Mariah Soto's AICE Media Studies Blog

  Blog #10 Malfeasance .docx Some challenges that we faced to make our script was scheduling. When we should have been doing our script two of us in our group were on a school trip so it was hard for us to be able to figure out what we were gonna do for the script since me and another girl in my group, Alicia, did not have our laptops. But we ended up figuring it out by letting our other group member, Dana, make the word document, share it to us, and she would put ideas on it, and since we had the word document app on our phones we would check to see if we liked it or we if we could change it to something different, and we would text each other about it.  We are planning to go to our friend Danas house to film the detective scene and go to a coffee shop called "The Little Coffee Shoppe" to film the scene where the girls are having a conversation.  But after rereading our screenplay we realized that the conversation between the girls were very natural, so when we start to ...

  Blog #9: The genre that my group chose for our opening scene was a traditional crime genre with some mystery elements added to it. The movie that I picked is the same genre, a crime mystery film, that is called "The Godfather". Some elements the screenwriter established in the opening scene is the intensity of the situation establishing where the two characters are sitting and their body language in the scene. Bonasera is the one replaying the intense situation to Don and the screenwriter establishes the mise en scene by saying that Bonasera sitting at the front of Don's desk facing the camera and explaining that Don is sitting at the front of the desk petting a cat to show dominance over the conversation. At the end of the scene Bonasera calls Don "Godfather" which helps set the mood of the whole film by establishing how powerful Don is. On the script it only establishes where everyone is placed but in the actual film the intensity of the conversation and who...

  Blog #8: Lately I have been rewatching shows that I have loved like "The 100", "Friends", "The Walking Dead", "Bridgerton", "Boy Meets World", and "Jane the Virgin". I honestly love any genre of shows or movies, which is why I also finished watching some new shows called "The Society", "Griselda", and "Tacoma FD". All of these shows are really good and I would definitely recommend it to anyone. "Griselda" is anew show that was released on Netflix that is based on the true story of a famous drug lord in Miami called La Madrina. My family and I have also been getting into rewatching all the Conjuring movies and Annabelle movies since there hasn't been any good new horror movies. The Conjuring movies and the Annabelle movies are all connected in the same universe; they are all paranormal movies who are investigated by a couple of renowned paranormal investigators named Ed and Lorraine...

  Blog #7:              The film companies my group was assigned to were Amblin Entertainment and Paramount Studios. Amblin Entertainment was founded in 1984 by Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, and Kathleen Kennedy, and they were more focused on making sci-fi movies until Decmeber 2015, where they underwent a major reorganization and became a unit of the new Amblin Pictures and now focus on more family themed movies. Some movies that made them famous were the "Back to the Future" saga, the "Jurrassic Park" saga, "E.T. Adventure", "Gremlins", and "The Goonies". Paramount Studios was founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor, Jesse L Lasky, and William Wadsworth Hodkinson. All of there three different companies, Famous Player Film Co, Jesse L Lasky Co, and Paramount Pictures all merged to become one Paramount Studios. They specialize in various genres such as action, sci-fi, drama, romance, comedy, horror, and crime, and their most famous movies w...