The Persuasion Invasion

The first pitch is: “A woman comes home to realize her door is unlocked. She goes inside not knowing someone else is inside and sees her roommate dead.”

The second pitch: “Two teenagers learn about the mystery of the Fort Lauderdale Fortune. They go on a journey to uncover the truth.”

The third pitch: “A businesswoman having a regular night with her baby goes to shower and comes back to her baby missing from the crib.”

We have decided to go with the second pitch as it will be the most feasible to film and edit. It also seems the most exciting as there is so much to do in the city of Fort Lauderdale, allowing us to do the most job of a journey. Also, our old projects are similar to the first and third pitches. The second pitch will allow us to use much more camera angles and movements as well as mis-en-scene.

The second pitch will be more of a challenge but will be much more worthwhile. There will be much more genres and movies to use for our research.

Overall, the second pitch will be the best for our skillset. It will result in the best film.

The Trio

Welcome back my lovely readers, it's time for you all to meet my group. I will be making a five minute movie in a few months. The preparation is about to start soon. But first, I need you all to meet the group.

I'm working with Ashleigh Miller & Britanique Simpson. I knew for this project that I wanted to work with at least one other person. After the final task in AS Level, I knew working alone would be extremely difficult. I worked with a partner last year and it was very helpful, it is a lot of research, planning, and executing. To do it all by yourself, is not worth it. Therefore, I wanted to find a group to work with.

We have already set some kind of plan of each person's role in the group. We will collaborate frequently, doing many things as a group, while still having some separate. I will be drawing the storyboard and acting. Britanique will be the one to film. Ashleigh will be the one to edit. All of us will work together on the research and planning.

It is important that we are collaborating, otherwise we will all dislike the film. The research will start with formulating pitches and deciding on one. There are many different things we will research, one of them being genre. There is also planning, including creating a script and plan.

I hope you all are excited as I take you along the ride with me.

New Year, New Me

Welcome back my lovely readers, some time has passed. I'm taking this class again, but this time it's AICE Media Studies A Level.

For anyone that's new to my blog, I'm a high school student taking AICE Media Studies A Level. Last year, I took AICE Media Studies AS Level. Throughout the year, I post blogs updating my readers about what I am doing in that class. Whether I am currently editing a film, doing research for the film, whatever it is, I'll be blogging about it. I hope any new readers decide to stay and follow my journey.

I'm very excited to be taking the class again. I learned so much last year. It was a really great experience for me. Now there are more projects to complete and more topics to learn about. Some topics that I might be learning are media regulation, postmodern media, power and the media, and media ecology.

Last year, there were three projects and two essays. The projects were the commercial, music video, and final task. The essays were the extract and audience & institutions.

Essentially, A Level is the second part of Media Studies. I am finishing Media Studies, rather than repeating it. For example, last year I made the first two minutes of a five minute movie. This year, I will make a full five minute movie.

I'm so excited to take you through my process, as I go through media studies (again). I will continually blog about my process.