Media Studies 2025

      In the new day and age of modern film, cross synergy holds a crucial role in making successful  movies and reaching target audiences across different platforms. With utilizing marketing tactics through advertisements, social media, campaigns, and movie premieres, production companies can quickly multiply their viewers to produce more revenue than with the newly released movie alone.       A great example of this is with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, an American film production company. This company was founded in 1923 by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney. The brothers started off with creating short films of their first character Mickey Mouse and eventually went up to making full-sized animations. They changed the family owned business to Walt Disney Productions soon after. Today, they have expanded to a much bigger, successful company, that have reached billions of people globally.      The movie Mufasa: The Lion King, sho...

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 For our title sequence, we chose the name biggie productions because it is something we all agreed on and it was centered around us having a similar fond for food. The color ways were worked on from the template being from Canva and we just decided those three colors for a type of logo appearance. The NEAL presenting company was made from taking the first letter of each of our names to signify that we all played an important role in making this opening film. We added the white color to keep it neutral and seem mysterious. The bold font of bebasnueve is used for the suspense and thriller of the film and the actual title of missing has the blur transition effect to make it feel secluded and add on to the eerie vibe. The credits are featured in the beginning of the film and in the middle to show when the characters are featured and acknowledge the music and roles of different people.

Review 1:    " In this film, what I enjoyed most was the camera movements. The use of handheld and dolly made you feel as if you were part of their adventure. The tilt up to a fade in to black was a perfect transition. Also using the blurry forest for the title was clever. The dialogue is good as well.   What elements I did not like in the film was the lighting. There was a sudden change in natural lighting from day/evening to night that makes no sense as there seems to be no skip in time. The film also lacked background sound that could have been used to add mystery or suspense. The film was quiet with only footsteps and dialogue generally being heard.   This was definitely an opening scene. The scene leaves you wondering what creature was hiding behind the tree and what happened to her friend. It keeps the viewer hooked, wanting to know what happens next as they end abruptly after finding a clue. It makes it feel like the adventure just started.   The onl...

Group 1: Mind Gaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEkDC6U4KYU What specific technical elements of the film opening did you like?  I saw a lot of extreme close ups of Angelina and certain parts of her body to emphasize her nervous behavior which I liked. There was one the camera was focused on her hand while she was picking at her nail and another where she was fidgeting her foot. Before she began telling the doctor her routine,  There was a dutch shot inserted that may have been to set a smooth transition. The therapist had some clips where they zoomed in on him to show his confusion on what the patient was telling him. I also noticed some cross cutting elements where the clip of what the patient said happened appeared and it jumped to the clip that actually happened which was really cool. What specific technical elements of the film opening did you dislike? Well I didn't necessarily dislike any elements. But it took me a moment to understand the meaning behind the cross...

Hey blog, this is the URL to our first draft of our opening film. It is still incomplete but we are working to get it to 2 minutes. We also have to review some transitions and add effects, which we will do after our last film session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=vAW-q6FRgtA&themeRefresh=1