Media Study Portfolio

This is the storyboard version 1.1 of scene one. My group and I started developing a more detailed version of our storyboard becuase we want to be able to map out our scene opening in extreme detail. My group and I want to know exactly what are shots are going to look like so we don't have to deal with last minute changes to our project. In the first scene we decided to place a lot of hints and subliminal messages in the shots so the audience can figure out what is going to heppen before it happens. For example the note the main charcacter's mother left him is a sign of caution, but the chracter throws the note away which shows his carlessness, in another shot the the door is seen unlocked leaving the audience stressed and on edge as the main character leaves his house unlocked. Then at the last second you see his hand come and lock the door to ease the tension of the audience.

This is the general concept my group and I made for our main character/protagonist. This character is based off the basic teenage boy living in our city weston. This is a very rough sketch of the character because we do not really care how he looks, but we are more focused on how the charcater acts and behaves in our film opening. We want this charcater to represemt innocence and kindness as the audience genrally relates to this type of character more.

Almost all horror/thriller films, have some blood in some sort of way, either someone being murdered or hurt. In our film, we will need blood for the protagonist when he falls in the mountain biking scene, and also for our antagonist when he takes the protagonist to his bunker. We will need to learn how to make both oxygenated(fresh) blood and deoxygenated(old) blood. We found that the recipe below works best for our purposes on this ·          1/2 cup (118 ml) tropical fruit punch (Hawaiian Fruit Punch® works great.) ·          1 cup (237 ml) corn syrup ·          2 tablespoons (30 ml) of red food coloring ·          1 tablespoon (30 ml) of chocolate syrup ·          2 tablespoons of cornstarch ·          1 tablespoon of powde...

  I've come up with some ideas for my film opening, as my group and I intend to have a very well thought out introduction. We have decided to go ahead and stick to the horror genre. Not only do I find producing a film opening in this particular genre exciting and interesting, but we have also conducted the most research on this genre and feel most confident working in this area. I have studied many of the genre conventions in this category and am confident that I can put out a quality piece in this area.  There are many locations which we could use for our film in Broward, but the best place we have seen so far is Markham Park. A very enticing location is at Markham Park in Broward County, Florida. This spot has been used by many film students in Broward because it offers a very creepy vibe when entering into the very mossy and grey forest. Many of the trees’ have long vines of moss hanging from them adding to the creepy feel of the woods that is created here. The woo...

    In class, my group and I have begun to discuss who are characters are going to be, specifically the protagonist and antagonist.      After doing some research, I have found that there are  4 main types of villains. The evil villain, who has purely malicious intentions; the everyday antagonist, who simply opposes the main character and is not necessarily evil; the immoral entity, such as a totalitarian government; and the internal struggle, which would be an element of the protagonist itself. In our case, we find it best to use the evil villain as our antagonist. It is a horror movie, after all, and nothing strikes fear into the minds of people like a ruthless, senseless, killer.           For his backstory, the antagonist would have come from a rough family, where he dealt with great emotional trauma. The antagonist has a very dark soul and will show no remorse for his victims. The killer will be very mischievo...

We have been molding our film opening scenes and have devised an outline during class on the different steps in the film opening. The outline is more specific than the original storyboard; next class we will create an updated, more precise storyboard that is better paired with our outline.       In our outline, we created the first five scenes of the opening, what we like to call "the buildup". In these scenes, we plan to build up the anticipation and suspense through various small details and hints that something might go wrong. Furthermore, with the use of slow, lingering shots we will focus on minute aspects of the film that may serve a more important role later on in the plot. The outline is a mix of the plot as well as shots and angles. We planned out all the scenes except the final scenes, where the antagonist will be introduced. We still are not sure where the antagonist will be situated in, and what his backstory is.       We intend to create a ...

Psychological Thriller Analysis After researching and planning out some ideas for my trailer, I now believe the genre we are mirroring the most in our process is the Psychological Thriller sub-genre. This genre is what I believe our project mirrors and what I think we should attempt to create and follow in our trailer. A psychological thriller is sub-genre of horror that tends to focus heavily on its charcaters. This genre has strong elements of mystery, suspense, and drama. The charcaters in the film not only have to have the physical strength to survive whatever situation they may be in, but also have the mental strangth to survive. This is because the situations created by the filmaker are made to induce intense fear in the charcaters as the movie goes on, this may be in the form of a stalker, a unseen monster, or a killer on the loose. The possiblities are endless are endless in film making, but the idea my group would like to incorporate into our trailer is the unseen killer tha...