First Blog for Portfolio project.

As this is the very first blog, this post will only consist of research information and overall planning.

For the research, I am looking up the basic information needed to create a basic film opening. Since I haven't necessarily picked a topic/genre yet researching multiple genres until I am certain of what genre and topic I would want to do.  

Using the website: https://www.theeagleonline.com/article/2024/05/scenes-that-stick-three-of-cinemas-most-effective-iconic-and-mesmerizing-opening-scenes 

This web gives lots of info on what makes a film opening good and they can even become iconic. That way is through innovation, for it be iconic it also has to be a first of something. This is what I plan on doing, making a first inside the film world. Although unorthodox, and maybe cringe??? I am certain I will have a good time creating this.

As for the idea I have right now; well, wasn't actually thought of during this school and is actually something I've been working on since 2021 as a passion project (Most likely going to be a book since I can't draw)  is a series called Crowned Zenith, a therian based world, in a super samurai society (takes place in most of Asia) (Therian- Animal and Human hybrids) where holy creatures "invade" ( It was theirs to begin with til humans overtook it) Earth and deem human efforts futile. Most characters are based of dinosaurs (obviously : ) ) and holy creatures. I know this sounds really corny but I enjoy it. 

Some design outlines and plot themes are taken from other forms of media, such as books and tv shows.

The books from where designs and props are derived from.

 Tv Show from where character designs and special affects are inspired from.

Music Film Marketing process

 Music Marketing filming process!!!!

Music Marketing Project

 For my Music research project, our topic is the genre rock, 4 artists as examples are Linkin Park, Pierce the Veil, Green Day, Motionless in white, etc. We had to come up with our own band name and identity. The band name we decided on is Black Lagoon. It is a band all about reviving classic rock and the band members all met in high school. Black Lagoon was formed after their previous band, White lake, which was an utter failure. For the research we need to find out the target audience for classic rock listeners and how we can sell ourselves out to them to bring in more of an audience, to try and market ourselves we were planning on making a website for a band, reason being that most bands do this tactic in general. This is used to sell merchandise, promote new songs, and give information about the band as a whole. We are also planning on where to film and how we are going to film our music video, a music video is used as a marketing tool, if it reaches the right target audience it can give a big boost to our band name and can potentially promote the band further. The plan for the music video is for it to symbolize starting from nothing and making something of that nothing. We took inspiration from the other rock genre music videos. We took all the things we liked, discarded the bad, and made an original music video.

Genre Research Blog Activity

 1. Genre/sub genre: Dark Fantasy.

1. The typical target audience for dark fantasy is majority teenagers/ young adults. Dark fantasy is made for a more mature audience.

2. Conventions: Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy that blends the familiar with the uncanny. (Characters are often morally ambiguous, Themes include corruption, The tone is often dry, and the mood is often sinister.) Films of dark fantasy tend to have fast pacing, and have a lot of transitions and low to high angles.

3. Institutional conventions: Time can be altered - called 'time-slip' or 'time-travel' fantasy. the past can merge with the present. the primary and alternative worlds may be parallel. stories often draw on myths and features of medieval traditions.

4. Film Samples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8os0f44qu8 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHtRiv0PcE

                                              (EX: King Arthur VS A resurrected Heracles)

2. 

1. Genre: Dark Fantasy.

2. Genre conventions - content: Heavens feel (1,2,3) Daughter of the blood, Terror in resonance. 

3.  Genre conventions- production techniques: Dark fantasy films often utilize production techniques like ominous lighting, desaturated color palettes, distorted visuals, practical and digital creature effects, detailed set design with decaying elements, eerie sound design, and a focus on unsettling atmosphere

4. How is genre marketed: Advertising, Sales events, Review copies, Book featuring, and social media.

5. Film sample 1- Heavens feel.- Heavens feel embodies Dark fantasy in the most literal sense. It is set in a fantasy world, but everything is in despair, this is due to holy grail wars that occur every decade. This leads to dozens of murders and deaths. In heavens feel, 7 Mystical warriors from several different periods are summoned and are assigned to people, deemed servants, but these servants are bad people so lots of bloodshed occurs due to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLFft5PCt7M 

6. Film sample 2- My Hero academia: Judging by the title you can assume that this show would be just a happy school life thing. However this is the opposite. In my hero academia, society is a "quirk" filled society; Quirks are uncanny abilities humans posses and everyone's dream is to become a top hero. However when catastrophic disaster arises many heros give up and flee, and the main protagonists in the show are first years in high school. They see as heros give up, die, or submit. The main character is man named Izuku midoriya, and the main antagonist is named Tomura Shigaraki. Izuku is the only one with enough heart in his society to keep going in a dreadful future society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlxg-q6UJ0  

7. Film examples:

1. Attack on Titan-  

2. Berserk- 

3. Akame Ga Kill- 

4. Fate Stay Night- 

5. Bleach- 

   

Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World

 The construction of Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World is done in a on location shooting. Its shot in California, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Queensland, Australia. Mainly in the forest where everything is dark and ominous. This allows for scary moments or suspenseful moments in the film. The Lost World, Jurassic Park is a 1997 film about a team that visits Isla Sorna, a secluded island where dinosaurs roam free, to document the prehistoric animals. The film is set four years after the events of the original Jurassic Park. 

The Dinosaurs in this film are disgustingly stereotyped. Such as the T-Rex for example, it's made to look big, and scaly. The T-rex can't see you unless you move is the stupidest stereotype I've ever heard and I people still believing this is a bad thing. People who watched this film believed every word that John Hammond (the founder of Jurassic park) said. In reality, the Tyrannosaurus Rex had one of the best eye visions to any land animal paleontologists have ever know. It doesn't need its pray to be moving for it to spot you, even if this were true, the Tyrannosaurus has (again) one of the best sense of smell. The same goes for the Velociraptor, it's human sized and scaly (yet again) to make it more intimidating. The Velociraptor is the size of your arm, and it was covered in feathers.

The two main characters of this film was Ian Malcom, and Dr. Sarah Harding. With Jurassic park abandoned, Isla sorna became infested with poachers. The poachers in this film are represented in a way that is supposed to make them look intimidating with their guns, this is mostly true. Except for the fact that ALL of them are bald and wear sunhats! With a fully fed ego after killing one dinosaur, they attempt to go after the T-rex's baby (showing them as someone who preys on the weak). This results in their downfall as one by one they get ripped apart by the parental T-Rex's. 

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=500Fvom_GqM

Sound bites! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRg91TAC_H4

Sound Project

 Here is everything that I learned/ did on my sound project.

What I learned was a few vocab words such as, Synchronous sound and Asynchronous sound. Synchronous sound means that the sound is synchronized with what is being viewed, as Asynchronous sound is the opposite; Sound that doesn't match the source on screen. 

For the directions, we were prompted into brainstorming for 1-2 minutes, and to compose a scene that could happen in the literal span of 1-2 minutes. We were only allowed to use 7 words throughout the entire project. We had to create some of our own sounds for this project to practice the art of foley.

During brainstorming, I thought of the idea of a kid who wasn't prepared for a test and was heading to the class. It was a simple approach to this assignment, however I have simple minded people working with me (Sorry partner)

Three files were to be turned in, one as editing evidence, one as the process of making the foley sounds, and the full project.

I outlined my sounds with different shots so I could quickly identify which sound was which, this made it quicker to navigate my sounds. 

As much as I hate to admit it, I don't own premiere pro, so I was forced to use Capcut. (dun dun dun) 

Overall I do think my sounds could have been better, but I do think that the project was a success. (YIPPEE!)

Link to project for those who would like to watch it. https://browardcountyschools-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/r/personal/0614132358_my_browardschools_com/Documents/PaulTaylorSoundscapeP1.MOV?csf=1&web=1&e=PbNxaq&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D

Ciao

One Word Project for my Aice Media Studies

 What is up my cooklings, for tis I. 

I am going to discuss my One word project film from my aice media studies class simply because I can. 

For this project, we were assigned to work with a partner of our choice to come up with a silent film of some sort. We are given an assigned word and could not say anything. My word was curious. Before shooting, we had to create a storyboard. It had 15 panels on how I should approach this assignment. I brainstormed long and hard because my partner lowkey sucked at it. My storyboard helped me envision the idea for this film with the power of imagination, it gave me a perspective on things that I may have missed if I were not to create this storyboard.  At first I was going for a school shooting taking place but then realized that this could not happen in 1-2 minutes. So instead, I decided on a student mysteriously walking out of his classroom. As another follows, wondering what this student is up to. So once I finished the storyboard and brainstorming, we head out to begin the filming process. 

The editing source we used was Adobe Premiere Pro, we utilized it's vast editing software to attempt to create an enjoyable video. However I didn't do as well as I thought I would. I received a 77% on the project. I did think that I did the actual process of the film idea well. However I do believe that I did this project with minimal effort on the editing side of things.

So yeah, that was my One word project.

Cheerio.