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...

  The time has finally come. "The Odd Man Out" is finished and full. I'm incredibly happy with the way this turned out. I think this is my best work yet in this course. My biggest issue with this task was the titling and editing. It proved to be a challenge. I overcame the adversity though and made my last-minute changes as per my last blog. From my last project, the biggest change in my abilities was costuming, music, and editing abilities. This was by far my best-costumed project in this class. I was able to utilize a local costume shop which I've befriended the owners of over the years. For this project, I had to find licensing in order to use music. I tried getting in touch with the Zappa family trust in order to secure a song early on but had no success. In the end, I was able to find a free site for audio, and then dig through that to find just what I needed.  The editing, I've already spoken about enough. To put things simply, it was a painful process. Whe...

 This was my final editing session. Here, I completed my final watch-through and applied my last touches. I made sure my titles were just where I wanted them. This was incredibly tedious, as I had to drag and drop over and over and over. This was one on iMovie, which made it hard. The only space I had to work was a tiny phone screen. I also spent time making sure they were the same shade of red, or as close together as they could be. This took way too long, but I'm glad it worked. Here, I also set the black and white vs color. This took a while as well, as I had to find a good cutoff for each. I'm really happy with the way the first one looks in particular. The cutaway flashback is in color, and I use a zoom transition through the actor's hair. This was by far my favorite edit in the whole film. This was the thought process in finishing up. I'm so happy I'm finally done. This project as a whole took a while to materialize. In the end, it turned out better than I exp...

 I was fortunate enough to only get good criticism from my friends. I did, however, find a few things I didn't like about the film. It was mostly the transitions that I didn't like. All I really had to do was hit a couple buttons In order to fix this problem. I had to find the part of the footage where the transition occurred, and use what I had there over the transition. The way I had this done, is that the transitions were embedded in the film. The first one occurs where the camera zooms into the back of the main character's head, before zooming out on him walking upstairs, through the head. The first part of the transition is in black and white, but the second is in color. The way I had it before, the color of his hair started showing before it was fully zoomed in. It was just a little sloppy, which I was able to fix. It now looks good. The next transition was at the end of the second scene,  where it reverts back to black and white from color. This happens as the camera...