Idea: Film Development

 

Film Development
Teammates Names: KEVIAN ASPRILLA		Period (s):5
Production Company Name: KDENTRETAINMENT		Date: JAN/26/24

 

Identifying Genre
Identify the genre of your movie: BIOGRAPHY
Hybrid/subgenre (s): ESCAPE
Identify the iconography of your film based on your genre: LANDSCAPE AND MOODY SCENES
Identifying Audience
Identify the audience type and their demographics and psychographics.
Type of audience (Mainstream or Niche Audience)
TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS
Market Segmentation Analysis
Demographics	Psychographics
TEENAGERS	YOUNG ADULTS

 

Film Idea Theme
List at least 3 themes for your film and why. Be specific. Think about your audience.
3 themes for my film can be good vs. evil, society, coming of age, these themes talk about the truth of being a person living a day to day life and the struggles of certain circumstances
What does the audience should expect from your film’s opening?
Key Media Studies Concepts	Representation invites audiences to understand your media text and agree with the message in preferred ways. Depending on the audience, different interpretations are to some extent possible. As a group identify the following:
Ideology What ideas/ issues do you find important to your audience, to illustrate in your film? Provide 3 specific examples.	The issue of feeling stuck, unmotivated, and confused with life’s direction, the feeling that you may be able to achieve more stuff in your life but haven’t and just also the amount of room that God deserves in your life.
Who are the individuals/characters that you would like to showcase in your film? Think of positive or negative stereotypes ……….	Positive 1-2 male teenager characters	Negative NONE
What social groups will you be focusing on? Think of the demographics and psychographics of your characters.	Demographics: gender, age, ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability/ability, etc.   YOUNG PEOPLE (TEENAGERS)   All race groups with it being for mostly men
	Psychographics: Attitude, interests, lifestyles, beliefs/values, and personality.     Teenage believers in God People that want to have fulfillness of happiness
Identifying Mise en scene in your film
Where is the setting of your story? Think of a courtyard, classroom, grocery store, cafeteria, home, etc.	At the park (outside)
When is the story told? Think of the period, past/ present/ future. Day/afternoon/evening/night	Present and afternoon/ evening
Props	Bicycles
Set Design	Trees, clouds, benches, houses, buildings
Colors (Add the meanings associated with the colors.)	Blue,yellow,orange, and green While the blue is trustworthy, strong, and productive while being non-invasive, The yellow represents optimism, the orange confident and friendliness, and finally the green is balance and harmony
Composition	Depth of field
Tone of Film (Describe in full sentences and why would you use them.)	Hopeful This tone in film can resonate with the audience’s want for positive outcomes and scenarios in their life, it not only offers optimism  but it inspires the audience.
Camerawork (Shot size, angles, framing and camera movement.	Establishing shot Medium shot Full shot Dolly Truck

 

 

PRELIMINARY EXERCISE 15

Preliminary Exercise 15: Planning, Filming, Recording and Editing Sound in Film in a Shot.

Student (s) Kevian Asprilla

Class Period: 5

Date: 1/17/2024

Score:         / 20

 

Section A: Planning a shot
Scenario:  Two guys are hitting a girl during class
Shot Narrative Conventions
Video synopsis	The video consist of two guys fighting a girl, in her desperation, she calls out to the teacher which after hearing the girl out scolds the two guys while telling them “violence is not the answer.”
Film genre	Drama
Action Line	“yo I heard you was talking smack about us bro”
Tone of the Shot	Long shot conveying formality
Camera Shots
Shot Size	-full shot -Close up shot	Camera Angle Eye level angle Shoulder angle
Camera Framing	-3 shot -crowd shot	Camera Movement Static Pan Tilt Pull out. Tracking
Sound in Film
Dialogue (List 2- 3 lines.)	“you two come here.” “what’s the meaning of this you guys should know better than to fight.” “Violence is never the answer.”
Sound Effects (3-4 effects) Ambient, Foley, Hard Effects) Diegetic/Non-diegetic.	-yelling noises -People speaking -fast forward talking
Music (Score, Incidental music, Score.) Provide examples for each.	Inspirational by neozilla My house by flo Rida

YouTube video link:  https://youtu.be/d6WOQMfHCLQ

reflection:

With this exercise I learn the different and creative ways of making a film, not only was this exercise very fun and overall one of my favorite ones, but it was very educational and it put the knowledge that I have about things like camera work and sound to use. It made me feel more confident and prepared to make a longer film with more detailing and cast in the future.

SHORT FILM

 

PRELIMINARY EXCERCISE 14: ANALYZING A FILM OPENING SOUND IN FILM

 

Preliminary Exercise 14:  Analyzing a Film Opening Sound in Film

 

Objective: Students will define and provide examples for sound in film to practice the recording of a range of sounds for a soundtrack. They will use a mobile phone to record sounds for that would support the scenario that their Cambridge group chose for Preliminary Exercise 13: Introduction to Sound (Becoming a Sound Engineer). Every student will have a discussion with their team and ask the question, What sound do we need to record to support the genre of our film?

Section A:  Definitions and Examples

Score: ______/60 marks
Word	Meaning and example from a specific movie. (Add details
Diegetic Sound	The world of the film, and everything in it, everything a character can experience within their world is diegetic, movie example: avatar: the way of water
Non diegetic Sound	Sounds that do not have its source within the world of the film and only the audience can hear it like, incidental music, voice-over addressed to the audience, score, and sound effects added for a dramatic effect, movie example: TICK, TICK…BOOM! (2021)
Source music	is any music that comes from the world of your narrative. In most cases, this is the music that the characters are listening to in a scene
On screen Sound	Sounds that appears to be made on screen of the scene and it originated within the film’s world, movie example: Spiderman: homecoming (2017)
Off Screen	Sounds that can be heard off screen as background sound effects such as birds chirping outside or a glass breaking that is not shown on the screen, movie example: la Ceremonie (1995)
Underscore	a soft soundtrack theme that accompanies the action in a performance. Movie example: he Black Gate in Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003).
Internal diegetic Sound	Sound coming from the mind of a character that we can hear but the other characters cannot, includes thoughts, narration, music, etc. Ex: ZOMBIELAND (2009)
Background Sound	Background music is a type of musical performance in which the music is not intended to be the primary focus of potential listeners, but its content, character, and volume level are intentionally designed to effect behavioral and emotional reactions in humans such as attention, relaxation,
Foley Artist	The common noises heard in movies, TV series, and video games—such as footsteps, a sword being taken from its scabbard, or the swishing of clothes as two people pass each other—are created and recorded by foley artists.
Foley Sound Effects	the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to films, videos, and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality
Sound motif	a sound effect, or series of sound effects, that are used in the movie to represent a certain character, place, circumstance, or idea.
Monologue	Is a speech given by a single character in a story it is the vocalization of a character’s thoughts
Sound Bridge	The sound or music that is carried from one scene to the next. It links two scenes together and keeps the audience distracted while the scene cuts to the next
Sound Design	the art of creating a movie's soundscape by fusing together all of the audio in the movie, including the soundtrack, dialogue, sound effects, and ambient.
Sound Perspective	,a convention whereby sounds heard by the audience reflect the relative distances of their apparent sources in three-dimensional space. In a long shot, sounds in the background would be quieter than those in the foreground.
Sound Mixing	a process during the post-production stage of a moving image program by which a multitude of recorded sounds are combined.
Stings	musical cues that came sharply and dramatically and were often delivered just after an actor delivered a line that signaled a new twist in the story. Many radio shows also had their own theme songs.
Melodic Sound	Something that's tuneful or pretty to listen to is melodic. Movie example: just one in my life time “unchained melody” 1965
Discordant Sound	music and sound in horror movies rely on dissonance and atonality to disrupt musical notes and rhythm of sounds
Contrapuntal Sound	sound that contrasts strongly with the image that you see on screen.
Room tone	the "silence" recorded at a location or space when no dialogue is spoken.
Walla Sound	a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background
Synchronous Sound	audio that lines up precisely with what's happening on screen.
Asynchronous Sound	When sound doesn't match a film's visuals
Direct Sound	all of the sound that is recorded at the time of filming
Parallel Sound	sounds that complement the mood, tone, or atmosphere of a scene.
Loudness	a perception that determines how much sound pressure a particular source is emitting at a given time
Silence	The lack of sound in a film or low sound
Crescendo	The highest point of sound in a gradually increasing sound
Rhythm	A recurring beat forming a pattern

 

 

 

Section B: Analysis 1: General analysis of film opening.  (28 marks)

Opening of “The Giver”
What is the film about?	The film is about a society with people who are being controlled with no memory of their past, except the protagonist that was selected the Receiver of Memory
Production Company/companies	The Weinstein Company
Director	Phillip Noyce	Sound Engineer (s)	Harlan Steinberger
Genre (s)	sci-fi/Action	Movie release	August 15, 2014
Audience (s)	12 and above
Original music titles from the soundtrack. (Only from the opening.)	Music by Marco Beltrami
Music (List 3 words used to describe this music)	Renewing Deep Thoughtful
Sound Effects (List 8 effects)	Contrapuntal sound Sound Bridge Non diegetic sound Off screen Loud  Voice-over Score Traditional film
Dialogue (List the most important line in the film’s opening and why? 3 sentences to describe information.	Line: “I always felt like I saw things differently, saw things other people didn’t, I never said anything I didn’t want to be different”
	Explanation: In this line the narrator its explaining how since a very young time in his life he always saw things in a different type of light from the rest of the people, this is important for the discoveries that he is later going to do.

 

Section C: Analysis 2: (25 marks)

Using the table below place the sounds in this film into their correct sound source categories. Using the vocabulary box label each type of sound using the examples provided.

Examples

Dialogue: monologue, direct sound.

Sound Effect: Thunder: Ambient sound, foley sound, loud, asynchronous.

                         Alarm Clock: Ambient sound, foley sound, loud, synchronous.

Music: Headphones playing “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley, incidental music, foley sound, crescendo, asynchronous.

Diegetic Sounds (Dialogue, Music and Sound Effects the audience and characters can hear.)	Non-diegetic Sounds ( voiceover, sound effects and music)
Monologue   Headphones playing “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley   Direct sound   Loud   Ambient Sound   Thunder   Synchronous	foley sound loud incidental music Asynchronous Crescendo