The genre of my group's first film would be drama. Most dramas are known to deal with social issues. Our first film dealt with bullying and friendship in high school. We conformed to conventions in drama films by adding the characters you would mainly see. The bullies, the bullied, and the friend. We stuck to a pretty simple story. The girl gets bullied, and the friend tries to help. I think we broke conventions by having the friend also be friends with the bullies. Also, them all becoming friends at the end is different from what you would normally see. Since this was our first film, the camera work wasn’t all that great. There were many two shots, medium shots, three shots, track in, track out, pan left, pan right, and several more. One scene that broke codes is when the bullies and the bullied were sitting at a table and a pole was in the middle of the shot. When talking about audience expectations, I honestly don’t think the audience was expecting any of it. From the laughing to the fighting and skipping scene, I think people were overall confused. The genre for the second film is drama. Just like the first film, this one also deals with bullying. In terms of conventions, we stuck to a very basic story and characters. The bully bullies a girl, the girl figures out something is happening in the bully’s life, and then they become friends. Like every other film about bullying, we gave the bully a reason why she was mean, instead of just making her mean. Our camera work improved for this film. We included a high-angle shot, more two shots, an over-the-shoulder, pan left and right, a three-shot, tracking shots, and an attempted POV shot. Even with improving our camera work, we did end up breaking the 180 rule. We tried to make this film more serious. We cut out all the laughing scenes and stuck to the serious topic of bullying. 

My favorite genre would have to be musicals. As someone who wants to become a filmmaker, I already have some potential ideas for a potential film. Much like Mamma Mia and All Shook Up, my film would be based on hits from none other than Queen. After his parents die in a car accident, Lucas has to move from his small town in Kansas to his aunt’s house in the hills of Los Angeles. Struggling to fit in at his new high school, he decides to try out for the football team. After making the team and taking the spot of quarterback, he makes friends but also an enemy. The enemy, nonetheless, is the ex-quarterback, James. Lucas also finds himself falling deeply in love with the cheer captain, Brooke. Even after finding out, Brooke is dating James; Lucas still can’t help but think she’s the one. This is the story of a small-town boy finding love and friendship in upper-class California. Songs would include but are not limited to, Somebody to Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Don’t Stop Me Now, Killer Queen, and I Want to Break Free. I would be interested in exploring the characters more. Showing their backgrounds and personalities. I love a movie that really goes into depth with the characters and doesn’t have you wondering so much about them. I would upend the audience’s expectations. Musicals tend to be happy throughout most of the film, especially the beginning. I would start off on a sad note, then turn that around immediately. Movies that explore different emotions tend to be the best. Along with that, I would love to explore how the characters portray their emotion through song and dance. In musicals, the characters aren’t just singing songs, the songs mean something. If the characters just sing songs, nothing happens. But when they use song and dance to tell a story, it helps advance the movie overall. 

5. Describe how you felt at the end of the two minutes. Did you want to know more? What was left hanging, if anything? What questions do you still have? At the end of the two minutes, you were definitely left hanging. You didn't know what was going to happen. If the scientist was going to be able to tell people about the thing coming towards Earth in time to save people. I've seen this movie many, many times, mainly cause it's my mom's cleaning movie. So, I don't have any questions.
6. How would you describe the editing style in this clip? Any particular editing techniques you noticed, or length of shots? I don't notice any particular editing techniques. The only thing would be how it pans down from the sky and the stars to the people looking through the telescopes.
7. How did these first two minutes adhere to conventions? The first two minutes adhere to sci fi conventions because it starts with stars and people looking at the night sky. Also, the rocket and observatory adds to the theme. This is still within the two minutes, just a little passed it, but a scientist at the observatory finds the issues that is yet to come. He starts freaking out and that's when the movie starts to escalate. 

8. How did these first two minutes break with conventions? I honestly think these first two minutes didn't break any conventions. I may be wrong, but from the start it was about some sort of science. 
9. How did these first two minutes represent social groups or people or issues? The first two minutes represented people who like science. More specifically outer space science. 

10. Why do you think this film was originally distributed in the way that it was? Deep Impact was distributed the same summer as Armageddon. Although Armageddon did a lot better in the box office, people thought Deep Impact was more scientifically accurate. The movie was distributed in the United States by Paramount Pictures and internationally by DreamWorks. Paramount Pictures normally does the best with sci-fi movies. For example, Super 8 and Interstellar.

              The vision I have for this film is something very quiet. I feel like movies that are silent when it comes to background noises and music, give off a more intense feeling than when music is involved. Sounds might need to be emphasize using sound effects. The running feet, the flipping of the binder and turning of the keys are tiny sounds that can easily mean a lot more if the sounds were emphasized. For the look, I want the facility to be kind of dark. Maybe a dark blue tone. I want the red alarm to be stressed throughout the facility scenes. It’s a key part of the opening and helps advance the plot in the first two minutes. I want the opening to give a Stranger Things type vibe, especially the scenes in the lab. The flashing lights, the background noises and scientific look. Whenever I’m watching a sci-fi movie and I get that eerie type feeling, I know it’s going to be good.

              When it comes to shots, I want to master that low angle/close up of the running feet. Also, the shadow of the running people. In order for it to mean something, it must be done correctly. I want to add a dutch angle somewhere in there of an empty part of the facility. Even though we don’t see the voices, we see parts of their lower body like arms, hands, legs, etc. I want to get close ups of them doing actions, for example, the flipping pf the binder. I think a rack focus shot of an action being done while the screen or flashing light is in the back will be cool and add to that eerie feeling. One way the opening will break conventions is how silent I want it to be, besides the voices talking. I don’t want to add music, which some sci-fi films normally do. 

 

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                             My group is going to film at school during free periods for the Mysterious Facility Control Room. The Tv Production teacher has a control room panel that would be great use. The scenes with Thomas at home can be filmed whenever. We all have our assignments on what scene we’re filming and what days. We only need two locations, one being the Tv Production control room and the second being the home of Thomas. Playing Voice #1 will be Wade Starace. Playing Voice #2 will be Thomas Mosca. Playing Thomas will be . The props we will be using are a control board provided by the Tv Production control room, a remote, phone and TV provided by , a large paper binder and two pairs of keys provided by Wade Starace. Since the only person fully seen on the screen is Thomas, ... will be wearing a normal teenage boy outfit. For sound effects, we’ll use sound effects to emphasize the noises being made in the facility. For example, the running feet, the binder being flipped, the alarm, etc. In the scene with the people running, we’re going to have to get technical shots of the shadows and feet running. The vision for this two-minute opening is something very quiet. I feel like movies that are silent when it comes to background noises and music, give off a more intense feeling than when music is involved.