Gamme of Throne- Extract Essay

The author’s vision for the film was to have the audience feel like they’re in an adventure and a fantasy. There is a kingdom and a long conversation about knights and ships. Throughout the long conversation the actors introduced themselves as kings. Pirates were also mentioned throughout the conversation. There is also footage of people on ships which shows that they are going on an adventure somewhere.

Scene one included many angles. The high angle of the ship and eventually showing the statue along with a view of the whole town shows the kingdom that they are about to enter. The establishing shot shows the whole scene it shows how the kingdom looks and a view of the knight statue that is on the rocks. There was no editing in the first scene. The sound used was non diegetic and diegetic. The diegetic was used when the music was playing in the background it was like a mysterious sound that helped enhance the film and drag the audience attention to the screen and believe something mysterious was about to come and lead them onto an adventure. There was non- diegetic sound as well it was used for the birds that were flying over the ship this added life to the movie so it can feel real like how a fantasy should. The mis en scene included a ship as a prop this ship looks like one from a long time ago maybe even something a pirate would be on it shows that they are going somewhere maybe on an adventure. There was also the setting it took place in a kingdom. Kingdoms are for royalty so it helped increase the idea of the audience being in a fantasy.

For scene 2 there was a three-person shot which included a king this showed that they were in some type of kingdom because what’s a kingdom without its king. There was also a point of view shot of when the actors were looking at the king it showed that they were taking the king serious because they were in his kingdom. For editing there was shot reverse shot it flipped back and forth from actor to actor when having a conversation about the kingdom this showed the facial expressions of the kings when talking in which they looked upset which makes the audience believe something is about to happen and lead to an adventure. The sound used was dialogue the dialogue was used when having conversation, they talked about the different kings in the kingdom, the queen, and the ships. The costumes that were worn were long suits which was something royalty would wear. The prop was a long table with large chairs this was used for the actors to sit at and have conversation this showed that they had to be royalty because kings usually sit in the large chairs when at a table.

I’m right on what the director vision is because of the all the proof provided in the scenes. From the kingdom, to the ship, and to the whole conversation that happened in the film. They all provided back up for my reasoning of why I believe the director wants the audience to feel like they’re in an adventure and a fantasy.

Creative Critical Reflection (part 4)

Creative Critical Reflection (part 3)

Creative Critical Reflection (part 2)

Creative Critical Reflection

My Creative Critical Reflection was challenging for me. Before I started filming, I wrote down every question and answered them to the best of my ability. Since this was all about me and my experience during the film it caused me to think and hard and be creative. Due to my planes of how I originally was going to record it being canceled I had to film everything on my own. I didn’t want to just stand in front of the camera and talk so I got creative. I decided to be the interviewer as well as the person answering the questions. I switched roles and it was fun. I included an intro and it was in like a talk show format. I dressed up and asked a question and in the next scene was me in different clothing answering it. It was challenging for me to remember everything to say and still reach the length of time needed so it took a while. I had to re shoot many times due to me talking too fast or too slow. I included all the questions needed but also added little questions pertaining to the topic to spice things up. Once I got done recording, I had to edit. I recorded everything on my phone and used iMovie. I added little things in so the video won’t be boring, and people will actually enjoy watching. The editing was by far the best part I got to be creative and have fun. I combined all the videos together since I recorded them separately. The whole 12-minute video was difficult for me, but I found a way to get it done. I can say I learned a lot while doing this. I learned that I enjoy switching roles and filming.

Opening Sequence

My opening sequence was by far the most challenging. For this project my group and I decided to do a horror film. It resulted into becoming a kidnapping film. For research I watched lots of horror opening sequence films. I watched films from The Conjuring, Get out, and Venom. The story board for this project was a lot. It was triple the amount that is usually done. Ten story boards were done in total. The writing and drawing for this took a lot of time since it had a lot of location switching and movement. The locations included the library, a car, and an empty parking lot. When it was time to film there were 4 actors. 3 men who were kidnappers and one female who played the role of the person being kidnapped. The filming was a long process since I wanted to make sure there were a lot of takes being taken. Plenty of times throughout the filming process everyone stopped and looked at the story board. We wanted to make sure the project was being done just how it was writing. I had a vision of how I wanted the film to be done and I didn’t want to leave any parts out. When it was time to edit the videos were sent to the laptop. Since the videos were all recorded on a phone this process was easy. The software that was used was iMovie. Since this software was used in the last project it was easy. While editing everything my group and I realized some parts needed to be re shot. Due to the Corona Virus Pandemic coming it was no way all of us could go out and re shoot. Magic was done and a lot of editing happened, but it helped, and the film was made.

Music Video

My second project was a music video. In the music video my group and I used the song “No Fear” by Dej Loaf. When researching information for this project I watched videos in the genre of Hip Hop and R&B since that was the genre of the song. This project was easy to film. The Mis En Scene was easy to think of. To name a few the location was at the beach since the song was about being happy, living life, and having fun and when you go to the beach that’s what tends to happen. The costume for this project were normal teenage clothes. There was no makeup included. The sun was used as natural light. The story board wasn’t hard at all. Majority of it was full of people dancing and playing around. When it was time to film there was a lot of miscommunication. My group and I didn’t want to get in the way of anyone planes, so I tried to accommodate everyone schedule. The filming day that was first picked didn’t happen because people not being able to make it, so it was rescheduled. When filming day came it was a breeze. Ambrielle’ and I acted while Brandon was the camera man. When it was time to edit this time, iMovie was used. That software was picked due to the videos being recorded on my phone. It was easier to transport the videos to the apple computer this way. At the end of editing I learned that iMovie is so much easier then pinnacle studios.

Commercial

My very first project was a commercial. This project was actually very fun, it was my first time being an actor and creating a commercial. My group and I decided to do a Nike commercial. Since all of us run track my group and I decided it would be smart to do a track commercial. Once the idea of doing the track Nike commercial was in our head we then had to plan and do research. I watched lots of Nike commercial videos specifically track and field ones. They all had on Nike gear and were running on the track while coming out of blocks or they were warming up. Once I watched enough to become inspired the story board was planned. The next step was to film. When filming a camera was used. Once filming day came everyone decided for costume to wear some type of Nike gear. Even though not everyone had on Nike shirts I made sure everyone wore Nike shoes. When filming we took only a couple of takes due to the commercial only needing to be 30 seconds. To make sure the footage would be good the camera man recorded in different angles. He also tried to find the best light so the footage wouldn’t be dark. Once filming was done it was time to edit. To edit a school computer was used and all the videos were imported to the computer. Pinnacle studios was used to edit. This production phase was difficult because it was the first time all of us were doing something like this. It caused lots of confusion and time but eventually it got done. On the bright side of things, I had fun with this project and learned a lot.

Re-editing

When looking back at the film there were a lot of problems. Due to the corona virus pandemic happening it caused a problem with my group and I wanting to re shoot. Many videos needed to be done over. Yet we couldn’t so we had to deal with what we got. It was a long process of editing. The editing was done by me and another group member. The first part of the editing process was making sure no videos were out of order. Then parts of certain videos were cut. Some parts weren’t needed and was causing the film to be too long. Once that was done all the transitions needed to be inserted.

 I remembered from the research part when I watched films the transitions in the movie were fast. It didn’t take no time for the scenes to switch. It was hard to get the transitions to not be seen so the fastest time for transitions was the one used. After all the cuts and transitions were added the titles were next. It was a problem when trying to add the titles. The font that was originally used couldn’t be found. Due to that happening a new font had to be used. It took a while to find a new font since I didn’t want it to be different from the original one. After a long search the new font was found. It looked just like the old one, so it fit right in.

The sound was done by my other group member. When the sound was added there was a problem. I could barely hear the actors talk. That was a problem because without knowing what is being said it will leave the audience in confusion. The sound then had to be fixed. When trying to fix the sound the original music that was added couldn’t be found so a similar one was found instead. Once the new song was added it was edited to where it could be heard but you could also hear the actors talking. With everything finally being put together a lot of stress was let off my shoulders. I went back and made sure no other editing needed to be done. It fit my vision of how I wanted my film to be done, I was very pleased.