Costume Ideas For Portfolio Project

  Hey guys! How is everyone? One of the most important things when it comes to films are the characters costume designs. A characters costume design is important since it enhances character depth and development. This is done with the careful selections made in clothing, accessories and overall aesthetics. One film that heavily inspires some of the costume designs for our 2 minute film opening is Diary Of A Whimpey Kid: Rodrick Rules. Specifically the scene where Rodrick and his band members from his band "Löaded Diper" (which happens to be a rock band) are seen playing. In this scene each member of the band are wearing clothes such as leather jackets, mostly dark colors, jeans, etc. 

This will help when coming to creating our costumes since for the first minute of our film opening, we plan on recording a rock band of high school students practicing in their garage. Each of their costumes will allow the audience to have some kind of view on them both as rock players and as individual people by giving them their own unique styles while also making it clear that they are all part of a group together. However, when it comes to designing the costume for our main antagonist we're planning on making him stand out a little more then the others to show how he's different from them the same way the band member all the way to the left of the picture seen above is wearing brighter colors in comparison to the others while still fitting in with the overall aesthetic of the band. 

Feel free to comment thoughts on these ideas. I'll be keeping all of you updated in upcoming blogs.

Music Marketing Bloopers

 Here are some of the Bloopers we had in the making of the music video part of our Music Marketing project!!

Music Marketing #1

In this project, me and a group of four others were instructed to research music marketing strategies that are mainly used by pop artists. To do this we all did research on two pop label records and famous pop artists such as:Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carprenter. We all did research on our own artist separately and learned the base information in their sale strategies as well is the labels. We had a week to do this and got to find many things to help us in part 2 of our project (blog abt it coming soon).

Genre Research Activity: Horror Films

 One of the largest film genres in the world are horror films. After some research on the genre, here are some of the facts about horror. 

Intended audience: The typical target audience for most horror movies would be primarily young adults and teenagers, often with an affinity for thrills, suspense and the macabre. As a side-note, the genre has been broadening to appeal to include a wider range of demographics , including older audiences how enjoy phycological horror and suspenseful thrillers.

 Content: 

-Supernatural Elements: Involves ghosts, demons, or otherworldly entities.

-Psychological Horror: Explores the dark side of the human psyche, often delving into themes of fear, paranoia, and madness.

-Body Horror: Focuses on physical transformations, mutations, and grotesque imagery.

-Slasher: Features a masked killer who stalks and murders a group of unsuspecting victims.

-Monster Movies: Involves creatures, often gigantic or monstrous, that threaten humanity.

Institutional Conventions

Narrative Image:

-The Final Girl: A recurring trope in slasher films where a lone female survivor outwits the killer.

-The Monster: A terrifying creature or force that threatens the protagonist(s).

-The Haunted House: A classic setting for supernatural horror, often filled with dark secrets and malevolent spirits.

Marketing:

-Disturbing Imagery: Uses shocking and provocative visuals to attract attention.

-Intense Trailers: Creates suspense and anticipation through suspenseful trailers.

-Social Media Campaigns: Engages fans through social media platforms, sharing behind-the-scenes content and interacting with the audience.

-Merchandising: Creates a range of merchandise, such as masks, collectibles, and clothing.

Additional Notes:

-The horror genre is constantly evolving, incorporating new subgenres and themes.

-Horror films can be used to explore social and cultural anxieties, such as the fear of the unknown or the decline of society.

-The effectiveness of horror films often relies on the audience's emotional response and their willingness to suspend disbelief

HORROR FILM SAMPLES

SAMPLE 1:

THE TERRIFIER MOVIES

The "Terrifier" films by director Damien Leone, embodies the horror genre because of it's use of:

-Extreme Violence and Gore

-Disturbing Imagery

-Jumpscares

These three qualities make the films embody the horror genre through the sub genre of slasher films

SAMPLE 2:

SMILE

The movie smile is a phycological horror movie which embodies the horror genre by using features such as:

-Unsettling Atmosphere

-Mental Breakdown

-Subtle Horror

-Supernatural Horror

-Visual Horror

All these features of phycological horror embody the world of horror films greatly.

OTHER POPULAR HORROR FILMS

-The Excorsist 

-The shining 

-Hereditary

-Get Out

-A Quiet Place

Sound

 Throughout the last couple of days in class, I have learnt a lot about the many different effects that sound gives us in day to day events and especially in Films. Sound helps create atmosphere, trigger emotion,  and create dialogue. Using sound techniques such as doing Foley can really help bring films to life by using  random objects to make sound effects accurate to what's going on in the film to add realism and make a stronger engagement with the audience. In our class we were instructed to make a story purely from sound in which we would have to use Foley to make at least 4 different sound effects with a partner.  There were a couple of steps in the brainstorming process for the project. First of all, me and my partner had make a story up that we would base the sound around.  We ended up deciding on a final play NBA style kind of story. We made a sound outline which helped us decide which noises or sound effects would be needed in order to give the full feel of each sequence in the story. To edit we used Adobe Rush. We did everything pretty well. If I had to make a change it would be better figuring out the amount of noise every sound effect made as it sounded a little uneven. 

OWF Project For Aice Media Studies

 One Word Film Project 

For this project we were instructed to make a short film between 1-2 minutes long with a partner in which we had to represent a word without using any kind of dialogue or music with lyrics. However we were aloud to use instrumental and environmental sound. We also had to use some editing techniques such as Eyeline matches, Inserts, and Graphic matches. 

The word that was assigned to us was reminisce. While brainstorming how we would do the project we created a storyboard in which we drew all the ideal shots we were gonna use while recording with a brief description of the actions being made in the shot. We also made sure to jot down the kind of editing we would do in between shots. This helped us better visualize how we would do the recordings by giving us a general idea of where we would do the shots and in what order they would go in to get the best results. To edit the project after the recordings we used  the Adobe Premier Rush app to create all the cuts and transitions to fulfil the editing process. 

Once all the work was done, me and my partner reviewed the project and for the most part we did a pretty good hob on everything. However when it came so some of the cuts, we realized that 2 or 3 of them were kind of clumsily made since we had to try and perfectly sync instrumental that we did live. Overall though, we did a pretty good job representing the word, making the edits, and planning the Film. 

Check It Out Here:  OWF_Morales.mp4.mov