Media Studies 2025

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      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

  This week, I edited for about 1 additional hour than we had previously. Once again, Emily and I are the editors for this film. I decided to play with the title font appearance and fix the transitions. The font was still kept to BebasNeue and I made the letters have a more contrast shadow to show more boldness and blend into the background. I also added a title effect of the letters of "missing" popping/glitching out one by one to create a suspenseful non-boring way to introduce the title. I used video effects of Blur close to blur out the background slowly and a black fade transition to fade out of the title. These worked together really nicely to make it smooth. For a later clip in our opening scene, we used the vignette video effect and lowered the opacity. This was used to create the illusion that someone was stalking us in the woods and set a creepy tone for the audience.  It was as if it was an eye point of view and we used audio effects of eerie music to cover that sp...

  We decided to use the title "missing" because it is a simple and meaningful. The title already hints to the viewers that something is going to happen or go "missing." The font of the title is BebasNeue and we chose this because it gives a bold expression that is typically used in suspense films. We used a blur motion video effect for the title sequence. There were some issues with adding the effect onto the whole frame of the particular clip so I have to figure out how to fix it to look realistic. We did add some audio effects of tree rattling so it could sound more projected in our film, to let the audience know what was catching our attention.  Some problems that were encountered were integrating the clips together and making the transitions smooth. There were some clips that did not match well with the corresponding one due to the lighting or sound quality, so we had to re-film them. When editing, I had difficulties with the title transitions. I imagined it to ...

 My group and I began filming two weeks ago and have had 2 sessions of filming so far. We know which locations we wanted to film in to display our settings and we had to figure out the days and exact times we would go out to film to make sure the lighting was what we wanted in the film. We went to Wolf Lake park to give the impression that we were in the woods and started filming at 4:30pm. The pictures show a huge contrast in light because the sun came down quickly, cutting our film time short.  The second time around we filmed at 4:00pm to give us that extra time before it got dark. We were more prepared and that made us work more effectively.  These pictures show me filming the clip of our group walking in the woods and another point of view of a stalker with the help of our friend. I am recording a tracking shot following the movement of the characters as they walk, while the stalker takes footage behind the trees, making, him look hidden so the group of friends don't...

 My team and I have already been out to film twice for our opening film and there were many setbacks. We decided to film in the afternoon, since that's when we were all available but, it was daylight's saving and the sun went down quicker. We underestimated how much time it would take the first time. There was not much planning done prior, since we thought there were not that many lines to go over. We spent over ten tries attempting to do the very first clip, because although we had the scene written out, it was a different experience in real life and some of our teammates had a hard time with adjusting. The second time we went to film, the lesson was learned that we needed to go earlier and have a plan. So, we spent time going through clips and we had to re-film almost half of the clips because of the high contrast in lighting.  I was the one filming while Emily, Nestor, and Leon were acting for the clips. Although we were more prepared the second time around, there were ther...

                                        The costumes of the friend group will include casual clothing like leggings, t-shirts, jeans, joggers etc. They are wearing this type of clothes to make it look authentic and to look within the 15-18 age group of teenagers. Also the outfits we chose are going to allow us to maneuver easily through the locations that we set like the woods and the abandoned house. The hairstyles are not set to be in any specific way, the characters can wear it however they normally wear it to film. The costume of the police officer would be some cargo pants and boots that show the lower part of his body so the audience can tell the difference in characters and see who has authority. This will be shown in the very beginning of the opening scene before the friends know that their friend is missing. The props that will be used include flashlights, a locket, and the timbe...

  actors The actors in our opening scene are Emily, Nestor, Leon, and me. Leon starts as playing the officer in the first scene to break the news of their friends missing. Then, Nestor, Emily, and Leon will play the friends of the missing person and I play the person missing. costumes The costumes will be pretty casual, as in high school clothes. The police officer is going to wear Timberland shoes, and the friend group is going to wear civilian clothing, that teenagers would usually wear. props The Tim shoes are a prop used to make it appear as if we have an officer in our film. They can create a sense of authority to our audience to heighten the suspense. There is also a locket the friends find in the woods that hold special meaning to the missing friend. I purchased the locket through Amazon and it was pretty affordable. locations There is going to be two different settings where we will be filming at. The woods is the first place where the scene of the disappearance begins, it....

  This is a mood board to represent what our film is going to look like. Our genre is mysterious as it depicts a mission that a group of friends going to find their missing friend. It shows the setting of the woods the high schoolers go through to look for their missing friend. The pictures show a mysterious vibe as to where the friend went. The costumes are casual as they dress like regular but there are cargos and Tim's shoes to show the officer costume.  The police are convinced that the friend is gone but, the friends believe otherwise.

Video #1:  Dare to Thrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=nYpjHCwRO6Q(Links to an external site.) The film started by showing a master shot with all the characters going up the stairs. The wordings on the screen saying the characters names and title emulate how movies usually write the words on the screen at the beginning. The film opening uses many focusing shots that pull the audience's attention. For example, focus pulls are used to show the characters and the vehicle. These would be helpful in our own opening and can direct the attention of the audience. It also includes insert clips in chronological order of them getting into the car, the car starting up, plugging in the phone into aux, and amping up the volume to create a dramatic effect of going on a thrill ride. Trucking shots follow the car around as the group of friends swerve and speed around the parking lot and highway. I can take away from this film the different movements and composition in place, ...

Below is the storyboard for our film opening. The group members include me, Leon, Nestor, and Emily.  

  Genre:  Thriller/Mystery  Group members:  Anabel L-  Editor/ scriptwriter/actor  Leon S- actor/ cameraman Nestor N - actor, scriptwriters  Emily  M- Editor/ scriptwriter/ actor location: An abandoned building( location may vary)

      In the extract from Agent Carter, the technical elements come together to shed light on women inequality. After recently losing her husband, Peggy Carter starts her new job as an agent, where she is the only female. She has to wear a suit, to dress up like the rest of the men in the office and reduces the make up.  The film shows an establishing shot of "the city where she resided in after the loss. Carter answers to her boss, Agent Flynn, who has been giving her loads of desk tasks.      Agent Flynn receives a phone call and it is depicted through an extreme-closeup , of him answering it. The element gives a sense of anticipation to the rest of the office and the audience of who is getting chosen for the next mission. The voice over the phone said the mission called for two agents and once the call was over, there is a dolly shot of Agent Flynn walling through the office, evaluating his next choice. The scene is set up to where the audienc...