Mariah Soto's AICE Media Studies Blog

  Blog #12: While creating our film opening, we had many decisions to make. Our screenplay that we had created prior to actually recording wasn't set in stone, since we all didn't have much time to create our screenplay and it was hard for all of us to collaborate for it. So we began on filming the scene with the two girls since we were very iffy about what we were going to do with our detective scene. We knew we wanted to make a transition of a picture of the suspect, to her being seated at the coffee shop with her friend. So, when we were filming our scene with the two teenager girls having a conversation we knew the gist of what we wanted to say, but we didn't want to the conversation to sound scripted. So, we let our actors to improv their conversation while still being able to keep with the plot of the film. We did have problems filming this part of the opening though.  We had problems with scheduling because many of the people that we asked to help us with the film we...

Blog #11: Click Here to see my sweding project  https://youtu.be/bT8E3ZZrD9Y We chose this scene from "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" because this movie gave us so much nostalgia since we grew up watching it. This scene from the movie was one of our favorite scenes all together and many kids from our generation have tried to recreate it on social media, so we wanted a chance to try to recreate the scene, especially since we had all the resources that we needed from being in this class. Most of the time whenever we film, we try to film at one of our houses so it can be easier and we won't have to stay longer at school than we needed to. But once we realized that we needed to do this scene in school, we realized how much easier it was to be able to film. The experience of filming this was much more fun since we got to get a lot of our friends to be in it and there were many scenes where people were running. We also learned a better way to put a voice over on our recordings, since in...

  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...

  Blog #6:         The company that my group thought was the best fit for our film opening was the 20th Century Studios that is under the Disney company. We believed it was the best fit because our film opening's genre is a traditional crime film with elements of a myste ry film and the 20th Century Studios has made multiple crime films that have become successful like "The Woman in the Window". The film was a notable success at the box office and had a very positive average rating. The budget for the film was around $40 million and made positive rating which marked the last Hollywood film before they went under the Disney company.