Pitch blog

 A girl that is having trouble being accepted by her parents about her sexuality eventually runs away to live her life freely with her girlfriend.

welcome back!

 Welcome back! Its been a while.Its been three months, since you guys have last seen me. Since then I've had a birthday, and am now in a different grade. As you can probably tell, I have decided to take AICE media again. I really enjoyed it last year. So i really hope this year will be just as fun. Im working with a new group this year. Most of my friends are not taking it again this year. But I will be working with my other friends. We came up with the story already. But we are not sure of the genre yet. I think this year will be a little harder. Last year was hard because of scheduling conflicts. But this year were have to social distance and stuff which makes it harder. I think that we could try using plexi glass. so that we can record without masks. We are also gonna record at eachothers houses. And out in public.

Audience and Institutions essay

media area: film 

question chosen: 1. assess the importance of marketing in the media area you studied.

Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships. The way a film is marketed can make it or break it. The way a movie is marketed sets a tone for the movie and how interesting it will be and if it appeals to the audience enough for them to want to see it. One very important marketing tool is the trailer. Trailers are very important because they detail the important events of the movie. They also show the most jam packed parts. Tv advertisements are very important. For example marvel is owned by disney so disney channel advertises marvel content to their viewers most commercial breaks. Marketing is a very effective tool and is actually many companies downfall as to why their movies don't do well in the box office. For example, the movie Jem and the holograms came out in 2015 and their marketing team was not very good. Jem and the holograms ended up making way less than they expected on opening weekend and up getting taken out of theatres nationwide. It has now gotten its come back on netflix, but had they have marketed to people outside of their 90’s kid demographic they probably would have made a lot more. On the contrary a movie that did a great job marketing was avengers endgame. It marketed itself as the end of an era and marvel fans new and old flocked to theatres to watch it when it came out. Making it one of the highest grossing movies of the year. Avengers endgame was on any and every item you can think of because their marketing was that good anywhere you went you could see it: billboards, soup cans, gum containers, and chips. Another movie with amazing marketing was frozen 2. Frozen was already a huge movie when it came out so when it was announced that they were coming out with a sequel people were already excited. Even Though they already had a strong fanbase disney did not stop marketing they put out new toys and were even on food packaging such as: good to grow juice, cheez-its, goldfish crackers, and ritz crackers. Like stated previously marketing is an extremely easy way to guarantee if your movie will succeed or flop, and if done correctly can work miracles.

24 extract essay

Extract essay

I feel like the director was going for a thriller. It had a very eerie feeling to it and the sound definitely played a huge role. Even if I wasn't looking at it I would still be able to tell what was going on. The sound makes the scene seem scary and dark. The lighting also is a huge factor. The lighting and sound work together to create a sense of strange eeriness. The scene in the interrogation room where 
the male main character chokes the female one is enhanced by the dark lighting. The camera angles are mostly used to help engage the audience. Thye use a lot of over the shoulder shots which help the audience feel like they are in the room in place of the female character. They also use close ups frequently of the woman which look as if she is looking right at you, because the man's back is to her. The editing is extremely smooth because they use a lot of shot reverse shots. It also uses a sort of voiceover when the police officer outside is telling the male main character to stop choking the female. The mise en scene in this scene is really good. She doesnt have on extravagant makeup and he is dressed like a police officer or detective. The way he is dressed reminds me of the detectives from law and order. The room is also decorated as if it's actually an interrogation room at a police station, and nothing is out of place.

Movie CCR

For my ccr I didn’t know what to do. We were originally going to do a 74 questions by vogue inspired video. Which is on vogues you tube channel. They interview celebrities while getting a tour around their house. But since corona virus we weren’t able to meet up. Then I wanted to asmr. But I thought that would be too weird. When I asked my group they said that it was a bad idea. So then I asked about a grwm and they said that it was a good idea. Grwm means get ready with me by the way. So basically you do your makeup on camera as if you were going somewhere. Sadly I can’t go anywhere but I still thought it was fun. I haven’t done make up on camera before. So I thought it was really fun. I made a lot of mistakes. But it was a cool thing to do for the first time.

Movie

The movie was very hard to film. It was really fun though. I’ve always wanted to act. Acting as a murderer wasn’t what I had in my mind for my first role. But it was fun none the less. We had trouble putting our credits in the correct order because we had to do it over FaceTime. We also tried to recast for our reshoots but with the whole covid-19 thing and being on quarantine we had to keep our old movie. This movie helped us realize that we aren’t really cut out to be directors anytime soon. We actually started filming our new actors but because we couldn’t get the whole movie we thought it would be weird to have somebody be the murderer and someone be interviewed. It didn’t help that we looked completely different too. My favorite thing we filmed was in the study rooms. That day kat and I had a party to go to so I got to her house at 9am then we went to film with everyone. Then we all ended at kats house just watching tv and eating McDonald’s. Then later that night Kat and I went to our party. It was actually one of our media friends sweet sixteen. It was really fun.

Music video

The music video was so easy to film. Personally it was my favorite thing we filmed this year. It was just us hanging out and relaxing. I know a lot of people did the same thing as us. As in hanging out with friends and then turning on a camera. I know the set of actual music videos isn’t like that but it was such a fun environment to be in. We filmed over two weekend and two days. Weekend one is the first scenes with the skateboards and stuff. Then week two is with the bean boozled challenge and the confetti at the end. On weekend two Luisa wasn’t there but our friend Melanie was so it’s fine. On weekend two we had a sleepover at kats house and went to the mall and then out to eat. We also made some brownies that tasted so good. Filming the music video was such a cool experience. It was something fun and enjoyable to do with friends and I definitely enjoyed it. I hope if I take A level media that I have the same experiences as this. I’ve had so much fun in this class.