Genre research: Scissor mechanics

These are the common things seen in the movie "Us" by Jordan Peele. 

The common camera angles in the movie were: 

close up, two shot, long shot, over the shoulder shot, and establishing shot

The common camera camera movements were: 

 Pan and Tracking shot

The Costumes in the movie were:

Red jumpsuits and casual clothes

The different lighting in the movie were:

key lighting, fill lighting and back lighting

The actors in the movie are:

Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, etc

The makeup used in the movie were:

The makeup to make the actors' doppelgangers in the movie look creepy

The props in the movie were:

Brown glove, and gold scissors

The setting of the movie was:

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Lake Gregory, the main characters' beach house, The Tyler family house

The sounds in the movie were:

Diegetic sound, Sound Motif, Dialogue, Soundtrack and Incidental Music

The editing in the movie were:

Cross cutting, Fade in, Fade out, Shot reverse shot, and reaction shot

Horror Movie Elements:

 The Dark

Suspense

Jump scares

Spooky music

Supernatural beings/ forces

"Us" Good Elements

The unique story idea

The suspense

The unexpected twist

The actors

The plot

The soundtrack

"Us"Bad Elements

confusing ending to the movie

Genre research: bless yourself

 Sound-Incidental music,sound motif,sound bridge;

Cams-Pan and tilts;medium shots;tracking, high angle;medium closeup;

Editing-cross cutting,shot reverse shot, jump cut;

1. C-Nun outfits, priest outfits, and farmer clothing
2. L-harsh lighting,uplighting, and spotlighting
3. A-Taissa Farmiga,Demián Bichir,Bonnie Aarons,Jonas Bloquet.
4. M-used to create a demonic nun.
5. P-the blood of Jesus Christ, crucifixes,key thing,candles.
6. S-Abbey of St Carta, Romania

Good elements:

• The makeup 
• Lighting 
• Sound and music
• actors

Bad elements:

• Plot

Genre research: Dance fight

The two genres we are not doing are dance and action.

Dance

Camera Angles
Over The Shoulder, Long Shot, Over The Head Shot, Wide Shot, Low Angles.

Movement
Pan, Tracking Shot, Flash Pan, Tilt, Dolly.

Lighting
Key Lighting, Black Lighting, Side Lighting, Fill Lighting.

Mise-en Scene
Location: Anywhere, but typically a club or party.
Color design: Any color.
Costumes:Any costume, depending on the theme of the current theme.

Examples
Black swan, Honey, Breakin', Footloose

Elements Of Dance
Shape:present in all actions of dance throughout the film.
Space:makes the dance more synchronized.
Timing: Movement of dance throughout time.
Dynamics: Add texture, color, interest and variety to the mood.

Sound
Non-dietetic sound.
Dialogue.
Soundtrack.
Incidental sound.

Good Elements
The dance moves.
The coordination.
The music/soundtrack.
The creativity.
The camera angles.

Bad Elements
The story line/plot.
The acting.
The wardrobe
Lack of humor.

Action

Common Lighting
Soft-film lighting.
Hard-film lighting.
Motivative lighting
Natural film lighting.

Camera Angles
Eye level.
Low angle.
High angle.
Tilted angle.
Over the shoulder.

Movement
Crash-zoom.
Slow-zoom.
Pan/Whip.
Tracking/Dolly.
The one shot.

Mis-En Scene
Location:Typically cities.
Color Design: Lots of colors but mostly black.
Costumes: Typically something fancy like a suit or dress

Elements Of Action Films
Fighting.

Stunts.
Chases or explotions

Sound
Non-Digestive sound
Dialogue
Sound Tracks

Good Elements
Mostly Everything

Bad Elements
Bad CGI

Genre research: deciding our movie genre

For our movie, we have decided to go with the genre horror. We have decided to do horror because the best movie pitch idea that we had and agreed on, was dealing with horror. Also doing a horror movie seemed to be the easiest in terms of what we need to do it , such as props, costumes etc. The other two genres that we had in mind, which were dance and adventure; we will not be doing them. This is because the common things needed to make a dance and adventure film, seems to be out of reach for us. For example, for dance we would need dancers, and for adventure we would need certain props that we may not have.

Genre research: Just Dance

We were given the film genre Dance for a research project. We had to find the common mis-en scene,lighting,camera angles and shots of a dance film.Then, we had to add the good and bad elements of these films. After we were finished with the research, we added pictures and GIF into the background of the slides. Each slide has some kind of dance film or dance influencer . This project has impacted the way we look at genres and films. It also makes us look for the common angles, lighting, and etc.

Pitch perfect decisions

We have finally narrowed it down to 2 pitches. Ones an adventure and ones a horror. The adventure one starts with an old guy talking and rocking in his rocking chair. The camera starts winding up to him, He will still be talking as the camera is winding up to him. Once it gets to him he will say “ and the adventure begins.”  The horror pitch will start with people walking. They will walk past a wanted sign. One of them will pick up their phone. As he’s on his phone his friend will get killed. He will look around then also get killed; it will then zoom into the wanted sign.

The adventure pitch,which is about an old man narrating an adventure; is a good pitch for this assignment but we decided that we will not use it. It is a good pitch because the idea was for the beginning of the movie to start with the old guy, narrating a journey to come. And as he’s talking it would be some boys making their way to where the old guy is the whole time. When they got there he would say “the adventure begins”, and it would end there. This would’ve been great because it would’ve gotten the audience engaged in what the adventure would be, and it wouldn’t be a trailer. But it cannot be used because we wouldn’t be able to find an old man, and we don’t have a set place to where we would film.

The horror pitch, which is about a wanted guy who escapes and kills: is a great pitch for this assignment because it would build suspense. When the idea came to us it was pretty clear that this was most likely going to be it. This pitch is fairly simple and doesn’t require much. We could easily find a place to film. A place like the park or a dark area is perfect. Also,it only requires 3-4 people, that would include the wanted killer, the two friends, and a cameraman. Another great thing about this is that, the end of the 2 minutes will most likely leave the audience wondering. In the movie, when the two friends walk away and the killer shows up, they will be wondering what happens next. Therefore unlike a short film, there is no end; but it's only just the beginning of what's coming. The only thing that can cause any change of plans would be the weather.

We are doing a horror movie. We are doing this because we will be able to do it well. We also have all the features for it. We can make a wanted sign. We also have 2 people to play the civilians. We have someone to do the killer. The plot also leaves you wondering who the killer is and what he is wanted. Since you won’t be able to see his face. You might also wonder why he killed the two people. You will keep watching the movie because you want to know stuff.

The beginning of the end

My name is Nathan, 15 years old and a sophomore in high school. I go to Ft. Lauderdale High School where I take my AICE media studies elective. I am on the school’s wrestling team and when I am not doing that I like to watch movies or play outside. I absolutely love movies and my all time favorite genre is horror. So when we got the project to film a two minute movie intro I was ecstatic. In my opinion I feel my group and I are ready and will do a great job on this. We have a time span of three months to complete this film. My group members are Kendrid and Jack.

Through out the course of the year I have learned plenty of useful things.Between the commercials and blogs I will have these life skills forever. with this class I was able to sharpen and learn new skills for editing and filming. One thing being how to dump onto a computer. Another key thing on the filming was new and interesting shots I was able to take and recreate. Also I wouldn't have been able understand most of the class if i didn't have all the required Vocab terms needed. With these skills came the stress of not having everything going to plan. With the commercial and music video we had some set backs and things not coming out as what I imagined. But it all worked out in the end and will improve as I continue. As the project gets more and more and I get more in depth I expect to learn more things from this and projects to come.

• The first pitch we have is an adventure pitch. It’s about an old man rocking in an old wooden chair narrating/ foreshadowing what is to come in the film. The entire time the old man is talking, the camera is winding its way to him. The camera will stop sometimes and show some kind of item of relevance to what the old man is saying. When the camera gets to him he sits there finishing up his narration then says “the adventure begins.”

•  The second pitch is a horror pitch.It starts with a woman running away from a creature. She finds her way to the bathroom as she’s running. Hides in a stall with the creature that walks into the bathroom; the creature starts looking in every stall then kills her and she drops an item. 

• The third pitch we have is two people are walking and see a wanted poster. One of the friends gets taken and killed when the other one is on their phone; the friend looks around for the other but he gets killed.