Filming locations

     Our movie film opening is based on a common teens life in school, and his problems with his future, and career. Since he will be actively be demonstrated in school and at his friends house I decided it would be really easy if I chose to film, well, at school and at one of our houses. There might be some in between scenes where we might have to film in specific places such as, the track, or a park, due to one of our main characters personality traits.

    Filming at school would most definitely be the hardest part so in case any problems arise we should be able to improvise at home since me and my partner are great thinkers, and always ready to find a new path to our challenges. Hopefully this wont be the case and we can go into school to film for a couple of hours with a pass or special access.

    On the other hand we should be able to easily film at one of our houses, as long as we keep our safety and quickly/efficiently finish recording, its going to bring great opportunities for our film opening. 

    

Group Feedback Meeting

    In todays class we had some time to talk to different people about our projects. This was great since it allowed us to "brainstorm" with someone other than those who we are working with. This allowed for feedback to be had regarding my project and decisions, which is something I'm always willing to receive.

    Most of the suggestions given were related to watching movies related to our genre, which I took count of. I ended up re watching some of the film openings I had seen before related to the Drama genre which also helps me get an idea on how to involve the audience in my film opening. 

    Since we also had a classmate in the meeting who didn't start his project yet due to personal reasons we suggested to look and research different topics related to his genre, which was similar to one of the people in our meeting. Luckily I had already done this at the beginning of my project which is why I have a good stand point at the moment, this might also be related to why me and my teammate are slightly "rushing".

    Further expanding on the "rushing" situation, my teammate told me that during his teams call with our classmates they let him know that he might be rushing the project since we are pretty far up the production stages of our film opening. So I have decided to maybe slow down a little and do more posts on research and my discoveries throughout this project, instead of rushing straight to my script, and storyboard.

Editing software and recording

     We have a very simple plan for recording and editing our project, since we found that over complicating would just make our life's harder. Me and my partner will split up the clips once he records them and we will both work on a half of the project, this will ensure an even distribution of work, speediness, and accuracy. Since we both have adobe premier available to us, and we have a decent amount of knowledge on the program, we will both be using it. This would furthermore ensure efficiency due to the compatibility of our work. 

    The recording might be a different deal. Since we are in a pandemic it would be certainly hard to met up and record together, and also sort of useless considering there is only two of us. My partner has a close friend who often serves as a character on any film related activities he does, this means that they can both meet up and get working on certain clips. After he records said clips we can call each other and he can show me the clips so we can get to work. 

    We have yet to decide who is going to be the second character in our film opening but it will most likely be my partner, since he does know our actor pretty well. This will help our final result because of their friendship and chemistry. 

    Over all I think we have a pretty good idea of the way we are setting up our schedule, the software we are using, and the final idea for our film. Hopefully we end up with a great final opening, demonstrating proper use of our knowledge and genre we have chosen.

Film Opening Idea

    After extensive research and brainstorming me and my partner decided on making our drama film opening about a general case of a confused senior who doesn't know where he's going in life or what step to take next. This is something I can often see in school by simply gazing at those who surround me, I see many people who don't have a clear view of who they want to be later on in their future.

    This being said our main goal is to convey a typical and relatable problem students have now a days. One might think this would be hard to convey on a short film opening, but with the use of the drama genre we can easily display this idea to the audience. Like I mentioned on my research post about the drama genre  as long as the conflict is realistic and the character shows a sense of development throughout the small amount of time, we will have a promising film opening.

    Now that I touched all over these points here's our main idea. The plot for the film opening and ultimately the movie will be based on the struggles of a typical teen in highschool, a senior who spent his high school years doing his homework, making friends, and playing video games, and has no idea on where to go in life. During his last year of highschool he finally finds help from a friend who aspires to find out what he really likes. They go on a path of discovery to really figure out what his future will look like.

    After this entire adventure he loses hope due to the fact that his friend has parted ways from him due to his personal reasons.  As a way of remembering and celebrating their friendship he sticks to his friends recommendation and manages to get into college. Even after achieving all of these great things he still wonders if he has really succeeded. Has he really found out what he really loves to do? only time could tell.

The expanded target audience for the drama genre

     Drama films have a very wide demographic without a specific/defined group of people as the main target audience. This is due to the fact that drama is so versatile and is able to reach out to people of all ages, races, and genders. As mentioned on my other blog post about the genre of drama, drama can be combined with many different genres, which also expands the groups of people who watch said films, if this wasn't a post solely about the genre of drama as a whole, the target audience would be all over the place, once again, due to its versatility. All of this being said, the drama genre can produce an absurd amount of views due to the room for variation and possibilities it presents. 

    To be more specific to our film opening, I believe teens our age (16-18) will most definitely be targeted by our film, since its something they can relate with and maybe even learn from. Try out new things without being scared, to be able to find what you really love. 

The Drama Genre

     Drama films are prone to relying on a realistic and relatable characters emotional problems and development. Although many elements are important to moving the plot forward, what this genre really relies on is the characters. They have to progress through their realistic troubled life through the film for the plot to advance.

    The main challenges faced on drama films are usually internal, dependent on the character. This is what makes the genre so unique yet specific. There isn't a rule to drama films, as long as the character is facing realistic problems and progressing through the film, it can make an amazing film. This separates drama from almost every other genre, for example, on most action films you have to see a typical physical fight/action scene, with drama the playing field is open to the decisions of the character and the troubles they approach.

    As mentioned before, the characters are a very important aspect of the drama genre, they have to realistically portray and resolve a real life scenario in order to drive the plot forward. These misfortunes and fortunes have to be showed in their whole, the point of these films is to show the honest struggle of any other human, this is what engages the audience to its fullest.

    These aspects of drama make it possible to be integrated to almost any other genre. There can always be drama in any film, you can have the main character phase these personal problems in such unique and intriguing ways to be able to mold the drama to fit any film, thus improving the plot and story.

    The combination of the characters, the troubles they phase, and their way of solving these problems is what shapes a proper genre film, combine this with great mise en scène and you can have an amazing film, which emotionally connects the audience with a relatable characters development, and complex life stories.

Cambridge Portfolio Project: Possible ideas and brainstorming

 For this project I will most likely make a film opening different to the usual . I plan on making the film opening related to a persons life full of holes and patches. This misfortunate life is suddenly changed when something snaps. I will try to make sure I work in order to make the project as organized, simple, and time efficient to ensure a great final result.

Cambridge Portfolio Project: Introduction

 Being introduced to this project I can notice that it will be a decently challenging task, requiring me to use all of the subjects I've learnt in class throughout the year. Successfully finishing this project will most definitely develop my production skills. I'm exited to work with my teammate and create a coherent and immersive film opening.

     The full process of working through the Music Marketing project was easy and smooth, like I mentioned on my first post about the project, although we were introduced to a new genre of music none of us had experience working with we still coasted through the project learning more and more as we brainstormed and discussed specific topics. Some of those topic being the distribution, production, and marketing for the vast majority of heavy metal groups.

    We began with some extensive research on the genre, making a chart with two different production companies and two case studies for each of these two companies. This gave us an amazing initiative on the project due to the information we all gathered together for our different case studies. We found different media convergence methods constantly used throughout many bands, what the fan base was like for the genre, and a vast majority of those specific marketing techniques used by distribution companies for heavy metal. After this step we felt more comfortable in the genre and the project in general

    To plan our music video we had one of our members make a simple story board describing the basics of how our music video would be. We later expanded on the story board and made the music video. The music video took a more direct path at the rather meaningful lyrics, showing off what the lyrics described on each scene. This helps the audience convey the message and lyricism of the song.

    Lastly we had to formulate our presentation, we compiled all of the important information we learnt throughout the project about our genre and band to promote our band, Gidimake. The presentation was simple and straight to the point, including, the campaign, our music video, and the website, amongst other subjects. One of our members made an amazing website including a logo and merch for Gidimake, this added a serious feeling to what we presented to our "audience".

    Throughout this project I learnt a large amount of topics related to marketing music and its specific genres. I'm happy I had a very different genre of music to those I'm rather knowledgeable and comfortable with. This project not only expanded my knowledge on marketing but also on the general view of the heavy metal genre of music. This will be helpful to develop my Cambridge portfolio due to the fact I learnt an extensive amount of information which I would furthermore expand on when planning on developing my portfolio.