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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a32ziQRnW18

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1: If we were to independently distribute our film, we would take it to a film festival like the Naples International Film Festival because it is very close to our homes which would reduce our cost.
2: The title of our film is "Conflicted". This title works because it helps portray the conflicted feelings our protagonist gets when she receives the text message. I don't think that our title needs any work as it very well summarizes the emotions felt in the film, and is a short and sweet title.
3: When a teenage girl is faced with conflicting signs and has to decide where she's going on this emotional rollercoaster.
4: Our age range for this film is female young adults who enjoy spending their time scrolling through Instagram and texting their boyfriends. Typically they'll either still be in high school or college, so they will be spending much of their time studying. Makeup and social media will take up much of their time. They also likely enjoy reading romance novels, which are similar to our movie. These types of people typically enjoy fast food, and like shopping for clothing and other appearance based items.
5: There are many places that we could advertise our movie, including: On Instagram marketplace, because people love shopping there, on Tik Tok ads, because people love scrolling for hours on end, on any online store, because our audience loves shopping, on facebook groups dedicated to romance novels, because our audience could be there trying to find new reads, on reddit pages, because our audience might be looking for different communities to join, or on google, which will allow our movie to come up first when you search for romance movies. You could also advertise in person, like on a billboard so that it can be seen by many people, at screenings of romance movies, so that we can show it to people who are already interested in romance, at a film festival, which will allow us to reach many critiques, or with creative movie posters, which can be hung up and seen at various popular romantic locations.
6: We will get our audience engaged with our content by giving them a memorable advertisement. We will put on a dramatic, suspenseful show that will leave the audience in wonder of what will happen next. We will also repeatedly advertise to people to help drill the image of our film into their heads.
7: One thing most CLIO award winning films have are vibrant colors, with imagery that quickly captures your eye. We could use this to our advantage, especially with the color red, which is commonly associated with romance, and is very often used in romantic films. The indication of color and vibrance helps the audience deduce that the story will be heavy in emotion and romance. Our poster will include a picture of our main actor, and will include red, pink, and white splashes to indicate the affectionate tone of the film. We will also include cursive text to hint at handwritten love letters, which is very romantic.

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In our film production group, I am the producer. As the producer, it is my job to ensure that we have everything set up for shooting. We plan on beginning our film on February 18th at 5:30 at Emmaly's house to shoot the beginning scenes. Our cast will be Brielle as the mother, Taylor as the girlfriend, and me as the boyfriend. We will only be needing a phone and a school bag for the props, which we will both be getting from Emmaly. As for outfits, we will be able to wear our regular clothing, and makeup will not be necessary. We will be playing light, low tempo music at the beginning of our film to portray a nervous tone. I plan on having the film being set in Emmaly's room, with lots of natural lighting, where we will be able to get plenty of different angles of Taylor being stressed.

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In the first two minutes of Where the Crawdads Sing, the movie starts off with a solid 30 seconds of credits, before it switches to a view of a marsh. In this marsh, there are beautiful birds and creatures flying around and enjoying their habitat, while the narrator explains what we're seeing. This movie is a mystery, and it appeals to young adults through its compelling narrative.

The film starts with a black background, where the companies logos fade into view. The screen then turns to light, and we see the Columbia Productions intro with the angel holding the torch, followed by darkness again. After more logos, the screen fades into a beautiful view of the water. The logos are set in a black background with white text. The camera then shows the nature around the area, and the animals who live in the beautiful marsh. The camera moves around, zooming in on certain features that are distinct in order to intrigue the audience. A calm, relaxing song is playing in the background while a narrator poetically describes what is happening in the video. The first 2 minutes made me feel very at peace, and provided me with lots of information on the environment. The editing was very basic but in a simplistic way, focusing on certain aspects of nature. The first 2 minutes adhered to conventions by giving us a mysterious sort of scene, which prepares us for the movie to come. This scene broke conventions by providing us with lots of poetic language, which isn't typical for movies. This movie helps represent nature, animals, and mystery. I think that they distributed the movie very well, simply because it was already such a popular novel, which made it easy to market.

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Section 1: During November and December, we learned editing, sound, and screenwriting/screenplay format. We watched a documentary on film editing, cinema sound, as well as a video color. We also read the Incredibles script, wrote a 2 minute horror script, and learned how to format screenplays using special software.

Section 2: The requirements we had for our midterm film were one to two minutes of film, horror or horror hybrid, an "opening" rather than a finished film product with minimal dialogue, no wall-to-wall music, no long takes, start in black with company ident and/or logo and title, minimum of three crosscuts between actor and nightmare; edited/shot/uploaded by student, accompanying blog post. The film also must include one close up, one dutch angle, one high or low angle, one low key light set up or one silhouette, one pan or tilt or track/push or spinaround, one zoom or dolly zoom, one subliminal cut or multitake or smash cut, one match cut, one  J cut or L cut, one use of slow or fast motion, one intentional use of color for story/emotion, one instance of intentional use of costume/hair/makeup; one instance of visual complexity in setting choice, three sound effects, one piece of incidental music or one sound motif repeated three times.

Section 3: I adhered to horror conventions by providing a scary experience for the audience, and a conventional plot of someone stalking you. My film fulfills audiences expectations by giving a classic horror experience. My film managed to break expectations by using lots of first person shots, which aren’t typically seen in films, and I broke film code by having diverse sound effects. My film represents people with the fear of being watched/followed.

Section 4: I successfully used sound effects to portray action and suspense in my film, like when I used footsteps as the stalker moved towards the victim. My piece was less successful in plot, as it was sometimes unsure as to what was happening, like how my character goes from being choked to walking out of the building unphased. I used snapchat to create my title screen, Imovies to edit the clips together and insert the sound effects, and albums to cut my clips shorter. I learned a lot about editing, because I had no prior experience in this field.

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This week we spent out time creating and presenting different genre presentations. These genres included romance, drama, biopics, thrillers, B movies, animation, musicals, horror, Indi films, super heroes, comedies, sports, family, film noir, mystery, historical, western, war, adventure, sci-fi, young adult, crime, fantasy, documentaries, and Shakespeare. We analyzed each genre,  looking for their codes, conventions, and audience expectation. Codes include cinematic elements such as lighting, camera work, editing, and special effects. conventions are stories, characters, settings, iconography, and values. Audience expectations are the audiences expected emotions while watching a film.

Our first film was young adult themed. We had a bullying theme that is relatable to the youth, and we broke code by having the person who stood up to the bully be beaten in a fight. We then proceeded to have the victim stand up for himself, which conforms to audience expectation. Our setting was in a school building, which is quite common for bullying scenarios. Our second film was drama themed. We conformed to audience expectations by having our main character be struggling mentally, before going to her friends and a therapist for help. We broke some drama codes by implementing humor in the name of the therapist, Mr. Exitsign, which catches the audience off guard. We also used lots of sad music in order to really convey the sad, dramatic tone of the film.

My favorite genre is comedy. My group could make a story about a man who is afraid of everything, and his friends must help him conquer his fears. Our film could begin with an establishing shot at our school, and we could create a title card with all of the actors. We'd have the main character begin by walking down the hallway, where he is then startled by his friend who comes up behind him to say hello. After he jumps, his friend realizes that they need to help him get over his fear of everything, so his friends begin plotting on how to help him. They eventually come up with a plan to have him face his fears, so they trick him into a dark room and scare him with different funny objects, shadows, and noises. Once he comes out of the room and the friends reveal themselves, they all have a good laugh, and the main character realizes life isn't so scary after all. I would like to try to upend lighting. It is typical for a comedy to have bright lighting to convey a light, funny environment, but I want to introduce dark tones to help induce the main characters fear of everything. As time goes on, I want the lighting to brighten up to show his release of these fears. I want to explore setting, like the school environment, and editing, like making regular things seem sudden and scary.

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For this assignment, we had the task of remaking another group's movie with the goal of improving it by adding new shots that we learned over the course of the week. The original plot of the film was that a girl was depressed over her parents fighting with each other, and her later seeing a therapist and feeling better about herself. For our remake, we chose to keep what the main character was upset about mysterious, but many of the plot points remained unchanged. The 10 shots that we used for our film was a long-take, low-angle shot, high-angle shot, manipulation of color, track-in, track left, track right, track-out, zoom-out, and a close-up shot. My role in the film was as a background character, and I helped film a few scenes. I did my part well, which essentially involved sitting there in the background. I also helped with a tracking shot on Andrew near the end of the film.

Criticism that we received on our remake is that the editing needed more work. During one of the last scenes of the film, you can hear the director of the scene saying "action" before the take started. Another scene that could've used more work is the final scene that involved the majority of the actors present skipping happily. During it, another person who wasn't involved in the movie could be seen just to the left of the screen. Another criticism that our film faced is that keeping the main character's reason for being upset ambiguous wasn't really a strong narrative decision. I thought the element of mystery would've worked well in a short film, but the original had a deeper narrative because it played off the idea of her grief being from her parents divorcing, compared to my film, in which the plot can be confusing because you don't really know or understand why the main character needed help. Three shots that I thought worked well in the film were the second scene's long take, because it added depth to the film and gave an idea of what the school area was liked. The over the shoulder shots between Andrew and Shaden in the first scene also were strong because the shots had depth to them and a good focus on each of the actor's faces. Finally, the change of color to black and white after the long take greatly added to the idea of how deeply saddened Andrew was by the news he just received.

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This video is my groups first project of the year. The sound quality is good, and the sound effects really add to the piece. I like how the sound effects match with the video, and are placed with good timing. The music choice was also excellent as it really made the bully seem like a real threat. The fight scenes were also well put together, and looked relatively real.

This piece was good, but there were still many areas to improve in. Our camera angles could be much better, as sometimes our faces are not fully in shot, making it seem less engaging to the audience. The video was quite short, despite containing the required 3 scenes. Another issue I found with our film was the unprompted action, such as when Juan Carlo turned around to see the bully despite having no indication of the bully being there. Despite these faults, I still enjoyed making this film, and I think it was a good learning experience for our group.