AICE Media Studies

               Welcome back to my blog reader! Here is my storyboard for my short film named “A Trip to Remember”   Page 1 : The film starts with a young women named Gabriela, who is sitting is sitting at her bed while reading a book as the camera zooms in into a medium close - up . Then, it cuts to a close-up of the phone as she receives a message. This leads to another medium close-up as she grabs the phone which turns into an over the shoulder shot as she is reading the messages from her friend Nancy telling her that she won two riffle tickets to an event at the mall and is begging her to go . After , Gabriela reads the message there is another medium close-up as she replies to her friend with a voice message. From that medium close-up, the cam era zooms towards the phone as she gets up from the bed .     Page 2: Then there is a high angle as she is picking out her outfit from the closet which  then cuts to...

                  Welcome back to my blog reader! I will discuss my plans for my short film, including scheduling, health and safety, location, participants, back-up plans, and costumes. Starting with   locatio n, the first scene consists of the young woman getting ready to go to the event her f riend is dragging her to which will take place at my house . Then, the second location will take place in a mall that is relatively isolated or an at empty area where the young woman will arrive believing is the correct location. The young woman will try to walk around in confusion in attempt to find said event. She asks someone about it and they say that the event had passed weeks/or never took place there. She then calls her friend through her house phone and the friend tells her that she never sent her that ticket and that her phone was lost. The young women trying to process what is happening returns home which is our last locatio...

                  Welcome back to my blog reader! As a way to research the thriller genre for my short film, I watched the short film “Found” by the filmmaker Richard Hughes using the short of the week website and I will be analyzing it's Mis-En-Scene, different camera angels, sounds and editing that are commonly used in the film. Further, the story is about a father who has being searching for his daughter non-stop for the past ten years, his search leads him to a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere located three states away from where his daughter went missing. Starting with sounds, I found some   diegetic sounds within the short film such as the sound of the wooden floor creaking, the sound of opening the trunk , the sound of hitting the leaves as the father passes b y, the sound of the cover of the car, the sound of footstep s and doors opening, the sound of breathi ng hard, the sound of the white and black cartoons , and ...