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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.

Filming: home edition

We met up at kats house at 4. We met up with her neighbors. Then we gave them the script. They read over it a few times. We started filming. Then we realized they were messing up a lot. So we gave them the scripts and let them read it. We let read while we weren’t recording. But we told them to act like how they would if we were recording. They are actually pretty good. Well they’re a lot better than me and Luisa anyway. We also took snack breaks. Before we started filming and reading scripts we got to know each other. To loosen up we played a quick game of truth or dare. Kat has some cool sticks that you flip over and it has the dare one one side and truth on the other. We also played a game of volleyball once we were done. We tried to have as much fun as possible because we knew we wouldn’t see each other for a while.

Re-edit:

The girl who was supposed to do our peer review did end up giving it to us. Once she gave it to us we looked it over. Then decided to apply what she said. We also decided to get new actors. We’re going to use some kids who live by Kat. They already agreed to it. So on Saturday or Sunday we are going to meet up. Then we’re going to spend an hour or so going over the script. Then we’re going to film. We’re all going to act as director. I’m really excited for how this will turn out. Then were going to start editing with melina in the class after. One of our biggest problems was that the titles were in the wrong places. Also a lot of titles were missing. We also missed some camera angles. We missed lots of move mats too. But we’re working on fixing it on Sunday. We might try and film on Saturday. We were going to film after school on Friday but Kat and I have a lacrosse game. We can also film on

Reshoot: sad stuff

This weekend we were supposed to reshoot. Our reshoots were supposed to be based on our peer review. The group who was supposed to do our peer review ended up doing someone else’s. We spoke to one of the group members about it. She said she would do it and send it to us. She hasn’t sent it yet. But she does have our film and hopefully she did the sheet over the weekend. We need to film sometime after school if she has done it. We all were busy this weekend too. We just decided there’s some scenes we want to refilm. Then we’ll see what our reviewer said as well. We also want to try and get new actors. It might a little to short notice for that though. If we can’t replace ourselves then we just have to be more serious. We also need to refilm the scenes were I am “stabbing” Luisa. As you can see that the knife never touches her. This weekend I went to the beach with my other friends and filmed some clips for establishing shots. So we could use that and maybe film a beach scene. Kat and I could also film at our lacrosse game on Friday. I also went shopping for some more supplies because we accidentally lost our cop badge so we brought another one.