Title Research: Underwater

• How many titles are displayed in the opening sequence to the film? In the opening sequence there were about 16 titles. It would've been more but I counted all the actors as one title. Its funny because all of the movies I've researched have had 16 titles as well. 
• What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? In the opening sequence, they prioritized the newspaper articles by zooming it in and showing the newspaper titles. It also clearly showed dates and names for people.
• What connotations do the images carry? The images in the outset of the film has a negative connotation because the newspaper articles were mainly about the negative stories.
• How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset? As was said in the previous question, the newspaper articles were about negative events which creates a sense of suspension, which is a key part of the thriller genre. They also put various pictures of newspaper articles to show the audience its not as common as you think.
• How does the film establish an enigma from the outset? The film establishes the the enigma through the images of the newspaper articles, Because there were so many articles it wasn't on the screen for that long, which makes people wonder whats going on.
• What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? The strategies used to appeal to its target audience is the black and white newspaper articles because it lets their audience know that something is about to happen. Their audience usually enjoys not knowing what is going to happen next.
• How has technology been used effectively? The technology they used to create this film is a big part of the movie. They used editing to make it a suspenseful start with the sound and the zooming in and out for the news articles. Elements like this add a great addition to the thriller genre.
  

Title Research: Split

1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequence to the film? There were at least 16 titles in the opening sequence. I counted all the actors they listed in the opening sequence as one title.
2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? The images that were prioritized in the opening sequence was a ceiling of a yellow painted hallway and also someone getting pushed on a gurney.
3. What connotation does the images carry? The images carry a spooky connotation because the lights continue to flick on and off and you don't know what is going to happen.
4. How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset? The genre of this film is reinforced because of the way it goes from a shot to a title scene adds a sense of thriller to the opening sequence.
5. How does the film establish an enigma to the outset? This film establishing an enigma by shooting a part of the title scene in different location. Doing things like that makes the audience wonder whats going on which makes the audience want  to continue watching. 
6. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? As was stated in the previous questions, they use questionable shots to create a sense of suspense which makes the want to continue watching. All these things add to the genre of thriller.
7. How was technology used effectively?  They their editing platform to give the outset a confusing touch,  which was a great touch to the outset. They also used their camera to create a tracking with the person on the gurney to show that it was an emergency.
   

Title Research: The Terminator

1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film? In the opening sequence there were about 16 different titles. It was only 16 because I didn't count each actors name, I counted all the actors names as one title.
2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequences? The images that are prioritized during the opening sequences are the spaceships shooting their lasers. They also show a work vehicle rolling over skulls.
3. What connotations do the images carry? These images carry a negative connotation. Because it shows someone shooting and someone purposely rolling over someone.
4. How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?  The skulls show the unexpected part of the movie that gives the audience a sense of thriller. The fact that the location was on an unknown battlefield creates a sense of suspension.
5. How does the film establish the enigma from the outset? The establish the enigma through the part of the tractor running over the skulls and them being in an unknown place in the dark.
6. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? Since the movie is very old the audience were usually generation x, which is our parents at our age now. This movie used the used mystery to appeal to their audience. The unknown is a good way to appeal to their audience because they enjoy the unexpected.
7. How has technology been used effectively? They used their editing tool to show the different areas of their location. They used low angles in order to hear the crushing of the skulls to enhance the suspension of the film. They used their technology to clarify the genre to their audience.
   

Title Research: Get Out

1. How many titles are displayed in the opening sequences to the film? There is about 17 titles that are displayed during the opening sequences of the film.
2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? In the opening sequence they prioritized an image is someone loading their car and driving off, a forest, a pregnant black person, and a dog barking connected to a chain.
3. What connotations do the images carry? The connotation these images carry is a negative. They make people feel like the movie is going to be talking about the negatives of those communities.
4. How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset? The genre of this movie is reinforced by the images because it gives the audience a sense of suspicion but it also makes us feel that something suspicious is going to happen. In the outset it had suspenseful movie to add to the thriller genre of unexpectedness. The way the outset went from regular color to black and white creates a change of mood which makes up a thriller film.
5. How does the film establish in enigma from the outset? The film creates an enigma by showing a man obviously traveling but then it begins to show black and white images that throws the audience by surprise. 
6. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience? The strategies they used for this movie to target their audience are usually an ambient sound that creates the mood for the beginning scene. Their audience is usually generation Z and this generation is really big on the unknown and the unexpected. 
7. How has technology been used effectively? In the outset they used camera angle, shots, movements, and also editing tools to enforce the genre. The camera angles and shots all work together add to the tone of the movie. The editing enhances the scene of the movie and also adds to the genre.

Title Research: Watch The Titles Website

So now that I've found one website, I had to research another website so i can have another option. I thought that finding another website would give me an opportunity to have more options. My initial thought of the website is that, its a bit more basic than the other website. Not to judge a book by its cover, I think it will have a less variety of movies. Usually I go through the charade of movies and usually locate movies that sound more familiar to me. On this website I found the movie Are We Done Yet and I know i couldn't use that because that's no where near my genre. So I kept scrolling and I came across the movie Mad Money. I wasn't sure if it was a thriller so I researched it on google and surprisingly it wasn't. Like I said in the beginning I usually go with movies I recognized so I can be a bit more prepared of what to expect. I continued to look on this website and I notice I didn't find anything interesting. I guess my hypothesis was correct. So, I think I'm going to go with the other website because I feel like it had a better variety. If  I had to prefer these websites to anyone would tell them to pick the website based on your genre.

Title Research: Art of the Title Website

So today we started off our day with the teachers telling us we have 6 more blogs due. Initially you can guess that I was shocked, but when they started explaining what we were going to do I wasn't so shocked. With this blog we are supposed to research these websites and choose a couple of movies that is related to our chosen genre for our pitch. The website has a bunch of movies with all kinds of genres but what's special about this website is that it only has clips of the title part of the movie. The website was really easy to use, that I already found a movie related to my genre. I found the movie Charlie's Angles, I'm not even going to lie I never watched that movie. To make sure it was apart of my genre, I had to open another tab to clarify that it was a thriller. After exploring this website a little more I realized they have a very large selection of movies. But I waded through ALOT more movies and found the movie Get Out. And I know everyone has seen these movies but I didn't. But I do think it will help me explore this project with a blind eye going in. The person I am can get really bored if I I've already watched it. I think this is a good start because I've already got 2 out of 4 movies and I've only been on one site. Now I'm going to find another site so I can find some more movies to watch. I just know I'm going to blow these blogs out of the water.

Genre Research: The Perfect Guy

The movie is called The Perfect Guy. Its about a women who is continuously being stalked by her ex boyfriend to the point where she had to set him up to kill him.

• The camera angles they used in this movie was eye level and dutch. The camera sots they used in this movie was long shots, medium long shots, medium shots, medium close up, close up, extreme close up, two-shot, three-shot, and over the shoulder. The camera movements were pan, flash pan, tracking shot, zoom, hand held, trunk shot, crane shot, and stock shot. 
• The costumes in this movie were normal clothes and the stalker wore all black cool clothes and gloves. The location for this movie was in the woman's home and workplace. The actors in the movie were Micheal Ealy and Sanaa Lathan and also Morris Chestnut. The make up was normal and professional. There were no significant make up look. The props used for this movie was guns, keys, fake rock, watch, and cars.
• The sound in this movie was digetic sound, non-digetic sound, sound bridge, sound motif, dialogue, voice over, incidental music, and ambient sound.
• The editing tools used in this movie was cross cutting, cut away, insert, dissolve, fade in, fade out, shot reverse shot, eye line match, jump cut, burn in, burn out, and reaction shot.
• The elements I liked in this movie was Micheal Ealy, he is so cute, but I also liked the ending and how she killed him.
• The elements I didn't like was how he would come in her home whenever he pleased.
  

Genre Research: Bird Box

This movie is called Bird Box. The movie Bird Box is a Netflix Original that is about people that gets suicidal from an invisible ghost. And the woman and her kids has to travel blindfolded to somewhere safe by themselves.

• The camera angles they used in this movie was eye level and dutch. The camera shots they used in this movie was long shot, medium long shot, medium shot, medium close up, close up, extreme close up, two-shot, three-shot, and over the shoulder shots. The camera movements they used for this movie was pan, flash pan, tilt, tracking shot, hand held, and crane shot.
• They didn't really have a set costume for this movie, it was regular clothes but for the colder months. The location for this movie was in the woods, in the river, and in a house. The actors in the movie were Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, and many more actors. The make up for this movie was plain and tired looking, it wasn't a significant make up look. The props they had for this movie was guns, weapons, boats, cars, and a walkie talkie. They shot the movie mostly in Santa Cruz.
• The sound they used in the movie was digetic sound, non-diegetic sound, sound bridge, sound motif, dialogue, voice over, incidental music, and ambient sound.
•  The editing tools that created this movie was cross cutting, cutaway, dissolve, shot reverse shot, eye line match, jump cut, and reaction shot.
•  The elements in the movie were lots of trees and lots of suicidal deaths.
•  The elements I liked about this movie was the ending and how ahe named the kids when they became safe.
• The elements I didn't like about this movie was that it was too many deaths and I didn't like how Trevante Rhodes died. I really thought he was going to stay alive.
  

Genre Research: Happy Death Day

The movie Happy Death Day is about a girl who continues to die until she finds out the real cause of her death.

• The camera angles they used in this movie was eye level, high angle, low angle, and dutch angle. The camera shots used in this movie was long shot, medium long shot, medium shot, medium close up, close up, extreme close up, two-shot, three-shot, aerial shot, and over the shoulder shot. The camera movements used in this movie were pan, flash pan, tilt, tracking shot, hand held, and crane shot.
• In this movie their most common costume was an all black, long sleeve outfit with a mask. The location for this movie was on a college campus and a sorority house. The actors were Jessica Rothe and Ruby Modine and many more people as well. In this movie they didn't have any significant makeup, but they did have a mask. For the props in this movie, they used guns and knives and also a cupcake. This movie was filmed mainly in New Orleans. 
• The sound included in this movie was diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound, sound bridge, sound motif, dialogue, voice over, score, incidental music, and ambient sound.
• The editing they used to create this movie were cross cutting, cutaway, fade in, fade out, shot reverse shot, eye line match, jump cut, burn in, burn out, and reaction shot.
• The elements in this movie include stunts and bloody death scenes. 
• The elements that I like about this movie was is that its not just scar, its also really funny.
• The element that I didn't like was that it was scary, but that's just me because I don't like scary movies.
  

Genre Research: Us

The movie Us is a thriller that involves a family that goes out of town that experiences some tough events they encountered.

•  The camera angles they used in Us were eye level, high angle, low angle, and dutch. The camera shots they used were long shot, medium long shot, medium shot, close up, extreme close up, two shot, three shot, and over the shoulder. The camera movement in this movie were pan, flash pan, tilt, tracking shot, trunk shot, and crane shot.
• The costumes for this movie was a red jumpsuit and swim wear. The location of the movie Us was a vacation house and carnival. The actors were Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke and Evan Alex many more people. The make up was over the main characters eyebrows to make her have no eyebrows. The props they used for this movie were scissors and guns and also knives, The movie was filmed in Los Angeles and Pasadena,
• The sound in the movie was diegetic sound, non-digetic sound, sound bridge, sound motif, dialogue, voice over, score, incidental music, and ambient sound.
• The editing tools they used for this movie were cross cutting, cutaway, insert, shot reverse shot, eyeline match, jumpcut, reaction shot.
• The elements of this movie explains a persons two personalities and how they are so different but so much a like.
  

My Decision

Sci-fi and Action are great genres, but I couldn't think of a great story lines for them. So I've decided that I'm going to go with Thriller for this assignment. I kinda of already have a story line for this genre. I'm going to name the genre Suspenseful Thriller, so the audience has a clear view of how the movie is going to play out.

Action and Sci-fi

Action and Sci-fi. Our assignment was to research two more genres and analyze. I picked these two genres because they are so different and I wanted to learn about more than the basic genres.

Action.

•  In an action film the common camera angles are usually wide shots, establishing shots, medium shots, two-shot, close up, high angle, low angle, eye level angles, aerial shots, zoom, tracking shots, tilt, pan, and crane shots. 
• The common costumes you will usually see in an action film are police uniforms, superhero costumes and sometimes cowboy outfits as well. The common location in an action film is a police station and a layer or hangout spot for characters. The common actors in a action film are cowboys, superheros, police officers, and an antagonist. The make up found in an action film is usually prosthetic. They usually have scars and blood to show persuade the audience to believe they actually are hurt. In action films its usually a lot of actors moving at a fast pace so they wear makeup to make them look tired. Usual props that you will see in an action film is guns and weapons, helicopters, cop cars, dead bodies, bombs, briefcases full of money, cellphones, masks, and computers. The common setting in an action film is revenge, escape, assassination, oppression, and kidnap.
• The usual editing techniques used in an action film is cross cutting, split screen, cutaway, insert, shot reverse shot, jump cut, burn in and out, and reaction shot.
• Elements that are usually in an action film is a protagonist and antagonist that involved in a series of violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases. They also incorporate stunts in action films.
•  Example films of this genre is Ride Along 2 and Central Intelligence. Even though both of these movies share an actor, they both involve big fires and gun fights.
• The sound found in action films are digetic sound, non-digetic sound, sound bridge, sound motif, dialogue, score, incidental music, and ambient sound. 
• The elements that I like about this genre is that it keeps me interested and wondering what happens next.
• The elements that I don't like about this genre is that it can get really loud.

Sci-fi.

• The common camera angles used in this shot are usually wide shots, long shots, medium long shot, establishing shot, aerial shot, medium shot, close up, extreme close up, dutch angle, over the shoulder shot, tracking shot, crane shot, high angle, and low angle.
• The costumes that are usually in a sci fi film is draped clothing, mask, and sunglasses. The location that is usually in sci fi  films are in a galaxy or on a space ship. The actors are usually superheros and soldiers and they usually have a non human actor. The make-up is usually a mask of prosthetic and silicon. The props they have are swords or a prized possession, like a stone of some sort. The setting of a sci fi movie is usually two teams fighting each other to get one thing.
•  The editing in sci fi films are cross cutting, cutaway, insert, dissolve, fade in and fade out, jump cut, and reaction shot.
• The elements that are usually in sci fi films are big weapon fights, time travel. teleportation, mind control, telepathy, aliens and also stunts.
• Some sci fi films are Black Panther and Avatar. Both of these films have characters that either wear mask or face paint to become their character.
• The sound found in sci fi films are digetic sound, non-digetic sound, sound bridge, sound motif, dialogue, score, incidental music, voice overs, and ambient sound. 
• The elements that I like in sci fi movies is the anticipation about the ending of the movie.
• The elements that I don't like is how it can't get confusing with the story line if you don't pay attention.

Starting the Genre Research

With doing this power point it help recognize that there are so many film genres. This project also helped me understand that each genre has its own elements and conventions. Since I did this project a long time ago it helped learn how to correct my power points. I wasn't as strong with the power points back then as I am now. Also, when I did this project I was working with other group members and now I've proven to myself that I can do it by myself. To find my research we searched on google to find some of the convention that are usually in our specific genre. Our genre was "Crime". At first I was kind of thrown off with this genre, but it turned out to be really easy. 

Me and My Pitches

      In my last post I introduced myself and talked a little about myself. I also talked about my pitch ideas. I did come up with 3 pitches but I'm not really sure about my last one. My top two pitches are: "Sometimes being bad isn't always good" and my last one is "Maybe being curious can lead to death...you never know." Each pitch is a different movie idea. I didn't quite finish my movie for either of my pitches. My teachers were saying you should probably create the whole movie in your head so the first two minuets can easier to create and also film. Usually when I get an idea, more ideas comes with it. When I start my brainstorm process I'm sure it will come easy to me. Now I will explain each of my pitches.
      For my first pitch, it gives you a hint of what my story is going to be. The story will start with a person breaking into a home. But upstairs there is another person who lives there and is hearing everything going on downstairs. Originally I wasn’t going to do it like this, I was going to have the owners catch the robber in the act. I am kind of still considering both of the ideas. Then it goes into robber breaking the house items and the home owner is getting more and more nervous. Then the home owner remembers that her dad owns a gun. At the end you see if she used the gun or not to end it at the 2 minutes. I don’t really think that idea will fill up the 2 minutes. So I might have to come up with a little more details to add to the 2 minutes.
       My second pitch also gives you a clue of one of my movies. The story of this pitch is a bit different than the other one. It starts of with a person driving into a parking garage parking her car. Then she gets out of her car to see a suspicious person. She goes over and try to see who it is, hints the curious part in the pitch. She goes over to see him and he kidnaps her and takes her. But it is revealed that she has a baby in the car. Since I’ve narrowed it down to these two choices, I think I’m going to go with this pitch because it gives the viewers suspense and wonder. I’m going to do this project by myself because I really want to capture the vision that I have and I don’t want it to be blocked.

The Beginning of Something New

      Hello my name is Kyndell and I attend Fort Lauderdale High School. I have now completed the first semester of my 10th grade year. I love to cook and I also love to cheer. This year has been kind of stressful because my classes got way harder second quarter. I had to really butter up my teacher just to get a better grade. But this semester I’m going to work 10x harder so that I won’t have to do that this time. I not going to have to do that because this time I’m going to actually earn my grade. Last semester my grades kind of made a little slip but this time it’s going to be better that the first quarter. Now that we are in the new semester we are also in the new year of 2020. This year is going to be so great for and I can’t wait. Hopefully my teachers has a little joy about the new year too. Maybe they will be a little more lenient with the grades.
       In this last semester I’ve learned all about the stuff you don’t usually see while watching the movie. It’s really because I didn’t know it takes this long for the pre-production process. I understand now why it takes up to two whole years before a movie has even come out yet. I didn’t think the storyboard was needed as much as it is. The last project I did, I used the storyboard as my best friend, I always had it in my hand. If I didn’t have it I knew that I was going to be lost. I actually thought that would be my hardest part for this class but I actually enjoy it a lot. I really am bad at drawing but I do like it when my vision comes out as planned. For this project I would value the importance of a storyboard and I this I’m not going to be the actor. For this project I would also not procrastinate on my blogs. This project is going to be fun I can tell.
       A pitch is a Hollywood term to describe an idea where a film is encapsulated in 25 words or less. Usually like one sentence. Some of my pitch ideas are:
                • Sometimes being bad isn't always good.
                • Maybe being curious can lead to death...you never know.
                • Don’t be fooled by their appearance, people lie all the time.