One of the strangest sub-genres of action is the mystery thriller. In most cases, you may not even think that they can be considered action films considering what a stereotypical action film may have. While not all mystery thrillers are action movies, many of them do have aspects of it within, it may not be …
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First Storyboard
My partner and I have completed out first storyboard for our film opening. For now it is an incredibly basic and low detail storyboard that is really only intended to give a very simplified visual of what our scenes could roughly look like. More than likely much is going to change once we actually establish …
Potential Locations for our film
After seeing a couple of films, such as Sherlock Holmes and Shutter Island, my partner and I have gotten a few ideas for locations we would want to look for that would make an effective setting for our opening. We want our setting to be in a dark and ominous location. We were thinking something …
Movie Inspiration: Shutter Island
As of Friday, Jan 24th, I watched the film Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo. My partner and I decided to watch this film because it matched our genre for our final film, and we thought it could provide some inspiration. And it surely did. But I want to talk about how great …
Narrowing Down the Sub-Genre
In doing an action film, we have found it is very important to decide on the sub-genre we want to use. In action films, the feel of the film is very different between each, no two sub-genres are exactly the same. If you compare a film such as Hobbs and Shaw, and Clint Eastwood’s Dirty …
The Power of Mise-en-Scene
Mise en Scene is all about the arrangement of items in a frame to create an effect. The eight elements of Mise en Scene are: -Lighting -Costume and Make-up -Facial Expression and Body Language -Color -Framing and Composition -Decor – Properties All 8 are used in tandem to define the traits, the feel, the tone, …
Sound in Film
I’ve got a pretty short post this time. Some conflicts with the illnesses made instruction for sound complex, but in the end sound did not ending up being so complicated despite being one of the most important parts of film. It makes up some of the meat and the backbone of the film. Sound is …
September 26th: Learning Camera Angles and Movements
The last few weeks we have learned about camera angles and movements. It was quite interesting because these are more applicable techniques to actual filming, as they are more used for shooting scenes rather than just individual frames. Angles were quite cool. They basically translated the concepts of single frame shots and turned it into …
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August 30th- Learning Camera Shots
We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us -Ralph Hattersley This past week we discovered eleven different kinds of camera shots, all of which can be used for our future film project. These shots are all pretty different, and capture very different emotions, feelings, and messages. After learning about them, we …
First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. As of Monday the 19th, I began writing this blog to document the process of the making of my Media Studies project. I began with finding a good platform to write my blog on. I decided to go with WordPress since it is one of …
Media Studies-Leo Stickles 