color, font, and size here's more detail about each of the movie titles:

The kissing booth: The title is in all bold capitalized letters in pink with the letter "OO's" for booth in hot pink with lips as the "OO's" The color they used for this specific title clearly signifies something that can be predicted about the movie.

Clueless: Black background with white colored text in different sized shapes and font is how the title clueless looks like. The way the title looks goes with the definition of the of the word, it looks out of place and very confused/clueless just like the word. This just shows how the title might give away some details about the movie.

27 dresses: A title with the colors pink and thin font but clearly showing that it is the tille of the movie. 

Opening scenes

I will be making a shot by shot analysis about the opening scene of a romantic comedy movie "Tall girl" 

Shot 1

The opening scene starts with a close up shot of the back of an open book which fills the screen.

Shot 2 

Close up shot of a character's face showing her emotion with light colors and the color scheme of a blue background and shirt.

Shot 3 

Close up shot of character looking out of the frame with an eye level camera giving the audience a sense of realism

Shot 4 

Close up shot of character reading a book

Shot 5

Close up shot where character is in the frame and reading a book

Shot 6

Close up shot of character's face showing her face emotions and her looking out of the frame

Shot 7

Close up shot of characters face reading a book and showing facial emotions.

Shot 8

Close up shot of character looking out of the frame with camera at an eye level

Shot 9

Close up shot of half of the character's face with writings in the middle of the frame naming who will be presenting the movie. 

 

Shot 10

Close up shot of half the other character's face showing half of his emotion and writing of small fonts showing the production of the movie.

Shot 11

Close up shot of the main character's half face in half of the frame and writings in the middle of the frame with the title of the movie.

Shot 12

Long shot showing both of the characters each on different sides of the frame with dark light lighting letting viewers know they are a little far away from each other but not to far and telling us the setting of the movie which is in a library.

Shot 13

Back to a close up shot with camera angle at an eye level with character in the middle of the frame.

Shot 14

Close up shot of characters face in the middle of the frame

Shot 15

Close up shot of other characters face in the middle of the frame with emotions showing on his face.

Shot 16

Close up shot of main characters face in the middle

Shot 17

Medium close up and over the shoulder shot with main character in the shadow and other character in the middle of the frame

Shot 18

Long shot of the two characters in the library and away from each other.

Shot 19

Medium shot of character's side in half of the frame

Shot 20

This is a medium shot of a character in the side of the frame ith the other half of the frame empty and looking at the setting.

Shot 21

Close up shot of character's face with the library in the background

Shot 22

Main character ina close up shot which keeps switiching from her and the other character

Shot 23

A switch from the main character to the other character with a close up shot of him in the frame

Shot 24

Another switch to the main character with a close up shot 

Shot 25

Close up shot and camera at an eye view angle

Shot 26

Camera positioned over the shoulder with other character in the right corner and main character in the rest of the frame with a medium shot

Shot 27

Medium shot of other character in the middle of the frame

Shot 28

Long shot of both character on opposite of the frame from each other with setting of a library and eye level angle

Shot 29

Medium shot of main character on the side of the frame and looking up making the viewer sense that we are about to get an point of view shot

Shot 30

Camera over the shoulder a little bit and tilting up looking at the main character's point of view shot 

Shot 31

Over the shoulder shot at an eye level showing the main character standing face to face with the other character

Shot 32

Medium shot and eye view with the main chharacter having an over the shoulder

Shot 33

Medium shot and low angle with main character in most of the rame and the other character on the side as a shadow on the frame

Shot 34

Over the shoulder with eye view and medium shot of main character as a shadow and other character looking at her in the rest of the frame

Shot 35

Long shot of the setting with the two characters standing in the frame looking at each other and eye level view

Shot 36

Medium shot of main character in the side o the frame looking down but only because of emotions and at an eye level view

Shot 37

The setting o a library with the other character in the middle facing the book of the camera

Shot 38

Close up shot of the main character's face filled with emotion and camera at an eye level view.

Shot 39

Main character looking at the other character as he moves away camera at eye level view

Shot 40

Close up of main character's face in half of the frame and the setting filling the rest of the frame as a background

Shot 51

Long shot of main character just standing in the middle of the frame with the setting surrounding her and camera at a eye view level.

My Movie

This new quarter, I will begin to work toward my portfolio project with my group members and get ready for the final project that comes with being in this class.

My group

In this project, I've had to pick my group members since we will be working in groups, and to pick my group members I came up with 10 questions to interview some of my classmates. 

* What is your favorite movie Genre?

* What makes you really mad?

* What motivates you to do you work?

* How is your attendance?

* Are you up to work after school?

* Would you stay up to complete an assignment?

* Are you a team leader or a player?

* Do you like working by yourself or in groups?

* Are you reliable? 

* Are you good with cooperating?

After interviewing 5 of my classmates, based on the answers from the questions I selected 3 members to be part of my group. Therefore the members that will be in my group are Brianna Scott, Gissela Pinto, and David Stephens. 

The beginning

Now that I have my group members I can start thinking and talking about the project and all that will come to complete it. The movie that I will be making with my group is a romantic comedy about 2 childhood bestfriends who grows in love until one has to move away, ending the relationship, later on one moves back and we wait and see how it plays out. 

Since our movie will be a romantic-comedy we did a lot of research about that specific genre like their basic genre conventions, their setting and location of other films in that same genre, when and where they are shot, their intended audience, habits, how they are normally represented, and stereotype. There's very much more research to be done in this genre and so far I've learned a lot about it. 

Romantic comedy contains light heated humor and the idea that true love can overcome any obstacle. It usually happens with two characters finding love in an unusual place who goes through a difficult obstacle to gain each others trust and love by a comical side plot.

The settings of romantic-comedies always differ based on the plot or the story that is being transferred. It also changes based on who the intended audience of the film is, they might be portraying the audience to be all kind of different people which is who will determine the setting or location. Here's some of the audiences and where their settings/location might be.

• Woman and Girls: London, Paris, and New York. In these locations is where most romantic-comedies are filmed since these places are known for the city of love or the place where love blooms.

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• Teens: Schools, Malls, and Parties. Films are filmed in these locations to help the audience relate to the characters as to where their story might develop. 

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Romantic comedies have their on intended audiences such as, woman and girls, teens, and mature audience here's why.

Woman and Girls

• Gets in touch with a woman's emotions.
• Relates to the story as they see their on image or feelings in the film.
• Woman enjoys seeing or having the feeling of a happy family/marriage/relationship which is always found in romantic-comedies.

Teens

• Storyline targets younger generations of teenagers 12-20 years old.
• Actress and Actors are usually young which makes the audience feels like they can relate to the film.
• Made as an American teenagers life story or love life.

Mature Audiences

• Contains bad languages, sexual references, and sex scenes for mature audiences.
• Complex story line that is more relatable to middle class woman.
• Actors similar in age making audience a target.

In every movie/film they is an usual pattern which always happen and for romantic comedies it goes like this:

• They meet accidentally
• Fall in love
• Overcome obstacles that keeps them apart
• Defy the odds
• Live Happily ever after

During this week and the last week, I've done more research about romantic-comedies and analyzed, studied about it. My researches were successful and these are the new things I've learned about romantic-comedies.

Sources

https://penandthepad.com/characteristics-romantic-comedy-8671414.html

https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/exploring-movie-construction-and-production/chapter/2-what-is-genre-and-how-is-it-determined/

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/29/17769168/romantic-comedies-crazy-rich-asians-all-the-boys-set-it-up

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-a-romantic-comedy-screenplay-plus-15-classic-rom-coms-to-watch-for-screenwriting-inspiration#what-is-romantic-comedy

Music Video

Music Video Project

During the first week of December, I had to make a holiday music video and it was to help me experience in editing, recording and publishing. During that time I had to work in a group and picked the holiday song, wrote the scrip, made a shot list, storyboarded, filmed, edited and finally published it. Here's what we did and how it went to get to our final product.

Steps

1- In our first step we picked our group and in our group there was me, Brianna Scott, Angelo Douglas, Benjamin Duverna, and Daniel Calderin. Throughout the recording we did need some extra characters and we had Marie Guillaume, Sebastian Silva, and Antony Suarez. Behind the scenes as our camera woman was Gissela Pinto. This was our first step and these were the people picked to be and help create out video.

2- For our second step we picked our song, we looked into holidays songs that we could use and that were original and we ended up picking "12 Days of Christmas" by Relient K. We talked about the lyrics and how we would be able to make a music video out of the song.

3- Third step we needed to write our scrip, how many shots we needed, their duration, the angles, and everything that would happen during that shot. We overall came up with 12 shots and in every shot from 1 through 6 we had a number of characters that corresponded to each day and then from shot 7 through 11 we decreased the amount of characters one by one and on the last shot we had 6 characters again.

4- The fourth step we storyboard, we got a storyboard template and sketch how every shot we had was going to look like and was going to happen in these shots. Creating the template wasn't something hard to do, we just sketched it, put which scene, which shot, and the size of the shot. This is how we did and finalized our storyboard.

5- The fifth thing that we had to do was plan our filming time, we planned when we were going to film which were the two days following the day we created our story board, where we were going to film which was the hallway, the last thing we had to plan was how we were going to record. We planned to use our phone's camera and a camera woman, Gissela. After that we were almost ready to start filming.

6- When we thought we were going to film we realized that we forgot to make a choreography, so while trying to film each shot to help us stay on schedule I came up with some moves and we all just went along with it.

7- We started filming, we all had to do some of the shots over and over again but overall it was fun and a great experience. We filmed for 2 days straight and on the third day we went over all our shots and re filmed the ones that we were missing or had to do over.

8- After we finished filming all of our shots and made sure they were all good, we started editing and putting them together in the order that we wanted. For our editing we used "Wevideo" which is an easy app to use and it very helpful even though we came across a few issues with it. We muted the sounds from the original video, we cut and added to make sure they were all in the correct position, we added the sound that we did want, added transitions to make sure they were all smooth, made an opening and a closing giving credits to everyone included in the video and the song artist and finally we made some final touches and saved our video.

9- After we had our video saved we needed to upload it to "YouTube" in order to submit it as our final project product. We eventually created a YouTube channel to be able to upload it to, we didn't have a name to put so we named it school since after all the YouTube channel was created for school purposes. We upload the music video or the final product added a few details to be able to have it uploaded and just like that it was uploaded.

10- After uploading the video to YouTube we had to copy the URL and submit it as the final product, to be able to do that our music video needed to be public so it was. Just like that we all copied the URL of the video and submitted it. We were done with the project and that was the final step.

Editing Software

 Editing Software

During this week, I've been learning about video editing software and how its used to edit videos and etc. Our assignment for this part of learning was to research about different editing software and how its used and compare them between one another. This is my research on editing software and how I compared them.

Definition

Editing software is software that is used to achieve the post-production of a video and get you the results you are looking for after filming the video and editing it. 

Research

The editing software that I choose to research were Openshot.org, Clipchamp.com, and Vimeo.com, here the things I learned and found out about them.

Openshot.org

Openshot is an open source video editing software that can be used to create, edit, and track videos. It seems to be easy to use, quick to learn from, and able to accomplish what you need. https://www.openshot.org/

• It has cross-platform which means it can be accessed from multiple places and multiple webs.
• Able to add as many layers you need for your final product.
• You can add titles and can use their templates from your products or make your own.
• Video effects can be done by removing backgrounds from video, inverting colors, adjusting brightness and more.
• Time can be controlled by reversing, slowing and speeding the videos.
• Audio can be added, and pulled off as part of your video.
• Available in 70+ languages which would make it easier for anyone who needs it to understand and use the video editing software.
• Easy to use and can get the best results based on what you need.

From all the research that I've made these are some key details I was able to pull of from openshot. It seems to be the best video editing software to recommend to someone that is just staring to edit videos and needs something easy to use. In my future projects or when needing to edit any video's I will be sure to use openshot for quick, easy, and best results. 

Clipchamp.com

Clipchamp is a functionality created to help you work on video project collaboratively and professional. It is designed to make creating video from scratch easy, and make edits to your liking even without any prior editing experience. https://clipchamp.com/en/

• Has customizable video template, ready-to-use templates for everything from just you cute hobbies videos to your big special events. 
• Mix and match stock footage and audio. This makes it adequate to adding audio to video, removing them and the same for adding a new video to a different audio.
• Flexible and fast video editing experience and results.
• Lets you compress, convert, collect, record, and create videos without delays.
• Make video any dimension you want by cutting, adding, and others.
• Mirror record or as others would know it reverse clips.

After snooping and researching about clipchamp I was able to find these information's from it. This seems like a good editing software that others can use to edit their videos from. I've learned a lot from this editing software that I didn't know you were able to do on a video editing software. The research I made were all a success. 

Vimeo.com

Vimeo is an editing software that you can use to create powerful videos online for free. Easy to use and not complicated to manage. With it, you can create any kind of videos you want within minutes while being creative and having it the way you want.

• Offers templates for videos, ads, promos, tutorials, educational videos, and more.
• Unlimited stock library for your preferred images or upload your own videos and images to customize your new edited video.
• Includes all tools you need tov easily add text, captions, create transitions, customize colors and more.
• Can be used on any platform by saving and sharing on social media or download on your own.

Vimeo give you the space to be creative with your editing techniques and your level of experience. Using Vimeo helps you save time and energy while still getting the best results when it comes to your videos. Vimeo is an video editing technique that is easy to used and give best results.

Overall choice

After doing several research on video editing software I was able to make a choice on which software that I would be using for my portfolio. To make that overall decision I had to compare and contrast the cons, pros, and similarities of the three video editing software that I research and choose the one that would be most useful to use and give the best results.

During my research for all three video editing software I was able to come across some similarities between all of them. They are all able to cut clips, and audio while having the ability of lowering or turning the volume up in any clips. They all include the ability to add text and lay multiple tracks of videos and images. All three of the video editing techniques are free and easy to use.

They all had their differences which is how I was able to make my decision. But after all my evaluations I choose to used Openshot.org for my portfolio, I hope the decision I made was a great one and I know the research made between the different video editing software's will all be useful.

Editing Project

After learning about editing software and how to use it, I had to make mini editing project to show my understanding and show what I learned about editing, the mini project helped us have experience with editing software's. The software I used for that mini project was "WeVideo" and this is how my project turned out. 

This is the final product of my editing project.

This is all my process into researching and learning about video editing software's. 

Sources: https://www.creativebloq.com/buying-guides/best-software-for-editing-videos-for-youtube

https://www.openshot.org/

https://vimeo.com/create/video-maker-online

https://clipchamp.com/en/blog/clipchamp-teams-beta/

Analyzing Opening Scene

Opening scenes

Opening scenes are a huge part of a movie, they grab the audiences attention into watching the movie. There's different elements and techniques in opening scenes and here's about it.

Key features of an opening scene

Opening scenes consist of features and elements that makes them opening scenes and here are some key features of an opening scene.

• Establishing Setting

Establishing setting, it draws audience in and give them an insight into where the film is set. It gives clues into the plot and narrative of the story while giving context about character and further details about the film.

• Mise-en-scene 

Mise en scene is everything that is captured in a frame is put in the movie for a reason, it is very important in the opening scene. How the character looks and what they wear tells the viewer muchs more about how the movie will be in terms of visuals.

• Character placement

Character placement represents different status and class or the relationship between the characters in the film.

• Representing genre

In representing genre audiences csn tell what sort of film they're about to watch, to find what kind of genre is in a film you can use the conventions for each type of genres.

• Cinematography

Cinematography is how you present the footage because it is an important part of opening scenes. How it appears visually to the audience can tell a lot about the movie. Some films have to be aesthetically pleasing and have a plot and narrative basic that audiences will want to watch.

These are the key features ina opening scene and some details about each one of them.

Purpose and reason of an opening scene

Opening scenes are the first very few shots in a movie which can tell you a lot about the movie before even having the opportunity to watch that movie. Opening scenes gives meanings and narrative to a story, that opening scene can be the reason why you do watch the movie and it can also be the reason why you don't watch the movie. Different opening scenes have a variety of ways to express their narrative and stories, and they are multiple types of opening scenes but here five of them, Prologue, Inciting incident, Day in the life, Cold open or teaser and flash forward. They all have a purpose and reasons for being used in an opening scene. Opening scenes can help you find the genre of the film they'res multiple ways to find that throught genre conventions but sometimes you only need the opening scene to be able to tell what time of genre the film is. Opening scenes are very important in a film and they serve a good purpose for the film and the audience.

Similarities in an opening scene

To show my understanding of opening scenes I will be putting the informations about similarities in an opening scene. The genre that I shoose to make these similarities are, Romance, Comedy, and Horror.

Visual elements

In any opening scenes you do want the scenes and shots to be as visual as it can and to draw you audience into it. In Romance, Comedy, and Horror they all start with shots that would make your eyes wow so you, the audience can want to watch the film based on its visuals.

Auditory elements

Movies consist audio, some movies don't but for most of the movies they do consist od auditory elements. In genres all the audio are different but they also share their similarities. In romance, Comedy, and Horror in the opening seen you should expect music that would set the tone of the movie and put you on a mood to watch it. This is one the similarities between these three genres.

Character developement

I would say they are very much similarities between these three genre, romance, comedy, and horror. By the end of the opening scene in these genre you are likely to find the important characters of the film that will help set up the story and you are most likely to meet your main character and form an connection with them. This is something that these three genres have in common in character developement.

Plot introduction

Introducing the plot is something that usually happens in the opening scene of a movie and it really gives you an idea of what to expect in the movie. Romance, Comedy, and horror has their on way of introducting the plot in their films. They also have ways in common to introduce their plot, it might be by using a prologue, inciting incident, day in the life, cold open, flash forward but these are the common ways that they all can introduce the plot of their story.

Representation

Movies have ways of representing themselves to an audience or a viewer and in these three genres which are romance, comedy, and horror they all represent their films differently but they also do it similarly. They all have to have a great representation because its what audiences are going to look for and it what's going to make the audience want to watch or pay full attention to the film. These three movies have their own similar ways to represent a film.

In all of my researches I learn and studied a lot about opening scenes, I am now able to teach and imform someone else about opening scenes.

Sources: The 5 types of opening scenes: An analysis of 80 films, Main feature of an opening scene, 5 essential types of powerful opening scenes.

Sources

MasterClass. (2021, August 25). What is mise en scène in film? - 2022. MasterClass. Retrieved February 4, 2022, from https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-mise-en-scene-in-film

Top 3 Films

 Top 3 Films

While researching and learning about film's opening we got assigned to pick our 3 top films and talk about their opening scene analyze and learn from them. This is one my assignments for blog and research. I picked 3 top films, which are Mean girls, Like a boss, and Girls trip. Let's learn about their opening scenes.

Mean Girls

https://youtu.be/rekn_T5ZAfw

Summary

 Mean girls was released in April 2004, written by Rosalind Wiseman and directed by Mark Waters. This movie is about a teenage girl who was raised by her scientist parents in Africa who then moved to the suburbs in Illinois. Her name is Cady and when she moved, she got to experience going to public school and all the things that happened outside of her life. By being the new girl she somehow got into the main friend group at school which everyone considerers to be the cool students who were called "The Plastics" Cady begins to pick up everything and realizes how her new friend group are and how they move.

Opening scene

The opening scene of the movies is what grabs audiences attention into watching it and since its the opening scene it is one of the most important scenes in the movie. The opening scene was 4 minutes and 55 seconds long. In the opening scene it gives us some background detail about the main character that could help up get a jump start into the movie. The opening scene then proceeds to go into her first day of school where it seems to be very different for her, where she doesn't make any new friends and gets yelled by her teachers which is something she says had never happened to her. By the end of the opening scene she ends up eating lunch in the bathroom and it continued to where she got home and her parents asked about her day she rushes inside in an upseting mood. This is how the opening scene of mean girls played out.

Connection

The opening scene of mean girls connects to the movie because at first it teaches us about the character and where they've been and what they're doing now which made us up to speed on where the movie will pick up from. At school she seems to be getting it off from the start which is what happens in the movie but she eventually got better. In the opening scene she did not have any friends and had to eat her lunch in the bathroom but in the movie she did make multiple new friends who she could eat her lunch with. The opening scene of mean girls connects to the movie by letting the viewer know about background details and giving expectetions and prediction on how the movie will be.

Like a Boss

https://youtu.be/JgTRe4Lb1Ww

Summary

Like a boss is  2020 comedy film written by Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly and directed by Miguel Arteta. This movie is about two best friends, Mia and Mel who run their own cosmetics company. Their company got to a point where it would be hard for them financially and they are thinking about selling the business. This cosmetics business get the best of them and it puts their lifelong friendship to a sturdy situation. By the end of the movies they eventually got their business back into action and their friendship continued. 

Opening scene

In every movie must come an opening scene to get the audience to want to watch the movie, let's analyze and learn about Like a boss's opening scene. It started off with a picture of a house while someone was talking in the background which is known as a J-cut, the conversation between the two characters continued on the phone which then proceedes to them getting up and going to the same bathroom which might be a surprise to some audiences. They conversation they were having was pretty funny which makes the viewer want to hear more and learn more about what happended in the conversation. The opening scene ended there following some pictures and detailed memories about the two characters. Over all the opening scene of the movie Like a boss lated 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

Connection

In this movies the opening scene gave us two best friends who were having conversations then proceeds to background information about them through memory pictures. This opening scene connects with the movie because it let us know details about the characters and what they do. The opening scene lets us know that they are lifelong friends which in the movie they are and seems to go into details in the movies, they are both business woman who work together the opening scene showed that by editing cosmetics products during the sequence.

Girl's trip

https://youtu.be/LwIqXtivAV0

Summary

Girl's trip, directed by Malcom D. Lee and published in 2017 is about four great lifelong friends who after years grew apart. One of them had a chance for a vacation and planned a trip for all to reunite and instead be a girls trip, they got to catch up and again be friends but something happens during the trip where they all had a huge argument and went their separate ways. They were lifelong friends after all and by the end of the movie their friendship stayed and grew stronger. 

Opening scene

The opening scene of Girls trip, lets analyze it. The scene started with a voiceover then to the characters dancing at an event. The voice over was giving information about the friend group, how they met, what they do and their overall friendship. It gives throwback videos and pictures of their friend group then comes back to the present on what their friend group is doing now and how they all moved on. It gives funny moments of them from the past and them now which makes the audience wanting more of the characters friendships and their personalities. The scene gets to a part after introducing all the characters where it describes how their friendship slowly went away. The opening scene lasted 3 minutes 30 seconds, introducing the characters and giving us some information and details about their past and their present.

Connection

The  plot of the story is how friends can grow apart and reunite to the strongest bond. The opening scene connects to the story because it gives us information on how the friend group was in the beginning and how it slowly started to shift. With the opening scene we now know that the movie is about a friend group who likely will reunited because in the end of the opening scene it describes how one of the characters started missing one other which gives us a prediction that the friend group will be back together.

Compare and Contrast

The three opening scenes have great sequences that would grab audiences attention into watching the movie. I will be comparing and contrasting the different opening scenes in the three movies.

Visual elements

• In mean girls you can tell that the movie is not so new because of the lightning the shots, and the mise-en-scene compared to like a boss and a girls trip that they are new movies and their lightning is much more light and colored.
• They all had different settings, mean girl was mostly in a school, girls trip in a vacation spot and like a boss at a company
• Mean girl has the clothes that would now be considered old and the other two movies have the now fashion look
• Mean girl is a PG 13 movie and like a boss and a girls trip are both r rated but they all are comedy.
• Mean girls opening scene gave us flashbacks and background details on how the movie is about to start.
• Like a boss opening scene made us think that it was all about cosmetics because all the edits in the opening scene were about it.
• A girls trip was about how their friendship was at the beginning, giving us details and information on the characters and to the present on where and what they are now doing.

Auditory elements

• The sounds from mean girl was a voiceover  for the opening scene and little diologues in the scene.
• Like a boss was just conversations between two characters
• A girls trip was one of the main characters who was giving us background information and knowlege.
• They are all different conversations and different sounds.
• They're music were all different from each other since they all mostly had different topics and different sequence.

Character

• In the movies some had one main character and others had multiple
• Mean girls had one main character with three other important characters with her.
• Like a boss had 2 main characters
• A girls trip had multiple
• In mean girls the most important one was the main on because the story was about her and her journey with friends. She seemed to be the most important character since the story was about her.
• Like a boss had 2 characters that were business parters and best friends they were both important to the movies plot and story but I think of them did play a bigger role in the overall movie.
• A girls trip did have multiple characters but one of them was doing the voice over has if she was the one telling us the story so I think she is the important one in the movie.

Representation

• In mean girl it did give the vibe that the new kid usually ends up sad about moving schools and everything seems to go wrong at school for them to usually eat lunch in the bathroom. The stereotype was that the new girls always gets upset or something always goes wrong when their new to a school.
• Like a boss, I didn't get any stereotype vibes because it was just two best friends who happends to know each other for quite some times and who own a business together.
• A girls trip give off the stereotype that even if you guys are firends for a while it always drifts apart because the opening scene had one out of the friend group doing the voice over and giving us details and catching us up about everything that happended to them losing each other.

This is the finish product of my top 3 films and I learned a lot from opening scenes while analying and going into details about these 3 opening scenes.

Film opening

Techniques

This is the start of the 2nd quarter and we are learning and talking about film opening. Opening scenes are sequences meant to grab the readers attention. During class we learned about the different techniques and here some of the different techniques used.

Technique 1- Enter the villain

-This technique is mostly used in action films, when the villain is the first to appear in the opening scene.

Technique 2- Over the hero

-In this technique the main character is usually introduced and the audience can kind of tell the key plot, or meaning from just the opening scene.

Technique 3- Establish relationships

-Establish relationship is usually used in drama and give connections between relationship in the opening scene.

Technique 4- Plot catalyst

-This technique gives a motivational mood and might be they key motivation for the movie.

Technique 5- Follow genre

-By establishing the tone of the opening scene we call this technique follow the genre. You are able to tell the genre or tone of the film by end of opening scene.

Technique 6- Flip genre/Irbid

-In this technique they use, Flashbacks, Flashforward, Dreams, Metaphors, Bookends, Red herrings, MacGuffins.

5 types of opening scenes

We learn that they are different openings scenes and that they all have different purposes, here five types of opening scenes.

1- Prologue

A montage or scene that communicates an important backstory that occurred before the events in the film. They are 2 types of prologue's: prologue montage with voiceover and prologue scene without voiceover.

• Prologue with voiceover

A prologue with voiceover is usually used in fantasy films and dumps a ton of exposition on audience at once.

• Prologue without voiceover

A prologue without voiceover is sometimes a flashback scene that reveals something important from the past, can catch us up with backstory and build sympathy for a character.

2- Inciting incident

An opening scene with an inciting incident sets the story into motion, it could be anything like a weeding, a funeral, or apocalypse. Everything is set up efficiently and is communicated visually. Can be incredibly tense, have elements of mystery and surprise.

3- Day in the life

A day in the life introduces us to the main character, there's two parts in a day in the life and they are exciting day in the life and uneventful day in the life.

• Exciting day in the life

This gives us something exciting to look forward to, they're usually multiple or the main characters in an exciting situation where it will make us viewers think about whether they will die or will they make it out alive.

• Uneventful day in the life

In this opening scene there's always something fresh or unusual about the setting, situation, dialogue, or characters. Establish the tone and genre of the movie and illustrate the overall theme of the film.

4- Cold open/ Teaser

Cold open can also be called a teaser, they are most common in horror movies, crime thrillers, and action flicks. They tend to grab the audience's attention and establish genre elements before the act. It almost never involve the film's main character, an event that has something to do with the story but gives important context.

5- Flashforward

Gives us something happening in the present of the film then goes to the past so the movie can start. Often has a voiceover narration, but not always can also be known as a prologue.

Sources

8 types of opening scenes to make your screenplay stand out. Creative Screenwriting. (n.d.). Retrieved February 4, 2022, from https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/8-types-of-opening-scenes-to-make-your-screenplay-stand-out/

Types of Genre

GENRES

 Over the course of these few weeks we've talked and learned about movie genre and the different type of movies, how they are composed and the means of which it does. Genre indicates certain types of movies that changes overtimes, they are convenient terms that develop informally. There are many different types of genre such as, comedy, romance, drama, action, horror etc. 

 

What is an genre

Within the different genres and type of movies changing over time, we've learned about these types of genres and here's some background about them. 

• Romantic Comedy- Romantic comedy changes over time. Two romantically related characters, and their connection is fostered or tested by the film's shenanigan premises.
• Sci-fi- Dates back to the early 20th century and brings technology advancements in society on how they can be good or bad. Sci-fi is pure predictions.
• Crime-Detective- Investigation of a crime, it goes all the way back to 1600s. Gives audiences the ability to process emotions.
• Comedy- Genre of fiction that was created of works to be humorous and to give laughter. 

While learning about different types of genre I was able to make a PowerPoint, take a look at what I was able to create through my understanding and knowledge of genres.

I now know the differences between other genres and can identify the different types of genres.

Sources

Fear, David. “50 Greatest Romantic Comedies of All Time.” Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2021, https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/50-greatest-romantic-comedies-of-all-time-790068/.

Hellerman, Jason. “Mastering the Comedy Genre in Movies and TV [w/ Examples].” No Film School, No Film School, 21 June 2019, https://nofilmschool.com/comedy-genre-examples-film-and-tv.

Mise-en-Scene

Mise-en-scene

Throughout our learning of media studies we've gain an understanding of mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene is the overall look and feel of a movie, the sum of everything a movies it. It is the most important in all films and has these components that all goes into creating a movie such as, lightning, composition, designs, kinesis, costumes, settings, etc. Mise-en-scene means literally staging or putting on an action. It's mostly used to help describe the aspects that goes into cinematography and the designs of a film. Mise-en-scene is the a whole when it comes to creating a movie.

Mise-en-scene itself

Mise-en-scene is a French word and it literally means "staging or putting on an action or scene" It affects how we feel and think of the characters in the story. Mise-en-scene allows us the viewer to experience some type of time and place, it contains two major visual components that are design and composition. Let's look at the research I've made based on these to major visual components.

 

-Design: The process by which the setting is determined. Design is the look of the setting, props, lightning, and actors which are the main components of design. Design helps express a movie's vision and create a convincing sense of time, space, and mood. In design there's someone that specifically does it and its called a movie designer.

        *A movie designer is is both an artist and an execute, it is responsible for all designs that has to go into a movie. The are mostly in charge of costumes, makeups, art, hairstyles, clothing's, etc.

-Composition: The organization, distribution, balance, and general relationship of actors, and object. It is part of the process of visualizing, and planning the look of a movie. As a filmmaker visualize and plan each shot they must remember these two aspects of compositions, framing, and kinesis.

        *Framing is what we see on the screen.

        * Kinesis is what moves on the screen.

Application

With the information I've learned from mise-en-scene, I was able to create mini photography project for my media studies class. For my mini photography project, I used the components that went into mise-en-scene, for example the props that I used, the lightnings, the shots they were all able to connect through mise-en-scene to create my setting. 

Reflect

After all, I've learn three new things from mise-en-scene, already knew two things fromit  and now left with one question. I've learned that Mise-en-scene is needed in all types of film, that it is the most important in films, and that it contains two major visual components. I knew mise-en-scene was a French word but now, I also knew that it affected how audiences think about characters and the story. Now I'm left with the question, "What is the terms of having a established movie through mise-en-scene?"

Sources

StudioBinder, et al. “Mise-En-Scene and the Directors the Mastered It.” StudioBinder, 1 Feb. 2021, https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/mise-en-scen.

Film Chapter 5 Flashcards | Quizlet. https://quizlet.com/517482895/film-chapter-5-flash-cards/.

Filmdaft.com, https://filmdaft.com/mise-en-scene-explained-an-illustrated-guide/. 

Cinematography

While learning about media studies, I've learned that all movies are a motion of picture composed with techniques and concepts connecting us to stories, in other words, I learned about cinematography. All movies contains motion of pictures that uses different types of shots, angles, and movements to create a certain scene. When I learned about cinematography I was be able to understand the movies that pervade our world.

What is cinematography?

Cinematography involves techniques that compose multiple different scenes, to create a movie. It comprise all-on screen visual elements and you will find that they're are different things that go through it. shots, angles, and movements.

-Shots- Unbroken span of action captured by an uninterrupted run of motion picture camera. They're are multiple different shot types which are defined by how close the camera is to the subject that's being filmed. Camera shots are based on what they are trying to show the viewers. There are over many different types of camera shots: Close-up, Medium shot, full shot, extreme wide-out, mid-shot etc.

-Angles- The specific location where the movie camera or video is placed to take a shot. Scenes can be shot from variety of angles instantly to get the exact shot wanted. They are the different places the shots are taken, and how the shots are taken. Some different type of shots are, eye level shot, low angle shot, high angle shot, ground level shot, etc.

-Movements- The way a camera shifts to visually narrate and shape a viewer's perspective of a scene. Movements happens when the camera moves and the way it moves, if the camera moves up and down the movement will be vertical and if the camera moves left to right the movements will be horizontal. Here are some examples of camera movements, zoom, tilt, dolly, truck, pan etc.

Understanding

From what I've learn from cinematography I was able to identify shot types and angles.

Reflect

I am now able to identify the different types of shots in a film and determine how they are created

Source

“Film.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://www.britannica.com/art/motion-picture.

MasterClass. “Film 101: What Is Cinematography and What Does a Cinematographer Do? - 2022.” MasterClass, MasterClass, 1 Oct. 2021, https://www.masterclass.com/articles/film-101-what-is-cinematography-and-what-does-a-cinematographer-do.

Filmmaking 101: Camera Shot Types | B&H Explora. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/video/tips-and-solutions/filmmaking-101-camera-shot-types.