AICE MEDIA STUDIES DS - 1

Here's my CCR 🦅 hope you enjoy !

  1.  How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?  My product challenges conventions due to the genre alone. Psychological thrillers  (which is the genre of my product) challenges the conventional narrative due to it subverting the audiences expectations. It contains misdirections and plots twists which create a sense of uncertainty and ambiguity.  While most genres are clear with traditional conventions such as humor, to make you laugh. And Horror to make you scared, my product explores complex psychological themes conveyed through trauma and memory loss. To break it down: Our film is overall about a young hispanic girl who was kidnapped at a young age, and put into an 80's sitcom production without any remembrance of her previous life.  80s sitcoms usually consist of a generic white family whereas in our film we included a very diverse cas...

As seen in the last blog, I was able to apply the same preset applied to the image throughout the whole film to match colors of the takes. Now it was time to add the music. We had already established what song we were going to use during the running scene of the film and the jingle we we re going to put int the beginning but we still had a lot of grey areas full of dry silence. Our director came up with the notion to accentuate the more emotional scenes in the film introduction by using unique audio cues when it crescendos, but even so, there was still something missing. When the diegetic title appeared, there was a brief moment of silence which had to be filled.  The beginning was supposed to sound like a production set, but as we searched for audios, we couldn't find any that fit our idea. Therefore we made the decision to record our own sounds. In order to insert it in the first empty area at the beginning, I recorded a voice memo of the director and cinematographer discussing t...

 In the final stages of editing, my team decided to get on a FaceTime call and check in to see how its going and help out with minor fixes. One of these fixes being color correcting. As we filmed our introduction, we tried our best to keep lighting consistent, but as time fluctuates and we moved around the house, the lighting had been thrown off. Certain clips had different shades and undertones than others so this was where I had to go in and color grade. Color Grading is the modifying the appearance of an image to be presented in various settings on various devices.  Me being slightly new to color grading, had to learn how to properly use it by trial and error. I soon learned how to properly maneuver the grey, white and black shades to color correct the image and then adjusted the warmness of it due to my team wanting to give it an old sitcom look. Example: After trying to replicate the look provided, this was the end product..... Before After I did pretty well if I do ...

 Before spring break, our teacher had told us to try and think of a production studio name and our class came up with the name CoCo Studios. With this being in the air, as I was editing and in need of a way to input time into our film, I considered the idea of adding a program introduction. This idea stemmed from Netflix, MARVEL and Pixar which are known for their famous programming introductions.  Netflix Introduction: Pixar Introduction: MARVEL INTRODUCTION: After studying how they infamously did their logo animations, the ones that had the most influence on our film was Netflix and Marvel.  Netflix had a short introduction which was necessary for our film due to us being a few seconds from the 2 minute benchmark. Marvel was influential due to the various glitches in it which correlated with my films niche. As a result, I took these different film introductions and made my own with their influence. This was the product... Throughout pre-production to the post production...

 After editing what supposed to be the end of our film we ended up having over 20 seconds left over before hitting the 2 minute mark. This put us in a crisis where we thought we didn't film enough footage but as editor I had to go back through what we had and find a way to improvise.  As I began my search, I found many clips we shot that wouldn't fit into the ✨master piece ✨ of a film I created. This left us with only B roll left to select from. So that's what we used. We wanted to create a sense of an empty set due to the characters being seen leaving the scenes trying to catch the main character. So that is what we did. The shots that fit were clips of the couch, the monopoly game, the old door, and even a vibrant wall picture (which was randomly selected because it looked cool). Wall Picture:  After doing this and adding a timecode, which follows the one of the alternative themes of time, we were able to get 1 minute and 58 seconds which wasn't good enough for us so ...