AICE Media Studies

 It was me and Riana’s final day of filming. We both reviewed the film at home earlier and came ready to talk about what we wanted to change. Before coming I saw all of the footage we have created. I realized I didn’t like how the “slamming door scene” looked. Knowing that I only sent that footage to her and we started finishing the last few scenes. We had a few more scenes and little clips to film. This last day out of 5 was the fastest because of how little we had left. We had a problem filming the scenes with the “drugs or pills”. We didn’t know what to use for the pills and the pill bottles. We didn’t have any of those orange ones that most people have. So we decided to just have the actor taking the pills. (Later that day we find a pill bottle and incorporate it in to the film). After finishing filming we finally discussed what we thought we should change. She agreed with me and we ended up changing the way the door slammed. As we seem to be done filming. We start playing arou...

 It’s around day 10 of editing. The reason I don’t know the dates is because me and Riana would edit here and there. We will do little clips whenever we have free time. Over the course of these past few days, I have definitely gotten better. More specifically, I enjoyed editing the brighter scenes better. It’s easier and I can accomplish more faster. I enjoyed learning how to edit the music in as well. This was different then just making cuts on iMovie. The music was fun to tie in to specific scenes. We played around with how we wanted it to sound and look on camera. We had some differences about how we wanted the music to go in. In the end we made a collective decision about the music. I would say the hardest scenes to edit were the fast ones. For example, the dad and daughter have a fight where they are screaming. It was very fast paced, so it made the editing have to be more precise. I also thought editing the daughter stealing from the dad scenes were cool. We used cool angles ...

 Finally we started editing the music video! It feels really good to have most of the footage complete. We maybe will decide to re-shoot some things based on how they look. Me and Riana are not editors at all. The most editing experience I have is from this year. My past partners took over in this area so I know I have a challenge ahead of me. Me and Riana both have Macbook computers so we can easily send clips to each other and use the same editing software. We decided to use iMovie to edit. We know it’s not the best editing software but we hope it will make our project still look good! As we start to notice as we edit, we have envisioned a fast editing style. This includes jump cuts and moving from shot to shot. This was hard for us and we didn’t realize how many edits we would have to do. We saw this as a challenge though. As we are editing the slower scenes we really get the hang of it. We decide to finish the first scene tonight, because it took us so long. Overall for this da...

 Today I went over location of the shoot. I knew majority of the film would be shot in different places of my house. For scenes where the father is not in his daughters room, I wanted to figure out the best location. I walked around my house considering suitable settings. My mother has rather "glamours" taste, and loves to make the house look nice. This in mind, I had to be sure there were places I could take shots that wouldn't portray any sort of lavish scenery. In the scene where the father is passed out in his chair, I had a vision of a big, brown reclining arm chair. However, I do not own any type of chairs like this, just rolling office chairs. Instead, I figured I could use the end of our brown couch. My tv in room is rather plain at the moment, and has brown walls, so it seemed fitting. I tried out different lighting to see what would fit the mood best. I found that nigh time with the back kitchen light on gave just the right look. Further, while I initially thoug...

Day two of filming! We meet at Riana’s house again after a week or so. I came more in the afternoon. We decided to try to film more of our day time scenes this time. So far we have filmed in order! We are going to try to see if we can continue to film in order to keep things easy. We start by filming scene 4. The girl is getting ready for school and sees her father still up from the last night. We have our actor sit on the couch with empty beer bottles. We also have him dress in similar clothing to the last scenes. At this point we are filming a confrontation between the daughter and the father. We are wondering how we can show the conversation between them and make it make sense with the music still playing. This is something we decided to figure out when we edit. The next few scenes are pretty similar in location and costume and time. We knocked out these few scenes pretty quick. One of these next scenes we have the dad storming out of the door. He has to slam the door and we want to...

Day one of filming! Me and Riana have never done a project before together, so we are excited. We knew beforehand we would mostly film at her house and around the area. We needed everyday backgrounds for the scenes, like the kitchen, living room, ext. Once we got there we set up our story boards and our notes for each scene, they really helped. The first scene was the Father screaming at the child also the actor for the first few scenes has to look younger or be going because the daughter is young in the script. We tried to film more near night time or at night time. This only gave as an alloyed period we could film. Our actor for the father wore dirty clothes and looked beat up. We start filming from far away and move in. We also want to muffle the sound here so it’s not harsh on the film. Once we filmed the dad screaming and filmed the area around to introduce the setting, we moved to the next scenes. We had the younger actor holding a stuffed animal and crying in their room. We had ...

  SCENES 1-3 ON SCIRPT Box1-   Father shouting at his child(6 year old girl), too drunk, cursing. Dark lighting, heavy clothes/dirty, harsh dialogue, wide shot Setting: Kitchen Box2- Little girl is crying, holding her stuffed animals Dark lightening, fade in, zoom shots(slow),  Setting; Young girls' room' Box3- Dark silhouettes of both characters(showing growth) More dark lighting, heavy clothes, adding dramatic effect Time is passing Setting; Unknown dark room Box4- Father is very drunk, throws beer at daughter School clothes, dad in dirty clothes, beer bottles Setting: Kitchen Box5- Dad watching TV, nearly blacked out, ignoring daughter Daughter is calling for dad, dark lighting, somber music, school clothes Setting: Living room/Kitchen Box6- Continued from 5, father storms out, leaving daughter alone, screaming Jump cuts, fast editing style, bright lighting(contrast from scenes before) Setting: Outside, front door SCENES 4-5  Box7- Father I screaming at daugh...

 Working Title: The film name is likely to be "Bad Habits". It will be in edgy writing,  SOMETHING LIKE THIS.  The writing will most likely be  capitalization. It could also be some capital letters and some lowercase. For example something like this. (Just showing the style and size of letters) I want to make the title come up and look  staticky almost. I want to use a light background with dark words or vise versa. When the main title comes up it should be bold and make a statement because the film is very deep. I think the main ideal color for the title card font should be black. All the of the title scenes will be inputted in like slamming into the screen. The main title will stay for 5 seconds. However the other titles in the the title sequence will be 2-3 seconds. The credits or the other titles will be smaller than the main title.The background of the opening credits will be just a video going through a low-income town. The credits will appear in the corne...

  schedule 3/19 - we will begin filming all the shots that require the dad, scenes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. 3/20 - we will film the scene where the main character begins to fall into her drug addiction, scenes 7, 8, 9 location The location of our video will take place in my house, primarily my bedroom. There will also be a shot in the alley behind it. participants Wren health&safety Fake drugs backup plan wrens house

 *Voice over of girl narrating plays through scenes 1-4*  Scene 1: Dark lighting, only black silhouette of characters, long shot Father: *incoherent shouting* Girl: *Muffled cries* holds stuffed animals and covers her cried in room behind door Voice over:  Scene 2: Dark lighting, only black silhouette of characters, long shot Few years later (around 10years old) In drunk fit, father throws beer bottle at child Voice over:  Scene 3: Dark lighting, only black silhouette of characters, long shot Father: Ignores child watching tv, drinking beer. Father looses it and storms out Scene 4: Father: *screaming at girl Girl: *screaming back* Scene 5: Father: *passed out on chair, pills and alcohol surrounding him* Girl stealing money and pills from dad Girl: taking pills, drinking smoking Scene 6: Medium shot, girl looking in mirror, holding pill, thinking to herself... Girl: "We always say we're going to be the ones to break the cycle, to change, to be better" Girl:"...but wha...

  What titles are displayed during the opening sequences? American Zoetropes presents, a muse production, and in association with eternity pictures is showed first. The title of the movie was presented more in the middle. What images are prioritized in the opening sequences? The first prioritized images are those of the neighborhood that the story takes place, views of neighbors walking their dogs and watering their lawns. They are all very serene images in a basic sunny setting. Then it goes into the bathroom where Cecilia had an attempt, and the ambulance come to save her.  What connotations do these images carry? The images carry an unsuspecting connotation. They show the dark or hidden side of a seemingly normal, happy neighborhood and family. Many people may think nothing goes on in their normal suburban town, but there are always dark sides and hidden truths. It is a rather mundane connotation to it at first, but turns more interesting. How does the film establish a feel...

1.  How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?  Which ones? There is around 30 title cards. Starting with the film company and the production company. Then it states the main title, "The Poker Club." Then it dives in to all of the cast, unusually going in alphabetical order. Once the cast list is over, it goes more into the background help of the film. Then finally saying the director and the novel it was based on. 2.  What connotations do the images carry?  ( how  do you they make you feel) The imaging is very detailed and graphic. It is different playing cards and the symbols floating around the words. The graphic details of the playing cards give the film a good quality and it makes me feel like the film is worth it to watch. The images also go through diffferent symbols and cards making me feel like I'm almost on a journey.  3.  How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?  (Can you...

1.  How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?  Which ones? Twister only had 4 title cards. These included two being the production company (Warner Bros) and the specific production. The last title was the main film name, Twister. The last title card, the main name, appeared with each letter, not all at once. This is a cool editing style that went along with the background.  2.  What connotations do the images carry?  ( how  do you they make you feel) The images make me feel a little scared. The also give the film a lot of suspense. The images weren't extremely descriptive towards the eye. It was wind/sand blowing around like a tornado. The words were put in place in front of the blowing winds. They overall make the movie more scarier and seem like it will have a good plot. 3.  How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?  (Can you tell what genre the film is) You can tell the film will...