Another movie in this genre (The Girl On The Train)

Common CAMS in the movie: In the movie the Girl On The Train, tracking shots, zooms, high angles, low angles, point of view shot, over the shoulder, and pan. The shots and movements that were used were: establishing shot, tracking shot, medium shot, close up, long shot, and wide shot

Common CLAMPS in this movie: For costumes, there were basic clothes, law enforcement clothes, darker clothing. For lighting it was dark filmed during both day and night. For acting it was serious, tense, curious. For makeup there was fake blood and wounds. For props there were golf clubs, a gun, cars, a train. The setting is New York City.

Common sound in the movie: The movie uses dialogue, the main actor Rachel is narrating the movie as things happen.

Common editing in the movie: The movie commonly uses jump cuts to go from one scene to the other.

Elements of the genre in the movie: The movie is a mystery. There is a police investigation to find out what happened to the girl who went missing, is she dead? Where is she? What happened? Who did it? There is questioning and a whole investigation.

What elements of the genre did the movie have that you like? 

We liked the mystery and how we had no clue what happened, you could make inferences but you could never guess what happened.

What elements of the genre did the movie have that do not appeal to you?

We did not like how dark it was, though it was very interesting it ended very grim and sad.

Movies in this genre (Bad Boys For Life)

Common CAMs in the movie: In the movie, Bad Boys For Life, low and high angles, medium shots, and tracking shots are commonly used.

Common CLAMPS in the movie: For costumes, it was law enforcement clothes and black clothes, for lighting it was dark and filmed at night and also filmed in the day. for acting it was quite serious, curious, and tense, for make up gunshot wounds was often and blood, for props a gun is used, cars, and for setting it is in the city of Miami.

Common Sound in the movie: The movie uses non-diegetic and diegetic sounds.

Common Editing in the movie: The movie commonly uses jump cuts to go from one scene to another.

Elements of the Genre in the movie: The movie consists of someone getting arrested. There is a police station with two cops as the main characters. Tracking down information.

What elements of the genre did the movie have that you like?

We like how the two cops ended up arresting the person and getting justice once and for all.

What elements of the genre did the movie have that do not appeal to you?

We did not like how throughout the movie, the characters were being more comedic than rather being serious.

Choosing the genre

The genre we will be using for our movie is the crime genre. This genre matched our movies' characteristics and was the best fit. We choose this genre because the movies that are classified under this genre are alike ours. At first we thought our movie would fall under the horror genre but after research, crime fit best. This genre consists of detective stories and murder mystery, which our movie falls into. After doing the CAMS and CLAMPS for this genre it was obvious the genre was the one. I am very excited to make this movie. 

Research Genre

In this powerpoint, we were told to create one on a genre that we found interesting. We had to research the genre and find specific aspects. We had to find the common lighting, common camera angles, and the camera movement. Also the common mis-en-scene, elements of genre, and examples of movies that show the genre. We put in the powerpoint what we did and did not like in the example of movies. Researching about genres was pretty interesting. This showed us how to find each aspect of a genre and how much common things were found.

Research two other genres

Another genre we are considering for our movie is Crime. The crime genre consists of crime fiction, detective story, and  murder mystery. The CAMS for our genre are:

Camera angles: High angled/Birds eye view, Tracking or Panning, Reverse, Tilted angle, low angle, high angle, two shot, Over the shoulder shot.

Camera Movements/Shots: Close up, Medium shot, Extreme close up, Establishing shot, Long shot, Medium close up, Medium long shot. 

The CLAMPS for this genre are:

Costumes: Darker clothes, Law enforcement gear.

Lighting: Dull, Darker lighting, mysterious lighting.

Acting: Serious, Curious, Tense, Gloomy. (Al Pacino, Ice-T, Robert De Niro)

Makeup: Wound, Blood, Make you look sick

Props: Fake Weapon, Cars, Cigarettes, Money, Fake blood, Fake guts.

Setting: Everyday places, neighborhoods, little cities, big cities

The other genre we looked into was Horror. This PowerPoint shows the CAMS and CLAMPS.

Choosing film idea blog

After last class my group and I were left with three pitches and we now have to decide on one. My group mates and I first narrowed down our three pitches to just two. The two we chose were: After the mysterious murders of citizens throughout a small town a detective seeks to find the man who did it before he kills again.

A transaction of money and envelope, dad leaves his kid home, forgets to lock the door, kid is taken, police question and try to solve. Starting with pitch one, this was one of the first pitch ideas my group an I came up with when assigned the task. There are a few pro's of this pitch. First, is that it gets right to the central idea of what the movie will be about. This is especially important when you can only use one 25 word sentence. This pitch also creates some suspense as it identifies that the main character has some sort of timeframe to solve the mystery. This effect is created by explaining that the detective must find the culprit of a series of murders before he acts again. On the other hand, my group and I found this to be a very generic idea as we heard many other groups in the class talking about doing their final task on a murder mystery as well. 

We decided to go with the second pitch as opposed to the first one. This was because we found that the second pitch was a more original idea than the murder mystery as we believed the murder mystery idea to be generic. This was because we heard many other groups share a similar idea to ur first pitch. Additionally, we believed that the second pitch would be more realistic for us to film as we do not have to show somebody getting killed. Although the first pitch is written better we preferred the idea of the second pitch. Overall we determined that our second pitch would give us the best chance to make our final task as good as possible ultimately leading us to this decision.

Start of final task

Hello, I am back from a long and relaxing winter break. We are starting the final task for this media class, the movie. Edgardo, Fulvio, Jontae, and I will be working together once again. This project is 50% of our cambridge grade, it is huge. The movie is a two minute clip summarizing our whole movie. This will not be easy fitting a whole movie into a two minute clip. The movie must end leaving the audience hanging and wondering what will happen next. The last time I blogged was in December, I'm happy to be back. This project will not be easy but me and my group members have experience and are excited to see how it turns out.

After spending one semester in Aice Media studies I have learned a lot. One of the things I'm most proud of is my ability to edit. The first time I edited it did not turn out that great, I used pinnacle studios which was difficult to use and I used the very slow school computers. The second time I edited was much better. Instead of using pinnacle studios and the slow computers I used an iPad and used imovie this was much easier to use. Another thing I have learned is camera angles and different movements I have applied these angles and movements to my films. I am very excited to film this final task. I'm happy to work with classmates who I have experience working with before and I'm excited to edit once again. I can not wait to see how the film turns out.

Pitch 1: A transaction of money and envelope, dad leaves kid home alone, forgets to lock door, kid is taken, police question and try to solve.

Pitch 2: After the mysterious murders of citizens throughout a small town a detective seeks to find the man who did it before he kills again.

Pitch 3: Three men were planning to rob a millionaire while he goes on his daily run but he is aware of what is about to happen.