AICE Media Studies

Hey there! My group and I all intensely researched multiple genres to decide which would be the best to use. After carful consideration my group narrowed in down to the genres comedy, drama, and thriller. We then finally came to the conclusion that the drama genre would best suit our film idea. The other genres for example comedy would not work as well as it very hard to connect both intense drama and suspense with laughter and joy. The point in our film is to shock our audience with the plot twist and keep a high emotional intensity. Thriller is in also not the ideal genre as there is not an intent to scare the audience but more to spike emotions. We are also still high-school students with a limited budget and no movie equipment. This makes it very hard to do movies like thriller and keep them looking somewhat realistic. The unsuspecting plot twist found at the end of our film also inspired the pick of the drama genre. Both the thriller and comedy genres don’t get you ready for the p...

One of the genres my group and I are researching is the drama genre. The drama genre is  used in order to evoke a strong wave of emotions for the audience not only fear or happiness. Movies that fall under the drama category also tend to be based on a characters conflict at a time in their lives. This fits perfectly for our film as we are filming a short film about a boy that gets in a car accident and his life is forever changed. Throughout this story there are plot twists etc. which will cause the audience to feel many different emotion. For the drama genre, there are many different angles and shots that are used to spike all of these emotions. For example, one of the most common shots is a POV shot. This is used in order to to show what the main character is seeing throughout certain parts of the film. High angles are also used a lot as it shows when a person is feeling either threatened or anxious about something or someone that may be "above" them. Close ups are crucial ...

 This is the genre research we conducted for Sci-fi.

This is our group's research on the thriller genre. This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office .

    1) A coma patient comes to in a seemingly different life than he left , o r does he?   2) A little car accident, at most a minor inconvenience right?     Our first idea was pitch 1, we felt like it had a twist on cliché coma plots. This would be a coma patient who wakes up from his coma and realizes his life is falling apart (his girlfriend left him, his dog died, etc.) and then realizing he never woke up at all. To do this idea we would need access to some kind of medical equipment to create a hospital scene. It would also require a large cast to play the parts of people in this person’s life . A more extensive plot might be challenging to come up with , for example connecting the ideas on how the person in the coma’s life is falling apart. It would allow us to get creative with editing and foreshadowing which is intriguing, but ultimately the cons o f this idea outweigh the pros.      The second idea my group and I had was pitch numb...

I have a brand new group for A-Level this year! Most of my group didn't decide to do A-Level after completing AS-Level. I also didn't work as well with my previous group as I would have liked to. My new group, Lola Mackie and Jack Lynch, I hope will be even more successful. I watched some of each of their projects from AS-Level and was very impressed. They were all very creative ideas and well executed with good editing and filming. I knew they would be the perfect people to work with. I even got them to group with me even though they had other people they thought they would group with. They were going to work with their group from last year but I showed them my work and convinced them to join me so we can create the best product possible. I have faith that we will do just that. Already, I have seen how creative Lola's ideas are, which will be perfect to come up with a plot for our short film. Jack's determination has shone through in our first days of discussing this p...

 I'm back!! Hi, my name is Samantha Price and I am a junior at Fort Lauderdale High school. I play lacrosse, read, and crochet in my free time. I want to learn about directing films, because I love acting. I even plan to go to film school for college, which is partially why I chose to take this class. I also wanted to learn even more about the film-making process as a whole. After completing AS-Level I couldn't wait to create more films and learn more about the theories accompanied with modern day media. Making films of my own, I get to learn all of this in a fun way. This class has already influenced how I watch films and television, making me notice the actions directors take and why. I learned a lot about camera angles in AS-Level and hope to learn more about the editing process this year. For this short film, I have many elaborate ideas that I hope to utilize and complete. These include thoughts on the way we should fade and cut in between scenes.     Another importan...