AICE Media Studies

  This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office . Slide 1: The beginning of our short film where we meet our main characters and see what their personalities are as they try and cure their boredom. Slide 2: Where the first conflict is introduced. The characters are trying to find something to occupy themselves and turn to drugs to cure their boredom. Slide 3: The characters begin searching for any sight of a drug that will give them a rush, with dialogue being involved throughout this process. Slide 4: They find a bottle of pills but are torn and faced with the decision of if they should take the drugs or not. They even make a pros and cons list to come to a conclusion. Slide 5: The audience can now see that one boy wants to take them, while the other isn't sure still. They finally come to a consensus after some deciding dialogue. They take the pills together. Slide 6: Immediately after they take the pill, there is knock on the door and they find out someone...

Hey everyone, we all hope you are having a great day! For today's blog we will be giving you a layout about our general plan for filming our upcoming short film. This plan is not what we will definitely be doing, as things rarely ever play out the way they should.  Schedule:  On 1/18/24 we will purchase our props On 1/22/24 we will scout out our filming location On 1/22/24 we will create/buy our costumes On 1/25/24 we will begin filming  On 1/27/24 we will continue filming  On 1/29/24 we will finish filming  On 1/30/24 we will edit the film and make any changes needed  Location: For the location we had a few options. We first thought of filming at someone's house as the best option, as it is convenient and doesn't cost anything in terms of renting space. Filming at anywhere other than a house seems inconvenient so we will film at Hunter's house and anywhere else that we need to like a library for example. Participants: The people that will be participating ...

  Hey everyone, welcome back to our blog! Today we will be looking at and researching the comedy Ouija Sex, which picked up several awards and was selected for the 14th short film competition. In this film, we noticed the sounds being very intense and serious at first, we thought that this film wasn't a comedy at all. Later on in the film the sounds started to get a little more in serious going along with the plot that the film wasn't serious at all. There were many sounds in the film that had a lot of crashes as well, emphasizing the clumsiness of the husband in this film who lost his wife. The song played had an Italian ring to it, we are unsure if this is common in comedy films though. The shots that we saw throughout this film mainly consisted of close-ups, mainly focusing on the main character himself, as comedies typically focus on a few amounts of people to emphasize the humor. Ouija Sex focuses on a man who lost his wife as he communicates with her through the Ouija Boa...

     Hey everyone, welcome back to another one of our research blogs. Today we will be digging in and looking into the Short Film Omnibus, a comedy. This film was made by Sam Karmann and won the Oscar in the 1992-1993 awards season. It portrays a Frenchman trying to get off of a train at a stop which it wasn't scheduled for. In this film, the sound starts off as some cheesy movie intro, giving us this pattern that that's how a short film comedy should start. On the train in this film, all you could hear was the sound of the engine along with the dialogue between the Frenchman and the worker on the train. The idea of minimum sound is now starting to become a pattern we have noticed through the short films we have analyzed so far. When analyzing the Mis-en-scene in this film, the costumes are usually oversized for the main character who has to well be humorous. The Frenchman in this film had a brief case, and an oversized suit, which is common in comedy films where the main...

  This short film follows the story of a girl and a guy trying to spend the night together. The main conflict is that the girl’s roommate is a very eccentric man. H er roommate keeps on interrupting their time together in weird ways. Eventually the man who is trying to hook up with the girl gives up and lashes out.    This short was funny and a great example of the comedy genre. The plot itself was very humorous . Ultimately, me and my group think what made this short film so funny was the roommate’s wacky behavior. As the short went on, the roommate would do even crazier things that would result in interruption of the girl and the guy ’s alone time. It was funny seeing the main boy react to the roommate’s weird behavior . It was also funny to see the girl react in the opposite way that he was.   We were surprised that the girl would constantly be okay with the roommate interrupting her night . Her reactions made it seem as if this happen s all the time ! Thi...

  This comedy short followed a teenage girl and boy duo considering the pros and cons of hooking up with each other on their first date. It has several humorous elements that made it very funny and entertaining to watch!     No music or scoring is used in this short film, which causes the mood of the short to be very authentic. This lack of music and strict use of just ambient and diagetic sounds ( e.x - bed sheets ruffling) is a common use of sound in the comedy genre because it makes the film more relatable and real.     Also, the characters’ normal, casual clothing, made the short relatable for us to watc h. E specially as teenagers ourselves!   This short was a great example of a successful comedy short . A lthough it was only eight minutes, the storyline was funny enough to still be very entertaining. The entire short film had quite consistent editing and camera shots. This short followed a dialogue between two teenagers and their “sexual lawyer...

      Hello, today we will be talking about the comparison of La Jetée vs 12 monkeys. We learned that Le Jetée is an intriguing low-fi sci-fi time travel tale. The Le Jetée is considered a photo novel and is not completely referred to as a film. The flow of images alongside the audio gives it cumulative power. In effect, the entire film is a meditation on the passage of time. There are 400+ pictures in Le Jetée a few repeat but it's the variation in the usage that makes the overall effect so potent. Clean cuts for a traditional shot reverse shot orientation and crossfades or dissolves for a more dream-like ambiance. The longer holds allow us to absorb and explore certain images. Audio is generally deployed with great subtlety and sometimes accentuates the visuals more overtly. 12 Monkeys and Le Jetée both climax with the explanation for the child's haunting vision that he witnessed his own adult's death. Terry Gilliam of 12 Monkeys used distorting wide angles to convey a ...

       Hello, today we will be talking about how to make a short film. Our biggest takeaway from this video is that making a short film is about knowing what you can do with what you have and making your writing correspond with your budget and team. While watching this video we learned that for a short film, you should write to the strengths and weaknesses of your cast. Make sure to give 100% when acting to complete the short film. Also, if you do not have great technology to record sound do not make your film dialogue heavy. A good way to keep morale up is by having snacks and drinks and being comfortable. If you are doing post-production by yourself, make sure to make time to step away from it to see it clearly. Also bringing somebody else to give a new opinion can give a new outlook which can result in helpful feedback. Try to keep on cutting it until it feels too tight then let it breathe afterwards. Soundly is a good way to find sound effects and instrumentals....

  Short Film:   Me and my groupmates ’ first impression of this short film was that it had a very intentionally eerie style. Upon first glance, we saw a dark, muddy color scheme that set a creepy mood for the rest of the short. This eerie first impression was also supported by the scoring of the short. The first sounds we hear when the short begins are heavy metal clanking (resembling the sounds of  a creepy blacksmith you may see in a horror film) and old rusted metal squeaking as it is moved . The scoring increases in intensity as the short’s plot thickens. Once we reach the climax, where the main character fights off the main antagonist, the music is also at its peak. The director may have chosen to do this throughout the film to create more tension and exaggerate the already unsettling overall mood of the short. We also noticed that the main character in this short undergoes character development that causes him to go from being timid and nai ve, to brave and ...