AICE Media Studies

Pitch 1- Richard is a businessman and a professional Jerk. He left gaby at the altar and she comes back to her friend Rebecca to get revenge.          Explanation: Richard and Gaby have been engaged for 3 years. Richard is a successful businessman in his late-30s and Gaby, in her early 30's,  is an OR Nurse at a major hospital. Rebecca is Gaby's best friend of 20+ years. On the altar, Richard abandons Gaby, and she responds by committing suicide the next day. He quickly moves on to a much younger woman, and Rebecca is left without her best friend, who was like a sister to her. Gaby comes back as a ghost and brings Rebecca to ruin Richard's life. Together, they kill Richard's new girl and inevitably bring Richard to suicide, ultimately ruining his life. Pitch 2- An addicted gambler sits at a table for the last time.          Explanation: John isn't a wealthy man. In a last-ditch attempt to make money, he goes to a casino and gambles....

I'm a huge collaboration person, especially when it comes to 99% of everything related to work. I work really well in teams but often end up doing most of the work in a situation where people ride on my abilities. That just isn't good for me. On the off chance, I'm assigned a good group though, I still flourish and end up doing better, having good people on my side. All of this being said, I plan to ride solo for this project. The ideas in my mind are often confusing to other people. I can confidently call myself creative. This can come across as a very in-your-face thing, and for this project which allows for infinite wiggle room, I'd like to keep those ideas in between me and you (Cambridge examiner reading this). In researching making a short film, I have some ideas I like. These ideas are ones I don't think other people would really like.  One short film I looked at was "Anima" directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It uses an excerpt of music the 2019 Thom...

     I am Alex Lane Rosenblum. I am 17 years old and come from Fort Lauderdale Florida. My interests include music, biking, driving, watching movies, seeing family and friends, and collecting vinyl records and cassettes. My favorite genre of film is probably comedy or drama. Recently, I saw "Natural Born Killers" directed by Oliver Stone, and rewatched "A Clockwork Orange," directed by Stanley Kubrick. "A Clockwork Orange" appeals to me now because I really understand the movie. When I first saw the movie around middle school, I didn't understand that. This time around, I could see Kubrick's vision, and really grasped the point of the story he was trying to tell. I really like that "Natural Born Killers" is such a strange film. I loved seeing Woody Harrelson while younger and really appreciated the way the movie looked and felt. Additionally, the plot is pretty interesting, and I was very happy to grasp the point of the movie on the first...